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Saw Star Wars yesterday. Mixed feelings. I saw the original trilogy in movie theaters on release, but haven't seen any of the prequels (Sith, Pith, etc.). While in the trilogy the enormous effort the Resistance puts to achieve their objectives is well portrayed, in this movie I felt everything...

Nice pic! The little one ain't so little anymore! Buy that sawed-off shotgun now; she's a looker and you're going to have boy trouble soon. Your glasses are barely visible. It appears the fashion lately is to have thick-bezel plastic frames like they had in the '40s (about 2x to 2.5x the...

Not the image I had of you. So henceforth you shall be Professor DD...

Wow! What's it go for now, ~ $250?

You'll be redirected to your local google automagically. I know, I've had this for the last so many years and don't care now anymore. If I want to be specific, I'll suffix the country after my search term to restrict to a specific geographical area.

Thanks Coug, Nexus it is. I bought several in 2006 before leaving the US.

Prithee do tell. This Win-10 saga (oops, fiasco) is endlessly fascinating.

Thanks time. I'll let the CPU be, and try to sell the Hyper 212.

Thanks. I can always replace the fan with one of those orange ones (um.. Nexus?). So I guess you're saying I should replace the stock with this cooler? My case is vertical and I'll have to check if there's space to use it, plus I'm worried about the weight.

When I built my present system in late 2012, apparently I purchased a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo for the CPU. But I bought a retail Ivy Bridge Core i5-3570K and ended up using the cooler that came with it. The Cooler Master has been sitting in a box since then, and I found it trying to clean...

Thanks. I hardly use my Sunwayman. What I use everyday (it's on my bed stand) is the Zebralight SC52w Neutral. So small, yet powerful with multiple light levels. Just perfect for my needs.

Curious how it compares to my $80 Sunwayman D40 neutral. As best I can recollect, it's throw is 315 meters, 980 lumens in turbo mode, IPX-8, 4 x AA. I'm quite happy with it, but would have loved to have the spot, flood and spot+flood combo yours has. How is the run time with 3 x AA? Does it get...

Awesome! Please review!

Guess one has to sign up first. I can't even browse their site as a stranger. Thus your link didn't work for me.

Happy Holidays to all!

You've got a storied past, Dave! You should write a book some day.

Ouch, that's so rotten! I've heard of quite a few similar catastrophes caused by "pro" photographers. Over-confidence and arrogance at work.

Since this is serious stuff, I presume MS is working on it frantically and will issue an out-of-cycle patch? I only hope the patch is not half-baked and breaks something else.

I'm on an 8 mbps internet connection. A few days ago I was at my sister's in another city and the internet there was fast as hell (it felt like). I was told it was a 10 mbps connection. Curious, I did speed tests. It actually was a bit less than 10 mbps, but the latency was 6 ms. Mine is ~ 42...

Thanks Clocker & Merc. I am more concerned about what comes out of the wi-fi rather than what the clients are receiving (more clients = less for each). Assuming only one client, 54 mbps / 3 = 18 mbps. Since I get the full 8 mbps of my internet connection on the wireless, I'm inclined to think...

All my references to speed are internet speeds over Wi-Fi. All devices are G or better. No 'B'. There is no LAN traffic other than occasionally to a printer.

What would be the maximum real-life speed of a 'G' class Wi-Fi router? Especially when there's a 2.4 GHz cordless phone also in play? My internet is 8 mbps, and I actually get 8 mbps wirelessly (DSL router connected to 'G' class Wi-Fi). I''m looking into options to get 20 mbps speed with...

Not clear: is this a problem only for LANs / WANs and not single desktops?

The TV I referred to is not pre-historic; CRT it is, but a true flat screen and has decent pic quality. It's LG and refuses to die. The audio is surprisingly good, and if the program is good, sometimes it's difficult to figure out where the sound is coming from, certainly doesn't feel like the...

We're still using a good old SD CRT TV; meets our needs. Our small collection of DVDs (which includes Avatar, Harry Potter series, LOTR series etc.) is all standard DVDs. We rarely watch them anyways. Primary viewing is satellite TV, some sertials by wifey, some by daughter, and me hardly ever...

Yup. AFAIR, Oracle did this years ago.

Yay, it's back to being "normal". Thanks Handy, much appreciated! :bow:

Surprising for a model named "Pro". At this point, I think you should cut your losses; they can always give this one to another / the next employee, and get you a real / proper laptop.

I thought the upgrade happened weeks ago? This change happened only today for me (since Wednesday night your time).

Did the default colors of the forum change? I didn't make any changes, and the forum colors have changed to a difficult-to-distinguish set of pastels. Starting today. My old eyes have to work harder to make out sections that have updates.

If you use the Spybot tool linked above, you won't be forced and can forget Win-10 even exists. On the other hand, if you don't care about the privacy of what lives on it, maybe just given in and go with the flow.

This may be a more recent phenomenon with Dell. I bought my first Dell monitor in 2006 locally direct through Dell and used it till ~ 2009 when it became a hand-me-down for my daughter (her CRT developed problems). At that time I bought a Dell 2209WA for myself. It's been used about 14 hours...

I used VMWare Player to install Xubuntu; easy as pie, actually shocked at how easy it was. I also downloaded Chrome as a browser (didn't know it already came with FireFox) and Libre Word and Calc (didn't know it came with Abi Word). It wanted to install updates; that was pretty awesome that it...

Snowhiker's activity here has stirred me from my photography hibernation. Took the D700 and and the 35 mm f/2.0 lens out of the dry cabinet. The lens is crystal clear; the dry cabinet is doing its job for sure. Battery dead in the D700. My fault, I have not touched it for 2+ years. I had kept...

Practically speaking, I know LEDs get hot, but aren't they supposed to be significantly more efficient (less heat) than other lighting technologies?

Thanks, download almost completed. I'll install it into a VM on my desktop first so I can play with it and get familiar, then put it on a bootable USB drive. Strangely, nowhere could i find system requirements for it in the documentation.

Thanks. Do these come in LTS variants as well?

Thanks all, very valuable info. Booting directly from a USB device into a Linux variant may be best. I have to keep in mind that the machines I will have access to will be fairly old / low spec, so an OS that is leaner on resources will help. Driver compatibility is a worry, though. Since the...

Yes, you're run of the mill Avis, Hertz, etc. will have only a few mass-market models. How about outfits that are not this big, but rent more models? I know they exist, and may not carry everything you'd want to test, but I would suspect you'd have a better choice than the run of the mill rental...

Thanks all. Using a VM sounds like too much work. And I positively don't want to boot from the host PC. I have to boot from my own USB stick. Why not straight Linux with Truecrypt protecting the sensitive stuff? I know zero about Linux, so You folks will have to tell me which distro to use...

As do torque and power curves ... This is probably the best thing you can do; drive rentals till you find a model you like and then buy it.

Vizio has been in the news a lot lately for spying on the people that use its TVs. I think I read about this on either ARS or News.com

I do a lot of banking and bill paying through the 'net. I travel from time to time, and have the need to do this on the go sometimes. I don't have a laptop and don't intend to buy one; it would sit idle 98% of the time. Almost everywhere I go, I have access to a desktop or laptop but the secure...

Yikes, that looks dangerous. The other 3 wheels are now suspect too. Suggest you get them changed asap.

It is based on the upcoming Miata. But IIRC, the front of the Fiat has been redesigned by Fiat.

I just love the looks of the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider - the front and profile.

TrueCrypt is safer than previously reported, detailed analysis concludes

Apparently MS updated their privacy policy and things are a wee bit better now.

I bought it from Corel direct; found a coupon that took $10 off. Used my brother's address in the US. Two reasons I didn't ask him to buy it for me: 1) He won't take the money, two, he's super busy as he's going to be traveling extensively starting the next few days. Thanks to all for offering...

Thanks Tim, I'll keep your kindness in mind!