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Why is that? I'd think the voild's biggest / most important market would be the US of A.

DD is the smartypants for deducing the meaning from the context (I'm sure the others did too, but he claimed it first). I am *really* surprised Clocker and Groltz didn't know about CKD. It's very common in the auto industry, and I'd think many complex aviation assemblies are shipped CKD and put...

Adcadet: Newer Dell monitors have been criticized for a variety of problems; proceed with caution. Buck: thank you. In India Samsung sells: 19.0" SyncMaster 940B - 16.2 M colors, so methinks this is a lower bpp panel :puke-l: 20.1" SyncMaster 204T :cooler: 21.3" SyncMaster 214T :drinka...

Thanks everyone for the time and effort. Merc made a lot of good points, but Buck hit it on the head. Many rights aren't well defined in India (where I'm at). I have no choice of ISPs; it's this one, whose speed / reliability is the minimum acceptable, or dial-up where I pay by the minute for...

Surely you mean that in a relative way? You come by once every two months, don't you? :crap: Thinking of going on your own, Gary? What I've seen is that abilities/skills matter less than a certain mindset that you have or don't have.

I used a self-service instant-prints kiosk at WalMart once (the wife was hounding me for hard copies). The prints were not on photo paper, and the colors sucked elephants balls. I was mad, but the line to get an attendant's attention was about 2 miles long. Threw away the prints, went to Costco...

:crap: Merc's going over to the dark side.

Anyone know the difference between a 204B and a 204T? is it just cosmetic / color or is there a functional difference? Thanks.

I think I'm too old for the crowd here!

Hmmmmm. If I had 4 PCs on an internal network, and only one of those had an Internet connection and the other 3 were sharing that connection with ICS, and each of the 4 was doing an http download, wouldn't the destination port used be identical in all of them? From a TCP point of view? Of course...

Sheesh, guys. I can forgive Adcadet, but you should know better, Groltz. m/c = machine. In this context, PC. CKD = Complete Knocked Down. A fully assembled, working machine (or automobile) is dis-assembled into it's component parts and shipped. It is then re-assembled at the destination for...

Thanks DD & Sechs. Logically, I'd have to think the packet has some kind of identifying info for the router to send that packect to the specific IP address that requested it on the private network. So in theory, they should be able to tell if there is sharing or not. Since these guys also are...

After checking out the Scythe Ninja and the ThermalRight SI-120, I bought the SI-120. I've burned the m/c in, but haven't had the chance to use the m/c extensively. Will be reasembling the CKD (after moving) soon.

My ISP forbids sharing. They use the NIC's MAC address hard-coded into their server which authenticates it on login. All internet access is possible only after login. Their TOS says one connection = one computer and any violation will result in cancellation of service. My contact guy claims...

Sad. The guy was fearless.

Thanks, but I'll defer that for now. Over time I've found that my likes/dislikes are quite similar to Merc's, and I know how he feels about Opera 8-) At this time, time, I just don't have the energy to give up Firefox and try another browser.

How about "Karajan audio module; Realtek ALC850 8-channel AC’97 audio CODEC"? Do I sense a contradiction between Realtek ALC850 and AC'97, or does this mean the ALC850 can also support AC'97? And is the Realtek ALC850 acceptable?

Which version of TinyXP do you recommend, Merc? A search throws up a lot of stuff and many dead links.

I probably should install some kind of DNS caching program and / or use IP addresses in bookmarks. My slow connection gets slower with repeated lookups to my favorite sites. Plus I pay for bandwidth usage, and it makes no sense to do the same lookups multiple times a day. Any suggestions? TIA.

Cautious fella. Like me.

I read a couple of days ago that Hef sleeps with 3 women in his bed (in their early 20s), and he claimed the sex was good. What's he now, 82?

Live long and prosper, DD!

Their supplier's selling 'em bad weed.

Mylar most certainly conducts; mylar balloons are every electric utility's nightmare when they short transmission wires they come in contact with. But I don't think they can sustain a decent VA for any appreciable length of time. But that's not something you want to test in your lighting...

Latest motherboard BIOS and latest network drivers for both Win & Linux?

Indeed, the world does turn on a dime. Like the auto mfrs. saving 10 cents per seat and causing umpteen deaths because the seats break in a crash.

Really? It's still August, man, the season of brush and wild fires and hot days.

Too bad he quit his day job. Not my cup o' tea - too guttural.

Unholy Crapola! More Crud n Fud to deal with.

You're welcome, DD.

You're a strange fella. Me, I'm invisible, so you won't know when I'm here.

After all this "sell your soul for a Core Duo" business, I was feeling bad about having just invested in a 939-socket 4400+ system. You guys cheered me up. Thanks :-D

A tad too late! Grrrrrrrr. p.s. Merc will understand what I mean.

I'm quite happy with my 2 x modified Antec SX-1030 cases. You may want to check out the Antec P150 as well.

You're a brave man, Handruin! Several vehicles I've owned have been cursed with warped rotors, and like you said, the problem never ever goes completely away. Glad you fixed it once and for all. Me, I'm too lazy, and dont have the strength to wrestle with nuts tightened by a pneumatic driver or...

If you need to dial a digit like 9 to first get an outside line, make sure that's been put in the modem properties dialog.

Buck: I've only used the Workstation product, and that too in Windows. You start VMWare (just like any other program); tell it you want to create a new virtual m/c; reply to the prompts; start the new VM; install your virtual guest OS in the VM. That's it, in a nutshell. Networking between the...

Ditto. Howell was going thru some rough times a while back. I really hope things improved for him and didn't actually get worse. It's human nature to become more sensitive when we go thru rough times. Doug, you're fine just the way you are. You locked a couple of my threads, but I never took...

Greg: I DID NOT SEND YOU A MODEM!!!

As an individual, you are able to purchase two types of licenses for an MS OS. Retail, boxed copies can be freely moved from one PC to another, and from one owner to another so long as the old and new owners are complying with the EULA (can be installed on only one PC at a time, etc.) OEM...

Sadly, this apears to become more true with the passage of time. My sadness comes not from the fact that we might become extinct, but that we are making entire species of flora and fauna extinct first, and from ruining this planet beyond reasonable hopes of recovery.

That is why I thought it was worth posting here.

Sechs: Sarcasm is all fine and dandy, and no, I'm neither retarded not living in an asylum. As Gilbo said, the articles are thorough, and while I'm fully aware that we're gang-raping the planet, I wasn't aware of the gory, sickening details. For instance, I wasn't aware of the problem off...

I want to thank the several generous SF members who have offered to let me download the VMWare servers from their own sites. Earlier today, I downloaded an open source download manager, and it is gasping and choking, but it got the Windows version of the server downloaded (MD5 hashes match!)...

Maybe I'm dense, but my understanding is that the two have formed a new venture. That does imply a merger of the two, or a takeover of one by the other. The news release is typical PR fluff with not much substance, so it's hard to tell.

I renewed my package, got another 1GB download for this month. After downloading 33MB, the VMWare server for Windows download died again. :puke-l: :frusty: What I need is: a) VMware Server for Windows b) VMware Server for Linux - don't know whether I need the TAR or RPM; I plan on trying...

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Thanks Gary. Your kind of testing and numbers are precisely what I was interested in, not synthetic benchmarks in a lab. That's one heck of a performance improvement. And I just bought a pair of the same Hibachis. Oh well. :-D

The only thing you'd fail is a typing test.

Ain't that the truth. Been there, done that. Sorta like Dean Witter's tag line "one customer at a time" - sticking in one chip at a time, bending the pins just-so to make them fit...