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I'm still hanging on to my Zoom external fax/modem. It's in a box somewhere. Add me to the list of Patron Saints of Dialup.

MS should have released Win2003 as an interim product between XP and Vistsa (priced at XP levels). I would have bought that instead of XP. Grrrrrrrrr.

I hope you're doing this on the side (not quitting your day job and your side-business). I do remember reading a few years back that MS had gotten a sudden attack of magnanimity and had offered to sell Windows at cut-rates directly to non-profits / charities. You may want to look into that...

You're cute, DD. Who's the guy, BTW?

Thanks Merc. A Mac would be too big of a wallop on the wallet. Some Adobe sw requires Win XP SP2 - current versions of Premiere Elements & Photoshop Elements, for example. Even if I run XP in a virtual m/c, I have all the activation crap to deal with, and WGA if I want to keep it up to date. I...

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MySpace for boomers comes with death alerts Disclaimer: I didn't read the article.

A quick search indicates it is a drive geometry problem; the BIOS to be reset and/or made to recognize the new drive properly. I don't know if this helps, but am throwing it in anyway.

I'm going to be a nitwit (I was going to say twit, but the word always makes me think that means "twin tits") and start a new thread for this. With all the WGA crap, inevitable MS prodding to upgrade to Vista etc., I've reconciled myself to not getting any mileage from my proposed migration...

Thanks Bozo. I wish damn MS would release an SP5 for W2k. Has anybody tried to slipstream post-SP4 hotfixes in W2k and been successful??

How did it go, Bozo?

Me too. I've been wondering where the "reglars" are - Splash (who's back), Fushigi, JTR, and others (who aren't). I miss them.

Greg's got PMS? (I'm feeling obnoxious today :twistd:)

Sechs uses curling irons? :-D

I didn't get the whiny part either. All you did was ask about modems. And you never said anything about him complaining. :confused:

Over the years I've gotten good at understanding you, Eric, but you lost me with "tasoe".

I'm really sorry your buyer backed out, Handruin. That is absolutely unconscionable. I really hope things work out for you.

I'm a fan of Toyota, but have been apalled at how they've handled some problems. There's the well known design problem with V6 engines of the late 90's / early 2000's where the engine would die at 30k miles, be under warranty and they would refuse to fix it, claiming user negligence (oil...

I know you said all fans are working, but could heat still be the issue? The total heat put out by the CPU + MB + video card + drives might make it borderline stable, but anything that taxes the system a bit might be raising the heat just past the threshhold. What are the temps in the case? Is...

Since 'tis the season to tell, so will I. About the Canon SD600 and A620. The SD600 takes fab pics for its size. Downsides: flash is weak; red-eye is a problem. Both are inherent traits of a small camera. It's a great choice for a shirt-pocket camera. The A620 is superb. Very happy with it's...

Grau und Grün passen nicht zusammen. Möglicherweise ist Ihr Elefant nicht grau?

I don't know, Merc. I bought my Sony DVR in early 2003, and it has worked flawlessly for the purpose. Olympus has a very good name in DVRs; maybe you should take a thorough look at them since you feel strongly about Sony.

That's a testament to the quality of the hw & sw that Dec used to make. There are uptime stats for VMS that are stunning.

The same reasons you don't advocate buying an office all-in-one device!

POS indeed! Sheesh, I thought Pick died out several years ago. And what a kluge to make it all work.

Thanks Tim, Sol & DD. Nope. I suggested a digital voice recorder.

AFAIK, there are only 2 ways businesses end up with the new OS: 1) They need to run a piece of sw that requires the new OS - an unlikely scenario 2) They are buying new machines anyway, which come with the new OS In the case of #2, in many instances, the end-user company will specifically ask...

Merc: Buy a Sony (!!) or Olympus Digital recorder with a mini usb connection. You'll be able to transfer the audio to a PC and edit / burn it. I have a Sony that has worked really well for this purpose. But: buy a compatible external mic for it, attach it to your shirt collar (I use my lower...

Yikes, Tannin, I'd forgotten about support! Though I'm not in business, I have supported several "friends & family" and it hasn't been too much of a problem so far, though it hasn't been fun either. Vista will make that exponentially worse, and I have no desire to educate myself on its...

Thanks to all the good feedback in this thread, I'll pass on Vista. It'll be XPP (32-bit) for me. Much to many people's amusement (especially a guy called Tony :-D), I am only now switching from W2k to XP, having built my first new m/c in 5+ years for it. Next stop will be a *nix of some kind...

Glad you have a handle on things, fella. Everytime I've moved, some evil fairy keeps hiding more stuff into all the nooks and crannies of the dwelling, and I never finish extricating it all out and disposing of / packing the unending stream of stuff!

Congrats, everybody!

I always immediately delete these chain emails. But I am coonstantly astounded by how many otherwise rational, educated, smart people actually scratch their heads to find the requsite number of people to send it to. Especially when most everybodey they know has already been sent a copy by a...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Looks like you didn't read any of my posts in this thread!

Sorry to hear about all the changes you guys are going through; it's never easy. Maybe DD can share his expertise on the matter; he seems to have attained Guru-level certification in change management, taking things in stride without a blink. Wish I could handle changes in my life as confidently...

I'm running the default style. So is everybody else running the revised style and so can see the logo and the quick reply arrows? Anybody still on default and can see these "dead people" arrows?

I don't see the VBulletin logo - have never seen it till I saw Merc's post above. I don't see the Quick Reply minimize arrows as well. Different users are seeing different things. VBulletin seems to be very dependent on browser and extensions installed, looks like.

Awright, DD, glad I made your day! If I'm losing it, then so is my old pal, Mr. Stinkpad-23. Check this out. And no, I didn't photoshop it. Warning: 205 kb pic ahead. My lappy runs at 1400x1050, so the pic is nearly as large so DD can believe its authenticity. No Arrows

Thanks for the pic, Handy. But those arrows don't exist for me. I even tried turning off Flashblock, but still doesn't show up. Mousing over didn't do anything, and neither did clicking where I think the arrows are. It's no big deal, but I do worry that advancing age has diminished my...

That was probably "core" memory, the stuff they used to put in the mainframes of those days - I believe IBM 1401 and on up until the 370. Howibbly expensive. AFAIK, the unit record machines didn't have any, but I never worked on one or even saw one, so I could be wrong. On second thought, since...

I do see a small double arrow within a circle for the "Posting Rules", clicking which does minimize the posting rules box. But for the Quick Reply box, I don't see no arrows in Firefox other than the "decrease size" and "increase size" ones, which appear to be for changing the font size in the...

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Thanks, Bozo! I have been wishing for a RyanVM type thingie for W2k, and it looks like this is it. Let us know how it went.

M$ has been tightening the noose a little bit at a time, over a pretty long period of time, the latest manifestation of which is the WGA crap. Would your copy of Dell's XP be an older one? At one time, this was the case; a large mfr OEM copy would install, but ask to be activated if installed on...

Prepare to die, Bozo.

Though you say "restore CD won't run on it", you say "the key won't work", so I presume installation is going through till you hit the point where the key is requested. Here's what I know. Soon after all this activation crap started, MS wanted a way to control re-installs and reactivations...

Thanks Handruin :crucified::oops:

I have a situation against a business that I need to complain about. What do you folks suggest? They're not a retailer (a mover/shipper) so Reseller Ratings won't help much though I plan to crap on them there.

System Commander or Boot Magic (provided along with Partition magic) can do the job. Both will present a menu on boot that lets you pick the OS/partition you want to boot. The menu selections can be password protected and can default to a selection after a time out, both of which you can set...

handruin, sorry for the delay in responding to your question. I had to install a screen cap proggie first. After conversion, the main forum page had the icons for each individual forum lit up (i.e., red) to indicate new posts in each. I visited each forum, read all the new posts, and noticed...