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Very nice, wanna trade for an Elantra? It doesn't let water in when the boot is open.... On a fuel economy note, I recently got 38mpg on a longish highway/hills trip. I'm trying to figure out whether it was because of the highway miles, or because it was half-full of premium unleaded which I...

I'm currently in Chester, Vermont with a client install. Nice quiet town. No traffic lights.

Yup, TB :)

Tell me about it. We are looking at an Ultrium3 autoloader (3.2GB native over 8 tapes) for backups at work because of the humungous file sizes :)

Oooh, an international virgin. Make sure you sign up with whichever carrier you are flying with, you should net close to 20,000 miles for the trip. From PHL you will prob get to LAX via Atlanta or Charlotte. Enjoy the free booze on-board.

If leaving from LAX then flight time to AKL is around 13 hours. LAX-SYD is around 15 hours. I don't know how much time you have for your training, but Orbitz has an intinery where you fly Qantas from LAX->SYD, arriving early morning, then fly SYD->AKL two days later (in the morning). On the...

Talking of beer in NZ, it was the only place I was ever asked for ID (apart from the USA nowadays, where some establishments ask anyone for ID - yes that includes grannies in their 60's-70s. Not much common-sense around here :) Time: you definitely shouldn't try the 17 hour non-stop Singapore...

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How many email accounts do you have in Outlook 2000? Shouldn't take long to re-enter them in 2003. All the email folder structures, calendars etc are in the .pst file. Only think that may be bastard to re-enter would be if you have a ton of message rules.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-day22.html WASHINGTON -- When people go through the ritual of moving their clocks forward each spring ushering in daylight-saving time, they're also saving energy -- the equivalent of thousands of barrels of oil, in fact. Congress says a good thing...

Auckland is a nice city. They have a casino, and then a big tower to try and jump off when you lose the shirt on your back. (Actually the viewing room is enclosed so no leaping, big thick clear floor panels to give you a little vertigo). Went to the casino there once, put down $5 bucks on 36...

I spent around $500 bucks on a video card once, a Viper PCI video card, cutting edge 2MB VRAM and the new-fandangled PCI bus. Made my Pentium66 with FuzzyMath(tm) scream.

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There is a freeware utility that can decode the manufacturer code that is embedded in each DVD/CD. Be aware that some unscrupulous manufacturers forge a more reputable code on their shoddy product.

Just make sure you keep the HT bus at 1GHz or less (i.e. drop down the HT multiplier when OCing the FSB). When running at 250Mhz, I have to drop the HT to 4x (from normal 5x). Over 250, down to 3x.

Mobile only has the one memory channel, going from 1.8 to 2.2 939 pin probably won't be enough. OC that 1.8 to 2.4 and beyond.

Newegg doesn't appear to even sell the 3500 anymore. Enjoy the benefits of high volume product :) We have a bunch of 3520's at work, flawless. Wish the same could be said for the POS Sony 4x burner, it can burn CDs but pukes on DVDs. Straight in the garbage bin is where it is destined.

Also, did you get the house inspected before you moved in? (not that any of it is your fault)

How does it work out with your financing? Do the derelict builders have to pay off your loan? Do you get your deposit etc back?

I believe Maddog are rebadged NECs.

Greg, just get an NEC 3520 burner for around $50 from newegg. Plextor is not wirth the premium IMHO.

Even the Ford 500 gets 203HP from a decades old 3 litre engine (using that cutting edge 4 valve per cylinder tech) :roll: And they had the decency to mate it to a 6 speed auto or CVT. I'm surprised GM hasn't looked at using the Holden Commodore platform from Aus, instead of the more...

Heard back from our client. Apparently when they took the lens off to swap cameras, the mirror fell out! Should be interesting pictures to be taken when we get it back.

We had a failure with a 1D-MkII yesterday, Error 99 comes up. Probably the shutter, seeing it has over 500,000 shutter actuations :) Now to see if they cover the repair under warranty.

There are certainly some very dodgy grey market camera stores in NYC. Make sure you check reselleratings.com for their dubious reputation. Mostly stuff like you can get a camera really cheap, but the charger etc is extra! And if you decide you do only want the camera, it is suddenly no longer in...

I'm using: MSI K8 Neo2 Platinum mobo 2*512MB Crucial Ballistix DDR ThermalTake Tower 112 (f'ing huge, but a smaller cooler should also work fine. If I was changing anything now, I would probably go with the K8 Diamond board (the one with PCI-Express slots). And also switch ram to OCZ or similar.

Thought I would resurrect this thread with an ADF recommendation. We got a Kodak i260 scanner the other day for work. Very fast (single or duplex is same speed), and has a "dockable" 11*17 flatbed attachment for non-conforming documents. Firewire connection (they even include a PCI card and...

Mine runs at 2.4GHz with no issues.

A client of ours tried to mail a 270MB attachment to my gmail account. Strangely enough, I never got it.

One would hope that your sister would divorce from your abusive brother-in-law, and then he wouldn't be a part of her family either. I'm glad the President and Congress couldn't stop the process, despite all their futile efforts, the Executive branch has no businesss meddling in the affairs of...

Indeed. You choose your spouse. You are stuck with your parents.

Yeah I was thinking of the x86-64 bit version. The Titanic version holds little interest I'm sure. It'll be good to get the final release of XP Pro 64 bit, our image processing app really chokes on the 2GB or 3GB memory limit per process in XP 32 bit land.

Yup, it has a 4 pin Firewire port. Which works well.

Wasn't there meant to be 64 bit support included in the SP? Or will that involve a whole new CD? Thanks.

Sweet. Just the thing to attach to my HD DVR after placing in an external enclosure.

He bought it in January 2003, that's over two years ago. He only had to click on the specs tab to find out it had USB 1.1

Owning an Inspiron 8200 myself, I can relate somewhat. But it's definitely not Dell's fault that the guy didn't realise it only had USB 1.1. They do have funky dial-up modem issues, that's for sure.

To quell the conspiracy theorists: "Attorney George Felos told reporters late Monday afternoon in Florida that Michael Schiavo has requested that Pinellas County’s chief medical examiner perform on autopsy on his wife once she dies in order to answer questions about the severity of brain damage...

Perhaps, but in any case the amazon data is not as crucial, since it doesn't contain SS numbers, all your credit history/accounts etc.

That should be plenty. Keep in mind that burning a DVD is a DMA operation, so there is minimal CPU util. Another more expensive option but one that would allow him to burn on the go would be this...

The difference is that the credit reporting industry makes their money by selling all our data to external parties, including criminals. And recently with places such as Choicepoint, they aren't even controlled by the FCRA and have no obligations regarding privacy or security at all! I can't...

Even burning at 16x should be within the limits of USB2, though FW would be a better option if he has a port on his laptop (less cpu util).

Have you got the advanced options->UPS backup present->write cache enabled in drive properties for the onboard drives?

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Plus the fact that every single replacement step is well documented on their website. To get the same info out of a Sony guy, you would have to apply wattage to his sensitive parts.

Item updated, sales tax no longer charged :)

I had to swap out a dodgy Dell Xeon (Nocona) mobo the other day (serial port 1 was cactus). Intel of course. One screw removed and out she came, if there's one thing they do well it's making machines that are easy to swap parts out of (mind you this is a Precision 470, I dunno what their...

Hmm, interesting question. I believe our companies buys the cameras tax free, so I assume I have to charge, I'll talk to our accountant. Thanks for your feedbacks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48516&item=7503208010&rd=1 My first ebay sale. Comments welcome. Lunar, interested in a spare battery for your 1DsMkII?