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Can somebody please tell me the difference between "Sentbox" and "Outbox"? On and after Dec. 31, I've sent two PMs, both of which are sitting in my Outbox instead of the Sentbox. I'm beginning to suspect the recipients haven't gotten them yet. In the past, sent messages went straight to the...

YGPM.

Wishing everybody great joy, robust health and prosperity in the coming years!

I really wish they made them like this when we bought our bed :( I did notice yours is a King Koil. I wonder if the usual culprits - Sealy, Serta, SpringAir, which seem to be the most common out here in S. CA, have changed their flip-n-rotate policies as well.

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Our bed has a 20-year warranty (or had). Back when we bought the bed, we were told (and everybody we know that bought beds) that the warranty was valid only if the bed was flipped at least 2-3 times a month. I guess if we didn't, indentations would result. Either you guys haven't read the fine...

We bought a top-of-the-line consumer King mattress (Sealy or Serta) for $1400 ~ 9 years back. You're supposed to flip it frequently, which is a real nightmare to do with a king. They give these grocery-bag sized handles which rip-off in a year or two. Our mattress has a nice big depression where...

Treatments are bandaids unless you address the root cause. Bad posture is often to blame. The Physio will probably teach you exercises that will condition your back to better handle the abuse we put them through - do them religiously. Get up every now and then and stretch. The trick is to listen...

Since we did wander off a bit, and then got into rich people's toys, I saw a bit of TV yesterday (~ about 6 month's normal quota); was on Nat. Geog. The show was called Tycoon Toys (or something similar) and was about very rich peoples' favorites hobby - owning & flying ex-military jets. Many of...

Sorry, Handruin. I wasn't sure you caught that, what with the holidays and all. just wanted to be sure you knew about it.

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Thanks, Merc, this is the kind of priceless, real-world feedback I was hoping for. :)

In the last 6 years that my wife has had a daily commute, it's been <= 8 miles one way. I've wished and wished there was an all electric vehicle available that was affordable - we've would have bought it. Now by the time her engine has warmed up, she's shutting it off. Higher wear and tear...

I got this with the NEC 3500A DVD burner. My main needs right now are to back up my data on DVDs. Down the road I'll look into buying a video-cap card and converting my homemade (and a few other) VHS tapes to DVD. Is Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3.5 Deluxe any good? Crapware? Bloatware? The disc is...

Fushigi is right on - very valid points, all of them. Some of these are addressed in the LA Times Escape review.

Links to LA Times reviews. You need to "register", but can get a working username/pw at BugMeNot. Don't give up easy; if one combo doesn't work, click on the "did not work for me" button on BugMeNot, and it'll give you another. Hybrid Accord V6 Hybrid Ford Escape I recommend that everybody...

New.com. Glad at least some people think about this.

Having always lived in bustling L.A. / Orange counties in S. CA, I have to remind myself from time to time that not all of America is like that. In 1991 we took a train from L.A. to Chicago that went through New Mexico etc. that really opened my eyes.

Awesome! The view from the shoulders must be incredible.

Perp. recording. Hmmmm. The bits now stand up to be counted? :D

Most here will puke if you mention Norton, but I've never had a problem with it in terms of protection. Just don't depend on LiveUpdate; it never works. They've been steadily jacking up their online renewal rates, and you'll pay an arm and a leg if you do that. Cheaper to buy the retail product...

Thanks, Howell. I learn something new everyday!

Since we're talking about Firefix crashes: The preview release used to and the current 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M2)) will crash consistently for me. It took some sleuthing to figure it out. Full cache. I've specified cache to...

I must be dense. Anybody care to enlighten me? :cyclop:

jtr, re. the taxicab ad project, a thought - have you considered remote source lighting? Years ago I interviewed with Remote Source Lighting Int'l, but can't find them on the web; maybe they went belly-up. Try a Google search on remote source lighting - there are many other hits.

The main implication of this is that Big Brother has another way to spy on us. In terms of what it can do for you and me, the other thread (too lazy to search) that Buck (?) started, with the photographer taking gigapixel pics was more interesting (am not talking about the guys in Denmark).

Article. Inventor's camera and photographs here.

Awesome! Reminded me of Jonathan Livingston Seagull......

Tim, I had saved some info from ATI's web site a while back. I have no info on the 9500, but the only differences in the 9600 family are as follows: PRODUCT NAME RADEON 9600 XT RADEON 9600 PRO 128MB RADEON 9600 128MB ------------------ ------------------...

For file splitting: Go here and search (in your browser) for GSplit or scroll down to approximately the middle.

Pricewatch shows 2 entries for the Asus (I know, I know) A8N-SLI Deluxe for ~ $300. Has 2*16x, 2*1x PCI-E, 3xPCI. nForce4 SLI chipset. 4 Dimm slots, 4GB Ram max, GbE, 4+4 SATA, onboard audio. The only other board I know of is the Abit AX8-3rd Eye which I don't see anywhere.

This thread got me interested in the options out there. On the Boy Wonder's site here, they claim they were able to: * OC the 90nm A64 3500+ (default 2.2GHz) to 2.6 GHz (290*9); 18.6% OC * OC the 90nm A64 3000+ (default 1.8GHz) to 2.6 GHz (290*9); 45% OC The MB they used was the MSI...

I have a ton of older tools that do a great job, but don't know if they'll run on XP (I'm on 2k). I haven't run any of these tools in a long time. CloneSpy claims to run on 98se, NT 40, ME, 2k and XP. It claims to find files that: - are duplicates (based on content) - are duplicates and have...

I'm not sure you can classify Ebert's compensation as greed. The other day I saw (on an executive recruitment board) a listing for a VP of IT Operations with compensation at $400k - $800k, + 50% - 100% bonus, + options + car, etc. It was for a Wall Street firm. I have no problem with CEOs making...

Now you're playing with me, eh Gary? Well, I seem to have made a complete certified doofus of myself. My sincere apologies to LunarMist, whoever he/she is, and to Gary as well. I need to get some brain scans done to determine why my cognitive abilities have gone downhill.

Newspaper CEO's wife paid $300k a year for duties described as reading the paper and discussing it with him. (Internal investigators reported that she was paid "more than $1.1 million a year in annual salary and bonus payments" even though "she performed no meaningful work in return.") The CEO...

Really? Do I have early-onset Alzheimer's??!!

That's what you think. You're a terribly interesting guy, Gary. Oh, and I was referring to your various avatars. Performance aside, have large FAT32 partitions been reliable for you?

Stunningly beautiful pictures, Tony. And very articulate about the restorative powers of nature, too. Thank you for sharing!

Buck, as always, you're right on the money. I personally would hesitate to format a partition > 20GB as FAT32; NTFS would be my choice. But our multi-personality friend seems insistent on using FAT32, and I was trying to help. I would be velly, velly nervous formatting 300GB as FAT32. But since...

Wouldn't a prospective mate think the man is already "taken" when he's seen with other women? Wouldn't he be considered shallow/superficial if he were eager to dump his wingwoman for the new one (who doesn't know the first gal is a wingwoman)? I'm not into / good at this kind of thing, so I...

From the horse's (Microsoft's) mouth: The following table compares disk and file sizes possible with each file system. NTFS FAT FAT32 Recommended minimum volume size is Volumes from 512 MB...

This page from the PCGuide may be worth reading.

Jeez! I had no idea it takes that long. Then why does everybody say processors are "fast enough"?

There's a thread at the other place that rants about it; haven't read it myself. George Lucas is a fake

Macs do Star Wars dirty work

This is the usual BS that is supposed to be asked at interviews and performance reviews. Who the fricking hell really knows? You have to BS back. They know they're BSing, you know you're BSing, and everybody is happy. For some clarity on issues like this, visit Ask The Headhunter. I've been a...

Merc, is it okay to use DNS servers that don't belong to your own ISP? I'm surprised the big guys like Verizon don't block requests coming from outside their alloted IP range. Fushigi, thanks for the link to the DNS cache proggie. A while back I asked about this, but nobody seemed to know of a...

Strong teeth?

Nah, Sechs, I neither have the patience, nor the time nor the inclination to mess around with 3rd party FW. Mfr. FW is good enough for me. Incidentally, Staples has the same stuff for the same net prices, but with lower initial prices (and lower rebates). ClompUSA also now has the Belkin...