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Naw, go ahead. I'm just amazed at how much this thread has grown. Typical SF characteristic!

Yup. Fortunately my laptop boots, and C: is still C:. The problem is with the other partitions, including the previously hidden, now visible Dell partition.

Help!!! I was all set fine. My laptop drive was partitioned to C, blank and E, with my burner being F. Blank was a Truecrypt encrypted drive that became D when I mounted it. Life was good. Then company IT gave me a Roxio Easy CD DVD Creator 6 Basic CD to install a burner (I know, I know, kill...

SD: take a course in sociology. You will learn a lot.

Samsung launches ultra-fast SSD drives Disappointingly, no links in the article

I don't know the details, but they built a new subway system in New Delhi a couple of years ago. There was none till then. It was built within time and budget, works flawlessly, and is being hailed as the model to be emulated. Teams from other Asian countries have visited to learn from the...

Well, the standard aspect monitors are also as rare as hen's teeth. The few that are available obviously use older tech; they have poor viewing angles and high refresh rates. It scares me that Samsung can put out such great stuff and at the same time such awful shit. How do you trust the brand...

True color panels seem to be as rare as hen's teeth at the smaller sizes. The Sammy 906BW seems to be the best of the bunch - seems to have it all.

Merc'll have to get her to divorce her husband, Rob Reid (founder of listen.com), first.

Thanks all. I'll keep you posted.

Looking for crisp text, good picture display and viewing angle, and a decent price. 4:3 or wide-screen immaterial. It's for someone in the family. Anybody got any favorites? Thanks.

With drives manufactured many years ago, there were issues with bearings sticking/seizing when the drive was started after being idle for a long time. I don't know if this applies to contemporary drives.

You're right, you won't. Not in Portage, Indiana. You have to move to a large city where there be plenty of nerdy girls that will meet all the requirements you list. Since you care about the type of woman in your life (which is a good thing), you have to keep looking. It's a numbers game. The...

You wear glasses too, Howell?

dd: I was referring to the tags for your photo on Flickr, not to your gf! Say hi to Olga - she's a pretty lady with expressive eyes. Take down your link! I don't have a gf - I'm married. And I'm 12,500 miles from home right now, and don't have any pics to post. And if I did, you'll have to kiss...

The hubs are supposed to act as repeaters, amplifying the signal to spec. The signal degrades as it flows along the wire, but the next hub in the chain amplifies it back up. And so on till it reaches the device. Merc is right as far as the USB spec goes, but I think in practice the max tends to...

e_dawg: Interesting train of thought. Sadly it seems there's lenses or there's camera bodies, take your pick. Maybe I should wait longer.

Professor Handruin. Didn't know you wore glasses. And you use a dSLR (think you mentioned it in that thread). dd: I see David, Justin and Matt. Is Moscow wearing the invisible cloak? You ain't balding, you just have a large forehead for that huge brain of yours.

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I had a BMI of 20.1 for a very long time. I was thin, but was healthy; didn't even catch cold or cough, ever. Then I was at a BMI of 22 for several years. Then I started to put on weight due to bad eating habits, and it's been downhill since then. The universe is expanding and so am I. Well...

They used to have some kind of plastic pliers that pinched your underarm and told you the BMI, didn't they?

So if you have the ultrabay battery in, does the laptop drain that first and then switch to the main battery, or does it drain both batteries concurrently at the same rate? I see in my Latitude D531 that if the battery is fully charged, plugging it in does not turn on the charging light. I have...

I know you absolutely love WD drives, so here you go: WD ships 320GB notebook drives 3GB SATA. :)

I thought it was chocolate and bananas you were addicted to.

Why? I thought you loved it?

Will's right; a standard SD card reader will have trouble with SDHC. AFAIK, the king of SDHC readers is Sandisk's MicroMate. It's priced at USD 20, quite reasonable, and the page I am linking to has a link for "Customers outside the U.S. and Canada, please click here" (which I didn't). No specs...

Canon U.K. retailers to send back EOS-1D Mark III cameras But no recall. Canon nto make an anouncement reg. the AF issue on the USA web site.

Uda: The Maybach couldn't have been valet parked. It is specifically designed to be chauffer driven, not owner driven. The chauffer would have parked the car.

G'nite.

All by myself I don't want to be All by myself..... Where's everybody, huh? Even DD's AWOL.

Maybe your TCP/IP settings need tweaking. Try one of these: DSL reports - Tweaks Speedguide.net - click on Broadband at upper left Navas Cable Modem/DSL Tuning Guide

You may want to verify that the router you buy does indeed have a WAN connection faster than 10 Mbps. I never did tests like you, but always did feel some loss of speed using a router as compared to not using one.

Can anybody suggest a couple of good books for a Photoshop beginner? One that will get me started and one that will continue with the more intricate stuff? Thanks.

Merc, I agree they're awful. But I have a choice not to use their sw; they're not holding a gun to my head. If I still want to use their sw, then I should pay for it. How much is a different question. Do I have pirated stuff (sw, music)? Yes, some. Do I use it? No. I have it to try it out. If I...

Egad, those mpg numbers for the diesel Accord are awesome!

Thanks Tannin. To tell you the truth, with age, my ability to teach myself new things have declined, so I presently use photo-ed progs to mainly crop and adjust brightness/contrast. I do need to learn more, though, and the idea is that if I'm going to, might as well go whole hog with the best...

Fushigi, if your post is in response to mine, India tracks regs that are used in Europe. My understanding is that these are much more lenient than, say, California. I believe the current reg. in India is compliance with Euro III, with Euro IV to kick in soon (or maybe it already did). Even if...

Thanks Tannin.

Every hotel I've stayed in this year in the US has had CFLs and tube FLs; no incandescents. They seem to use CFLs that are yellowish to approximate the color of incandescents. The first few times I even checked to see what kind they were, because they were yellow enough but not quite, and I...

I don't think so. There are many manufacturers in India that offer small passenger cars (what you would call a sub-compact here) that come with 4-cylinder diesel engines. They sell for about $11k. Most of them are quite good, and some drive as well as gas engines in terms of NVH, acceleration...

Tannin, your comments mean a lot to me, thanks for the detailed analysis. CS3 it will be.

Thanks, Tim. CS2 can be had for ~ $285; CS3 is ~ $480. From your link, looks like it would be nice to have the new features of CS3. Anybody else have any advice?

Are y'all gonna shout? Sheesh!

CS2 is available for a much cheaper price; is CS3 worth the premium? (please don't tell me to torrent it; I already know that and won't!)

IBM has already slowed down or stopped work on MRAM; unable to commercialize.

uda, I'm sorry, but I can barely read a few lines of your posts before my eyes glaze over and I skip the rest. I guess my poor brain isn't wired to handle your style of communicating. My bad.

I'm confused; which camera are you discussing, Tannin, the 40D or the 1D III?

DPReview likes the Canon 40D. I'm waiting for the review of the Nikon D300. Then yum, rob a bank to buy the better one.

I catch Maher's show whenever I can. He's living proof that "the tongue is mightier than the sword"! He's like some demonic maniac that likes to dismember and carve into tiny pieces - only he does it with his words.

A couple of days ago I saw Bill Maher interview Gary Kasparov (HBO). Man, that guy (Kasparov) is good. Given that he's smart/intelligent etc., he's also very articulate (in English, no less), and very quick with his repartees. Usually Bill is the one that stumps people, but Gary stumped Bill...