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Your latter statement is essentially correct. To frame your statement a bit differently, in the US, any citizen can vote, except (IIRC) certain convicted felons. Being a citizen of the US isn't a terribly large burden to bear in exchange for voting rights. Being respectful of others isn't too...

I relate this story with an overwhelming sense of just how "wrong" it is: For the past three or four months, my fiance has been teaching Gracie, one of my cats, to play fetch. Specifically, Gracie will fetch toy mice, bring them back, and drop them close enough for you to grab them. A couple...

I've found that my perfectly good disks function HIGHLY irregularly while IBM's free SMART tool is loaded; this is particularly true with Quantum ASes and I've observed this behavior on more than one machine. I don't know whether to blame SMART or IBM's tool. Anyway, the obvious, simple thing...

Well, here's my list: Windows - vim WordPerfect PowerDVD4 VirtualDub Winamp DiskKeeper ACDSee Mozilla Excel (the only part of Office I use, although I install everything but outlook) Perl Nero CloneCD Backup Exec PQDI Pro VNC *nix vim Mozilla xmms pavuk wget ncftp Perl GNUCash WordPerfect A...

Did you format your drive with standard, 4k clusters? And we're talking single disk, simple volume, right? Does the built-in defragger work?

Simple question, vaguely related to the programming languages thread: What non-OS software do you find most useful? What software do you actually use?

Mayhap you should try running it from the Administrator account, rather than your personal user account. Hold down shift, right click, Run As... type the Admin password, and you should have rights.

My fiance is in her second year of med school now. She taught A&P to undergrads while she was attaining her masters, and I helped set up lesson plans and did dry runs through her labs. I'm good for Microbiology (helped Amy study all through her degree. Go on, ask me about gram-positive...

That should be "older versions of either won't work with XP's NTFS". Ghost 2001 does work with XP/FAT32.

According to everything I've read, Ghost 2002 and Drive Image 5.01 will work OK on XP, even with the NTFS 5.1 (updated from NTFS 5 in Win2000, whoops) filesystem. Older versions of either won't work. The requirements for downloading patches to PQDI are fairly annoying. You have to register with...

As long as you're willing to work with their prepackaged components, yes. If you find yourself wanting or needing to do something different, good luck.

Somewhat related subject: How well do USB/serial, USB/parallel and USB/SCSI converters work? I tried an all-in-one USB-to-legacy-ports adaptor (2 serial, 2 PS/2, 1 parallel, 1 100Mbit ethernet) recently on my laptop and it didn't work at all with my modem or palm cradle, but my laptop wasn't...

I don't think there's a moderator on SR to piss off, either. Look how much pissing vambat or Monica, or, more recently, dtvhack had to do to have punitive action taken. Moderation here: We're still working on it. Slowly. Very slowly. :) Yes, the quality of SR's forums probably would be much...

Was this really unexpected? Chipzilla has lost a lot of grass-roots support it once had, AMD is gaining in marketshare. Even the fact that its "windows-platform" dominance is something of a question at the moment, with microsoft working on a not-very-secret platform independent executable format.

Writing a passable web browser with VB is possible with maybe as little as a few dozen lines of code and two or three OCXes. Basically, you have to have IE installed to make it work, but it can be done very easily. Beginner stuff, really. Starting fresh might be a bit more difficult, but at its...

I have a copy of just about everything that's out for backup and imaging purposes, and I'm just working out which of my machines I plan to install XP on (most of them fail for some reason or other, mainly the fact that I don't like C: partitions bigger than 1GB). Anyway, once I figure out how...

StorageForum should be able to stand on its own. That's the idea, anyway. At the moment I'm a bit giddy that SR is here to stay but a hesitant participant in the discussions of the moment. Signal to noise seems very high here, and this is where I've been spending time. Tannin has made some...

C# shares very little of its heritage with C and C++. Microsoft is forcing it on developers by doing little things like publishing huge amounts of sample code in C# and dropping even mention of the word 'java' from anything microsoft-related. C# is only penetrating because a pin-head in Redmond...

Yay Rah! Welcome back Clocker. Your presence has been missed here and at SR. Hope it was a good trip.

Did the new version of FoxPro come with VS.NET?

Try Matlab. It is absolutely tuned to the tasks you're describing.

I always liked the Celeron. Unlike the K6-2/3, there were plenty of very good, inexpensive motherboards out there for them (did Socket7 ever get a fully functional AGP implementation?), they were easy to cool, and they provided more than adequate performance for the money. they also forced an...

Not a problem. The second half of the training is conducted at teaching hospitals in the US. Students at Ross, at least, do pretty well on their boards, too.

All those three letter acronyms HD listed above are the precise reason I never got into programming on Windows.

Mercutio: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Over men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The...

... and that's different from my previous college experience... how? Greg, I'm probably more bitter about my time in school than you are about yours.

Minor correction: I'm pretty sure the FoxPro codebase pre-dates C++. FoxPro is a Clipper derivative, much like the ancient package dBase, which was practically synonymous with PC database software in the earliest days of DOS ('81 or '82), while C++ wasn't implemented at all until '83 or '84. Of...

Mayhap t'wouldst thee ere be a 'bit' or 'nibble'?

I've actually already done the four years of training for a job I don't really want. In my case it's a BS in Computer Science. The only reason my diploma is hanging up is because it covers a dark spot on the wall. Getting an MD is at least something halfway interesting to talk about. Tuition is...

Yes, I'm looking for reasons not to. It's a pretty extreme decision. I'd really like to get some stability in my life. I don't really have any. Doctors have a future regardless of anything that happens in life. I'm sure I could be a good doctor. Maybe not something I have a passion for, but I...

A year of internship + at least one year of residency (for GP/family practice). Neurosurgery is 10+ years in residency. I don't know what I'd do. Something that isn't life-threatening (pathology, dermatology, sports medicine etc) on a daily basis, I suppose.

Well, my professional life just keeps getting worse. I made only 38% last year of what I made the year before, and no prospects for things getting better. Going back to school doesn't seem terribly interesting but... My fiance made the most interesting offer. My college GPA was something like a...

Visual Foxpro is the only Microsoft language I've spent any significant amount of time with and is the only MS language I see with any interesting advantages over standard languages (Delphi, for example, which is really nice) - Foxpro has a REALLY high-quality database engine integrated into it...

Is AGP @ 2x really a problem that needs solving? Most people don't play games or run modeling apps on Linux machines, as AFAIK those are the things that actually make use of AGP's enhanced speed. Anyway, I just started reading what I could on slashdot. Maybe I'll see something else. AD, you...

Telecom is one of those services that it is in the interests of the government to regulate very carefully. It's also very nearly a license to print money, so arguments about fostering competition and innovation are very compelling, but it just doesn't happen that way. The US de-regulated...

10 December 1975. You do the math.

So? Business Computer. If Word runs fast and Outlook runs fast... A Celeron 400 will run Word and Outlook fast. Particularly paired with a decent amount of RAM.

Well, SR has at least one female member - someone named "Christina" has been posting recently. AD's fiance posted to SR in the past. So it's possible, at least.

I guess we aren't the only forum with people who like to cook

Ugh. That's terrible. Where's Maxtor? bit : 10 nibble: 100 byte : 500 kilobyte: 1000 megabyte : 2500 gigabyte: 5000 terabyte: 7500 exabyte: 10000 Fair in that it doesn't indicate rank, at least.

I think the problem on Abit's site is one of three things: Either they have javascript or Flash doing a whole bunch of work (there's no flash available for Mozilla) or else there's a problem related to fonts and character display (unlikely). Javascript seems a good candidate. For the other...

There are three joints along an access road just off the 80-94 exit on Cline in Griffith, another two (one a Deja Vu) right next to each other, south on the rt. 53 exit in Lake Station. There are also a couple in Lansing and Cal City. As far as I know, there are no strip clubs in Gary. AMAZING...

Yes, I probably could plug it in to something, if I had the faintest idea where the power cord might be (note to self: get another set of NiCad AAs), but they aren't being terribly cute anymore. 50,000 freakin' cat toys on the floor, not to mention the whole of my computer room (their...

Wish the batteries for my camera weren't charging. I have two cats. At this very moment they are laying on three different keyboards. One of them the one I'm trying to actually use. Animals are amazingly smart some times.

From what I've seen, the best bet for no active cooling would probably be a Via Samuel chip. I think they top out at 700MHz, but they work just fine in BX motherboards and they run so cool my distributor says they don't really even need heatsinks.

I can say with authority that Asus boards aren't used in any tier-1 or -2 named brand PCs. I remember seeing them in Zeos machines ages ago, and in ComTrade machines many times (ComTrade makes everything, EVERYTHING look good in comparison), but that's about it. Maybe Asus gets all its size...

I don't remember the evil bastard's name, but Aussies have been complaining about him for as long as I've been on the internet - 1993 - which was long enough ago that .com wasn't even the second most common TLD on the internet. I actually think it would be pretty cool to run .com.au as my own...

But I never liked Time-Warner, either. TW owns DC Comics, which sets the bar for worst treatment of employees at a comic book company in the US. Famous example: Read up on what happened to the people responsible for the creation of Superman. They aren't much better today, either. That AOL owns...

Oz does seem to have it bad for internet stuffs. Not only the evil phone company, a villian that's almost an operatic in stature, but a government that has tried very hard to make sure y'all can't look at naughty pictures online, and a single, grouchy person in charge of .com.au domain...

I'm under the impression that PC Chips (is that ECS?) is biggest. Maybe because you can't go to a computer shop without stepping on one. And I got some literature from FIC a few years ago indicating they were the largest motherboard vendor. Where are these figures coming from?