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Thank you
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 8:19 pm
by vzmule
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to the people that help in these forums and on this project. With the help of the people here I've been able to successfully make the new mq work. It took piecing together bits of hints here and there to make it happen but it finally works again and I'm psyched.
I ended up having to cannabalize one of my win ME machines to install XP though cuz Visual Studio .NET doesn't run on ME
Thanks again.
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:16 pm
by keflex
I would like to also extend my thanks to the posters on this board... I'm still very new to MQ, but w/ the help that I've received, I've been able to get it running w/ very little prior knowledge of coding/compiling.
Thanks again, guys.
Hmm
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:59 pm
by Malachi
Hmm, I've seen some interesting names before, but I've never seen anyone name themself after a broad spectrum anti-biotic.
/points at keflex
~malachi
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 7:20 pm
by vzmule
I didn't pick up on his name. :) Keflex is what my doctor prescribed for me when i had strep throat as penicillin doesn't work for me.
Scary
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 9:32 pm
by Malachi
Scary, cuz Keflex is one of our actual last lines of defense. We carry it for backwoods expeditions when we're out for so long that the possibility of infection from an injury is very real.
The drug that they were handing out to people exposed to Anthrax is actually our next-to-last resort anti-biotic.
What THAT drug does is so broad spectrum that it actually kills ALMOST all of the bacteria in your stomach, blood, and intestinal track. So, you won't get anthrax, but you'll be pooping water for weeks and be on IV's in the process. FUN.
No real point in all this. Just being a nerd.
~malachi
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:44 am
by Mckorr
Okay nerd, ever heard of Chloromycetin?
And experimental anti-biotic from the late 60's/early 70's. Created from a live strain of something or other, and incubated in duck eggs. Didn't get far, turned out something like 60% of the population was allergic to it. REALLY allergic to it. Almost killed me when they treated me with it for a resistant strain of strep throat when I was a kid.
Interesting side effect: I'm allergic to fowl. Chicken, turkey, duck, doesn't matter I can't eat them. Seems the drug created a tremendous sensitivity to bird proteins. I can eat eggs, but only if they are scrambled and cooked to rubber to break down the proteins. Also means that a number of other drugs and vaccines are a no-no, including the Yellow Fever vaccine and the Flu shot.
Chloromycetin... and we still have the stuff around, and a couple derivatives of it. Just in case nothing else works. I guess they figure if the patient is going to die anyway they can give this stuff a shot and hope the allergic reaction doesn't kill him first.
There are...
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:03 pm
by Malachi
There are a couple other last-resort catch-all antibiotics left.
Actaully, there's two (that you can't get prescribed just yet)
No one has found any new ones since like 1985, and since then we've used like 3 generations of less-strong AB's.
Theoretically, in less than about 5 more years of Influenza or Streptococcus or Staphalococcus mutations, we could be out of effective AB's.
Scary, eh? Oh well, it'll just thin the world population some. /shrug
~malachi
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:14 pm
by Mckorr
Remember, homo sapiens is not an endangered species....
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:15 am
by Grumpy
Mckorr wrote:Remember, homo sapiens is not an endangered species....
Not yet, but also remember Homo Sapiens is also the only species that can put ITSELF on the endangered species list in far less than 1 generation...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:23 pm
by skydicer
this thread is actually intresting to read
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:16 pm
by L124RD
Salutations,
We have "infected" the planet. We are "ruining" it etc, using up natural resources.. lalala... this is the Downfall of the "stupid" viruses (ie SARS) it kills it's host and cannot reproduce. If only we had mastered that... Just hope Earth doesn't try to use some anti-virals on us... lol...
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 4:19 pm
by Mckorr
Been watching the Matrix again Agent Smith?
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:45 pm
by vzmule
wtf did you do to my beautiful thread?
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:02 pm
by L124RD
Salutations,
Mckorr: I had discussions about this in english pre-Matrix. Welcome to Rivendell Mr. Anderson...
source: we took it hostage...
HAH.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:07 am
by Malachi
And j00 cannot have it back.
Unless you use this:
http://www.geocities.com/mnstr_2000/translate.html
for good, or evil, in the next 24 hours.
~malachi
AND, actually, Mr. li247d or whatever your name is
They're thinking that SARS is actually hosted by cocka-roaches, and just arbitrarily happens to kill humans.
Sorta like parvo just happens to kill puppies...
Silly ancient life form cocka-roaches.
~malachi