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A trick for cleaning the PCI/AGP/whatever connector: Use a pencil eraser. The plain red eraser on the end of a #2, for instance, leaves nice shiny gold connectors. I've done this since the 80s and have never had an issue with slot connectors cleaned this way. I used it a lot when I worked for...

2 x $9.50 = pretty much the cost of buying the DVD. No wonder I mostly buy DVDs instead of going to the theater. Just as cost-effective as taking my wife to the show and we can watch it at our leisure as often as desired. The 'theater experience' nowadays mostly means putting up with rude...

Anyone have any experience with the Acer AL1912B 19" LCD? I'm not even really in the market for an LCD but at $270 shipped and no rebates to muck with I am sorely tempted.

Nope. Two things ended my SW interest: 1. The re-edited versions of the original three. 2. Episode I. Those were enough to shatter my interst in anything new from Lucas & Co. Thankfully, I still have my LD box of the original three, un-mucked-up. Unleashed wasn't bad, BTW. Fight scenes...

Our ants always seem to never get farther than the garage. Maybe they can't make the two steps up into the mud room/laundry room that leads to the kitchen. Beats me, but they've never entered the house so far. Of course, I apply a certain amount of non-computer RAID to them whenever they're...

For Palm apps, I usually wind up at Handango or PalmGear. The prices are pretty much the same and the selection is pretty good. You can also check some of the various Palm & Treo sites for recommendations in their forums. As to an actual mileage/expense tracker, I couldn't say as I don't use...

I just click the update 'puzzle piece' on the top-right corner of FF.

1.0.4 is out:

Out of curiosity, why? I know you mentioned the CS sucks, but every carrier's CS sucks; none are rated highly and Sprint is generally not considered the worst in this area (I think Cingular gets the nod). My cel experience has been that I use CS to activate the phone and pretty much never...

No WPA? I'm disappointed. This Netgear router looks cool.

I still have and get great functionality from my Treo, but that's probably a bit more $ than you want to spend. In terms of cel phone features, I have to say I'm relatively hooked on BlueTooth. Having a headset is nice; having a wireless headset is really nice! Sprint has an 18 month rule. If...

Just mostly trying to earn enough CPEs to maintain my CISSP. Thankfully, my employer generally pays for my classes & conferences. That makes finding the time the hardest part.

Carbs, carbs, and more carbs. :lol:

The town we stayed in had 1 traffic light. I'm not sure but it may have been there for show. We parked the car at the B&B and walked everywhere so even it didn't matter. Very nice, quiet, and relaxing.

Whether or not one chooses to acquire cable/satellite content without paying for it is an ethics question that each person has to answer themselves. This is especially true when the risk of having laws enforced is minimal. Honestly, I'd be a hypocrite if I raised my hand. I've got some...

In a Cayenne, sholdn't that trip only take about 3 hours? :lol: Nothing as exciting as LV, but my wife and I are heading to a B&B in Michigan this weekend for a little time away from work, home, and the pets.

No, the problem with your proposal is twofold: 1. The programs are not being taped to time-shift; they are being taped for redistribution outside the domain of the person(s) paying for the service. 2. This is occuring as payment for services rendered. That makes it piracy. Cable and satellite...

Yes, no COLA/regional adjustment factor. Also no breakdown was provided on types of IT work (desk-side support tech, operations, programmers, analysts, network engineers, etc.) to lend substance/justification to the salaries; IOW maybe Wash has a disproportionate number of high-end IT jobs...

No, Merc, that would be this stupid obsession with Star Wars. And 'reality' TV. They are far larger plagues against humanity. And as I said in another thread, if anime is crowding out the comics at your retailer, perhaps it is fulfilling a need that the domestic comics don't. Not having read...

In Tools - Email Accounts, I have a listing for Microsoft Exchange Server, Type Exchange. Clicking Change bring up the Exchange Server settings. Here I've got the Exchange Server name (server name, not FQDN or IP) and my user name in the format "last, first (region)"; IOW exactly how an...

Go for 2003. It has a couple of key improvements for handling spam, primarily not loading graphics by default, and improving responsiveness by optionally caching your Exchange box on your PC. If you occasionally see the Outlook sync messages now, enabling the local cache in 2003 eliminates the...

How about that breakdown of the 'energy bill' listed in the article? - Harm the environment in Alaska in favor of oil company profits. This does not benefit the US population. It harms wildlife, nature, and otherwise serves to add to corporate profits. - Give tax breaks to oil, gas, etc...

Here's a list of 64 time zones in use around the world and if they use DST or not and when it occurs. Lots of variation and the list is not complete; there are something like 96 or 100 time zones/variations in use on earth. Check out Newfoundland and Chatham Islands. The list may take a...

Been very busy with work & home stuff. I've generally stayed caught up on reading the topics but haven't seen much to chime in on. My main PC seems to be starting to have a few issues. Some spontaneous reboots and occasionally I'll find it 'off', well really more like failed, with an...

Buck, I fully understand where you're coming from. My car has been paid off for four years. I just rolled 100K miles last week. Everything on the car works and non-wear repairs have been trivial. From a reliability standpoint, I don't see why I couldn't drive this car another 100K. Quality...

First quarter sales.

I doubt the OEM version of 9 is different from the full version. Since it includes 2003 functionality, I'll pick it up. These guys seem reputable enough and are a decent bit cheaper than NewEgg ($29 shipped vs. $46).

Regarding the notebook drive mentioned above, is Ghost still the recommended way to move stuff from the old to the new drive? And if so any reason not to buy OEM 9.0 for about $25 vs. retail 9.0 for $70-$20MIR? Or is 9.0 garbage and 2003 is the version to cherish?

If she doesn't do a ton of calling, get her a cel phone & ditch the land line all together. Better flexibility, like having it available when she's out and about. You'd think with the competition for phone service (RBOC, Cable, Cel) companies would make an effort to satisfy customers. :evil:

Bonuses will vary all over the place. Even in non-sales positions, in some companies management compensation is done with a larger bonus but smaller regular pay. Thus you can see bonuses of 30-40% in some places for management while staff may get 3-10%. Also, some companies have a target...

Too late; I just ordered. :-? Well, it's only a few $ more and I have had good experience with Promise in the past. I also added a notebook drive to replace a failing drive in an old P3 Dell I've got laying around as well as a couple of other trinkets. So the total price for the order makes...

It looks like I'll pick this up, then. Thanks, folks.

So, you're not interested in web serving, java development, databases, PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, print & file serving, email, LDAP, running Unix apps, or pretty much anything else that a server can do. Why are you reading a this thread?

I'm shortly going to need an adapter to add a disk to a PC I'll be receiving. The PC is a Compaq and the onboard IDE has issues recognizing drives, or more to the point recognizing the OS on a drive. As I'll be putting my own drive in the unit (a P-ATA drive somewhere between 160 & 200GB), I...

So MS will only be 10 years behind IBM in rolling out a 64 bit server OS*. Yep, that's leading edge stuff alright. *Actually, OS/400, now branded i5/OS, is 128-bit. It is merely running in 64-bit mode to work on the Power series of CPUs. Oh, and unlike Windows, AS/400 applications have never...

Her family's 15 minutes are up.

And your credit card number unless you use the one-time numbers for everything.

What's mostly clear to me is that every politico who thinks they can get publicity out of the case is milking it for all they can. I am thankful that the judicial arm of the government has been quite level-headed in this affair. Far more so than the executive & legislative branches. I've not...

Time, if you ever have the time you might take a second look at Spamihilator. The most recent couple of versions have way-improved filtering capabilities.

Why not? Amazon's privacy policy lets them do whatever they want with the info they collect about you.

Personally, I still use and am satisfied with Spamihilator. For Outlook/Exchange, the built-in capabilities are pathetic, true, but most companies use 3rd party anti-spam solutions like Brightmail (now owned by Symantec). Where I work as much as 70% of our internet bandwidth can be chewed up...

With a widescreen aspect ratio TV, you typically get the black or dark grey static borders on the sides when viewing 4:3 material.

Dunno; I always found the dealer mix to be pretty shady. I use pricegrabber 99% of the time and pricescan the other 1%. I haven't even been to pricescan in a few months.

My sole issue with those IBM keyboards is the lack of a Windows key. I win-L whenever I leave my desk in order to secure it, and ctrl-alt-del followed by L just doesn't cut it, especially when I've got terminal services sessions open. And I use several other Win-something combinations...

This is the way CD functions. "cd Q:" does not change to drive Q:; it changes the current directory on Q: to what you specify; in this case nothing so no change actually occurs. R:> cd Q:\tmp would change to the tmp dir on Q: but leave you on R:. Anything accessed on Q: would default to...

Webmail?

I saw the keyboard at Microcenter. I think it was $80. I wonder just what they'll use to store the ID & pwd and how good the recognition software is.

Considering the relationship, they should call it the Dellium.

Gilbo, to me it seems like you need to decide what your priority is: - Cost: Buy the cheapest ATI or whatever PCI cards you can find. Running them in stock VGA mode removes driver issues. Since the systems will ultimately be headless, why run anything that could compromise the system...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/10/HNfutureturions_1.html?source=NLC-TB2005-03-10 OK, they haven't been announced. But they're already in some laptops.