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A friend sent me the following via email. I don't agree with every bit, but it made me think and certainly laugh. I quote: Subject: Fw: Andy Rooney's tips - Telemarketers Andy Rooney's tips re. Telemarketers Three Little Words That Work !! (1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."...

'Course not, Free - the PATA spec included this capability from day one. Buck really intended to say that Merc was going to hot swap an XP1700+ overclocked to 2700+. Not that there's any problem with that either.

Whatcha gonna do next, Merc? Walk on water?! :mrgrn:

That was very beautiful and inspiring, jtr1962! Thank you for sharing and for so eloquently expressing what is so difficult to say.

I read this stuff eons ago in an even older issue of Playboy. I don't know if there'd be a copyright problem; it's at least 23 years old. There was no PC around or copier handy, and I wrote all this down by hand -- a labor of love. Read it all, or it's no fun. There's a cadence/rythm to it...

I guess it depends on the chipset revisions, or when the board was made? I also have an Abit BH6, purchased soon after it was released, and it has only 3 DIMM slots, supports only 384MB. IIRC, it does support 256<B DIMMs.

I love the way you guys phrase things here! I actually went to several car parts stores looking for those manuals that would tell me how so I could do it myself, but either this problem was not even mentioned or had something silly like "take off door panel, replace, put panel back on again"...

I have 4 x 256 MB Crucial non-ECC, non-registered PC133 sticks running in my Tyan Tiger 100 S1832DL 440BX board. Stable as the Rock of Gibraltar.

Blake, thanks for the detailed info! Basically, I shopped around like crazy, calling on the phone. The dealer wanted to replace the assembly + motor for ~ $340+. All others, including AAA approved, said labor would range from ~ $90 to $200, with parts extra, and no clue as to how much the parts...

Sorry to hear about the clutch, tim. Noise is relative. My '94 Camry is significantly quieter than my wife's '99 Civic LX, which has unbearable (for me) noise (road & wind) and harshness levels. We don't listen to any music in it, and have to shout at each other. But compared to your Jeep, it's...

At the Inquirer.

Shocking, I say! Absolutely shocking!

New menace to wildlife!

Absolutely. That was the reason for my comment that I felt that Hondas were sluggish. 99% of my driving is in the city. And in CA, where you have to merge into a bunch of banshees flashing by, it's painful to drive a sluggish vehicle. My car is a '94 Camry V6 Automatic with 160k miles (it's the...

Merc, Fushigi already said everything there is to say, but in a nutshell, reliability & warranty + safety & efifciency. While this is not automatically true for every new car purchased, with a little bit of care in the selection, these objectives can easily be achieved. And honestly, I think a...

I've got to harass somebody,right (ask honold, he'll tell you :mrgrn:) Thanks for helping out, Steve! Thanks, Howell. People sometimes seem to paint me in blacks and whites (mostly black) while my conviction is that it's all gray, different shades of it. And for the record, I'm not anti-govt...

You're the biggest waste out there. With the sway you have over words, you ought to be writing, man. (shakes head in disgust at talent wasted)

Looks way cool, Doug! And I'm sure it has better than the fabulous Honda handling. Enjoy, and post your comments back!

I've always wondered about the "e pox" name. Yeah, they're not a Western country, but still.

Gosh! I didn't know I could do that, zx! If I did, I would have tried that for sure. Lol, one learns something new everyday! Thanks, pal! In a side note, I installed FreeBSD 4.8 late last night in a VM, and boy, is that sucker fast! I had to pretty much short-cut the install (had to shut...

Why're you having power probs, Merc? I thought power in the U.S. was something you took for granted - like the air we breathe.

Yes, according to the KB article.

For the umpteenth time. I'm trying to install in VMWare 4.0, from my Lite-on 16x DVD-ROM drive (which has worked flawlessly so far). Virtual m/cs in VMware use the BX chipset (which is what my real m/c is anyway!). I first downloaded the .iso files from an unofficial mirror (which I found on...

You proved what I suspected all along, Blake! If it's got Bismuth in it, it's got to be pink......

Oh, would you, please, honold, please???? You're such a sweet guy!

See Techbargains for a bunch of deals. There's a closeout on Lexmark printers at Dartek. I believe the limit is 5 rebates per address.

Honold, I hear what you're saying and don't diasagree with it. But there's something more, isn't there? I'm no expert on health and dieting. But what little I do know says that the body has a preference for fat over muscle. When you starve (almost to death) for instance, it will use up muscles...

Honold, congrats, you're that 1 in 10 million that can lose weight without exercise! I could do it at will when I was younger; but you'll find that as you grow older and the blubber settles in it's not that easy any more. Besides mild exercise is beneficial in other ways like keeping your heart...

Tuesdays with Morrie

Only because you believe it so be so. Eating in moderation is a good beginning, but more important is some kind of regular physical activity. That will "wake up" your metabolism and get your internal gear running more efficiently. For a person that "abhors physical activity of any kind", the...

Beautiful! Thanks!

And thanks, Merc!

Tell me you're joking, Blake. Isn't Little Mermaid animated?

Ha ha, you guys is funny! I hadta put in dat disclaimer; somebody *ahem* complained tvice in a row abote me last coupla links.

What does "pops a boner" mean? Sorry for being naive. :oops:

So vatcha doin there, fella?

Here. Varning: That's at Business 2.0. Bevare of pop-ups, unders and the like.

We all are. If we'll only try. We humans are unique creatures. For thousands of years, we've had the same exact set of problems. Yet each one us thinks our problems are unique in the world, and are insurmountable. Show me one human being who doesn't feel they're deprived in some way. Those that...

All good things must come to an end?

That's like a 50% overclock! Yikes! Good for you, Fushigi!

SteveC: Keep lifting those weights. Muscle is heavier than fat, and is more attractive too. Merc: Sorry to hear that. I missed the June stuff as well; wasn't even in the country for a year, with miserable dial-up for a few minutes once a fortnight. In the past 12 years, I've gained 50 lbs (was...

I came here a gazillion times and was the only one. Beat a hasty retreat!

I love this idea! Let's do it! Let's do it! Please, can we do it??!! Nothing like eating one's own dog food to drive the reality home (pun intended).

Israeli soldiers kill British television cameraman carrying white flag. Found this on Google news.

It has been proven many times over that the auto industry cries wolf at every request made to it, that it would be bankrupted by the expensive new requirements that are legislated. When the legislation is passed and becomes law, the the hue and cry dies down, they magically find a way to make it...

Thanks for setting me straight, n/9. That was certainly illuminating!

Onomatopoeic, isn't PCI-Express nothing but Intel's Infiniband? The so-called "fabric" architecture? IIRC mainframe storage I/O is also of this type. From what little I've read, PCI-Express is one heck of a technology. The two main drawbacks to it would be cost (initially, till volume picks up)...

Blake, didn't you know? MS was the original designer of Apache :mrgrn:

Merc, you truly have a gift for communicating. You should put that talent to more use.

As a result of a class action lawsuit for this problem, among other remedies, HP makes available a free kit that an end-user can use to fix the problem. It involves using a carboard template to insert a new paper separataor pad into the printer (the new pad has self-stick glue on it). HP warns...