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LM: Talk to Handy. He'll sell you en EMC array at a discount. Pray explain why?

i, thank you so very much for that fantastically detailed post! I really, really appreciate the effort you put into it! While I could have googled and gone to AGP.org (or whatever it's called), I was sure I'd land into the same mess of FUBARred info you found. Hence my question to the August...

What's the deal on AGP speeds? Will a 4x/8x card throttle back in a 1x/2x motherboard? Some cards (especially Matrox) list all the speeds, like 1x/2x/4x/8x. Anybody know?

Been wanting to do something like this myself, for a long time. I've done a couple, hooking up a cassette deck to my sound card. It is a painfully long, laborious, manual process. I wish there was a stand-alone unit with a cassette well and an integrated cd-burner. Pop in the cassette, a blank...

Meatbag? You've got your facts wrong, man! It's "bags of water".

Happens to all of us sometime or the other, Tannin. That's why we're human and not Borgs! :mrgrn:

This dude on pricewatch has the G450 bulk OEM for $29 shipped. Don't know about the vendor's rating, though.

Downloaded to my system. Unplayable. Too choppy. Ancient video card & processor.

The problem is that uninstalling 0.8 (that has extensions) is not enough; it leaves remnants that make 0.9 hiccup. A single line mentioning this in the 0.9 install instructions would have been enough. There are also things left behind in the registry that I cleaned by hand. FF is virtually...

Sorry to make an ass of myself. I figured it out by playing with the TabBrowser Extensions preferences. A bit non-intuitive, but all is well now.

We think alike, Greg!

I've reinstalled 0.9, and it is working (couldn't get 0.8 to work, no matter what). Merc, is TabBrowser Extensions working for you in 0.9? It appeared to get installed properly, but the context menu doesn't show the "open in new active tab", and whenever I say open in new tab, focus...

Buck, Thanks very much, that's very kind of you. But I did find the zip version of 0.8, and gave that a go. Same exact problem. So either 0.8 or 0.9 changed my system in some way that I cannot identify (Registry looks clean, relevant folders don't exist). The forums at mozilla have warnings...

Will, In my second post, I did say that I deleted my Mozilla and Phoenix folders. That includes the profile. After I uninstalled 0.9, I put my system back to "Firefox was never on this machine" state. My bookmarks are saved elsewhere, and I didn't care about prefs. Even now, technically, my...

OT: Merc, Chuck also has presence and at least some personality, which the subject alluded to in your sig doesn't.

Where's Merc when you need him? Shootin, 'um, interesting pictures with his new camera?

Why? Like I said, my folders are clean. My registry shows no traces of Mozilla or Phoenix or Firefix or Firebird.

What an utter, incredible piece of shit! I've been using 0.8 since it came out, and should have well left it alone. I uninstalled it, tried 0.9, didn't like it, uninstalled that, and now 0.8 won't work. It installs, and everytime it is run, hangs. Task manager shows CPU and Mem Usage rising...

I too am using it now. Cannot seem to get TabBrowser Extensions to work right. The one feature I needed most doesn't seem to work. With FF 0.8, the context menu would show "open in new tab" (which opened in new tab but kept focus on current tab) and "open in new active tab" (which would move...

Sharp is up to some tricks.

It's official. Too bloody bad.

chla·myd·i·a chla·myd·i·a [klə míddee ə] (plural chla·myd·i·as) n 1. MICROBIOLOGY pathogenic bacterium: a spherical bacterium that causes several eye and urogenital diseases in humans and other animals, and psittacosis in pet birds. Genus: Chlamydia 2. MED sexually transmitted...

In the Fellowes instance, Buck, the switch is a 3-way switch - center position is off, depress one way is forward (shred) and depress the other way is reverse, which spits out the accumulated crud between the teeth and if there is a paper jam, clears it. The reverse part of the switch is broken.

While the machines are rugged enough, the switches seem more prone to break. Back in the days when shredders were horribly expensive (~1997), I bought a small one that worked fine, but the switch went kaput after about 14 months of sporadic use. I bought a larger Fellowes cross-cut sometime in...

Buck seems to take after Henry Ford!

I've wondered about that myself!

Congrats, Sir Fushigi! Your posts have always been balanced and measured, and a must read.

I'm glad for two things - they know who did it, and they have photos of the guy! Rest assured, unless he flees the country, he will be caught.

Humans are a sub-species of rabbits.

Congrats from me as well, Jojo!

Glad for you! Are you on the "artistic design" side or the "engineer the artistic design" side (I suspect)?

Just did. It doesn't.

Thanks, Merc, great tip. Would be nice to use this as a stepping stone to upgrade to something better. If you buy PS Elements, But the Avery Digital Photo Paper * see here. Not sure if the Express version qualifies.

It's not just IT work. EKGs are sent there for diagnosis. Financial analysts there do the leg work for Wall Street analysts. Lawyers there do pre-trial discoveries etc. for cases here. I don't think it will ever stop; this "globalization" thing has structurally changed the economy. It's not...

Thanks, Time, I'll check them out.

Do you need an FCC licence for it? I bought a pair of GMRS walkie-talkies recently for next to nothing, and found out I need an FCC licence for them because they have a 5 mile radius (don't remember the watts). The licence costs $75. I returned the radios - just wasn't worth it. I believe the...

Care to tell me how? I know there have been good deals recently, but I didn't need it then :)

ROFL! Will, you're right, I am going to have a learning curve. Admittedly, PS and its cheaper sibling are among the best at what they do, and I might as well t-r-y to go that route. Anybody at all use Paint Shop Pro? CorelDraw 12?

Olympus ships their own sw - Camedia. It's able to do the bare basics, but can't properly do an absolute must - red-eye removal.

The usual - brighten, darken, adjust contrast, red-eye removal, adjust color, hue, saturation, exposure. If I can fix different parts of a photo, that'll be really great - like overexposed sky with underexposed subject. I don't think I'll ever be purposely blurring the photo or sticking alien...

I'm new to this. Need some guidance wrt 2 issues: 1) Which sw to use. I know Photoshop is the std., but it's out of reach price-wise. Even PS Elements is $100. Anything cheaper that works? Paint Shop Pro 8.0 seems to have very mixed reviews on Amazon. $40 after rebate at Costco. 2) Can...

I'll third the drive letter problem. Installed a 10-in-1 reader with 2 slots that gobbles up 2 drive letters. But Tea's point about convenience is very important. I take it everybody here prefers to pull the media out of the camera to transfer images? This is one thing that really bugs me -...

J. I'm following in the footsteps of the Hon'ble Sechs & Merc. As an aside, in some stores that accept only cash, I've seen signs that read "In God we trust, rest strictly cash". Maybe the inscription should be changed to read "In God And Cash We Trust"

LM, I take it you're a "Canon person"? Like coffee people and tea people, the camp seems to be split mainly between Canon and Nikon (I'm not counting the large-format guys, the specialist guys, etc., just ordinary guys like me). My first serious photo experiences in my late teens was with a...

Cool, thanks! Sounds like a really useful feature to have.

What does it do? How can it stabilize the image if the camera shakes? Pray tell.

I hope they feed him Spam (the thing in a can made by the food company) and n-o-t-h-i-n-g else. Spam for breakfast, Spam for lunch, Spam for dinner, everyday, for as long as he's in prison.

Congrats, 'deep! Have one on me as well.

I know Tim asked to be bitten, but I didn't think Sechs and DD had cannibalistic notions... ;)

Tim, thanks for your help. I am most certainly not belittling you. It's just that so much confusion exists. I'm happy with the Census Bureau defs., except they don't seem to define all the regions I listed in my original post.