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Whoops. Spoke too soon. Fixed on one. Not on another.

Well, it's reproducable on 3/4 of the XP machines in this building. Random machines, too; it doesn't depend on hardware or anything. SFC seems to fix it but I have no idea what's broken or why.

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Where's Grammar Police when we need him?

How about long-term chemical sterilization? Say, ten years. Forced abortions would probably strike some people as unreasonable, after all. We impound children all the time. They're called foster children. For that matter, we could in theory sterilize everyone out the gate and do test tube...

It seemed to happen whether or not I open the folder. It isn't replicable on my home XP machine either.

I don't see a problem with that, either. Every male who makes it to 40 or 50 has to go through them as a matter of course during their annual check-up anyway.

I'm getting an error at the "Clicked on and Deleted "Paint"" stage. "This folder contains files opened by other users and cannot be deleted...blah blah blah" Examining a list of LOCALLY open files (no one is accessing these files from the network), I note that thumbs.db is held open as is the...

Weird. It's reproducable on a whole roomful of machines here. Maybe it's the AV software or something. Thanks Buck.

You know, I've never made fun of any of your typos. Look, this is a good idea. It really is. We license drivers. We license gun owners. We license even fairly small construction projects and innocuous professional activities. Twelve year olds can have kids. Anyone else see a problem here?

Can someone try to reproduce this? In WinXP, open Paint. Make a scribble, create a new folder in "My Documents", and save the file. Exit paint. Now, try to delete the folder you just created.

The developer is swearing up and down it's an oplocks problem.

This makes perfect sense to me.

There used to be a distinction between 0+1 and 1+0, too.

Doug, wget is your best friend.

The only issue with compression is that the machine that receives the drive needs to support the same kind of NTFS (e.g. no NTFS5 on an NT4 machine).

Come to think of it, I seem to have a sort-of Perfect Storm of social problems, don't I?

I ran it with the default options, but even if it is trying to compress JPGs, decompression shouldn't take hours.

I'm content with a small army of budget machines. None of the above will be "budget" for a good long while.

Understand that I'm rather a bit more isolated than that, having zero social acquaintances and lacking the interests, knowledge and temperament that would allow me to spend time in a bar (or any place else that young people gather socially).

Blah blah blah. Is there some reason why I should have to wait hours to compress a few thousand files? Is that OK and normal? 'Cause that's what I'm seeing. On a fast computer. With gobs of RAM. That's not doing anything else except internet browsing.

Ghost, then restore. It works very well, thank you. :)

Merc doesn't celebrate xmas. If I get lucky, I get the gift of triple overtime, which I can sometimes guilt-trip a client into paying since I'm "away from my family". You really have no idea how much it annoys me that the whole @#$#-ing country closes down just because of one religion's...

4% now. It's really moving along. I suppose I should point out that I'm using winRAR for compression, if that makes a difference.

So, 10 minutes after starting to RAR that directory - something that I accomplished in ~5 minutes with winzip - I'm just 1% done. Whoops. It just flipped to 2%. Wow. That's performance. Remind me never to do this again.

WinAce. The file in question contained around 12,000 image files (a large collection of stuff from someone's digital camera, in a slightly complex directory structure). Even if the idiot I got it from compressed the files, it shouldn't've taken that long. My working theory is that it's RAR. I...

The compression state is within the file system and does not alter the file in any way. It changes the encoding used to store the file. The compression state is only stored with the file if it's moved on the same volume/partiition. RAR sucks Satan's ass. If the tools were anywhere near as...

I've had problems with enabling digital output on, oh, anything, and still being able to use the Line in. That said, the ACL650 on my 7VAXP works as well under 2003 as it does anyplace else (e.g. not perfectly but "good enough").

NTFS disk compression is 1. Global within a compressed folder or disk. 2. Minimal in its impact on the system - very, very small increase in CPU utilization for a great deal of compression (how much depends on what you're compressing. I usually see 40% compression on a mix of image-laden Office...

I'll have to try that when I get back to working on that problem. The developer swears up and down that there's a program or option installed on Windows 2000 that's making this happen. I'm swearing up and down that she needs to step away from the crack pipe. This server is vanilla as can be...

The only way I can respond is that you would've had to know her. Someday, if I ever felt well enough, I could write about it. It's a really amazing story.

New versions of Bitware are Computer Associates-badged. Consider yourself warned. Is there some other fax-software-that-comes-with-a-modem out there?

OK. That was the crack I've been smoking. My ex's phone was the Kyocera. Just ignore me. Really.

Yeah, nothing at all like Euroland, where Mayonaise (emulisified fat) is considered the topping of choice for French Fries. .. or Germany and surrounding nations, where you can get a fried chocolate bar. The big thing, I think, is that American portions of food are enormous, and we eat out a...

My phone is a Kyocera, about 3 years old now (it's the right size and shape, so I'm not getting rid of it until it dies). Most of the parts inside are from Ericsson.

Krispy Kremes are disgusting. I mean, really, really gross. I've had chicken from KFC that had less grease. My favorite didn't make the list. I'm partial to a large, cinnamon and glaze donut covered with peanut crumbs that's locally called a "Bear Claw". Yum. Also, I greatly prefer the...

Since I'm logged in as Administrator, creator/owner of the files, have full control from both the share and the files (not that the share perms matter, since I'm on through terminal services) and the problems are within access, not file-level, I don't think that's the case.

Vanilla Win 2000 SP3 File and authentication server. I've only accessed it remotely, but it appears as vanilla as can be. It hosts some Access 2000 .mdb files that a small number of VB applications work with. The DBs are tables-only. No macros, no code. I've been using the apps with test data...

On NT, or even Win2000, it's easy to get to places where you can type faster than the letters can be displayed. This was absolutely the norm with everything prior to NT4. With NT4 things started to get better. I'm not sure whether to attribute the increased responsiveness to NT or to better...

And then there are times when you wish it didn't matter, put it does. Just ask the poor folks who attend beaver.edu. I have to wonder what it is you Aussies are doing that "bugger" is a synonym for exhaustion, though. ;D

I think you were drooling over my Phaser 850. Which makes way nicer output than any color laser I've seen, but not as nice as one of those 6-tank 2400dpi Epson inkjets.

Color lasers won't ever replace inkjets. Why? Photoprinting. Laser printers can't do it

It's silly to do an "us against them" thing with the graphics-chip makers. Frankly, both sides cheat as much as possible on benchmarks, and I really don't believe there's such a thing as an unbiased source of information about ATI or nvidia. Both nvidia and ATI make products that perform...

ATI and Matrox. When I had 16 PCs, it was half-and-half. Now it's 5 and one. (My notebook has an S3 chip in it. I'm not counting that, since it isn't like I had a choice).

Prescott supposedly has "hidden" 64bit-ness, too, at least according to the Inquirer. Intel's delaying it in the futile hope of finding a market for Itanium.

Why the heck would anyone out-and-out need an all-in-one? Last I checked, a fax machine was about $50, a printer another $50 and a scanner, $50 more. Each of those devices, save maybe the printer, is well-suited to its job and unlikely to break (printers, of course, die every time you look at...

OS X has a completely 3D desktop. It's not just that it's pretty, it's stuff like extremely high-quality video scaling, too. The system would probably be quite a bit more responsive with a fast 3D card. May I also remind everyone, as someone who has used NT since the 3.1 release, that early...

DVDShrink rules. There's a miniscule quality difference between it and my other favorite, Pinnacle InstantCopy, but the time factor - probably 10 to 1 in Shrink's favor - really, really makes it a worthwhile choice. IfoEdit is too damn complicated. I used it for about a week in favor of, oh...

This large piece of bondage furniture in my garage has exercises I don't think I've ever done before. Chest flies suck.

While being buggered isn't anywhere on my personal agenda, I did weight training in H.S. mostly to keep the sorts of idiots who normally bother honors students and choirboys from bothering me. :)