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Thanks, Craig. I know the incident you're referring to. But I think the phrase is intended to mean something else. Context #2: Cannot find news item for Context #1; can't even recollect where I saw it.

What does "drink the Kool-Aid" mean? From the context, I gather it's something akin to "swallowing the bitter medicine"? :( I came across this in a news item yesterday, and again just now.

Hope Gracie gets well fast, Merc.

A friend of mine was a Marine Engineer who worked on container ships. One time (pre 9/11), he gave me a tour of the ship, including the engine room. The engine was huge, but IIRC not as huge as this one; maybe because I saw the "installed" engine, with the bulk of it hidden by the "deck" in the...

Yep, Buck's report is pretty good. An orange orb in the sky instead of the sun, smoke strong enough to make it unpleasant outdoors, and ash! Ash everywhere. The latest count is 16 dead, 1800+ homes and 600k+ acres burned. People build in unsafe areas, won't clear brush, and this is the result...

You're right, CityK. I have Firebird 0.7 installed, and do use it when I go to "bad" sites. But there are certain features in IE that I need that are not available in FB. Also, while FB is great, something makes me come back to IE.

Varning: PC World is riddled with pop-ups. Epson Faces Consumer Suits; Complaints in three states claim printer vendor cuts off ink cartridges before they're empty.

The gallant Merc and his chief troubleshooter have ridden to the rescue of this poor soul. Many thanks to Merc and Ms. A.A. for the quick, simple fix. I am indebted.

Aha. I do this all the tim with onesies and twosies. But with 80+ pages? No way! Laser printers will be a worse mess! Once pages go through a fuser unit (with its heat), they don't like going thru the paper feed mechanisms again. The odds of a misfeed / paper jam are so high it's not worth it...

In all probability, the latter.

I'm curious, what's the max transfer rate 32-bit Cardbus can support?

Heah.

YGPM. Thanks!

HP inkjet cartridges have built-in expiry dates Expiry on HP printer cartridges hacked

I gave up and am posting here as a result. Word 2000. I have a document broken into chapters, and I need a footer on every page. The footer needs to show the chapter name and the current page number. (These chapter headings and page-number-of-first-page-of-chapter will show up in the Table of...

Pree-us.

I'm so sorry, CityK. Tyler was blessed to have received this much love, attention and care from you. I hope you'll find solace in the sweet memories of the wonderful times you've had with your dear friend.

If some people have their way, it won't be horse power for some vehicles anymore, but cowpower. So instead of saying your car has 300 horses, you'd be saying it's got 300 Moos. Apparently Sweden has been quite successful in extracting and purifying methane from manure, sewage, salughterhouses...

ROTFLMAO :lol:

From the review:

Today's L.A. Times has a review of it. The guy gushes all over the place. When I'm in the market, this is what I'll shoot for. More interestingly, in the first half of the review, he skewers the U.S. auto industry for saying it was impossible to achieve 40MPG for passenger cars by 2015; the new...

Ditto. I found the test suspiciously easy, and to my surprise, scored much, much higher that I thought I would before I went to the link. And this was when I was dog tired and couldn't think straight. I'd have to agree with everybody here; that test smells somewhat. But I really, really like...

Y'all may recollect that I asked a question about the WRT54G a while back (got it from Amazon for $59 after $10 MIR). I also bought 2 WPC54G's to go with it. The first thing I did was flash the router to the latest firmware and download the latest drivers for the PCMCIA cards. Set up was smooth...

No need to state the obvious, Sir Howell. Thankfully, there are civil people on this here forum. If most everybody here turns into your clone, I'll get a one-way ticket and be gone too, like Sir Google and Sir Wizard.

Neato! You have a way with words, young man!

Their site looks like Apple's! I can't decide if they're for real or it's somebody's idea of a joke. Did you check out the "Extreme" desktop? Looks like it comes pre-overclocked. And what's this PuRam stuff?? And "Up to 74 full-length 32-bit or 64-bit optional PCI Slots Modules"! And "Thermal...

Now, now, Buck, the guy was on the right track, let's not reverse course, shall we?

384MB, IIRC. After that you get diminishing returns, unless you're doing heavy duty Photoshopping and like stuff.

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Way cool! Though I must admit I'm terribly confused with me, myself, i, etc.!

Well, Pradeep, don't go saying that over here! I'm constantly amazed at how careful one must be in speech in different parts of the world! A common name in one language could be an insult or a expletive in another.

I have to agree with Merc and Tannin; I'm allergic to these all-in-one things that are jacks-of-all-trades and piss-poor masters of none. For printers, I'm allergic to ink-jets as well; biggest problem being the recurring cost of ink cartridges. In the U.S., you can buy a Samsung laser for...

This is exactly the kind of situation where a duallie rules. The bad proggie can eat only one proc, leaving the other to run the OS and control your m/c.

I thought DVD shrink was somebody who counseled bad / troubled DVDs.

Let go. Go with the flow. Just be. I used to be a lot like Merc in my younger days; don't impose, blend with the background, etc. I've loosened up a lot over the years. One has to, to stop living in a bubble and start living in the real world.

Thanks, Tannin. ~ 6 years ago, I really wanted a big monitor and was drooling at the Mitsu DP2060u. Couldn't afford it. You're just confirming my prior research that its successor, the DP2070 is a top-notch monitor. Since I'm not into exacting graphics work, though, justifying a CRT of that...

So, Tannin, how 'bout some specifics? I mean model #s of your favourite CRTs (and perhaps LCDs). TIA.

Sorry Coug, I screwed up. Its The Princeton Review. They'll let you take the test, but you have to give them your email to get the results, IIRC. Though I'm interested in these tests, I haven't taken a reely good one cause they cost money which pore stingy ole me won't spend. When I was in...

Merc, I don't think anybody here is annoyed. Speaking for myself, there's a tremenduous amount of frustration that I am unable to reach you and help you, truly help. This same frustration comes through in what many people have said in this and other posts. If my situation allowed it, I would...

Me too. Things sure get around.

First of all, thank you very much, i. I really mean that. i had very good suggestions, as had Merc. My initial feel was Law as well. Unlike Merc, I happen to think that there's always a need for ethical lawyers who are decent human beings as well. But then I don't know enough about you to say...

Straight to the point, hairy-one. We've been trying to tell Merc that for years, but in a not-so-pointed way. Really, you need to make a drastic change like that, Merc. Think of it like clothes; when you've been working in the yard and they get dirty you change, don't you? When the current...

I try, I try, Sir, to be useful around here. PS: Handruin, I thought Blake had some excellent choices, too. My comment certainly wasn't meant in criticism.

Afterthought: Kudos to Blake for trying to help out, but I think he got a wee bit carried away.

No. Baby feeding bottles meant to mimic the real thing....

I am not my eyeball! What about the rest of me? Who do they belong to? Who do they represent? The reason I requested i to change his/her avatar is because it feels like he/she is staring. And staring is rude, is it not? It also feels like somebody's going to slice the eye any minute (that's my...

Correction! I'm so old I'd forgotten! I actually learned on Wordstar, Calcstar & CP/M! Started out with the dinner-plate sized 8" floppies, then graduated to the itty-bitty 5.25" ones. At the time, there was a company here in the U.S. that made dedicated word-processing machines. Basically...

VoidPoifect, eh? Hmmmm... I learnt word processing on it. Dos 2.x perhaps, CGA monitor, either 8088 or 80286. WP 4.2. Then 5.1. Then 6.0 for Win. Then 6.1. Then ... you get the idea. It was my staple wordproc till Word (Office) 97 was released. At that time I split 50-50 between the two. With...

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Howell: Meanie meanie meanie Meanie meanie meanie :(