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I haven't ripped a CD in decades. What's currently the best way to rip entire audio CDs to FLAC? I want to feed the CD, fire off the ripper and have a bunch of flac files at the end of the process. It's too tedious to rip one track at a a time. I'd also like to rip sections of DVD audio to...

Thanks Bozo, I will try that. But most of what CC Cleaner will do has already been done by other tools or by hand, so I'm not optimistic I'll get dramatic results with it.

Thanks all. Coug, Chewy seems to say removing SP3 install files is not safe. I'll have to look up DD's post on that.

My Dell Latitude was purchased by my employer in August 2007. It has since been and continues to be my only work machine. About a year ago IT wiped XP on it and put Win 7 Enterprise with Office 2007. 2 GB RAM. I wait a tad when opening programs or large files (like powepoints), but I guess I've...

Hope he's ok. Many times, change is just cosmetic, not fundamental. It appears Russia is one such case.

There also numerous $NTUninstall folders. Hard to quantify the size since I'll have to check each one individually. The system is quite stable, so I don't see the need to uninstall a service pack or an update. Thanks.

The C drive in my daughter's PC (Win XP SP3) is 87.5% full. Windows is the biggest culprit at 5.32GB. In the Windows folder: Installer: 1039 MB $hf_mig$: 795 MB ServicePackFiles: 461 MB assembly: 326 MB SoftwareDistribution: 294 MB...

The cornucopia of choice in the modern age is out of control. Look at the rate at which new phones are released. Each model is sold for 4, perhaps 6 months before the next "new & improved" one is out. Most of the time, it's incremental improvements that are not worth it. There is also the...

Hah! Now I know how the manufacturers are naming their stuff. Why pay their Marketing guys or an outside consultant firm when this free site does exactly the same thing?? !!

Why? You can set your browser to delete all cookies when you exit the browser, except the ones you want to keep, like for this site.

Your better half is one smart cookie, DD.

Congrats, DD!

And finances.

Totally awesome. How the heck do they run such a massive place? Their fulfillment and logistics operation is pretty good.

Oooooooo, harsh, harsh.

Congrats, Merc! Thanks for being here, and please continue to enlighten us!

I would too. In fact I feel silly using a Bluetooth headset. The first time I saw somebody using one years ago, he was walking and had the Bluetooth headset on the ear I couldn't see. He was pacing up and down a long driveway (I was waiting for my car to be fixed), and I thought he was some kind...

Many Happy Returns of the Day, JTR!

Whew! Thanks Merc. Since you say the keys can be activated beyond the sub, there's no pressure to get installs done. Just before my sub expires, I'll download the latest ISOs; I assume they update the ISOs with patches from time to time. I'll "renew" under another name if I'm able to get a...

Do they allow activation after the Technet sub has expired?

Thanks for the tips, guys, I'll check them out.

Greg, all I'm trying to say is that Costco's liberal policies can be abused. And that is not a good thing. And no, I didn't make the decision. I was the IT head, and the marketing suits and the CEO made the decision.

I once worked for a company that (at the time) made something that was then new to the public. We worked out a deal with Costco, and when you opened the huge box at home, the first thing you would see was a nicely printed piece of paper that said, "Stop! DON'T return the merchandise to Costco...

Thanks DD & Merc. As usual, I for my first ever Technet sub in Feb this year, downloaded some stuff, and haven't had the time to do a single thing with the sw. Since my new PC build project has been posponed indefinitely for now, I'll have to shoehorn W7 into my current working XP setup...

DD likes to live dangerously! Get well soon, bud.

When a Technet sub is renewed, does one get a whole set of new (additional) keys?

Which one do you think is the best?

Thanks for the responses, folks. time, what would I do for the OS? A copy of Win 7 Basic seems to run about Rs. 4.75k and Rs. 5.65k. There is also the problem of logistics; we're about 650km apart. I'll have to have everything shipped to me, do the install, and ship it to her. Actually,this...

I've read all the books and seen all the movies; have the whole set of books and most of the DVDs, courtesy my kid. It ain't bad; she's a good story teller. The movies aren't as good as the books, naturally, because they have to tell the whole story in about a 100 minutes, and the books are...

I thought EVGA was to be avoided like the plague. Has that changed so much that they've become a tier 1 player now?

+1 !!

Well, the problem with Lenovo's and Lattitude's is price. Too high for the purpose. I might be able to find an Inspiron for a little over budget. Otherwise it'll have to be the likes of Asus, HP/Compaq, Acer, MSI, etc. Hence the struggle to do the right thing :bleh:

So, netbooks are to be avoided. Is MSI still worth looking at as a manufacturer of laptops? Any hierarchy of mfrs to use when trying to find the right machine?

I know nothing of all this, but will still risk shooting my mouth off: he's not using GPUs to achieve these fantastic results?

She has learned to work the basics on PCs. Knowing how little they are able to anticipate their needs, I don't want to end up recommending a solution that is limited (tablet). Over here, tablets and mid-range laptops are priced alike, and laptops are certainly more versatile. Thanks all for...

Aha, sorry about that. I hadn't read SD's post, so your post was all Greek to me.

Tablet is ruled out; she doesn't want it, ad I thing it would be too big a jump for her and the even bigger luddite, my b-i-l. It's got to be a notebook or netbook. How is MSI as a manufacturer of net/notebooks? They hit some awesome pricepoints. This heah is a local website that is like a...

Is there a Lunarese to English dictionary available?

I think you are indeed mixing up the two - Starter and Basic. According to that most definitive source :beye:, Basic 32-bit supports 4GB physical RAM, and 64-bit supports 8GB physical RAM. Starter, on the other hand, comes only in 32-bit flavor and supports a max of 2GB physical RAM.

My sister, who's been a luddite all her 55 years, finally has learned how to use email and wants a laptop for email, web browsing and Skyping with her kids (webcam essential). Win 7 Home Basic is available pre-installed in a few countries only (including here) and is n/a in the "developed"...

The humor on this site, intended and unintended, is freakin awesome!

That shifter with red and black looks pretty blingy to me. Yech!

Thanks for the heads up. I can repartition now to make more room; not a problem. My work laptop has been running Win 7 Enterprise for about 18 months, and the 'C' drive is now using 22.4 GB. It has MS Office Enterprise 2007, Visio Pro 2007, Project Pro 2007, VC++ Redistributable, Acrobat, and a...

I decided to be prudent and skip the SSD for now. I do have a spare 250GB HDD I can make the boot drive for Win 7, but fitting it in to the case with the other drives already in there would be a pain. Prob is I can't afford any downtime. If I was building a whole new system, I could have kept...

Very few humans in the world are symmetrical; i.e., the left side being a mirror image of the right. For everybody else, one is bigger, hangs lower, etc. This applies to testicles, breasts, ears, nostrils, eyes, buttocks, you name it. So nothing to be alarmed if one is hanging a bit lower. I...

Now there's talk of risk to Bangkok itself.

Thanks for the link, Coug. It doesn't mean a lot to me since I'm out of touch with all the graphics chips and don't play any games at all. :)

I'm still scratching my head over this one. Not sure what's the point, other than for specialized applications like crime scene investigations, etc. I did go over to their website from another link, and played around a bit (seems to work only in IE). Nifty, but again, don't see the point.

My brother uses some reeeeallly yellow CFLs in his home. They don't seem to bother him, but I feel sick eveytime I'm there. I don't mind incandescents, but these really bother me.

How does HD3000 bench compared to discrete graphic cards? Does anyone have links handy? Thanks.