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Pradeep wrote: Dell does not seem to have the 20" 2000FP listed anymore. Wonder if that's because it's being replaced? They wouldn't pull it off the web site if it was just out of stock...

Discfarm, Fortunately, my Stinkpad does not have the "eraser-screen" problem; maybe they fixed it on my model (it's 1.5 years old). Other than the too-high-rez-for-screen-size problem, it's a pretty darn good m/c. I bought it because it was one of the first noteooks to support 1GB Ram. I was...

Blake, yes you're weird, or I am. I can notice flicker on a CRT at 75Hz, believe it or not. Every place I work, one of my conditions is a top quality monitor, or I ain't working there. I'm fine with an LCD at 60Hz. For the past 3.5 years, I've been using and continue to use a Viewsonic PT775 at...

A trip down memory lane! Thanks, Handruin. IIRC, that was in the days of the Maxtor Plus 2500; I bought one, my first 7200 RPM drive, after reading SR's review, and it is still running in one of my machines (my daughter's edutainment PC?). Coug, IIRC, the second look had a fairly short life...

In addition to the pros and cons of LCDs mentioned earlier, nobody's mentioned a critical one: the inability to render decently at any resoulution other than the native. As I mentioned in another thread here, I'm half blind now from looking at my IBM Stinkpad for a year--it's a 14.1" LCD with a...

Bozo, it works the other way too :wink: A long time ago, far away, I worked at a place where the warehouse manager would constantly pester me for a "latest, fastest, with big monitor" PC. Those were the days when the 486 reigned, and the Pentium had just come out. The funny thing is, he was...

Considering that : * new equipment is usually: faster, has higher resolution, is smaller and quieter * office staff tend to print more * factory staff tend to be rougher with equipment (handling, grease, oil, etc.) the current policy would make sense. I've advocated this kind of policy and have...

Handruin, Looks like your case is an Antec SX1030 or one of its numerous variants. I have the same case. I didn't like the screw holes in the removable drive cages, so I drilled my own. I have two drives in the lower cage like you do, but there is now equal space above and below each drive...

From the first link: How it actually turns out is anybody's guess, of course. But we can hope and be greedy, can we not? :mrgrn:

I've been in the U.S. 17 years, and have never seen a $2 bill. If i hadn't posted the link to the Bureau of Engraving, I'd never have believed it really exists......

Here.

Thank you, Doug, and all the others that made this site possible and keep it going! It means a lot to be able to spend time with quality folks like yourselves. m

The worst thing is when a company announces it's met earnings targets, but will still have an x% RIF. I think the only way to solve this issue is for Wall Street to back off from "how much didi you make in the last two hours" short-sightedness. But that ain't gonna happen, is it? In that sense...

I'm really glad for you! These days, competence, ability et. al. seem to matter little; we might as well be branded with a 10-digit number on the forehead. I find this amazing -- your CIO is a member of a near extinct species! In this age of greedy executive management, it's reassuring to know...

Never mind! I think I'm getting too old.

Duh! I asked for that, didn't I? Now about the autologin....

And, How do I turn on autologin? Couldn't find it in my profile settings. How do you guys get that blank space after the last line of your post? When I hit submit it seems to filter out blank lines and plain CRs from both the message and my sig. Thanks!

1) I went from Netscape 4.x (still use it for mail) to IE 5.5 for browsing, and am now trying out Mozilla. One thing I use a l-o-t in IE is the toolbar; I've stuck the copy & paste icons on it. I switch between browser windows, copying & pasting URLs and web page content. Is there a way I can...

Thanks, merc!

"typing like amd" ? Gott take my mind off those damn chips! typing away like mad.

merc: I do walk away sometimes, and no, I am not auto-looged on. For the two posts I lost, I was right at the PC, typing away like amd and then hitting the submit button. Aaaaaah! You're brilliant, Merc! I just checked my SF cookies, and yes, they're all set to expire today at various times...

:( Second time it's happened to me! I log in, type a long reply, and hit submit, and end up seeing the login screen again! Looks like this is a time out issue? Or maybe switching to another instance of the browser (IE 5.5) while in the midst of the typing? Maybe I should clear the channel...

Cripes! Life has gotten so complex, has it not? I used to know most chipsets quite well, then about 2 years ago, I completely, completely lost it, especially with Intel & Via chipsets. Don't have a clue now. :evil: My trusty ole BX based dual is chugging along nicely, thank you! When the...

Yes. With the cows.

Thanks, merc. And yo, Tannin, no offence meant!

Tannin, man, you're demented :mrgrn:! Kill! Kill! Kill 'em browser beasts! Seriously, how do you switch between tabs? Clicking vide de moose is too painful; I just prefer opening in a new vindow so I can Alt-Tab fast. I must confess, though, that I haven't spent too much time trying to learn...

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/chimpculture030102.html :D

Well, at the time I bought the retail box, the only OEM versions I could find were 2002. Maybe they're in the channel now...

Got a letter today. Was mailed on Dec. 31. :-? "You recently requested a Not For Resale version of Norton Systemworks 2003 Professional Edition in response to a message that was either sent to you via e-mail or posted on the Internet. The message that you responded to was sent by Symantec a...

I'll check, Blake. But normally, a fan powering off and on should just cause a change in the humming noise. The sounds I hear tell me something is wrong--maybe a bearing is sticking or giving out.

Bizarre things happen if you're a little bit out of spec! Is your cable length ok? For low-speed devices, max is 9.5 ft, for hi-speed devides, max is 15 ft. These can be doubled if you stick a powered hub in-between. I believe the maximum "hops" or tiers of hubs you can have is 5. The other...

Thanks for responding! John: The duration of the noise ranges from 0.5 secs to a max of 1.5 secs, and I haven't noticed any drag on performance. Nothin's changed, power requirement wise; of course, a cap could have died in the power supply, causing this problem. I don't hear any of the...

Yes, really. It started to happen after I made a small change a few days ago. I have 2 HDDs (a WD 80GB JB, and a Quantum FB+LM 30GB), each the master (and sole) drive on it's own channel on a Promise Ultra 100. The opticals are on the MB IDE ports. I had the HDDs connected to the center...

Really? I didn't know they were that hard; they've always looked soft and chewy to me....

That's from the MS KB article. A ratio of 2kb required per 1MB of file size shouldn't be causing this problem in your case; a 744MB file should require 1.5MB RAM. I'm failing to see how this could be causing the problem in your case.

It's amazing how many people had a difficult 2001 & 2002. I did too....... Lets hope the new year will be better. Here's wishing everyone lotsa happiness, good health and prosperity. And for Tea, something extra: all the tree-ripened, sweet, aromatic bananas from all over the world that she...

I was looking for similar stuff yesterday; try PriceGrabber. You'll get many pages of results but since most items have thumbnail pics of 'em, you can scan them pretty quickly. I saw several Antec EasyUSB type bay adapters with 4 & 8 USB ports.

Yup, Blake, USB sucks. USB's coming up with the "P2P without the need for a host" concept; it's called "USB To Go" or something like that. If only Apple hadn't tried to charge the royalty they did, USB wouldn't have had a chance. Unfortunately many mfrs. still don't put FW in their machines...

Yikes, I forgot price info. Aten switch model US401: $30 IOGear Active Extension cable 15': $30 APC USB 2.0 3 ft Device cable: $5.49 PCCables sells a 15' active extension cable for $15; USB 2.0 device cables are $2.29 for 3 ft and $1.99 for 18". :D

All right, folks! I'll cut to the chase: everything woiks like I had wanted it to! And John/Blake: Have you ever used ICS with AOL?? Not a trivial task, if you can get it to work at all. We can go into gory details if you wish, but I'll spare everybody else the pain. After much reflection...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaarrgh!!!! I logged in and typed a 1000000 word reply and hit preview and it cleared the screen and asked me to login again!!! I have to run now; will come back later. Sorry.

Yes Cliptin, I tried that, didn't help. Besides, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having a switch? Blake, I paid $30 for the switch that didn't work (no grins, please, that was a Belkin); KVM's that support USB seem to be at least a couple of hundred! John, ICS is fine, but the ISP here is...

Blake, I'm a little confused about the USB KVM suggestion. I'm not sharing keyboards or mice; not sure how a KVM would fit in my scenario. John, if I had only printers, that's the route I would have taken--far cheaper and easier. The difficulty is in sharing the USB DSL modem (AOL!!!) and the...

Howdy Doody! I need advice from the wise folks here. :D I have to share a bunch of USB peripherals between a PC and a notebook that will come and go. The peripherals were all directly on the PC originally. These include USB DSL modem, an Epson inkjet with a factory USB interface, an HPLJ 4ML...

Like we already didn't have enough to worry about. Read more at The Inquirer.

Ha ha, you're funny, Cliptin! :wink:

Check out http://www.batterysupply.com/ for rechargebales.

Thanks for the reply, Pradeep. As Blake said earlier, but that seems to vary greatly by person. How you can stand UXGA on a 15" I don't know. SXGA+ on my 14.1" Thinkpad consistently gave me homicidal thoughts. Blake, that exactly is the problem with LCDs. When designed & manufactured, there is...

Tannin, I'm sure you saw this over at The Inquirer.

Thanks, Tea, you're such a sweetie. Smoooooooch! There! That's a kiss fer ya!