Donation +3% given.

Thank you Chris!!!!!!!!!! I love this forum! May your computer be capable of playing the newest games! You rock!
-NIM

Thanks for the suggestion. Will definitely look into it. Not sure we'd be able to get a lease with no credit history, but the worse they can say is no. Will also discuss it with the accountant. Expensing stuff matters a lot when you have cash flow and profits to deal with. When you have neither, not sure if it makes as much sense. <g> I'm pretty much a cash sorta guy except for cars and homes. Things were a bit different when we had a going business.

I'll mail a check tomorrow, since I am at 85233, it should get there fast enough!
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Thanks for the suggestion, and contribution, I'll check it out.

I have some spare CPUs and quality ram I could donate. They are not top of the line new but they aren't slow either.

XP1800+ and XP2200+ as well as 768mb ram and a brand new motherboard that needs to be RMA'd to work.. Probably have almost enough parts to finish the system. I can pre-load good virus scan software and all the best spyware software as well if he wants me to build him a system w/some of my parts and some new parts of his.

If he wants I can also volunteer to build the system if he wants to purchase all new components.

interesting, i will try to try that. First find a place that sells them, most are just national verions of this principle....

Todd,

Thaks much for the offer. Let's see how the donations go, money-wise, and I'll be in touch.

Frenchy,

I'd guess that your's is a French keyboard.

A few years back, before laptops were common, I was working in our Angers plant and had to use one of the local computers. Using the French keyboard just about killed me. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Monitor and print screen function:

UZI's are for wussies. I'd prefer a Henry repeater (as in rifle), myself. I've been watching WAY too much "Wild West Tech."

I'd send in some dough, but with school taxes, condo fire insurance, my 10-year-old, 149,000-mile Ford Taurus needing a new motor mount, saving up for a new used car, and adopting "Arnie," our 12-year-old pomeranian-chihuahua who suffered from a two-day bout of explosive diarrhea (to the tune of a $250 vet bill), I am tapped for this pay period. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

It's always something, isn't it.

-- Craig