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Good idea, Lunar, you're a man after my own heart, what with hackers turning on cameras and spying on the user. You're just as paranoid as I am! I don't have any web cams too.

Never would have thought of wireless kb/mouse causing this problem if you hadn't written about it!

In parts of the US where acquiring citizenship is not much in demand, it happens very quickly, like in your wife's case. Some states like CA, NY, AZ, TX, NM are notoriously backlogged and it can take 15+ months. I am a naturalized citizen; acquired it in CA in 1994. I had to wait about 17...

I've been using MSE for the last 2-3 years and haven't had a problem. I also have Spywareblaster, Spybot and MBAM installed, but these are updated and run only when I think something weird is going on. Never found anything so far. But then, my (and my kid's) surfing habits are relatively safe.

+100! Expect the unexpected. Most important, buy an infant seat well ahead of time, or they won't let you take your child home. I was working 9 days a week and kept promising my wife we'd do the last bit of shopping the last weekend we thought we had. Friday morning we visited the doc, and he...

If you buy one of those thingies, check the wiring carefully. On one of my previous builds, a Silverstone USB2 front bay thingy almost fried my then new motherboard when I turned on the power after plugging it in. There was a wisp of smoke, a burning smell. I had the presence of mind to yank it...

Why such massive CPU power & RAM for a storage machine? Me confused :scratch:

For a "Chinese" company, I guess they're continuing the hallowed traditions of IBM. The latter's support when I owned a Thinkpad in the early 2000's was impressive indeed.

What is weird is that XP SP3 does not natively support SATA controllers. I find that incomprehensible. Because of this, I had one hell of a problem in December last year trying to convert my old XP install (in the PC that died) into a VM, and a week ago, of trying to clone a PATA XP install to...

Of course I remember this stuff. I even remember IBM PCs with full height 10 MB hard drives (yes, that's a whole 10 MB). I remember ST-506 interfaces that were a pain. I have some expensive Adobe software (PS typefaces I think) that came on 5.25" floppies. The Compaq's with the 8086 processor...

Thanks Merc, that's helpful.

Thanks Merc. Daughter's well past the age of using this stuff; she used it when she was five-ish on till she was about 10. She's close to 17 now. She uses the XP part for doing homework, researching projects, and of course, email, chat and iTunes. The idea was to hand this machine off to my...

I tried with Easus Disk Copy (I guess it's the Disk/Partition copy portion of their Partition Master). The downloaded program only only allows creation of an ISO to be used stand-alone, which is what I wanted. No dice, nothing boots. It appears that either BootMagic and/or Win98 is unable to...

A must watch! Especially Handy, SD, DD & other car/driving enthusisasts: Disguised Jeff Gordon test drives car with a salesman

Of course I wouldn't do such things! But which tool are you referring to?

At a dead end. The Clonezilla ISOs are not bootable! Why? I tried a couple of different versions. The Macrium sw is to be run from Windows. During install, it says error occurred and aborts the install :( Tried Acronis WD Ed again; W98 not bootable. Same with EaseUS sw. Searched all day...

Chewy, the card is bootable; I have booted into WXP from it after cloning. It is W98 that won't boot. I installed the driver for the SATA card into W98 and WXP before cloning, so not a problem there. It is the multi-boot aspect that's getting screwed up. The CloneZilla ISO images don't seem to...

To clarify: Boot drive is an 80GB WD Data drive is a 120GB WD. This is dying. Both are PATA drives. Since I don't have any spare PATA drives, I have to use a spare 250GB SATA drive. I do have a PCI SATA controller with 2 ports lying around. My intention is to clone the 80 GB system drive to...

Folks, I need to replace a failing HDD. This is not the system drive, but drive 2. However, both drives are very old, and I'd like to make the newer drive going in there the system drive. Once this is up and running, I will make the previous system drive the new data drive and junk the data...

It's the same all over the world. How these dumbos are elected to power would make a fascinating doctoral thesis. It's probably because the good ones don't want to get into the filthy waters.

Ed Orcutt, a Republican member of the House of Representatives in Washington State. He argued for a fee for bicycles to help pay for street infrastructure, but hit the brakes on Monday after much ridicule and outrage. a) How do these dumb asses get elected? b) Since when is a Republican...

My Nokia E71 (in those days, it was the smartphone!) is now 4+ years old. The biggest drawback to it is the slimy body; highly polished stainless steel that picks up finger oils and becomes slimy. I've dropped it numerous times on hard surfaces like concrete and cement, at speed (whipping it out...

Somebody else posted a link to this video quite a while back; DD or Merc or someone else. Makes me nauseous just to see the video. Those guys are so nonchalant about it, though. Likewise construction, electrician types who clamber to the tops of buildings. I'd think at those heights, the guys...

Glad you're ok, Chewy!

A man of many talents! Kudos, DD.

If cycle helmets are only marginally effective, why not wear motorcycle helmets? I agree they're bigger, bulkier, heavier, etc., but if the situation warrants?

DD likes to live dangerously.

You guys take life too seriously. This'll help put things in perspective: The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

Just what is it with you guys there?? Even my ISPs here are night & day better; normal response is half a day, extended response is one day (even if I call Saturday night). This is with the private phone/DSL ISP. The govt. telco is a bit worse - a couple of days to respond.

Lawyers as friends? Ain't no such thing! Just kidding. A niece and a nephew are lawyers.

Can't you guys say something provocative to make Handy come back? Still feel like a limb or eye is missing since he's not around.

That sucks, Coug. Anything that is not a letter / document will have problems of some kind or the other across borders. To assume it won't is plain wrong. Most of the times, the bloke at the shipper's local office won't even have shipped across borders, and will not have a clue as to what might...

And so, the Gods have spoken... Are these things learned only the hard way? Seems like a rather painful learning curve.

++1 to what DD said; he makes total sense. Spoken like a man who's won these types of battles! The good thing, Coug, is that things are now at an inflection point that you can take advantage of.

We should all get together and gift Merc shares in and a complete suite of products from WD & NVidia :-D

That's the way it is in a lot of businesses, Coug. Sometimes it's frustrating as hell. But time is on your side. These servers are near the end of their life. Flip the problem on its head, and you have a great opportunity to show these people how to do it right, save them money, and become a...

Had a lot of fun on this website. Creator has time and a sense of humor!

I find it exceedingly difficult to sign the occasional check, even worse if I have to fill out a form. The keyboard has become the friend, the pen the enemy. One of these days, one of my checks will be dishonored because "signature does not match".

Right; be careful what you wish for! Not dying could be a curse too. In some scriptural epics (in my culture), the very very good are blessed with eternal life (I suppose in a good way), and some very bad ones damned to eternal life. The latter wish to die and end it all, but can't. The most...

Just back after seeing Lincoln. Loved it.

Sheesh. You should outright publish this story on your website, Tannin. Of all the things difficult to understand, hitting the poorest of the poor, the weakest of the weak, the sickest patient - these defy all understanding. Sick bastards. I don't know how they can sleep at night.

Had to happen sooner or later. Wife had an email in her spam folder that read "You have an invitation to join Fu*kbook".

Am thinking I'm glad I stayed with Win-7... Never been one to be on the bleeding edge. Last wave of the trailing edge, in fact :)

I believe you have to write a script to truly power off a Win 8 machine. I can find the source for you if you want the details.

No place I know of. I was referring to the changing climates all over.

Looks like the big giant in the sky shook this snowglobe called earth hard.

Thanks Tannin and Howell, I'll check them out. I agree with Tannin, that it's the useless *it that's added that makes them a pain to use and clutter up a nice, clean, lean install!

The first time I faced this problem (got off Compuserve), I started using a 3rd party email forwarding service for ~ $15 a year and handing out that email address to everyone. At will one could change where the 3rd party forwarded your mail to. Subsequently I discontinued the 3rd party service...

I read somewhere that Win 8 never really shuts down when you ask it to; it just goes into some kind of deep sleep, which is why it "boots" so quickly. I believe you have to write a script for it to power off.