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Nah, the idiots who thought up the regions think we're in Europe, just below Deustchland and just above Italia :x :oops:

My wife (who works for Canon) has had a succession of printers that print CD labels. All of the Pixma range do it. The included utility (on the printer driver disk) is easy to use. Place CD in tray, place tray in slot—much like using the straight paper/card path on a laser—print! I initially...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/lsi-megaraid300-8x.html

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hannukah, Congratulations, and so on, and so forth. :beer: :b-day: :aok: :tgif: etc...

:lol: Good one!

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28517 :eekers:

Many thanks Mark

No, I do get what you are saying, I just don't agree with it for reasons I've outlined. I second what Tannin said in the post above, and especially about the increased (note the emphasis) spending on the WoT. I would add that there is probably room for some increase, but not the huge increases...

404. looks like they have taken it down :(

Greg, I believe that leaded glass (crystal) and dishwashers are a bad mix. The alkaline detergent does bad things to that particular type of glassware.

Deal announced today http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28482

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Ermm, I believe that Homeland Security estimated that terrorists are unlikely to have access to suitcase nukes. The only downside to this assertion is their track record of capability assessments. Far more likely is a dirty bomb, and/or biological agent, and this is less likely to kill...

Who is this Andrew K?

I think it has to do with: the seemingly accelerated erosion (of liberties) increased awareness of the capabilities of data matching, vis a vis IT systems colourful parallels with despotic regimes--Ausweispapiere gefallen! At the risk of invoking Godson's Law, Nazi Germany did not happen...

When you start feeling warm again, then worry :)

Thank you Tony, Doug. My god, where did all the Nutscrape users come from Doug (December)? And why do I always read K-Meleon as K-Melon? :mrgrn:

Could anyone here running a server post some usage numbers? I'm curious to see how FF/IE/Opera/Moz/et al are faring. Numbers from now/three months/six months would be even better

Heh! I get that way watching Babylon 5--Christopher Franke (who did the score) used to be in Tangerine Dream. I downloaded the trailers, my soon-to-be 5 year old daughter thinks it's cool and I wanted to see if it would be suitable for her--no, I don't think it will be, but the trailer makes...

Can't speak for the rest of the world, but here in the Antipodes, Kong opens today and Narnia not until the 26th. Fscking regions/Disney/MPIAA/NRA/White Supremecists/Jews/Muslims/Irish/Roman Catholics/Outsourcers/Big Business/Conservatives/Liberals/"Straight" guys seeing Brokeback...

ATi is not going to be happy. NVIDIA are trying to corner the low end of the market http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28331[/b]

No. I did read somewhere in my travels that there do seem to be some issues with ATA-6 (?? UDMA-133) and some revisions of NVIDIA chipsets I'll give that a try. Thanks Doug.

:eekers: You can't even buy a player yet! ANd given all the DRM crap they are trying to load it down with, hopefully you won't ever be able to. Anyhoo, 50GB luvin' is here... http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20051205220407.html

A friend decided they wanted a new computer during the week. So, specced it out and grabbed the bits. Was very explicit about getting a Samsung HDD (among others)—120GB PATA 8MB, because I couldn't find a SATA. Anyway, could not get this sucker to install XP. It would do the intial install...

Are you calling me simple?!!! :mrgrn: :eekers: :o If you'll pardon the pun, it takes time to read stories like K.V. There is no quick fix. Mind you, I've been toying with re-reading Gene Wolfe, so that might be suitable preparation...

Thanks Time

Yup!

I seem to recall someone posting on this board a link to why RAID is a "very bad idea". Anyone know of what I'm talking about?

Ah yes, "face". That cultural idiom that trained Japanese soldiers to shoot bow & arrow during WW2 because it was the Samurai way. Is face saving really that ingrained in Japanese culture?

Greg, I think you still have your names skew-if. In the stats, one is showing up as Gregory_Santilli while the other is showing as GregorySantilli (no underscore) apologies if you haven't gotten around to changing them.

You mean like Alice in Wonderland? :)

Most kind Kommandeur. Warning noted. Could you explain where I mixed the singular/plural? I spoke of Microsoft in the singular, but talked of the multiple bugs and fixes in its products.

Could it be a Codec problem? GSpot (small download) will tell you if you have the codecs on your system to play back a stream. If it says no, you can download all-in-one codec packs from a number of sites, www.free-codecs.com or something similar. I'm sure Mercutio will have more to say on...

Me either, though I may have been too young to appreciate his imagery. Had enough trouble with P. K. Dick. Mind you, I've only read Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle and The Gameplayers (sometimes called Sirens) of Titan, and that is as close to Enceladus as I want to get! Well not really...

It shouldn't be that hard in the first place. I aspire to write software that "good". I can't believe people get paid to write crap like that. Merc's encounter with "Tech Support" reminds me why I dislike Apple/Dell/HP/Microsoft et. al. Their "help" is not very helpful.

With two young ones, we don't get out much anymore. Saw The Constant Gardner yesterday. Powerful stuff. Lots of messages, but nothing too blatant--it allows you to make up your own mind. A good thriller. Rachel Weisz was brilliant, and if you only saw her in The Mummy, you'll be surprised...

Back on topic http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/budget-notebook.html

I forgot to add, Intel's behaviour with only running x87 or SSE code if a non-Intel CPU is detected is IMHO morally suspect. If they really want to keep their work for themselves, then they should probably require that software houses building software with the INtel compiler alert users to the...

Deliberately cripple. Hmmm. It is Intel's compiler after all, they can do what they want with it. The problem (as I understand it) is that no other compiler performs as well--but then Intel have invested $$$ in it, so they should reap the reward. See para 1 What compounds this, and I...

Almost makes you want to go out and buy Intel. :eekers: SteveC, Mercutio, Miksmi. Then the Tea Lady :lol:

Are you sure about that? Microsoft, by "bundling their security fixes into monthly roll-ups for user convenience", is also able to hide the number of vulnerabilities that have been exposed. 1 security patch != 1 "hole".

There's a difference? :eekers:

Careful Tony, that is borderline seditious--and the penalty for treason in this country is death, or it soon will be. :eekers:

I thought this was drummed into children. Admit your mistake, rectify it if possible, move on. To hide it is to be deceitful or criminal.

Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Bram Cohen, Shawn Fanning, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Linus Torvalds, Ben Goodger et. al. Nah, I don't think he is likely to get it.

Man I love this shit :D Everytime the browser wars are mentioned. Where's the popcorn? :mrgrn:

Or Canadian! :lol: Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Bill Cosby? Pet rocks--WTF? :eekers: I saw a news snippet a couple of years back where Elmo spoke to some members of the U.S. Senate--reminded me of Nero (the Roman Emporer, not Germanic software!) and his horse. They keep doing it. P.T Barnum was right. Vista will be a success, and...

Mark, I set the timeless option on both a few days ago. These WU were the first ones they started, and apart from not knowing how to stop a WU from completing, :oops: I didn't want to lose the production. It was luck that they completed--or will in the required time.

I just checked some WU out. It looks like it will take the P2 392--P2-350 on a 112MHz bus with 96MB RAM--14 or 15 days to do 1 WU--about twice the speed of your PPro 200 funnily enough. It took my P!!!-616 (it's actually a 733 running on a 112MHz bus) 7 days to do 1 work unit, so SSE must give...