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L.A. Times, Aug. 2, 2005 In San Joaquin Valley, Cows Pass Cars as Polluters By Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff Writer Got smog? California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country. Monday, officials said gases from ruminating dairy cows, not exhaust from cars...

Check out the X2 3800+. The Inquirer says "TECH REPORT benchmarks the AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processor and still could not believe how much value for money that little baby offers. With 512KB and 2GHz per core, it overclocks easily to 2.4GHz and almost matches a 4800+ for around 2/5th of the price...

The critical stuff from my data drive is backed up to the other hard drive every night, and periodically to DVD (interval varies; I'm past due now). Some of the stuff, like downloaded programs, is backed up once in a while to DVD. The OS/prgrams partition is periodically imaged to the other...

i! I'm going to kick ya!

Try searching for something at Target (if the main page loads at all) or at Officemax. Whoever wrote the search algorithms for these companies has a weirdly wired brain.

Unfortunately I'm a member of Costco, and they don't carry Verbatim at all; just some slow fuddy-duddy TDK. Can barely justify the Costco membership, paying for Sam's membership is out of the question.

NO! It's mine! All mine!

Free space as in formatted, but not used to store anything. I have 1 x 160 GB and 1 x 120 GB. All of it is formatted. I'm using only 110 GB. Of that 110 GB, 9 GB is backup of critical data from one disk to the other. So I'm actually using only 101 GB. That includes OS, all programs, 1.0 GB of...

I must be the weird one here. I have a total of 280 GB of space, and 170 GB of that is free. My consumption is going up slowly but steadily only because of my digital camera.

The Inquirer reports on How to hack biometrics. Fushigi, why aren't you at DEFCON? I would have thought you went to those things, seeing as you have security certs.

NOTE: I only accept Paypal Cash or eCheck Payment. Please don't submit Paypal Credit Card Payment. This is the first line in the description of a listing, in big, bold letters in red. Clear violation of PP policy, then. And if I want to sell just one item on ebay in my whole life, and will...

So sorry to get back on topic :( I tried switching buttons as Howell suggested. Good for three quartes of a day, then back to square one. So I've taken bahngeist's advice to heart and ordered the vertical rodent. Hopefully it will do for me what it did for him. Thanks all. ps: Mercutio...

So as soon as I sell something, I need to have a business account? Then where does the "a personal paypal account has no fees for payments received" fit in; typically I would receive payments only for selling. I'm confused. Pray elucidate.

So if the seller says "I accept money orders or paypal only." that probably means all forms of Paypal, including credit cards. I find the world of Ebay weird; so many listings for "Brand New, unused" and deep in the listing body they say it's a refurbished item that's never been opened. Sheer...

Thanks everybody, for the clarifications. Love ya all!

I thought you were rambling when drunk, DB, but I see that I was wrong. What will they think of next! That does seem like a useful device; would definitely keep circulation going. A tad expensive, though. Thanks!

I don't know, Pradeep, maybe Ebay isn't enforcing it. I've seen numerous listings that say "Paypal or money orders only". The Paypal logo, though, depicts MasterCard, Visa, Amex, Discover, and CHECK, whatever that is. Since this will be my first Ebay trans, I'm not really sure if I can demand...

Yikes, I hadn't! That's a brilliant suggestion, Howell, thanks for mentioning it. I was thinking that all these "sex toys" could either be really great or a total bust, and the only way to find out, unfortunately, is to spend the money. Your suggestion could provide immediate relief plus allow...

That doesn't seem very realistic, Sechs. Most small sellers don't take credit cards. If I'm going to sell off some surplus things, I'm not going to sign up with a CC processor either. I have a Paypal account because 2 years ago I bought something from a small business that only took Paypal...

I might be making my first transaction (purchase) on fleabay. I already have a Paypal account, and am wondering if it is safe to disclose my bank account info to Paypal to put funds into my Paypal account. The only option Paypal shows me is to transfer from a bank account, which is supposed to...

Thanks all, very interesting choices! Whatever device I get, I need to drastically reduce the load on my index finger; 90% of the problem is from overuse of the poor bugger. I don't think I care for scroll wheels anymore; they add to the load on the index finger. Trackballs with buttons on the...

Thanks all, for the kindness, I'm checking out all the links...

Hear, hear! Exactly how I felt about it at the time. Not only that, all those billion-dollar corporations that didn't apply patches released weeks earlier, who then cried foul when they were compromised. Gimme a break.

I've been using scroll mice since they came out, and my index finger has finally had it with clicking and scrolling. My left hand has other problems (tennis elbow?) so I can't use that. Trackballs also have buttons that need to be clicked. Circa 1994 a gal that worked with me had a similar...

Nah, I stole the pic from googling. No wax statue of me; I ain't famous and plan to stay that way.

Congrats, Will! May the whole family live long and prosper.

All right, Buck, go on, keep insulting me. That's a 1401; the first "real" mainframe for commercial enviroments. It's scientific computing twin was the 1620. The 1401 boasted 16k of magnetic core memory (of which 80 bytes were dedicated to the card read buffer, 80 bytes were dedicated to the...

Since we're into pictures now, this used to be my system (didn't have the added memory, though). I learned to program on this puppy.

*Don't* buy anything Westinghouse makes. They're all nukillear powered.

Apart from price, isn't there another major problem? The limited number of writes to Flash?

My systems, from most-used to least-used: 1) Built Dec. 2000; my main system Antec SX 1030 with 300 watt Antec PS (came with case) Tyan Tiger Rev. F. dual slot-1 mainboard 100 MHz, BX chipset 2 x Abit Slotkets 2 x P3-800 FC-PGA coppermine 100 MHz @ 112 MHz 4 x Crucial PC-133 256MB ATI 9000...

Buy dual core. You get most of the benefit at a much lower price and complication. My slot-1 P3 machine mentioned above is a dual-cpu box; otherwise it would not have been usable this long. And no matter that most programs are single-threaded; any multi-cpu capable OS will utilize both...

Whatever's causing it, whether it's temporary or a more significant change, the weather has been goofy in a lot of places on the planet in the last 15 months. Raining when and where it shouldn't, unseasonably hot or cold, etc. Some of the links in the link I provided are scary to read -...

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Lookin for a fight, eh, DD?

Sorry to be getting back on topic again. Maybe it would be wise of me then to 'ang on to me sturdy slot-1/P3-800 machine for another year and go straight to socket 1207? :mrgrn: (in the background: "Stop the world and let me off....I'm tired of going round 'n' round...")

I'm surprised, Time & Merc. I was a staunch Wordperfect user, having used it from version 4.2. At one employer, they used Word (ver. 2?) and I hated it. But over time, they have really improved it. WP has bugs carried over from several versions. I kept upgrading it till ver. 10, hoping it would...

Yeah, I read about it. All things eventually must pass.

Unfortunately, more and more stuff I read in the press these days is of this quality. You can read for 5 whole minutes and not have the faintest idea what the piece is about. When I was a child, I was told to read the newspaper to improve my communication skills and English. Not true anymore...

How did you fix it?

Well done, MS.

Groltz, I've never had this problem with Firefox 0.5 onwards, at Anandtech; I tried it just now with FF 1.0.4, and it spawns a new tab showing the "print" version of the article or review. The extentions I have installed are: ChromEdit 0.1.1.1 Tab Mix 0.2.1 netcrafttoolbar 1.0.3.1 The last...

Fascinating story at FastCompany. Robert Hare, professor emeritus from the University of British Columbia, created the Psychopathy Checklist, a 20-item personality evaluation that has exerted enormous influence in its quarter-century history. He says many CxOs are psycos...

Thanks, Will. I must have had a senior moment and forgotten to provide the link.

Seconded. My wife is an avid tea drinker, and so is her family (my family and I are coffee drinkers). She makes it the Indian way - chai - milk, tea and water all boiled together, strained, and drunk. Sometimes the sugar is added to the boiling stuff, sometimes later to the cup. She's one of...

What a beaut! Thanks for sharing that, Buck.

Wasn't a bother at all, I wouldn't have mentioned anything if you hadn't made a post on the topic :)

:D At the top of this thread, I said I run W2k. If I was into eye-candy, I'd be running WXP. My Word/Excel appearance (including the toolbars) have looked the same since Office 97. I was a staunch WordPerfect user, but that product went completely downhill after Novell bought it. Office has...

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