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Is there an easy way to find out the date that a user was created in Windows? Already checked the Event Log, but no luck there.

I have been playing with Pandora for the last day and a half and I have to say that it is really cool. (Yes, it is flash, but you can deal with it for something this sweet). It is based off of the Music Genome Project that was started about 6 years ago to categorize songs by 400 attributes. You...

So what is the best technology out there right now? If I want to spend $1000 on a new TV (this is the max price) what is the best technology to go for? For example this TV can be had for $1000 or maybe slightly less: http://chicago.craigslist.org/ele/137456310.html and it is a 40" tube. I...

Arrested Development is off the air. Now there are no good comedies on TV that aren't animated. And frankly the new Family Guy episodes just aren't as funny as the episodes before the first cancellation. Is anyone else pissed that Fox has once again screwed the pooch? There should be an award...

Please take a look at this page in IE6: http://www.abanet.org/environ/home2.html Notice that when you scroll over the lower modules/buckets (whatever you want to call them) on the page the left and right borders are disappearing. This does not happen in Firefox. I searched for similar...

I recently found this website which talks about bad web design. I found most of the 10 points to be quite true. I found point 9 (Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths) to be a little weird. Personally, I prefer fixed width websites, this way everything is always in the same spot regardless of...

A coworker of mine bought a Nikon Coolpix 7900, he is not happy with it. Apparently it does a HORRIBLE job at auto-focusing in low-light conditions, taking tons and tons of blurry photographs. He is looking to trade it in for a different camera. Does anyone have a recommendations of cameras...

I am looking to buy appoximately 6-8 NiMH AA batteries and a charger to go along with them. They will be used in a variety of applications including a digital camera. I can buy them online or locally, either will work. Does anyone have a favorite brand or a favorite place to buy them from. I...

I have a personal website that I want to have a guestbook on. This is normally simple, but I want the guestbook to be integrated into the design so that it looks like the rest of the site. The site is pretty simple (uses CSS). So, does anyone have any experience with any of the different free...

I am getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to reply to a thread. Any idea why?

I just read this article about Google Print. Anyone have any thoughts about why authors are being so incredibly stupid about this amazing new idea?

Has anyone tried any WiFi Antennas to see if they actually make a difference. I picked up this one today at Best Buy so that I can return it when it doesn't work. Well, it really doesn't do much of anything. Signal strength really isn't boosted much if at all. So does anyone have experience...

This is probably an easy question, but I want to make it more difficult. I am mainly looking at Linksys units, but would consider something else if someone here highly reccomends it. What I want is something with a very high signal strength. So which card has the highest signal strength, best...

I am throwing away a bunch of old computer equipment. These are the things that I thought someone might have the slightest interest in having. Adaptec AAA-131ca 50 pin and 68 pin Toshiba DVD-ROM Drive SD-m1202 Adaptec AHA-2930c Aureal Vortex 2 Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB AGP (I think...

I'm have a bit of trouble with cascading style sheets. You can see my attempt to use css here: http://www.timwhit.com/sisk This was created using Dreamweaver and one of their templates. I changed the CSS to suit my needs (however, I failed). The problem I am having is that the footer is being...

Does anyone know of a way to change default keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Outlook? I sometimes accidentally hit control-enter and it sends the message when I really don't want to send it. Is there a way to disable this shortcut or change it to something that I wouldn't accidentally hit?

I was trying to get Housecall to work in Firefox to no avail. So I started searching and found this. A version of Housecall that uses Java and works in most web browsers and on several different operating systems that ActiveX would never work with. If there is something similar on the US...

I'm ordering a notebook for my parents, they are in the process of retiring and plan on taking many roadtrips around the country. They want to be able to get wifi access to the internet in different cities so that they can check their e-mail, surf the web, etc. They will also use the notebook...

I'm looking to pick up a cheap scanner, which is small in size and not too expensive. I'm looking at the Canon LiDE 30, which is pretty cheap and it's small and it doesn't need a power adapter because it can be powered from USB. The only drawback I can see is that it is supposedly slow. So is...

I'm looking for deals on hard drives that are at least 200GB. Fluid bearings are preferable. No Western Digital drives though. I've been checking Bensbargains and Deal Catcher, but I don't check every day and there might be some deals that I miss. So if you know of a deal post it here.

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I installed Office 2003 tonight, because Word 2000 was acting funky. I'm not so sure I really like the new Office suite much. I used XP for a short time after it came out, but I went back to 2000 pretty quickly when I figured out that XP only offered more annoyances than 2000. Anyways, here...

I downloaded the software and am just going to play around with it for awhile. Has anyone else tried it yet? The software is easy to use, but it isn't very fast. Essentially just like all the other crap Roxio has released. It seems to have a good amount of music, but I haven't done all...

If a camera supports Secure Digital (SD) which other kinds of flash cards are usually supported? Dumb question I know, but I can't remember this kind of crap.

It does work well to speed up large transfers. I generally only use it when transferring over 500MB of data. http://www.webattack.com/get/totalcopy.html

I decided that I want to buy a DVD burner and it seems that the market has expanded a bit in the last couple of months. There are a lot more choices now. So I want to get something that is dual format and as fast as possible for the money. I see I can get the Sony DW-U10A-10 for $160 on...

Has anyone used Ofoto.com before? Or other online digital image production companies? Do they do a good job? Are they competitive with other companies? They are doing a sale right now for 29 cents a print for 4x6 which seems like a pretty good deal. Since I am getting about 150 pictures...

I will be graduating from University of Wisconsin Madison this upcoming May with a Bachelors of Science in History. Great huh? But, I really have no idea what I want to do now. I always thought that I wanted to do something in the IT field, but I worked at a couple of companies and found...

I am buying a 17" LCD in the next day and I need to know which one to buy. The Samsung SyncMaster 171N is supposed to be a really nice monitor. However, it costs $460. Now the 170N is only $379 which is a much better price. What is the difference between these two models? Will I even be...

My Windows directory has gotten too large over the last couple of years. I am running Win2k SP4 and my WINNT dir is now approaching 2GB in size. There are many folders, which I know would be safe to delete; however I wanted to get some expert opinions before I proceeded. For instance the dir...

I have 3 IDE drives in my system for mass storage. I just added a Maxtor Plus 9 160GB drive and I had to hook it up to the onboard Promise fasttrak133 'Lite' controller. I decided to bench all three ide drives using ATTO to see what kind of transfer rates the new drive could do. The other...

Check out this article about what one guy thinks should happen with the record industry. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I just decided that moving is horrible. I don't have to be out of my apartment until August 14th at noon, but I have started going through all the crap that has built up over the last 11 months and it is simply astounding. I have filled up 3 of the 30 gallon black garbage bags with sh*t...

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, which is simply amazing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone is able to contribute all you have to do is click a button at the bottom of any page and then you will have the ability to edit the article. Any changes that you make are recorded immediately. New...

http://www.sierratimes.com/03/02/28/arpubmg022803.htm I'd like to know your views on this ruling. I can't believe that a court would say that television news can legally lie to people watching and know they are doing it.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of good automated backup software that will work with a DVD burner? Kind of like the backup software that is included with Win2k Server. So that I can schedule backups to take place each day. Thanks.

I am wondering how desktop video performance is with the nForce1 chipset. For instance, how would it compare to an ATI Radeon 7000 or an nVidia Geforce4 MX440? No 3D software of games will be used. The primary use of the system is as a business system. Will there be any user discernable...

I was wondering what all of your onions of eBooks are? I find sitting in front of the monitor and reading an entire book or long article to be an eyestrain. However, for quick reference or reading shorter works it isn't too bad at all. The reason I bring this up is because I was looking for...

Just wondering which theme everyone is using now that we have a good selection to choose from. (Thanks Doug!)

I thought I would create a thread where we could recommend books to each other. I don't do that much reading of things that I enjoy, but I would like to do more. I read a lot of stuff for school but it's pretty boring most of the time (unless you find iconoclasm particularly intriguing). I am...

I wrote this slide show program because I couldn't find anything else on the web for free. It is quite simple, needs no installation or anything special to run, and it's real small (48KB). Oh and it's completely free. http://www.timwhit.com/sf/SuperSlider.exe I'm looking for suggestions on...

I just ordered this card because I want a card that has an optical out on it. Does anyone know if this card has problems with Via chipsets? I had to pull my SB Live! because my machine kept crashing when playing sounds. I probably should ask these types of questions before I go and order...

I have a HP Laserjet 6L which has been great for the last 5 years or so up until last year when the rollers started to go on it. It has gotten pretty bad. Unless it is loaded up almost all the way with paper it will grab 20-40 sheets at a time. I paid $400 for this thing awhile back and it...

I decided to check out some new monitors because my 17" Sony (220GS) monitor has a nice scratch right in the middle, it gets annoying after awhile. I can across this while I checked out the Sony site. The same monitor is over $400 on pricewatch. Is this monitor any good? Is it a good deal or...

I'm sure most of you remember him from a couple years ago. IIRC he disappeared from SR with 999 posts. (Way before the big crash) Was he a sock puppet of someone else or just really weird?

I built myself a new Athlon XP 1800+ system a few months ago. But, I have not been impressed with how hot the CPU runs. Under normal usage it is around 59C. Under full load the CPU is up around 65C. If I leave SETI running overnight the damn thing will lock up tight half the time. The HSFan...

I was just wondering what Windows shortcuts you guys use. The ones I use a lot are alt-tab, alt-F4, ctrl-enter (in IE so I don't have to type www. & .com), and ctrl-alt-del mainly to bring up task manager. I know ctrl-shit-esc brings up the task manager but I don't really use it much. I also...

I ran track and cross-country all through high school. But, after that I pretty much stopped running entirely. I think the main reason was that I had gotten tired of it, and my knees would hurt pretty much all the time. Running 35-45 miles a week gets old after 4 years. But, a couple days...

My dad wants to get a new 17" monitor for his computer. He doesn't need anything too great, but it should be totally flat (FD). I don't care if it is a trinitron or a diamondtron, I can't tell the difference anyways. So what do you guys reccomend for about $140-$170?

I have had this SB Live! in my system for about 2.5 years now. I recently changed motherboards from an Asus P3V4X to an Asus A7V333. Both boards have Via chipsets. This is the first time that I have run into problems. The problem is weird. When a sound is played the whole system will lock...