Good Morning pcApex!! (3/3/2006)

Quote: Originally Posted by Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

FRIDAY!! I love Friday's, other than the early wakeup, I know that I'm going to have a nice long weekend to relax and get the "kinks" out. Fortunately, the weather won't be too bad this weekend.

Plus, my X-Fi Elite is arriving today, so there's much to be happy about. I'll try to put a picture of it in my gallery. It's the first (I'm kind of going backwards with the purchase of my components) piece of PCB-based hardware that I'm getting for my new rig. I'm also getting a Radeon 9250 today, for running my PSONE LCD. I'm going to be a busy man.


Anyway, to the holidays . . .


In Libya, they are celebrating the Declaration of the Establishment of Authority of the People today!!

In Malawi, it is Martyr's Day!!

In Bulgaria and Morocco, it is National Day!!

In Sudan, it is National Unity Day!!

In Japan, they celelbrate [url=http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2281.html]Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival), today!!

In Morocco, it is also Fete Du Trone!!


In the USA!!!, it is National Anthem Day!!! Remember Francis Scott Key and his grand theme for our great country.



That's it for today. Hope you all have a great weekend and stay safe!!

-hartigan

Ah would my life be the incomplete without "Good Morning pcApex".

Good Morning ya'll; its another fine day for building, modding and in my case destroying computer hardware.

Today i will seeing what damage i can do to a (faulty) Sony DVD Rom/CDRW drive when its dropped from a fourth floor window.

One in a long line of many such experiments. You can see the results of the last experiment here http://forums.pcapex.com/other_pc_pr...ger_works.html

Hopefully I can get this started as a regualar once a week or so, let me know your opinions on wether I should bother?

Reza

Oh, God!! is it morning already?! That means I have less than 5 hours to finish this bloody midterm....

3 pages on societal impacts on the development of early colonial cities in the Americas
3 pages on "urban history" as a conceptualization in our profession
3 pages on the progression of poverty reform in New York City during the early to mid-nineteenth century...

The good news is that all of my new computer hardware is coming in today and that means GAME ON! over SPRING BREAK!!!!!!

#1 - Mornin' H, have fun with yer new hardware!!! An thanks for helpin' start the day out right.
** lol , I'm ready for bed just about now.**

#2 - Reza, I myself love the "Earth Suction test ".

#3- Pwrslyd , just reading bout the homework you gots makes my brain hurt . Have fun with yer new gear too.

Yep I love the Fridays.... after all the work is done.

Ooooo the X-Fi Elite, is that the one better than the "Fata1ity" version?

Well it seems like a good day today. I'll be out with the friends going to a comedy club.
Well good morning all.

This Day in History

On March 3
1791 - The U.S. Congress passed a resolution that created the U.S. Mint.

1803 - The first impeachment trial of a U.S. Judge, John Pickering, began.

1812 - The U.S. Congress passed the first foreign aid bill.

1817 - The first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans was opened.

1845 - Florida became the 27th U.S. state.

1845 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a U.S. PresidentÂ’s veto. It was the first time the Congress had achieved this.

1849 - The U.S. Department of the Interior was established.

1849 - The Gold Coinage Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It allowed the minting of gold coins.

1849 - The U.S. Congress created the territory of Minnesota.

1851 - The U.S. Congress authorized the 3-cent piece. It was the smallest U.S. silver coin.

1857 - Britain and France declared war on China.

1863 - Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service.

1875 - The U.S. Congress authorized the 20-cent piece. It was only used for 3 years.

1878 - Russia and the Ottomans signed the treaty of Stenafano. The treaty granted independence to Serbia.

1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) was incorporated in New York as a subsidiary of the American Bell Telephone Company.

1885 - The U.S. Post Office began offering special delivery for first-class mail.

1894 - The "Atlantis" was first published. It was the first Greek newspaper in America.

1900 - Striking miners in Germany returned to work.

1903 - In St. Louis, MO, Barney Gilmore was arrested for spitting.

1903 - The U.S. imposed a $2 head tax on immigrants.

1904 - Wilhelm II of Germany made the first recording of a political document with Thomas Edison's cylinder.

1905 - The Russian Czar agreed to create an elected assembly.

1906 - A Frenchman tried the first flight in an airplane with tires.

1908 - The U.S. government declared open war on on U.S. anarchists.

1909 - Aviators Herring, Curtiss and Bishop announced that airplanes would be made commercially in the U.S.

1910 - J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announced his withdrawal from business to administer his fathers fortune for an "uplift in humanity". He also appealed to the U.S. Congress for the creation of the Rockefeller Foundation.

1910 - In New York, Robert Forest founded the National Housing Association to fight deteriorating urban living conditions.

1910 - Nicaraguan rebels admitted defeat in open war and resorted to guerrilla tactics in the hope of U.S. intervention.

1915 - The motion picture "Birth of a Nation" debuted in New York City.

1918 - The Treaty of Brest Litovsky was signed by Germany, Austria and Russia. The treaty ended Russia's participation in World War I.

1923 - The first issue of Time magazine was published.

1930 - "Flying High" opened at the Apollo Theatre in New York City.

1931 - The "Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, was adopted as the American national anthem. The song was originally a poem known as "Defense of Fort McHenry."

1938 - A world record for the indoor mile run was set by Glenn Cunningham. He ran the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

1939 - In Bombay, Ghandi began a fast to protest the state's autocratic rule.

1941 - Moscow denounced the Axis rule in Bulgaria.

1945 - Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1945 - During World War II, Finland declared war on the Axis.

1952 - "Whispering Streets" debuted on ABC Radio.

1952 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York's Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.

1956 - Morocco gained its independence.

1959 - The San Francisco Giants had their new stadium officially named Candlestick Park.

1969 - Apollo 9 was launched by NASA to test a lunar module.

1969 - Sirhan Sirhan testified in a Los Angeles court that he killed Robert Kennedy.

1972 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 was launched.

1973 - Japan disclosed its first defense plan since World War II.

1974 - About 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed just after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris.

1978 - The remains of Charles Chaplin were stolen from his grave in Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. The body was recovered 11 weeks later near Lake Geneva.

1980 - The submarine Nautilus was decommissioned. The vessels final voyage had ended on May 26, 1979.

1985 - Women Against Pornography awarded its ‘Pig Award’ to Huggies Diapers. The activists claimed that the TV ads for diapers had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn."

1985 - The TV show "Moonlighting" premiered.

1991 - 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while on approach to the Colorado Springs airport.

1991 - Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers. The scene was captured on amateur video.

1994 - The Mexican government reached a peace agreement with the Chiapas rebels.

1995 - A U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia ended. Several gunmen were killed by U.S. Marines in Mogadishu while overseeing the pull out of peacekeepers.

1999 - In Egypt, 19 people were killed when a bus plunged into a Nile canal.

1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones began their attempt to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon non-stop. They succeeded on March 20, 1999.