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I probably have received this spam but didn't bother reading it. If I did receive it one day, it was trashed along with the 200 ~ 300 spam messages I receive EVERY DAY -- and this is with a spam filter running on the SMTP mail server. About a month ago, I set the spam filter on the mail...

I have hundreds of times (not an exaggeration), including both major local jetports Intercontinental (IAH) and Hobby (HOU). As for haze, I've seen plenty of grey haze and various amounts of brown smog (east side of town), but never green clouds. However, I could easily imagine a grey...

Warranty modifications have happened in the computer industry before and ended up being reversed. Apple did their famous warranty period reduction back around 1989/90 from 1 year to just 90 days (!) for a Macintosh CPU. People decried the move vigorously for several months, but eventually...

You might also like pressing F11 (Function Key 11) to gain "real estate" for your browsing needs. Just press F11 again to revert back to "normal" mode.

Since you're in Michigan, ever notice how most lakes during the beginning of winter start "churning?" That's the displaced water coming up to the surface, getting chilled and becoming more dense, then going back down towards the bottom and displacing slightly warmer water which comes to the...

Well, all I can say is they finally got the &@$% thing out the door! So, now, maybe one is thinking that IE 7.0 couldn't be too far away. Well, think again. MS is certainly not showing an IE 7.0 or really even talking about it at this point, but the "informed" rumourmill has an IE 7.0...

Keyword: Phase Liquid water is denser than solid water (ice) because hydrogen hydroxide (HOH, H2O) expands as it enters its solid phase -- which defies the norms of all other molecules. Water at a temperature of somewhere about 1.5ºC ~ 2ºC is found at the bottoms of deep fresh water lakes...

If you are using the Windows version of Internet Explorer 6.0 and you have applied SP-3 for Windows 2000 or SP-1 for Windows XP, you already have *most* of IE6/SP-1 installed -- especially in the case of WinXP/SP-1. Those microserfs have been working on the SP-1 version of IE6 for so long...

Or "direct" from: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/recommended/q327269/download.asp

FWIW, Microsoft has finally released the update that cures the most-experienced bugaboo to updating to Service Pack 3: the problem where certain notebook computers can't use PCMCIA and CardBus peripherals after applying SP-3. It is now downloadable via Windows Update.

I believe Compaq has used Logitech as their mouse manufacturer starting way back when (late '80s).

Intelli-Table™ Developed with Microsoft's® expertise in interactive technology and Fisher-Price's® knowledge of how children learn, Intelli-Table™ is packed with engaging, educational activities. Three rings teach basic concepts (A-B-Cs, 1-2-3s, etc.), music, and thinking skills, with content...

DVD+R/W is quite affordable at about $299 for a drive (I saw one tonight at a store for this price) and DVD-R/W at about $250. Both write 4.7 GB per disc. The newfangled DVD+R/W ("plus") drives are a bit faster than the DVD-R/W ("minus")drives. DVD-RAM isn't too bad either, since the media is...

DPT = Not such a good RAID controller (...or NSAGRC). Therefore, you didn't waste your money!

> I cannot beat Dell in the budget segment. And, I believe Dell will soon be selling an "unbranded" vanilla box for even less $ to resellers that provide hardware and/or software add-ons.

I can say it with certainty because I've attended a SATA demonstration and have seen SATA in action. So there. I regularly attend demonstrations of various products -- not always computer-related. I'll admit that this took place back in... erm... April/May (PS: I believe I'm still under an...

...the BigDig ...and then there are the proposed 145 ~ 183 $Billion worth of 1200-foot-wide corridors (i.e. -- swaths of eminent domain): http://www.dot.state.tx.us/tdotnews/newsrel/023-02.htm

By the way, there's a new IE6 Cumulative patch available just tonight it seems (Cumulative Patch For IE6, 22-Aug-2002, Q323759). :oops: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-047.asp

Have you tried Mozilla with any secure sites yet? (various E-retailers, PayPal, etc...)

You'll find that SATA drives and hardware (controller cards) will actually cost a bit LESS than parallel ATA. The chip count on the PCB of the upcoming SATA hard drives will be low and there will only be one small connector on the hard drive as well. Besides, SATA is much better geared...

Taxis? I like the yellow ones the most.

One other tip: Make the font size as large as you can in the illustration package before you convert them into vector fonts, saving them as DXF or WMF files. This is so that you retain maximum precision in the object transformation. you can scale them down to size within AutoCAD, but still...

You will have to use an illustration package that can take TrueType or Postscript Type 1 fonts and produce "vector fonts" so that you can save them in DXF or at least WMF format. You can then bring these vectorised fonts 2-D into any modern version of AutoCAD. There is also a 3-D font library...

If you plan on using 6-each 120 MB hard drives, you had better buy 7-each drives so that you have a spare to rebuild the array. Why worry about heat, unless you are thinking about not using drive coolers -- which would be a mistake in a 24/7 box with either 5400 or 7200 RPM drives. In...

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A few graphics card manufacturers still put some level of effort into OS/2 drivers. On a side note: My younger brother was a diehard OS/2 user for years, even after it went semi-dormant. I suspect this was because he helped write some of OS/2 (mostly device drivers) way back when he worked...

He became unemployed, then unemployed shortly after that again, and then was job hopping around the greater Pasadena / Glendale (California) area.

I was playing a Telecaster BASS recently. I've played a few from time to time over the years. I'd have to say that I *still* favour the Jazz Bass slightly over the P- or Tele- basses. The Telecaster bass was available for a long time, even through most of the 1970s. I do own 3 (quite...

Don't know. OT: Apology to China = B·O·R·I·N·G

I faintly recall it as a joke that sort of made the rounds when Windows ME came out. Windows RG = Windows Real Good (one that doesn't crash or freeze).

Yes, you can zoom in and out on any graphic with IE 5 and IE 6, provided that you install the IE Power Tools (they've been around forever it seems).

I disabled the automatic updating via the "Automatic Updates" Control Panel, by simply un-checking the "Keep My Computer Up To Date..." setting. I didn't need to do anything with the Background Intelligent Transfer Service because it was not running and set to Manual startup. So, basically...

I saw a picture (a different one) of that particular mobo a couple if not 3 months ago. Yes, it is for real -- a valve-based audio preamp integrated onto the mobo. Obviously, it's aimed at the custom computer market. I definitely would not have a friggin' valve inside my computer as they are...

[A:] It's called a Leslie, and they weigh... well, they are plenty heavy.

uhhh... California.