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SP2 "knackered" my Tiny Personal Firewall version 2. The latest versions of Tiny is too complicated for me to learn :oops: So I reformated and went back to SP1. Cheers, Edward

Congratulations Doug :excl: Thank you for creating SF. Everytime I ever log onto the internet, SF is the first site I visit. Cheers, Edward

Tea, my sentiments exactly! I posted here once where I uninstalled NAV2003 and totally lost my internet connection. Then I was not bothered to do a REGEDIT. So I just re-installed Windows. In my opinion, Symantec is becoming like Microsoft where "If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em out" Cheers, Edward

Hi timwhit, If you still have any of your GMAIL invites left, can you please give me one? Thanks mate. Edward

Thanks Merc. I am seriously considering moving every computer at work that has a burner, over to Nero. It had been years since I had installed Easy CD-Cremator on any of my home computers. Cheers, Edward

Where is Gary when you need him :wink: I remember Gary telling his wonderful "war stories" about Easy CD-Cremator back the days when he was using it before Adapatec/Roxio bought it from Corel. The problem with me is that Easy CD-Creator OEM version is bundled with the computers at work. This...

LOL! :lol: If Merc does what The Bartender and Pradeep suggested, he will be making a killling in profits. :mrgrn:

Exactly, and the government is spending millions of dollars to buy out/pork barrel the angry sugar farmers. It will be interesting to see who will blink first (goverment or opposition) over the impasse on PBS amendments. Cheers, Edward

I installed FireFor 0.9.1 on a newly reformatted computer (set it as default browser). Then I used it to go to Microsoft Office Download Center to download updates for MS Office. I found that all the text are jumbled together and all the icons are missing on the MS Office Download page. But...

Congratulations David :excl: I am like you in that I feel more comfortable in posting here at SF that I can poke a bit of fun/humour. Bartender, please break out the alcohol :D Cheers, Edward

Mate, you wear the panty hose over your head on the way to rob the bank :mrgrn: Cheers, Edward

Hi sechs, Is your laptop the IBM R50? The reason I ask is that I accidentally left a USB thumbdrive connected to my IBM T41 and rebooted my laptop. Upon reboot, my laptop tried to boot from the USB thumbdrive. Maybe your laptop can also boot from USB devices as well. Cheers, Edward

I don't know about the other Series but my IBM T Series (T41) does not have a Windows key. I rarely use the Windows key and does not miss it at all. Cheers, Edward

I don't know, Merc. For computer-savvy people like we SF members (well, maybe not me :oops: ), liquid coooling will be great for us to push the limits of the system. But for the average computer user who would not upgrade their systems for yonks, will it create long term problems like leakage...

Hear Hear! Congratulations Fushigi :excl:

The JoJo; Congratulations :excl: I still remember when you set up your FTP server to allow access for me to download files :wink: Cheers, Edward.

Hello LunarMist, Are you going to Photokina? Nikon Europe just anounced the Nikkor AF-S VR200 f/2 http://www.europe-nikon.com/details.aspx?countryid=20&languageid=22&prodId=937&catId=125. I am wondering if you could give your opinion on this baby. f/2 :excl: in a telephoto lens. Cheers, Edward

Thats the good thing about testing on a work computer because you know that if you messed it up, it does not come out of your wallet :wink: Cheers, Edward

I "test drove" the IBM R51 and T41 before settling on the T41 because it is lighter. If you do not mind the 14.1 inch screen size then I would recommend the IBM over a Dell anytime (but then, I am probably biased against Dell :wink: ) Cheers, Edward

After "test-driving" several laptop brands (Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Sony, Acer), I finally broke down and bought an IBM ThinkPad T41. I was deciding between the R51 and the T41 and in the end, chose the T41 because it is less heavy. Doing a side by side comparision with my T41 and my colleague's...

I read from Xbit Labs this: "Epson showcased a prototype of 12.5” OLED monitor at the EDEX’2004 expo in Tokyo. There’s only one problem with this device – it takes this monitor only 1000 hours for the brightness to degenerate in two times."...

The other option is to use a capturing tool such as Streambox VCR to capture .ram files. The last I heard, Real Networks sued Streambox over this. However, a quick Google search still return links to the beta versions :wink: Cheers, Edward

Doh :excl: I thought it was an article like those found at Ace's and Xbit labs. Me now look like someone holding a giant lollipop with "sucker" stamped on forehead :mrgrn: Damn you Merc! :lol: I had a good laugh reading it though.

I second sechs on that. I was forced to switch from Eudora to Outlook at work although I still use Eudora at home. The latest version of Eudora has improved their importer to import from Outlook and Apple Mail. The junk/spam filter of Eudora is adequate for my needs. My NAV2004 also integrates...

My apologies for this slightly off-track question but I find it disturbing that the US military hires "contractors" to do the interrogation. When did this started? As Merc said, civilian contractors are not bound by US laws regarding prisoner treatment. Not only that, when the services of these...

My old Sony used to make creaking noises as well. Then it started to make a short buzzing noise when I booted my computer. Then one day, while I was writing an important report, my Sony CRT monitor just gave a loud "Pop" sound and it died :excl: Cheers, Edward

I can anytime be another example of Time's client/customer. I have NAV2004, Ad-Adware, Spybot and Trojan Remover. I update these programs regularly and Ad-aware still picks up suspicious "stuff". This is because I have to use that damned IE at work. An example where a user was forced to use P2P...

Hello BooST. Good to see you posting at last here :wink: Cheers. Edward

That is kick a$#@ :excl: The most I can do on my system without it becoming unplayable is 1028x864x32. Goes to show you got high end systems there :o Cheers, Edward

Dave, I don't know about the rest of the other games but for BF1942 and QuakeIII, you can get the Linux Server versions. The reason I said Linux is if you have to pay through the nose for the Windows Server versions. Cheers, Edward P.S I know for a fact that the BF1942 Vietnam Linux Server...

Congratulations and good luck on your new business Dave. Those are certainly high end systems you have there. One thing I noticed playing BF1942 is that it sucks up alot of RAM when starting and loading. Cheers, Edward

Sorry to hear about that Doug. What you did is the best way. Smacking it on the head sounds like a fisherman doing to it to his catch but since your fish has been with you for while, it just would not feel right.

Hi Tony, Maybe the Forester is the way to go. A friend of mine had the base model Impreza GX and he complained that it does not have enough "oomph" in the engine to overtake caravans on the highways/freeways. Mind you, he had his wife and 2 daughters and everything save the kitchen sink in the...

I am not sure about the USA but here in OZ, we don't get good credit rating. We either get bad credit rating or none at all. Once you get a bad credit rating, you can kiss goodbye trying to get a loan and credit cards. Not only that, it is very hard to remove the bad credit rating.

Happy Birthday! Bartender, another round of drinks please, we need to get JoJo drunk :P

On a related note, be cautious downloading the Microsoft sound drivers for your nForce 2 boards (in my case, Abit NF-7S). The Microsoft sound drivers totally messed up the onboard sound. I can no longer open the nVidia SoundStorm control panel, and ocassionally a very loud thud will be emitted...

I have got experience with that :oops: After that, I followed CougTek's advise and threw the hammer at it :mrgrn: I really hate those clip on CPU heat sinks. Cheers, Edward

What exactly do you need to view while mobile? Since you mention removable media, would a PDA (with SD card, for instance) suffice? Unfortunately, it is more complicated than that. The hospitals and labs I will visit do not have standardised computers (Apple Macs and IBM/PCs with a few Unix...

Congratulations jtr!

Congratulations Howell!

Wow :excl: Great to have all these responses. Thanks very much for all your advise and help. Really appreciate all your help. Firstly, this weekend, I am going to a few shops and hopefully "play" around with some laptops and look at the screens. I think I am going to stick with the big name...

Thanks for all your help and advise guys. Please keep pumping out more advise and recommendations :D Unfortunately we don't get that much Athlon XP-M laptops downunder. That pretty limits me to intel :roll: Will now look at laptops with Pentium-M chips. I have not thought of Fujitsu but is...

Doug, out of curiousity, can this forum be able to handle the traffic if it got slashdotted?:mrgrn: Cheers, Edward

Hello everyone, I have search through the SF forums and decided to revisit/update the thread started by Prof. Wizard on laptop recommendations. BTW: I like the descriptions then by Merc and Buck on Compaq laptops :wink: Since I have not owned a laptop for more than 6 years (it was a Texas...

I'll start off with a Fosters. :mrgrn: Only Joking! (I would not even drink Fosters even when I am in a desert with no liquids around)

I come in late and your bar has been drained "dry" :cry: However; Congratulations Merc :excl:

I backed up a couple of movies using Ritek DVD-R discs using my Pioneer DVD burner. After a couple of months, I find them totally unreadable even on my Pioneer burner. My guess is that even Ritek has problems, especially batch problems. Cheers, Edward

I finally got a new hard drive (Maxtor) and tried this MaxBoost. I keep getting "Out of memory resource and MaxBoost is shutting down" when using memory intensive programs such as Photoshop and Battlefield1942. This maybe due to that I only have 512Mb of RAM and using WinXP SP1a. I guess, RAM...

LOL Fushigi, thats a good one :mrgrn: Although I wouldn't be surprised if it will be true (maybe the PaperClip Office Assistant alone takes up 1GB?) To add on to what Fushigi says, more and more games are taking up gigabytes of space. Unreal II takes up 2.44GB. I wonder how big HalfLife II...