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This "Firefox UI is, bluntly, a pile of crap. Mozilla eats it. " business is reminiscent of the Nvidia/ATI wars of yore :D

Tea: You download the excludes file and run it (it's an .exe, right?). It locates your Spybot install folder (usually Program Files\sumtinorother) and updates it. I have never been able to do an online update. Ever. Alwyas errors out with sumtinorother. I always download the includes file from...

Clarification for non-IT types: The connectors/jacks have to be rated for the desired speed; in fact everything in the entire path the data travels on. I learned that the hard way (a duh moment).

"I won't get into the synonyms for recumbent scat containers" Charlie Demerjian in The Inquirer, referring to a press release from HP after The Inquirer published a report that HP was abandoning the Itanium.

"The first law of holes is: When you're in one, stop digging." USA Today article on budget deficits.

Thanks, Dïscfärm. To my eyes, at 9300k, whites look white. I just cannot stand a lower color temp - on this monitor that I spend 99.99999% of my computer time on.

Thanks, Bozo.

China, India and Indonesia are PAL - #1, #2 and #4 in population. Together they can skew stats really, really badly. And don't say these countries are poor; the power of the medium is such that villages may not have drinking water or telephones, but there are television sets!

Onomatopoeic, thanks for the info. I don't have anything to calibrate with, other than visiting a website that has instructions to do so - like this one. If the card is just a few bucks, I'll buy it. I presume local photo shops (like Ritz Camera) would have it? I use an adjustable, dimmable...

I've been wondering the last few days as well.

Thank you, Merc, that helps a lot. I read some reviews of Virtual Drive 7 on Amazon, and think I will stay away. Apparently good product, but horrible company that cripples it at the slightest chance and zip, zilch, nada response to any inquiry made to them.

You don't know Tannin, do you, paugie? :wink:

I did have an older system that was replaced by this one. I took the Win-98 install from there and ported it over to the new hardware. That was kind of asking for trouble in and of itself. The W98 portion is intrinsically fragile, and I guess there is little that anyone can do about that; I'm...

Liar. There's tons of "I wrote" and other I isms in that article.

My 9-year old has a ton of games that are written to run on Win 3.1 / 95 / 98. She thinks they are games, but sneaky dad is trying to improve her math, language, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. The OS is Win 98SE. I've used CD-Anywhere ver. 1.0 (from V-Communications - the System...

Staples has Fuji Film 8x 30-Pack DVD+R or DVD-R Tower $9. Apparently Taiyo Yudens.

Glad you and yours are fine, Gary. :)

Tim, why are you still using TBE? Tab Mix is vastly superior and has no bugs (that I'm aware of). There's a "regular" one which I use, and another version on steroids. Just google Tabmix and you'll find both. Merc, I used adblock in the early days of FF and decided it didn't do much for me.

Teradata...Be prepared to lay out some serious cash. Things don't get any more "industrial-strength" than that.

Doesn't look like FF 1.0.7. I went to the Bourse de Montreal site and clicked half-a-dozen links at random (page to next page, etc.) and it didn't crash. The extensions I run are: Dom Inspector 1.0 ChromEdit 0.1.1.1 Tab Mix 0.2.2.3 netcrafttoolbar1.0.3.3 It also hasn't crashed on any of the...

Interesting Reuters News Story on Yahoo about Scorsese's two-part documentary on Bob Dylan to be aired Monday and Tuesday on PBS: "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan". Supposedly very good. Paramount has also released this as a double-DVD set. Guess it's a must for Dylan fans.

So, William, which database do you guys use to handle those gargantuan tables? AFAIK, there are only two gorillas out there, DB2 and Orcale. Sybase has been a has-been for far too long now.

Sheesh. Give the guy a break.

Yes I can, there's a menu option for it. Perhaps. What now? Thanks, Merc. But I'm a freak in many ways, and have been told that to my face by many people many times. :D

Thanks for the tip on color temps, Merc, I had forgotten about that setting in my display. Thanks for the info on the color calibrator, Pradeep. I was aware of the product, but it's something I simply can't afford at this time. Someday perhaps. When I did the calibration (online at JASC), my...

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana. Everything you buy from us, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, or anybody is going to be obsolete in 18 months, or end-of-lifed, or bought by Oracle." -- Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, September 21, 2005.

My display is a Viewsonic PT775. Pretty happy with it except for the size - only 17". Never mind. I've always run it at max contrast (100%) and zero brightness; it provides crisp, saturated colors and is easy on the eyes. Recently, some digital photos I took had a color cast on them - most...

William: they changed it between then and now. It had The Giver on the front page.

In defragmenter, the color green is used to represent "system files". On non-system / non-swap NTFS partitions (even those that are empty), I presume this chunk is actually the MFT. All of my non-system / non-swap NTFS partitions have a big green chunk right at the beginning. They also have a...

SÉCAM's angry that no one's mentioned it. For a pictorial representation of what's used where, look here. William, this link tells you more than you will ever want to know. BTW, a (former?) member of SF is on the front page of Wikipedia today!

So, Tannin, you have a massive DB2 database running on an IBM OS/390 mainframe that keeps tabs (pun intended) of what's in all the gazillion tabs you have open? :o Hmmm, I want to read that page I half-read last fortnight; do a SQL query in DB2; aha! found it; select appropriate browser window...

Sorry to hear that, Explorer :( All indications point to the beast increasing in strength, with the water at about 86F. Things can always be replaced, just take care of yourself and your near & dear.

I have QT 6.5.2. as well. FF 1.0.6. I don't have the other stuff you have.

I use FF, and frequently have problems with watching videos thru FF. However, I didn't have a problem visiting Handruin's link a couple of times other than Quicktime complaining that it needed to download something, to which I said no. The big ad played correctly every time.

Gigglebyte 9600XT it is. Thanks, Merc. Liamc, now you tell me. After I placed the order. :evil:

So, you guys that use Opera, do you use the "groundbreaking E-mail program"? Is it good?

Is Rosewill a good brand?

Thanks Mercutio.

I'm still using P3s on an AGP 1x/2x m/c. This is for another m/c - a P4 based one. I know the fans are evil, but I wonder if passviely cooled will pass muster. The only 9600Pro passivley cooled at Newegg right now is an ATI for $189! I'll look more into this. Thanks.

The 9550's are really attractive in that they're passively cooled. But the m/c may end up being used in hot environments and despite the downsides of failure, active cooling may be a better choice. On paper, the specs indicate the 9600XT has twice the performance. Since this is an AGP card, I...

HawkEye #2.

I need to procure a 1.5v 4x AGP video card. I'm somewhat familiar with Radeon GPUs, but totally ignorant of NVidia's GPUs. Budget is low - $90 or ideally less. I originally thought of 9550 based cards, which would have been ~$65 shipped. For about $25 more, I can double performance (I think) by...

I have bad eyes (I'm no Pradeep HawkEye), and I'm quite comfortable with 1024x768 on a 17" which I've been using since 04/1999. When I used to use a 19" at work, 1152x864 was quite fine. Lower res. on these would blow them up too much for me. So what is the amateur digital photgrapher to do...

Your pirate name is: Captain Morty Bonney Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Thanks, Merc. lask = lack Your = You're Sheesh.

Was that on a single core AMD, Handy?

RW: The lask of logic and clarity in your thought process is self-evident in your post. 1) Change your supplier. Your getting bad dope. 2) If you think we're morons here, you're one as well for visiting and posting.

Type in 'failure' in Google; the first link returned is quite appropriate.

That's in keeping with their habit of twisting and spinning the truth to their own ends.

'Twas the reason I made the post. You won't find ultra-cons saying anything about what happens in Nature. Goes against the concept of "Intelligent Design".