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And now it's not working again. It seems as though it has something to do with the length of the initial post to the topic. If it's long I can't even Preview. If it's just a couple of lines, Preview works just fine (I'm not bothering to test with Submit as then we'd wind up with way too many...

Ok, thanks. Very strange - I just cleared my browser's cache, cookies, etc., and it looks like things are working again. Sorry for the false alarm. I'm not sure what happened there.

Am I just unlucky?

I haven't been able to post a new topic to SF in about 2 days. Every time I try, I'll click Preview or Submit, and then sit there for ages until my browser returns a "Document contains no data" error. Adding comments to pre-existing discussions (like this one) is no problem.

I hope everything works out ok, Pradeep. Even with the news coverage ramping up, I'm still having a hard time grasping the scope of this disaster.

Merry Christmas!

Is that a great deal, or am I just showing how out of the loop I am again?

Must be 252 metric hours. :wink:

And though it's been said, many times, many ways ... Happy Birthday, to you. :wink:

Thanks Handy. I had considered that, but as all the network cards I see these days use tiny surface-mount stuff, I wanted to avoid any manual additions. And besides, I'm surprised that in this age of back-lit, neon-lit, strobe-lit cases that network card manufacturers aren't using an external...

It's Christmas time. I need more blinky lights. Preferably some that do more than just encourage Xmas beer ... err ... cheer. There must be a PCI network card available that includes a couple of connectors on the PCB that allow you to plug in a case-mounted LED or two. That way you could...

I meant to post a follow-up. The Nero software that was bundled with a run-of-the-mill Teac CD-RW drive is working just fine on the NT 4 system. (And just for reference - not that anyone will ever need to know - the Easy CD Creator software I tried freaked out and refused to install.)

A question for anyone here: When you come across computer-related products that absolutely suck, do you continue to buy them? A Sony optical drive, for example. Does anyone here that hates them continue to buy them anyway? If not, then why do people still buy into cities where they...

Oh, those automatic taps. Yes, I feel your pain. I hate those things too. They have to be the most moronically designed taps ever.

My family had a party line, shared with several other homes (I can't remember how many now), back in the early 1980s. And yes, we did live in the middle of nowhere. The family of my best friend was one of the homes that shared with us. They had an especially nosy live-in grandmother who would...

Fishing? For birds, perhaps. Oh, and if we're starting relevant quotes, how about: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

I actually really like those automatic taps ... when they are well designed and are not malfunctioning. Sadly, those requirements are only satisfied about 50% of the time, if even that.

Amen. (wtf?)

Not me. (I'm currently using Firefox 1.0 on Win 98SE.) Try clearing your browser's cache first.

I'm not even sure it clarifies anything for me. Does this mean that, for example, Newegg is lying when it states that a given OEM Seagate hard disk drive comes with a 5 year warranty?

I don't get paid until the 15th! :o Still, looks like they're discount-happy this month. Hopefully other opportunities will continue to turn up for at least another week.

How did you get one?

If you're unimpressed with this price, LCDs must have come down in price even more than I thought. Anyone care to guess at an average price for a 20" LCD monitor these days? Wow ... that 2001FP would have been $554! I can't believe that price for a decent 20" LCD. I hope they have another...

As part of Dell's current "Outrageous Deals", they are including the 2005FPW. Anyone here have comments about this monitor specifically, or wide-screen monitors in general? Are there any compatibility issues with this sort of display? It's a tempting price. (They've also got a 26" LCD TV at...

This is what you seek.

Disclaimer: I'm always late to the party. That said... I would have been interested to know if the "subst" command could have fixed this problem for you.

Can anyone suggest some CD-writing software available today that will work on an NT 4.0 system? I know there were options out there years ago, but obviously that doesn't help me much now.

Heh. I was just thinking about the people I know who would like to nominate George W. Bush as the dumbest president in the history of the country. At some level I kind of agree. A thought just made me laugh though: what does it say about Kerry if GWB really is the dumbest president in the...

That's it? That's all? No lofty and eloquent commentary about the state of the union? *sigh* Kerry is a bit ... dim. Not dim-witted. Just dim ... or perhaps bland is a better word. But bland in a kind of tainted way. (I must be hungry or something.) I tolerated that though, because I...

I'm disappointed. I have nothing against the Republican party - some of what they claim to stand for suits me better than the rough equivalent within the Democratic party. I guess I don't really fit in either category. But this is George Bush we're talking about here. Not John McCain, or...

Can't vote, not human. :(

Pancacks?? Yuck! Pancakes on the other hand ... mmmm ... pancakes. :)

Umm ... huh? I think you would have been better off saying, "What this verse means to me is that we have no need to worry and fret." To me, it was nearly nonsensical. Any decent-sized chunk of literature is subject to interpretation. But some elements of some organized religions try to...

How can you tell if that happens?

Neat! I've yet to come across a *NIX system that didn't store useful info in /var/log and via dmesg. Is having helpful info stored in /proc/cpuinfo relatively universal? I hope so ... that's going to be useful. Thanks JoJo.

Oh, one good thing to know: dmesg's buffer is limited, and some parts of the OS will occasionally continue to send out messages to the system that dmesg picks up on. As a result, if your Linux system has been up for a while, the stuff you're interested in may have been bumped out of the dmesg...

"dmesg" should be able to tell you. It prints out the messages produced back when the system booted up. There can be a lot of them, so you might try piping the output from dmesg through "less" (allows you to view text from any source one page at a time), like this: me@nowhere:~$ dmesg | less...

Nah. Going for something like that would be too much like admitting that I currently live like a hermit. Now ... wingpuppies.com ... that I might consider. I'll bet you it'd also have a high success rate. Plus, you could meet women at a nice outdoor park in the bright daylight, not some...

It's getting cold in here. Time to start up a client. You should all be quivering with fear. My 300MHz Pentium II is now crunching away.

He was a source of hope. The news really saddened me.

Thanks blakerwry. Does that stuff apply to XP Home?

I actually did a 'dir /s hosts*' command from the root of C:. Two files turned up, but both were just example files. That reminds me ... I had to do the search from the command prompt because the "normal" search from within Windows Explorer had also been affected. That didn't surprise me much...

I was going to post a new discussion requesting some help, but as this topic is so similar... Nearly 4 years ago supporting MS stuff was a major part of my livelihood, but not anymore. Now I'm forced to deal with Windows only occasionally ... the rest of the time I live and breathe BSD and...

Good luck, Howell. (I hope your sig does not apply in this case.)

Anyone run into one of these (at $999 or otherwise)?

Avoid WorldPay like syphilis. I've had a few dealings with them as a customer of sites that have used them. Their website setup ... honestly, a group of hyperactive 12 year olds could put together something less buggy and more secure.

It might have used to have stood for Southwestern Bell Corporation at one point, but I was told by a connected source in that industry that today it no longer stands for anything ... it's simply a name leftover from a bazillion mergers and restructurings. Then again, maybe said individual had a...

LG = Low Grade