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Thanks all, very interesting choices! Whatever device I get, I need to drastically reduce the load on my index finger; 90% of the problem is from overuse of the poor bugger. I don't think I care for scroll wheels anymore; they add to the load on the index finger. Trackballs with buttons on the...

Thanks all, for the kindness, I'm checking out all the links...

Hear, hear! Exactly how I felt about it at the time. Not only that, all those billion-dollar corporations that didn't apply patches released weeks earlier, who then cried foul when they were compromised. Gimme a break.

I've been using scroll mice since they came out, and my index finger has finally had it with clicking and scrolling. My left hand has other problems (tennis elbow?) so I can't use that. Trackballs also have buttons that need to be clicked. Circa 1994 a gal that worked with me had a similar...

Nah, I stole the pic from googling. No wax statue of me; I ain't famous and plan to stay that way.

Congrats, Will! May the whole family live long and prosper.

All right, Buck, go on, keep insulting me. That's a 1401; the first "real" mainframe for commercial enviroments. It's scientific computing twin was the 1620. The 1401 boasted 16k of magnetic core memory (of which 80 bytes were dedicated to the card read buffer, 80 bytes were dedicated to the...

Since we're into pictures now, this used to be my system (didn't have the added memory, though). I learned to program on this puppy.

*Don't* buy anything Westinghouse makes. They're all nukillear powered.

Apart from price, isn't there another major problem? The limited number of writes to Flash?

My systems, from most-used to least-used: 1) Built Dec. 2000; my main system Antec SX 1030 with 300 watt Antec PS (came with case) Tyan Tiger Rev. F. dual slot-1 mainboard 100 MHz, BX chipset 2 x Abit Slotkets 2 x P3-800 FC-PGA coppermine 100 MHz @ 112 MHz 4 x Crucial PC-133 256MB ATI 9000...

Buy dual core. You get most of the benefit at a much lower price and complication. My slot-1 P3 machine mentioned above is a dual-cpu box; otherwise it would not have been usable this long. And no matter that most programs are single-threaded; any multi-cpu capable OS will utilize both...

Whatever's causing it, whether it's temporary or a more significant change, the weather has been goofy in a lot of places on the planet in the last 15 months. Raining when and where it shouldn't, unseasonably hot or cold, etc. Some of the links in the link I provided are scary to read -...

Hot Enough for Ya?

Lookin for a fight, eh, DD?

Sorry to be getting back on topic again. Maybe it would be wise of me then to 'ang on to me sturdy slot-1/P3-800 machine for another year and go straight to socket 1207? :mrgrn: (in the background: "Stop the world and let me off....I'm tired of going round 'n' round...")

I'm surprised, Time & Merc. I was a staunch Wordperfect user, having used it from version 4.2. At one employer, they used Word (ver. 2?) and I hated it. But over time, they have really improved it. WP has bugs carried over from several versions. I kept upgrading it till ver. 10, hoping it would...

Yeah, I read about it. All things eventually must pass.

Unfortunately, more and more stuff I read in the press these days is of this quality. You can read for 5 whole minutes and not have the faintest idea what the piece is about. When I was a child, I was told to read the newspaper to improve my communication skills and English. Not true anymore...

How did you fix it?

Well done, MS.

Groltz, I've never had this problem with Firefox 0.5 onwards, at Anandtech; I tried it just now with FF 1.0.4, and it spawns a new tab showing the "print" version of the article or review. The extentions I have installed are: ChromEdit 0.1.1.1 Tab Mix 0.2.1 netcrafttoolbar 1.0.3.1 The last...

Fascinating story at FastCompany. Robert Hare, professor emeritus from the University of British Columbia, created the Psychopathy Checklist, a 20-item personality evaluation that has exerted enormous influence in its quarter-century history. He says many CxOs are psycos...

Thanks, Will. I must have had a senior moment and forgotten to provide the link.

Seconded. My wife is an avid tea drinker, and so is her family (my family and I are coffee drinkers). She makes it the Indian way - chai - milk, tea and water all boiled together, strained, and drunk. Sometimes the sugar is added to the boiling stuff, sometimes later to the cup. She's one of...

What a beaut! Thanks for sharing that, Buck.

Wasn't a bother at all, I wouldn't have mentioned anything if you hadn't made a post on the topic :)

:D At the top of this thread, I said I run W2k. If I was into eye-candy, I'd be running WXP. My Word/Excel appearance (including the toolbars) have looked the same since Office 97. I was a staunch WordPerfect user, but that product went completely downhill after Novell bought it. Office has...

Registration required, but you can get ID/pw from BugMeNot.

I considered that, Tannin. Coping with this issue and reinstalling Office 2000 is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Other than this one problem, Office 2003 had a lot of subtle improvements I like.

Aah, Fushigi, I think you hit the nail on the head. IIRC, previous versions created the temp file in C:\Docs&Settings...., but this one creates it in the same folder that the original is in. Opening the file read-only does not modify the folder date, so that's good. I guess I'll have to use this...

Thanks, Groltz.

Couldn't seem to find upgrade instructions. Can I just install on top of 1.04? Thanks.

I've been running W2k since it was released. I've gone from MS Office 97 to 2000 to 2003. Sometime after installing Office 2003, I noticed some strange behaviour. I have a lot of Word files, each inside its own folder. When I open a Word document, and then close it without making any changes...

Yup. I tried to post and it asked for ID/pw etc., so I backed off. Thanks.

Sorry, The Greasemonkey page is here.

The Inquirer.

No problem. I'm sill on Slot-1. Someday I'll leapfrog to the latest/greatest, YEA!

Darn bloody right. And a darn important point. Also, Drakantus, consider having a bicycle. jtr is a great proponent of that, so I'll shut up now.

Thanks for the clarification, Mercutio.

Continuing Sechs' comments, see Firefox figures skewed, says Opera chief at The Inquirer. As usual, the brief article is somewhat incoherent, but is the basic premise sound?

I know it's fun to diss HP, but laser printers are something they do really well. Apart from the points Merc makes about them, I've sen them run and run and run in corporate environments. The HP LaserJet 4 is an all time classic, widely acknowledged to be the best laser printer ever designed and...

Coug makes it into the dictionary!

Thanks, Tony and Gary.

Thanks Mercutio & Buck. It's also good to know that quality support is still alive and well.

Certainly! Can you please mention the case brand/model and vendor? Thanks.

GDIDK. Hmmmm. Google asks if I meant FDISK? I've never heard of it, and apparently neither has Google (shows a bunch of links in foreign languages).

Just had a 5.7 about 15 minutes ago. Shook pretty bad. Then there was that offshore (California) one a couple of days ago. And the one in Chile a few days before that. Maybe living out in the open in a tent is a good idea.

Where do you buy your Sanyo rechargeables, LM?