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Interesting Reuters News Story on Yahoo about Scorsese's two-part documentary on Bob Dylan to be aired Monday and Tuesday on PBS: "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan". Supposedly very good. Paramount has also released this as a double-DVD set. Guess it's a must for Dylan fans.

So, William, which database do you guys use to handle those gargantuan tables? AFAIK, there are only two gorillas out there, DB2 and Orcale. Sybase has been a has-been for far too long now.

Sheesh. Give the guy a break.

Yes I can, there's a menu option for it. Perhaps. What now? Thanks, Merc. But I'm a freak in many ways, and have been told that to my face by many people many times. :D

Thanks for the tip on color temps, Merc, I had forgotten about that setting in my display. Thanks for the info on the color calibrator, Pradeep. I was aware of the product, but it's something I simply can't afford at this time. Someday perhaps. When I did the calibration (online at JASC), my...

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana. Everything you buy from us, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, or anybody is going to be obsolete in 18 months, or end-of-lifed, or bought by Oracle." -- Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy at the Oracle OpenWorld conference, September 21, 2005.

My display is a Viewsonic PT775. Pretty happy with it except for the size - only 17". Never mind. I've always run it at max contrast (100%) and zero brightness; it provides crisp, saturated colors and is easy on the eyes. Recently, some digital photos I took had a color cast on them - most...

William: they changed it between then and now. It had The Giver on the front page.

In defragmenter, the color green is used to represent "system files". On non-system / non-swap NTFS partitions (even those that are empty), I presume this chunk is actually the MFT. All of my non-system / non-swap NTFS partitions have a big green chunk right at the beginning. They also have a...

SÉCAM's angry that no one's mentioned it. For a pictorial representation of what's used where, look here. William, this link tells you more than you will ever want to know. BTW, a (former?) member of SF is on the front page of Wikipedia today!

So, Tannin, you have a massive DB2 database running on an IBM OS/390 mainframe that keeps tabs (pun intended) of what's in all the gazillion tabs you have open? :o Hmmm, I want to read that page I half-read last fortnight; do a SQL query in DB2; aha! found it; select appropriate browser window...

Sorry to hear that, Explorer :( All indications point to the beast increasing in strength, with the water at about 86F. Things can always be replaced, just take care of yourself and your near & dear.

I have QT 6.5.2. as well. FF 1.0.6. I don't have the other stuff you have.

I use FF, and frequently have problems with watching videos thru FF. However, I didn't have a problem visiting Handruin's link a couple of times other than Quicktime complaining that it needed to download something, to which I said no. The big ad played correctly every time.

Gigglebyte 9600XT it is. Thanks, Merc. Liamc, now you tell me. After I placed the order. :evil:

So, you guys that use Opera, do you use the "groundbreaking E-mail program"? Is it good?

Is Rosewill a good brand?

Thanks Mercutio.

I'm still using P3s on an AGP 1x/2x m/c. This is for another m/c - a P4 based one. I know the fans are evil, but I wonder if passviely cooled will pass muster. The only 9600Pro passivley cooled at Newegg right now is an ATI for $189! I'll look more into this. Thanks.

The 9550's are really attractive in that they're passively cooled. But the m/c may end up being used in hot environments and despite the downsides of failure, active cooling may be a better choice. On paper, the specs indicate the 9600XT has twice the performance. Since this is an AGP card, I...

HawkEye #2.

I need to procure a 1.5v 4x AGP video card. I'm somewhat familiar with Radeon GPUs, but totally ignorant of NVidia's GPUs. Budget is low - $90 or ideally less. I originally thought of 9550 based cards, which would have been ~$65 shipped. For about $25 more, I can double performance (I think) by...

I have bad eyes (I'm no Pradeep HawkEye), and I'm quite comfortable with 1024x768 on a 17" which I've been using since 04/1999. When I used to use a 19" at work, 1152x864 was quite fine. Lower res. on these would blow them up too much for me. So what is the amateur digital photgrapher to do...

Your pirate name is: Captain Morty Bonney Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Thanks, Merc. lask = lack Your = You're Sheesh.

Was that on a single core AMD, Handy?

RW: The lask of logic and clarity in your thought process is self-evident in your post. 1) Change your supplier. Your getting bad dope. 2) If you think we're morons here, you're one as well for visiting and posting.

Type in 'failure' in Google; the first link returned is quite appropriate.

That's in keeping with their habit of twisting and spinning the truth to their own ends.

'Twas the reason I made the post. You won't find ultra-cons saying anything about what happens in Nature. Goes against the concept of "Intelligent Design".

Shiver me timbers, mate!

Hmmm. I thought W2k supported neither hyperthreading nor multi-core CPUs, only real physical CPUs.

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Thanks Will & Merc. A couple of smaller programs I've tried installing actually borked, saying I didn't have .Net installed. needless to say I preferred to fogo installation at that time than install the bloat of .Net. nLite lets you download a few MB of stuff as a substitute for .Net, and...

Thanks, time. I think I'll stick with Syncback for now.

Article here comments on a NY Times report.

Interesting article on this topic. Summary: Apparently Right-Wingers are celebrating March of the Penguins 'cause the Penguins are monogamous for the season, and go to extraordinary lengths to save their young. But there are more documented cases of gay penguins than perhaps any other...

More and more sw seems to require it. I've not installed it so far, but looks like it'll be inevitable. Comments??!! I had the same question about WMV, but I guess it's been answered in the recent thread in the Pub on HD movie files with CityK, Merc, et. al. pitching in, so I'll stay away. TIA.

I've read good things about SyncToy as well (the one Bozo linked).

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Gee, thanks for the skewer, William, I guess I asked for it :wink: Well, first things first. Tannin, I updated (as much as I could) and ran in safe mode the following; keep in mind I only checked drive C, where the OS and all proggies are installed: AVG AV 7.0.344, defs dated 2005/09/16...

She's a beaut, jtr.

We pay again for the ineptitude of his royal screwball-dunceheaded-self-enriching-idiotness. What was that saying, again? An ounce of prevention.....

Sorry to hear that, Greg. Maybe she saw something, chased after it, and got lost? Is she old enough to want company? Maybe she'll come back after a liaison?

I didn't know you could run a 133 MHz bus chip on a 100 MHz bus; thought they wouldn't boot or sumtin. I'll be damned! BTW, I've been running dual 800/100 Coppermines on a BX board in Abit slotkets at 112 MHz = 896 MHz since 12/2000.

I have in the past, Tim. MS now has only the piddly small download for use with online install. Maybe someone knows where I can download the whole thing in one go. I'm sorry I haven't tried the other suggestions yet.

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You're wrong about this. Many Indo-European languages have better structure and grammar. That's why it's so bloody hard for one them to learn an illogical laguage like English. What other languages can you speak, Tannin?

Sechs, I already feel restless knowing that Win XP has a higher priority for M$ than W2k, now that W2k is on life support. The absence of SP5 makes reinstalling W2k a nightmare.

Runing W2k myself, I have the same questions. How good is support for Win2003 for "consumer" grade devices, Merc - video cards, USB, firewire, etc., things that normally wouldn't be thought of as important to a server? Considering most businesses are still using W2k, MS would use a...