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You're only now noticing this? elm, my text based email client, gives a count of line numbers in a mail message. For a simple email, it's usually 8 lines or so. For HTML mail it's usually 50 or so. The worst offender is Outlook Express, because it includes both plaintext AND HTML in the same...

To respond to Jake's accusation that I wouldn't attend a perfect function for me to meet people: Philosophically, I really would like to spend my whole life on an island someplace, away from everyone except maybe the one person whom I really do enjoy being with. There's an issue of identity...

Tough to say. I was much more uncomfortable when the camera batteries died. I don't know if I could go out, even if I knew where to go. I don't know where to go, though, so it's a moot point.

Roaming profiles are generally not a good idea anyway. They create obnoxious amounts of network traffic and seem to add an exciting extra chance of causing profile corruption.

If you find a tracker for a popular movie, you'd be surprised how fast bittorrent works. I downloaded a 3GB screener of Terminator 3 in 20 minutes earlier this summer. The problem is finding decent trackers. Slackware would probably be faster to grab off an FTP site. It's not THAT popular...

Speaking of, remember to use her name every once in awhile. Calling her "Hon" and "Dear" and "Sweetie" all the time is heading down the road of taking her for granted.

When I was with Amy, I had the power to make her friends jealous and to make her melt. Regularly. How? I am a romantic person. People get married and forget all about romance. I never forgot important dates. What's an important date? Birthdays, anniversaries, first day of "that time of the...

My sincere congratulations. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful future together.

No, he doesn't. And if you'll recall, I was railroaded into the festival without being told where I was going.

1. A civilized man judges not the shape of the bosums, only appreciates that they are there and available for all to admire. It's possible to be a lecher and also a gentleman (or a gentlelady, even). 2. This thread has more value than a couple of jokes.

Simple file sharing simply disgusts me. I don't know why it's hidden with the Explorer options like that, either. Mainly, it's insulting to me that XP "just does things" that seem, to me, to break rules I thought were well-established and clear... like what ends up in Network Places, and yes...

Tried it. Didn't help. Of course, with Symantec Products, the uninstall features are usually so god-awful that they don't work anyway. But I wasn't in the mood to dig through the registry at that point looking for the leftovers, either.

I can't reproduce the problem anywhere but there. I tried on my one XP machine and my one 2003 Server and on several 2000 machines. These machines have Symantec AV 8.1. If someone had told me that functionality THAT basic wasn't working right in Windows XP, I'd probably break out laughing...

No, they aren't. It happens on the office machines, including some laptops that still more-or-less have the factory config on them. No, I haven't tried it. I never work there on Fridays and in point of fact I'm not working at all this weekend. Besides that, even if it doesn't happen when I'm...

I'm only interested in the default operation of MSPaint. It's used in beginning computer classes by people who don't know how to do things like save a file. e.g. Go to Start, Programs, Accessories, Paint. You have a basic drawing program. Notice the things along the sides... (Several minutes...

Kazaa Lite is kind of spiffy. FastTrack has a rep for attracting noobs though, and RIAA shares a LOT of crap files on them - enough that I've found, say, bogus Diana Krall (jazz hottie and probably obscure to most people) tracks on them. The rep for no selection is also apt. Even with K++'s...

I live in Indiana, Greg.

Did you maybe miss the part where there's no domain controller?

You weren't, perchance, using the little "deny" tick-box for something, were you?

First, to address Fushigi's "Stop at Replacement", this link from The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. The environmental and energy cost of Fushigi's two children will outstrip the environmental and energy costs of an Indian couple having 60(!) children. So even replacement is kind of an...

One has to think that having licensed drivers has led to having better drivers than when they weren't.

Mine are always extra-special weird, aren't they? The sad thing is, our lab machines are in an unsupported configuration, since we have two versions of Office installed AND because our machines dual boot. We can't get help with Microsoft software from Microsoft even if we want it.

I was thinking "Wow!" for about 5/8th of a second, until I remember that Celerons are still on a 533MHz bus...

For your fdisk-ing, try working with the drive sizes in terms of percentages of the total, rather than the real numbers.. That's a known bug in 98's fdisk for drives over 64GB.

Whoops. Spoke too soon. Fixed on one. Not on another.

Well, it's reproducable on 3/4 of the XP machines in this building. Random machines, too; it doesn't depend on hardware or anything. SFC seems to fix it but I have no idea what's broken or why.

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Where's Grammar Police when we need him?

How about long-term chemical sterilization? Say, ten years. Forced abortions would probably strike some people as unreasonable, after all. We impound children all the time. They're called foster children. For that matter, we could in theory sterilize everyone out the gate and do test tube...

It seemed to happen whether or not I open the folder. It isn't replicable on my home XP machine either.

I don't see a problem with that, either. Every male who makes it to 40 or 50 has to go through them as a matter of course during their annual check-up anyway.

I'm getting an error at the "Clicked on and Deleted "Paint"" stage. "This folder contains files opened by other users and cannot be deleted...blah blah blah" Examining a list of LOCALLY open files (no one is accessing these files from the network), I note that thumbs.db is held open as is the...

Weird. It's reproducable on a whole roomful of machines here. Maybe it's the AV software or something. Thanks Buck.

You know, I've never made fun of any of your typos. Look, this is a good idea. It really is. We license drivers. We license gun owners. We license even fairly small construction projects and innocuous professional activities. Twelve year olds can have kids. Anyone else see a problem here?

Can someone try to reproduce this? In WinXP, open Paint. Make a scribble, create a new folder in "My Documents", and save the file. Exit paint. Now, try to delete the folder you just created.

The developer is swearing up and down it's an oplocks problem.

This makes perfect sense to me.

There used to be a distinction between 0+1 and 1+0, too.

Doug, wget is your best friend.

The only issue with compression is that the machine that receives the drive needs to support the same kind of NTFS (e.g. no NTFS5 on an NT4 machine).

Come to think of it, I seem to have a sort-of Perfect Storm of social problems, don't I?

I ran it with the default options, but even if it is trying to compress JPGs, decompression shouldn't take hours.

I'm content with a small army of budget machines. None of the above will be "budget" for a good long while.

Understand that I'm rather a bit more isolated than that, having zero social acquaintances and lacking the interests, knowledge and temperament that would allow me to spend time in a bar (or any place else that young people gather socially).

Blah blah blah. Is there some reason why I should have to wait hours to compress a few thousand files? Is that OK and normal? 'Cause that's what I'm seeing. On a fast computer. With gobs of RAM. That's not doing anything else except internet browsing.

Ghost, then restore. It works very well, thank you. :)

Merc doesn't celebrate xmas. If I get lucky, I get the gift of triple overtime, which I can sometimes guilt-trip a client into paying since I'm "away from my family". You really have no idea how much it annoys me that the whole @#$#-ing country closes down just because of one religion's...

4% now. It's really moving along. I suppose I should point out that I'm using winRAR for compression, if that makes a difference.

So, 10 minutes after starting to RAR that directory - something that I accomplished in ~5 minutes with winzip - I'm just 1% done. Whoops. It just flipped to 2%. Wow. That's performance. Remind me never to do this again.

WinAce. The file in question contained around 12,000 image files (a large collection of stuff from someone's digital camera, in a slightly complex directory structure). Even if the idiot I got it from compressed the files, it shouldn't've taken that long. My working theory is that it's RAR. I...