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I must be one of the few in the USA who hasn't seen any movie in the trilogy (haven't read the books either) :cry: Like jtr, I hardly see movies, at the cinema or on TV. Someday I'll get hold of the extended edition DVDs and watch it at home. It won't have the grandeur of seeing it in the...

First, no snide remarks, laughing and poking fun at me. My system is truly “legacy”, but wasn’t when I built it. And if I had the spare cash to build a new one, I would. Second, I’m no gamer. I’ve never played any of the popular games; strictly Solitaire/Freecell/Minesweeper, usually when I’m...

Personally, I'd take a very serious look at Athlon XP-M based systems besides the Pentium-M machines. The faster grades of the P-M machines seem to be terribly expensive. Watch out for maddeningly high resolutions on small size LCDs. The real problem in buying a laptop is finding the right...

1.30.7. The txt file that came with it reads (in part): Linksys, A division of Cisco Systems, Inc. Product: WRT54G Classification: Frimware Release History Firmware Date: 7/08/2003 Release Date: 7/16/2003 Last Firmware Version: 1.30.7...

I installed a Linksys WRT54g Router/AP + 3 x Linksys WPC54g wireless PC Cards for somebody circa November 2003. It didn't support WPA out of the box, but: * flashed the Router/AP to the latest firmware available at that time and * updated the PC card drivers to the latest available at that time...

My interpretation of that marvelous piece of technical writing is: No matter what the cache policy, reads are always cached (read ahead) On writes, "cached" results in write-back; i.e., data is written only to cache, and is written to the drive by the controller at a later time when the drive...

SCO could potentially sue the following, because they use Linux in one way or another: The U.S. District Court in Nevada where the lawsuit against AutoZone was filed The FBI The White House The Department of Defense The Department of Homeland Security US-CERT, the U.S. Computer Emergency...

Thanks for the reply, e_dawg. Notebooks I may possibly upgrade are an IBM T23 and a Dell Lattitude C640.

LunarMist, Thanks for the link for the 7k60. I didn't see any compatibility information. Can one stick one of these into any notebook computer that uses 2.5" drives? I'm wondering about the overall electrical / interface compatibility issues.

Almost all Sonicwall products will satisfy requirements #1, #2 and #4. Maybe they have models that satisfy #2 and #5 as well. Their products are good, but their licensing can suck. At the very least, it won't hurt to check them out. An inexpensive but highly rated line of products is made by...

It has been rightly pointed out to me that: 1) It might be considered rude and embarrassing to be "loudly" asked about a private aspect of one's life in the middle of a room full of people. 2) It might have been better to PM Eric instead. I plead guilty. Being dim-witted, I realized my...

Gosh, I'm sorry to hear of the rough times you've had, Eric. I hope things will get better for you. You're a very nice person, and like me, I'm sure most of the old-timers care about you. Hang in there, will ya? And holler if there's anything I can do to help.

Interesting article from the McKinsey Quarterly, on News.com Infosys is the premier IT company in India. I read a fascinating article elsewhere on how they got started in the early '80s as a three-person outfit. The chairman (the founder) looks like a doofus, but is incredibly intelligent. Bill...

Thanks, Pradeep.

What's the difference between VIVO and AIW cards? Why would you choose one over the other? :o Thanks!

You know, Fushigi, you can have most of these and still be stuck in the mud. I easily have #1, #3 and #5 (as does most everybody at SF). My nose is quite large, and functions pretty well; I've always seen the writing on the wall much sooner than anybody else, but have always had difficulty...

* Sigh * Deep problems, experienced universally, for which there are no easy answers. After several thousand years, you'd think humans would have figured all these things out and nurtured and guided young ones in society to become bright, fulfilled, happy, people. Based on personality, traits...

Well, well, I was replying and got locked out. Adcadet, did you have a swap partition on the IDE drive(s)? If you did, hook it up, boot to PartitionMagic floppys and delete that partition. Nothing else makes sense to me now.

Please, no wisecracks. That's not why I made this post initially - to poke fun, but out of concern. IIRC, his typing skills were quite good before the SR DB crash. I'm also wonder why he doesn't spell check and or do a preview.

Just you wait till the elections, Coug. The pain is deep and wide throughout America. I'll bet that Mr. Bush will be a one-trick pony like his dad.

No, no, no, in no way was I referring to anything other than his typing! He's always been such a sweet, helpful person. I was concerned about his typing. We all make a typo or two, but many of his recent posts seem to be like this one. I just hope he's all right.

Darn double post. Sorry.

Why does Eric (EBB) slur so bad these days -- I hope he's ok. His latest post at SR: IIRC, he was quite fine before the big DB crash there.

Pity. Reminds me of the song rowdy classmates used to sing, back in middle school. Diana, Diana, show me your leg A yard above the knee .....

Search Pricewatch for "ATI VIVO"; there's a ton of choices starting at $49. The real issues are, do you want a "built by ATI" card; do you want a retail version? Do you want a native DVI port on it (I would; and I mean a real DVI port, not a converter for the VGA port)?

Thanks, Howell. Maybe the sequence in which you perform the operations has a bearing on what happens. I couldn't understand why the footer was not getting replicated on each page of the chapter. I wasn't about to cut and paste it 88 times (total number of pages in the entire document...

Ouch! Hope it's nothing serious. Get well soon, fella.

Serves you right. Didn't you try to find Tea on your way back? Just let the little one go off even though she didn't know better? Just left her in the tree and left there by yourself? SHAME ON YOU!!

I am amazed that so many of us share so many similarities WRT our careers. When a person like Merc can't get hired, you know something is terribly wrong with corporate America. My own career has been extremely rocky. Not of my own making. I do all the due diligence one can, everything looks...

Welcome back, Philosopher-in-Residence! You were sorely missed! :salut:

Congrats, JoJo! Gee, when it rains it piurs! First Adcadet, then a surprise from pradeep, and now JoJo! May your lives be filled with happiness, good heakth and prosperity!

Absolutely! Being right about being confused is better than being wrong about being right, isn't it? :mrgrn: I can easily understand the struck object/creature going through the windshield; my confusion was related to the damage to the vehicle's roof.

It appears I don't communicate well; only Merc and his Word Wiz understood my problem. Merc himself tried to solve my problem before passing it on to his Wiz, who said I had done everything right, except I was not executing the very last step. In my mind, Word should have automatically done...

Thanks, Steve! So I was right to be confused after all.

I stumbled across this page; scroll down to the middle with the insurance pics. How did the animal cause so much damage to the roof of the vehicle?? When a vehicle hits the animal, shouldn't the front of the vehicle sustain the most damage? It almost looks like the creature fell from an overpass...

PDF995. It's free for personal use; but will open a browser window each time you use it unless you pay for it (pretty inexpensive). IIRC, I checked out a few free ones before settling on this one. It uses GhostScript in the background; you can download a single combined program that does...

Hedda, thanks for helping, and welcome! You're right, and this is well documented in the help (the way I've learned most everything I know about desktop progs). But I had crossed this stage, as you can tell from the first post in this thread. I couldn't figure out why Word was not repeating the...

There are plug-ins, but I don't know any that are free. Yo can, however, get a free printer-driver, and print anything to it, and it will create a flawless pdf file. Let me know if you want details, I'll look it up for you.

Interesting read. I think it's Merc's pal - the same gal who wrote the "True Porn Clerk Stories" that he provided a link to in a post some time ago.

Not until you don't know a fart from a burp. Not until you fart and burp at the same time. So don't feel bad, old chap.

I only use Word (a lot) and Excel (some). For these, IMHO, Office 2000 is the best release - the most stable, the easiest to use, and the most intuitive (once you set the options correctly). Unless there is a whole new paradigm for the GUI (there are some innovative ones out there; and not from...

For Merc (or anybody for that matter) to become a Wizened Sage, they'll have to grow a long white beard first. That applies to members of the fairer sex too.

Yikes! Wrong thread! Sorry!

All Greek and Latin to me, and I speak neither.

"purple boxes" - then that must be the Barney brand. My Irish friend told me this one. Out in rural Ireland, a farmer was going to go into town. He asked his neighbor, who was fixing his old vehicle, if wanted something from town. So the neighbor said, "Yeah, get me a fan-belt for a blue van".

Gee. I'm typing impaired. Bite. That should be bite. On those rare ocassions when I watch TV (usually to make my daughter happy), I think on Discover or Animal Planet they said that Koalas are the only animals (besides humans, of course) that rape. The male will rape a female even when she is...

Puhleeeze! Let this not become an HTPC thread!

I believe more and more towns are doing the same. Aah! Some sense is sinking in at last.

Firewire cards for $8! - what brand, and where?

And have some time to go for a walk.............