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Isn't there a performance penalty for filling up a disk beyond 70%? Of course this doesn't matter if the data is just archived on the drives with zero to infrequent access.

You need a few of these, LM.

Windows' built-in defragger prefers 20% free, and I believe 15% is the absolute bottom figure. 3rd party defraggers may work with less; IIRC one of them (DiskKeeper?) works even with only 10% free. 708 MB free out of 500 GB works out to less than 0.15%. I'd say no defragger, built-in or...

Compare that with the HawkEyes, Pradeep and Fushigi, who curse 15" laptop LCDs that don't do higher than 1600x1200....:-D

Welcome back, Coug, nice to see you! In my experience, Dells are ok for specific purposes if they're properly configured. I've had a medical office running Dells (~ 10 clients + a server) for 8+ years; they're on their second set of machines. The trick was to get decent configs by waiting for...

Everything is an illusion. Everything is transient. :king:

I have sometimes found a bad memory module by swapping slots. In their original slots, they will pass memtest. When the mem modules are swapped with each other, an error will show up. It's a very long shot, but worth trying if you're despo.

I came across this; didn't read it, though. How to Install Two Versions of IE (IE6 and IE7) on One Machine

I didn't test when it was slow, but did just now (decided to blow the 25 MB of data xfr). It is fast! I use a download manager these days because my speeds and reliability suck. I never have gotten the 384 kb I'm paying for. The best I've seen so far is speeds that momentarily touch 40 KB...

jtr: My heartfelt condolences. I lost my father in 1999, and it wasn't easy. I know what you must be going through. Hang in there. All the best for the future. Life will go on. ps: I've been on a Lipitor equivalent since 1999.

Anything wrong? I didn't go past the main page, and I have Flash turned off. I was only trying to help....

prej·u·dice n (plural prej·u·dic·es) 1. opinion formed beforehand: a preformed opinion, usually an unfavorable one, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings, or inaccurate stereotypes 2. the holding of ill-informed opinions: the holding of opinions that are formed beforehand on...

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Got a MacDonald's or Burger King close by?

Note: All references to petrol refer to gasoline. All references to gas refer to the vaporous thing. Gas is used in some parts of the world to run cars. They're very common in India, many vehicles being modified to use dual fuels - petrol and either Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) or Liquified...

I've had an Epson 2480 Photo for a couple of years and am very happy with the scanner and the bundled sw. The bundled Abby FineReader Sprint OCR sw works well enough for my ocassional need to use OCR. The bundled Epson Scan sw lets you directly create a PDF file (scanner hw --> PDF). You can...

You have special talent, Mark. You can take a perfectly innocuous remark and make it all dark and dirty. You're not a puritan who snoops around looking for scum, are you? What's wrong with spanking? What's wrong with fella? What's wrong with half-cocked? If you'd rather ascribe dark and...

Sure makes sense. Turanaround time is God in the business, right?

Want to be spanked, fella? I was referring to my young un (don't you go off half-cocked now) - my 10-year old.

I was referring to how often you visit here these days.

Why is that? I'd think the voild's biggest / most important market would be the US of A.

DD is the smartypants for deducing the meaning from the context (I'm sure the others did too, but he claimed it first). I am *really* surprised Clocker and Groltz didn't know about CKD. It's very common in the auto industry, and I'd think many complex aviation assemblies are shipped CKD and put...

Adcadet: Newer Dell monitors have been criticized for a variety of problems; proceed with caution. Buck: thank you. In India Samsung sells: 19.0" SyncMaster 940B - 16.2 M colors, so methinks this is a lower bpp panel :puke-l: 20.1" SyncMaster 204T :cooler: 21.3" SyncMaster 214T :drinka...

Thanks everyone for the time and effort. Merc made a lot of good points, but Buck hit it on the head. Many rights aren't well defined in India (where I'm at). I have no choice of ISPs; it's this one, whose speed / reliability is the minimum acceptable, or dial-up where I pay by the minute for...

Surely you mean that in a relative way? You come by once every two months, don't you? :crap: Thinking of going on your own, Gary? What I've seen is that abilities/skills matter less than a certain mindset that you have or don't have.

I used a self-service instant-prints kiosk at WalMart once (the wife was hounding me for hard copies). The prints were not on photo paper, and the colors sucked elephants balls. I was mad, but the line to get an attendant's attention was about 2 miles long. Threw away the prints, went to Costco...

:crap: Merc's going over to the dark side.

Anyone know the difference between a 204B and a 204T? is it just cosmetic / color or is there a functional difference? Thanks.

I think I'm too old for the crowd here!

Hmmmmm. If I had 4 PCs on an internal network, and only one of those had an Internet connection and the other 3 were sharing that connection with ICS, and each of the 4 was doing an http download, wouldn't the destination port used be identical in all of them? From a TCP point of view? Of course...

Sheesh, guys. I can forgive Adcadet, but you should know better, Groltz. m/c = machine. In this context, PC. CKD = Complete Knocked Down. A fully assembled, working machine (or automobile) is dis-assembled into it's component parts and shipped. It is then re-assembled at the destination for...

Thanks DD & Sechs. Logically, I'd have to think the packet has some kind of identifying info for the router to send that packect to the specific IP address that requested it on the private network. So in theory, they should be able to tell if there is sharing or not. Since these guys also are...

After checking out the Scythe Ninja and the ThermalRight SI-120, I bought the SI-120. I've burned the m/c in, but haven't had the chance to use the m/c extensively. Will be reasembling the CKD (after moving) soon.

My ISP forbids sharing. They use the NIC's MAC address hard-coded into their server which authenticates it on login. All internet access is possible only after login. Their TOS says one connection = one computer and any violation will result in cancellation of service. My contact guy claims...

Sad. The guy was fearless.

Thanks, but I'll defer that for now. Over time I've found that my likes/dislikes are quite similar to Merc's, and I know how he feels about Opera 8-) At this time, time, I just don't have the energy to give up Firefox and try another browser.

How about "Karajan audio module; Realtek ALC850 8-channel AC’97 audio CODEC"? Do I sense a contradiction between Realtek ALC850 and AC'97, or does this mean the ALC850 can also support AC'97? And is the Realtek ALC850 acceptable?

Which version of TinyXP do you recommend, Merc? A search throws up a lot of stuff and many dead links.

I probably should install some kind of DNS caching program and / or use IP addresses in bookmarks. My slow connection gets slower with repeated lookups to my favorite sites. Plus I pay for bandwidth usage, and it makes no sense to do the same lookups multiple times a day. Any suggestions? TIA.

Cautious fella. Like me.

I read a couple of days ago that Hef sleeps with 3 women in his bed (in their early 20s), and he claimed the sex was good. What's he now, 82?

Live long and prosper, DD!

Their supplier's selling 'em bad weed.

Mylar most certainly conducts; mylar balloons are every electric utility's nightmare when they short transmission wires they come in contact with. But I don't think they can sustain a decent VA for any appreciable length of time. But that's not something you want to test in your lighting...

Latest motherboard BIOS and latest network drivers for both Win & Linux?

Indeed, the world does turn on a dime. Like the auto mfrs. saving 10 cents per seat and causing umpteen deaths because the seats break in a crash.

Really? It's still August, man, the season of brush and wild fires and hot days.

Too bad he quit his day job. Not my cup o' tea - too guttural.

Unholy Crapola! More Crud n Fud to deal with.

You're welcome, DD.