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Intel DID have a facility in Oregon where the Willamette (P4) was designed. I know because my cousin worked for them there. He left them in 2001 or 2002, and I don't know if they still have that facility.

Some distributors will do the logistics work for high-volume retailers. That's how Buy.com got started; never held any stock. The items ordered on buy.com were shipped directly from Merisel or another distributor direct to the buyer. This eliminates one layer/transaction.

Awesome! So who says bugs are filthy? They have a bath everyday even before most of us! And in really fresh water!

Yeah. I also read some reviews that say integration with MS Exchange isn't very good (a dealbreaker for me) and that the Contacts app is a joke (another dealbreaker). Methinks me'll wait and see.

Looks like the Droid is being released here as the "Milestone", running Android 2.1. Price is ~ $615. Should I buy it ? :) It's cheaper than the HTC HD2 by $135!

My, we like to live dangerously, don't we :cooler:

LM, if the drive will be in an external case, the advanced format will not be an issue. If you're going to use it internally and re using XP, you can run an align utility to fix the issue.

There is a God!

Interesting reading: End the War on Fat. It could be making us sicker. Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch?

One dentist I went to said hard bristles should be outlawed by the FDA. He said to only buy the soft-bristled ones. But using those, after 3 days, it feels like you never brushed; the clean feeling just isn't there.

Thanks for the feedback, Pradeep. In other news, the HTC Evo 4G has won the Best Phone at CTIA awardfrom CNet.

I think not; I've used TabMixPlus for eons, so I don't remember. This is a really useful add-on; I wouldn't have liked Firefox as much if this wasn't available. If you want my TMP settings, I'll post it.

Why don't you just get a $30 heater for the cat?

In Firefox, I have it set up so each tab has its own close X, and there is also the X at upper right in a static place. I use whichever makes sense. It would bother me not to have both options.

Didn't Opera change their CEO a while back? Remember reading about it somewhere.

I third SyncBack.

I fourth the decision. Been using Truecrypt since Fall 2007 with nary a problem. Between TC and SyncBack, I'm happy. I use Serpent for encryption and Whirlpool for the hash.

I read somewhere that the 4k sectors will not be a problem on external drives (accessed via FW, USB, etc).

Why???? Are your teeth in such bad shape?

The HTC Evo 4G is basically supposed to be the HTC HD2 running Android instead of WM 6.5 along with minor hw changes. Incidentally, the HD2 is available at T-Mobile; $200 with a 2-year contract, $450 without a contract. That's an attractive price.

My new drives have been tested, installed, partitioned and formatted. Copying data back to them from the external. I did try to install the hotfix I posted about earlier, but my system said it was already installed (from SP3, I guess). But the registry didn't have the entries mentioned in the...

Lunar seems to be following in Coug's footsteps :cheese:

I have bad sectors on the source drives, and I don't know if that has anything to do with these speeds. I did find an MS hotfix for FW performance in XP SP2: KB885222. Don't know if it'll help. I suspect it can't be the WD drive itself; if a drive has a capacity of 1 TB, it's fairly recent...

Thanks guys. Since I need a FW-800 port to FW-400 port cable, I don't have another one to test the speeds with. I actually will be very happy if get 40 MB/s sustained! Perhaps it is indeed the crappy onboard FW chip in the WD external. Beats me though why they would advertise it that way and...

Sorry for the long post. Thanks, Howell. I already have a FW-400 card. Story is, my internal drives are dying (both of them). It's partly my fault because I haven't cleaned my machine in some time, and the last time I took out the dirty air intake filter, I didn't have a replacement handy and...

Had no idea you were that old...

No good reviews anywhere. I'll be using it now in an XP-32 SP2 system, and later in a Win7-64 system. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Thanks, Lunar, but I can't spend that much again for a while! The setup I have now already cost a pretty bundle...

The collar's too tight for the bloke.

Is your electrical power clean? I've had really bizarre problems that went away immediately after putting in a quality surge/noise suppressor.

Congrats, David. You're a fixture here, that's for sure. Your posts are always interesting to read.

Sun fended off Apple, Microsoft IP lawsuit threats

Thanks Handy - you make this community possible! For a reticent guy like me to have 3k posts says a lot about the people on this forum! Thanks everybody; I am honored to be here.

Thanks guys. The brids are nesting atop a 40-45 foot tall tree that has a huge canopy. I see them only because I am on the top floor of my apartment building, about 35-40 feet up. I'm pretty sure they are not visible from the ground. Every building between me and them is much shorter; that's how...

Finally got to see Avatar on Saturday; it's been impossible to get tickets for the weekends, and I can't go on weekdays. I felt Cameron has borrowed from a lot of other movies and stories (Matrix, Alien, Potter, Dances w/ Wolves, etc.) but the treatment, artwork, CGI and cinematography were...

There are migratory birds that are nesting in some trees about 500 feet away (that's a bad guess). I tried my 70-200mm, but it's reach is still too short. Longer full-frame Nikkors seem too expensive for now. I certainly would like to get one eventually to shoot wildlife, etc.

Let us know how you like them after some use.

Thanks Pradeep. Now the question is whether to stay with a "proven" OS (WM 6.5) for the next few years or gamble on a new one, WM7. I guess the prudent will wait and see!

What clock speeds are the Gulftowns likely to have? As discussed much before, clock speed is still more important for some apps than having multiple cores.

I have read the reviews and was interested initially. That is supposed to be a geek phone - guess that makes you one ;-) With Nokia hitching its wagon to Intel's and merging Maemo with Moblin, the future, IMHO, for Linux-based Nokias is uncertain. I wouldn't want to bet a lot of bucks on what...

You can get the real thing as well, you know.

+1 I wanted to make a smart aleck comment, but remembered that Merc is the Cat Whisperer.

You're right, from my experience. But why is it so? How hard is it to make a charging circuit that bypasses the battery if on AC? Sheesh.

To LDCs - Less developed countries - China, etc. eWaste is becoming a serious problem because they contain toxics like mercury, lead etc. and if not recycled properly, that stuff leaches into the ground and groundwater. More responsible corporates have recycling programs; here in India, Nokia...

Might those programs that recover photos from camera media cards help?

I felt likewise, but I lack the subtlety of Coug, so I kept silent :drl:

I moved to India in 2006, so yes, I'm still there. Agreed, $800 is a lot of money. None of the carriers here subsidizes cell phones. Will Win 7 be worth it? There is a huge online community that releases "fixed" versions of Win Mobile 6.5 for various phones. My understanding is that MS is...

A colleague has the HTC Touch Pro and is an avid WM fan. He's of course upgraded his WM 6.1 to WM 6.5.x by downloading the firmware from enthusiast hacker sites. A couple of days ago he showed me Android on it; I was shocked to see he had abandoned WM. Then he grins and says he's dual booting...

I tried Handbrake a few months ago and it took ages to extract a 5-minute chapter from a DVD. I was so disheartened that I haven't tried it since. Machine is an Amd64 X2 4400+ (2.2 GHz) with 2GB RAM, WinXP SP3 32-bit. I am now finding that when I am viewing pictures taken with a 12MP camera, it...

I'm ogling the HTC HD2 with WM 6.5.x over here. It'll cost ~ $800 (none of the carriers here subsidizes handsets). There are rumors that the HTC HD3 will be out Oct. 2010 with WM 7 and very high-end specs. Maybe I should wait for that.