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That's a testament to the quality of the hw & sw that Dec used to make. There are uptime stats for VMS that are stunning.

The same reasons you don't advocate buying an office all-in-one device!

POS indeed! Sheesh, I thought Pick died out several years ago. And what a kluge to make it all work.

Thanks Tim, Sol & DD. Nope. I suggested a digital voice recorder.

AFAIK, there are only 2 ways businesses end up with the new OS: 1) They need to run a piece of sw that requires the new OS - an unlikely scenario 2) They are buying new machines anyway, which come with the new OS In the case of #2, in many instances, the end-user company will specifically ask...

Merc: Buy a Sony (!!) or Olympus Digital recorder with a mini usb connection. You'll be able to transfer the audio to a PC and edit / burn it. I have a Sony that has worked really well for this purpose. But: buy a compatible external mic for it, attach it to your shirt collar (I use my lower...

Yikes, Tannin, I'd forgotten about support! Though I'm not in business, I have supported several "friends & family" and it hasn't been too much of a problem so far, though it hasn't been fun either. Vista will make that exponentially worse, and I have no desire to educate myself on its...

Thanks to all the good feedback in this thread, I'll pass on Vista. It'll be XPP (32-bit) for me. Much to many people's amusement (especially a guy called Tony :-D), I am only now switching from W2k to XP, having built my first new m/c in 5+ years for it. Next stop will be a *nix of some kind...

Glad you have a handle on things, fella. Everytime I've moved, some evil fairy keeps hiding more stuff into all the nooks and crannies of the dwelling, and I never finish extricating it all out and disposing of / packing the unending stream of stuff!

Congrats, everybody!

I always immediately delete these chain emails. But I am coonstantly astounded by how many otherwise rational, educated, smart people actually scratch their heads to find the requsite number of people to send it to. Especially when most everybodey they know has already been sent a copy by a...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Looks like you didn't read any of my posts in this thread!

Sorry to hear about all the changes you guys are going through; it's never easy. Maybe DD can share his expertise on the matter; he seems to have attained Guru-level certification in change management, taking things in stride without a blink. Wish I could handle changes in my life as confidently...

I'm running the default style. So is everybody else running the revised style and so can see the logo and the quick reply arrows? Anybody still on default and can see these "dead people" arrows?

I don't see the VBulletin logo - have never seen it till I saw Merc's post above. I don't see the Quick Reply minimize arrows as well. Different users are seeing different things. VBulletin seems to be very dependent on browser and extensions installed, looks like.

Awright, DD, glad I made your day! If I'm losing it, then so is my old pal, Mr. Stinkpad-23. Check this out. And no, I didn't photoshop it. Warning: 205 kb pic ahead. My lappy runs at 1400x1050, so the pic is nearly as large so DD can believe its authenticity. No Arrows

Thanks for the pic, Handy. But those arrows don't exist for me. I even tried turning off Flashblock, but still doesn't show up. Mousing over didn't do anything, and neither did clicking where I think the arrows are. It's no big deal, but I do worry that advancing age has diminished my...

That was probably "core" memory, the stuff they used to put in the mainframes of those days - I believe IBM 1401 and on up until the 370. Howibbly expensive. AFAIK, the unit record machines didn't have any, but I never worked on one or even saw one, so I could be wrong. On second thought, since...

I do see a small double arrow within a circle for the "Posting Rules", clicking which does minimize the posting rules box. But for the Quick Reply box, I don't see no arrows in Firefox other than the "decrease size" and "increase size" ones, which appear to be for changing the font size in the...

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Thanks, Bozo! I have been wishing for a RyanVM type thingie for W2k, and it looks like this is it. Let us know how it went.

M$ has been tightening the noose a little bit at a time, over a pretty long period of time, the latest manifestation of which is the WGA crap. Would your copy of Dell's XP be an older one? At one time, this was the case; a large mfr OEM copy would install, but ask to be activated if installed on...

Prepare to die, Bozo.

Though you say "restore CD won't run on it", you say "the key won't work", so I presume installation is going through till you hit the point where the key is requested. Here's what I know. Soon after all this activation crap started, MS wanted a way to control re-installs and reactivations...

Thanks Handruin :crucified::oops:

I have a situation against a business that I need to complain about. What do you folks suggest? They're not a retailer (a mover/shipper) so Reseller Ratings won't help much though I plan to crap on them there.

System Commander or Boot Magic (provided along with Partition magic) can do the job. Both will present a menu on boot that lets you pick the OS/partition you want to boot. The menu selections can be password protected and can default to a selection after a time out, both of which you can set...

handruin, sorry for the delay in responding to your question. I had to install a screen cap proggie first. After conversion, the main forum page had the icons for each individual forum lit up (i.e., red) to indicate new posts in each. I visited each forum, read all the new posts, and noticed...

Thanks, Merc. I'm using the latest BIOS (amazing that IBM/Lenovo still release new versions for a 5 year old m/c). I'll look into the power management driver.

For me, what this does is mark the forums as read on the forum main page: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/ The individual threads inside each of these forums (Computers, Tech Support, etc.) still show up as unread. AFAIT, I've read all threads in all forums, but after the conversion, all...

Thanks, Merc. When I first saw "Core Solo" listed on a model, I did a double-take, but figured it must be a single-core verison of the Core-Duo. The user is even more price sensitive than I guessed, so I've just found him choices and will let him make the decision. Typing this on the trusty, 5...

:rotfl: Some of Tannin's and Mercutio's wisdom needs to be engraved in concrete to preserve them for future generations!

Thank you, Handruin Sir. I guess I ain't doin sumtin right. I did the "Mark Forums Read" thingie, and the "light" went out on all the forums thingies. But the individual threads in each forum are still lit up. Can you toss a clue my way? TIA!

Thanks bud. Simple Powerpoint presentations, viewing Autocad files. They'll probably buy the cheapest one since they're a small outfit. They have a desktop with a P4-3 GHz, 512 MB ram, integrated Intel GPU, XP Pro, and the thing flies. It's a vomit box (Hp-Compcrap), but when they open an...

Is there a significant difference between the following processors for a notebook for general average use? The buyer is verrrry price sensitive. Listed in alpha order: Core Duo Core Solo Mobile Sempron Pentium-M Turion 64 Mobile Thanks! m

I get a 5 o'clock pretty fast too. The last time I had to get my pic taken for my driver's licence (had used up all my renewals), the pic taken at noon looked like I hadn't shaved that day. :evil: My skin irriatets easily, and if I do a Merc (all angles), I'm sore for a couple of days. The...

Couldn't agree more. This is what's resulted in the "me", "me", "me", "screw you" attitude. And AFAIT, it's happening all over the planet, not just the U.S.

I take it you're referring to the one day games as pajama games? Did you watch the recent Windies vs India 5-day games? I watched a bit here and there.

DD, you may want to check this 3-D printer out.

Me too. SED! I want SED!

I feel Berry's pain. Thanks for sharing those deep thoughts of his with us, Howell.

I'd guess the fields would be equivalent to that generated by an MRI machine (hence those warnings about not having any metal on one's body when one's being scanned). Nevertheless it's fun to imagine what would happen if one were to stick one's hand into this machine. Would the hand morp into...

Didn't see the read count, Tony?

As usual I got fingered. Prices cut weeks after I build a new m/c. Grrrrrrr.

W2k was installed on this laptop in 2001. It has 2 VMs and a trillion tons of Oracle shit on it. I used it extensivey then in a 3-tier config - client in the foreground, database & forms servers each in their own virtual machine. Bought VMWare 2.0 at that time for the purpose. It's still quite...

The last freeware version of JV16 is here. Either search the page or scroll down to the middle.

Thanks everybody for the suggestions. I tried uploading a 35MB original twice, and it crapped out at around 30 MB each time. I'm close to exhausting my 30-day bandwidth limit, so I'll put this issue on the back burner till I can mess with it on my desktop system. The compression is mJpeg. I had...

The only legit one I know of is at MaceCraft. If you don't want to pay for it, the last freeware version is floating around somewhere; I can't find a link right now. As to how effective it is, I don't know. Some people swear by it. It's a powerful tool, and so can be dangerous in the wrong...

Sol was clearer than I was; I too meant that the extension cables would be permanently plugged in, and you would plug a device into an extention cable as needed. As for as USB devices go, you lose no matter what. Either you have a bunch of cables going into a hub, or a bunch of cables going...