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Time flies! Haven't been in prison, but have had some rough times over that period, especially post-2008. Things are slowly turning around now and I have some hope for this year being better. Have been doing some PC upgrades over the past few weeks which brought back memories of SR and SF...

I haven't tried this but I have a couple of shots in the dark... I expect it would work fairly poorly over USB2. Are you using USB3? If you're using USB3 and still having issues then perhaps buy & try one of the certified drives to see if that resolves the issues.

Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2016 is a great year for us all!

First off, very sorry to hear that some of us on SF have not had good Christmas seasons this year. :( I hope that by the time Christmas rolls around next year that things have improved immensely. Can't say anything about the DVD burner. But the camera has good and bad. My mother has an A70...

Read that and groaned... Sigh. :roll: Ian

In no particular order: Natural Born Killers (Because I feel it is true that the media sensationalizes crime.) Scrooge (1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" starring Alistair Sim. B&W version, of course!) Good Morning Vietnam (Robin Williams is soooo good!) Highlander (If...

In the spirit of commercialism...What'd everyone get (or buy themselves!) for Christmas? Guess Santa thought I was a good boy this year, cause I got a new camera lens... :) One of these. I think I gave some good presents too though. Tickets to Japan for my parents, jewelry for my wife...

140, Facts Curator. I did this test a little while ago during a lunch break at work. The info they have on the page about the different IQ tests is interesting. Different IQ tests work with different scales. Some have a maximum score, some are much more open ended. I couldn't find any...

Yup, for a large network that would be the ideal solution. It would be even better to have such a solution that could run on top of WinNT Server and not need 512MB of memory and 6gigs of HD space... :( At least MS doesn't seem to be charging for it though! That would be the killer -- build...

I haven't heard that the logons are being encrypted, but it is certainly not impossible. The trouble is that the entire session needs to be encrypted. If not, your Windows passwords are being sent in plaintext! As well as everything else you type... The most popular way to add security to...

If anyone is wondering "Why TightVNC instead of RealVNC (or one of the others)?", these are my reasons: 1. Faster than VNC, with selectable compression levels. 2. Mouse cursor is no longer a bitmap that is sent from the remote PC. It is the local hardware cursor, and therefore much much...

Damn, forgot to add the bit that Merc's site reminded me of!! I use a Linux-based boot floppy for erasing HDDs of machines that are no longer to be used. I have used BC Wipe until now, (download the bcwipe.flp file and write to a floppy using WinImage or another file-->floppy program), but...

CougTek -- Cool site, will check it out in more detail! Mercutio -- Also interesting stuff there. Reminded me of something else too, more below. Here are a couple of things that I do with some of the tools at Sysinternals: Well, one I already mentioned. I script the ability to disable...

Where do you go for great freeware applications? What do you use? (The titles below are links.) Pricelessware Some of the stuff listed here is only truly free for individual use, but it is a fantastic source of information, with no banners, pop-ups, flash animations... Sysinternals If you've...

Good idea Handruin! I have also used that when moving a program from Access to MySQL -- it works very well. You can use the Access Export feature to export the tables and data directly into MySQL via ODBC. This works, but not perfectly -- keys and indexes have to be recreated. There are...