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You know, Fushigi, you can have most of these and still be stuck in the mud. I easily have #1, #3 and #5 (as does most everybody at SF). My nose is quite large, and functions pretty well; I've always seen the writing on the wall much sooner than anybody else, but have always had difficulty...

* Sigh * Deep problems, experienced universally, for which there are no easy answers. After several thousand years, you'd think humans would have figured all these things out and nurtured and guided young ones in society to become bright, fulfilled, happy, people. Based on personality, traits...

Well, well, I was replying and got locked out. Adcadet, did you have a swap partition on the IDE drive(s)? If you did, hook it up, boot to PartitionMagic floppys and delete that partition. Nothing else makes sense to me now.

Please, no wisecracks. That's not why I made this post initially - to poke fun, but out of concern. IIRC, his typing skills were quite good before the SR DB crash. I'm also wonder why he doesn't spell check and or do a preview.

Just you wait till the elections, Coug. The pain is deep and wide throughout America. I'll bet that Mr. Bush will be a one-trick pony like his dad.

No, no, no, in no way was I referring to anything other than his typing! He's always been such a sweet, helpful person. I was concerned about his typing. We all make a typo or two, but many of his recent posts seem to be like this one. I just hope he's all right.

Darn double post. Sorry.

Why does Eric (EBB) slur so bad these days -- I hope he's ok. His latest post at SR: IIRC, he was quite fine before the big DB crash there.

Pity. Reminds me of the song rowdy classmates used to sing, back in middle school. Diana, Diana, show me your leg A yard above the knee .....

Search Pricewatch for "ATI VIVO"; there's a ton of choices starting at $49. The real issues are, do you want a "built by ATI" card; do you want a retail version? Do you want a native DVI port on it (I would; and I mean a real DVI port, not a converter for the VGA port)?

Thanks, Howell. Maybe the sequence in which you perform the operations has a bearing on what happens. I couldn't understand why the footer was not getting replicated on each page of the chapter. I wasn't about to cut and paste it 88 times (total number of pages in the entire document...

Ouch! Hope it's nothing serious. Get well soon, fella.

Serves you right. Didn't you try to find Tea on your way back? Just let the little one go off even though she didn't know better? Just left her in the tree and left there by yourself? SHAME ON YOU!!

I am amazed that so many of us share so many similarities WRT our careers. When a person like Merc can't get hired, you know something is terribly wrong with corporate America. My own career has been extremely rocky. Not of my own making. I do all the due diligence one can, everything looks...

Welcome back, Philosopher-in-Residence! You were sorely missed! :salut:

Congrats, JoJo! Gee, when it rains it piurs! First Adcadet, then a surprise from pradeep, and now JoJo! May your lives be filled with happiness, good heakth and prosperity!

Absolutely! Being right about being confused is better than being wrong about being right, isn't it? :mrgrn: I can easily understand the struck object/creature going through the windshield; my confusion was related to the damage to the vehicle's roof.

It appears I don't communicate well; only Merc and his Word Wiz understood my problem. Merc himself tried to solve my problem before passing it on to his Wiz, who said I had done everything right, except I was not executing the very last step. In my mind, Word should have automatically done...

Thanks, Steve! So I was right to be confused after all.

I stumbled across this page; scroll down to the middle with the insurance pics. How did the animal cause so much damage to the roof of the vehicle?? When a vehicle hits the animal, shouldn't the front of the vehicle sustain the most damage? It almost looks like the creature fell from an overpass...

PDF995. It's free for personal use; but will open a browser window each time you use it unless you pay for it (pretty inexpensive). IIRC, I checked out a few free ones before settling on this one. It uses GhostScript in the background; you can download a single combined program that does...

Hedda, thanks for helping, and welcome! You're right, and this is well documented in the help (the way I've learned most everything I know about desktop progs). But I had crossed this stage, as you can tell from the first post in this thread. I couldn't figure out why Word was not repeating the...

There are plug-ins, but I don't know any that are free. Yo can, however, get a free printer-driver, and print anything to it, and it will create a flawless pdf file. Let me know if you want details, I'll look it up for you.

Interesting read. I think it's Merc's pal - the same gal who wrote the "True Porn Clerk Stories" that he provided a link to in a post some time ago.

Not until you don't know a fart from a burp. Not until you fart and burp at the same time. So don't feel bad, old chap.

I only use Word (a lot) and Excel (some). For these, IMHO, Office 2000 is the best release - the most stable, the easiest to use, and the most intuitive (once you set the options correctly). Unless there is a whole new paradigm for the GUI (there are some innovative ones out there; and not from...

For Merc (or anybody for that matter) to become a Wizened Sage, they'll have to grow a long white beard first. That applies to members of the fairer sex too.

Yikes! Wrong thread! Sorry!

All Greek and Latin to me, and I speak neither.

"purple boxes" - then that must be the Barney brand. My Irish friend told me this one. Out in rural Ireland, a farmer was going to go into town. He asked his neighbor, who was fixing his old vehicle, if wanted something from town. So the neighbor said, "Yeah, get me a fan-belt for a blue van".

Gee. I'm typing impaired. Bite. That should be bite. On those rare ocassions when I watch TV (usually to make my daughter happy), I think on Discover or Animal Planet they said that Koalas are the only animals (besides humans, of course) that rape. The male will rape a female even when she is...

Puhleeeze! Let this not become an HTPC thread!

I believe more and more towns are doing the same. Aah! Some sense is sinking in at last.

Firewire cards for $8! - what brand, and where?

And have some time to go for a walk.............

A truly talented guy!

No need to be your usual gentle self, Handruin. They're actually a nightmare to deal with. Initially, a business thinks, "we'll get big selling to WM". Then over time, WM becomes their biggest customer, and then often, their only customer. That's when WM makes them sing the high notes. I read...

Naw. I think she can bit back real good.

Sir Merc: I am not fond of WalMart either. But you grossly underestimate the beast. Notwithstanding everything Buck and you have said, the beast is unstoppable. Like the Borg, everything in its path will be assimilated. Someday, they'll be too big, and assuming the politicians (note I didn't...

Watch out, Dell, HP!

Thanks for the confirmation, Howell! Vhy? You talk like that? Seriously, I don't want to make fun of anybody. I just think that accent is cute sometimes. Like in Germany, Web address are like vvv.storageforum.net. Like "Mawy Mawy, quite contwawy". Like East Indians who mix ws and vs, saying...

Gee, that was awesome - thanks, Howell! You're the best! The first link (dvdrhelp.com) seems to have a wealth of info. I'll try it out this weekend and post here. Thanks again.

Somebody with cash to spare ought to try this.

Tventy-vun views and nary a comment. Hmmm......

Ol Merc seems to have an ant in his pants...and he can be a mighty stubborn lad too.

dd, I haven't tried it yet :oops: (hangs head in shame). People may laugh at me, but I usually use EZ CD Cremator for my burning needs. You see, I'm too lazy to experiment (at my age, I've done enough of that), so I use whatever works for me. I have Nero installed on my W98 boot (I triple boot...

I want to "bust" a system recovery CD, update the OS to the latest service pack, update the drivers, and then burn it. I've never worked with ISO files. Which tool would be best? WinISO is the first to come to mind. Any recommendations, comments, practical experience with this and like tools...

What do you use then, Merc?

Don't tell me there's a jumper on the card....