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Sh*t. That's too bad. Thanks for telling me; I don't know how I missed the news.

Why do you "miss" them? Has Buffalo stopped making routers? I have a Buffalo router and 2 clients (the Ethernet hubs), and it has been working flawlessly for me for the last 2 years.

Methinks though that Samsung's reliability is not the same it was. True?

Sigh. If only you'd given a bit of time. I have three programs from long ago that do this. I haven't used them in years, but the file stamps from 2002, 2003 and 2005. They're called MakeBigFile, Spacehog, and CreateTestFile. All three programs together are 576kb in size, so I can easily email...

I've just begun using my desktop at home after a gap of about 6 months (was away and using my company provided lapop). Oddly, I am finding the laptop to be faster for booting and all tasks thereafter. Don't know what's up. Desktop's got an X2-4200, 2GB RAM, XP Pro, 2 HDDs (with swap file on both).

That was a great read! Thanks, Merc.

Aaaaah! Merc is getting back in form, slowly but surely!

How are you, Eric?

I am invisible. When I get on, I see my handle listed with an asterisk.

MERC! YOU'RE BACK! WELCOME! WE MISSED YOU, MAN! NOW DON'T EVER GO AWAY AGAIN!Sorry for shouting - too excited!

Will there be a respite? Is the sun going to cause a mini ice-age, giving humans time to correct their self-destructive ways? Let's hope so.

Thanks LM.

He's being unrealistic about the kind of quality he wants everyone to have. But I sure can relate to where he's coming from. I was in a recording studio a couple of times, with the engineer that does the actual mixing of the live performance. The "presence" and fidelity of the sound was simply...

"It's stepped down from tape to digital to compressed digital, so people are now listening to a Xerox of a Polaroid of a photograph of a painting." I really liked the analogy! What would Merc say about this?

So, LM, how does it perform?

:rotfl:

To which one? Abandoning the Treo?

That's weird. Even if the app is multi-core unaware, Windows is supposed to utilize available processors / cores to run apps. No matter what MS says, perhaps XP is unable to utilize more than two processors / cores.

India did. During the infamous Emergency days of the mid-seventies, Sanjay Gandhi undertook a campaign to sterilize people (mainly through vasectomies). His mother, Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister and had declared the Emergency to silence dissent and critics. Sanjay's idea in principle was...

AFAIK, every religion says to go forth and multiply. I think this is because in the olden days infant mortality was high and life expectancy was low, and societies were more secure and successful when they had a minimum mass. Today the situation is reverse, so there is no need to multiply, but...

Some of you may remember my rants about rechargeable AAs in the P&S thread. I did buy gobs of Eneloops, but they didn't help. The camera is not the culprit, the flash is. It is so power hungry that the normally fast camera becomes an unusable slowpoke after a half dozen flash shots. I think the...

Me too.

The solution is not more food, it is less people. I am not advocating "culling", but birth control in whatever form takes your fancy - self-restraint, condoms, pills, etc. Multiplying like rabbits will take us to doomsday fast. Think potable water, food, bare necessities, and the pollution dd is...

Thanks for the sentiments, folks.

Where's Eric? He's not posted in a while. I seem to have had, um, some "events" last evening / night. Got me thinking. Eric had asked about services that would send out emails if you didn't log on to their website for a while. There's probably nobody here that would particularly care to know if...

Tell him we miss him and want him back. I've been away from home the last 4 months, living in a hotel, and don't have access to my email archives, or I'd email his personal email account. I also think I have his phone number in one of those emails.

A gal in my group died earlier in the week. Finished her night shift, went home, slept, and apparently never woke up. She was morbidly obese, smoked a lot, drank a lot. 21 years old. No idea what happened. I don't want to start a hot debate here on religious grounds, and am not trying to bait...

Hear hear! Sock it to 'em! I wish more lawyers took the approach Kurt does. There'd be a lot less litigation.

M$ fesses up: Vista feature (UAC) designed to 'annoy users'

What are you guys cribbing about distance for? I'm 12,500 miles away, even farther away than Paugie. I think once in a while we just need to pack a bag, take a flight and visit. One of these days I'm planning to surprise the Redhill folks :pirate:

Several people have asked for a tool that does something like this one does; maybe not exactly, but close. Check it out. Dir Utils Summary of features: Extensionize: categorises files by their extension and moves them to pre-designated directories. Alphabetize: creates sub-directories based...

Humans are just too greedy, selfish and stupid. They'll make themselves extinct sooner than later. Then it'll be just furry critters & friends.

Engrish. NSFW

I do that.

Congrats! Has it been 1.5 years already?

Guys, guys, guys! How the heck do you manage to use such large monitors? I have a 20" widescreen, and pretty much have to move my head from side to side to read the whole width. A 22" or 24", or god forbid, a larger one - I'll have to wear binocs then. If you'll tell me that I'm too close to it...

It appears that the two progs are trying to write to the disks in a non-standard way, probably bypassing the 3Ware driver. Making calls they shouldn't be.

Yay, Coug is back! Now stay, Coug, don't you ever disappear again!

Cute, handsome little bugger! Seems to be a happy guy!

Thanks LM. A great one crosses over.

DD, What's that thing immediately to the left of the drives? The thing with the multiple parallel steel tubes going from left to right on top of it, a front that looks like a car radio, and knobs on the side?

Gimme the money and I'll buy one, use it and report back. You need to change suppliers, Uda.

Why would I want to emulate your obsession with TS lenses?? I have no need for those kinds of lenses.

Get in line, bud! I already sold Tea to a circus; they paid the advance, and rest of the money I get when I ship Tea to them. One of these days I'll start a new thread to pick people's brains about what lenses to get with it.

Twins separated at birth? :)

Not to worry; does not reveal body parts.

Are you referring to the m/c in your sig?

People usually use positive pressure to keep dust out. In my cases, I have more air blowing in than out, and the intakes are filtered.

Why don't you try Goldmemory with 2GB at a time?

Ditto. I've been on the verge of making a post like this a gazillion times, but held back thinking I shouldn't intrude :(