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If you buy a WD, Merc will hunt you down and kill you. (Sorry I have nothing useful to say about your question. But saving your life is important, eh?)

LiamC is correct. I have a duallie, and my system does not freeze for the reasons he mentions. However, if I open "My Computer" (or Win Explorer), the drive icons will not appear till the optical drive is read. So having a duallie does not fix the real problem, it only masks it. I have the same...

By Lawrence Lessig. Our Kids Are in Big Trouble.

I can't. It's not mine. This is a brand new m/c, Buck. I installed SpywareBlaster, Spybot, and Ad-Aware SE (the new one), with up-to-date def files, checked everything before I handed it off to the owner. The motherboard is based on an ALI chipset (Athlon 3000+). There may be something wrong...

One 3-year old desktop (that I custom built for somebody) and two recent-vintage HP notebooks are working fine after I installed SP2 on them. One new vomit desktop (CompCrap) is in the shithouse, with spontaneous reboots, constant IE/Firefox crashes, Word 2003 crashes etc. I don't know if it's...

No, no, it's easy. Just have more of those conversations / debates / arguments with all your different selves :lol:

Keep 'em coming, Merc! You're so knowledgeable in so many areas, it's amazing.

I was saddened to read about his passing. A courageous man, indeed. So sad that "Superman" had to die like this.

Best wishes, Howell. It'll be a major change, what with the language, culture, etc. It'll be a great learning as well as humbling experience. More people should do this - go live in a foreign country for a while. Does wonders for perspective. Grandpa out.

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You'd have to install the laptop on the punch card machine, not the other way around!

Lead Levels in Water Misrepresented Across U.S.

How do people here image a laptop that has no FW and at best, USB 1.1 on board? I've spent way too much time trying to get this to work (I'm sure nobody noticed, but I've been AWOL for several days) and am frustrated as hell. There's a site here that sells a DOS Cardbus F/W enabler (among...

If you're buying a DVD burner, wouldn't it make sense to buy a 16x dual-layer so it's future proof for a while? Yesterday Newegg had the NEC for ~$85 US.

Nope. Regular PCI is parallel technology, PCI-E is serial.

Mom's will use this monster to drop-off and pick up their kids from elementary school, and to go to the grocery store. They do that now in Hummers. There must be some truth to all those conspiracy theories out there on the I'net.

You, like, don't get the idea, like, do you?

Ain't it fun to have a neat, fast new toy?? I'd be very interested in your ongoing assessment of the hard drive, Fushigi. Especially the reliability part.

The marketing guys at Navistar are buying bad dope and don't know it.

Me neither.

Thanks Pradeep. After some research, I've become more modest in my demands. Screw the combo card; if FW works well, that's enough. Screw the wall wart; the devices I'll probably be using will have their own power. Outpost.com sells a Syba brand 2-port FW Cardbus card based on an NEC chipset for...

IIRC, all the older versions have vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Safest bet is to not use WMP. FWIW, I'm on W2k Pro, and have WMP ver. 7.10.00.3059.

In another thread, Bozo (I think) suggested WD-40, and I stated I have been using 50 Grade motor oil with excellent results, and Tanin said something about olive oil, I believe. Conditioner makes your hair slick, so I belieive it should prevent head crashes. Obviously, one would want to try this...

I read about two weeks ago that currently the time taken to compromise an unprotected machine on the internet is twenty minutes. 20 minutes. 20 whole friggin minutes. I'm not at all surprised by your experience. These days, Andy Grove's words have become my mantra - Only the paranoid survive.

Have they stopped using Samsung, then? Some years ago they signed a $16B deal to use Samsung components in Dell machines (drives, RAM, etc.) Maybe the contract is up.

Thanks, Fushigi san. I'll just try my luck then. I've heard some grumbling that the Thinkpad T23 (which I have) does not properly support a combo card (something about inadequate resources), so I'm going to try a FW only card and see what happens. I'll report back here with my findings; might...

Adcadet, I once had to do this (provide drivers on removable media) during W2k set up some winters ago. IIRC, if you take out the Windows CD-ROM and replace it with another CD-ROM containing the drivers, WinSetup will seek for the floppy and then look at the CD-ROM. Once it's grabbed the...

I thought Fushigi used a Cardbus card? He's posted on performance with an external drive before.... Nobody else have any suggestions?

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Key requirement is that it should work in DOS (Ghost, DriveImage, etc.); there are various DOS drivers I've downloaded, but I'm hoping somebody uses Ghost with one of these and is satisfied with the performance/reliability. I'd much prefer a USB/FW combo card, and would prefer a power option or...

Ahem. Who's who in the pic?

Handy, guess they don't love you and me. I ain't got none. But I ain't using me account either.

Thanks for the info, Buck. You're a scholar and a gentleman.

$260m down the drain. Parachute failed to deploy, thing crashed to the earth.

Interesting story.

S-C-A-R-Y! The U.S. Navy had something similar afoot a while ago; don't know what transpired.

You've been getting mighty naughty lately, little one.

So, dd, disconnecting the strap fixed the problem??

For a second I thought Howell was talking about Poles and Statistics.

I've seen enough anecdotal evidence that says Hitachi sucks. Samsung's probably the best bet.

82 now (6pm), high of 100 today. Been that way the last 10 days. :cursin: :cursin:

Across the great divide Network map of political books

Myers-Briggs and software development teams

My defrag schedule is also on a manually variable basis, usually once every 3 or 4 weeks. Having an older system, there is a noticeable improvement for a while, mainly in booting (every day). I'm using W2k and NTFS. I shutdown every night. Over the last 6 months or so, booting has become...

jtr, I have Partition Magic and Drive Image, both of which will not touch datestamps. I used WinExplorer in this particular instance because I neded to rearrange a lot of stuff, and since Ii was going to be replacing drives, decided to solve two issues at one stroke. And I moved the folders...

Hope this isn't one of your MSI K8T Neo FSR motherboards??

On a related note, I copied entire partitions back and forth between drives as in drive D --> drive E --> replace drive D --> copy from drive E to new drive D. POS W2k created all folders and sub-folders in the new drive with the current date instead of the original create date. The files are...

A new XP system is terribly fragged to begin with - I don't understand why. The very first defrag of a new system takes ages.