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I vaguely remember this incident. IIRC, here's what happened. The victim was a jewellery store that was repeatedly burgled. From the MO, it looked like it was the same burglar. Tired of this, the owner rigged up a live wire inside the store, with warning signs outside. The burglar broke-in, was...

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First off: once you're at the item's page, there's no option to "buy now" or "add to cart". Instead, there's a "click to find" button. Huh? Helooo, I'm already at the product page. What am I supposed to find now? When you click on the "find" button, you get a looooong page with a zillion items...

My experience was similat to Merc's. If that dolt Jason who was angry because I woke him up (I called the Sales #, mind you) would take my order on the phone (which the web site says they will), they would have had some business from me. All he wanted to do was point out how stupid I was and...

Looks like you want one of the "Drive Copy" utilities that clone a drive. Drive Image will do this. A crippled version of Drive Image that Powerquest calls Drive Copy can be found here. Drive copy is limited to 80GB drices, and runs in DOS mode, I believe :-? I've seen similar programs at...

e_dawg, the man is independently wealthy. :wink:

I have a spare 128MB SODIMM you can have. This is the original SODIMM that shipped with my Stinkpad T23. I replaced it with 2x512MB SODIMMs from Crucial. I don't know where it is, but should be able to find it within an hour or so.

Tried to buy something off eCost.com for the first time. What an absolutely, incredibly bad site design and user experience! I had to close the browser, delete cookies and retry. It took 4 such attempts before I got to the final checkout screen. I deleted my item here and closed the browser...

Amazing! I've always wondered about this; not so much for transmission from the powergen facility, but inside the house where it was inconvenient or impossible to have an outlet. Please! Elucidate!

You're weird and funny, Pradeep :lol:

The new version of DriveImage (2003?) apparently can image the Windows partition from within Windows while Windows is running. There's an easily found thread on SR about it. But genereal impression is that people don't like it compared to DI 2002, and that it is very slow.

I take it you use W2k, Pradeep, or is it W-2003? What OS runs on your "hawk-eye" monitor? Do you use Clear-Type? How good is the Hawk-eye LCD without Clear-Type? Aah, questions, questions! TIA

Reminds me of the good old (yes, I'm that old) days of AC vs DC. Edison promoted DC and had cables (that transmitted DC) buried at a shallow depth in the sides of the streets. Many a horse got electrocuted when it rained. Would this be a problem these days as well, jtr?

Corvair, There's no doubt at all that I defer to your deeper knowledge and experience. I know a little bit here and there, just enough to be dangerous without being useful. Having said that, my earlier post was in no way intended to be critical of your posts. I was just sharing my subjective...

Growth is not possible without change. Change is often times painful. So is growth (that's why they call it "growing pains"). An absence of change (flow) leads to stagnation (cesspool). No pain, no gain. All very worn, corny stuff, but true nevertheless. Sometimes we take life and ourselves...

Script! So that's the problem! What the heck do you think life is, a software prgram? Been watching too much of "The Matrix"???? Just let go, man! No script required. Be/do/say what comes naturally at the moment. Live in the now! One point jtr was so bang on was that work regiments us. To...

Merc: before I forget, when I do get to see you, remind me to kick you in the butt repeatedly till you beg me to stop. For all his nuttiness, flaggy has an astute side that is amazing. And jtr, I understand what you're saying, but have to disagree. I'm not writing off the world yet. I've read...

Right on. Yup. Note that I'm only agreeing that flagreen and his various avatars are nutty, not that Merc is. :D Not true. You're probably heck of a lot more extroverted than I am. That recent experience you recounted of driving back from somewhere, seeing some kind of show, stopping, talking...

Alas! the site's slower than molasses......And here I was, all excited...

Here!

Why this sudden, intense obsession with excrement?

Anytime the issue of a dual-proc system comes up, there seems to be much gnashing of teeth. Even if every program one runs is SMP-unaware, is there not a benefit to having a second CPU? A CPU eating program like Santilli's possessed Photoshop can hog one processor, and the OS and all other...

Thank you for the kind words, folks, and for the advice. I typed in a pretty longish reply this morning, and when I submitted, I got an error and my post was swallowed by the BBS black hole :( Handruin, thanks for the link to the wall-mount bracket. The web page for it says it's a pack of 10...

The Amazon deal was too good to pass up, so I ordered the Linksys WRT54G. I guess it would make sense to get the matching Linksys PC cards, "WPC54G Wireless-G Notebook Adapter"; according to their web site, this router and card now support WPA. More for the kids' sake than mine, I hope the...

WPA is the tighter security. :oops:

Thanks a million, Merc. Amazon has the Linksys WRT54G (interoperable with B) for $57 after rebate; should I jump for it? IIRC, WEP is the newer, better security protocol, right, with WPA being the wimpy one? Yes, all notebooks are running Win XP. So you think keeping the wireless router at...

Hi there, I’ve been nominated to help three college kids share internet access in the home they’re renting. It will most probably be DSL (384-1500k / 128k); the fallback is cable internet. Still trying to figure out if DSL is actually available. All three girls use notebooks running Win XP...

Congrats, Merc! One thing to watch out for: property taxes. Usually you'll get a bill every 6 months, and if you haven't planned for it, it can be a nasty surprise. Some lenders (depending on how much one had to stretch to buy the home) will make you pay the monthly pro-rated tax along with...

I read some of the stuff on this site and found it pretty disturbing. If it's true, it sucketh big time. I am normally paranoid, but have let down my guard in the last year or so.

Yeah, yeah, I know who to call. But if people are to believe you're a lawyer, you'll need to change your moniker to "The Taker".

Scumbag.

Been getting it multiple times now. Got off, cleared browser cache and seems to be ok for now. :(

56) Fight instigator (you used to do that a lot of SR!) And if you do pick #24, please, as a top priority, make him say nuclear right.

Well, sorry for the coming to the party even later. I saw The Matrix (no, not "Reloaded", but the first one) for the first time on Friday :lol:. Yet to see Reloaded. 'Course a lot of things make no sense to me :(. I gues I should not expect Reloaded to clear things up any. As somebody...

Have never seen it before, but got the XML error just now when I tried to see this thread in "For Sale & Trade". 2003/06/01, 12:40 hours, PDST. Been using IE 5.5 forever.

No, one can't argue with $$$ even if one has to fly an extra 2000 miles! (scratches head still trying to figure it all out.....)

Buck, you made no mention of balls or rears, so you were not included in "guys" in my first post. Fushigi, Coug is bad and Merc is worse. You're the absolute worst. Imagine, a commercial tree chipper/shredder being fed slowly into somebody's rear.

Blake! I never would have guessed!

My unasked for opinion: I liked the old Coug better.

You guys have a fascination for balls and people's rears.

I have a Promise Ultra 100. The last two versions of their drivers suck - slurring when playing audio. Each channel has a single drive on it, a WD 1200JB and a WD 800JB. Even playing a small MP3 will slur. In WMP and in the ATI file player. Granted, W2k SP3 (which is what I run) and WXP SP1...

Thanks for the response, folks. I've had my eye on getting PMP certification for a long time. I know I can pass all of the exam stuff; never a worry there (I'm not belittling the exam; just confident in myself). There's one very major glitch. They want at least 4 years of actual project mgmt...

No, no, please don't tell me to use Google. TIA!

Thanks, Merc & honold.

Congrats, JoJo! Good for you! LPI...Lines per inch. Care to educate the ignorant?

Care to elucidate if it isn't too much of a bother?

Come on guys, quit sniggering. What does Bose mean in your lingo?

My service is 1500 max 384 guaranteed download, 128k upload. I typically get ~ 900kbps download :( This is with the local telco who provides both my DSL line and the internet access. I pay $40/month for the whole package for a 1-year commitment, got free DSL modem and filters. With the same...

Prof: I don't know you well. But it seems strange to me that you would stick to the refrain that Bose is great. Some of us hold the contrary opinion. Experience counts. I know serveral people that bought into the Bose mystique and plunked down money for their speakers. When I heard them, they...

You talking dirty again, honold? :lol: