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Ironically, The Germans is my favourite episode. :D

Indeed! It's the bomb when mixed with some rum. :D

Dell, along with other OEM companies should be fined for the environmental hazard that they are! The amount of OEM parts that get tossed within a very short time of its useless life is downright criminal.

Yes and Yes.

I made my first curry this weekend. It seemed to have went pretty well, no one died. Gives me reason to try again. :D

Earl Gray was my favorite until a friend from India made her typical Chai -- very tasty. In Hindi, Chai simply means tea. Strictly speaking, it is only a combination of Black Tea, Milk and Sugar. However, most Indians will add some of the spices I mentioned. When I'm out and buy tea, such as...

If you haven't already seen this: BlondeStar

Yes I do have some X10 components now. Although I have worked with X10 automation systems, I have never designed and implemented one on my own.

Very different from their current model. I just bought one before my trip so that I had a watch to wear in the water. The plastic casing on my previous one began to fall apart after 10 years. I have always liked the ruggedness of the G-Shocks and the alarms. I have never used a clock alarm...

Chai with a few spices added (usually cardamon, maybe some star anis, and perhaps a very small touch of cinininamomon.) This weekend I was able to try: Hennesy Paradis Extra - WOW! Very smooth fruity flavor. Auchentoshan 21 Year - Again, WOW! Typical lowland flavor.

For me it's either an LLBean Field Watch or a Casio G-Shock.

Or is that Tea? It's hard to tell, they both have hairy faces.

I don't know, it has always been very inexpensive for me to shovel trash into a bucket and ship it out. :D

Yes. I've been able to move away from Socket A. Actually, the last Socket A system I assembled was for me. :D Although I haven't really had the time to use it. I was hoping to make a fileserver out of the beast with Suse 9.3.

I agree, they are very good pictures. Thank you for including me under the umbrella of being a serious photographer, but I'm not -- it's just a hobbie that I'm able to indulge in occassionally. As you pointed out, flowers and wind don't mix -- very frustrating sometimes. As for your River Red...

Thanks for the tips everyone, they seem very helpful. I'll have to practice some more.

Yes. As Tony pointed out, I'd love to have one socket configuration. That way I can mix and match different levels of boards and CPUs -- but they're all still interchangeable!

Everything just seems easier with my older Minolta XG-1. :(

No thanks Handy. I can pretty much make my own determination what drives I should sell. After building computers for a while, it's pretty easy to decide what sort of drive to use in a given scenario. My rant was just stating the obvious. Eugene is a good guy and puts a lot of himself into...

What a contradiction! 'We don't need CPU speed, so we opted for two 3 Ghz Xeon processors.' Their reasoning is laughable. If you're going to present Enterprise results, than build an Enterprise system and use the appropriate benchmarks. Likewise, have another test bed for typical office/home...

e_dawg, I've been looking for a P&S camera too. Recently, during my trip to Hawaii, I used a Powershot, and was disappointed with blurry pictures. Essentially, the main object of the picture is out of focus, and ancilliary items are in focus -- very frustrating. Perhaps it is not the camera...

Indeed. We know which drives you (and some of us) will buy anyway. :D

Mubs, please let us know your impression of 10 in comparison to 9.3.

It would be a nice corner for your WRX too. :)

I just had a taste over the weekend, I would agree with your summary. :D

Looking back over the past few decades, these were and are a few of my favourite Television Series' (in no particular order). 1. Waiting For God (English comedy) 2. Keeping Up Appearances (English comedy) 3. Six Million Dollar Man 4. Carol Burnett Show 5. Dukes of Hazard (I don't want to...

Great pictures Tea. Thanks for sharing. Nice action shot with wimmera13.jpg. I like the first picture, wimmera10.jpg, but wimmera14.jpg fits me better because there is no fence.

It's difficult to tell at the moment. :shake2:

:rofl: Thanks for that bozo. I read in many years ago and totally forgot about it. It helped improve my morning. :P

I looked at it more than once. :D

jtr, with global warming, you'll find your neck of the wood warmer and warmer each winter. It might be time to move further north (or way down south).

When the time comes, and you're looking for a Onkyo product, let me know, and I'll check if I carry it.

Here is a picture looking out from our hotel:

This is a total scam. Who would ask for you to FAX a driver's license and credit card? Either someone extremely stupid, or a scammer. That company could unknowingly be a front for this scammer.

Nope. But I'm happy to have the extra products available. I've used Leviton and X-10 for a commercial lighting automation system.

:( Sorry about that Time. I expect that you are more used to hot weather than I am. Nonetheless, hot, dry weather sucks! For my vacation I went to Hawaii -- humidity is much more pleasant than dry heat. I guess that is why I enjoy the comfortably humid weather we get here along the coast...

With this new distributor, I don't have access to Escient. But I do have other new brands available to me, such as: Panasonic, Nutone, MG Electronics, Channel Plus, Channel Vision, Weldex, NetMedia, HAI Omni, HomeVision, JDS, Applied Digital, Premise, HomeSeer, HAL, Marrick, Xantech, Applied...

Personally, I'm biased towards local shops. Although, the one you linked to can't even create a proper web page, let alone the fact that they used Frontpage 5.0. Hopefully, their computer skills are much better than their html capabilities. :)

The first few instances I laughed, then it quickly became annoying.

I was making that statement from personal experience. I've personally seen a new $25,000.00 car get dropped to $19,000.00 because it was paid upfront without financing. This can be particularly helpful when you come across a new credit card deal with a fixed 0% APR. Charge the car, and pay it...

I have hooked up with a new distributor that specializes in system integration. This includes audio, video, electrical, environmental, networking, etc. I noticed that one of the major audio brands they carry is Onkyo. Any input or feedback for this brand? They have a really nice receiver...

It usually gives you a discount too.

On Topic... Yes mubs, I was on vacation. (I wish I still was.)

I used to praise Dell as an OEM because of the great systems they produced. Wow, that's been a long time. The Optiplex SX280 is slow, but I think Symantec is making it much worse. Since it uses the i910 chipset and everything is integrated, I've noticed how important it is for these machines...

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Boston Globe Article

The unofficial test mentioned was only a small improvement for city/highway mileage -- a meager step from ~18.2 to 21.3 mpg. I would want to see more than a 20% improvement with my car's fuel consumption. For example, if my mileage went from an average of 23 mpg to 30 mpg, I would be...

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Are you sure this USB drive is not write-protected? Some of them have a manual switch similar to floppy diskettes.

Mubs, I think Tannin was saying that the version of English he speaks is more logical than the U.S. flavor, not necessarily better than non-English languages. Although, if you don't know any other languages, your mother tongue automatically becomes vastly superior to anything else -- it's the...