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If you've suddenly turned Santa Claus and are handing them out, I'll take one!

News.com has a write-up about the new Canon EOS-1D Mark III.

Let this remain wild imagination. I'll be the wet blanket and dissuade you from any of these ideas. Burning it, shocking it and sawing it could release release toxic fumes and chemicals. Seriously.

I got a taskbar notification today that updates are available (I have Auto updates set to notify only). When I go to see what it is, voila, WGA! I declined of course. Some full moons ago, IE 7 was on the updates list, but I unchecked it and asked to "don't notify again" and haven't seen it...

You answered your question somewhere in your post. It isn't the computers, it's the humans. The ones who code the data, input it, write the code to process it and the ones who interpret it. You've done your part by checking and re-checking, and most important, having another set of eyes verify...

Tannin, I learned quite a bit from your post. Thanks for that; I certainly appreciate the lucid explanation. For someone with no background / knowledge of these things, I got a very clear picture of the situation.

Uda: Speaking for myself, I never said I agreed with everything (or anything for that matter); re-read my post. My wife does not remotely resemble my mother, physically or in personality or in behavior.

Coug, many of your points are well taken. On the subject of retirement/medical benefits for ex-employees, the big three aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. The roots of this problem go back to the '50s, when the economy boomed at a terrific pace and there was a severe labor...

Thanks for the many recent posts you've made, e_dawg. Very thought provoking and certainly inducement for introspection.

Naw. Was useful to me too. Thanks Clocker.

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M$S Support.

Sigh. The devil or the deep blue sea. Unfortunately, I have to use web mail. And changing email addresses is a pain. I used to use a forwarding service so I had a single email address for years, but that will expire this May. It also ended up on spam lists.

Many years ago, I did dismantle one drive for the heck of it - an 80MB Conner 3.5". It was really hard to get the screws off. And there is an uber powerful magnet inside that will pinch real bad. Be warned it ain't an easy task.

I've never used encryption on Windows systems, but everything I've read about it says that if you don't know the pw, it's next to impossible to get the data back. Merc has posted a bit in the past on NTFS encryption. AFAIK, using a DoD grade eraser that goes physically (ignoring the file system...

Assuming your post was in response to mine, Handruin. BTW, It won't let me post just the quote; says message too short, enter at least one character. That's new for me.

Thanks for the suggestions, folks. dd, Google's privacy policy seems to be especially obnoxious to me - much like what Tannin and Mercutio have said in other threads, it's a case of "all your data belongs to us". Another issue is having to tell everybody to send to my google a/c instead of...

I too have organized my data such that I can find anything I want pretty quickly. In those few cases that I can't, the horrid built in windows file search does the job.

For the paranoid (me), I think encrypting + secure wiping is a good idea. For me the time taken to secure erase is no big deal; just let it run overnight.

Anybody notice anything strange? For the last week or so, many emails in my Yahoo account (and my wife's) are blank. ie., the body is blank, attachments don't show; only the headers and nothing else. Copying and pasting the entire email into Notepad or Word will show the message. Or replying to...

AFAIk, you can either have them scroll or have multiple lines of tabs. If you install Tab Mix Plus, you'll get the following options in Tab Mix Plus Options --> Display --> Tab Bar --> When tabs don't fit width: Scrollable without buttons Scrollable with buttons Multi-row Maybe you can try...

As an aside: I had purchased a Hauppauge Win TV Go Plus 8+ months ago, but didn't get a chance to use it till now. Weirdly, that product is gone from their web site, with only the WinTV GO listed. Their drivers s-u-c-k. I've got the cable-TV coax hooked up to it. Pic is black-n-white only, and...

Thanks for bringing this up, Handy. I'd like to know too. I'm still on 6 and it's supposed to have major probs. It's there only for WinUpdate.

Tannin and I said the same thing, with one crucial difference: in his first post defining median, he forgot to mention that the 100 ages had to be sorted first... the age of the 50th person to die, going chronologically in an unsorted list, may or may not be the median. He clarified this in...

For about 3+ years, I used USB thumb drives on a W2k Pro system without a single hitch - no data corruption, no problems seeing the drives or removing them. My OS was always up to date. My thumb drives were all brand names (mostly Lexar). Largest one was 1 GB. Motherboard was a Tyan Tiger BX...

Thanks folks. Tea, I did download the latest and when I tried the key I got for the beta, it didn't work, for obvious reasons. I'll try to find that darned page on VMWare's site and go through the rigmarole again. Was just bein lazy (hic).

I don't think so. I was in fifth grade a loooong time ago, but my recollection is thus: Median should be the mid point of the age at death of the 100 persons. In other words, the midpint (hic) between the youngest person who died in the group of 100, and the oldest person who died in the group...

Can I please bum a key for VMWare Server 1.0.0-28343 off someone?

Bad DD! :owneddnce:

In addition to the suggestions above, consider this: Didn't many early USB chipsets have this problem? Large transfers getting corrupted? Of course in those days large thumb drives weren't available and people used hard disks in external enclosures with USB interfaces. If you can test this...

My VMWare Server key has expired - I have to figure out how to get a new one. It's idiotic that a "free" product has a key that expires. I had opbtained the key back when it was in "beta", but had never installed the product.

I lived with this problem for years on my Win2k m/c. My new XP Pro m/c doesn't have this problem (and I'm thankful for that!).

I was considerably surprised by Tanin's and your silence on the subject, Tea. I was hoping you'd have the "inside scoop" on these unfortunate happenings since you're into birds / nature etc.

Thanks for the infor on the D40, e_dawg! I'll keep it in mind....

I never had a UPS is the USofA (CA). The power here is b-a-d; a lot of brown outs, sags, surges and actuall loss without warning. Everybody has a UPS, even if it's a mom-n-pop assembly type. "Here" is Bangalore, India. The same could be said of most Indian cities, though. I bought an APC...

Eric, thankfully I ain't old enough to have cataracts. I've had the monitor set this way for years. I guess once I do calibrate it will turn to "normal" (i.e. too yellow for me) :puke-r:

For a second there I thought you were waxing philisophical, LM (see title of post).

I'm sure it wasn't pr0n you were trying to wash off; Maybe drivers, utilities for WD and NVidia (ducks) :-D

Seems ok now.

I use 9300K :-D

As has been said before by several people, Fortran Source makes quality power supplies; they used to be a bit noiser, but if SPCR is recommending them they've probably addressed the noise issue. I would not buy a 300W in this day and age; you don't want to be borderline maxed out. A 400W or 450W...

LM, Could you please address the other issues Tea raised in the original (first) post? Thanks. Tea, thanks for the additional info and the link! I'll check it out right after finishing this post. Pantone makes the "Huey" (pun intended) that calibrates the display and is meant to be left...

I've just bought a cheapo colorimeter too (ColorVision Spyder2 Express), but haven't used it yet. We'll have to wait for Guru Lunarmist to dispel the darkness on this subject.

Birds died by the thousands, and none seem to be left. Sad.

I built my new system in November (2006) with a floppy drive. Still don't trust that it's not needed. I do have a USB floppy drive as well; it's a YE-Data and is rated 2x speed, which is apparent during use.

My XP Pro Windows folder is 2.41 GB, the C:\windows\system32\DLLCache folder is 398 MB. And this is a new install, Nov. 2006.......

How can they ship something heavy like furniture all the way from Italy, price it reasonably and still make a profit? :confused:

The same power supply worked flawlessly (still is) powering this confguration every day for 5+ years: Tyan dual-CPU motherboard 2 x P3-800 overclocked to 900 MHz 4 x 256 MB RAM 1 x AGP 2x ATI 9000 1 x PCI Promise Ultra 1 x PCI NIC 1 x PCI Turtle Beach Soundcard 1 x PCI 3-port Firewire card 1 x...

Best wishes to all for a new year filled with great health, happiness and prosperity!