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What's the highest rev-level known? Offhand there's Loius the XVI and Pope sumtin the 23rd, methinks.

That's why positive air pressure is important. When you have negative pressure (more air sucked out than is blowing in), air gets into the case from every crack and crevice, from every FDD and optical, every USB, FW and sound jack. With positive pressure, you control the entry points and can...

What is the matter with you people? Lack a fertile imagination? Maybe a book of baby names should be mandatory at all weddings and baby showers. I am especially confused by the Mark I, Mark II, Mark III, Mark IV etc. business.

I do too, Groltz. That great guy who said "Only the paranoid survive" -- he learned it from me.

I belong to a different club; I guess you do as well, LM :o I do too. 98% of the time, I'm behind the camera, not in front of it. Not likely. It's saved on my hard disk along with photos of my family and friends. And will be backed up regularly. DD looks really cool. I can easily picture him...

Me too! The real Merc is way more good looking than his avatar. Thanks Merc. And there are two puddy tats in the background.

You probably won't like it for various reasons, but Lexar makes a cap-like player for the JumpDrive Sport, and it usually comes with a piddly JumpDrive Sport USB stick. Buy it (or the cap-player alone, which is sometimes available), and stick a 2GB JupmDrive Sport in there.

I guess I didn't clarify; I never tried using DI within Windows to work with external drives; never had a need. I did so badly want to write to external USB or FW external drives by booting the dos/floppy version of DI. I spent an enormous amount of time trying with the USB/FW DOS drivers that...

Ouch indeed. The Forbes guy just ripped them to shreds. If anybody here didn't visit Merc's first link, you're missing one big bellyache laughing your guts out.

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Many people have successfully done it by downloading a trial copy of Acronis True Image. I understand it works for 30 days. WRT to your wish in the other thread for 300GB in a laptop, I recently bought a HDD adapter for the UltraBay 2000 in my Thinkpad T23. Also bought a 100GB Sammy. Put the...

Do you need to do that for Daemon Tools ver. 4.03? (Latest ver AFAIK).

Daemon Tools is a well known freebie CD/DVD drive emulator. Virtual Drive is a for-pay emulator. Yuo might want to look for these two in CtlPnl/Add-Remove Progs. Daemon Tools recently released a new version that defeats most games' detection of emulators. But it does this by installing a driver...

Heck, if what you have does the job, why change it (this system I'm using is 5+ years old)? In your case Tannin, if the apps you need will run on OS/2, then I think it makes perfect sense to keep using OS/2. Unfortunately I never got to play with it. Someday it will become imperative to go to a...

Ack! That should read good news! Thanks to Buck for catching that; I need to use the preview rigorously.

XP must belong to the same category as ATI/NVidia :lol:. I'm not terribly fond of XP, but thought it wise to move to it when building a new system. 2k's a dead product in terms of support and future 3rd party software releases (for eg., Adobe Premiere runs only on XP). XP is faster on some ops...

Great news, Pradeep. You're a nice + smart + intelligent guy, I've no doubt you'll be moving up pretty fast. We'll wait for the goon news!

Sound advice from DD.

Doesn't a dual-xeon require the power company to trunk a special 2-guage cable from the generating plant to the point of use? Oh, I forgot, plus a 4-guage for the cooling equipment.

Doug's turning into a shrink. This experiment was part of his thesis.

Doug, were you looking for something like this?

FAH is fine for people that would leave their systems on 24/7 in any case. I have always been conscious of the needless power drain of leaving things on. When we're away on vacation, with the PC, TV, and everything else off except the refrigerator, the electricity bill falls to half. Not 10%...

I like Paugie's answer best - he had me in splits! I was going to make a point but Buck already did (your monitor settings, etc.) I'd say violet. To me purple is the non-yellow non-green smiley to the left of this text input box - the one with a key for the eyes. Lavender would be a very pale...

Fortunately nobody died, a few were injured, but IIRC not seriously. Many houses were destroyed. I thought they built their homes out of brick and cement there, not wood like we do in the Western U.S.

This thing is supposed to be pretty good for NF4 chips; just ignore the fancy stuff. It's a favorite of the NF4 owners at the DFI forums who remove the stock cooler, put AS5 and this thing on and get significant reductions in chipset temps.

Good article here; California proposing legislation.

Part of the reason for the rebellion against gloabalization in "third world" countries is because of issues like this. Western companies, many American, have tried to and in many cases succeeded, in patenting herbs, spices and plants that native people in those countries have used for millenia...

We're running phpBB, no? I came across this news item. Thought Doug should know in case he missed it.

So sorry to hear that Merc, that's awfully young to be having a problem like that. Early detection and aggressive treatment are key. I wish her speedy and complete healing.

This shouldn't be an issue if you're using the backplate / PCI bracket (bottom right in the pic); the cable from that would be plugged in once into the onboard SATA port and left there, and the external SATA device would then be plugged in and out of the port on the outside of the bracket, which...

I know I'm a wee bit late, Doug, but I'm seriously looking to buy one of these from Newegg; seems to be a quality enclosure for a decent price. Info on eSata is sorely lacking; I'm presuming and hoping that I can plug in the PCI bracket's cable into an onboard SATA port and it'll work ok. The...

I just stumbled across this at PC World.

Aaaaaw, Billy boy beat me to it.

Jobs a plenty! Glad to see that. I'm willing to move and can't program in Java. Any takers?

Great job, Doug! I wonder at what distance I'll pass out. I'm just an extension of my chair. Sorry about your tyre. Flats are so rare these days, there has to be a man-made cause for them. If the tyres on the car are replacements, didn't you get the hazard warranty when you bought them?

I stopped reading there too. Poor writing is rampant these days. When I was a kid growing up, we were told in school to read the newspaper everyday to improve our language skills; there was no question at all about the quality of writing in a newspaper. These days there are stories that I...

Thanks everybody. As paugie said in the other thread, this is my most favorite forum. Strike that, it's the only forum I go to. It's all the great people here, and thanks to Doug for making it happen. Y'all are like family.

Self-replicating RFID virus created in lab as proof of concept. Now your "smart passport" can not only be hacked, I gues you can get a free sex-change as well.

Thank you, Bartnder and Buck; I think it's fitting that my 2000th is a thanks to your thoughtfulness and kindness. You're both gentlemen, and I really value what you have to say. Drinks for everybody!

Hear, hear!

Thanks DD. I asked because I thought there was a limit on the # worksheets. Checking Excel 2003, I see that "Sheest in a workbook: Limited by available memory". I'm amazed.

The "intellectuals" at Berkely defeated the kids at the University for Spoiled Children!

So 1300 sheets???

Hi NRG, nice opening post after the long hiatus!

Aaah, don't you just love a challenge?! Glad you made it through your first day without any case modifications, Coug! Way to go!

Well said, Howell (except for the "No one is irredeemable" part; I'm not sure about that :o).

Absolutely gorgeous! I can imagine the rolling hills around Buck's place; it must be even more beautiful.

While I've slowed down in the last 6 months, you'll notice most of my P&B posts are controverisal in nature. That's because I feel strongly about those subjects, and also because I want a healthy debate on the issues. I don't do this because I'm a troll (which I ain't), but because issues need...

I honestly think that for the purpose of WinUpdate, it's better to keep IE around. You never know when MS might make a change and this 3rd party tool will break. Besides it feeds my paranoia - I don't trust unknown sw easily. I will pass.

Yeah, it was! I hope the audio wasn't dubbed in after the scanner was made to make matching movements. Back in the early '80s when I got started in the IT industry, one story older co-workers told me was this: the data center housed IBM 1401 mainframes that used core memory. In those days, I...