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Yes, Happy birthday to you, Merc! Enjoy your new SSD. Tell us fascinating tales about it. I can at least enjoy it vicariously!

You'll have to go back a page for that, Bozo. It's about the size of the C: partition and my system having become slow.

How many are running SP3? Maybe it's time to slipstream SP3 and reinstall (sigh) Wincrap XP.

I use Folder Size Shell Extension v3.2 in XP.

Here is a listing of the sizes of folders in C: on my laptop drive: (14,853.07 Mb + ?) Sys (C:) |- (4,511.87 Mb) WINDOWS | |- (1,603.49 Mb) Installer | |- (868.97 Mb) system32 | |- (544.08 Mb) $hf_mig$ | |- (168.00 Mb) assembly | |- (160.80 Mb) ie7updates | |- (150.05 Mb)...

How so? My work laptop, with nothing but XP, MS Office 2003 (Word/Excel/PP/Outlook), MS Project 2007, Acrobat 7, Palm Desktop, Nokia PC Suite comes to 14.6 GB. At home I have some photo editing programs in addition, and IIRC the boot drive is ~ 22 GB. On any system I use, data is always on...

That is why for the longest time I bought only retail drives.

So what's the rest of your stuff, LM? Nikon?

Have a wonderful life together, Dave!

So you bought one, eh? Lucky you! Now how fast is fast?

Sheesh, that sucks. An emergency room that isn't really one. Hope your mom is better now. How long will the cast be on?

David, you can give me your hand-me-downs :santa:

Yup. Somebody, somewhere, sometime, will pay the eco cost for the throw aways.

Naw, Eric is just being emphatic.

CRP (C-Reactive protein) seems to be one.

Good read, Fushigi. There's a small problem, though; genes. My brother (in the USA) is a physician (and a pretty darned good one at that, though I say so myself). For the longest time, he tried diet, exercise and all the other tricks to keep his cholesterol down. Finally he had to admit defeat...

Statins work miracles. I've been on them since 1999 and when I had a test a month ago, my chol levels were low.

Wish you a speedy recovery, Bozo.

We use badge readers + fingerprint scanners at work.

Actually, it sounds like pure, unadulterated fat + cholesterol!

So it looks like their performance doesn't degrade gracefully but falls off a cliff. That might be acceptable if you know up front that you'll never or will seldom reach the cliff.

SD, you never cease to amaze me.

Did "Andromeda" not cause paranoia like "Jaws" did?

History has been made. I am glad it turned out this way. Change was badly needed.

Thanks, e_d. I know what probs I face and what I need my equipment to do. I can't keep changing it - that's my problem. Both buying (availability, price) and selling are a problem, so pretty much whatever I get, I will be keeping for a very long time. Hence the caution and the desire to get as...

You mentioned that you would get an extra hour of sleep. That implies your "country" followed DST, and I was asking if that was so. This was for information only, and I don't really care if you care about DST or not. Enjoy your sleep either way.

So would it be unwise to invest in an APS-C system (body, glass)? Is it better to jump into full-frame even though it will hurt a lot initially?

Your country follows DST too?

I didn't really understand your comment at first. Looking closely, I realized the number for IE7 was 5 digits, not 4! Is it really that bad? Sheesh.

vlite does not do for Vista what nlite did for XP?

Nice pic - I liked it.

Tim, the minimalist! Actually that sounds like me. I think Coug missed his true vocation in life. Imagine - squished bugs as art. A doofus somewhere would pay millions for a framed piece.

As usual, you get the best prices in the U.S. - even cheaper than duty-free at Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong airports. The price for photo gear (Nikon and Canon) is 50-80% more in India compared to the U.S. Also true for other stuff like software and booze. The problem is that they won't honor...

Company emerges from stealth mode Black silicon: 100 - 500 times more sensitive to light and to IR Better digital cameras, better imaging devices, better solar cells (they generate current off of IR too).

Why aren't you imaging it and just restoring the image when it craps out?

Are you saying GWB is a good communicator??!!

At least some people are fired up. I got this in an email today: Another way to help the economy? I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are...

For a guy who claims to not know English, you're pretty articulate and make your point quite forcefully, Coug :grin: No matter what happens or doesn't, Americans are screwed. It's a clear-cut case of lose-lose.

It's not painless because Server 2003 costs quite a bit. :rambo:

Is MS providing free upgrades for licensed XP users?

The next episode in this soap opera: WaMu becomes biggest bank to fail in US history So are we in the beginning of the end, the middle of the end, or is this just the end of the beginning?

What is the Milky Way Speeding Towards at 14 Million MPH? Fascinating article. I felt really, really small (in every way!) after reading this.

Firefox doesn't know what plug-in I need to view that video. Can somebody help? Thanks.

Jones Lang LaSalle - real estate, not insurance.

No health care either? That sucks. You should move, Merc. It'll do you good.

You know what I meant, Merc :)

Sorry Tim, I just followed a link and didn't bookmark it. There's probably quite a few like that on the 'net.

We do a bit of that as well. Not quite the scale and extreme as MS, but a bit to see the approach they take. Sadly, a lot can't even think straight.

The joy continues! Government announces $85 billion loan to save AIG I read an article yesterday that at this rate, there is no reasonable, legitimate way for America to dig itself out of the hole it is deepeneing other than to print paper money. That = hyperinflation. And when China wants...

Oh, how the mighty have fallen!