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It's a lost cause, Tannin. America is especially good at corrupting language. It has something to do with always taking the easy way out. (You can probably guess that I was educated elsewhere).

Did that too. I have a gazillion icons on my desktop, and they all get buggered when I run in safe mode and I have to rearrange them when I'm back in normal mode. IIRC there's a program somewhere on the web that saves the positions of the icons and restores them on boot; I'll have to find it...

Me too.

I'm shocked at you, Tannin. Poor Tea must be feeling really bad about this.

Thanks Tim and Tannin. IE has been buggered for months. My AdAware and Spybot scans (and Housecall, with their spyware scanning option) say my system is clean. I am, however, running Spywareblaster. My problems started after installing it, and integrating it with Spybot -- immunizing, running...

What's the big deal? A quarter of eight is two.

Firefox is my main browser, but I have to use IE for Windows update, Office Update etc. It's buggered enough that it doesn't even fully load pages at MS that FF can load in a flash. It's up to date. How can I fix it? (please, reformat/reinstall Win2k is not possible at this time). TIA.

Wonder if this can be slipstreamed into a W2k CD.

MS has (today) updated and re-released the Post-SP4 Security rollup for Win2k because Verison 1 contained bugs, including "a bug in restarting Windows 2000". I'm still reading the News.com article. It may be worthwhile installing this new version to see if the problem you have been battling will...

Tannin & Mubs: Founding Charter Members of the M.A.S.

"Quarter of 5" sounds really weird to me. Shouldn't it be "Quarter to 5"?

Some irritants here for Sechs.

Sir Tannin: Two suppositions back to back is defintely wrong. In this case, it would be better to say it like you have quoted it - putting the supposition immediately before each phrase instead of together in the front. But if you said "suppose we go out and the police stop us to make sure the...

I hope he know about the "phantom limb" phenomenon and its associated pain and such.

"If, suppose, you win the game, ......" or its twin, "Suppose, if we were to go out...". Redundancy. What I really detest is "goes". As in, when a conversation is being related, "He goes, 'When did you get here?' I go, 'Yesterday.' He goes, 'Why didn't you call me?' I go, 'I was too busy'" etc...

"I was at the ATM machine when you visited my home." ATM = Automated Teller Machine. So, "I was at the Automated Teller Machine machine when you visited my home."

Now you're really in trouble!

Fushigi: you're only looking at things from our (common man) point of view. Don't forget that the rich are getting richer, and the few percent in this country that are rich are very, very rich. They will pay (without feeling any pain of the monetary kind) for dental and surgical work.

It was designed and made several years ago by a Korean auto firm, I think Daewoo.

In the near term, professions that provide personal service will be ok. In the future, those will be at risk too. Local physicians are already being replaced by remote physicians using telemedicine. In the medium term (maybe 30 years?) your massage therapist and the waiter at your favorite...

It's happening. Students in the U.S.A. being tutored by teachers in India. News.com story.

I should try these on my p-3 900 / Radeon 9000 system :mrgrn:

i, thanks for the explanation of dryness / corneal problems. I think that's exactly what happened to me. Now I remember, the opto told me to use artificial tears when I first started having problems, but things just kept getting worse. I couldn't wait to get home and pluck those nasty contacts...

You can either handle it or you can't. I tried them in 1989 and almost went blind - corneal scarring because of hypersensitive corneas. I had to go to a specialist who said I could continue using them if I wanted to go blind. On the other hand, there are others in the family who have been...

Doctors Emerging As Heroes of Katrina jtr, at least read the second block in that news item.

Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor

The unbelievable has happened! FEMA Chief replaced And only a few days ago, Bushie publicly said "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job".

Apaprently after Miami Zoo anilams wandered around after a recent hurricane, the NO zoo upgraded its precustions. That's good. The sad news is that along ith the human suffering, up to 50,000 pets are slowly dying from starvation and lack of potable water in NO.

Here. A side of the former Chief Justice I didn't know; anti-semetic, etc.

JSF: in all fairness, I didn't fully read your post, just skimmed through it. But something to know: fully 1/3 of the population was below poverty line. Fully 1/2 of the children were below the poverty line. Those are pretty grim statistics. Granted, there are always no-gooders in every sample...

No you're not, Merc. Todays' L.A. Times Editorial starts off thus: Bolding mine. I like the way they skewered him on leadership.

I'm afraid, sir, you've missed your true vocation in life!

jtr, you answered your own question, and Fushigi's post explains it as well. Fushigi, your photo op link made me sick to the stomach. I actually turned green. Don't want to puke... In it the author says "You are being lied to, and lives have been lost because of it." It wouldn't be the first...

Net beats Feds in hurricane response. How bloggers, ham radio operators, tech-savvy people swung into action while the powers that be fiddled. Thank you for that post, Fushigi. It's amazing what 5 years can do to the country.

You think so? Bush to Seek $40B in More Katrina Relief Emphasis mine. Must have already spent a fortune on the botched ops so far.

Exactly what I was thinking. For all the money and effort sunk into "Homeland Insecurity", the response has been utterly and totally apalling. There was enough warning of the hurricane. The levee problems were known. What would happen if the bearded-turbaned-one-that-must-not-be-named is...

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My Antec SX 1030 is made of 1mm steel, and I stuck Dynamat (tar-based sound deadening they put in cars) all over the inside. It really weighs a lot - 50+ pounds. It's very difficult to carry from one room to another. But it's very quiet.

Ben's Bargains: ZipZoomFly.com has the MSI RX800-TD128E Radeon X800 PCI Express 128MB DDR Video Card w/HDTV-Out & DVI for $149 - $30 rebate [Exp 9/30] = $119 with free shipping.

Tannin, this may interest you: Power lines may provide a haven for bees.

My W2k system shuts down and restarts properly, but has major problems with standby. Device Mangler info: ACPI Multiprocessor PC Driver Details: 5.00.2195.7006 hal.dll 5.00.2195.7006 kernel32.dll 5.00.2195.7006 ntdll.dll 5.00.2195.7045 ntkrnlpa.exe 5.00.2195.7045 ntoskrnl.exe 5.00.2195.7034...

Not true. There are options to : a) produce a "mirror-image" in the destination, which means if you delete something in the source, Syncback will delete the same thing in the destination (what you're afraid of). IIRC, Syncback calls this "sync" b) make a "backup". In this mode, Syncback will...

Just noticed your sig. Yeooow!

Yup, pretty solid. The free stuff is adequate for me, so never tried the SE version. IIRC, you are the one that made a post about it (when you were looking for a similar tool); that's how I heard about it and started to use it.

TMD - long, long ago, far, far away.... Just where are you guys seeing this nick anyway?? Did he just sign up but hasn't posted yet?

Maybe.. But with this Feng Shui Motherboard, your system will never crash... I've lost the original link, but here are the details:

VLK = Greek. Will the key they stick on the machine's side work with this VLK thing? Thanks!

Thanks Pradeep. I had a senior moment and forgot to respond to Greg.

Tannin, now that Carly is gone, email that link to Mark Hurd here.