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I know a couple people with Toshiba laptops. The machines are cheap, and you can tell. I'd rather get a Dell, and I sure as hell do not want to get a Dell notebook.

Merc, do you know where on the partition those files that you could not read lie? I have a feeling that our theory about a narked partition layout are true. I just want the proof....

FOR THE LOVE OF [fill in name of diety]! CENTRINO IS NOT A PROCESSOR! I will continue to pound until all of Intel's bogus marketing is out of your heads. Back to the subject.... I would go with an IBM myself. I have several friends who work for Big Blue, and they all have laptops worth...

43? In a row?

"This whole recompiling thing is a little less pleasant than licking a razor blade." --Jesse Hughes

I guess they're going back to catch the 80GB/platter craze. But with two more platters.

It would be faster to have two identical drives, muck one up, and then do a binary compare of the common files.

Is one clearly better than the other?

What does it break?

Maybe this is because you've mucked-up your disk?

German? Try reading Middle English or Anglo Saxon. Aloud.

Can you create an ad hoc network with the two client devices? If the clients are working fine, the wireless probably just poopoo'd on you, and the device will need to be replaced.

Got a link to the discussions? I'd be a lot more likely to believe that the partition data is f'd up, making it look like there's more space than there is. If this really does work, however, where the heck is this space coming from?

Too many people learn about the Windows 95 API the way they learned about sex -- either from their friends or by piecing together veiled references in books and magazines. -- Christine Solomon

Well, I don't really wish to jack my current system volume just to avoid using a floppy. I was hoping that there was some way to do this by stealing the boot sector from a floppy, but that doesn't look to be the case.

Western Digital is crap anyway....

Ah, but are they cool and quiet? And when will they really be available?

"Caffiene-free Diet Dew is like people who enjoy wearing a condom but hate having sex." --Trevor Schadt

Anyone have any good instructions on how to add DOS to an existing boot menu? I'm not finding anything clear and useful on this.

Have they given up on the enterprise market yet?

You don't happen to have MPD?

Procrastination is like masturbation. No matter which way you look at it you're only screwing yourself. -- Dan Isaacs

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That sounds backwards. Shouldn't direct be unbuffered? Still doesn't explain the relationship that it *doesn't* have with the read-ahead policy.

The 45W CFLs put out about as much light as a 180W incandescent. So, for less wattage, I get more light than the halogen; and I stay under the 60W limit of most of the lamps.

"For instance, if you were born in 1977, systems will determine your age by subtracting 77 from 00, at which point you will be considered a youthful -23." -- Computerworld, on the Y2K problem

There's a separate option for write-back versus write-through. That said, I found another section on the manual with a slightly different description of the option: Now it sounds like this only has to do with reads. But it doesn't affect the read caching policy?

You need to set the image all option, or the the volume signature doesn't get added to the Ghost image. When you restore the image, Windows will assign a new signature, and this can really jack up drive letters.

I think that I've confused the heck out of myself on this one... My MegaRAID controller offers these two options for each array. My impression was that this was an overriding option, basically turning all caching on and off. The manual says: This is, of course, different from what I...

What would he be doing?

Good. I'm not smoking dope.

"Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." --Arthur C. Clake, on what he imagines HAL's first words to be

I don't think that the senator is up for relection this cycle.

I always work on the presumption that about half of the life of a CF is lost in the way that I use the bulb. The reason that I use them, however, is the efficiency, not the longer life. As one who lives in an appartment which lacks a proper number of ceiling fixtures, most of my rooms have a...

It's been a while, but shouldn't you be able to use the path relative to the batch file's location to do this?

Another reason to distribute PDFs instead of source documents: user stupidity.

The Marine Corps has officers? I thought that those were reserved for the Navy.

I honestly don't see LEDs coming into common use for some time. It's tough enough to convince people that compact fluorescents are good replacements for incandescents

The former Vice President?

Is that what they were doing in there?

My impression was the LEDs were much closer to 50% efficiency than they are. Except for specific situations concerning colour and space, it seems like fluorescents and others are better choices.

Monkey?

"WHEREAS, it is the policy of the state of New Mexico to enhance the self-esteem of students in the classroom, yet the teaching of a theory that indicates that children evolved in a meaningless manner through highly improbable random fluctuations in a pre-biotic soup can...

Are you suggesting that Rockefeller is not a senator from West Virginia?

Considered working on your self-esteme rather than your dysfunctional relationships?

I think that he's suggesting that we go back to using shells for money. It's easy to create wealth, and it doesn't take money to make it.

Merc, you are officially bitch-slapped. If someone has a glass of water, splash it on his face.

Only 34% efficient? Aren't fluorescents something like 20%? How efficient is your average LED?

This would, of course, involve someone buying copy of said software for my use. Ghost is provided to me for free....

An update on the Dell escapades... The easiest way to get a replacement AC adapter is to order a new monitor and then return it with the bad adapter. Woohoo!