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Try forcing your new computer's NIC to 100 mbit instead of leaving it at autonegotiate. Data Execution sounds like bad memory to me. Have you run memtest at its most exhaustive level? It might have to run overnight. One other word of warning: the RAM may be ok in and of itself, but may not be...

I am sorry for bringing up the (presumed) dead. Did the "XP SCSI bug" ever get resolved? The no cached writes thing? I remember Pradeep and others saying Win2003 has an option to force write caching in Device Mangler by saying that the system was on an UPS. What about XP SP2? I guess SATA is...

Canon refreshes camera, printer lineup 8.0 MP S80 12.8 MP EOS 5D SLR 7.1 MP SD550 7.1 MP A620

Don't know, Buck, sorry :(. I understand Costco is the cheapest place to get it, at ~$170 a bottle (unless you buy it at a duty free airport store abroad, like Taipei). When I find out for sure, I'll post back here (will be a while, though).

That post from rec.humor.funny was hilarious, thanks for sharing it, Merc. I vaguely remember that Jerry's columns were indeed like that (only read a few, was never a big fan of the guy). It's interesting how multiple conversations happen simultaneously in a single thread.

Reminds me of a joke my Irish friend told me years ago. This Irish farmer walks over to his neighbor's and finds him working underneath his vehicle. "I'm going into town, need anything?", he asks. After a moment comes the reply, "Yeah, get me a fan belt. For a blue van".

Must be good, eh, Bill? Glowing reviews on Amazon. I'll read it someday. Thanks for mentioning it.

I'm not much of a drinker. But a couple of times recently I was offered "Blue Label" whisky, and accepted. Very smooth. I understand it's quite expensive.

COngrats, Steve!

Seconded. Time for a polite but really stinging letter, registered mail.

Sorry to get back on topic. Yahoo news: nothing new, but another reminder: World running out of time for oil alternatives

Aah. But they can Photoshop it. Or Paint-Shop-Pro it. Or whatever.

I guess what I meant to say was this: If I need to relieve myself, and decide to do it on the compound wall of Disneyland in broad daylight on Harbor Blvd., would that be acceptable? We have certain written and unwritten rules of conduct and behaviour. Obviously we make allowances for the...

Lost6200, Fushigi, you've misunderstood me. Older folk mostly wear pads for incontinence; if they still leak, I wouldn't blame them. Likewise for infants/children. This woman made a choice not to go to the restroom because she'd lose her place in line, preferring to wet herself instead. That's...

The simple answer is this. The temp agency / headhunter / recruiter obliterates your contact info and puts in theirs. How do I know? I've seen my resume in the hands of interviewers. When I've hired, I've seen what these intermediaries provide. They don't want the employer to contact you...

CGB: I use Netscrape for mail only. Putting up with its bloat solely for the mail program. For browsing, been using Firefox since about ver. 0.4.

Emphasis mine. :lol:

Mess with the Registry, deleting any and all keys referencing the network chip? :-?

Grrrr. That's why I'm still using it, Tony (clenches teeth). Why oh why can't somebody build a decent modern email client??? I've tried several for-pay proggies and never liked any one of them, returning to Netscrape time and time again. Grrrrrrr.

The whole thing seems incredible to me. Especially the part about the woman who made a really bizarre choice. There were no arrests, so she got away with wetting herself in public. Yuk.

It looks like the latest version of T-bird isn't all that different from the earlier releases. I'm still using !@$#$^ Netscape 4.78 for email. :evil: :frowner: :arge: :cursin: :crap: :rambo: :owneddnce: :eek4: :boom:

Sheesh. The things you have to put up with.

I don't burn a lot, and neither do I build a lot of systems. But until now the chatter on the internet put the bets for overall quality and goodness on NEC (up until now, that is) and BenQ. The latter seems to be a quiet powerhouse in its own right, also making LCD monitors for Dell, etc. BenQ...

Was at the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA) this afternoon to see King Tut - Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs. Fascinating. After seeing this, I have a yearning to visit Egypt. The LACMA exhibit runs June 16 thru Nov. 5. Being Sunday, the place was crowded as heck (tickets specify...

And so president Bush came marching in to the room, got right in my face, eyeball-to-eyeball, nose-to-nose this close, toe-to-toe and he said, "I'm George Bush, President of the United States, and I understand you have something to say to me privately." Dolores Kesterson, mother of slain (in...

Mice that surf!

W98 is worse than a sieve. How do you guys stay secure?

My wife showed me a department store catalog yesterday; fancy stainless steel cookware with copper bottoms. One of them said "copper bottom impact bonded for better performance. I guess the co-efficient of expansion must be similar enough among the two metals. And of course, they must be using...

I hope you printed n-up. My Oly manual was a .pdf, and Acrobat does it easily. I printed mine 4 pages to one physical page, and printed on both sides.

One thing in your favor is that digicams in general have way more depth-of-field than film cameras. After some trial and error, I've shot pics of the dolphin touching the flag at SeaWorld in San Diego and similar "action" pics. The camera is an Oly C-4000 that is well known for its great lag...

No kidding, Buck. Some planes in that video were landing at such an extreme angle, correcting seconds before touchdown, can you imagine the lateral forces on the wheel assembly and what would happen to the tyres? Sheesh! I'd think it would be better not to land in those conditions but to be...

Thanks for the info, Handy, appreciate it. As for 9.2, no, don't bother; it would be a waste of time. When I have time I'll try 9.3 on VMWW 4.5 and see what happens. I'll post back here eventually :)

No idea. I've just downloaded it, didn't even burn it yet. It'll be a few full moons before I get to play with it. Let me know how VMWW handles it. What version of VMWW are you using (probably 5.0, since EMC owns VMW)? I've been upgrading ever since I bought the full copy of version 2, and am...

I downloaded the DVD earlier today from San Francisco. Took about 4.5 hours, with the speed ranging from 260 to 340, just barely touching 400 sometimes. :x

You forgot some more: Must wear size 34 underwear; must pick nose with left pinkie only. Yeah, I see these all the time, and skip right past; who's want to work for an idiot like that? As to why these things happen, Tony's hit it on the head. Which is amazing, since he doesn't work for someone...

Must be a P4.

Coug is going to sue Platform and Buck.

So am I! MoveOnBoot does #3, does it not? In normal Windows mode, use MoveOnBoot to mark the bad file. Reboot, and before Windows "starts", MoveOnBoot moves the marked file so the bad file can't cause any trouble. At this point, since the file is not in use, it should be possible to delete it...

Tea: As the name implies, the utility works on the next boot, at boot time. If it moves the file to a different placem, whatever locks it shouldn't be ablt to find it, so it wouldn't be locked. Am I stating the obvious and yet completely missing your point?

SMC 7004VBR wired 4-port router; 3+ years, no lock ups, hangs, etc.

You're wrong, Merc. With two Xeons, he's got two CPUs to do three user tasks (rip, play, browse). With one Athlon, one CPU is switching contexts between the three tasks. Even if all user processes are single threaded, the Windows scheduler makes use of two CPUs. And this is not counting the...

i, I should have looked you up when I was in Rosslyn in the 2nd week of July. Meeting an SF person in flesh and blood would have given you something to think about.

No. The article listed two different products from two different outfits. One uses LCDs, the other uses OLED.

Obviously two Xeons will be faster than a single A-3000.

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This is exactly what I've been wanting to tell Will, but the little orange one has been very eloquent while I struggled to crystallize my thoughts. I can vouch for Tea's perspicacity (nice one, Time; that one went into my passive vocab many decades ago); I've actually been there, done that, and...

Forgot to add: this was from a "global, NYSE-listed company with revenues of more than $2 billion and 10,000 employees in 30 countries worldwide". Director-level position.

Actual posting I looked at 10 minutes ago: Emphasis mine. At one point I had disparate in my resume, but took it out because of the risk of some reader not understanding what I was saying.

Santilli, you keep harping that dual-cores are expensive. Did you even read my last post, just before you made the first of your big ones?