doubleislandman

@doubleislandman (14)

United States • Age 60

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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Is There a Way to Lessen the Bitterness of an Ampalaya or Bitter Gourd?

Muelitz @Muelitz (1592) • Canada 5 Aug 08

For those who have cooking experiences, I would like to get your experiences when using Ampalaya or Bitter Gourd or Bitter Melon on your dishes. Is there any secret at all that you do to make the aforementioned ingredient taste a...

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doubleislandman Bitter Melon is one of the best available natural body cleaner. It is prepared by squeezing out a little juice, stuffing it with any other vegetable or searing it then throwing in back the juice that was squeezed with some water and cooking it down to the...

5 Aug 08

Do you respond to discussions that already have a Best response seleted !!??!!

SangsTurks @SangsTurks (1444) • India 31 Jul 08

When i was fairly new to mylot i didn't respond to discussion that had a best response selected. I thought that a discussion with a best response selected was already resolved so it didn't need any more responses, i know that was...

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doubleislandman In my undergrad school, I had to respond to discussions even though others may already have the similar formatted answer. The whole idea of this is to get you to become accustomed to replying to other people's point of view. Therefore you should read fresh...

2 Aug 08

what do you think of 401 (k) retirement plan?

babyboo23 @babyboo23 (79) • Philippines 2 Aug 08

do you really earn benefits from here?

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doubleislandman With our economy constantly swinging, I think that an IRA would be better since they are not losing money. These economic times mean that we have to either save in an IRA or probably purchase real estate to keep your money's value intact.

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who likes this game?

ladygator @ladygator (3465) • United States 20 Nov 06

I love to play Majong it is so much fun how about you?

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doubleislandman Mahjongg is like Tetris in my opinion. The tiles have to be logically removed otherwise the time expires or the board has no more tiles to remove. I personally think that Mahjongg is logical in nature since you will use reason and some logic to remove all the...

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Choose : an Indian or a Filipino Tech Support Representative on the phone ?

monk3ybidzness @monk3ybidzness (45) • Philippines 19 Jul 08

We all know that a lot of companies outsource their technical support outside US. Now, time to choose. The following format should narrow it down: Nationality : Indian or Filipino Technical Skill : Good or Not...

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doubleislandman Since we have solicited the workers from India and the Phillipines simply states that the support should be as good as US support workers. The real thing is that we need to slow down to be able to communicate more efficiently with these foreign techs. I think...

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I want my computer to work faster. Would reformatting it increase its speed?

iskayz @iskayz (5420) • Philippines 28 Jul 08

Can anyone help me? My computer is kinda slow. I'm not sure if its because of my internet but I want to make it faster. I have an AMD Duron processor, 950Mhz and a 512 RAM. I am planning to have it reformat....

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doubleislandman Some thoughts, since it is slow, do you check your drive for temporary files? Have you investigated the possibility that your disk may be close to capacity, or that you may have installed and uninstalled various software which can cause performance degradation...

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Do you update your computer hardwares?

ajithlal @ajithlal (14716) • India 18 Jul 08

I updates the memory if the memory of the my computer is very low. Do you update your hardwares of your computer?

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doubleislandman While it's great to learn about your computer's equipment and to be able to repair them, it is also extremely important to keep your focus on adding/replacing hardware since all it takes is a little shock to stop the computer from starting up. The other goody...

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What Is In August That You Feel Excited About?

wendhieRN @wendhieRN (754) • United States 31 Jul 08

Goodbye July, Hello August.. Today is August's 1st day and I am so excited about it. Do you know what excites me? It is simply because the month in which I am going to throw up a celebration for three. Three of my family members...

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doubleislandman I am a Leo and my birthday is on the 13th which is one of the most exciting events for me in the month of August. Beside my own birthday, I have various family members also born in August and we all try to celebrate it either together or as they occur. In...

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Microsoft has done it again - The Mojave Experimennt

Healthkeep @Healthkeep (996) • Israel 29 Jul 08

Microsoft's Vista system got some bad critics. In response, not only that Microsoft launched Vista, she stopped distributing and supporting Windows XP! In order to correct the consumers' opinion about Windows Vista, Microsoft...

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doubleislandman I also had heard a lot of bad reviews about windows Vista and I think that they are wrong to prejudge anything that is not experienced. I can make statements about anything and these statements are my point of view, however, until something is actually...

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Can I use two browsers at the same time?

shintongs23 @shintongs23 (537) • Philippines 27 Jul 08

My computer is using Internet Explorer 6 as browser. But I want to use Firefox because of its feature of opening new tab unlike in IE where my screen is full of new windows! But I don;t want to quit IE because...

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doubleislandman I currently have both IE and Mozilla Firefox and there are many more browsers available. They will not replace IE since they don't contend with each other. This is great since there still is Netscape and another called Avant. Nothing can be impacted that I am...

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Computer Generation

Oneironaut @_sketch_ (5742) • United States 26 Jul 08

Computers are becoming more and more a neccessity these days. Research, school, work, leisure, communication. You need it for just about everything. It is very common for people to have multiple tvs in their homes, but more and...

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doubleislandman I have a few computers and they are used for the same purposes as stated. More than one computer usually ends up with one person hogging up the PC while everyone else waits for the computer to become available. When the lifecycle of the PCs are reached then...

30 Jul 08

Your Antivirus software..??

fathaz @fathaz (47) • Malaysia 30 Jul 08

There are too many software that are protected our computer from being hacked or attacked from virus, trojan and also worm.. Which one did all of you prefer?? For me i like to use kaspersky 7.0. It has user friendly and very...

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doubleislandman For the past 8 years I have used both a firewall from Zone Alarm and Norton Antivirus which became Norton system works. I now use Norton 360 and this version added privacy and site authentication. Great protection is of the utmost importance.

30 Jul 08

What was your first computer and when did you get it?

SuperJP17 @SuperJP17 (31) • United States 30 Jul 08

My first computer was a windows 95. I got it when I was 4 years old (Basically when it first came out.)

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doubleislandman In 2 months I had a jell pad TRS80 that worked for a week and then I purchased my first computer, a PC XT 8088 that was very expensive, used for learning this newly available technology. I did get to learn BASIC and early batch file programming then I upgraded...

30 Jul 08

Will the sun rise after 21.11.2012

sweethomecatring @sweethomecatring (1563) • India 30 Jul 08

Lot of TV channels have been showing possible al around destruction on the earth after 21.11.2012. It appears that from the callender of Maya civilization of America there is no date after 21.11.2012 and perdicts there will be...

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doubleislandman This Mayan tale about skulls and the day that they have to all be assembled in order to prevent the inevitable sounds almost like previous predictions. Mankind has been doomed for destruction quite a long time ago. I think that humanity will not thrive if we...

30 Jul 08