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  1. mubs

    Photography Advice

    On a related note, can somebody give a quick tip to a newbie? When I edit the JPGs my camera takes, I guess it's best to open the file, edit, and save as TIFF till all iterations of edits are done, then finally resave as JPG so the quality doesn't degrade with each save?
  2. mubs

    Photography Advice

    Merc, you've been pretty silent about your new camera. So has Pradeep with his D70. Comments and thoughts, gentlemen?
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    Budget graphics cards

    You were not shocked - the card worked. You're losing your flair for the pun, i. Well, I'm glad it worked for you. The Newegg link you provided does show "AGP 1X/2X/4X" in both the summary and detailed specs. Of course, one never knows of it will work till one plugs one in (let's see ya figger...
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    This is what happens when you run a red light

    Nasty, nasty. I'm glad the driver who was broadsided survived. A couple of years ago a driver in a Jeep Cherokee in Orange County, CA, wasn't so lucky. A large 2-axle construction truck loaded with gravel, going downhill too fast with lousy brakes, and the truck driver on narcotics, broke a...
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    I need a new TV

    How long are your antennae and what color are they? :lol:
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    Weird slowdown

    Seems fine now, Doug, thanks.
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    Suggestions for hooking up cable internet

    Glad you're up and running, jtr, and sorry I was away for a while. But I think i and Fushigi have you covered better than I could. Fast Internet access is like a narcotic. Once you have it, it'll be excruciating torture to go back to dial-up again.
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    External Firewire 800

    So I guess number of devices that can be addressed is the problem, not the storage capacity of the devices in total. Because NT class OSes don't use the BIOS, looks like the limitation is in the OS, not the BIOS. or maybe the hardware? What do you do on your machine that you need 3.5 - 4GB...
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    Weird slowdown

    Forums are slow this evening. Slow, but usable.
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    Suggestions for hooking up cable internet

    Shouldn't have anything to do with the card or drivers. The DHCP client has to be enabled. IIRC, you're running W98, right? In the TCP/IP properties for the network card, in the "IP Address" tab, make sure "Obtain IP Address Automatically" is selected. You may have to enter DNS information in...
  11. mubs

    External Firewire 800

    When you say "physical memory in an address region" do you mean number of drives or total storage capacity? If the latter, then replacing smaller drives with larger ones won't help, will it?
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    burnt SCA adapter 18.21Gb mdl#ST118202LC cheetah

    The common factors are the drives and the SCA adapters, right? Burning seems to indicate inability to withstand the power applied; probably starting current. I'd suspect the SCA adapters. Other members here could probably tell you which brand adapters they've used successfully.
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    Wireless SuperG PCI NICs

    I always wondered about that - with the PCI card constrained to a specific location, usually at the bottom, facing a wall, with a large metal chassis in front of it.
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    External Firewire 800

    LM: Talk to Handy. He'll sell you en EMC array at a discount. Pray explain why?
  15. mubs

    Budget graphics cards

    i, thank you so very much for that fantastically detailed post! I really, really appreciate the effort you put into it! While I could have googled and gone to AGP.org (or whatever it's called), I was sure I'd land into the same mess of FUBARred info you found. Hence my question to the August...
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    Budget graphics cards

    What's the deal on AGP speeds? Will a 4x/8x card throttle back in a 1x/2x motherboard? Some cards (especially Matrox) list all the speeds, like 1x/2x/4x/8x. Anybody know?
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    old tapes to CD

    Been wanting to do something like this myself, for a long time. I've done a couple, hooking up a cassette deck to my sound card. It is a painfully long, laborious, manual process. I wish there was a stand-alone unit with a cassette well and an integrated cd-burner. Pop in the cassette, a blank...
  18. mubs

    Hindsight and the obvious

    Meatbag? You've got your facts wrong, man! It's "bags of water".
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    Hindsight and the obvious

    Happens to all of us sometime or the other, Tannin. That's why we're human and not Borgs! :mrgrn:
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    Budget graphics cards

    This dude on pricewatch has the G450 bulk OEM for $29 shipped. Don't know about the vendor's rating, though.
  21. mubs

    Something Random

    Downloaded to my system. Unplayable. Too choppy. Ancient video card & processor.
  22. mubs

    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    The problem is that uninstalling 0.8 (that has extensions) is not enough; it leaves remnants that make 0.9 hiccup. A single line mentioning this in the 0.9 install instructions would have been enough. There are also things left behind in the registry that I cleaned by hand. FF is virtually...
  23. mubs

    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    Sorry to make an ass of myself. I figured it out by playing with the TabBrowser Extensions preferences. A bit non-intuitive, but all is well now.
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    Looking for a small Digital Camera

    We think alike, Greg!
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    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    I've reinstalled 0.9, and it is working (couldn't get 0.8 to work, no matter what). Merc, is TabBrowser Extensions working for you in 0.9? It appeared to get installed properly, but the context menu doesn't show the "open in new active tab", and whenever I say open in new tab, focus...
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    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    Buck, Thanks very much, that's very kind of you. But I did find the zip version of 0.8, and gave that a go. Same exact problem. So either 0.8 or 0.9 changed my system in some way that I cannot identify (Registry looks clean, relevant folders don't exist). The forums at mozilla have warnings...
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    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    Will, In my second post, I did say that I deleted my Mozilla and Phoenix folders. That includes the profile. After I uninstalled 0.9, I put my system back to "Firefox was never on this machine" state. My bookmarks are saved elsewhere, and I didn't care about prefs. Even now, technically, my...
  28. mubs

    Looking for a small Digital Camera

    OT: Merc, Chuck also has presence and at least some personality, which the subject alluded to in your sig doesn't.
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    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    Where's Merc when you need him? Shootin, 'um, interesting pictures with his new camera?
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    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    Why? Like I said, my folders are clean. My registry shows no traces of Mozilla or Phoenix or Firefix or Firebird.
  31. mubs

    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    What an utter, incredible piece of shit! I've been using 0.8 since it came out, and should have well left it alone. I uninstalled it, tried 0.9, didn't like it, uninstalled that, and now 0.8 won't work. It installs, and everytime it is run, hangs. Task manager shows CPU and Mem Usage rising...
  32. mubs

    [NEWS] - Firefox 0.9 out

    I too am using it now. Cannot seem to get TabBrowser Extensions to work right. The one feature I needed most doesn't seem to work. With FF 0.8, the context menu would show "open in new tab" (which opened in new tab but kept focus on current tab) and "open in new active tab" (which would move...
  33. mubs

    More new solar cells.

    Sharp is up to some tricks.
  34. mubs

    Hybrid Cars Overrated

    It's official. Too bloody bad.
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    Koalas

    chla·myd·i·a chla·myd·i·a [klə míddee ə] (plural chla·myd·i·as) n 1. MICROBIOLOGY pathogenic bacterium: a spherical bacterium that causes several eye and urogenital diseases in humans and other animals, and psittacosis in pet birds. Genus: Chlamydia 2. MED sexually transmitted...
  36. mubs

    Shredders

    In the Fellowes instance, Buck, the switch is a 3-way switch - center position is off, depress one way is forward (shred) and depress the other way is reverse, which spits out the accumulated crud between the teeth and if there is a paper jam, clears it. The reverse part of the switch is broken.
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    Shredders

    While the machines are rugged enough, the switches seem more prone to break. Back in the days when shredders were horribly expensive (~1997), I bought a small one that worked fine, but the switch went kaput after about 14 months of sporadic use. I bought a larger Fellowes cross-cut sometime in...
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    Budget graphics cards

    Buck seems to take after Henry Ford!
  39. mubs

    [NEWZ] Wait A While, Save a Lot Of Money (fLASH)

    I've wondered about that myself!
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    Fushigi @ 1000 posts

    Congrats, Sir Fushigi! Your posts have always been balanced and measured, and a must read.
  41. mubs

    Fugitive Wanted for Murder: Keep Your Eyes Open

    I'm glad for two things - they know who did it, and they have photos of the guy! Rest assured, unless he flees the country, he will be caught.
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    Koalas

    Humans are a sub-species of rabbits.
  43. mubs

    The JoJo @ 1000 posts

    Congrats from me as well, Jojo!
  44. mubs

    Got a new job !

    Glad for you! Are you on the "artistic design" side or the "engineer the artistic design" side (I suspect)?
  45. mubs

    Info on photo editing

    Just did. It doesn't.
  46. mubs

    Info on photo editing

    Thanks, Merc, great tip. Would be nice to use this as a stepping stone to upgrade to something better. If you buy PS Elements, But the Avery Digital Photo Paper * see here. Not sure if the Express version qualifies.
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    Why capital punishments is required for cop killers

    It's not just IT work. EKGs are sent there for diagnosis. Financial analysts there do the leg work for Wall Street analysts. Lawyers there do pre-trial discoveries etc. for cases here. I don't think it will ever stop; this "globalization" thing has structurally changed the economy. It's not...
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    Info on photo editing

    Thanks, Time, I'll check them out.
  49. mubs

    My new neighbor: The most evil man on earth

    Do you need an FCC licence for it? I bought a pair of GMRS walkie-talkies recently for next to nothing, and found out I need an FCC licence for them because they have a 5 mile radius (don't remember the watts). The licence costs $75. I returned the radios - just wasn't worth it. I believe the...
  50. mubs

    Info on photo editing

    Care to tell me how? I know there have been good deals recently, but I didn't need it then :)
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