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Wish you a speedy recovery, Bozo.

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Actually, it sounds like pure, unadulterated fat + cholesterol!

So it looks like their performance doesn't degrade gracefully but falls off a cliff. That might be acceptable if you know up front that you'll never or will seldom reach the cliff.

SD, you never cease to amaze me.

Did "Andromeda" not cause paranoia like "Jaws" did?

History has been made. I am glad it turned out this way. Change was badly needed.

Thanks, e_d. I know what probs I face and what I need my equipment to do. I can't keep changing it - that's my problem. Both buying (availability, price) and selling are a problem, so pretty much whatever I get, I will be keeping for a very long time. Hence the caution and the desire to get as...

You mentioned that you would get an extra hour of sleep. That implies your "country" followed DST, and I was asking if that was so. This was for information only, and I don't really care if you care about DST or not. Enjoy your sleep either way.

So would it be unwise to invest in an APS-C system (body, glass)? Is it better to jump into full-frame even though it will hurt a lot initially?

Your country follows DST too?

I didn't really understand your comment at first. Looking closely, I realized the number for IE7 was 5 digits, not 4! Is it really that bad? Sheesh.

vlite does not do for Vista what nlite did for XP?

Nice pic - I liked it.

Tim, the minimalist! Actually that sounds like me. I think Coug missed his true vocation in life. Imagine - squished bugs as art. A doofus somewhere would pay millions for a framed piece.

As usual, you get the best prices in the U.S. - even cheaper than duty-free at Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong airports. The price for photo gear (Nikon and Canon) is 50-80% more in India compared to the U.S. Also true for other stuff like software and booze. The problem is that they won't honor...

Company emerges from stealth mode Black silicon: 100 - 500 times more sensitive to light and to IR Better digital cameras, better imaging devices, better solar cells (they generate current off of IR too).

Why aren't you imaging it and just restoring the image when it craps out?

Are you saying GWB is a good communicator??!!

At least some people are fired up. I got this in an email today: Another way to help the economy? I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are...

For a guy who claims to not know English, you're pretty articulate and make your point quite forcefully, Coug :grin: No matter what happens or doesn't, Americans are screwed. It's a clear-cut case of lose-lose.

It's not painless because Server 2003 costs quite a bit. :rambo:

Is MS providing free upgrades for licensed XP users?

The next episode in this soap opera: WaMu becomes biggest bank to fail in US history So are we in the beginning of the end, the middle of the end, or is this just the end of the beginning?

What is the Milky Way Speeding Towards at 14 Million MPH? Fascinating article. I felt really, really small (in every way!) after reading this.

Firefox doesn't know what plug-in I need to view that video. Can somebody help? Thanks.

Jones Lang LaSalle - real estate, not insurance.

No health care either? That sucks. You should move, Merc. It'll do you good.

You know what I meant, Merc :)

Sorry Tim, I just followed a link and didn't bookmark it. There's probably quite a few like that on the 'net.

We do a bit of that as well. Not quite the scale and extreme as MS, but a bit to see the approach they take. Sadly, a lot can't even think straight.

The joy continues! Government announces $85 billion loan to save AIG I read an article yesterday that at this rate, there is no reasonable, legitimate way for America to dig itself out of the hole it is deepeneing other than to print paper money. That = hyperinflation. And when China wants...

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!

Would Outlook even come close?

I second Time. I think it's SSE, primarily. Going to SS standard is bound to improve performance. Sage SW sucks big time (eons ago I worked at a company that got acquired by Sage). Act was acquired by Symantec at one point of time, IIRC, and then sold to Sage. So it's bloatware all right. But...

I'm the poor church mouse of the bunch :) I run 2 x 250GB Hitachi SATAs. I have 2 x 320GB Samsung SATAs that are a year old and still in the box. :eek4: Woe unto me. I plan to buy a DSLR in the next 6 months (waiting for the D90 reviews; it'll be that or the D300). I'll probably have to jack...

Not true. This happens even if the device is installed to the same exact port. Just happened with my APC UPS which got unplugged; when I plugged it back in, XP did the same "new hw discovered" shit.

Let us know how it goes, e_d. I bought Vista 64 HP a year ago with similar ideas, but my hardware has stayed the same, so I haven't yet opened the Vista package. Some day I'll upgrade my hw and follow the route you have taken.

Eric, I'm glad you're back. You're in full form too! :-)

Zipzoom has a habit of saying things are in stock when they are not. They also take eons to ship. I would go with Directron; they're good.

DD, Happy Birthday, fella! Fushigi, belated Happy Birthday!

If you do both together, we'll never find out what the problem was, and I most likely will die of curiosity.

Pray tell me why.

You guys are forgetting hardware. It was all proprietary stuff before. With windows, hw became a commodity - interchangeable, cheap, reliable, readily available. The mini manufacturer I worked for went under because they never saw the Wintel tsunami coming.

Don't people like Kensington make "universal" power bricks and separately sell an array of the pins that will go into the devices? I'll see if I can rustle up some links I may have saved (it'll have to wait till the weekend, though).

stdPikachu ... Pikachu is a Pokemon. Used to be my daughter's favorite. Odd handle for a tech guy.

DD is now a certified EE (sorry, couldn't resist that).

My Buffalo wireless router and clients are cool to the touch. My wired SMC router gets hot. I can fry eggs on my current DSL modem. Such heat to me indicates poor design; a lot of electricity being unnecessarily consumed and dissipated as heat.

I've used (and continue to do so) Vonage over 2mbit connections and have had zero issues. No QoS settings in the router; just plain vanilla connections. In fact, the internet line is connected to a wi-fi router, and the Vonage adapter is on the client end of the wi-fi. Quality is land-line like...

Imagine. A server OS that has better power management than a consumer OS. Way to go, MS! I should check to see what an MSDN sub goes for here. I'm really jealous of you Merc.