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A truly talented guy!

No need to be your usual gentle self, Handruin. They're actually a nightmare to deal with. Initially, a business thinks, "we'll get big selling to WM". Then over time, WM becomes their biggest customer, and then often, their only customer. That's when WM makes them sing the high notes. I read...

Naw. I think she can bit back real good.

Sir Merc: I am not fond of WalMart either. But you grossly underestimate the beast. Notwithstanding everything Buck and you have said, the beast is unstoppable. Like the Borg, everything in its path will be assimilated. Someday, they'll be too big, and assuming the politicians (note I didn't...

Watch out, Dell, HP!

Thanks for the confirmation, Howell! Vhy? You talk like that? Seriously, I don't want to make fun of anybody. I just think that accent is cute sometimes. Like in Germany, Web address are like vvv.storageforum.net. Like "Mawy Mawy, quite contwawy". Like East Indians who mix ws and vs, saying...

Gee, that was awesome - thanks, Howell! You're the best! The first link (dvdrhelp.com) seems to have a wealth of info. I'll try it out this weekend and post here. Thanks again.

Somebody with cash to spare ought to try this.

Tventy-vun views and nary a comment. Hmmm......

Ol Merc seems to have an ant in his pants...and he can be a mighty stubborn lad too.

dd, I haven't tried it yet :oops: (hangs head in shame). People may laugh at me, but I usually use EZ CD Cremator for my burning needs. You see, I'm too lazy to experiment (at my age, I've done enough of that), so I use whatever works for me. I have Nero installed on my W98 boot (I triple boot...

I want to "bust" a system recovery CD, update the OS to the latest service pack, update the drivers, and then burn it. I've never worked with ISO files. Which tool would be best? WinISO is the first to come to mind. Any recommendations, comments, practical experience with this and like tools...

What do you use then, Merc?

Don't tell me there's a jumper on the card....

Whew! A lot of posts all of a sudden. I didn't time my compresssion, so I can't be definitive. Going by gutfeel, it seems slow. But that could be because of the reasons I've already mentioned. Compression resluts (damn Merc and his Veronica) seem to vary; my Netscape email went from ~318MB to...

You're right! :oops: You know, the m/c is 100% stable, but when it was my main m/c, I could not get Caldera Linux (2.x, I believe), to install. No matter what. It would crap out during install with a fatal error and reboot immediately, so I didn't even know what the error was. I tried...

So Intel's into poetry now? :P

Seconded. Going about killing those handsome animals! Tsk, Tsk. I'll bet one of the four hunters was Pradeep. Why do you think he bought a set of expensive snow tyres for his car? Just you wait, DB, when it really snows, he'll out-tyre and out-gun ya.

Maybe I'll try Winzip's command line and see what happens?

It seems to choke a lot on .pdf files. Dunno why. And .exe files too. So you think it'll still be slow if I build an Opteron 248 system with 15k.3 drives?

Ha ha, that's funny, Blake!

I tried replying here twice yesterday, trying to use additional emoticons, and it crapped out on me both times. I'll stick to just the standard emoticons now. I sent an email to support@ some outfits that make compresison programs. Pkware said sorry, no can do. :evil: Winzip said they had a...

Back when the 300A came out, I bought a BH6 and overclocked the 300A 50%. When I built my current m/c circa December 2000, the BH6/300A became my daughter's m/c. I've ripped all her CDs (stuff like Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc.) and they run on a virtual CD drive; I got tired of swapping 25+...

jtr, I agree with you on the money issue. I've never wanted to be super rich; just have enough to pay the bills, have decent housing, transportation, health care and educate my one kid well so that she can do likewise. Having a decent pot will take the worry off tomorrow, and let dreamers like...

I guess you're right in that SATA can be pretty competitive with SCSI assuming the drives are similar (RPM, TCQ, etc.). But I think SAS will get the upper again when it comes out, no?

Aah! The precise Fushigi! I hear you, but the issue in this post was SCSI drives, SCSI controllers and transfer rates. As such, the host, controller cache and OS are immaterial. I've never personally used SCSI, so pardon my ignorance and correct me if I'm wrong. If you have an 8-drive RAID-5...

Fushigi's running 65 raided drives in 8 sets on one host; he said that in response to a post I'd made, but I can't seem to find that post right now to reference it. He's got practical knowledge of this situation; maybe he can shed some light on this.

Stumbled across this. Maybe you should check it out.

Thanks folks. I'll mention it here if I find something that meets my needs.

Weird thing is that I was mostly going by gut feel; didn't recognize any of them. That's how I got 3 wrong. There was a guy who looked like a nut-case, but was a sw inventor, and the killer in the tie fooled me too.

Thanks for the replies. CityK, I don't want to end up with a single archive file. That means I don't want the directory structure (and all of the files) inside the archive. Blake has understood what I'm trying to do. Ideally, the original filename is left intact, and the archive type (zip...

Anybody know of a Zip program that'll do this: Replicate a given tree structure and each file in it to a new destination, compressing during replication. In other words, I don't want a 6-level tree structure with 35 directories and 2000 files total being compressed down to one archive file...

Here. I got 7/10 correct.

IMHO, the 1900FP and the newer 1901FP have much better specs. I know somebody with a Dell 1700FP; it sucks so bad, I couldn't use it if it were my monitor. I also got a 1900FP for somebody; it's an absolutely gorgeous, beautiful monitor; a pleasure to look at and use all day.

Thanks, Blake, will try that.

A family I know (that lived in Texas) moved to London (guy's company offered him the top post there). I understand the DL tests are extremely stringent there; you fail for the most (what we could consider) innocuous reasons. After a couple of years of using their American licenses, time is...

Can anybody suggest software that can burn pics on a CD so it can be viewed on a DVD/TV? Support for folders will be helpful. Ideally, should be capable of navigation; next pic, previous pic, up one level, etc. Prog needs to be Windows based. Freeware will be ideal, but a reasonable price will...

No matter what, no matter how your idea is perceived, patent them first before you do anything else. I'm serious. I've had several ideas I did nothing about, and they've come to market. I could have been velly velly lich by now if I hadn't been (and continue to be) such a sloth.

You're kidding me! What can you see on that tiny screen??!!

So you're running Win XP Pro, IE 6.0, Office 2003 and the latest WMP on it? I guess it swaps wirelessly to your service provider's servers.

Thanks, e_dawg. I moved to w2k when it was released and am still on it.

We're real sassy tonight, ain't we Merc? Thanks Blake. I certainly don't need additional bloat. Think I'll stay with good ole 5.5.

Whodja think the disclaimer at the beginning of my post was aimed at? :wink:

I know, I know, a lot of you gag at the mention of the word, but for many reasons, IE is my main browser. I use FB 0.7 about 40% of the time. Way back, I read something somewhere that IE 6 was evil, and stayed with 5.5. I can't even remember now what I read. Any reasons not to upgrade? Thanks...

Holy crap, you guys scare me. Is this the U.S. we're talking about or some third world country with no regard for the environment? I guess I'd better ask here if I ever move. Great as the web is, finding this kind of info is next to impossible; either it ain't there or the S/N is too poor.

How old is it? It may be dying. In my experience from some years ago, Samsung montiors tended to die early. My Viewsonic PT775, purchased circa April 1999 and in use since then (except for one year in-between when it was in the box) exhibits symptoms of flicker when viewing an all white page...

I was trying to point out that the reason HP is doing this is because the mom-pop types account for a big chunk of the market. Because they offer faster, better service that the big guys can't match. Wasn't this point debated at length with y'all on one side and Mr. H. Dell on the other?

Infoworld article explains rationale.

Thanks Coug. It's my day to apologize. Me no speak French :(