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In the Fellowes instance, Buck, the switch is a 3-way switch - center position is off, depress one way is forward (shred) and depress the other way is reverse, which spits out the accumulated crud between the teeth and if there is a paper jam, clears it. The reverse part of the switch is broken.

While the machines are rugged enough, the switches seem more prone to break. Back in the days when shredders were horribly expensive (~1997), I bought a small one that worked fine, but the switch went kaput after about 14 months of sporadic use. I bought a larger Fellowes cross-cut sometime in...

Buck seems to take after Henry Ford!

I've wondered about that myself!

Congrats, Sir Fushigi! Your posts have always been balanced and measured, and a must read.

I'm glad for two things - they know who did it, and they have photos of the guy! Rest assured, unless he flees the country, he will be caught.

Humans are a sub-species of rabbits.

Congrats from me as well, Jojo!

Glad for you! Are you on the "artistic design" side or the "engineer the artistic design" side (I suspect)?

Just did. It doesn't.

Thanks, Merc, great tip. Would be nice to use this as a stepping stone to upgrade to something better. If you buy PS Elements, But the Avery Digital Photo Paper * see here. Not sure if the Express version qualifies.

It's not just IT work. EKGs are sent there for diagnosis. Financial analysts there do the leg work for Wall Street analysts. Lawyers there do pre-trial discoveries etc. for cases here. I don't think it will ever stop; this "globalization" thing has structurally changed the economy. It's not...

Thanks, Time, I'll check them out.

Do you need an FCC licence for it? I bought a pair of GMRS walkie-talkies recently for next to nothing, and found out I need an FCC licence for them because they have a 5 mile radius (don't remember the watts). The licence costs $75. I returned the radios - just wasn't worth it. I believe the...

Care to tell me how? I know there have been good deals recently, but I didn't need it then :)

ROFL! Will, you're right, I am going to have a learning curve. Admittedly, PS and its cheaper sibling are among the best at what they do, and I might as well t-r-y to go that route. Anybody at all use Paint Shop Pro? CorelDraw 12?

Olympus ships their own sw - Camedia. It's able to do the bare basics, but can't properly do an absolute must - red-eye removal.

The usual - brighten, darken, adjust contrast, red-eye removal, adjust color, hue, saturation, exposure. If I can fix different parts of a photo, that'll be really great - like overexposed sky with underexposed subject. I don't think I'll ever be purposely blurring the photo or sticking alien...

I'm new to this. Need some guidance wrt 2 issues: 1) Which sw to use. I know Photoshop is the std., but it's out of reach price-wise. Even PS Elements is $100. Anything cheaper that works? Paint Shop Pro 8.0 seems to have very mixed reviews on Amazon. $40 after rebate at Costco. 2) Can...

I'll third the drive letter problem. Installed a 10-in-1 reader with 2 slots that gobbles up 2 drive letters. But Tea's point about convenience is very important. I take it everybody here prefers to pull the media out of the camera to transfer images? This is one thing that really bugs me -...

J. I'm following in the footsteps of the Hon'ble Sechs & Merc. As an aside, in some stores that accept only cash, I've seen signs that read "In God we trust, rest strictly cash". Maybe the inscription should be changed to read "In God And Cash We Trust"

LM, I take it you're a "Canon person"? Like coffee people and tea people, the camp seems to be split mainly between Canon and Nikon (I'm not counting the large-format guys, the specialist guys, etc., just ordinary guys like me). My first serious photo experiences in my late teens was with a...

Cool, thanks! Sounds like a really useful feature to have.

What does it do? How can it stabilize the image if the camera shakes? Pray tell.

I hope they feed him Spam (the thing in a can made by the food company) and n-o-t-h-i-n-g else. Spam for breakfast, Spam for lunch, Spam for dinner, everyday, for as long as he's in prison.

Congrats, 'deep! Have one on me as well.

I know Tim asked to be bitten, but I didn't think Sechs and DD had cannibalistic notions... ;)

Tim, thanks for your help. I am most certainly not belittling you. It's just that so much confusion exists. I'm happy with the Census Bureau defs., except they don't seem to define all the regions I listed in my original post.

Yay! I've proven my point! I get really upset when I see references (in written communications) to places using these terms; it's so bloody vague. Why can't people be more specific. Seriously, guys, is there an offical definition by Big Brother? Maybe the Census Bureau, maybe another dept...

Thanks for the painstaking reply, Tim. I'm presuming the list you made is reasonably accurate? This is why I get confused: Michigan, Indiana, Ohio et al are considered Midwest states?? When I look at a map, they are in the easternmost quarter of the mainland. I guess I'll never understand this...

Jeeze, that's why I posted here, because the definitions seem to vary on where I looked for answers!

At the risk of sounding like a complete retard, what states are included in the following definitions: Midwest Northeast Southeast Northwest Southwest Southern East West I'm referring to the U.S. of course. While some of these may seem obvious, I have doubts like how much west does the...

Sorry folks, I've been busy. An abosulute requirement is simplicity. If ever there was a plcae that need the KISS principle like fire needs oxygen, this is it. We're talking major computer phobes here - people who don't know what Windows Explorer is, and for whom Windows for Dummies would be...

Blake, that was very perceptive of you. The sub-folders will indeed be burned to CD from time to time. Thank you for mentioning Simply Safe Backup 2004. I checked it out, and it indeed has the date criteria, which is great. But it seems to create a single file in the destination, a back-up...

No. Unlike some people here, neither am I a bigot, nor do I have a desperate need to prove I'm right and others are wrong.

Doesn't it scare you? That war driving business is all bull. You don't need t drive; it's all delivered right to your system! When I set up a wireless network a while ago, I found a couple of networks with good signals. I was doing my thing in a single family detached home, mind you. The one I...

Bad boy Merc. Being cryptic.

I'm itching to say many things, but won't. This argument is completely pointless. I should have followed the advice of the wise ones in a similar earlier thread and kept my trap shut.

I've never heard of this one -- tell me it ain't so! There used to be such a limit to files in the root of a logical drive, but AFAIK there is none for for a folder that is in the root of a drive. Yup. I honestly don't know; it depends on the app, and the contact for the app left that company...

Thanks Howell. You said very well what I was trying to convey.

Thank you, everybody, for your time, effort and patience! Sechs and Will: If you've read the problem def (as our friend Howell puts it), you'll see there's date logic and file/folder size issues involved. This is not a simple copy from one folder to another; I'd have written a script/batch...

Jeeze! Are you guys saying "somebody", whether it's the Govt. or the founding fathers "gave" you your rights??? I'm totally with sechs on this one; "All rights are agreed upon by a society." Where did the founding fathers come from? Who does the Govt. represent?

Thanks, Handruin, I'll look into Perl / PHP. Jeff, thanks for the suggestion. My understanding was that AutoIt records mouse and keyboard movements for playing back later (like recording a macro in Word or Excel). Maybe I'm wrong, I'll take another deeper look at it. Howell, Folder "P" is an...

Question: Is something that was relevant 200 years ago still relevant today? I ask because while the founding fathers were amazingly far sighted and brilliant beyond comprehension, they lived in a different time. I'm just raising the possibility that while guns were needed back then, they're...

e-dawg, I have to agree with Buck. There's more crap out there than anybody can keep track of. A program associated with a recommendation made in this forum (Daemon tools) has malware in it (I've mentioned it in the tools section; Daemon tools itself is clean). The purpose of posing my...

Forgot - the set up is ~ 3.5 years old now.

Antec 300W PS that came with my Antec case: Tyan Tiger 100 MB 2 x P3-800/100 @ 900/112 4 x 256 MB Crucial DRAM Radeon (Original ) AGP Card Promise Ultra-100 PCI Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound card Linksys PCI NIC Adaptec 5-port USB 2.0 PCI 2 x HDD 1 x DVD-Rom 1 x CD-RW 1 x FDD 2 x 92mm case...

I'd like to automate something for a client - file copy based on some logic. Folder "P" keeps accumulating files (it lives on a dedicated 250 GB drive). Periodically, the new files added to folder "P" need to be copied to sub-folders inside folder "Q" (on another drive). The sub-folders are...

I guess it's pretty safe to assume Buck uses NOD32 himself. What does Merc use? And others here? Am I the only one (shame, shame) using NAV? It's never let me down so far. Of course, I'm careful in how I use the Internet/mail etc. I have never (and still don't) use any Outlook variant...

Thanks, HD, I'll check them out.