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On an Acrobat related note, at work I sometimes have to deal with hundreds of PDFs. Is there a tool of somesort that allows me to point it into a directory full of pdfs, and it would give me back the number of pages in each pdf, and/or the total number of pages? It's a pain having to open each...

In Australia your annual registration fee includes a mandatory third-party personal cover. So if you do happen to injure someone in a crash, you don't have to pay anything (at least for medical, third-party property is still your responsibility). Of course that doesn't help if someone is driving...

Acrobat 6 is my preference, there was a link on the Inq or something where you could remove a bunch of plug-ins and crap to speed up the load time.

1GB of RAM is plenty for IE, email etc. In fact 512MB would be enough in that instance. I guess nowadays with much higher system RAM limits then before, it doesn't make sense to hook up slower types of RAM and hitch it onto the PCI bus. Better to spend that money on more system RAM, where the...

Honestly I would have to say that the Australian Liberal party is more analogous to the US Democrats with Socialist tendencies. With the Aussie Labor Party more towards the US Republicans. But they are both to the left of center compared to the US middle line. Re: Australia being a part of...

Well I guess they will all be watching Paramount movies on Blu-ray :) In any case the PS3 will have a read-only drive, personally I want something that can record HD to disc.

Don't forget the stippers. Perhaps all of the "adults only" action could happen behind a curtained off partition?

Looks like 4x DVD+R DL drives have arrived, giving a reasonable 27 mins for a dual layer burn. Of course 8x would be better, but a nice improvement from the current 2.4x. And it appears they use the current 2.4x DL discs and write them at 4x. http://www.cdrinfo.com/Forum/tm.asp?m=73028

According to cdrinfo, the PS3 will also use a 23GB blue-ray drive, should be ready for 2005. And it's going to be a lot less than $3K.

It could be a good election issue, I imagine most people care more about not paying 10 to 20 times more for meds (comparing prices in Aus to USA) rather than some FTA with dubious benefits. With little Johnnie, he'll fold when the cost of lost votes outweighs the financial goodies he's getting...

It still leaves lots of US protections in place for agriculture, so the sugar farmers etc get farked over. Much better for the US side than the Aussie side.

No worries Merc. In defense of Xerox, I called them today at 9am and the service guy arrived at 11am.

OK, nevermind, it's 1-888-518-2076 and of course they turn off the technical support option over the weekend. Farked is a close relation of knackered, buggered, and bloody load of plastic bollocks.

re: Tech support number for freecolorprinters.com Morning all, Just wondering if anyone (Merc?) has the techsupport number for the above? Our Phaser 860 has a fatal error code (drum preheater is farked) and I need to contact them to get it fixed. And of course I don't know the login details to...

There isn't much diff between most DD and DTS soundtracks. It depends on how much effort was put into each. Tho IMHO the DTS-ES tracks from the extended editions of LOTR are superior to their DD counterparts. However back in the day of Laserdisc, the DTS discs were full bitrate DTS (around...

We have a few SX6000's at work. Running 6 * 250GB Maxtors in RAID 5. We had major problems trying to run two of the cards on one mobo, with one array on each card, accessing one array singly was fine. However as soon as you tried to access both, the server went tits-up. But no problems with the...

The HDTivos have two ATSC (OTA) tuners and two sat tuners. You can record two shows at once, in any combination, whilst watching a third already recorded show. Or watch one show live whilst recording another. For the dual tuner models I believe they run two lines of co-ax from the dish to the...

Well I used mine last week to take pics of the new house. But apart from that nothing exciting. At work we've switched completely to the 1D MkII, so much faster than the 1Ds it's not funny. We experimented with the possibility of using the D70 as a lower cost option, but with it's lack of a...

One thing I have noticed is that whilst my 47" appeared to be way too big at delivery, over the weeks it has shrunk down in perceptible size. I would say that even the massive 65"ers would be Ok after a while. However SD is going to look like diarrhea on something that large. DLP sets are nice...

You only need a driver if the enclosure supports hot-swap (SAF-TE or whatever it is). Otherwise the circuit board just provides power and termination. If you were daisy chaining, you would enable termination on the last enclosure on the chain.

Where shall we send the flowers? :o In seriousness driving faster would help keep you awake, as it's pretty easy to nod off on a straight highway at 65. Hopefully it's an interesting road.

I did 14 hours on Tuesday, 22 hours this Wednesday/Thursday AM, home for 12, then another 12 hours yesterday. Had a batch of work that had to be out by yesterday evening. Taking a day's rest today, then back to work Sunday and Monday for another deadline. Can't say no to OT time, I'm greedy :)

Me too. But I'll need a new vid card for it me thinks. AIW 7500 is not going to cut it.

The "line-interactive" AFAIK means it can buck and boost the output voltage without resorting to the battery too much. The off-line's just switch right to the battery. If you don't live next to a large industrial site and have clean power most of tyhe time I wouldn't worry either way. Be aware...

You do know that one of the new anti-terror laws in Aus requires a B.A.C. of over 0.2 before they will let you in the country right?

Ouch! Hope he finds it before he has to start ripping into the walls. Perhaps a quiet drink to dull the horror?

Dear jebus. 43 cents per kW/h? Insanity. I pay 7.04 cents in Upstate and bitch about that :) All nuclear tho. However in Tassie it was all Hydro (except when the catchment levels dropped every couple of years/or turbine maintenance and they had to fire up an oil fired station for a few weeks. I...

Only if you want access to the other additional sound formats, i.e DTS, etc. If you are just using a set of computer speakers I wouldn't bother.

Well we had the home inspected yesterday. Roof needs replacing but we knew that already. He also found two reverse polarity sockets in the garage and about 15 sockets with open ground in the house. Looks like some backyard electrical work went on. It's the sellers cost to fix tho. Apart from...

Glad to hear you're happy old fella. P.S. DB has been bugging me to ask you about three-ways, I don't know what he's on about. Tea, could you have a talk to him?

I have an APC BackUPS XS-1500 (I believe it's identical to an RS-1500 but without the network surge protection). The included software (PowerChute 1.3 IIRC) can certainly run a program upon a power event. What I like most is the alarms can be disabled during certain times of the day - such as...

Sounds good. Especially with HD Tivos costing around $1000 buckaroos.

Does the Panasonic have a built-in HD tuner? If not you won't be able to receive HD signals without an external tuner. PS Congrats :)

10 miles to work Between 12 and 16 mins including one segment of Thruway. Around 1/3 gallon of gas ~ 68 cents.

Tho with what sounds like half-height second gen 10K cheetahs?, STR wouldn't be at 40MB/sec to begin with. Plus OS 9 is a fair slothy beast.

I know what you mean. When I'm in London I stay with some friends, they live in Elstree (train from Kings Cross). It's like a freaking car show, Bentleys, etc in every drive. I'd hate to think how much the houses cost there (and tiny bloody backyards too).

Upon further investigation is looks like only Channel 7 is broadcasting 576p. Fortunately the cricket is on 9. Now if only I could get that HD feed on PPV Dish Network.

Australia does have HD tv but looking at this site: http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=15 The government is accepting 576P as a HD signal. And most of the 1080i broadcasts are merely upsampled versions of the SD feed. Oh well, perhaps the people will be satisfied with 16:9 in low rez...

Lawn growing up north is a frustrating business, seeing it's mostly covered by snow for 6 months per year. I'm a little upset that our new place doesn't need a ride-on mower due to the size, however I'm considering justifying one because I'll need a snow-blower for the winter. I'd much rather...

I don't think you can elect the Queen Merc ;) Tho Aus had a decent go at getting rid of her, we failed. We still have the Governer-General as Her Majs representative.

DVDs use 4:2:0. I Imagine HDTV uses more, but I don't know the exact number. Apparently the very high end DLP projectors used in digital cinema projectors use 4:4:4. Would be interesting to see.

The cheapest off-peak Travelcard costs 4.30 pounds. Which is close to 10 bucks or beyond. That's just for Zone 1 and 2, and after 9.30am. Which means it's pretty much useless to get to work. But you do get to ride buses/trains within the zones as well. You can get it cheaper by getting...

I believe Outpost has the Hitachi 250GB drive for $100 after $120 in MIRs. And can be had for $80 in B&M Frys stores.

You mention having people living closer to work. In a city of 8 million like NYC this then causes havoc with housing prices as you have noted. Perhaps one day we can all work from home, in our 1000 apartment condos. Long live the concrete jungle. Me, I like the greenery and air of the...

jtr, you may be happy to live the rest of your life in the boroughs of NYC, but I and certainly most others would not be happy being cooped up like that. The US is a huge country, with tremendous variations in climate, geography, and culture. Not to mention the world beyond the borders of the...

I should have been clearer. A car is a fixed rate in NY, around $70-80 something for two years IIRC. A pickup truck would normally be given commercial plates, and there you decide how much gross weight you would be maxing out on and pay the appropriate fee. So if you want to carry 1 full ton in...

I'd like to see the figures regarding subsidising drivers. We pay: registration fee every two years, based on weight usually. More road wear, more fee. annual inspection fee, protecting the environment in a feeble way. sales tax upon initial purchase tax on petrol which goes to god knows...

Yup, cable is already there. My house is in the village, so I guess the density is enough for them to run the cable. And I'll be going for the HD receiver. Apparently TW have ones with DVI out now.

Howdy Frank, good of you to drop by. Three drinkies for me pls.

Re: Change of Topic Fortunately where I am it's closer to $70 per sq. ft. Tho building new is a bit more than that.