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NOW the VB guys come out..

I think Nits is the fifth female-type-person to sign up. We had some posts from Tannin's tech Kristi and some others in some of the darker topics in the Pub from someone named Hannah and there have been a few others with questions in the support forum at various times. Anyway, ddrueding, if you...

Looks like Access 2007 will leave your DB format unmolestered unless you choose to run the Conversion Wizard. I just opened a half dozen different .MDBs of various vintages (2000, XP, 2003) and they all seem be OK and functional before and after I used 2007 on them. But I am not an Access...

That's why you get Parallels Desktop!

The homeboy whose post is right above yours seems to have some problems with "safe" anything. I personally have photos of ddrueding snorting his cocaine of off the ass of a leprous midget hooker while SMSing while driving blindfolded and simultaneously putting five WD Raptors in a software...

Lando!

For what it's worth I've been using an Access 2000 database in 2007 all week. So it'll at least open old files without issue. I dimly recall having issue with Access 2000 converting older MDB files by default. Microsoft says that when you wave your magic "Convert Database" wand, the file format...

I think that just proves the adage: "What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away."

QuickTime Alternative. But yeah, Quicktime sucks donkeys through a straw and gargles afterward.

Well, I'll throw out the usual plug for TrueImage + some kind of USB drive, but that's all stuff that costs money. You could maybe look into Microsoft's SyncToy Tool, which allows you to mirror the contents of arbitrary directories in multiple locations, including network drives.

It's not sleeves and it's not cases. It's the media. As the media becomes less expensive, quality control goes out the window. Crummy discs from TDK or Maxell or S*ny or Memorex are, well, crummy. And there isn't much you can do about it. That said, meritline.com and supermediastore.com both...

When Celeron 300As were all the rage, I must've set up 20 systems on Abit motherboards that ran at 450MHz. I had one that wouldn't go past 333MHz no matter what I did. But, yeah, that's really disappointing.

I'm under the impression that the impetus for their interest is a legal threat from a client. But they still don't want to spend money and won't accept a free software solution like knowledgetree. I'm obviously going to have to find out more about how their systems are set up before I can do...

I don't think Shared Folders is foolproof enough, actually. They want a single point to access all the data that's associated with a project, no matter where that data is located. OK, that sounds like dfs, except these people don't know how to manage their data in the first place, let alone...

That is a royal pain in the ass to set up, Chewy. So much crap just runs over port 80 when its native port is blocked that it's really not worth worrying about outbound stuff. If there's an application I don't want to talk to the internet, I'll firewall it on an external (real) firewall rather...

The customer is an architecture firm. Apparently, they had an IT guy come in to set up what they were calling a Backup system. The dude implemented a backup system. He set up tape drives and RAID5 arrays that are mirrored with dfs for redundancy. Except, what the client wanted is the ability...

WinRAR pisses me off. I mostly make .BZ2s or plain old .zip files. I'm lazy and those are more or less the default compression tools for Linux or Windows.

Has anyone ever used or had any experience with any sort of Document Management System? I've been asked to choose and implement such a system and other than knowing a couple names (e.g. EMC makes Documentum), I really don't know a whole lot about them. I know they tend to be horribly expensive...

I take the other extreme. I have machines that have never been upgraded to Firefox 2 because it hasn't been closed in the duration of time that Firefox 2 has been out. Having hundreds of open tabs, several word processor documents, a DVD ripper/transcoder and several half-composed e-mail...

Why would you or anyone else ever close Firefox? Server 2003 remains the pinnacle of Microsoft OSes.

It did? I can't think of anything XP does that 2000 didn't. For that matter, unless you have some program that refuses to install on 2000 (say, Office 2007), there's STILL nothing that makes XP worth the bother. It's no more stable and it's not really faster.

When you're using TrueImage Restore Wizard, you're booting Linux, which is easily as complex as Windows XP. You can expect it to take a couple minutes to detect your hardware and give you control of your system.

My local supplier is listing a Sapphire x1950 Pro at $146. Newegg's got one at $165 and another with a rebate that drops it to $149. Wait a couple days and there will be more. I suspect you'll see x1900GTOs at $130 very shortly as well.

Since I rarely make a contribution to this thread... Those looking for fast and cheap GPU folders would probably be interested in knowing that x1950 Pros are starting to show up at under $150. I hadn't looked at them in a while and thought they were all $250+ cards but new ones are considerably...

US Department of Transportation won't let Vista, IE7 or Office 2007 in the door.

Stereodude, Holland and the whole state of Florida would like to have a word with you.

As computer people, we don't have much room to talk about environmentalism, regardless. Manufacturing electronics is way high up on the list of horrible things you can do to the planet, and given the lifespan and the disposable mentality of companies that make the products, we (everyone who...

I pay $110/month for my 970 square foot apartment. The average bill for apartments in my complex is supposed to be $45 - $60. I paid about $250/month for my 1200 square foot house (which was new and energy-efficient), but I had a cathedral ceiling and was paying for things like the water heater...

Factually, there is undoubtedly global warming from some source. Factually, there are undesirable consequences for global warming. Factually, there are human industrial activities - whether from logging, farming or generating power with petrochemical processes, that can be shown to have strongly...

Windows is completely retarded sometimes. ;)

While windows is running normally, insert your XP (hopefully slipstreamed with nlite or whatever) install CD. Start an install. Choose to upgrade. Let it run. It will reboot your PC. When your PC reboots, shut it off, swap your hardware and when power it back on.

You are switching the HAL that Windows is using. On "Server" windows, there's a program to let you do this. Desktop Windows has no such app. You'll need to start an in-place Windows upgrade and change your hardware after the system reboots for the first time. The process is fairly painless.

Yes. Try f11 or shift f11 or control f11 or something like that, if it hasn't been wiped.

Pro is a different disk. Suggest you grab a copy of TinyXP to make your old laptop work like new.

Al Gore takes an amount of money equal to his energy expenditures and invests it in companies that are researching renewable energy. How dare he do something like that!

For what it's worth, the 2/10/07 Longhorn Server not only can't read spanned or striped dynamic volumes created in earlier versions of Windows, but it appears to hose them bad enough that I had to break out some data recovery software to see where my stuff went. Also, RAM usage in Longhorn...

Why aren't you using the Customer Appreciation Bat?

Meh. They link back to their main site. You can find it. :P

Good thing I have records of buying those 8800GTXs... Suing nVidia out of existence is just one step to living in a better world.

Vista's Defender and OneCare Live both have pretty awful performance, even by the generous standards set by Norton and Mcafee. Here's a up to date report. Kapersky and Coug's AntiVir look like solid choices; both AVG and NOD32 fell into a lower category.

The consumerist.com site had an interesting story a couple weeks ago that suggested that senior management awarded itself some pretty massive bonuses at the end of their financial year. Maybe their VIPs are cashing out after projections of continually dismal and worse margins and the well-known...

MS has an update for XP SP2 and Server 2003. Older things are not supported or need a manual fix. I have many clients who are still using Windows 2000 on the desktop and several others that only have 2000 Server.

You can get a tool called setup manager. Setup Manager makes an .INI file which, if present with your Windows install file, lets you specify default configuration options including language, locality, keyboard type and even the product ID. nLite will also generate an even more customized...

Howell, you'd probably be surprised to know that there's a world that is not described in its sum and total by Fox News and FreeRepublic.com. When you live in a home with, oh three times more rooms than an average three bedroom house, you shouldn't be surprised when the bill for electricity...

No one has mentioned it here so I don't know if anyone cares, but running around and applying DST patches at client sites over the last couple weeks and the weeks to come is one of those happily lucrative things that is going to wind up make my contracting year. Here's Microsoft's site on the...

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A few months back, didn't you say an X1600 was doing everything you wanted for gaming, ddrueding? I notice that there are some x1800 (GTO models, sure, but still x1800s) models down around $120 now, and I understand the x1650 is a pretty substantial improvement over the x1600 as well. On the...

I do not like Generals as much as Red Alert/RA2. I think it has to do with the limits of what can be displayed on-screen. I just tried it for the first time a few night ago and it was not as nifty as I might've hoped. On the other hand, in the older games, I find myself wishing the screen...

Don't most organized network games make people wait for everyone to zone in anyway?