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That's what you think. You're a terribly interesting guy, Gary. Oh, and I was referring to your various avatars. Performance aside, have large FAT32 partitions been reliable for you?

Stunningly beautiful pictures, Tony. And very articulate about the restorative powers of nature, too. Thank you for sharing!

Buck, as always, you're right on the money. I personally would hesitate to format a partition > 20GB as FAT32; NTFS would be my choice. But our multi-personality friend seems insistent on using FAT32, and I was trying to help. I would be velly, velly nervous formatting 300GB as FAT32. But since...

Wouldn't a prospective mate think the man is already "taken" when he's seen with other women? Wouldn't he be considered shallow/superficial if he were eager to dump his wingwoman for the new one (who doesn't know the first gal is a wingwoman)? I'm not into / good at this kind of thing, so I...

From the horse's (Microsoft's) mouth: The following table compares disk and file sizes possible with each file system. NTFS FAT FAT32 Recommended minimum volume size is Volumes from 512 MB...

This page from the PCGuide may be worth reading.

Jeez! I had no idea it takes that long. Then why does everybody say processors are "fast enough"?

There's a thread at the other place that rants about it; haven't read it myself. George Lucas is a fake

Macs do Star Wars dirty work

This is the usual BS that is supposed to be asked at interviews and performance reviews. Who the fricking hell really knows? You have to BS back. They know they're BSing, you know you're BSing, and everybody is happy. For some clarity on issues like this, visit Ask The Headhunter. I've been a...

Merc, is it okay to use DNS servers that don't belong to your own ISP? I'm surprised the big guys like Verizon don't block requests coming from outside their alloted IP range. Fushigi, thanks for the link to the DNS cache proggie. A while back I asked about this, but nobody seemed to know of a...

Strong teeth?

Nah, Sechs, I neither have the patience, nor the time nor the inclination to mess around with 3rd party FW. Mfr. FW is good enough for me. Incidentally, Staples has the same stuff for the same net prices, but with lower initial prices (and lower rebates). ClompUSA also now has the Belkin...

Thanks Boost, DD. Of the reviews I've read, more than half excoriate Belkin. I did install a Linksys WRT54g for somebody, and it has been working well. Hmmmmm.............

Another commentary: This election is about Rovism, and the outcome threatens to transform the U.S. into an ironfisted theocracy. We all have reason to be very, very afraid.

ClompUsa has the following on sale this week: Belkin F5D7230-4 802.11g Router $70 - $45 rebate = $25 Belkin F5D7000 802.11g Desktop Card $50 - $30 rebate = $20 Belkin F5D7010 802.11g Notebook Card $50 - $30 rebate = $20 Belkin F5D7050 802.11g USB Adapter $60 - $40 rebate = $20 Are these good...

Gee, Handy, no need to puke if you don't like it, just don't eat it. Cuisines get modified in America, and are not really authentic. Like pizza here, which is quite unlike the original in Italy. Sadly most Indian joints I've eaten in, the food has been average at best and the prices exorbitant...

Firefox smashes funding target

How about calling them HitachiBum?

Will, sorry, I've been disjointed today. It is a commentary on how the American people feel about intelligence/intellect, and about Kerry/Bush (don't read any correlations into how I phrased that).. Pradeep, if a combo doesn't work, click on the "This login didn't work" button on the same...

And where did you have this satisfying experience, Buck?

Many days ago, I filled out an online form at Acronis to send an inquiry to them about the features I was interested in. No reply so far. So much for the raving customer comments about their support. They don't even care to respond to pre-sale questions. I downloaded the user manual and went...

I know these subjects are not liked here, but for those interested (and concerned about America), Commentary in the L.A. Times. Registration is required, but you can get log ons from BugMeNot.com.

Readers pound on Nvidia's Sound Storm door

I've used and like MWSnap. Freeware. I think Buck is looking for something a little different; sorry to ruin the S/N ratio.

Maxburn said it all, Lunar. I don't think anybody makes PS2 mice anymore; at best they're USB with a working PS2 adapter. Most of Microsoft's mice come with the PS2 adapter, so you should be okay there. I'm using a MS USB mouse + PS2 adapter successfully in a KVM switch.

I don't think it's your KVM. Apparently some USB mice are strictly USB only. Examples are some models of Kensington and Logitech mice. I recently bought a Logitech that had a USB connector only, and no USB to PS2 adapter in the retail package. Wouldn't work on a PS2 port using a known good USB...

Happened to me for the first time (in a very long time). SF could not be found. From 15:40 to 18:30 PDST, 2004-10-18.

Bozo, Drive Image 2002 (aka Ver. 6) can create boot floppies from which you can make or restore an image. Booting from floppies, it will support on-board IDE CD readers/burners, but will not support I/O on DVDs, Firewire or USB devices. I've tried using Ghost 2003 FW/USB drivers (one at a time)...

Thanks for the feedback, Bozo. Helps to know 'G' works at least laterally thru steel. I really wouldn't expect it to work from first floor thru to the third, but how about the first floor to the second? Thanks!

Thanks, guys, I won't waste my moolah on Ghost. I'm interested only in imaging from bootable floppies / CD. Anybody know anything about Acronis True Image 7.0 or 8.0? Their product info is pretty poor on their web site.

I've tried long and hard and failed. Then in my web travels I found the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Works like a charm on many brands, even the known-to-be-fussy ones like Lexar Jumpdrives.

Any caveats? Does one spec work better than others -- A vs B vs G? It's hard to come by these structures in quake ridden CA, where we live in cardboard shacks :D . Those of you living in real houses on the Right Coast, please chime in!

How good is this thing? My reading of the product page at Symantec is that the new features over Ghost 2003 are: * NEW! Hot imaging - lets you create backup images without restarting Windows®. * NEW! Incremental backup updates save time and disk space. * NEW! Scheduled backups automatically...

QuickTime or Windows Media player required. Here.

If you buy a WD, Merc will hunt you down and kill you. (Sorry I have nothing useful to say about your question. But saving your life is important, eh?)

LiamC is correct. I have a duallie, and my system does not freeze for the reasons he mentions. However, if I open "My Computer" (or Win Explorer), the drive icons will not appear till the optical drive is read. So having a duallie does not fix the real problem, it only masks it. I have the same...

By Lawrence Lessig. Our Kids Are in Big Trouble.

I can't. It's not mine. This is a brand new m/c, Buck. I installed SpywareBlaster, Spybot, and Ad-Aware SE (the new one), with up-to-date def files, checked everything before I handed it off to the owner. The motherboard is based on an ALI chipset (Athlon 3000+). There may be something wrong...

One 3-year old desktop (that I custom built for somebody) and two recent-vintage HP notebooks are working fine after I installed SP2 on them. One new vomit desktop (CompCrap) is in the shithouse, with spontaneous reboots, constant IE/Firefox crashes, Word 2003 crashes etc. I don't know if it's...

No, no, it's easy. Just have more of those conversations / debates / arguments with all your different selves :lol:

Keep 'em coming, Merc! You're so knowledgeable in so many areas, it's amazing.

I was saddened to read about his passing. A courageous man, indeed. So sad that "Superman" had to die like this.

Best wishes, Howell. It'll be a major change, what with the language, culture, etc. It'll be a great learning as well as humbling experience. More people should do this - go live in a foreign country for a while. Does wonders for perspective. Grandpa out.

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You'd have to install the laptop on the punch card machine, not the other way around!

Lead Levels in Water Misrepresented Across U.S.

How do people here image a laptop that has no FW and at best, USB 1.1 on board? I've spent way too much time trying to get this to work (I'm sure nobody noticed, but I've been AWOL for several days) and am frustrated as hell. There's a site here that sells a DOS Cardbus F/W enabler (among...

If you're buying a DVD burner, wouldn't it make sense to buy a 16x dual-layer so it's future proof for a while? Yesterday Newegg had the NEC for ~$85 US.

Nope. Regular PCI is parallel technology, PCI-E is serial.