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Some of you may remember my rants about rechargeable AAs in the P&S thread. I did buy gobs of Eneloops, but they didn't help. The camera is not the culprit, the flash is. It is so power hungry that the normally fast camera becomes an unusable slowpoke after a half dozen flash shots. I think the...

Me too.

The solution is not more food, it is less people. I am not advocating "culling", but birth control in whatever form takes your fancy - self-restraint, condoms, pills, etc. Multiplying like rabbits will take us to doomsday fast. Think potable water, food, bare necessities, and the pollution dd is...

Thanks for the sentiments, folks.

Where's Eric? He's not posted in a while. I seem to have had, um, some "events" last evening / night. Got me thinking. Eric had asked about services that would send out emails if you didn't log on to their website for a while. There's probably nobody here that would particularly care to know if...

Tell him we miss him and want him back. I've been away from home the last 4 months, living in a hotel, and don't have access to my email archives, or I'd email his personal email account. I also think I have his phone number in one of those emails.

A gal in my group died earlier in the week. Finished her night shift, went home, slept, and apparently never woke up. She was morbidly obese, smoked a lot, drank a lot. 21 years old. No idea what happened. I don't want to start a hot debate here on religious grounds, and am not trying to bait...

Hear hear! Sock it to 'em! I wish more lawyers took the approach Kurt does. There'd be a lot less litigation.

M$ fesses up: Vista feature (UAC) designed to 'annoy users'

What are you guys cribbing about distance for? I'm 12,500 miles away, even farther away than Paugie. I think once in a while we just need to pack a bag, take a flight and visit. One of these days I'm planning to surprise the Redhill folks :pirate:

Several people have asked for a tool that does something like this one does; maybe not exactly, but close. Check it out. Dir Utils Summary of features: Extensionize: categorises files by their extension and moves them to pre-designated directories. Alphabetize: creates sub-directories based...

Humans are just too greedy, selfish and stupid. They'll make themselves extinct sooner than later. Then it'll be just furry critters & friends.

Engrish. NSFW

I do that.

Congrats! Has it been 1.5 years already?

Guys, guys, guys! How the heck do you manage to use such large monitors? I have a 20" widescreen, and pretty much have to move my head from side to side to read the whole width. A 22" or 24", or god forbid, a larger one - I'll have to wear binocs then. If you'll tell me that I'm too close to it...

It appears that the two progs are trying to write to the disks in a non-standard way, probably bypassing the 3Ware driver. Making calls they shouldn't be.

Yay, Coug is back! Now stay, Coug, don't you ever disappear again!

Cute, handsome little bugger! Seems to be a happy guy!

Thanks LM. A great one crosses over.

DD, What's that thing immediately to the left of the drives? The thing with the multiple parallel steel tubes going from left to right on top of it, a front that looks like a car radio, and knobs on the side?

Gimme the money and I'll buy one, use it and report back. You need to change suppliers, Uda.

Why would I want to emulate your obsession with TS lenses?? I have no need for those kinds of lenses.

Get in line, bud! I already sold Tea to a circus; they paid the advance, and rest of the money I get when I ship Tea to them. One of these days I'll start a new thread to pick people's brains about what lenses to get with it.

Twins separated at birth? :)

Not to worry; does not reveal body parts.

Are you referring to the m/c in your sig?

People usually use positive pressure to keep dust out. In my cases, I have more air blowing in than out, and the intakes are filtered.

Why don't you try Goldmemory with 2GB at a time?

Ditto. I've been on the verge of making a post like this a gazillion times, but held back thinking I shouldn't intrude :(

Do you have filters for the air intakes? I use the fiberglass-wool type air conditioner air filters; they're about $10 for one that's about 12" x 18" (or larger), and are available at Home Depot type stores. I cut with scissors to the required shape/size, and shove it between the fan that's...

Stumbled on it while reading an interview of T.J. Rodgers (Cypress Semi). He says, "First of all, I think Silicon Valley people, if you gave them the world's smallest quiz, my belief is you'd find that people in Silicon Valley are highly libertarian but they don't even know what that phrase...

Cnet News Story here 2.5" 500GB 5400 RPM 9.5 mm HDD 2.5" 250GB 7200 RPM HDD 128GB SSD "will be available to a few PC manufacturers mid-year".

Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked' That Windows is insecure ain't news to me, but what is astounding is that there are ATM manufacturers and banks stupid enough to run the machines on Windows. How stupid will the human race get?

So how much will the whole thing set you back?

I just died laughing at the language these guys at Cracked.com use: The 15 Most Bizarre Animal Mating Rituals NSFW; no pics of concern, but language is.

Sheesh. What a complicated way to say "If I tell you I have to kill you". Bond films would have flopped if you were the dialog writer, Tannin!

Eagle Eyes. Spot the differences in the two photos. Flash based. Mostly birds (that's why I'm posting; Tannin can tell us what those birds are).

Another day in paradise...

Every item listed seems very appropriate except for the RAM; why only 512 MB? If the user usually has all the office apps open (like I do) 1GB would be better.

YES!

yuk.

So what did you feed you poor elephant, Tea?

Ain't that the truth.

I've found widescreens useful for two things (ducks). Viewing pics in landscape mode; most pictures I take are of this type (default handling of the P&S digicam) and they almost fill the screen. I use Irfanview, and have it set to "fit only big images to window" #2 If you're a business type...

e_d, I asked the question in all seriousness. Why would VHP not work with anything? Are you not using a 64-bit version of Vista? Listen, Sechs, wiseguy :drunk:, I already have XP on my everyday m/c. I bought VHP 64-bit explicitly to use more RAM with PS CS3, with the intention of dual-booting...

If your package is 10 mbps,why are you still getting 5? 7 or 8 or 9 I can understand, but half the rated speed sucks.

So are there any tricks to getting PS CS3 to work with Vista 64-bit Home Premium?

Thanks, e_dawg!

Congrats, Chewy!