I found a neat program.  It is CPU-Z and you run it and it tells you all about your computer.  It will tell you the processor and all the information about it.  It will tell you the about the main board, the memory and memory card and other information.
I ran the program because I have 2 GB of computer memory and I want to add 2 more GB of memory.
It says that I am using DDR2 dual channel memory at a DRAM frequency of 333.3 MHz.

It appears this program is free.  Great little help.  I hope I can now find the correct memory and that it does not cost to much.  I think my computer would kick ass with 2 more GB of memory.  That would give me 4 GB.

“Good news, folks. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather.

Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and co-inventors, including climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Hurricanes, most famously demonstrated by the deadly intensification of Hurricane Katrina before its landfall in 2005, draw strength from warm waters on the ocean's surface. The patents describe a system for strategically placing turbine-equipped barges in the path of storms to chill sea surfaces with cold water pumped from the depths…”

  From USA Today

  You know me I shoot my mouth off on everything.  I am sort of speechless on this one.  It sounds like it might work.  On the other hand I could see it having other effects.  We might fix something and cause a problem someplace else.  My feeling is less is better… But I live in Miami and if this area gets pounded again one day…I think people will go for this idea.
  I wonder if the barges could be used for something else…give us a two for one deal.  Create electric power or something?  I guess I did shoot my mouth off… what do you expect from Jim Howard.  I speak before I think.  Smile

“Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as both "Uncle Walter" for his easygoing, measured delivery and "the most trusted man in America" for his rectitude and gravitas, has died. Cronkite was 92 years old. At the height of his influence, Cronkite's judgment was believed to be so important it could affect even presidents.developing story …”  CNN

Sad day but 92 years of age is a long life.  I am one of the Americans that was watching Walter Cronkite live when he give the news that JFK was dead.  That is a moment in time that I will never forget.

I was 22 years old at the time.  That day I had been listening to WRUL radio, “Radio New York Worldwide” on shortwave radio.  I did a weekly radio program for them but I my program was not on at the time.  They broken in to the program at the time and said they had news and said that “shots had been fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas.”  I did not even know he was in Dallas.  I turned on the TV and started watch KCMO TV and Walter Cronkite.  I saw the above video live at the time.
The father Huber mentioned in the broadcast I knew.  He had been my pastor at St. Vincent’s Church in Kansas City.  

Walter Cronkite dead at 92.  Walter Cronkite was an amateur radio operator (KB2GSD) and so is a “Silent Key.”

  I hate being poor and broke all the time.  If you are poor you end up paying more for things. 
  
  Microsoft is saying that they expect to sell Windows 7 for $119.19 and $199.00 each.  Because I been using Windows 7 RC I can get half off.  I can get Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 and Professional for $99.99. 
   I am running Windows 7 RC and it is excellent and I do plan to buy Windows 7 when they release it. Because I am poor it looks like I will have to pay the $199.00 and that happens to the poor all the time.
 

   CNN reports that you can purchase an upgrade copy of Windows 7 RC for $49.99 and $99.99 each.  That offer is good for both Windows XP and Windows Vista owners.
   Now both these offers are good for a limited time and the number of copies is limited but Microsoft is not giving out a date and a number.

   If you buy a new computer with Windows Vista on it you will get a free upgrade to Windows 7 and be able to upgrade without doing a clean installation of Windows 7.

   People that are poor end up paying more for things and services and they end up paying late fees etc.
   There has been some talk of the United States having a sales tax.  I have heard a few people say that even a half of one percent sales tax would bring in tons of money for the federal government and allow us to pay for national health insurance and pay off our debt and do other things.  I wonder if that sort of tax hurts the poor more than others.  Or is it a fair tax?
 

  I guess some people are thinking of a Value Added Tax which is different than a Sales Tax.  I want to see our taxes become easy and simple but I do wonder if it would not be more fair and better for the poor if food and medication was not taxed or if a person cold get a refund for those taxes when they file a tax report.

  How did I go from talking about Windows 7 to talking about taxes?

  I am a lazy slug.  I should be on my way to Skywarn training.  But I just woke up and am here nude in front of the computer checking my email and playing with the design of Facebook.  I do not even like Facebook.
  I do not even have a ham radio right now.  The last HT I had I sold and my plan was to get a new one but I have not had the money recently.  My plan was to get a Yaesu FT-60R.  It is a very good radio and is only $200.00 for the radio and a couple of things you need for it.  Well now Yaesu just came out with a new HT (Handheld Transceiver) and it is the Yaesu VX-8R.  It does everything but cost $400.00 and now I want it.  I am never going to have $400.00 for it. 
  When it comes to geek tech type toys I always want the top of the line stuff and I never can afford those items.  Well not since I retired in 2000 and moved to FL. 
  So my excuse for not going to the training is that I do not have a HT.  Plus the idea of taking a bus, then the rail and then a bus to get to the event in this heat just does not turn me on today.  I would have to repeat the trip home in the afternoon sun.
  I also hate going anyplace broke.  Last month when I went to the doctor’s office I had money in my pocket so after the doctor’s office visit I went to MetroPCS and got a new cell phone ($300.00) and got something to eat.  I walked home from the doctor’s office.  It all took hours but I did not care I had a new toy, my cell phone, and I got to eat out, KFC, and I had a Coke.  It was a great day.  It does not take me spending $300.00 a day to make me happy.  I do think spending money makes me happy.  That is not good. 
  I feel guilty for not going to the Skywarn training.  Sort of like I used to feel when I was in high school and I would not go to school.

"It's open season for hurricanes. In its outlook for the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season -- which runs from June 1 to November 30 - the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) is calling for a 50 percent probability of a near-normal season, a 25 percent probability of an above-normal season and a 25 percent probability of a below-normal season. According to the CPC, global weather patterns are imposing a greater uncertainty in the 2009 hurricane season outlook than in recent years. There is a 70 percent chance of having nine to 14 named storms, of which four to seven could become hurricanes, including one to three major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5).

ARES members: Assess your communications assets now. Monitor major HF hurricane networks during events this season.