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When I was young, in the days before there was an Internet, I have gone to the mall many a time, and driven through the parking lot and returned home without shutting off the engine, not wishing to tangle with the mad masses.

time! I had no idea! Imagine, a famous TV personality in our midst. I love you man! pic deleted since it's big

The bed will help somewhat, but not as much as you think, because it's surface area is horizontal. Anything hanging vertically will help a lot more - curtains, or those panels you linked to.

SD, please keep it and enjoy it; I don't want it. I'll not even try to pry it out of your cold dead hands, I promise :)

MaxBurn, no popups or warnings. I usually practice safe behavior online. However, when I move to Win 7 soon, I want use something like Sandboxie to be safer still. I do most of my and my wife's banking online, and necessarily have to be paranoid! I had Avira before, and it got obnoxious with...

Well, good for him. I hope he'll smoke his pipe and join us here more often to share his thoughts.

I updated MS-SE and ran it on the C drive. Nothing found. I updated Malwarebytes and ran it on the C drive. Nothing found. I downloaded Avast 5.0 Free, uninstalled MS-SE, installed Avast, updated it and ran it on the C drive. Nothing found. :confused:

Most of what Time said. It's very much an individual thing. Memory foam / latex: mileage varies enormously. I plunked down a good bit of money for a memory foam mattress and pillows and hated them and gave them away. What works best for me is a very firm mattress with a pillow top; good...

Thanks MaxBurn and BingBangBop.

So what's my status now? Am I screwed? Please?

+1. Merc has a way with words....

My HP LJ 6xi is about 11 years old. Print is just fine; I don't print much. Probably 4th or 5th cartridge. But the paper pick up & feed problems are really bad. I feed one page at a time. Now even that is becoming an issue where it keeps trying to suck the page in but half the time can't. HP got...

Please elaborate; was it just saying hello or having a chat? I used to catch every episode of ST: TNG back in those days.

No probs with XP Pro and MS Security Essentials.

Just messing with you, Lunar, sorry about that. I'll shut up now.

Ever heard of this chap who conducts high amperage current through his body? (It's a Youtube video)

You mean they're not advancing format? :)

:)

Jobs doesn't believe in IPv6. He's planning to come out with Apple's own version, iPee v293

Now you're talking dirty, Lunar.

The list of supported OSes stops with XP. Does it work with Win 7?

It must at least be really cute.

Yer gettin old, fella.

Ouch!

The quality is evident! I also liked the "stealership" part - very apt :razz:

Thank you, kind Sir.

Also, can someone tell me, are the keys provided collectively for all the variants of a sw, or for each variant? In other words, if one gets two keys for Win 7, is it 2 keys for Win 7 Home Premium, 2 for Win 7 Pro, 2 for Win 7 Enterprise, etc., or two keys total for all variants of Win 7...

I know the feeling. At one job I had in the very early '90s, I was in charge of IT security, and used to get a list of terminations (in advance) every couple of days. After a few months, I would puke at the thought of this and quit my job in the middle of a major recession in S. CA, vowing never...

Depressing indeed. I confess I haven't yet read your link (it's a ginormous amount of material), but I have bookmarked it and will read it because the topic (energy) is close to my heart and worries me. Despite the writing on the wall, we seem to be rushing headlong pretty brazenly into a future...

Thanks all, for the patience and info. i think I will risk ordering one. It takes 4 weeks here! The only reseller that even knew what Technet was said he'd sold only one in all of 2010 till now, and that it is a special order item. Hopefully I will have it in my hands end Nov / early Dec. I...

This was true for MSDN (when I checked several years ago), which is why I never subscribed to that. The attraction with Technet is that it *is* forever. Can somebody who has it please read the EULA and tell me if BingBangBop is right?

Sir Howell, Not true, according to this. Please read from the sub-heading titled "It's forever". If this wasn't the case, I wouldn't bother. What I need is Win XP Pro, Win 7 and Office 2010.

I'm going to order a Technet Standard subscription (my first). What should I do as soon as I get it? Go to MS's website and ask for as many keys as is allowed for each sw I'm likely to use? I guess the download can happen anytime during the period of the sub. Or can I do it after that as well...

Mr. Cryptic strikes again.

Then you're at serious risk. At least use IE8 if you must use IE. MS themselves have warned, multiple times, not to use IE that is a lower version.

Thanks. I'm partly correct, though: Some TechNet Standard License Keys Drop from 10 to 2; Pro Drops from 10 to 5 Still should be enough for me.

On the Technet sub, I believe they dropped the keys to 2 from 10. I was thinking of getting one.

You actually wear clothes? I thought you were clad in armor...:D

My single experience with Gigabyte was bad. They returned the dodgy video card with a "works fine, no work necessary". True one swallow does not a summer make, but the experience certainly didn't inspire confidence...

Thanks; that was good reading!

Am seriously looking at using some kind of sandbox program for going online. Sandboxie?

I felt giddy just watching the damn video. I'm with Coug on this one.

Thanks all. I'm also going to talk to the IT guys at work to see if I can web VPN into our U.S. proxy server and activate from there.

Thanks Howell & DD. I can't get to it this week, perhaps the next. The big decision is whether to break the seal on the packaging or not. There is the possibility that they will refuse to activate if they cannot authenticate that the IP address is from the U.S. & Canada, so that may rule out...

On Aug 21, in the Win 7 thread, I wrote: "What's this I just found out about OEM versions not for end-users / hobbyists? If you don't use the pre-installation kit, don't put it on a brand new PC, and don't sell the PC to an unknown person, you're in violation of the license terms. I ordered...

Congrats, SD, happy for you!

With Flashblock on, I see nothing but a gazillion circles with an f in them. Is each f a gazillion dollars worth?

In Windows, since the scroll wheel became clickable. This is native in Windows, don't need no special drivers to be installed. This is the part of a mouse I wear out first; either the scroll wheel doesn't click anymore, or will bounce like a bad shock absorber, resulting in multiple clicks.

The mouse scroll wheel that doubles as a button has always done that for me. :scratch:

My data - stuff I really need to care about (legal, finance, etc.) is 3.4 GB. Other stuff I'd like to have is 6.5 GB. Downloads are 28 GB. All this is spread out on 3 drives (1 GB + 2 x 320 GB), replicated on to another drive out of the 3, so if a drive dies, I'm not SOL.