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Retired school teacher pays a large amount on his credit card and DHS gets notified. What next? I pee in the loo and DHS comes calling?

Sheesh, I spent so much time looking for this thread, with a totally OT thread title.... New US $10 being released. Yahoo Noose. BoEP Can't seem to get an image to display.

Wanna gift me a copy? 8)

I'm constantly amazed at how blunted-edge I am. Win-XP is on the way out, and I'm installing it for the first time. :D

Won't happen. Dems have become spineless, gutless, brain-dead worms.

There is also the ever present danger of trusting your confidential data to a third party for safe-keeping. With all the data/security breaches that even multi-billion dollor companies have experienced in the last year, and keeping with my high-level of paranoia, no way in hell am I going to...

Thanks for the exhaustive feedback, Merc. You're awesome!

Fascinating article; if it really works it could have a huge impact. Guy studies spirals in nature and applies it to fans, impellers, etc. PC fans could become awfully quiet, too!

School kids build biodiesel car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon.

If an app requires 1.1, will it work with 2.0 or is that something that'll have to be tested on a case by case basis?

Many sections of the fwy are elevated (on concrete columns) over city streets. When you see a big vehicle looming on the side and you're in the "slow" lane, you a) change lanes immediately b) accelerate like mad (if there's space ahead) to get ahead c) slam on the brakes Take your pick.

Thanks, Coug.

Intel's usually not wrong about issues like this, so I'd make sure of the problem before going off on a tangent.

I agree with handy. In my eyes, there's enough focus throughout the image to get a really good feel for what the real thing's like. What the judges will think is another matter of course.

Come visit California! Adding to what Handruin and Buck said, many ramps slope up towards an elevated freeway. Not only does the car have to go up, it has to accelerate in the time frames Handruin talks about. Many on and off ramps on the oldest freeways are pretty short, truly hazardous if...

I'm looking for one that uses a Cypress chipset. The few I can find that can take a 12.5mm thick drive use unheard of chipsets.

What does "Azalia compatible" mean when referring to audio ports? I' referring to the Silverstone SST-FP32-B USB/1394/Audio 3.5" panel. Wikipedia has nothing on it. Google indicates it's a coedc. Why is it being used to describe a piece of hardware that that relocates an audio port? Thanks.

Yes. Cheapest workaround: stick in a PCI controller that doesn't have this limitation - typically brokenPromise.

Thanks, Merc. If I bought WXP-64, it would be used in a dual-boot scenario, I wouldn't depend on it for mainstream use. I guessed support for it is lukewarm at best, and you confirmed that. Thanks.

Hmmm. You must be an alien to wear 34 foot long "shorts".

Should I spend the moolah on WXP-64? Will it have even some kind of life, with Vista looming on the horizon? I have no desire to try Vista, but if some nice apps (multimedia rip/encode, for eg.) are available on WXP-64 now or will be soon, it may be worth it. Comments?

Hogging your bandwidth now...

Ditto, I'm a privacy freak. My underwear size is none of anybody else's business.

Ditto... Google is unable to deal with more than two dimensions. See my location.

I took this test in October 2005, and saved the results to my disk but am unable to open it now :evil: About the only things I remember: I was exactly in the center of the male/female scale; and I got every one of the "guess what they're thinking" correct. I remember being surprised by a...

Thanks, G. Doofus that I am, I thought I could slip the sleeve/HST over the connectors and be done with it. Trawling the net reveals that the connectors (molex, etc.) have to be "de-pinned" first to slip the sleeve/HST over the wires, and then the connectors have to be "re-pinned". That is way...

This may already have been mentioned, if so, forgive me. Since we're talking about preferences, it would be interesting to take this test at the BBC (think it requires flash). Takes about 15 minutes. You'll need a scale at one point (to measure fingers)...

I read that too, a couple of days ago; some proffy at some univ in the US made the declaration that for every 2 units of energy required to make biodisel (planting to usable fuel) you get 1 unit of energy out of the usable fuel.

The two Hibachi T7K250 250 SATA drives arrived a day late this evening (6:50pm, courtesy UPS). I bought them from Directron, and paid $3 extra per drive for "Double-box (extra packing)". This is the way it came: bare drive in a clamshell which was put in a cardboard box barely bigger than the...

Wow, that's a skill that'll have to be developed! Do you lace your wires, Groltz?

Buck, the wires are twisted enough already! Thanks for the tip on shrinking; I'll have to buy a cigarette lighter if I'm going that route. Merc, I already put wire ties on some, but I really hate the knobs that remain after you cut the excess off. When the wires themselves are not bulky, wire...

Awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

The fan power extension cables have worked out really well; ends up being neat. I'd like advice on something else. The Seasonic power supply has the most horrid wires I've ever seen; all twisted and gnarly like a 110 year-old's hands. I'd like to sleeve and/or heatshirnk them and some other...

Server class motherboards have typically had a high amount of interleaving. My memory has gone dim, but I think a HP NetServer I configured / installed / supported required 8 sticks in each of two banks just to start working. Max capacity was 32 sticks.

I toldja Merc was da man.

Scan as many as will fit on the scanner in one shot and break them up with photo editing sw? That's what I did with a bunch of old 2x2" photos stuck in an album page.

You are too!

Going once, going twice... XP home then? I checked MS' website, and they don't say; for using an XP "Upgrade" version, what qualifies - a previous retail version or will a previous OEM version qualify as well? (I know which previous OSes qualify and which don't, my question pertains to the...

Is there a reason to prefer XP Pro over XP Home? Home recognizes and uses dual cores, and the PC won't be joining a domain.

At the outset, let me state that I have nothing against immigrants. In one sense, we all are, into this country. What's really galling is older immigrants getting Social Security. I know many immigrants who were sponsored by relatives and arrived at SS eligible ages. They're getting paid...

I think not. What if Hillary wins again and again and again and again? Shudder-Shudder-Shudder.

Gaaah! I screwed up writing my previous post! The AverTV definitely supports NTSC (good, because I need that), but I also need PAL-B support and it has only PAL-M / PAL-N support. That's a deal-breaker for me. So this raises the question that if all the other guys say they support PAL (without...

Thanks Sol and Merc. On their website, the AVerTV PVR 150 is listed as a white box product, and comes without software; OS required is listed as WXP MCE; only PAL M/N are supported (that won't work for me, I need support for PAL-B). Thanks for the offer to let me try out your gear; I'll have...

Cuts both ways. We could bring B(ill) J(efferson) Clinton back!

Thank, CityK. Your post clearly points out how much I don't know about this stuff! :oops: First, I don't have a DV cam. Yet. I wanted the ability down the road to cap DV. That said, the PC will have FW ports (heck even the 5+ year old system I'm using now has an add-on FW card). I have Nero...

Thanks, LM and Sechs. I've scanned some in hi-rez and straightened and cropped, but obviously need to play a bit more. They're mostly 2"x2", high contrast prints. Most here are young, so a trip down memory lane might be fun. The household had a Viceroy bellows camera that used 120 film. It was...

As usual, the weathers has been SNAFUd. A week ago it was so hot (90 F) - in winter. Now it's gotten cold, but nowhere as cold as it should be in winter.

I'm scanning quite a few old (35+ years) photographs, most of them black & white, on an "Epson Perfection 2480 Photo" scanner. Specs say: 2400 dpi main scan 4800 dpi with Micro Step (sub scan) output resoulutions from 50 dpi to 12800 dpi 16 bits per pixel per color internal 1, 8 and 16 bits...

I'm mulling buying one of these. Most products seem to be kinda hit-and-miss, everything I see seems to get bad reviews by a good proportion of users. I checked out videohelp.com as well. Features: 1) Interface: no preference, and in no particular order: USB2, Firewire, PCI, PCI-E 2) Must...

Elmer Fudd. Vewy, vewy scawy. Just like Mawy, Mawy, Quite Contwawy. I have a welapse of Elmer Fudd disease evewy now and then. Stwikes without wawning. Fowtunately, it's not dangewous. Just contagious...