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What if the state of Texas put 10% of the money that it spends on road infrastucture into public transportation? I figure, at least, Houston wouldn't have the highest per-capita mass transit accident rate. If Alaska can get a bridge ot nowhere, maybe I can get some mass transit pork.

Subtracting out the cost of busses, trains, cabs, etc., I figure that I'm saving over $7000 a year by not owning a car. Wow.

1. Run command "control userpasswords2" 2. Select account that you want to autologin 3. Uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" 4. Enter account's password when prompted If you're so inclined, you can uncheck the secure logon option under the advanced tab.

Have you looked at Windows XP X64?

This style of cooler is standard on higher-end ATi cards. Keeps you from dumping hot air from the GPU back into the case. A lot of people have said good things about the Arctic Cooling Silencer, but I'm satisfied with the stock cooler on my X850 and don't know how loud it really gets.

Didn't you say that you were using 7? Shoot, if you'd said that you were using 6, I'd known that was probably the issue. Speed optimizations is one of the secret features of Acrobat 7.

Although I know it's not true, makes you think that Acrobat might be optimised for AMD chips.

Greg sent me a copy of the PDF in question, and I did a few tests. To save trees, I printed to a file; as long as the print is spooled, there should be negligible difference in how long it takes Acrobat/Reader to "print" to a file versus an actual printer. I have Acrobat Professional on my...

I'd be interested in looking at this file, as I just did exactly as Groltz described with similar results.

Maybe you could explain what you were doing that took 30 minutes just to get into the website and how Adobe Reader caused that....

The electron gets closer to *and* removed from the nucleus. I'd put a lot more faith in IBM's upcoming transporter technology.

That's a negative. Foxit *does not* work correctly.

OS/2 was a better Windows than Windows. Look at what happened to it.

The interesting part is that there's gold in them thar games, and you don't have to invest a lot of money to get it out.

Sure, you can cut it off. If you want a buzzing saw blade labouring near your presumably injured finger. I knew there was a reason that I don't wear much jewelry....

There's something better than Print Screen Sys Rq?

There's an error in that article. Nuclear waste will not be dangerous for thousands of years; it will be dangerous for millions of years. I'm pretty sure that's longer than recorded history.

People are short-sighted and happy to jack around with systems that they don't understand. Just look at genetic engineering.

This could be difficult for some people to pay....

Not new news, but not well known news.... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/dimming.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/dimming_prog_summary.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming

Basically, it's server OS payola.

Matroska has horrible support. I strongly suggest not using it. Are you able to burn some of these to CD/DVD and play them elsewhere?

Apache looks bad, but then....

I think the point here is that, if you're supposedly smart enough to "decrapify" your Dell, then you should have been smart enough not to have gotten a Dell in the first place.

OS X is BSD... with a very nice windowing system.

It worked. I have said something is "two yards and a couple of centimetres."

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=archive/04012006/news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=04012006 Confused? Read link #2: http://www.qwantz.com/posterchild/

Maybe people who don't have their own computers don't know how to mess the equipment up.

He can't. Their probably perfectly fine for building the Ultimate XP Boot CD for which they are meant; but shouldn't be seriously considered a repository of up-to-date drivers.

"If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate." —Dubya, March 21, 2006

Since we're no longer on topic, why don't women name their daughters after themselves?

I dunno about you guys, but I clean out my computer every once in a while. I've never worked on the computer of a person who did that.

Quiet, reliable, slow... definitely not a Western Digital product....

What's fun is going to a dealership with no intention of buying a car. Of course, it's not as fun now that they require car insurance to test drive a car. Although you can get into the "how am I supposed to pick a car to get insurance if I need the car insurance first?" issue. Salesmen don't...

The usual terms apply. Adaptec ASC-39160 Dual Channel Ultra160 SCSI Host Bus Adapter - The card is in perfect condition. Bare card with two 68-pin and one 50-pin internal, and two 68-pin VHDCI external connectors. The card is 32-bit PCI compatible. This is a true-blue Adaptec card (not OEM)...

I didn't say it.

I'm sure that I've related this story here before, but when I initially received my 2001FP, it had a bad power adapter. The issue was obvious, as the LED didn't light up. Spent hours on the phone with support, sales, and spare parts; they sent the power adapter for the 2000FP several times...

What's the expected life of such a drive?

Activision is going to tell you that it's unsupported operating system. Have you tried running the installer in Windows XP compatability mode?

I figure that everyone is going to make the move to perpendicular before making any furthur major improvements. I suppose that they could make 600GB on current technology, but there just doesn't seem to be a call for it.

I talked to some of the folks that I know involved in working on applications for Vista. Apparently, its security breaks a lot of stuff -- some of the programs these guys are working on won't work without at least power user privilidges. The current fix is to basically ask Microsoft explicitly...

There was a person with whom I worked once that was just like this. Insisted that communications come via IM (despite saidsame IM client being banned by the IT folks). I suggest that you do what I did: send the e-mail as you otherwise would and then message them that you sent an e-mail. By...

Would you rather a typhoon? That sounds dangerous!

Irrelevant of what W3C says, this appears to be royal purple. True indigo is a lighter colour.

People do love to confuse socialism with Marxism/Leninism (which isn't even true communism). It's also amusing how some feel that being a "fiscal conservative" makes it impossible to be a "social liberal." Noting that "fiscal conservatism" is economic liberalism, it is obvious that free...

I take it that you're an anarchist, then. It's not possible for any government to take money from everyone and then turn around and spend it such that each person gets the benefit of his own money. (Wouldn't such a government be communist? Anyway....) Government exists for the good of...

You mean, find the right install disk, bittorrent boy.

Open source controversies aside, do you have any experience with Cedega?

Unless AMD suddenly gets stupid, they will always hold on to that price/performance edge. AMD's continuing problem is chipsets.