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So, why bother to give Lucas $ for it if you don't have high expectations? You should be excited by the release. If you aren't, why bother to pay to see it? Demonstrate your expectations by not paying to see it; paying only shows support for the work. (I'm not saying you should try to see it...

Really?

I'm fairly sure that native=max=recommended. If you do run at a higher res, you can adjust the font sizes for Windows & pretty much all apps so that you won't be squinting any more than you do now. And graphics will appear sharper with fewer jaggies at higher resolutions. The only downside...

Merc, you've got a Kerry state just a little to the west. Or "left", as it were. You could keep your current job, although the commute would grow.

I'm curious. How would you propose spouses, offspring, and domestic partners of government employees get their health care? With what you're saying, they would become a huge burden to the free/cheap clinics and hospitals that are out there (since civil employees are by and large not well paid...

Ridiculous example: Take the 10 Commandments. You don't have to announce to the work that you aren't committing theft, adultery, murder, etc. The mere actions (or inactions as the case may be) demonstrate your living up to the standard. On a more subtle level, you can live your life by...

Stew. :lol:

The way I'm reading this is that if you always go directly to gmail vs. following a link from another (questionable or hacked) site, you're fine. Or can any site at all read the cookie file?

Updating myself... In Sprint's case, it appears they're allowing it as they've explicitly stated the new Treo 650's BlueTooth will have DUN support. Before committing to Verizon, I'd encourage you/them to compare over all costs & plans between them & other carriers. Not that I'm a huge fan...

:o So maybe an external drive...

Merc & jtr said it all as far as I'm concerned. And welcome back!

I definitely keep religion out of discussions at work. Besides not really belonging in the workplace (unless religion is the nature of the business), it can be misconstrued as another form of harassment. (Another reason, BTW, I don't care for GWB; he forces his religion on those around him at...

Ebert is nationally known and generally highly regarded in his field. His celebrity status draws more sales of the paper, hits to the web site, etc. $500K/year is not too bad. Besides, he probably makes more from his TV show & other endeavors. The Sun-Times building, BTW, is being demolished...

Depot warranty could be an issue if they travel a lot, i.e. if they'll be moving frequently enough that they could have moved between the time the unit was sent off for repair & the time it's expected back. To echo Tannin, a burner should be considered essential. But I would get a DVD burner...

Merc forgot that he & I met so make it 5. Six if you assume there is a corporeal being behind the packing tape that is Clocker.

Every frickin year... Most of the time I've been quite happy with what I do. And I see my managers always working 10-20 hours/week more than me for what's got to be not that much more $. So why would I move into management? The down side is I'm at somewhat of a peak title-wise. So I've...

You're drinking an Orangutan? How does one prepare that? I'm assuming a blender is required. :puke-r:

Internet Traffic Report and Netstat Live could be useful. I've also just installed FastCache DNS Caching to reduce DNS requests.

1. http://www.broadbandreports.com/stest for benchmarking. 2. Could be spyware.

I mostly just buy. Nowadays I wait for series to be released as box sets & pick it all up at once. Takes some patience, but the prices are usually cheaper & the packaging denser. I measure my collection in linear feet; density matters! :) Before I buy I'll generally sample a series by...

Firefox will be running a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce the official 1.0 release. Details & how you can donate to help cover the cost of the ad campaign are here. Donate and your name will be included in the ad. They're also doing 'community champions' for groups of 10 or more.

Swedish girls playing CS

The 624 I had worked fine VPNing in to work. The coworker I sold it to when I bought my 634 is still using it for VPN. The 634 works fine as well. SPI is enabled. No other special configuration settings come to mind. Some VPNs don't like having a NATed address. I think it's more a VPN...

As time mentioned, the angle between the WAP antenna & the workstation matters. A "300 foot range" (or whatever) is not spherical; really more of a squished sphere or ellipsoid. And the more solid matter, especially metal, it passes through the shorter the range becomes. If you want a single...

My only issue with the SF software is that it thinks that when I've hit the site all threads are marked 'read' even if I haven't visited them. i.e. if I leave the site w/o reading all threads, when I return they'll be marked read (assuming no new posts come along). Other forums I visit don't...

Estimates vary, but most will say the average is between 12 & 20 minutes.

It should work fine. I don't even think you'll need to configure anything too special. Just make sure the wireless router doesn't try to log in to the ISP (if a login is required); let the wired router do it.

Then delete the association for ZIP altogether & OK out. Now, find a ZIP and double-click it to select the default app & behavior.

Congrats! Welcome to mortgage land! As to the lawn mower, as long as the engine is a Honda, Briggs & Stratton, or Tecumseh the unit will be fine. Ours is a Toro and is self-propelled, electric start, and can side-throw, mulch, or bag depending on what you want to do. I think it was ~$400 at...

Employment leads or housing? If employment, what kind of position & experience? Sounds like a radical life change. Care to share what's driving the decision? It seems several of us are curious.

It wouldn't work through a serial-USB cable? BTW, the T5 (& Treo 650) will sport a new "universal" connector.

In File Manager, err, Explorer, do Tools - Folder Options - File Types tab - Find ZIP in the list & click to select. If WinZip, WinRAR, or Compressed Folders (or whatever zip manager you prefer) is not already listed as the app, click Change and select the app you want to use & OK. Click...

So, uh, what's the main ingredient in that beer & soda? I mostly skimmed the article, so I missed if it gave remediation steps anywhere, like using a home water filter like those from Pur or Brita or what get's built-in to many modern fridges. Would a filter even help? I'm assuming it would...

Last time the battery went in my SmartUPS 1000XL it was going to cost about $179 + s/h. A brand new BackUPS 1000 at Sams Club was $118 so now I've got an APC brand door stop in my basement. If your power problems are rare, and you think you can survive a power loss when you're working on your...

Shaun of the Dead was laugh-out-loud funny. I'd highly recommend it. Very peppered with f*** so if you're offended by curse words you may want to avoid it. Some very good social commentary can be pulled from it as well.

Actually it's both. Some forms & logs are paper-based while others are electronic. A few, such as new user requests, could be on either. In our case, thankfully, HR gets to deal with most of the paper forms.

First, I should add that storage vendors are also making out like bandits. At the surface level, yes. But what compounds the problem are the details: - What types of documents need to be maintained? Document types include not only the financial records, but all transactions and all logs...

<rant> Any of you folks dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance? It's a royal PITA. People say it's worse than Y2K and that's true. Y2K at least had a goal, an end-point. SOX requires work every frickin' quarter. I would not be surprised if smaller firms (and even some larger ones) give up...

It means you need to max out all of your credit cards and empty your bank accounts.

All I can do is ditto the above replies. Know that you've got a lot of friends here who only wish the best for you and are willing to help in any way we can.

If DVDs, even dual-layer, aren't high enough capacity and 100+GB tape drives are too expensive, perhaps just buying more hard drives is your best solution. Add the drive, clone data to it, and de-install it. When done, off-site if possible. A less expensive tape option would be AIT2 or 3...

I am sure glad I get excluded from our corporate image. We're not that draconian but there are things in our image that I don't care for. While not a guarantee, on my home PC when Outlook2000 is open the screensaver fails to kick in. (I don't actually use the saver but the monitor fails to go...

The Hitachi 400GB drive is running $439-532 at the moment so any other drives would have to be comparably priced or cheaper. 200GB backup tpaes. I use LTO2 at work. At home my data is modularized & burned to DVD. Really, I mostly offload it from the PC itself so my online storage needs...

For 'simple' HTML editing I use UltraEdit. I use DreamWeaver for more 'advanced' stuff. Not that I do anything advanced anymore...

I've no real idea, but I could guess the way the prog works might look like a polymorphic virus.

JTR, it's possible you're becoming allergic to your own sweat. I would strongly suggest you get tested for allergies when this starts to happen next year. It could also easily be a fungal infection. If it's that serious, you should really see a doctor about it. Unless it is an environmental...

Nah, it's just <some deity>'s way of telling you to quit computers and become a plumber. :lol:

Take the first five words of the second sentence in the third paragraph of the fourth book on your bookshelf. Capitalize every 5th letter and replace e with 3 and o with 0. Use + _ ) ( in that order to replace the spaces. Or figure some similar goofy thing. As long as you can remember how...

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