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It take it you've got a problem with some or other version of Word, then?

I'm not sure I'm going to get the speaker and hinge covers back together correctly. Not a big deal. The person who gave it to me was going to throw it away. It has a bad hard disk - 2.5" drives aren't something I keep in spare. But it boots off a 1GB microdrive in a PCMCIA adaptor. :)

You are a splendid butterfly It is your wings that make you beautiful And I could make you fly away But I could never make you stay You said you were in love with me Both of us know that that's impossible And I could make you rue the day But I could never make you stay Not for all the tea in...

Weird. I have a Sony Z505 disassembled on the desk right next to my keyboard. I'm not a Sony fan, either, but I'll give it credit: It's nice and light, and despite its age it still has a good battery.

Grrr... I do wish people participating in this thread, and the odd visitor from SR, would read my initial comments in this thread. The ones about smoking crack? Up there, at the top? I never thought the "Ghost Trick" was real. I *did* report my observations as I made them. That's what one is...

Yet another beyond-belief cool set of videos. I'm really surprised how good the space scenes in the first clip of these videos looks.

Nope. Straight A-A violates some of the "rules" of USB. If you look at a data transfer cable, there's a little junction box in the middle of the cable that does the switching to make each side think that the thing on the other side is a mass storage device.

You need a special USB A-A data transfer cable. You can get one from callcct.com for $10.

Honestly, Greg, the "alternative lifestyle" folks that I've known have been smarter and a lot more interesting to talk to than the whitebread suburbanites and rednecks in my part of the world. I'd 10x rather hang out with a bunch of LGBTGTS-types than the kind of people I meet in *my* day-to-day...

Well, that'd be me, but my account's still here so...

Storage drivers for the RAID card?

You said a good many negative things about Compaq, my friend.

I didn't keep careful track. Most seemed to be on the 1st partition.

Remeber the Yamaha CD-RW drives that would etch patterns into the writable side of CD-Rs? Well, HP has done one better. This is something that looks genuinely cool, if it is is from HP.

The bigger problem I have with Athlon-based notebooks is that I haven't found a really respectable vendor making them. From what I've found, you've pretty much got to deal with Compaq/HP/emachines or else fall off the edge of the world with some no-name company (Avaratec? Jetta?). Of the three...

It's nice to have a semi-coherent conservative to argue with sometimes. :)

George Szell's Wagner Excerpts on SACD.

The bookkeeper in my office has a P25-S607, Tea. I'm really not impressed by it at all. I've stated in the past that I'm not a fan of Toshiba-anything. They seem to be very cheaply made even in comparison to Compaq, let alone IBM notebooks. But the standard Toshiba knocks apply: I can knock...

Crap! Let's try that again.

There's a white paper on SBS 4.5 to SBS/Exchange 2000 migration here[/url. Or you could take a look at this general-purpose Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migration [url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/library/mme55e2k.mspx]white paper. I would assume it'll set you off...

If you're doing authoritzed work on IBM laptops, you should be replacing the screws completely every time you take 'em out. In one of those great little IBM touches, their laptop screws are nylon-coated to ensure a tight fit.

I did three trials between last night and this morning. Test: I wrote 19 copies of a 1024MB zip file to the primary (real) partition on my drive. I wrote a further 10 copies to the partition created with the ghost process. Trial 1: 19/29 zip files could be opened. Trial 2: 18/29 zip files...

It's good that you've found a place here at SF, jtr. As one of the folks here who isn't, strictly speaking, a computer guy, the different perspective that you bring to technical discussions here is very meaningful. Not only that, but as a someone with some very different opinions on a variety of...

IBM My current laptop is a T40. 1. Centrino all the way. They run cooler. They use less power. My 1.6GHz P4m seems faster than the 2.2 and 2.4GHz Celerons other folks in my office have. Plus, 802.11b. Using the wireless connection seems to drain battery life. I get around 3 hours out of one...

I feel more comfortable that way.

How the hell did this get 2000 page views? Anyway, I can't stand WinRAR. The UI is awful. WinACE has a barely tolerable UI but is embarassingly slow when dealing with RAR files. I've swapped my experimental drive back to being a slave. I'm going to format both "partitions" and write copies...

Proof

There were five registered members on when it happened. Myself (I hide) and four others.

Like I'd let the constituent bits of WinRAR pass my firewall!

Outlook XP sucks a great deal less than Outlook 2000. I hate them both, but it's retarded that Microsoft's mail client can be configured in such a way that it can't talk to an Exchange server, which is absolutely possible with Outlook 2000. Also a full install of Office XP has a smaller...

Actual blues music isn't broadcast much any more. You can say someone like Eric Clapton gets his time in the sun, but calling his music blues is like calling a twinkie "wedding cake". Anyway, I'd like to know whether you liked the album. I've been listening to lots of Samuel Barber. His...

Wasn't it: "37!" "In a row?"

Blake, if you'd read what I wrote, you'll see that I'm far from endorsing the idea. However, short of opening/using each of the thousands of files on both the original partition and the new one, there's not much I can do to test. I think the next best thing to do would be to load Windows 98...

The only other possible place I can think to get space on a platter is from those sector that are reserved to relocate bad blocks. I can't see having enough reserved sectors to equal 50% or more of a drive's capacity, though.

It would be silly not to compress it. And you know full well that the main issue with video iis bit-rate, not resolution. That said, I've heard 500GB/hr for uncompressed HDTV signals.

I'm not discountiing that possibility. I'm not a believer. This isn't magic. I just haven't found the bad part yet. i'll keep using the drive for a while to see what breaks.

I have absolute conviction that CityK's statement is the unmitigated truth.

David, comments like that make me think you're pretty much the exact opposite of me in every possible way.

... and I don't. I've been doing work for a commodities firm for years , and one of the traders has been bugging me to open an account for just about as long. I took him up on it last time I was over there - opened an account with my consulting fee, a little under $1000. He said Soybeans have...

... and then you can wait even longer for someone to release some 1080p content.

Every disk utility I've run pukes with errors. I don't know if stuff is OK or not.

The Samsung has a DVI/HDMI-compliant connector on it. That's part of the reason I'm looking at it. ... and it's "only" $4100 if I pick it up from the local Circuit City (in what? I'd have to rent a truck or something). My old projector is only about halfway through its expected bulb life...

The drive is more than full. The initial disk load was ~18GB (the Windows XP on my "game" computer, complete with some games and applications). I added 10GB of extra stuff (the AVIs) on the extra partition. The AVIs play, and I'm playing "Simpsons Hit and Run" from the original data set right now.

It appears that my short-term investment in Soy futures has paid off rather handsomely. Which do you think? Projector from hell or 61" of never-gonna-burn-in DLP goodness?

If they're even close to comparable to MaxLine drives in terms of price, I'd have a hard time saying "no" to at least a couple of 'em.

That's weird. Do you know what firmware rev. you were using, mubs?

It appears to me that it works. I used a 20GB Barracuda III for a test drive. Ghosted an XP installation onto it. Loaded Ghost. Did an update to 7.793 (slightly newer than the article suggests). Followed the procedure: Booted off HDD-2 (on a GA7VAXP), loaded Ghost. Started a backup. Restarted...

WTF. I'll give it a try when I get home.

Yeah, um, I think I'd like some of the crack they're smoking, too.

No Schiller? No Goethe? I remember taking a German lit class in college. Reading in original German works like this: Before attempting to read a page of text for comprehension, scan the whole thing until you find the verb. The one verb. On the whole page. Then you highlight it with a marker...