Hey! :d Well I'm sure you'll hear of the blackout in Canada/Usa.... Well I'm involve in all of this... You never know when power is going to go on or off.... Good thing I have windows xp that doesn't make my computer crash each time the power goes off. :D Where I live, close to ottawa, it went off at 4:30 pm ET (first blackout). After a night with flashlight, no street lights, no store open and so on.... It came back at 5:00 am ET... Great the alarm starts ringing and wakes me up.... After thinking for a while in my bed I said wow power is back on!! Then I went to turn off the alarm... Power out at 2:00 pm ET, power on at 10:00 pm ET.... And who know if it's going to go off again..... Well If you like my story or not, post your comments... Have any other experiance similar? I hope the power doens't stop right now and loose my text :D.... Well post your comments! :D

I'm lucky that I live in California and get to watch everything instead of being involved in the chaos over there.. New York looked absoultely hectic, everyone was heading for the ferries because the subways were down and nobody could use taxis because the streets were crowded with people that were panicked because they thought it was a possible terror attack (which it wasn't). I hope everything turned out all right over there, I haven't heard that much about it since the day it happened..

yeah ive heard that it was horrible with everybody stuck on the streets and there where a few minor robberies... but bugger

yup.... One shootings over here... No one injurred tho... A roberry.... ICE CREAM & BEAR SALE!!! :D I was gone for the weekend and power went out just this morning at 9:40am ET and just came back at 11:20am ET... Hope this doesn't last all week :S :D

I've been at camp all week, so I missed it. My area was right on the edge of the blackouts in upstate NY. We actually have 2 power companies around here, NiMo and NYSEG. From what I heard, NiMo was totally out, but NYSEG remained up, so you ran into almost comical situations where one house had power, and the neighbors didn't.

At my house, in a fairly rural area, it's not uncommon to lose power; thunder and snowstorms will take out lines or transformers probably at least once a year. On the other hand, the local cities are hardly ever without power, and I can imagine that was a really terrible mess.

Nope, nothing out here. Although I must say, not having power is a pain for when it does, but it does give you other things to do besides sitting in front of a computer ;-)

haha, i dont know what u mean about windows xp not crashing when the power is out, but power out or not, windows xp is always crahing lol. But I must say, I guess im luckey to have missed out on the power outage, but it was funny cuz we were going on a hiking trip over in NY, and we took the NJ turnpike, and we got to skip all tolls =) so that was cool

tbhockey get urself an antivirus and firewall program! :D hehe Good antivirus: Norton antivirus (2003 is great), firewall: ZoneAlarm (free) or/and Norton internet security (2003)... :D hehe.... Well you know windows me or 98 if you close it without shutting it down you have that thing that checks for errors and stuff.... Well windows xp doesn't do all that stuff and still runs GREAT! (Well that's for me at lease, my computer crashed maximum 15 times sins 3 years or more...)

yeah, i have NAV. Yes, i know if your comparing XP to previous windows its good, but if you compare it to Red Hat Linux or somthing, its bad. lol plus one really annoying thing about windows is the check boxes, they are all backwards, like "Do not cache thumbnails" So u have to sit there and think for four years "let me see...YES! do not chache thumbnails" thats not a big deal but there are a lot of other things, i just felt like pointing that out.

Lol really? I didn't noticed that :D If I would have an other computer (I'm ganna get one soon), I would try lots of thing but this is a shared one so I can't try to install Unix or Linix os... So I don't know what's better... But I think windows is more for a familly computer....