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  1. mubs

    Best Acrobat Reader

    I had 5.1 installed, and it was excruciatingly slow. 15 seconds to redraw a one page pdf ~ 420KB. I said redraw, as in if you scrolled all the way to the bottom. HW config: 2xP3-900, 1GB, Radeon 32MB (original). Switching to a Radeon 9000 w/64MB made no difference. You'd think the stupid thing...
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    Housing price growth is finally slowing down

    I've heard it both ways; some saying it's a bubble that will implode like the dot-com boom, some saying that careful analysis shows that it's not a bubble, but a sustained growth in demand. I've heard this from people in the industry - mortgage brokers, builders, real-estate analysts (on radio...
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    Swinging by to say hi

    The polite Mr. Russo and his wry sense of humor! Welcome!
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    Something Random

    I think you intended to post in the other thread, Buck. Anyway, the median home price in Los Angeles has hit $414k, a 33% jump from a year ago. Go figure.
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    Moving (Sucks)

    Congrats, Pradeep! See, crossing ones' toes does work.
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    [NEWS] - Seagate to let go 3000 workers

    No worries, Free, you were trying to help. That's what really counts, and what I really appreciate. I do have a habit of stirring up things here, though!
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    [NEWS] - Seagate to let go 3000 workers

    Thanks Mickey! That's very helpful to me. I continued to be ignorant despite Free's efforts to educate me :)
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    [NEWS] - Seagate to let go 3000 workers

    One of these days, you N. CA folks need to explain what you mean by East Bay, South Bay, Half-moon bay and all the other bays that we S. CA folks don't have a clue about.
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    Power Measure/Rating? Cost?

    Southern California Edison, which serves parts of LA and Orange Counties, is mandated to have some sort of mix with renewable sources thrown in. Don't know the exact ratios; a leaflet came in my last bill. Buck, being in the southern extremes of Orange county, is probably served by San Diego Gas...
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    What is Gonig On?

    I guess Gonig is off now.
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    Moving (Sucks)

    Congrats, Handruin! It's a great feeling to be living in your own place. It'll keep you busy, puttering about here and there!
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    Anybody here read this column?

    Shark Tank. Good for a few grins.
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    Power Measure/Rating? Cost?

    Tea, that's a very conscientious thing you folks are doing, and very laudable! Couldn't the turbines be made to emit a suitable noise that'd scare the birds and keep them away? Merc, the moitors will throttle down to a few watts (< 7) if they are in power saving mode, won't they?
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    Moving (Sucks)

    Been there, done that. One of my previous employers, who I had worked 5 years at and sweated blood for, decided to move to cut costs (sold their own building and moved to rented space). In between, there was a change of leadership. Promptly after we settled into the new place, the new leadership...
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    Moving (Sucks)

    Good luck, 'deep. I've got mah toes crossed as well!
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    [NEWS] - Seagate to let go 3000 workers

    Glad for you Free. Best wishes yto you, Mickey. If you're in the Lake Forest area you're close to both Buck and me, then. Unless you're up in N. CA.
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    Memorex Announces 16X / Dual Layer DVD Drives

    I believe so. Maybe Pradeep can give a better answer; he's the eggspert on these things.
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    Memorex Announces 16X / Dual Layer DVD Drives

    The Memorex D2 (D squared). In the past, Memorex has OEMmed reputable manufacturers like Plextor and Lite-on. Internal & External models. Single layer (4.7 GB) DVD+R discs at speeds up to 16X Double layer DVD+R discs at 2.4X DVD-R discs at 8X DVD+RW discs at 4X DVD-RW discs at 4X Buffer...
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    Getting Hard Drives out of Computers...

    The TOE. Computers are becoming more human - they're sprouting body parts now.
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    I had some visitors this morning...

    The Sheriff probably knew what the other bloke looked like. But tell me, they send out a notice to a criminal that they're coming to get him, ensuring he has enough time to disappear??
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    List of what all those process abbreviations are in Task Mgr

    Some good info here.
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    old tapes to CD

    :(
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    [NEWS] - The end of MBM

    Now, now, Gary!
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    Do we have an all-time hall of fame somewhere?

    I'm glad you're still around, Tony (i.e., didn't kill yourself or ended up in lockup because you killed him). :o
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    [NEWS] - The end of MBM

    You're most welcome, little one.
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    [NEWS] - The end of MBM

    Mother Board Monitor.
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    NAV

    In case anyone's interested, the story is here.
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    NAV

    This is not anything new, but does serve to remind that: a) Malicious types are way ahead of eveyone else in the game, and many are doing their work stealthily b) Most of us experienced folks use an alternative browser, unlike the hordes out there and c) we are more cautious in our surfing...
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    5400 RPM

    I love those debates Gary has with himself! :lol:
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    Survey on Moz extentions

    - DOM inspector - of course. - TabBrowserExtensions. Can't live without it. Nuttin else.
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    Suggestions for hooking up cable internet

    Once you try to go faster than standard Ethernet (10Mbps), things start to get fussy with wiring and connections. How you connect the wires to the jacks, and the wires to the RJ-45 plugs is really important. I'll assume you already know this and have done things right. Configuration (for the...
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    e_dawg @ 1000+

    Congrats, E_! Have always enjoyed your posts.
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    IDE and bad software are killing me...

    I doubt an app would go and change DMA settings. They just make calls to the OS which handles the I/O.
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    NAV

    Well, well, well. I've been running NAV for a few years and have always been clean. Like it has been said, no AV sw is perfect, but I may have some explanations for Tea's issues. I think NAV as AV sw is ok. What sucks really bad is Automatic LiveUpdate. In theory, when you're on the 'net, it's...
  35. mubs

    Computer Environment

    The immediate thing that comes to mind is dust. There's going to be plenty of that, with the attendant problems.
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    Finally….someone who broke ‘the code‘

    Cosby rips Black community again.
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    Something Random

    I thought the guy had real talent - it takes years of practice and dedication to be able to do what he does.
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    Infomercial for Prescott

    Did you see this one, Merc? It's actually a spoof by a third party, parodying the heat generated.
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    Infomercial for Prescott

    Here.
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    Some Nocona 64bit lovin, first impressions.

    Aha! That's why you need 3.5 GB, eh?!
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    [NEWS] - Nvidia goes for Nforce 4

    All my systems are still BX based 8)
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    New Firefox out

    Thanks, CityK!
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    New Firefox out

    SteveC, So you installed on top of 0.9 and had no problems??!! Did you have any extensions installed on 0.9? CityK, how did you install it? Uninstalled extensions then 0.9, and then installed 0.9.,x?
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    [NEWS] - Nvidia goes for Nforce 4

    Didn't Via have their share of crappy chipsets a couple of years ago? Data corruption with their IDE controllers, poor performance, buggy chipset drivers? I guess they've cleaned up their act, then?
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    Happy 1000th, David

    Congrats David! Here's to many more thousand posts...
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    Justified?

    Not in my eyes. I feel like you do, Clocker.
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    Newegg flash ads circumventing Flash Click to View?

    Thanks, CityK. No, there is no option in Netscrape Messenger to make it the default. In the past, I've uninstalled OE, but it's still there! It doesn't show up in the Add/Remove Programs screen; in the Add/Remove Windows Components screen, it's unchecked. But if I select "Send page..." from...
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    Photography Advice

    Thanks, Merc. Miksmi, thanks for the info. Hopefully I'm not dumb enough to overwrite the original! I always copy the folder that has the originals and work on the copy. My camera only does Jpegs or Tiffs. Tiffs are out of the question because with the media maxed out (Smartmedia, 128MB), I...
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    Newegg flash ads circumventing Flash Click to View?

    CityK, How do you tell the mail icon which your favorite maill app is? Brings up OE for me even though I use Netscape.
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    Getting Hard Drives out of Computers...

    ddrueding, I don't have any answers, but a suggestion: your question is very open-ended. It would help to know the application you have in mind (home, for a business, etc.), the volume of storage, budget, etc.
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