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Hmm... I guess it's too little too late for me. It would have been nice to have a viable Outlook alternative, but nothing comes close to Outlook's mail and calendar features except for maybe Gnome/Ximian Evolution. And if anything, Moz the browser has never really done it for me. In fact, I'm...

Does Moz mail & calendar support syncing to Palm OS and PocketPC devices?

I didn't mean to trivialize the love and understanding that you and Amy shared by highlighting your writing skills or implying in any way that it was your writing that made it special and not the relationship itself... that wasn't my intention at all.

Wow. That is something special indeed, Merc. Thank you for sharing that with us. It was made even better for us with the power of your prose. You have a way with the written word, as we have told you countless times before. --------------- Now, I was all ready to throw a plea for pragmatism...

I don't think the DM+8 is available in a 60 GB capacity. If it's from Maxtor, it has to be the DM+9.

The first time I saw a mouse driven GUI, it blew my mind. It was the Apple Lisa, which had the high-res Mac Finder desktop (as opposed to the CLI of the IIe). I was still fairly young at the time (something like 11 years old?) and was absolutely mesmorized by the icons and the mouse. Of course...

AQ 26 No Asperger's (>32), but I do have slightly more autistic traits than the average person (16). EQ 36 SQ 34 I'm a middle-of-the-road S-type. Hooray! I'm a little eccentric, but I'm not a nut job :) I think this quote is particularly fitting: "If I am curt with you, it's because time...

Wow, that's a lot of broadband, Coug. What are you going to do with no monthly limits and so much bandwidth? Serve a porn site from home? :mrgrn:

Come to think of it, if there's one thing Canada leads the world in, it's cheap broadband available to 90% of the population... that, and of course, hockey, and donuts :)

Could be, but isn't he's paying in CDN dollars, which would mean it's 40% cheaper with the exchange rate? I have never heard of broadband ever being more than $44.95 CDN/month ($32 US) in Canada for the typical 1-1.5 Mbit ADSL/cable service. Conversely, I have noticed that many people in the US...

There's nothing like getting spurned by an old friend. I used to love the Mac and had tremendous pride for the efficient, elegant machine that could allow me to do twice as much as a typical PC user could. But after '95, Apple's tired, empty promises and unfulfilled potential just left me cold...

Huh? 2-4 GB? Are you talking about monthly up/down traffic? It's usually 10 GB combined a month.

Silly rabbit, you're supposed to keep shredding until the cops burst through the door of your office! http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/enron_shred020121.html

Thanks for the heads up. I removed the MIME association to mshta.exe in Windows Explorer > Folder Options > File Types > HTA file > Advanced and exported (then deleted) the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htafile key in the registry. I also thought about using gpedit.msc to disable the ability to run...

Acutally, that should be $3/month CDN ($2.10 USD) for 10 GB of additional monthly bandwidth

How's this for cheap broadband service? $27 CDN/month ($19 USD/month) 1.5 Mbit down 320 kbit/s up 10 GB combined up/down monthly limit Add static IP for $4/month ($3 USD) Add 10 GB extra monthly bandwidth for $4/month ($3 USD) Does not include the ADSL modem rental, but you can use any modem...

Well, I certainly know where to come if I need a personal security detail... add the gun lovers from SR, and you guys would make a SWAT team nervous :)

Heh, my former colleagues at HP are smiling at the fruits of their labour (making a big push to attack Sun while they were weak). They did their part, along with Dell and IBM of course.

I wouldn't think so, Greg. IDE customers are price-sensitive; SCSI customers are not. The SCSI standard is 5 years. Any mfr who tries to drop the warranty to save a few bucks in service costs would immediately lose 5 million units in future sales for next year.

Yeah, you and Trudeau. Amusing how they renamed Dorval Airport Trudeau International, isn't it? As for Samsung, I have always wanted to know where I could purchase a Samsung drive (I did purchase a PC that came with an OEM 3.2 GB Samsung in it years ago), but I can't for the life of me find a...

Arggghhh! I now know why my throughput is so high: my ISP switched me to the Ultra plan without even asking me! I am not happy about that at all. I was just about to yell at some poor customer service shmuck, but they are not open past 8 PM. They will feel my wrath tomorrow.

I am getting much higher throughput these days, BTW. My service is officially 1 Mbit/s down / 160 kbit/s up, but DSL Reports measures it at: 2003-10-01 21:38:09 EST: 2609 kbps down / 672 kbps up

??? You are the first person I know of to suggest that ADSL is NOT artificially bandwidth capped. Most broadband service is bandwidth capped to my knowledge.

That's excellent news, Merc! Pass the cigars around :) Broadband is truly one of god's (or your deity of choice) gifts to computer users.

Enjoy, my friend. We will miss you.

Yeah, I knew something was up... you never really did explain why you were in the US for so long! :) (but it was so worth it) Congratulations!

What about Groupe Videotron?

What OS are all clients running? Is everyone in the same workgroup? (Windows key + Break > Network Identification) Is anyone running any firewalling software (or XP, which has a built-in firewall)? Are ports 137 and 139 open on each machine? Are the Computer Browser, Remote Access Control...

did that on porpoise you does?

When I was in Montreal, I lived in Little Burgundy (Petite Bourgogne... pretty much half-way between the Atwater Market and the Molson Centre) for a while in one of the new town houses. I think half my neighbours were gay/lesbian.

Perhaps you could find out some details on this competing service for us? It would be nice to know what their offering includes and for what price.

Hmm... I was just going to say "isn't the battery life pretty mediocre on the Treos?" Apparently they have fixed this. Looks very promising! (although the Kyocera will probably be quite a bit cheaper than the Treo by the time it comes out).

I just ordered the APC Back-UPS RS 1000VA unit from www.buyuptime.com . The best thing about them is that they offer free shipping on these heavy UPSes -- even to Canada! CDW was going to charge me $98 US to ship that unit to Canada via UPS (a UPS shipped via UPS? LOL...).

As I write this, I am having a pleasant experience receiving a fax through eFax.com, a fax service for people who don't have a fax machine mentioned above as suggested by Merc. You sign-up for a fax number in your area and they simply e-mail you any faxes received. You can fax signed documents...

You're right. I think I forgot a better candidate: Coug

Didn't you say you had an Audiovox? Or do you have 2 phones?

Heh, I would love to see a picture of PW holding a man-purse :) Come to think of it, Jake the Dog holding a man-purse would be hillarious too...

Oh, I felt I should mention that Samsung and Kyocera are very promising as newer entrants in the cellphone market.

I used to have an Ericsson T18z. Like Pradeep's recent model, the RF performance was amazing. I could get and retain signals in places most people couldn't. Unfortunately, it was digital only, which meant that it couldn't be used in rural areas where there are only analog cells. Beautifully...

I love plain Krispy Kreme donuts. Barring that, a chocolate glazed (this is actually a chocolate cake donut with a sugar glazing), chocolate dip (yeast), honey dip, or honey cruller from Tim Horton's will do just fine! BTW, I am currently living in Hamilton, which I believe has the 2nd most...

I've installed a brother MFC laser in my dad's office with much success (knock wood). The problem with brother laser print engines, however, is that they have separate drum and toner cartridges. The toner is nice and cheap, which one might think saves you money in the long run, but one finds out...

You got yours to work for 2 years? That's pretty good! :) Yup. The short life of UPS batteries is the reason I am not running any UPSes at the moment, and haven't been for quite a while now! (not to mention that with the exception of that freak power outage we had in August, the power grid has...

Would be too fuzzy at 1600x1200. Trust me. The Mitsu DPro 930SB is based on the next generation DiamondTron aperture grille tube, I believe (the 900NF is based on the earlier version), which is a little brighter. I am not sure if it is sharper at high res, but I think the Mitsubishi electronics...

LOL! A classic rant from our long-armed one :) ----------- I have also been advocating a minimalist install of NSW (NAV and SpeedDisk ONLY, with any auto-anything function DISABLED) for years both on SR and SF (in fact, you must have read a post or two from me about that over the years). From...

Why would you need more than 64 MB of video RAM at 1024?

Not nearly as fun as chin-ups, though!

Ah, well then... Since you know what to do, you just have to start slowly and KEEP IT UP!

Good move, Merc. Getting in shape is the first step to feeling better about yourself. Anybody can transform their physique if they commit to regular workouts for a year. It is challenging and represents a long-term commitment, but the feeling of accomplishment from building a better body will...

I am not sure what you were talking about in your last post, but given engines of different displacement and identical peak power and torque ratings, the rpm at which peak power and torque is created is almost guaranteed to be different.

Not exactly, but close enough. Without knowing anything about the respective "squareness" of the designs, number of cylinders, valvetrains, heads, and induction systems, it's hard to say for sure. Don't you have any more information available? Like the rpm at where the peak power and torque was...