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I'll agree with you on some of those: 1. Lexmark printers. Here they get you to buy their printers by selling them VERY cheaply. More cheaply than the 2 (b/w and color) ink cartridges cost. Then you find out, they've installed special cartridges with small capacities which run out of ink after...

ok, I know it's supposed to be an old book but... I saw "Accidental Tourist" in the office library the other week and I picked it up. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's now with my daughter. This morning she says to me at breakfast, "I can understand why you can relate to the guy (Macon) - it's you"...

I don't know about there, but here, there have been a few deaths and probably some maimings due to liposuction. Just thinking of the documentaries I accidentally watched on the subject makes my hair stand on end.

I definitely second this. I don't use the fan control features at all. But the other parts of the program, the graphs - which are easily configurable to monitor voltages and temps - and SMART, too, are neat.

It's a good thing, I don't have any money to buy even a yard of sail material. My wife won't get on a boat that large (small). :lol:

Thanks for all the replies. Will investigate your recommendations. And will be sure to read your link, Tony. BTW, any reactions to that error message from my event viewer? Is it really a sign that my PC was hacked? There were at least 15 of those and they only came up after the YM install.

Some friends have started sending me those invites to Yahoo Messenger with them. And it's getting to the point that I am starting to feel being impolite if I continue to ignore the invites. Besides, these are people who I'd really like to get in touch with again, people from high school who have...

hmmmmm. have to do some research then. thanks.

Hello Stereodude, The small NGO I part-time with is looking for a laptop and has a budget of P60,000 which translates to USD1,100. That machine you just bought is fantastic. Is there any way we could get something like that from here (Philippines) in say 2 weeks' time? For our money what I can...

Most everyone on a budget here in the Philippines gets to get an ECS mobo. For comparable models across Brands, ECS is lower in price by about 300 to 500 pesos (7-10 USD). I still can't start to think of ECS on the same level as Epox, MSI (which I also avoid) or Gigabyte. I don't buy Asus, they...

Hmmmm, I was under the impression that Jetway was better than ECS. But that was 4 years ago. So that must have changed. AFAIK, they are all under ECS. Could be ECS made Jetway really bad so they would look good. I could be far wrong. Anyway, I just wanted to say the first sentence.

Just sharing. Have finished reading "Lucifer's Hammer" 3 days ago. It's about a comet strike and near end of civilization. Enjoyed it.

Well, on my rig which uses XP, it is quite useful, dropping my temps 10-14deg C when I'm just surfing or word processing. When the machine is idle, the temp difference is around 16deg C.

I wonder how this CoolOn works. Soon as I read this thread, I went to the site, downloaded and installed. My 2400Sempron which is SocketA and T-Bred based went from 58deg idle (it's summer here now and it's one of the hottest summers in memory and the temps are expected to peak in June, just...

I was going to say, thank you, Groltz because your picture is now my desktop background (what do you call that again?) It is a good color to have on the PC, quite cheery, light and peaceful.

That casing looks like 90% of the casings we can buy here (only the face changes). but these usually pack a keyboard, a ball-mouse and small pair of speakers. cost around $24 or Pesos 1600. The side panels flap. and you would have to be careful about hoisting one on which you have installed...

You, people, are awesome. A book thread! A movie thread is run of the mill, but a book thread??? I used to devour books when I was a kid. Ok, that was when I was 6 or 7 years old. Now, I spend too much time in front of this machine to be able to read on a regular basis. But I confess I pretty...

When I was at grade school ('60s) our practical math had a lot of problems involving coversions between English and Metric Linear and Weight systems. We are still quite comfortable with either up to yards. Longer distances were always in kilometers, never in miles. And we never used the...

Is your motherboard by chance a Gigabyte? I've had the same observations on the 5V rail on 3 Gigabyte mobos, one a KT600 and the other 2, NF3 boards. But all of them are very stable. It could be a quirk of the monitoring chip or of Speedfan. I would not worry about it.

Good looking people, you are. And quite young. Me, I'm my avatar with the grandson. In my line of work, there's not much time for vacations. My wife could surely use one. She's a pre-school teacher.

What got to me was the discussion in the forum between the person who found Centos' replies/actions offensive and those who were trying to say that those replies/actions were justified. IMO, more narrow-minded than the city administrator he was trying to defend.

I am very pro-SF, meaning I read a favorable comment for a product/brand here, I tend to believe it. Still, I like Maxtor drives over Samsungs. Why? Though I have not experienced any failures yet from either brand, some of my newer Samsung installs have quirky S.M.A.R.T reports from monitoring...

That is stronger than any typhoon which has hit the Philippines. I've experienced "only" 220kph winds "near the center" which is how we measure our typhoons here. We had a storm called "Yoling" (yes, most of our typhoons are named after women, the same as yours in North America) which hit in...

Thanks for the replies. I am going to work on your suggestions.

violent I mean the discussion is turning towards violent :lol: The box is violet.

A friend of mine has this, he'd like to run linux on it but the current ones are too big. He'd like it to reside on the HDD what about for this mostly for surfing and email, some correspondence, office work.

My wife's 2 sisters have had mastectomies within a year of each other. They also underwent chemotherapy treatments right after their surgeries. The tendencies toward getting some cancers seem to be inherited. Hoping my wife won't be affected. Still, the possibility of surviving cancer lies in...

yes, totally agree. if one can't place the family first, the priorities are screwed up. hope you get a job you like, soon.

I keep saying to myself, this here's my 1st most favorite forums. Not just because of Merc, but because of you all. Cheer's to everyone. You're the reason Merc's up. I suppose he won't dispute that. :lol:

Yeah, posting milestones. I wonder who'll be around when I make my 1,000th? Bailey's with my brewed coffee, please.

ha-ha-ha I don't know which of the guys in the linked photo was Pruitt but I'd guess it was No. 42.

Uh ok. Was thinking that what is terrifying must be a big deal. But reflecting on what you said, Tornadoes come and are gone in minutes. No lingering damage such as floods, mud, and whatever else is associated with storms. And damage is quite localized.

Hey, much of what I've seen in the places I've been asked to troubleshoot are like that. Hmmm, I'd be very comfortable in your place of work. :)

the news is not good. tornadoes in missouri? anyone affected?

I was laughing as I read this. And really happy for you!

Oh no! This means the intel boys in the forums I frequent will be swaggering back and forth and no one from the AMD camp will be able to stand up to them. Maybe not for the next 2 years. Still, if this means cheap/fast AMD processors, I could probably let them (swagger, that is).

serenity Hi, Mercutio Curious about your recommendation, I downloaded 3 comics of Serenity 3 or 4 months ago. And just got to watch the movie yesterday. Really good stuff. I am a convert. I liked it a lot better than all the StarWars. I even think River's 2 battle scenes are better than Zhang...

I think 60deg C is tolerable. I remember my 1700+ and my older 1500+, when I still had them would reach 63 or 65. And only lately, I had my Sempron 2400+ socket-A running for about 6 minutes without a fan. I had disconnected the fan from the power plug to clean the Heat Sink and forgot to...

amazing link Thank you, Coug! Just out of curiosity, I clicked your link to Bulacan. It is simply amazing! It even had up-to-date info on my town which is Meycauayan. :D You might want to look it up. My barangay (barrio is the nearest term to this) is Perez. I'd heard of Wikipedia but did...

typhoon season Typhoon season starts in late May and usually lasts until November. But a stray typhoon can come even during December. My place is quite elevated so we don't have flooding here. But since our economic hub is Manila/ Quezon City which regularly get flooded when transport is...

I was planning to join one rally yesterday, but I just had to have lunch with my wife first. They got dispersed before I could finish lunch, so even if I wanted to, there was nothing to join up with. Anyway, my 2 daughters were dead set on dissuading me from joining. So around 2p.m., I...

so that is ashlee simpson? if the world were populated by men with my taste... yuck, ack! oops, excuse me.

hmmm, I don't know but I thought that Martina Navratilova was sexy. You might think I'm weird. But let me add to that. I only thought that whenever she had her back turned. Like when she was walking back from the net towards the service line.

am I glad I'm from the other side of the world. Would probably run into debt ordering what they offer :lol:

yep, I'm here, thank you. :) Appreciate the concern. Been having problems with my provider. Typing this in an internet cafe. This latest disaster is very sad. Many kids have perished in this. Another one of the effects of indiscriminate logging in mountain regions. 3 or 4 years ago we had...

hmmm, I'd have to read up on Mexico to make an intelligent reply to that. as for crack heads, we have a few of those in elective positions, too. see you on Monday, am going on a "retreat"

the Philippines has 3 geographic areas, Luzon (north), Visayas (middle) Mindanao (south). Mindanao is home to many Muslim peoples and they, too, have their extremist factions. There was a celebrated kidnapping 3 years ago, some Germans, Malaysians, Filipinos and a few Americans were kidnapped...

lots of Filipinos believe OUR president was not elected. wonder if you'd be interested in an article written by a 17-year old 1st year college student on that subject. here... http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?index=2&story_id=65354&col=127 here's a snippet

Have you been to my country? If not, then may I warn you. We've got very good people who will count to you your change. Wait, don't put it in your pocket just yet. That change you were given could probably be missing a few hundred pesos. Count it again yourself in front of the vendor. Lay it...

I would like to say, Mercutio, that this work is a gift to all internet newbies. A work of love. Lots of thanks.