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Thanks, Pradeep. I've never used a Tivo, so I'm not going to be comparing it to that. It's a little disappointing that it can't pad recordings, but it's not really a big deal right now. I just fear that the networks are going to be messing with the length of shows more and more. One other thing...

Pradeep, how is the picture quality on the analog channels, and can you easily pad recordings (ABC is running "Lost" at 61 minutes long) on the SA8300HD? Cablevision is going to have them available soon, and there's enough HD programming now that the two tuners would be useful.

Clocker, you picked two NFC teams. :wink:

Let's see if we can do a little better than last year. Packers over Baltimore; Farve retires on top. Eli will be the Giants' starting QB after their bye-week (Week 6), and they'll finish 7-9.

Santilli, if you want a weather program without adware/spyware, try Weather Pulse. This has been one of the mildest and wettest summers ever for us. We've only had one day above 90 since early June, and it was the wettest July ever for the state, with August not far behind.

Yep, I was getting a bunch of timeouts earlier today.

Sent. They seem to be giving out a lot more invites - I just got three more.

Both gone.

1 gone.

I have a couple of Gmail invites to give away. First come, first serve. Just give me your email address here or in a pm.

That's the way it's been in the rule book for a hundred years. Once it hits anything other than a part of the fielder's body or glove, it can no longer be a catch.

Once the ball bounces off the wall, it can't be a catch.

Why can't the Olympics get judges/referees/umpires that know what they're doing? I'm watching the gold medal baseball game between Cuba & Australia, and with Cuba up 2-0 in the 4th, Australia had two men on and the batter hit the ball to the outfield wall. The centerfielder went back, and had...

Microsoft has released an updated version of the beta 64-bit version of Windows XP. It's time-limited to 360 days, and available for download here.

The basketball team actually won a game... barely. They beat Greece 77-71.

Women's high jump qualifying round is next Thursday, and the final is next Saturday.

I'm not surprised the men's basketball team lost. Going into the Olympics, I didn't think they would even medal, but losing to Puerto Rico? I wasn't expecting that. But what's even more surprising to me is the US baseball team didn't even qualify for the Olympics. OK, so there are some strong...

Direct from Microsoft: Hard disk space requirement for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Up to 1455MB!

Lavasoft released Ad-Aware SE, yesterday, which is supposed to be faster, and have more protection against spyware trying to stop it. I haven't had a chance to try it on infected computers yet. A complete list of new features is here.

You just use SP2. It includes all the fixes from SP1.

NBC's coverage of the Olympics is absolutely horrendous. They never show anything live, they don't show any of the lesser sports, and they spend far, far longer showing biographies of the athletes than actually showing the events. This year, the HDTV production is supposed to be completely...

Housing prices around here have finally started to level off, but my sister is about to put her 1-bedroom condo up for sale for almost 3 times what she paid for it, just four and a half years ago. The exact same unit next to her sold for a similar price, about three weeks ago. She and her her...

Congrats, both of you. Broadband will definitely be available in the new house, Pradeep?

From the server status page: "All Servers - 09 Jul 2004 21:06 - Datacenter Move Sunday, July 11th at 04.00am UTC the following servers will be moved to Pegasus' new datacenter, FortressITX. Pegasus inform us that they expect around 4 hours of downtime as the servers are moved from...

Thanks, Will. I installed it on top of 0.9, and so far no problems. The only extension I had installed was Adblock, which still works. Hopefully, this will be what 0.9 should have been.

Anyone try it yet? The new release notes don't really say what was fixed between 0.9 an 0.9.1.

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49591#49591 First page on this thread. :wink:

What about Nero's BackItUp?

I want to get a dual-layer drive, but there's just no point in upgrading right now. I still haven't seen any dual-layer disks, and I want a drive that can do at least 4x on them.

Yahoo just increased their webmail storage space to 100MBs, plus they don't count what's in the Bulk Mail folder against the limit. You can try Gmail swap.

I picked one up yesterday. The first one I went to was out, but the second had about four left, late in the afternoon.

I use Unison to keep a bunch of folders in sync between by computers. It can work over SSH, and would be able to do the job just fine.

From here:

When I took this in college, I was an INTP.

or lawnmower, as Merc. would prefer. The 6800 Ultra takes up a PCI slot, has two power connectors, and they recommend a 480watt power supply as a minimum. All for the bargain price of US$500. That's just ridiculous. The press release is here, and all the reviews can be found at the usual places.

Pradeep, are the Region 2 discs full screen or wide screen?

There's an instruction guide on how to install Knoppix to a hard drive here. I haven't tried it myself, but I believe you basically end up with Debian once it's installed.

No.

Sure, you can ask, but I'm not sure how much help I'll be. I'm still a newbie.

I have it installed on an old Celeron 400, 256MB RAM, 40GB hard drive. I started the install on a Saturday afternoon, and had a working system with x installed by Sunday evening. That includes time it was waiting for me to do the next step while I was either asleep or out of the house. KDE took...

Yes, thanks for pointing it out. A very nice program. You can change the port, password protect it, and only allow certain IP addresses under the "Additional Server Settings" (bottom of the Server Settings page).

The 64-bit version of XP uses up to 16GB of RAM.

So, how serious are you about that job offer? I could use a change in my life, right now.

I got a prescription for vicodin, but I didn't fill it. I don't have any pain, and I hate taking any medication I don't absolutely have to. I am taking the anti-biotics though.

The pain is gone, along with my #17 tooth. I'll have to go back in a couple weeks to get the other three removed, but this was the one causing me the problems. About a minute after he gave me the novacaine, my headache completely disappeared. And I was suprised at how quick it was: the...

It doesn't help that I normally sleep on my left side. Two nights in a row without sleep - I'm not going to be a pleasant person to be around tomorrow.

I've noticed it during my annual overdose of college baseketball, this past weekend. I know that IBM has been doing it for at least a couple years. The only time I've seem commercials in HD was during the Super Bowl. And then it was just the movie trailers and the Ford GT commercial just...

Last night, I had trouble sleeping, and I was tossing and turning all night. When I got up in the morning, the left side of my jaw was bothering me. I didn't think much of it until the pain didn't go away - instead it got worse. I finally looked in a mirror, and the entire top half of my bottom...

Doug, you might want to check out this thread on the phpBB forum, which has a link to an Anti-Robotic Registration mod. The spammers are doing it to increase their google rankings.

The owner of the house across the street from where I grew up took what was a one floor ranch, and expanded it to a 2 1/2 story ~3000 sq. ft. house. When they sold it, they were asking for $800,000, but got $1.1 million - and it has a very small lot. Our old house was smaller (~2400 sq. ft.)...