Buying a Small Earh Mover

Several things depending on your your limitations for machine size and $$ to spend.

1) Cheapest is a used skid steer loader with metal over the tire tracks. They can be small enough to carry in the back of a pickup. ex: Bobcat 440B or Case 1825 with loegering or grouser tracks. Find good used for $5-10K and tracks for $2-3,000.

2) A company called ASV Posi-trak has just built a small dedicted track drive loader that can be carried around in a 3/4- 1 ton PU. Around $20K.

3) Best and most entertaing in my opinion if you are lucky enough to have $40,000 + to spend is an 864 Bobcat track loader. 74 h.p. turbo diesel, 13
or 17 inch wide rubber tracks. has 2000# lift capacity.

You can buy a good used skid steer and put tracks on it as I said above. There are more options in the mid size machines ( Bobcat 740/750, Case 1838/1840, NH 400/500/600) than the little ones for used. They are big enough you’d have to trailer them. But even with tracks you’d only lay out around $12-$13K for something decent and much more versatile than the machine you are looking at which I think sell in that $ range.

.NET Phase

I’m just reading the windows username (DOMAIN\username) from HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name. I’m hesitant to start coding the LDAP queries for the reasons stated by Wraith in his article: “Utilizing DirectoryEntry-style access is slow and cumbersome when you’re dealing with multiple users, especially when your goal is simply read-only access. Plus, remembering all the different parameters to use can be difficult when you’re trying to write a quick program to solve something, and not a several-month project.”

I would log the username, some other ID that could be generated by the system, and a timestamp.

And then everything else you want to store.

It takes constant time to derive (retrieve) these values so it’s not bad programming practice.

Antonella #1

How does Antonella Barba make it through another week on American Idol? There’s no way her performance on that show was better than the others.

I’m sure the network doesn’t want her bumped off. I’ll bet the ratings have gone through the roof since the release of the pictures, and now they don’t want to give that up.

My guess is she will continue to win as long as she remains a popular search topic on the Internet. The big adult video websites like http://www.freepornvideos69.com (NSFW) still have her sex pictures posted for all to see.

She is still the number 1 search topic on Technorati, and rivals Anna Nicole Smith for Internet searches.

In my opinion American Idol love sscandal and I love Antonella Barba as much as I love Katherine Heigl.