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Would Outlook even come close?

I second Time. I think it's SSE, primarily. Going to SS standard is bound to improve performance. Sage SW sucks big time (eons ago I worked at a company that got acquired by Sage). Act was acquired by Symantec at one point of time, IIRC, and then sold to Sage. So it's bloatware all right. But...

I'm the poor church mouse of the bunch :) I run 2 x 250GB Hitachi SATAs. I have 2 x 320GB Samsung SATAs that are a year old and still in the box. :eek4: Woe unto me. I plan to buy a DSLR in the next 6 months (waiting for the D90 reviews; it'll be that or the D300). I'll probably have to jack...

Not true. This happens even if the device is installed to the same exact port. Just happened with my APC UPS which got unplugged; when I plugged it back in, XP did the same "new hw discovered" shit.

Let us know how it goes, e_d. I bought Vista 64 HP a year ago with similar ideas, but my hardware has stayed the same, so I haven't yet opened the Vista package. Some day I'll upgrade my hw and follow the route you have taken.

Eric, I'm glad you're back. You're in full form too! :-)

Zipzoom has a habit of saying things are in stock when they are not. They also take eons to ship. I would go with Directron; they're good.

DD, Happy Birthday, fella! Fushigi, belated Happy Birthday!

If you do both together, we'll never find out what the problem was, and I most likely will die of curiosity.

Pray tell me why.

You guys are forgetting hardware. It was all proprietary stuff before. With windows, hw became a commodity - interchangeable, cheap, reliable, readily available. The mini manufacturer I worked for went under because they never saw the Wintel tsunami coming.

Don't people like Kensington make "universal" power bricks and separately sell an array of the pins that will go into the devices? I'll see if I can rustle up some links I may have saved (it'll have to wait till the weekend, though).

stdPikachu ... Pikachu is a Pokemon. Used to be my daughter's favorite. Odd handle for a tech guy.

DD is now a certified EE (sorry, couldn't resist that).

My Buffalo wireless router and clients are cool to the touch. My wired SMC router gets hot. I can fry eggs on my current DSL modem. Such heat to me indicates poor design; a lot of electricity being unnecessarily consumed and dissipated as heat.

I've used (and continue to do so) Vonage over 2mbit connections and have had zero issues. No QoS settings in the router; just plain vanilla connections. In fact, the internet line is connected to a wi-fi router, and the Vonage adapter is on the client end of the wi-fi. Quality is land-line like...

Imagine. A server OS that has better power management than a consumer OS. Way to go, MS! I should check to see what an MSDN sub goes for here. I'm really jealous of you Merc.

I don't think ganging two supplies up in parallel is a good idea; most certainly current will flow from one to the other with strange consequences. I'm no expert, jtr can describe this better. You're better off using two the way Fushigi described.

Singed fur? :-D

It's not rumor. Some analyst bugger thinks Wachovia is severely exposed in the mortgage crisis. They were a nice, solid bank, then thy got greedy, buying up other financial institutions for incredibly high valuations. Then the sub-prime shit happened.

After Indymac Bank, now there are rumblings about Wachovia.

So there's nothing that's decent but free?

Maybe my desktop feels more sluggish than my laptop because of AVG 8 (corporate laptop is running McAfee). I'd like to echo Tea's post.

For the beleaguered LM: * 4-platter 1.5 TB drive, to ship in August, price not revealed * Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4, 500GB 2.5" laptop drives to ship in Q4 News item here.

Re. the engineer, "In the two months up to his death, the man averaged more than 80 hours of overtime per month..." That's an average of 60 hours a week in those two months. I've worked more than 80 hours a week continuously for a stretch of 9+ months. Those were 7-day weeks. My wife complains...

I wuz kidding, guys.

C'mon, you ought to know: Velociraptors in Raid-0.

Yes, I am getting older, but I can still read much a smaller font without difficulty, SD.

Did it work for you? I plugged it into my brand new motherboard and it started smoking. I quickly powered off and fortunately it booted up after some work (remove all cards, remove battery, etc.). It's still running. Maybe the Silverstone I got from Newegg was bad.

Cool. Wish I could say that! In other news: I know Tony doesn't look at this thread, but he knows this anyway: Australian climate report like 'disaster novel': minister It's on yahoo news, so the link may not work for long.

Sh*t. That's too bad. Thanks for telling me; I don't know how I missed the news.

Why do you "miss" them? Has Buffalo stopped making routers? I have a Buffalo router and 2 clients (the Ethernet hubs), and it has been working flawlessly for me for the last 2 years.

Methinks though that Samsung's reliability is not the same it was. True?

Sigh. If only you'd given a bit of time. I have three programs from long ago that do this. I haven't used them in years, but the file stamps from 2002, 2003 and 2005. They're called MakeBigFile, Spacehog, and CreateTestFile. All three programs together are 576kb in size, so I can easily email...

I've just begun using my desktop at home after a gap of about 6 months (was away and using my company provided lapop). Oddly, I am finding the laptop to be faster for booting and all tasks thereafter. Don't know what's up. Desktop's got an X2-4200, 2GB RAM, XP Pro, 2 HDDs (with swap file on both).

That was a great read! Thanks, Merc.

Aaaaah! Merc is getting back in form, slowly but surely!

How are you, Eric?

I am invisible. When I get on, I see my handle listed with an asterisk.

MERC! YOU'RE BACK! WELCOME! WE MISSED YOU, MAN! NOW DON'T EVER GO AWAY AGAIN!Sorry for shouting - too excited!

Will there be a respite? Is the sun going to cause a mini ice-age, giving humans time to correct their self-destructive ways? Let's hope so.

Thanks LM.

He's being unrealistic about the kind of quality he wants everyone to have. But I sure can relate to where he's coming from. I was in a recording studio a couple of times, with the engineer that does the actual mixing of the live performance. The "presence" and fidelity of the sound was simply...

"It's stepped down from tape to digital to compressed digital, so people are now listening to a Xerox of a Polaroid of a photograph of a painting." I really liked the analogy! What would Merc say about this?

So, LM, how does it perform?

:rotfl:

To which one? Abandoning the Treo?

That's weird. Even if the app is multi-core unaware, Windows is supposed to utilize available processors / cores to run apps. No matter what MS says, perhaps XP is unable to utilize more than two processors / cores.

India did. During the infamous Emergency days of the mid-seventies, Sanjay Gandhi undertook a campaign to sterilize people (mainly through vasectomies). His mother, Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister and had declared the Emergency to silence dissent and critics. Sanjay's idea in principle was...

AFAIK, every religion says to go forth and multiply. I think this is because in the olden days infant mortality was high and life expectancy was low, and societies were more secure and successful when they had a minimum mass. Today the situation is reverse, so there is no need to multiply, but...