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Weird indeed. This system has a virgin Win XP Pro SP2 install with all the updates, MS Office 2003 up to date, Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Sony Vegas DVD Movie Studio and a few utilities. The idea was to first install all the sw that requires activation, image that to use...

Holy Capola! I booted into safe mode and tried copying/renaming the files. Same error message! In the meantime, I found Terabyte Unlimited. Among other products, they have a Dos-based (what I want) imaging program that is simply blindingly fast. It's horribly simple to use, can write to and...

I booted off DOS floppies, imaged the system partition (disk 0) on to disk 1. Now I reboot into Windows, and I can't do much with the image files. I need to move them to a machine that has a DVD burner, but I can't. Windows (XP, but I vaguely remember having this problem on W2k as well; don't...

Thanks, CityK. You're a swell guy.

Thanks, CityK, you rule! I did paraphrase what the Premiere install routine said at the end, but I think that was a pretty accurate paraphrase. I should have written it down, but I didn't. The impression I got was that the free version of QT was required, not the Pro version. When I get a...

If a piece of software says "Quicktime is required to use/process MPEG-4 and H.264", can I use Quicktime alternative instead and still have the same functionality? Said software is Adobe's Premiere Elements 2. I'm sorta surprised it didn't install it by itself, but instead told me to go get it...

Thanks guys. The system's been on all day without a hiccup (default speed, not overclocked). No diag LEDs on, no sizzle, no frying silicon smells. But Mark's right, don't know when something's going to fail. I just spent a fortune (for me) on this, and can't buy spares without being sure as...

A 4400 X2 (2.2 GHz) pushed to 2.5 GHz, a total of less than 200 power on hours??? And it booted perfectly when I wiped the disks. Things sizzled only after connecting the front panel cables. :cursin:

Long post alert. I fried something yesterday. Not deep-fry, shallow fry. In all these years of messing with PCs and components, I've never killed anything. Except maybe yesterday. sob. After working flawlessly in overclocked mode for a while, and passing all the torture tests without a hiccup...

You're already a Hall of Famer, DD.

Are you that unwell? Hope you get better soon.

Seconded & recommended; I ditched Snorton for AVG and couldn't be happier. Once installed, AVG: 1) Updates itself automatically, no fuss, so long as there's an internet connection (unlike Snorton, whose DeadUpdate never worked properly and couldn't be fixed) 2) When it finds something bad it...

Maybe you'll get your wish. Cringely seems to think so.

That last bit scares me more than what Bush has done. He's done what he did and has gotten away with it because he's been allowed to.

Those guys ceratinly have the gift of the gab, as Merc has pointed out. Reminds me of that mail-order guy in Chatsworth CA that we talked about in another thread and whose name eludes me at the moment. The guy that sold audio gear, radar detectors etc, and later computer stuff in the mid and...

My thoughts exactly.

After almost a day of looking, I think we will pass on the F10 / F11; in forums, there are complaints that outdoor shots aren't very good. The lady also wants a really compact camera. The new 1/2.5" sensor in the SD600 and above models is supposed to be quite good. We're going to try for that...

Where have you been, i? You've been AWOL a lot.

Thanks Tim and Howell. Nothing I did fixed it; I finally went into my profile like Tim suggested and hosed a few files that had date stamps in the last couple of days. That fixed the problem, but it hosed my settings as well, and I had to do some work to get everything back the way it was last...

I had jiggered FF for the max viewable screen: Menu, location bar, navigation icons all in one row at the top. No google search box. I always used to go to Google's web site and then do my searches from there. Yesterday, I began to use Ctrl-K, which pops up a Google search window. When I...

Thanks, Tim. The price is certainly right, at $260. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeoow, horrible Reseller Ratings numbers: 0.85 lifetime from 1126 reviews, and 2.02 6-month from 73 reviews. You friend is a very brave man!

Howdy, young man.

Curiouser & curiouser. In looking for reviews of the F11, I found The Camera Box selling the F11 for $289. Their telephone # & prefix put them in Brooklyn (north). Their Reseller Ratings are decent too. Looks like they sell "import" models. aka gray market.

Tim: Please do, I'd be interested. Who cares about the 16MB card anyway! Price could be a problem, though. Groltz, man, you are awesome. I even did a Froogle search (but I fess, I didn't have too much patience with it). And you provide me a link to an authorized dealer in the US! $350 +...

This thread is getting funnier by the post! :lol:

'Cause it's not generally available; I'm on the left coast, and don't want to deal with shady gray-market operatives on the other coast.

Thanks Tim & Groltz. I guess the F11 needs to be written off. The F30 looks like it's "available" but not shipping from the usual suspects for ~$400. The buyer has a budget of $300 max and she wants it in two weeks or less. We'll see what plays out.

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I'll continue here instead of starting a third thread. What's the current greatest compact digicam? The Fuji F11 seems nowhere in sight. Canon's released new Elph models that are presumably better - I'm looking specifically at the SD600. The Panasonic FX-01 has image stabilization, but the CCD...

Dang! Doesn't say if you can read/write Mac data thru Windows with the drivers provided. If only one didn't need the Windows activation poop, this would have been a good way to get off the Windows treadmill.

I'd say the x1300 would position you best for the future. I know nothing about nVidia cards, though.

They are making a lame & feeble attempt to correct the problem. My kid's in 4th grade, and they teach her things in, um, American and International units. Problem is, there's no follow through; freeway and highway signs are marked only in miles, you still buy things in the store in American...

Item #1, P4 CPU, sold thanks to the miwacle that is Cwaigslist. (sorry Coug, my Elmer Fudd syndrome is flaring up again)

Kinda combative character.

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In this age of paranoia, when a fart in public can cause you to be arrested for endangering others, I think children should be educated as to the kind of games they can play outside the home. This country has lost it's sense of balance, fairness and justice after those events some summers ago...

Thanks, Steve. I needed that bit of cheer.

I'm just a tad off - INTJ when I took the test in 1989.

I’m clearing out my stuff. Note on shipping: I’ve found FedEx ground to be the cheapest; usually around $5. I’ve only shipped to the 48 contiguous states, so I don’t know about the other two and the territories...

Be careful what you say, young man. Ever watched someone who is awake/conscious die of CHF? Ain't pretty.

Awesome!

What's the highest rev-level known? Offhand there's Loius the XVI and Pope sumtin the 23rd, methinks.

That's why positive air pressure is important. When you have negative pressure (more air sucked out than is blowing in), air gets into the case from every crack and crevice, from every FDD and optical, every USB, FW and sound jack. With positive pressure, you control the entry points and can...

What is the matter with you people? Lack a fertile imagination? Maybe a book of baby names should be mandatory at all weddings and baby showers. I am especially confused by the Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV etc. business.

I do too, Groltz. That great guy who said "Only the paranoid survive" -- he learned it from me.

I belong to a different club; I guess you do as well, LM :o I do too. 98% of the time, I'm behind the camera, not in front of it. Not likely. It's saved on my hard disk along with photos of my family and friends. And will be backed up regularly. DD looks really cool. I can easily picture him...

Me too! The real Merc is way more good looking than his avatar. Thanks Merc. And there are two puddy tats in the background.

You probably won't like it for various reasons, but Lexar makes a cap-like player for the JumpDrive Sport, and it usually comes with a piddly JumpDrive Sport USB stick. Buy it (or the cap-player alone, which is sometimes available), and stick a 2GB JupmDrive Sport in there.

I guess I didn't clarify; I never tried using DI within Windows to work with external drives; never had a need. I did so badly want to write to external USB or FW external drives by booting the dos/floppy version of DI. I spent an enormous amount of time trying with the USB/FW DOS drivers that...

Ouch indeed. The Forbes guy just ripped them to shreds. If anybody here didn't visit Merc's first link, you're missing one big bellyache laughing your guts out.