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Going off on a tangent a bit: this flash thingie hit home for me, what with the Patriot Act, TSA, RFID, and big-brother and big-business in cahoots. I'm not into conspiracies, but there has been a gradual erosion of privacy over time on one pretext or another. Turn on the sound; that's where the...

Eye Massager. Shrimp, duck, etc. devices. Thumb drive (this one is kinda cute). Spaghetti USB cable.

jtr and i, you're both right. But speaking practically, jtr, what you're suggesting isn't going to happen in a hurry. i's suggestions have a better chance of coming to fruition in the shorter term, IMHO.

Bozo: Ask and you shall receive. There are also some other very pretty clock screensavers there.

Tony: what you said is a given. Absolutely, no doubt about it. But we've been asleep at the wheel when it comes to weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. I think this coal to oil is important simply because it will give us the time to transition to cleaner fuels. If there was nukillear conflict in...

My thoughts exactly! It is possible that he takes the easy way put with his web site but is a good designer/coder with his programming. The Iconize program was recommended, that's why I went there.

I found Foxit Reader for Windows; anybody know if it is any good?

Cool! Is an SWF, be forewarned. (no, not single white female, but Flash).

I came across this just now. The web page renders badly in Firefox. Try IE instead.

America's Energy Solution Is Right Under Us...Literally This guy claims coal can be converted into oil that burns cleaner than petroleum. If this is all true, I'm stunned that nothing's been done about it. The author does point out that it is still a fossil fuel, but it can at least be a...

Factory Farming Meets the Third World

I wish (see title of this thread). It's been 90+ the last few days and today the high is expected to be 99 F. At the end of September. Global warming or not, weather patterns sure have gone completely crazy all over this planet.

:frowner: :eekers: :erm:

Thanks, Sir Tannin.

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I'll re-phrase that for my own purposes: What is the highest capacity drive available in a 2-platter design (please, Maxtor, WD don't count). I ask because I'm so out of touch that I don't even know if 250 GB is available in a 2-platter design.

Hitachi Deskstar 500GB Serial ATA II HDD $333 at NewEgg.com. OEM.

Here's another Desktop Icon Layout Save/Restore program, freeware. If the mod Gods think this is useful perhaps it can be moved to the Toolbox section.

An Engineering student explains why he dropped out and became a lawyer instead. He points the finger at the Universities and faculty...

Yahoo! accused of hosting thousands of phishing sites. Anti-spam group Spamhaus says Yahoo! won't take them down... Yahoo Users Get Phished. Attackers use sophisticated new methods to tap users' IDs and passwords. A new phishing method is targeting Yahoo users by recording their user name and...

Tim, olde men like Tannin and me have earned the right to be crazy/cranky! :lol:

Eight-in-two! Awesome!

This "Firefox UI is, bluntly, a pile of crap. Mozilla eats it. " business is reminiscent of the Nvidia/ATI wars of yore :D

Tea: You download the excludes file and run it (it's an .exe, right?). It locates your Spybot install folder (usually Program Files\sumtinorother) and updates it. I have never been able to do an online update. Ever. Alwyas errors out with sumtinorother. I always download the includes file from...

Clarification for non-IT types: The connectors/jacks have to be rated for the desired speed; in fact everything in the entire path the data travels on. I learned that the hard way (a duh moment).

"I won't get into the synonyms for recumbent scat containers" Charlie Demerjian in The Inquirer, referring to a press release from HP after The Inquirer published a report that HP was abandoning the Itanium.

"The first law of holes is: When you're in one, stop digging." USA Today article on budget deficits.

Thanks, Dïscfärm. To my eyes, at 9300k, whites look white. I just cannot stand a lower color temp - on this monitor that I spend 99.99999% of my computer time on.

Thanks, Bozo.

China, India and Indonesia are PAL - #1, #2 and #4 in population. Together they can skew stats really, really badly. And don't say these countries are poor; the power of the medium is such that villages may not have drinking water or telephones, but there are television sets!

Onomatopoeic, thanks for the info. I don't have anything to calibrate with, other than visiting a website that has instructions to do so - like this one. If the card is just a few bucks, I'll buy it. I presume local photo shops (like Ritz Camera) would have it? I use an adjustable, dimmable...

I've been wondering the last few days as well.

Thank you, Merc, that helps a lot. I read some reviews of Virtual Drive 7 on Amazon, and think I will stay away. Apparently good product, but horrible company that cripples it at the slightest chance and zip, zilch, nada response to any inquiry made to them.

You don't know Tannin, do you, paugie? :wink:

I did have an older system that was replaced by this one. I took the Win-98 install from there and ported it over to the new hardware. That was kind of asking for trouble in and of itself. The W98 portion is intrinsically fragile, and I guess there is little that anyone can do about that; I'm...

Liar. There's tons of "I wrote" and other I isms in that article.

My 9-year old has a ton of games that are written to run on Win 3.1 / 95 / 98. She thinks they are games, but sneaky dad is trying to improve her math, language, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. The OS is Win 98SE. I've used CD-Anywhere ver. 1.0 (from V-Communications - the System...

Staples has Fuji Film 8x 30-Pack DVD+R or DVD-R Tower $9. Apparently Taiyo Yudens.

Glad you and yours are fine, Gary. :)

Tim, why are you still using TBE? Tab Mix is vastly superior and has no bugs (that I'm aware of). There's a "regular" one which I use, and another version on steroids. Just google Tabmix and you'll find both. Merc, I used adblock in the early days of FF and decided it didn't do much for me.

Teradata...Be prepared to lay out some serious cash. Things don't get any more "industrial-strength" than that.

Doesn't look like FF 1.0.7. I went to the Bourse de Montreal site and clicked half-a-dozen links at random (page to next page, etc.) and it didn't crash. The extensions I run are: Dom Inspector 1.0 ChromEdit 0.1.1.1 Tab Mix 0.2.2.3 netcrafttoolbar1.0.3.3 It also hasn't crashed on any of the...

Interesting Reuters News Story on Yahoo about Scorsese's two-part documentary on Bob Dylan to be aired Monday and Tuesday on PBS: "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan". Supposedly very good. Paramount has also released this as a double-DVD set. Guess it's a must for Dylan fans.

So, William, which database do you guys use to handle those gargantuan tables? AFAIK, there are only two gorillas out there, DB2 and Orcale. Sybase has been a has-been for far too long now.

Sheesh. Give the guy a break.

Yes I can, there's a menu option for it. Perhaps. What now? Thanks, Merc. But I'm a freak in many ways, and have been told that to my face by many people many times. :D

Thanks for the tip on color temps, Merc, I had forgotten about that setting in my display. Thanks for the info on the color calibrator, Pradeep. I was aware of the product, but it's something I simply can't afford at this time. Someday perhaps. When I did the calibration (online at JASC), my...

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana. Everything you buy from us, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, or anybody is going to be obsolete in 18 months, or end-of-lifed, or bought by Oracle." -- Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, September 21, 2005.

My display is a Viewsonic PT775. Pretty happy with it except for the size - only 17". Never mind. I've always run it at max contrast (100%) and zero brightness; it provides crisp, saturated colors and is easy on the eyes. Recently, some digital photos I took had a color cast on them - most...

William: they changed it between then and now. It had The Giver on the front page.