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Thanks Mercutio.

I'm still using P3s on an AGP 1x/2x m/c. This is for another m/c - a P4 based one. I know the fans are evil, but I wonder if passviely cooled will pass muster. The only 9600Pro passivley cooled at Newegg right now is an ATI for $189! I'll look more into this. Thanks.

The 9550's are really attractive in that they're passively cooled. But the m/c may end up being used in hot environments and despite the downsides of failure, active cooling may be a better choice. On paper, the specs indicate the 9600XT has twice the performance. Since this is an AGP card, I...

HawkEye #2.

I need to procure a 1.5v 4x AGP video card. I'm somewhat familiar with Radeon GPUs, but totally ignorant of NVidia's GPUs. Budget is low - $90 or ideally less. I originally thought of 9550 based cards, which would have been ~$65 shipped. For about $25 more, I can double performance (I think) by...

I have bad eyes (I'm no Pradeep HawkEye), and I'm quite comfortable with 1024x768 on a 17" which I've been using since 04/1999. When I used to use a 19" at work, 1152x864 was quite fine. Lower res. on these would blow them up too much for me. So what is the amateur digital photgrapher to do...

Your pirate name is: Captain Morty Bonney Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Thanks, Merc. lask = lack Your = You're Sheesh.

Was that on a single core AMD, Handy?

RW: The lask of logic and clarity in your thought process is self-evident in your post. 1) Change your supplier. Your getting bad dope. 2) If you think we're morons here, you're one as well for visiting and posting.

Type in 'failure' in Google; the first link returned is quite appropriate.

That's in keeping with their habit of twisting and spinning the truth to their own ends.

'Twas the reason I made the post. You won't find ultra-cons saying anything about what happens in Nature. Goes against the concept of "Intelligent Design".

Shiver me timbers, mate!

Hmmm. I thought W2k supported neither hyperthreading nor multi-core CPUs, only real physical CPUs.

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Thanks Will & Merc. A couple of smaller programs I've tried installing actually borked, saying I didn't have .Net installed. needless to say I preferred to fogo installation at that time than install the bloat of .Net. nLite lets you download a few MB of stuff as a substitute for .Net, and...

Thanks, time. I think I'll stick with Syncback for now.

Article here comments on a NY Times report.

Interesting article on this topic. Summary: Apparently Right-Wingers are celebrating March of the Penguins 'cause the Penguins are monogamous for the season, and go to extraordinary lengths to save their young. But there are more documented cases of gay penguins than perhaps any other...

More and more sw seems to require it. I've not installed it so far, but looks like it'll be inevitable. Comments??!! I had the same question about WMV, but I guess it's been answered in the recent thread in the Pub on HD movie files with CityK, Merc, et. al. pitching in, so I'll stay away. TIA.

I've read good things about SyncToy as well (the one Bozo linked).

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Gee, thanks for the skewer, William, I guess I asked for it :wink: Well, first things first. Tannin, I updated (as much as I could) and ran in safe mode the following; keep in mind I only checked drive C, where the OS and all proggies are installed: AVG AV 7.0.344, defs dated 2005/09/16...

She's a beaut, jtr.

We pay again for the ineptitude of his royal screwball-dunceheaded-self-enriching-idiotness. What was that saying, again? An ounce of prevention.....

Sorry to hear that, Greg. Maybe she saw something, chased after it, and got lost? Is she old enough to want company? Maybe she'll come back after a liaison?

I didn't know you could run a 133 MHz bus chip on a 100 MHz bus; thought they wouldn't boot or sumtin. I'll be damned! BTW, I've been running dual 800/100 Coppermines on a BX board in Abit slotkets at 112 MHz = 896 MHz since 12/2000.

I have in the past, Tim. MS now has only the piddly small download for use with online install. Maybe someone knows where I can download the whole thing in one go. I'm sorry I haven't tried the other suggestions yet.

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You're wrong about this. Many Indo-European languages have better structure and grammar. That's why it's so bloody hard for one them to learn an illogical laguage like English. What other languages can you speak, Tannin?

Sechs, I already feel restless knowing that Win XP has a higher priority for M$ than W2k, now that W2k is on life support. The absence of SP5 makes reinstalling W2k a nightmare.

Runing W2k myself, I have the same questions. How good is support for Win2003 for "consumer" grade devices, Merc - video cards, USB, firewire, etc., things that normally wouldn't be thought of as important to a server? Considering most businesses are still using W2k, MS would use a...

It's a lost cause, Tannin. America is especially good at corrupting language. It has something to do with always taking the easy way out. (You can probably guess that I was educated elsewhere).

Did that too. I have a gazillion icons on my desktop, and they all get buggered when I run in safe mode and I have to rearrange them when I'm back in normal mode. IIRC there's a program somewhere on the web that saves the positions of the icons and restores them on boot; I'll have to find it...

Me too.

I'm shocked at you, Tannin. Poor Tea must be feeling really bad about this.

Thanks Tim and Tannin. IE has been buggered for months. My AdAware and Spybot scans (and Housecall, with their spyware scanning option) say my system is clean. I am, however, running Spywareblaster. My problems started after installing it, and integrating it with Spybot -- immunizing, running...

What's the big deal? A quarter of eight is two.

Firefox is my main browser, but I have to use IE for Windows update, Office Update etc. It's buggered enough that it doesn't even fully load pages at MS that FF can load in a flash. It's up to date. How can I fix it? (please, reformat/reinstall Win2k is not possible at this time). TIA.

Wonder if this can be slipstreamed into a W2k CD.

MS has (today) updated and re-released the Post-SP4 Security rollup for Win2k because Verison 1 contained bugs, including "a bug in restarting Windows 2000". I'm still reading the News.com article. It may be worthwhile installing this new version to see if the problem you have been battling will...

Tannin & Mubs: Founding Charter Members of the M.A.S.

"Quarter of 5" sounds really weird to me. Shouldn't it be "Quarter to 5"?

Some irritants here for Sechs.

Sir Tannin: Two suppositions back to back is defintely wrong. In this case, it would be better to say it like you have quoted it - putting the supposition immediately before each phrase instead of together in the front. But if you said "suppose we go out and the police stop us to make sure the...

I hope he know about the "phantom limb" phenomenon and its associated pain and such.

"If, suppose, you win the game, ......" or its twin, "Suppose, if we were to go out...". Redundancy. What I really detest is "goes". As in, when a conversation is being related, "He goes, 'When did you get here?' I go, 'Yesterday.' He goes, 'Why didn't you call me?' I go, 'I was too busy'" etc...

"I was at the ATM machine when you visited my home." ATM = Automated Teller Machine. So, "I was at the Automated Teller Machine machine when you visited my home."

Now you're really in trouble!