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The first time I read Drive SpecSheets I was so impressed with the MTBF ratings. Impressed or no, I was sceptical, and took it to be a marketing ploy. When most of the manufacturer's dropped their warranties to 1 year, I said, that seems like a better indicator of drive longevity than the MTBF...

I think I know this. AVG's update process will halt when it encounters a quirk in the internet connection. It happens from time to time. It coughs up an error message. One just has to try updating at a different time.

The reason why Coug sticks in my mind predates SF. It was the Shoe-tattoo on his PC. That was a laugh.

I installed and continue to update the AVG in the work PC. I'll check out Avast. But how can something (Antivir) be better when it failed the test? Different parameters?

I am PC-less, have been for a month now. My 2nd daughter said she needed something to allow her to work from her home, and offered to buy my PC. As I needed some cash to have my roof fixed, I accepted her offer. Am posting from an internet shop. I miss having the time to post in threads at my...

I plan to hike up a mountain in March. And I've been doing that for years. . . Planning. Seriously, I'm 52 years old. 5'4-1/2" and 74kgs. I used to weigh 61kgs in 1989 when I ran 30-48kms per week, 4 running sessions. That was in Saudi Arabia where I worked until just before the first Gulf...

90USD is a good price I think I can save up for that.

Team, Eherm, what does your pricelist say about 400gb samsungs?

Allow me, please, to express a sentiment here. I lament the fact that the largest Samsung available here is a 80Gb P-ATA drive. Maybe, I will ask a friend from the US to purchase a larger Samsung for me.

question please. how does one connect an external SATA drive to a PC? USB, I can understand.

I'm quite old, 52 years and married almost 33 years. Well, this is what I'd do in your situation, at least from what I've inferred to be your situation. I'd accept calls from her, talk to her and actually try to be friends. When the question comes up, I'd probably be up front and say, let's...

I wouldn't say that. I think a sustained 48deg would be courting disaster.

When I transferred my hardware from the "hernia buster" (server casing) 4 months ago, I decided not to re-install the floppy drive. Why? I found I did not use it as often as before. So seldom, in fact, that I had to run format on a diskette/s as many as 4X before it would function correctly...

Happy New Year to all, or should I wait 2 more days, I suddenly realized, it's only December 30 and we're a full 12 hours earlier than most of the guys. Well, I'll be home with the whole family and the ISP there is crap. Oops, not a good word to say at these times. Happy New Year to all...

glad to be back, too. It was hard to be waiting 3 minutes for a page to load, and that for a locally (phillippine) hosted server. for overseas servers, no way. And, nevermind if its ultra O.T. Happy New Year to everyone.

how much did they cost you? I am planning to ask my daughter to purchase a pair for me in Hongkong when she goes there sometime in January. BTW, this is my first post in a long time. That Taiwan quake isolated us a bit. Broke a few marine cables.

sorry if I got the idiom right. did you mean, he died? about me, if I don't post in a month, then it's probably for the same reason as Dave's.

and I have just purchased, on credit, my first flash disk, a PQI 1Gb USB drive. 4 payments over the 2 months. and I'll be making my 2nd payment this December 15th. Cost me Pesos1300.00. Divide that by 50 to get the dollar equivalent.

just saw this thread and took the poll. too late to notice it was started in 2002! anyway, I like to cook. but as we filipinos usually do, it's just mostly saute-ing. and the wife keeps me from the kitchen because I don't clean up afterwards, she does, or the kids do. The kids say I cook well...

hmmm, nice technique. but it's too technical for me I'm planning to have a ceremony in about 2 years to celebrate our 35th. I do think of marriage as permanent. My eldest daughter does, too. But right now, she's separated (for the first time) from her husband. I think you have to want to be...

wow, he went to Salt Lake City so he could give them a dose of their own medicine. That's admirable. If I had the cash to buy tickets, and wanted to go to the US and visit my relatives, I'd probably be turned down for a visa. Now, If I said, I want to go to Salt Lake City and give them a dose...

yeah, backup eyeglasses... are better than needing another set of eyes.

Well, we shall have to resign ourselves to the chimp while the owl is flitting somewhere else. Well, I will not pretend. I say with conviction, I am dark green with envy. Enjoy the holiday. And I hope you think of sending me the battered camera afterwards. I'd be very happy to be able to get...

Hah! Here, the malls start playing Christmas Carols in October BUT some radio stations do so in August. In actuality, the "ber" months are the Christmas season here. We are reputably the country with the longest Christmas Season. And we don't even have snow.

To lend credence to the claim of the Philippines being the SMS capital of the world (AFAIK, there are other contenders) ... In any given vehicle, a jeep for example, which can seat 24 or so people, at least 4 of those or as many as 8 will be holding cell phones and texting away. This inspite of...

text speak? The Philippines being the de-facto text capital of the world, people here have taken text speak to new heights. When my wife and I received our first cell phones as gifts 4 years (5 years?) ago from our 2nd daughter, my wife took to wasting money on calls. a phone call of 1 minute...

Whew that's a relief. Well, from the reviews I've read, that movie is not about a bad person. Innocent and naive is more like it. And the preview is hilarious. Looking forward to watching the movie. Which may not be in a theater near me, judging from the content and the Censors Board we have...

I have updated to 7.5. Except for the change in how it looks, I have no idea if it is more effective. It's still free. and that is good.

The word "borat" (actually "burat") is a Tagalog word for penis. Well, just one of the words for that part of the male anatomy. The connotation is not nice and a doctor would not normally use it. Kids up to 10 years of age would use it when talking degradingly of a playmate's ... uh, piece...

Well, I have known of Swiss and Britons who come here to the Philippines to have their teeth fixed, saying it is much cheaper to purchase plane tickets and shell out for living quarters and board and pay for Dental Care here than to have their teeth fixed in theri countries.

Got to see the "Firefly" series (13 episodes was it? and was that everything?) and I'm panting for more. Good storytelling. I am disappointed that it has all ended.

doesn't say if it was an optical mouse, would anybody know?

Wish that I was that poster... It was Tony?

AGHHH, a 19" CRT will cause the electric consumption to skyrocket. and the missus won't be talking to me after the 2 succeeding bills. ;-) Yes, I've been reading all that drool inducing posts above. Can I resist it for much longer? Still, thank you for the post. It gives me something to chew...

Don't know if this is off topic, but here goes. If one had a choice between an AOC 19" wide screen and an LG 17" 4:3 (they cost the same) and one was concerned with screen real estate, what would you recommend? One is using 17" CRT at the moment...

I would, too, if I was in her shoes. Hey, "strategist" as a title?? That kind of work would result (in chess) in a mate in 3 moves. Looked like and sounded like stepping on a slew of land mines.

hmmmm, the clouds look staged.

This was taken sometime in November last year. http://www.friendster.com/viewphotos.php?p=e&pid=207946044&uid=21215278

"get rich quick" is not "stable" more like a mountaintop just before the valley. We have the lotto here but I haven't bet. Sometimes I am tempted but everyone knows it's very risky. ;-)

spoken like a PC hardware tech. This is always glad news. Now to have it stable under stress. We are rooting for you.

I was planning to reformat the main office PC. I knew all along that I had to backup all the email. Copied over the PMail (which we had before I installed Thunderbird). Copied over all the myriad bits and files the officemates drop all over the C: drive (desktop, my documents, other "personal"...

gahh, I was looking for the edit button, couldn't find it. First sentence should have read: If only the thing wasn't about Life and Death it would be hilarious.

If only the thing was about Life and Death it would be hilarious. I live in a country where abortion is not sanctioned. Any woman who wanted an abortion just because the pregnancy was "inconvenient" has to gounderground. Many well-to-do women go to the USA or Europe for abortions to escape the...

Hello Mercutio, That is a good story and I am very impressed. AFAIK, very many computer technicians are not like you. Thanks for the story. Learned a few things. Now, how to implement...

I have a NEC ND3540 going on a year now, still is working well. Had it purchased for me by a friend in Hongkong. They are not available here. Here, the rage is LG, cheap and quite reliable, model numbers are H10N, H20N or H10L, H20L. The L models are lightscribe capable. They seem to be slow in...

hmmm. That's why I didn't get it. For some reason, inspite of us being "American" I do not remember "auto" in normal use among English speakers here. AFAIK, Filipinos have always used the term "car". Maybe because it was a lot shorter than "automobile" which I would sometimes encounter in...

sorry, slow on the uptake. the man was using British terminology. Haah! it's all because we were an American Colony, not English. Good joke. clean and nice. recommended. now about the "auto" thing unless somebody explains, it will forever be beyond me.

I was hearing the news on the radio yesterday. The name was not immediately mentioned, just "Crocodile Hunter". I was thinking, Hey, Crocodile Dundee is dead. That's really sad. Then, I heard the name, OOOPS this person was the real thing, not the movie hero. Still, ironic that he died from a...

Here, it's the southwest monsoon, rains most afternoons and nights. Flashfloods and landslides.

This is another nice thread. Touches on watches and cellphones. My cellphone is my watch. I'd like to have a watch, but nobody here now gives watches for gifts. Maybe I'll ask my eldest daughter for one. A stainless steel Tag Heuer looks good. I want one that isn't too bulky.