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Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’ A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. The...

It's like a tsunami all over the inland area. Insane! Many, many broken lives and billions in losses. Really sad.

May have something to do with the chemistry of the battery; can hold higher charge, but discharges faster (like self-discharge in NiMH batteries).

Any good ones? They mostly seem to be flaky. WD seems to be selling one. Perhaps worth a try? Thanks.

FW 800?

Say, 15 - 25m. Maybe I should get one of those teleconverter 1.7x multiplier extension tubes.

Sorry guys, I've been out of touch a bit. Always humbling when nature hows who's boss. Really sorry about the devastation. As time has pointed out, getting back to normal will be a very long haul.

Buying Technet here is a hassle. There is no online option, and since it's a "slow-moving item", it is special order and has to be paid for in advance. MS ships the products ordered once a month, and it arrives on a slave-powered dhow from wherever. I paid on Nov 4, and have Technet 2010...

Is that metal 1 mm thick? Have fun cutting it with a Dremel. I spent hours modding my case to take 92mm fans instead of 80mm......

One? Surely, you jest!

First, a correction: I must have been higgledy-piggledy when I posted; it's the 24-70 f2.8 I have, not the 17-24. I meant to say that 200mm hardly seems to bring the subject closer. I really haven't found a use for it. The 24-70 is more useful to me. So yes, a longer lens would be more useful...

I hardly use my my Nikkor 20-200 f2.8; maybe 5 shots total in > 1 year. 200 mm is nothing :( The 17-24 f2.8 is a lot more useful. Used only the 30mm f2.0 on the recent trip.

Happy New Year, everyone. I'm really late, but was away in the hills from before Christmas and getting to my favorite site only now.

As DD said, I'm surprised she didn't notice earlier. Poor thing must have suffered with so huge a mass in her insides.

How many sticks total is that?

Happy Birthday, Doug!

Magnets! You've got yerself some mighty powful magnets!

RFID in passports was a bad idea, now in Credit cards, at risk of publicly being hacked. What were they thinking?

Anybody seen these? NYC and the Statue of Liberty from a camera mounted on an RC plane. Transporting food like Internet Data

I had (have) many versions of DI, and I know the last few were bad, just don't remember all the details. I've been using Terbyte Unlimited's Image for Dos and have been very happy with it. Never tried to clone a HDD with it, though (not even sure if it can).

It's not isolated, period. Cheapos take the easy way out and connect the neutral (not-hot) wire to the metal body. This becomes a problem if the device is moved to a country where the hot and neutral contacts are swapped at the socket. The cheapos know what they did, so will not correct the...

That's because Symantec buggered it. It was pretty good while PowerQuest was releasing it. I bought the first version released by Symantec; one release was enough for them to work their magic on it.

Good t know! Thanks SD.

I vaguely remember reading that if Win 7 sees more than one HDD during install, it will write some critical data to HDDs other than the boot drive, creating boot problems if those other drives are removed. Suggestion was to disconnect all other drives, install Win 7 and then reconnect the other...

Damn, that sucks. In the old days, DriveImage was pretty flexible and allowed you to do all kinds of things without screwing it up. Too bad stupid Symantec bought it and PartitionMagic from PowerQuest and killed both products. I wish the guys that founded Powerquest come back now since there...

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It's this disease to keep changing things. Perfectly good websites end up getting screwed up because "they've been the same way too long".

Some of the free partition manglers don't align partitions. I used a free one recently and had helluva problem unborking the whole thing. Partition Magic always worked correctly, but the last version released (8.3 or something like that) barfs on 1 TB drives.

Naw.What Merc said. By big I meant display size. People would have surely gotten irritated to see the same big pic again in my response. ps: how do you keep your head from being blindingly shiny? I have that problem with my forehead and nose now, and my head will join the gang in the not too...

+2! Many Happy Returns of the Day, JTR! Kick some butt!

It is. No self-respecting female will accept in this day and age.

So true. This infuriated me no end....

Because they are different brands, it is possible they are sold at different price points and use parts of differing quality. It is also possible that the machines are identical, and the marketing Dept. is playing games with pricing and consumer perceptions.

When I was young, in the days before there was an Internet, I have gone to the mall many a time, and driven through the parking lot and returned home without shutting off the engine, not wishing to tangle with the mad masses.

time! I had no idea! Imagine, a famous TV personality in our midst. I love you man! pic deleted since it's big

The bed will help somewhat, but not as much as you think, because it's surface area is horizontal. Anything hanging vertically will help a lot more - curtains, or those panels you linked to.

SD, please keep it and enjoy it; I don't want it. I'll not even try to pry it out of your cold dead hands, I promise :)

MaxBurn, no popups or warnings. I usually practice safe behavior online. However, when I move to Win 7 soon, I want use something like Sandboxie to be safer still. I do most of my and my wife's banking online, and necessarily have to be paranoid! I had Avira before, and it got obnoxious with...

Well, good for him. I hope he'll smoke his pipe and join us here more often to share his thoughts.

I updated MS-SE and ran it on the C drive. Nothing found. I updated Malwarebytes and ran it on the C drive. Nothing found. I downloaded Avast 5.0 Free, uninstalled MS-SE, installed Avast, updated it and ran it on the C drive. Nothing found. :confused:

Most of what Time said. It's very much an individual thing. Memory foam / latex: mileage varies enormously. I plunked down a good bit of money for a memory foam mattress and pillows and hated them and gave them away. What works best for me is a very firm mattress with a pillow top; good...

Thanks MaxBurn and BingBangBop.

So what's my status now? Am I screwed? Please?

+1. Merc has a way with words....

My HP LJ 6xi is about 11 years old. Print is just fine; I don't print much. Probably 4th or 5th cartridge. But the paper pick up & feed problems are really bad. I feed one page at a time. Now even that is becoming an issue where it keeps trying to suck the page in but half the time can't. HP got...

Please elaborate; was it just saying hello or having a chat? I used to catch every episode of ST: TNG back in those days.

No probs with XP Pro and MS Security Essentials.

Just messing with you, Lunar, sorry about that. I'll shut up now.

Ever heard of this chap who conducts high amperage current through his body? (It's a Youtube video)

You mean they're not advancing format? :)