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nice fine, Pradeep!

I just found a near-required reference resource for SF. I was pretty sure what "fair dinkum" meant, but you never know with you dinki-di's (hope I didn't just misuse that and offend anybody)

From the article above: The iPod people! * 44% of MP3 players are iPods * 52% of iPod owners male * 48% are female * 79% regularly listen to music via the radio * 50% of iPod owners regularly download music from Apple’s iTunes service. *...

After playing with it a little bit it will let me choose specific folders, and it does some sort of compression. Compression for backups....isn't that a bit risky?

So, I recently got a DVD burner (exchanged the Panasonic my bud got me for a Sony due to wider media compatibility, although I do now feel dirty with a Sony). It came with Nero-this and Nero-that, which included Nero backup. Does anybody have experience with this product? Is it worth it? Is...

I've occasionally just left the little slot cover off the case for the slot immediately below the AGP slot. Not sure how much that helps, but it's better than nothing.

In many of the hospitals I have some web access. Some block certain sites. On rotations I use my Palm to keep my schedule (appointments/meetings/call days, etc) so it's easiest for me if my Palm can sync to whatever system we're using.

WedCalendar looks good, except that my University webspace doesn't support any database without having to pay (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Interbase, MS SQL Server, or ODBC is required)

My wife and I need a decent calendar system that lets us have our own calendar but also lets us see eachothers. Online is preferable. One that will sync with my Palm pilot would be nice, too. If we need to install software to our University-hosted webspace, we can do that - our space supports...

How about backing up important documents to a Gmail account? Or at least emailing to a trusted colleague?

I'm so confused. Maybe I should stop studying over my Christmas vacation. Anyway, if I'm just burning data to be read in other PC DVD drives, should I be using DVD+R or DVD-R? They hold just about the exact same amount of info, correct? Will all PC DVD drives read both, or should I stick...

For Christmas my bud gave me a Pioneer DVR-R100 DVD/CD burner (8x double layer, 16x DVD-/+R, 50x CD-R, 32x CD-RW, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+RW according to the box). I have a basic knowledge of CD burners, but DVD burners confuse me. Can somebody recommend any particular type of media that will likely...

WinXPSP2, Linksys router FF1.5 no problems IE 1 high risk vulnerability More proof that you should avoid IE: priceless

As seen on Slashdot and on MS's webpage So, does this mean that all Mac users will slowly become aware of non-IE browsers, which might translate into more knowledge on the PC-side? Does this mean that web developers will have to refrain from just designing for IE?

Unless you have some significant astigmatism, your visual acuity should be about the same between contacts and glasses once your brain aclaimates (takes me a few minutes for me). If not, I would suspect some other problem - wrong prescription, a lens inside-out, two lenses in one eye, lense...

These days I'm taking the bus to the county hospital, so I'm exposed to the elements a bit. I actually prefer snow, since falling snow means its not incredibly cold. Plus, snow gives a bit of traction to walk on. The worst is a cold and windy day with icy sidewalks. That or a cold rain.

Great Clips, a cheap hair cutting place asks for a phone number to identify you. I don't know what else they use it for, but after getting it and bringing me back then say "a number 2 again?" so obviously they store my hair cutting preferences. No big deal, especially since my preference...

huh, IE does seem to load Gmail faster, even with FasterFox. Strange.

This is the malformed link above I've been kicking around the idea of picking up a $25 Timex watch to wear when I am likely to give my watch a beating.

Thanks for the recommendation, Tim. I looked at Skagen watches, and I'm getting [url=https://commerce76.datapipe.com/skagen/store.asp?area=FullProduct&productID=34]the 105LTX[/ulr] for Christmas. While I love complicated watches, I do appreciate a simple, easy to wear, easy to read watch...

This guy used to work at the residency program that I'm now rotating through. The news piece was aired on TV Wednesday night.

About two months ago I was in my radiology rotation when the tech support guy (who's office is within 100 yards of most of the reading rooms and available by phone 8-4 every day - pretty sweet setup and the system is awesome too) came in and started gabbing to the attending physician. Browsers...

Firefox 1.5 lets you drag and drop tabs between different browser windows. Neat trick.

re: textbox spellchecker - Gmail has one built in for email nowadays. Not a browser-specific feature, but cool nonetheless.

What do ya'all think of antivirus software. I get Symantec for free from my school, but it insists on running all the time and sucking up RAM. Are the free ones any good? I was thinking about AVG and Avast. Maybe I'll just reinstall Symantec and try to trick it into not running all the...

I've been using the 1.5 release candidates, and honestly, I can't tell the difference between 1.07 and 1.5. Maybe a little faster, but I can't tell. Clear private data is nice, but a non-issue on my home machine. If it gets installed on all the computers at my school, in the hospitals and...

have you thought about just using USB "extension cords" or a device that gives you a few ports like some keyboards and monitors do? After building a nice new computer for my parents and then watching them break TWO front USB ports, I hooked up a USB extension cord and taped the female part to...

I don't think all my emails are spam!

hmm...the Gigabyte board is micro ATX....perhaps I should consider building a small computer as opposed to the midtower I was thinking of. No reason not to, other than cost, perhaps.

oh, and a space heater would NOT be appreciated. Looks like it's AMD then.

I'm leaning towards installing my old ATi 8500 AGP card and passing on PCI-E boards and integrated graphics. It's overkill but my old 8500 is just sitting around, and it will give my parents a DVI out, which might be very useful as they want a flatpanel.

I ran those two command as well, rebooted, and it stuck for me too. Not sure what exactly did it, but I'm not complaining!

Thought I'd post my settings which work for me in SuSE 10 and my MS Intellimouse Explorer: My xorg.conf (in /etc/X11) mouse section looks like this: Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"...

hmm...the xmodmap -e command doesn't stick between sessions. Any idea how to get it to run each time at bootup?

CityK - thanks for the info! I mucked around a bit, and it's now working perfectly! I too will start playing with my keyboard and linaEAK.

Well folks, it's that time of the year again. My family needs a second office PC. Seems my mom and dad just don't share well enough to make a single PC do-able. My wife and I are the same way, multiplied by a bazillion. So, what is the current budget champ (with reasonable office...

I partly agree. I voted for XP, since you already have it so it will cost you nothing. Server 2003 is nice, but I'm not sure it's worth the money. If you are looking to play around, I very much recommend Linux as a secondary OS to play with. That's what I'm doing these days, with WinXP and...

Hey gang, I've got a bunch of text books around my place that I want to sell. Amazon seems like a really easy way to sell stuff, but I've heard some nasty things about them. Ebay is a possibility, but I haven't sold anything on Ebay before. In fact, I've never bought something on Ebay before...

Hey gang, Any tips for what it would take to register a domain name ("AdcadetFamily.net" or somesuch) and provide email addresses for family members? Just thinking about an interesting Christmas gift of sorts. Suggestions as to who to go through? Approx. costs? Other considerations? Thanks...

Please don't try to blame all bugs on RODENTS. Rodents have been blammed for centruries for everything from the Black Plaque to the rise of Microsoft.

oh, I know what didn't worth - SPSS, but that was because my university didn't buy a license for Server 2003 or something (afraid I'd try to "serve" the application?).

IIRC Madden 2004 would not install on S2003 (or some other program), but I know Madden 2005 will (though performance sucked big time). I too was wondering if there was a way to change the OS identifier to read XP to avoid such problems. I never found the answer.

This place has some decent tips on how to optimize XP. Granted, the best optimization might be a Linux install... :wink:

I've run XP and Server 2003 on the same machine for a while (currently only WinXP). For the most part I found S2003 to feel much superior to WinXP, although with a fresh XP install it's pretty comparable.

Actually, root cause analysis is a faily new addition to the medical curriculum. Not that learning about comptuers is bad. But wouldn't you prefer that all cars be more reliable, so instead of wasting money fixing them we could use all that effort to do something worthwhile?

I'd rather plunk all that effort into something more productive.

I'm pretty sure most of us agree that people have two purposes in using a computer. Two purposes that I have identified in myself personally: 1. To get stuff done. This is why I run Windows. It allows me to run apps that aren't available elsewhere, and lets me get stuff done without having...

Yup, that was it. Problem solved. Thanks!

For some reason using Azureus tends to slow my internet browsing way down, much out of proportion to the sum of what I'm downloading. I'm guessing this is due to the things going on in the background like uploading to others.

I think I largely agree with Tannin. And I disagree with at least one thing in particular: All amateur psychologists, gather 'round. I pose to you a simple query. Given these two users, one of whom has invested the time and effort to gain a knowledge of Unix, and one of whom has invested the...