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Really? My windows PC doesn't prompt me for flash in Firebird. This is a fairly new Windows install, too.

Italian is very easy to make at home. The ingredients and seasonings are simple. I'm too lazy to make pasta, which hurts the expeience a little, but I've done it before. Personally I like Mexican and Chinese food. And Polish food. Provencal (Country) French is very good too. I have a special...

Am I missing something? I see a blank page. I use Firebird. I'm accustomed to Mozilla, having used it for years, but one thing that no one has mentioned is the development on Moz was supposed to stop two releases ago. Also in Firebird's favor: The UI operates noticeably faster. It has a...

Birthdays suck.

Personally I shoot for "hourly".

I also had no reason not to tell the truth. CD/DVD burning is something that's well-supported by Windows 2000.

There's a Thai place in Lansing that's very good, timwhit, but it's not someplace I'd feel comfortable asking for a table for one. There are some I'm aware of in the suburbs but I don't live there and as a rule I don't try new foods while I'm working. I like Karee noodles and Lad Na.

I just happened to notice it was after midnight, which is why I posted that. I'm working today, just like other days. The thing about the artists I was referring to is, the only places I could find decent images of their work were sites that sell posters. I was really disappointed that there...

Oh yeah. Happy birthday to me.

You'd probably also like the works of Maxfield Parrish (illustrator of children's books), Bill. He's one of my favorites. I'm fond of Thomas Cole (Hudson River school) and Alphonse Mucha (Art Nouveau) as well. Doesn't one of our members have a degree in art history?

I started with a large pile of "known good" mail, told tbird not to junk mail from anyone I'd sent mail to, and it's done very well for me. I only use it at my day job, though. My filters at home do what I need. I get a couple of false positives a day. Amazon marketplace sellers still get junked...

</me wishes there was a Thai place someplace I might actually go to eat it>

I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with Tannin here, Buck, but IMO, there would've been a great deal less aggravation if the first support-bot and the web pages that guided me TO the support-bot had been forthcoming about Sony's support policies and services. In the course of my...

No French, actually (although... "gross christ de vache". I know that one, and from context "Tabarnak" appears to be something like "Dammit") . Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin and German. All picked up in college. A Saudi and a Bangladeshi lived next door to me for two years. In an amazing cultural...

2nd round with online support (they haven't sent me the transcript yet, or I'd post it): me: I'm using 2000 Pro now. them: Are you using the software that came with the drive? me: I'm just trying to read a CD. them: You need to call our support phone number. me: Can you issue an RMA? them: No...

I've noticed that almost all Kazaa Lite machines share the Kazaa Lite installer. So oddly enough, one of the best places to look for it is on Fasttrack. Also, you could try running GiFT with the FastTrack plug-in. Not as nice as Kazaa Lite but miles better than Kazaa or Grokster.

I might've tried that if I hadn't been absolutely floored by the whole "We won't help because you're using the wrong Windows 2000." WRT to the "are you human?" comment I made, her responses were mostly cut-and-paste quick. I don't even think she was processing anything I wrote. The annoying...

According to the support-drone I spoke to, I'd have to pay to speak to someone, and it's likely that I wouldn't get a different outcome.

Needless to say I am far, FAR beyond pissed about this, or I wouldn't be posting it here. Dawn says, What is the model # of your drive? What version of windows are you running? What is the mhz of your system? You say, DRU500a, 2000 Server, 2800MHz. Drive will not write to any media, reads...

32db is very, very quiet for a projector. In perspective, SR's measurements of the Seagate Barracuda V show an idle noise rating of 37db. There is definitely downconverting going on. 1080i/p use a native resolution of 1920x1080, and even 720i/p is 1280x720. That's not to say that the picture...

You jest, sir, yet I see not the smiley face.

Projection screens are highly susceptible to burn-in (in as little as 30 minutes), a PITA to calibrate for color and insufficiently bright. I'm not saying that the $21,000 monitor would be, but that's how things tend to be. 4:3 content on a 16:9 display does not look good. Either the content...

I enter SF through google pretty much daily - I don't like leaving "tracks" in other people's location bars. It appear to me that google hits ~ every 2 weeks. More often than monthly.

Tbird is IMO best of all possible worlds right now. HOWEVER I seriously miss the ability to right-click "send to mail recipient" from my browser (that's firebird's fault) and the ability to "open in new tab" when I click on a link in Thunderbird. Spam controls on Tbird work really, really...

Yeah. Don't let that stop you. I use ksh instead of CMD on my machines at home most of the time.

Just recently, I was thinking to myself that the fact that there HAVEN'T been anti-fubar posts are an indication of how well this site works. He has, on occasion made on-topic and interesting posts. Like it or not, he chooses to be part of this community. This is technically an issue for...

The big one there is windows support for NFS, which is the clunky yet fast UNIX filesharing protocol. If you've got a Windows Server and a Linux box, I'd recommend at least trying it out.

I don't mind.

Bozo's right. Sort of. The P4 Bozo is referring to has a 133MHz system bus, which means that data flows from RAM to PCI 25% faster than those (presumably) 100MHz-based P3s. I've never heard of a 66MHz P3. If the PCs Bozo was using were heavily loaded somehow, the P4 would remain more...

8500. Has more RAM. Slightly faster chip.

Realtek, Philiips, Crystal. Does ESS still make chips? nVidia (onboard), Yamaha, Onkyo (both with external USB amplifiers), Logitech, Microsoft (both with USB speakers), Hoontech, M Audio... Looks pretty healthy to me.

I never participated in SR's benchmarking discussions anyway. SR just became a place where I wasn't all that interested in spending my time. I don't like the BB software being used there, and I don't like the more-and-more frequent use of IM-speak in posts, the regular incivility in the B&G and...

Anyone else see similarities between Paris Hilton and Marie Antoinette (who used to dress in a parody of peasants clothes when she went to receive their adultation)? I, of course, have the irrational belief that I can recapture the affections of a lesbian, something that to everyone else is...

Every Klipsch set I've heard has been boomy and bottom heavy. That's probably great if you listen to boomy, bass heavy popular music but let's just say Klipsch doesn't do a soft classical piece any favors. I'd call the Klipsch approach to speaker-building flawed at best. Sound is subjective, of...

That awful Baz Luhrmann movie. Pay it no mind fatwa on all who employ Leonardo DiCaprio (who is, of course, a reason to hate moviegoing, all on his own). Harold Parrineau is the actor who played Mercutio in that version. He played Augustus "Wheelchair" Hill on "Oz", a role that he made very...

They appear to be saying that IE6 is worth installing.

I have yet to comprehend the appeal of drinking. Especially given the cost of the alcohol and its side effects.

What does $1100 get you in a tripod?

Since I'm basically boycotting SR, can someone tell me what a "warn" bar is?

Women don't like it when you call it that. :)

sechs, yours is a sentence in desperate need of a specific subject.

If you avert your gaze from the links in the "News" links, you'll see that "miserable failure" does in fact link to whitehouse.gov and the Autobiography of George W. Buttmonkey.

Search for Miserable Failure.

My personal accounts are BankOne. BankOne is a viscious, evil institution that introduced the "Pay $3 to talk to a bank teller" fee about five years ago. That's OK. I can do even the most complex personal transactions at an ATM. I've never even talked to a teller there. Almost every Walgreens...

I'll second that. In the realm of computer speakers, Logitech continues to impress. I got a set of Z680s today and they're magnificent. A set of Acoustic Research HC5s + a low-end receiver is still a cheaper and better option, but if you're dead set against having a receiver hooked up to your...

AGP 8x Slots can't take AGP or AGP 2x cards, although I believe an 8x card will work in a 1x/2x slot. There's also AGP Pro, which adds an extra part to the front of an AGP card, which can deliver additional power to a workstation-type AGP Pro card. Some motherboards support AGP Pro. They're...

There is no reason to send out rich-text Email. I believe I've ranted on that subject before.

I believe the big difference is in updated document conversion filters. OpenOffice works well enough for 99% of people who need to do word processing - Word and Wordperfect are ridiculously overpowered - but last time I played with OpenOffice I remember being able to make it crash without too...

I've pretty much always installed it. Including the IDE driver. I'm working from the assumption that if Microsoft's generic driver were truly worthwhile for VIA chipsets, VIA wouldn't provide their own. SiS doesn't for most of its chipsets.