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Is this the world's dirtiest PC?
We're obliged to reader Danny Lee for forwarding evidence of what appears to be a Quatermass-style lifeform, which has attached itself to a PC and pretty well explains why the thing had ceased to function: The world's dirtiest PC, with vents completely blocked by dust Chilling stuff indeed. Anyone out there who has …
I've seen MUCH worse....
A PC left in a barn area that became infested by a small bee hive (and was STILL WORKING!). The farmer brought it in to our shop for service to have us clean out the "mess" inside the case as part of his free "annual cleaning" as covered under his waranty. He neglected to tell my staff it was bee infested before one of them got stung when he went to pick it up and move it to our back counter after doing an initial systems test. Poor kid picked the tower up as one normally would, one hand on front, one hand across power supply vent in back, but the fan vent was the bees way in and out of the case... He dropped it instantly, causing the side cover to come off and causing some significant damage to the case, a few more bees came out. Fortunately, most of them seemed to have evacuated the case on the way to our shop in the back of the pickup the guy drove.
We had to wrap in in serveral layers of garbage bags, and we used a pack of printable stickers to make some bio-hazard signs. Naturally we refused the cleaning service, and marked his waranty as void citing "unsatisfactory environmental conditions for PC placement and use" He was none too thrilled and threatened to sue the store. This was quickly abated when we threatned to countersue for failure to warn our employees of an eminent danger. 2 of my other staff were so allergic to bees and fire ants that they carry eppy pens 24x7, and if one of them picked up that case instead of the poor kid who did, it would have been a rush to the emergency room not a sore thumb.
We suggested the farmer buy a toughbook to use in his barn instead of a desktop PC, but of course, someone who buys a $400 e-machine desktop package is not the kind of guy to buy a $1800 professional notebook. He left. The PC, after being dropped, never worked again. We never saw or heard from him again.
Even beyond this fantastic story, the PC in the image above, I'd call that about on par normal for some of the crap we had to clean. Sure, most computers just had the sheen of grey/brown dust and caked up fans, but a lot of them, especially those in smokers homes and people with dogs, and for some reason trailer homes just make PCs incredibly dirty. We've actually had to stae in writing to some folks that the attempt to clean the PC might render it useless, and had them sign waivers to protect the store from liability.
I stopped being a manager at that shop in 2002 and moved back to more professional IT work as a network integrator and DR specialist, but the 18 months I spent running a tech bench for a retail shop was eye opening. I can't tell you how many "cup holders" we repaired, how many floppy drives were stuffed full of things by 3 year olds, and how many god awful nasty 4+ year old PCs people wanted to pay os to clean and upgrade (in many cases where an upgrade cost 70% or more of a new PCs cost and still left the old machine FAR below a new machine's specs...)
You can tell a lot about a person from their PC...
I used to service customer PCs when they were brought in. The one I remember most reeked of chip fat...
... just like the owner.
another 'thats nothing' -
I once left a computer keyboard on the floor for aroundabouts 3 years under a desk where I never vacuumed.
Suffice it to say, the caked in food and drink spillages covered in thick thick dust, meant it barely resembled a keyboard in the end. Just imagine what it was like when I foolishly attempted to press a few keys.
I'm still having nightmares about the thick layer of crumbs and god knows what sticky stuff collected underneath the keys, that crunch when pressed! The horrible dirty mess now encouraged to slide down through the gaps between the keys, Then lifting my finger, which of course adhered my skin to the keys, peeling them off with the worst sensation imaginable.
*scrubbing self in the shower with ajax and a wire brush*
@By Greg J Preece
No with those security star bolts it's a HP / Compaq / EDS, whatever they have become now.
Our old Sco boxes (many moons ago) used to live in coal depots and they almost looked like they ran on coal when you opened then up (no pictures though). I guess the added carbon actually lubricated the moving part s though.
Seen worse... much worse. I think one of the worst - if not the worst - cases involved PCs that lived in the factory at a paper mill somewhere in Sittingbourne. The half life of those machines was measured in months not years.
Luckily, I was on-site for software issues not hardware, so I didn't have to get my hands dirty on those PCs as I spent most of my time in the clean server suite.
Oh, and the PCs at the Nestlé factory in Tutbury, Derbyshire where Nescafé is/was manufactured were filthy little buggers too..... that was a bit of an eye opener too!
I was once given a keyboard at work whose previous owner must have been shaving his head over. It took half an hour for me to get enough hair out of it to actually be able to press the keys. Then I discovered the layer of crumbs underneath.
The keyboards at home are periodically used by sticky children. I think it's time to bake them in the oven again.
(No, my house isn't made of gingerbread.)
You know
I wish my girlfriend was that dirty
I've seen far FAR worse, believe you me. I've had machines thick with dust, machines thick with coal dust (enough to completely hide the 4cm capacitors) and machines so thick with china clay that the only thing that stuck out was the top of the heatsink.
I'll have to have a dig through my pictures and see if I still have any of them on file. What you have here is a SLIGHTLY mucky PC.
I won't even begin to talk about the laptop to my left that's been pissed on...
Is this the world's dirtiest PC?
No, mine at home is just as bad, if not worse.
Not even close
In the distant past, I repaired a desktop PC from a brick works, it had a thick layer of brick dust completely covering the motherboard!
seen worse
I've seen much worse whilst working for a now deceases dispatch company. It had apparently been left running uninterrupted under a desk in a garage environment near a heater for three years in an area where where pretty much the whole workforce smoked.
Filthy beyond recognition of being a PC. In addition to truly epic dust bunnies, it had at some point collected multiple cups of coffee and a coating of motor grease, ensuring that those dust bunnies were well and truly baked on. Awful.
Not as disgusting as the monitor received from a southern english university though..... Accompanying documentation says it has ceased to work, opening the packaging reveals biohazard tape and a strong smell of burnt components and yellow discolouration. Testing discloses the presence of urine. I'm sorry chaps, but your warranty doesn't cover failure after a student p1ssed in the back of your monitor.
Anyone actually seen worse than this?
a while ago whilst in temporary university accommodation, i had the girlfriend staying over.
said accommodation also had a massive infestation of red ants. EVERYWHERE.
stupidly, my girlfriend left her laptop on the floor overnight.
returning to it a couple of days later, she noticed strange black dots moving around behind the screen. after some poking, swarms of red ants scurried from the closing latch on the lid!
after a quick dismantle, i was a bit amazed to discover that there was a whole established colony inside the damn thing with eggs and even a queen.
cleaned it out with cotton buds with sticky tape on the end. very satisfying.
Cleaned that up before...
In a previous life I used to work int he PC-based point-of-sale industry...for restaurants. You should have seen the old 286 machines running next to a chips fryer in the kitchen. I replaced them with shiny new 486 machines and the business owner had the stupidity to ask why the 5 year-old-never-cleaned hardware was failing. There were no motherboards inside, just sticky gray felt mats which smelled like rancid oil.
air quality measure
several years ago, I owned a Dell P3 while going to school in Pittsburgh. About four years into its life, the graphics card started to act funky, so I opened the bastard up, thinking maybe things were getting hot inside and it needed a good cleaning. It wasn't unusually dirty all things considered, but what really got me was that the dirt itself was pitch black. I guess after all these years since the mills shut down there's still a ton of coal particulates in beautiful Pittsburgh and they adhered to my poor machine. Made me wonder what was happening to my lungs.
I found...
...a dead cockroach inside a ZX Spectrum once.
Mine's the one with rampack wobble.
Ah, that brings back memories...
I used to do field service. I've seen PCs covered in mouse droppings (hosed out the back of my truck after bringing that one in!), and the horrors of a PC used on the intake side of an industrial laundry company that had to be on a wooden block off the flor because the cases would rust to the floor otherwise...
Fortuantely, the only thing I have to worry about anymore is the small handful of servers that inexplicably get cigarette smoke and whatnot in from whatever manages to sneak in to the data center from the front of house area.
That's nothing
Thin layer of tear gas residue. Mildly corrosive, fairly uncomfortable to work around (still stings a bit once it gets airborne again). Result of the SWAT team's entry into a barricaded house where an unfortunately unbalanced individual had recently (but unbeknownst to them) committed suicide.
Boffin icon, cause he has protective goggles, and maybe even a gas mask.
Your move.
Seen much worse
I work in IT support in a Hospital. Thankfully now supporting servers in nice clean server rooms.
But the amount of dust and hair etc caking the innards of the PCs we have on the ward areas are enough to put you off your lunch for a week. We usually have at least a couple a year where the fire alarms get triggered when the stuff gets so hot it starts smouldering.
A very long time ago we had a expensive keyboard returned from our Pathology Lab, as the keys were sticking, and although we had been assured nothing had been spilt, when my mate started cleaning it his hands and arms turned purple up past the elbow. Someone had spilt amino acid identifier all over it - not really dirty, but my mate thought his arms were gonna drop off.
You want gross?
I once worked on a contract at a factory which processed cowhides into sausage skins.
Opening a case was akin to something out of aliens, due to the amount of gelatin in the air.
And you got followed by dogs on the way home.
RE: Natty Posted Friday 6th November 2009 12:10 GMT
"back in the day...
...of no cpu fans I found a dead cockroach on a cpu. Lovely."
I wondered what happened to Uncle Vladimir
General grossness
I wish I had photos of the old DEC 3100 workstation I got my hands on after my old university replaced them all. After nearly a decade of running non-stop in a dusty ancient building full of students, there was a blanket of dust a couple of inches thick covering *everything* on the mainboard. It looked like you could have lifted it up in one piece (I didn't try).
Despite this the workstation still ran perfectly well, though this did go some way to explaining why the old classic Macs in the same computer suite kept catching fire!
Then there was the computer I had the pleasure of replacing with a newfangled Pentium machine back when I was doing IT support work. The computer itself was OK, but the keyboard looked like stuff could start growing out of it at any moment. He'd only had that computer for maybe a year. We junked that keyboard and probably should have burned it just to be safe. I hope they never gave that guy a laptop.
The motherboard isn't too bad.
Fluffy PCs usually look like mice are sleeping between the PCI/ISA slots.
Hoovered out many a dusty box. But the worst I've come across was from a fish works. Only two things smell of fish... and this PC was the other one. The smell almost leaches into the machine itself. Left one over the weekend in the test area and the whole place stank Monday morning. It just never faded.
I have had a whisky soaked PC. From a whisky bottling plant. A seal burst and filled the PC from the vent on the front of the old Dec machine. The operator was trying to stand in the way of the jet while clicking on the button to stop the flow. Then he turned it off and poured whisky out the front of it. We took it back, let it dry over the weekend and it started with a minor complaint when we got back, but then most people stinking of booze on a Monday morning complain when you wake them. Still, it was a better smell in the test area that day.
That's nothing, my friend's..
computer was emitting a foul smell. Seems the hard drive was full of shit.
So I removed Vista...
That's not all that bad.
In 1999, for some reason I was the "go-to" guy for many of the Veterinarians on The Peninsula. They were all running late 1980s, early 1990s IBM PCs (486 "ValuePoint" machines, for the most part, if I recall correctly), with SCO Xenix 5.x ... The Vet Practice Management software was provided by IDEXX, but was built by PSI ... Needless to say, IBM, SCO, PSI and IDEXX all claimed the other three were responsible for any Y2K issues that may (or may not) crop up.
Long story short, I replaced most of the Xenix+dumb terminal systems with networked Win98SE machines. None of the old Xenix boxen had ever been cleaned ... All of them were much worse than the pictured box. After a good cleaning, the boxen were recycled into teaching environments, most running Slackware.
Hell, the boxes in the barn office are worse than that, and I clean 'em out every quarter or thereabouts!
What Dell?
That's an HP Compaq DC7600 SFF if I'm not mistaken (now that's sad).
I hope you disposed of the dirt in a suitably massive box.
Childhood memories
I used to get hand-me-down PCs from my father's company. My mother used to insist the years-old dust which could not be removed from the insides was proof my bedroom was too dirty.
Metal shavings
I did some computer repair work at an aluminum shop. Needless to say, PCs don't like having aluminum shavings thrust inside them.
By the way, how many syllables does "aluminum" have? Four? Five?
I haven't seen worse
Man that must have been satisfying to blast with an air-duster! Outside and upwind hopefully.
Err.. no, the question you should ask is how many i's are in Alumin_i_um...
Yank! :P
Dead bird
A friend of mine had a horrible nest of wires behind his PC .. He lives alone and has no pets and yet somehow in the middle of all the tangled wires and three years worth of dust was a small half decomposed bird.
Pet Store!
The worse I ever saw was at a pet store.
It was a mom and pop shop, not the big chains. Anyway, I went in there for something I forget now, but but as I was paying, I usually check out the POS (point of sale) setups, just out of curiosity. To my horror, the POS was just packed with fur! So you know, I'm standing around with one hand up on the counter and begin to scan the room, and I notice by the windows.... In the glare of the light coming in the windows, I walk over to break the light glare beam, and lo.... Two more desktops, stripped and unplugged next to the wall, Both were like twice as bad as the live POS I was waiting by! I couldn't believe the volume of fur, it's like a small dog was stuck to the side!
My best one was when I was working for the power company. A HP Compaq D500 was reported as making strange noises. I get the tube there and show up with a replacement PSU (the PSU fans die a lot on those machines) and discover it is sat next to a leaking laserjet 4500 that noone had bothered to mention. The inside of the machine was totally black with toner and it was thick and baked on. The toner had got into the PSU fan and eaten the bearings. I took the psu and all the drives out, picked up the unit and stuck it under the hand dryer in the toilet to get rid of anything that wasn't baked on, then replaced the PSU with the spare.
The machine was still working fine when I left. I think i took pictures but I can't find them.
The keyboards or the children?
Got in a Dell Poweredge, it was DOA. Opened it up, and it was full of roaches. I put it in a trash bag, stuffed in a bug bomb, and dumped the bag into a garbage tote, shutting the lid.
I told him, he'd be better off getting a new machine.
No, his boss wanted that one fixed, no matter the cost.
Next day, I pull the hard drive, give it a alcohol bath, hook it to a usb adapter into my laptop, saved his info, and sent him home with a identical Poweredge I had sitting around.
My bill listed a $200 filth fee. Surprisingly, his company never questioned the bill.
I so wish I had taken pictures. Nobody believes it could be that bad.
The grenade, because this guy's house must need it.
Sorry, but this is pretty tame
Unfortunately no pictures (pre digital camera and cameraphone, didn't normally carry my SLR to work), but back in the day if I'd opened up an Alpha (or any other DEC box) or an Indy and found it in this state I'd have regarded it as a pretty clean example.
The DEC boxes were notoriously filthy buggers..eventually got into the habit of popping on a disposable paper mask before opening their cases.
Funniest one I've ever had to deal with though, was a machine that someone had stupidly used in a chemical prep lab. Machine was failing, opened it up, inside was covered completely with various sorts and colours of crystalline 'fur' as various acid/chemical vapours had reacted with all/any exposed internal metal (fume cupboards you say?, aye they'd heard of such beasties..).
Only case I've been involved in of a PC (Pentium Pro, ISTR, which sort of dates this story) that had to eventually be disposed of by chemical waste specialists, and the only one I wish I had pictures of (some of the crystal growths were quite interesting, probably deadly, but interesting), I'll ask around and see if anyone else involved with that one took any photos..now, if only they'd forked out the money initially for that extra long serial cable in the first instance..
On a slight tangent away from PCs, how about a 'faulty' Xbox where the insides and outsides were completely covered in a the dried remains of a large number of what turned out to be brambles/blackberries - it had been stored in a shed where, apparently, the owner's father usually makes bramble wine..he must have bloody steeped the Xbox in the 'must' then...
Not strictly on topic, but I once had to install a photocopier in a fish processing factory. Not at all pleasant....
Seen far worse
My brother's in landscaping. About a decade ago, he called me about some problems they've been having with one of their computers - it sounded like an overheat problem, but he said the computer didn't feel hot, and the air coming from the back didn't feel especially warm.
So I went to his office and took a look at it. There was *no* air coming from the back, but a visual inspection (well, glance) showed there's so much dirt coming out of the fans that's not surprising - they were to the point they couldn't turn. So I turned it off, and opened it up. Dirt came pouring out. Without performing a thorough cleaning job, just picking up the box and shaking it a little, I got a pile of dirt which looked to be about half the volume of a mini-tower case. Considering this was a mini-tower case, and there were components inside, I found that to be incredibly impressive.
He said, "Well, I had been cleaning it out about once a month, but kind of let that slide, since it never seemed to have any problems. It's been about three months since I cleaned it last." I recommended cleaning it once a week.
Note that this computer basically sat on the floor by the main door. The only other door was only there for emergencies. It was a fairly busy office, with people coming in and going out all day - mostly the landscaping workers who were either just back from a job site, just back from the greenhouse (about 20 feet away, upwind), or just back from some other location where they'd have gotten dirt on their work boots.
Actual World's Dirtiest Computer
Can be seen here on "I can has Dev Job":
I've seen one of these beings before....
When I was "re-allocated" by my employer into a new post last August, it involved moving offices. I went from my lovely air-conditioned office in the centre of Bristol overlooking Temple Quay, to a Portacabin(tm) affair in a dodgy suburb (while we awaited the promised construction of our new offices).
I decided that I was taking my desktop with me (as I had waited months for a DVD-RW drive to be installed and was not waiting for months for another). The local IT chappie said OK, and I duly trekked across the city with my Dell.
When I got to my new desk, it already had an old Compaq desktop plugged in and ready to go. I promptly unplugged it and was horrified when I crawled behind the desk to remove the monitor leads and such. A growth such as cannot be described had formed between the air vents and the sides of the desk.
Dust, hair, cobwebs and crumbs from the many lunches of the previous occupant of the desk. The mass was at least 2 inches thick. Apparently, the previous occupant of the desk had had a hair loss issue as well as psoriasis, most of which had went straight into this machine.
On receipt of that news, I also disposed of the chair, keyboard, mouse and for good measure, the telephone.
Just remembered the one that came in from a shop with 'water'damage. the roof of said shop had sprung a leak, only after some careufl questioning di9d we find out that the flat roof was used by the landlord as an exercise yard for his dogs and he never cleaned it so the 'water' that had poured into the PC and monitor was actually liquified dog turd. Explains the smell anyway.
I started my career doing PC and server support for a construction company's site offices. Virtually everything we worked with looked like that. Come to think of it, by the end of most days so did I :-)
The worst power supply.
I have found a lot of grotesque things in computers from rock hard dessicated tater tots, to a Zeos where a mouse had met his end so long ago there was just a skeleton and a puff of fur on the motherboard, but this is the power supply that was the worst. I'm only sorry I didn't get the whole machine, I was so stunned by the PS that I didn't go further. The rest of the machine still worked. "Forgive the fuzzy pics, had the horrid Casio QV 10 back then". its hard to believe there is a power supply under all this.
I've seen-em too
A friend with 3 dogs and the PC on the floor asked me to do some upgrades - the dust-bunny was half dog-hair and completely filled the open space in the case. I have no idea how it kept running.
And way back, in the Apple /// days, I worked on one and really did find a dead mouse. Little turds and pee-stains all over the place, but I guess one day he hiked a leg over the wrong component and ZAP - he died along with the 'puter.
Yeah! I got one as well.
And it was still working. I took out two dead mice complete with nest; rat droppings, oh my God, so much; and a great ball of paper which seemed to have come from the shredder. Did I mention the dead dog, oh yeah and cat. And when I finished would it work? Hell no; not a glimmer. I reckon to was a mistake to remove the ants.
Ponder Stibbons
Inadvisably Applied Magic
Ankh Morpork
Many years ago...
I was opening PCs owned by a large telecomms company to upgrade the memory as part of their Y2K/PC refresh project.
On one site, we could lift the dust off the motherboards in a single sheet.
reminds me...
That does look like a Dell
I work on a large site which is exclusively Dell, I remember the time the training team plastered the site with posters reminding users (oh sorry boss, customers) to clean the exterior vents of their pc's. Cue dozens of support calls coming in all along the lines of 'we don't know how to clean pc vents'
The training team weren't best pleased when we forwarded all such calls through to them in a combined this is a training issue/you started this.. kinda way
Industrial Terminals
I used to work for a company that serviced DEC terminals. I pulled one apart in an auto shop and it looked like it hadn't been opened for years (this was about 1998 and most of these units were well over 10 years old and developed a lovely yellow hue as a result). The entire PCB was covered in a thick layer of what looked like soot. That one still stands out in my mind, it was the dirtiest machine I ever had to service. You literally could not see a single inch of the green PCB exposed, it was completely covered top to bottom. The kicker was the company still expected us to dress in shirt and tie which was unavoidably covered with this muck at the end of every day. Never made sense to me...
Quattro Formaggio
486-era desktop after a decade controlling the labelling system on a frozen pizza production line.
Nuff said...
Proper dust bunnies
Back when the motor industry was a four letter word in Essex (work it out) I recieved a Tecra with an acrid smell and a note saying "leaky battery?"
Duly parcelled off to the PFY it made a sparky noise on startup and smelt acrid, so back to Toshiba it went. They sent it back to us saying it wasnt leaky batteries and we had spilled something on it.
While the lean green keen PFY against the advise of the rest of the office stripped it to find a find a milky substance inside, I phoned the listed owner in the ticket to find that it was a bunny issue - his daughters house rabbit was fond of sitting on it, and presumably widdling in it.
Cue the real meaning of dust bunnies, and a PFY who developed an OCD handwashing disorder for the next few weeks.
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Casual Italian Restaurant
I am looking for a casual (jeans acceptable) and comfortable (seats are on top of one another) in Boston or South Boston. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Does anyone remember when Marliave served Chicken Parm?
except for mama maria, i can't think of someplace in the north end where jeans and a collared shirt wouldn't be acceptable. especially the red sauce joints around -- hell, i see people in track suits all the time.
a quick search on here will help you. there are several north end queries everyday and the places don't turn over all that much.
if you give us what night of the week and your price point, we might be of more help.
re: hotoynoodle
I think you can get away with jeans at Mamma Maria's too!
Can't think of many places in the NE for Italian where you can't wear jeans. That's pretty formal today.
can't get much more casual than Basta Pasta (on Western just a few blocks north of the Charles/Mem Drive) and their pasta is very al dente, tasty and huge portions
Yes, I fondly remember when Marliave's served chicken parm. It used to be such a warm, cozy place. I've been to the current incarnation for a snack and drink, and although it's fine, it just doesn't have the patina the old place had.
I remember Marliave in its prior incarnation, in its last couple of years before it mercifully closed: rundown, dirty, and the food was miserable. I'm sorry I never got there in the better days that many people talk fondly about. It was a like a sad, senescent old lady at the end.
If you want that kind of casual Italian-American food, consider Anchovies in the South End. Also, in the North End, Paglicua's, Massimino's, Rabia, or Mother Anna's. I also like Vinny's at Night in East Somerville, and Carlo's Cucina Italiana in Allston.
I love Trattoria Toscana, but it's doing more of an authentic Tuscan thing, which is not always what everyone is looking for.
re: Stellar D
I'd give Locontes on Salem a shot.
I'd consider Rino's in East Boston, Massimino's or Mother Anna's in the North End, Pescatore in Somerville, or Alia in Winthrop. Alia is probably my favorite of them all, and it's a very comfortable place, but granted, it's a bit out of the way.
Jeans are acceptable attire at Rabia's in the North End on Salem Street. The chicken or veal Margherita is unbelievable and my hubby and friends love the chicken parm. You get great portions for lunch also at great prices.

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define "help" - what do you have so far? If you have nothing then why do you require autoIT?
I have a word file with text something like this:
Name:: Xyz
Address1:: Street 1
Pin:: 48429
I need to open this file read line by line. Split line on '::'. Then get the splitted elements separately.
Any help on this???
define "help" - what do you have so far? If you have nothing then why do you require autoIT?
Why AutoIT, convert the doc to a text file and use VBS, tonnes of good info available on net on how to open a text file, how to find the position of a string and how to break it into separate chunks, lots & lots!
Open the file in Excel, tell it that it's delimited and the delimiter is :: or whatever. You'll then get nice tidy columns which you can do with what you please :-)
Very good idea but depends on what he wants to do with it after, but CSV is the simplest suggestion!
This is the kind of thing where the route you take depends on how often you need to do it. For a one off, you'll probably put in less effort than if you're doing it multiple times.
if you're familiar with grep, sed and the other Unix text processing commands then you could probably do it all with them!
Import data in Excel and use the :: as the delimiter and resave as CSV or just export the data/manipulate as needed with Excel... not rocket science... horses for courses... but, why reinvent the wheel?
As it's currently a word doc he'd need to get it into a plain text format then onto a unix box/open from a unix machine, i think my way might be a bit easier in this scenario ;-)
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Thanks all..
i'm a newbie to scripting world..
The info contained in the file will be used for further processing. The file may be word or text.
I have idea with opening the word file:
$oWordApp = _WordCreate(@ScriptDir & "\File1.doc")
$oDoc = _WordDocGetCollection($oWordApp, 1)
I want to know if there is any commands to read line by line from word file and split lines on certain characters.
Else let me know if anything i can do with text file only.
Thanks in advance...
Then have a macro that launches when its opened to check the data in the word document and split it up and put it how you want into a text file or do whatever you want with it ?Code:Set Word = CreateObject("Word.Application") Word.Visible = TRUE Word.Documents.Open("C:\My Path\myfile.doc")
Description of behaviors of AutoExec and AutoOpen macros in Word
Then once the macro has done everything you want just save it and quit word and that should be it ?
Short of that you would most likely need to put it into a text file as vbscript and im sure autoit can do a lot with the data if it was in a text file.
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." ~ Augustine of Hippo
I'm often reminded of the places I've lived. I revisit them in my mind, through stories they've written and within the experience they've imparted. I can't help but to think how a certain place leaves its mark upon the heart and mind. Subtle beauty, nuance, the smell of the air and the taste of the wind all breathe drops of life into mine. These places are never forgotten, no matter how far we travel from them. Whether they've written good stories or bad, we all take them with us in our book of life.
I can vividly recall growing up in the plains of Oklahoma, near the rolling hills of the east. The green lands were all around me and I was the explorer. Numerous streams, ponds and large creeks were always a part of my backyard. They gave me my first glance at the natural world, though most of them have been hidden under concrete now, or overgrown from time. The great Arkansas river we crossed often, high above the current formed sandbars that showed its force. This place was my kingdom for many years.
I then remember as I placed my eyes on the Gulf of Mexico for the first time, the Mississippi sound. I recall easily the smell of salt and brine in the air; the smell of shrimp and spiced crab boil. The live oaks lurched from the beach, and hung their hearty branches low near antebellum homes. The Spanish moss hung from large boughs, drooping to the ground, waving in the wind among the scent of Magnolia blossoms. This land I explored for many years, and though scarred from Katrina, it still waives a friendly hello every time I return.
I recall many places.. The cold waters of the Pacific along the Oregon and California coast; the smell of the Manzanita trees; the crisp morning air of San Diego and the song of its resident parrots. I remember the humid air along the coast of North and South Carolina, it's southern charm just as welcoming. I still feel the heat of the high desert plateau and my many travels to Arizona and New Mexico; The scent of the juniper wood as it burns under blankets of stars, chilled by the high desert winds. My love for these places never wains, these are my pictures; the decorations of my heart and mind.
I miss places often as well.. The cold nights of Upstate New York, the white blanket of constant snow, and the milky way cloud that I could see from my porch every night. I miss the St. Regis river that flowed behind our home, and the fields of dandelion that sprang forth in the spring. I miss the stench of New Orleans, the French Quarter and the garden district. I miss the bumpy roads, and the street fairing precession of tourists and locals along St. Charles Avenue. I miss the Tickfaw river of Southeastern Louisiana, the brackish bayous and salt laden lakes, the strawberry festival of Ponchatoula and all the unique folk that make the south home.
Today I sit with a new view, near the base of Pike's Peak. Red Mountain stands proudly outside my window. I dwell among the soda springs, a place where the natives of centuries past came to refresh and replenish their weary, traveled bodies. I sit among a mound of history, rich in culture and steeped in mystery. This is where I am, but all of these places are a part of me, my gestalt.
In our lives we travel far, we live fast and we rarely look back. We should all take the time to reflect on the places we've visited, to reacquire the harmony of these lands as they've been given gracefully to us. Our home is all around, and it should be loved, remembered and cherished.
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This fabulous unit is located in Tahoe Marina Lodge, a lakeside condominium complex in Tahoe City. It is a two bedroom/two bath unit that sleeps 6 people. There is a king size log bed in the master bedroom and a queen bed in the guest room. The living room has a queen size sofa sleeper. Each bedroom has a flat screen TV and the living room has a flat screen TV with a DVD/Blue Ray. You can enter the guest bath from either the hallway or guest bedroom. By shutting the door to the hallway, you now have two bedroom suites for more privacy.
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After the worst coral bleaching event ever recorded in Hawai'i, scientists and researchers with the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) are diligently monitoring and testing affected coral reefs in Kāne'ohe Bay, along with other areas on O'ahu, and parts of the NW Hawaiian islands. "A bleached coral can either recover or it will die," said HIMB researcher Ruth Gates. "It is as simple as that and we really don't know what that outcome is until months after that event." HIMB researcher Courtney Couch adds, "[T]here's evidence that suggests that [the events] are becoming more frequent and severe." Learn more in this UH Mānoa video, and read about it on the UH News page.
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The City & County of Honolulu has updated its tsunami evacuation zone maps, adding a second extended zone in case of an extreme tsunami like the one that struck Kaua'i about 500 years ago. "In any person's lifetime there's like a 5% chance this will happen, so it's a low probability but it's high enough that we cannot ignore it," said Gerard Fryer, HIGP affiliate faculty and geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC). "As people look at the new evacuation maps they'll see there's much more flooding. Then they'll realize the power of one of these waves will potentially have a much greater effect on the islands than some of the events we've seen," said HIGP director Rhett Butler, the lead author of the "monster tsunami' paper.
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The "Global Warming Hiatus" — a 14-year global pause in ocean surface temperature rise — may be over. "This Summer has seen the highest global mean sea surface temperatures ever recorded since their systematic measuring started. Temperatures even exceed those of the record-breaking 1998 El Niño year," says IPRC climate scientist and Oceanography professor Axel Timmermann. "From 2000–2013 the global ocean surface temperature rise paused, in spite of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. As of April 2014 ocean warming, however, has picked up speed again." The trend has continued into Fall, and 2014 will likely go down as the warmest year on record.
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Looking for unique restaurants in Boston that have a buyout option or have room for ~125 guests. Anyone have any good ideas or been to any weddings in restaurants lately?
Formal? informal? ethnic? Many places "close for a private party" so it would help to give us some guidance on your vision of the food and atmosphere.
For example, I saw a note on the Myers + Chang website that they would be closed all day on January 28th for a private event.
For some of my friends, that would be a fun place for a small wedding and the food would be wonderful but for a different couple I might recommend the Library Room at L'Espalier.
What Penny said, plus: I'm not sure the capacity, but a colleague had her rehearsal dinner at Oleana and was very happy.
Such great ideas already!
I will ideally be having the ceremony and reception at the same place. I am looking for a place that has a nice atmosphere, with interesting decor (for pictures) or maybe a view of the water.
As far as food goes, I would want steak, fish, chicken, etc.. and a fabulous bar. I really want the food and drinks to be top notch.
I am not totally sold on a sit down dinner. So if a place has room for a dance floor, but not enough room for a full sit down dinner I wouldn't be against passed appetizers and a station or two set up for food.
Drink, Food quality, and dancing are my top priorities.
(I already tried to post a similar message but it didn't go through, so hopefully this one does.)
re: mackenzie8701
125 + a dance floor requires a pretty big space.but if that's not carved in stone, i'll add bistro du midi, scampo and davio's to this list. if you want more basic food but a lovely space, ruth's chris might work.
the state room, boston harbor hotel, the ritz and the four seasons all have spaces with spectacular views and dancing space but they will all charge you room rentals and for waitstaff on top of food and drink.
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Let's meet very soon do that I can be invited!
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Maybe Morton's in the Seaport?
Les Zygomates could be an option, although I'm not sure what their capacity is. The have several rooms, which could accomodate having the ceremony and then switching over for cocktail hour, etc. You'd probably be hard pressed to have a real dance floor there. State Room is best for all that you are asking, including water view, capacity and dance floors.
re: purple bot
sam's holds under 50 inside.
re: hotoynoodle
Yeah, he said the food was generally good, but not memorable. The wedding couple was pretty happy overall, though, and the space is fun.
I would consider the roof at the Taj. This space was formerly restaurant when the hotel was the Ritz. The setting is truly unique and spectacular, and food and drink has been top notch every event I have been to there.
Look up Longwood Events. They have 2 places that might work for you. One is The State Room on top of 60 State. The other is what they now call Alden Castle, which is 2 separate rooms - a ballroom and a "club" - in Longwood Towers (at the Longwood T stop in Brookline).
If you're doing a wedding, they will invite you to one of their showcases where you can try their food. We've done events at the "Alden Castle".
The name connects to Alden Park in Philadelphia, which is the other big development by this architect and developer. They date from the early part of the 20thC. Grace Kelly grew up at Alden Park. There is a 3rd, smaller development near Belle Isle in Detroit.
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longwood events has a 3rd property in newport,r.i., not detroit.
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I assume you're joking. The description was of the properties that look like Alden Park / Longwood Towers not what Longwood Events owns. (BTW, I see the Aptekers are still running it. They began with a restaurant in Coolidge Corner called Veronique, moved it to Longwood Towers and then transitioned to events. I used to deal with Mrs. Apteker who is now, I believe, deceased.)
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If you're referring to Lily Apteker, she's alive & quite well.
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When the Bay Tower Room was at the top of 60 State St, it was may favorite setting for a restaurant. That view just can't be beat.
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It used to be Veronique. They also run Wychemere in Harwichport which used to be a restaurant. I went to a great wedding at the World Trade years ago when it was a restaurant.
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I have attended wonderful events at Alden Park. It was a seated wedding for at least 125 people. They did nothing more than large candelabras with candles on the tables and draped ivy. The room is lovely. Cocktails were a little more awkward in the Lounge. Food was very good (by the way who goes to weddings for food...serving 125 people plated meals which must all come out in a very short cycle from a catering kitchen rarely works well...)
I went to a wedding at Forum on Boylston St, it was really good. They had the cocktail reception downstairs and then the dinner upstairs.
This may not be a popular answer, but I had my rehearsal dinner at The Living Room and it was a blast. Food was not great but solid (I think - I was a little distracted at the time), and we had about 30 people, but we only had half of the back room, and my old office of 100+ used to buy out the whole place for parties. And the price was pretty reasonable, too. It was recommended to me by a friend who had her wedding reception there.
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A few years back I went to a wedding reception at the Living Room and we too had a great time. Drinks were good (okay spirits selection) and food was better than I expected.
Red Lantern has a large private dining room for unique. The wine cellar at Mooo is impressive but unsure if it will fit 125 ppl.
Lala Rokh would be nice, although I don't know about the ceremony or dance space. I was curious about capacity so looked on their site; they accomodate up to 125 and have a private functions page: http://lalarokh.com/private-functions/
This may sound crazy, but Opentable has an option for private dining/events now, so you can scroll through and check the restaurants out. Some of the restaurants listed have buyout options and the list also includes the capacity (either in individual rooms, if there is more than 1 room/space, and/or the whole restaurant). I had a brief glance and list includes L'Espalier, the Beehive, The Living Room as mentioned by other posters. There are a number more including: Gaslight, Harvest, Marliave, Upstairs on the Square. It may be worth checking out.
While we didn't do a whole wedding, I did throw my brother an engagement party at L'Espalier and they were wonderful.
The setting, service, food, and drinks were truly top-notch as was expected but what was surprising was how reasonably priced they were. Granted reasonable is a relative term, but in comparison to most other places, they weren't that much more money for a substantially better experience. They were also incredibly accommodating in keeping the tab at a set figure and working within our budget.
Since then I've been to a couple of weddings that were pricier around the city and had pretty mediocre food and service and it's only further solidified my perception of L'Espalier.
All that is to say, call around and ask about prices, you may end up surprised at how close many places end up being.
While it is not a restaurant, I attended a wedding of the same size last fall at the Boston Exchange Conference Center - right in the Seaport District. The food was delicious but it was hurricane Sandy weekend, I am sure in good weather would be a great spot!
re: libertywharf
Chow at Venezia isn't super
I doubt that they'd let you rent the restaurant since they have a large function hall.
The restaurant does have a dance floor and a nice water view.
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Of course it would have to be the function room at the Venezia. The person who went to the new years eve wedding raved about the food. I've been there several times and never had an issue. I have a few clients who when they come up from Florida, this is the first place they dine.
re: libertywharf
I can't imagine anyone "raving" about the food at Venezia. But it's not horrible. Sorta pedestrian.
I live very close to it and have several friends who live within walking distance of the place so I actually go there a lot. They have dancing on Friday nights in the bar area which can be fun for old fogeys like me.
It looks like the new Cinquecento in the old Rocca space has private rooms on the lower level. Not sure how many people they hold, but it might be worth looking into.
You're looking for a unique spot, right?
Check out the Epicenter/Artists for Humanity building on the corner of A Street & West 2nd in South Boston. Really nice views of the city & waterfront from the top floor where you could have your ceremony.
I work in the catering industry in Boston & have catered a bazillion Weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Birthday parties, etc. in this building.
Of course, then you would have to hire an off-premise caterer and possibly an event planner.
Not sure if you want to go this route.
Just thought I would give you an option that I haven't seen anyone mention.
re: adrienne69
if you are looking for a view, a dancefloor, a place for reception, ceremony and dinner, check out Dante's in the Sonesta on the Charles, or the sonesta itself which caters lovely events in a nice setting at surprisingly reasonable prices.
re: adrienne69
the ica also fits this outline, and they do have an event planning staff as well as in-house catering.


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NASHVILLE -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says the "easy money" answers to budget problems have been used up and that dealing with the recession's aftermath and a loss of federal stimulus funds is going to hurt.
"We have to now go back and make those hard decisions, and I think they're even harder than I thought they would be," the Republican governor said last week as he finished four days of public hearings on the state's 2011-12 budget.
The state has "made a lot of cuts and decreased services in a lot of areas already," Haslam said, noting that "when you go cut something, the easy money is first."
Last week, heads of 26 agencies trooped before Haslam, outlining their best efforts to identify additional cuts of 1 percent to 3 percent to plug a $185 million deficit and create room for other needs.
Proposals ranged from laying off state troopers and releasing felons from prison more quickly to slashing community services for the mentally ill and ending spiritual and social counseling for dying Medicaid patients and their families.
The state already has cut $1.5 billion from the budget over three years, and some agencies have lost close to 25 percent of their funding. But about $900 million of those cuts were staved off through use of state reserves or federal stimulus funds, which largely will disappear July 1.
Here are some of the proposals to cut state spending up to 3 percent:
* $26 million: Cut provider reimbursements another 1.5 percent
* $14.9 million: Cut payments for C-section births
* $ 14.5 million: Stop paying for end-of-life emotional, social and spiritual counseling for patients and families
* $8.4 million: Cut payments to emergency room doctors for non-emergency services
* $6.5 million: Shut down privately operated Whiteville Correctional Facility
* $6 million: Slash state contracts.
* $5.7 million: Release some felons 60 days earlier if they complete re-entry programs
* $3.3 million: Pay less to local jails that house state prisoners
* $2.4 million: Cut 35 positions in Tennessee Highway Patrol
* $2 million: Cut staff at youth development centers
* $900,000: Eliminate 26 positions at driver license centers
* $1.39 million: Abolish 14 positions, reduce payroll equity
* $1.18 million: Cut out hemophilia program and shutter two primary care clinics
* $375,000: Contract for early intervention visits for disabled children through age 2
* $300,000: Reduce funding to connect schools to the Internet
* $250,000: Cut recurring funding for seven public television programs
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Haslam must present his budget proposal in March.
Jim White, executive director of the General Assembly's Fiscal Review Committee, said the governor and lawmakers must figure out how much money they will have and what essential services it will buy.
"The result of that process may be government is no longer able to do some things it has done in the past that people have come to assume that government will do," White said.
The state's overall current budget is estimated at $31.3 billion. White's office in December estimated the state general fund, which bankrolls most state services except for transportation, will collect about $8.4 billion in this fiscal year.
Haslam's predecessor, Democrat Phil Bredesen, avoided large cuts to the Basic Education Program funding formula for K-12 schools. Haslam said last week he intends to do the same, which would take about $70 million in additional spending.
But that ups the squeeze on other areas of government.
The mental health department, for example, already has been cut by about 23 percent. Stimulus funds delayed $11.54 million in cuts, but that money is ending. Another 3 percent cut would total $4.6 million, mostly for community mental health and alcohol and drug abuse programs.
Haslam said he has pushed for a "top to bottom review" of what the state does, but acknowledges that can't happen in time for the upcoming budget.
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Tennessee Hospital Association President Craig Becker said hospitals will accept raising the present 3.52 percent assessment to about 4 percent. That would raise about $400 million, Becker said, and eliminate previously slated 7 percent cuts in provider reimbursements.
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Haslam said he's not counting on money from a larger assessment fee.
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The first thing Governor Haslam did was not enforce environmental laws in a way that provided him and his businesses a massive tax break. Does no "easy money" mean that he's out of gifts for himself?
The cuts outlined in the sidebar are despicable.
Fund education. Fund safety. Fund basic humanitarian and medical assistance for out Tennesseeans who are suffering. Many of them are old. They need help.
Not funding caring: that's what it means when it says cut end of life and grief counseling services. Just disgusting. What a reprehensible, selfish, and disgusting decision. Provide people with some basic regard when they are in need of help from the state. Anything less is below the basic humanitarian minimum we expect from our elected officials.
I am just shocked that this person has been elected Governor. This is appalling. What a disgusting summary of poor decisions. We need an immediate and dramatic reversal on all of these ideas, outlined above.
A shocking and disgusting performance, already; and, barely a month into his term.
We do not need another Bush administration affecting our state. Get a better plan now. This is just disgusting.
This is a realistic way to approach the budget. That's something Democrats will never identify with. Some of these posters are just unhappy with the "CHANGE". The Republicans will get this state on a realistic road. Whiners are just that, whiners.
how many republicans want their children to be able to go school and go to college? The state has cut college funding 23% in the last three years! That is why tuition has gone up so much. Public university employees haven't gotten a cost of living or merit raise in 10 years! The universities have done nothing but cut. Eventually that will catch up. And the desire is to have more college-educated citizens in Tennessee to attract those foreign employers like VW. So the state can give them tax breaks. Same thing with law enforcement. Want to throw the book at criminals and lock them away? That takes money. And highways, medical, etc. Here's the thing, and some of y'all don't like it and refuse to understand it, but Tennessee's tax structure is regressive - it focuses on sales tax. So it taxes poor people a greater percentage of their income than the richer - and if you can just go out of state to buy those purchases and take those vacations, the state gets nothing. That's not a sound financial plan to fund the services this state needs. It isn't. It would be better to have a flat rate tax on everyone's income than to have a sales tax that fluctuates so much depending on spending. The poor man is going to have to buy his groceries, but the rich man doesn't have to spend his extra dollars if things are looking tight, and that makes it impossible to have a predictable sound budget.