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I am amazed that so many of us share so many similarities WRT our careers. When a person like Merc can't get hired, you know something is terribly wrong with corporate America. My own career has been extremely rocky. Not of my own making. I do all the due diligence one can, everything looks...

Welcome back, Philosopher-in-Residence! You were sorely missed! :salut:

Congrats, JoJo! Gee, when it rains it piurs! First Adcadet, then a surprise from pradeep, and now JoJo! May your lives be filled with happiness, good heakth and prosperity!

Absolutely! Being right about being confused is better than being wrong about being right, isn't it? :mrgrn: I can easily understand the struck object/creature going through the windshield; my confusion was related to the damage to the vehicle's roof.

It appears I don't communicate well; only Merc and his Word Wiz understood my problem. Merc himself tried to solve my problem before passing it on to his Wiz, who said I had done everything right, except I was not executing the very last step. In my mind, Word should have automatically done...

Thanks, Steve! So I was right to be confused after all.

I stumbled across this page; scroll down to the middle with the insurance pics. How did the animal cause so much damage to the roof of the vehicle?? When a vehicle hits the animal, shouldn't the front of the vehicle sustain the most damage? It almost looks like the creature fell from an overpass...

PDF995. It's free for personal use; but will open a browser window each time you use it unless you pay for it (pretty inexpensive). IIRC, I checked out a few free ones before settling on this one. It uses GhostScript in the background; you can download a single combined program that does...

Hedda, thanks for helping, and welcome! You're right, and this is well documented in the help (the way I've learned most everything I know about desktop progs). But I had crossed this stage, as you can tell from the first post in this thread. I couldn't figure out why Word was not repeating the...

There are plug-ins, but I don't know any that are free. Yo can, however, get a free printer-driver, and print anything to it, and it will create a flawless pdf file. Let me know if you want details, I'll look it up for you.

Interesting read. I think it's Merc's pal - the same gal who wrote the "True Porn Clerk Stories" that he provided a link to in a post some time ago.

Not until you don't know a fart from a burp. Not until you fart and burp at the same time. So don't feel bad, old chap.

I only use Word (a lot) and Excel (some). For these, IMHO, Office 2000 is the best release - the most stable, the easiest to use, and the most intuitive (once you set the options correctly). Unless there is a whole new paradigm for the GUI (there are some innovative ones out there; and not from...

For Merc (or anybody for that matter) to become a Wizened Sage, they'll have to grow a long white beard first. That applies to members of the fairer sex too.

Yikes! Wrong thread! Sorry!

All Greek and Latin to me, and I speak neither.

"purple boxes" - then that must be the Barney brand. My Irish friend told me this one. Out in rural Ireland, a farmer was going to go into town. He asked his neighbor, who was fixing his old vehicle, if wanted something from town. So the neighbor said, "Yeah, get me a fan-belt for a blue van".

Gee. I'm typing impaired. Bite. That should be bite. On those rare ocassions when I watch TV (usually to make my daughter happy), I think on Discover or Animal Planet they said that Koalas are the only animals (besides humans, of course) that rape. The male will rape a female even when she is...

Puhleeeze! Let this not become an HTPC thread!

I believe more and more towns are doing the same. Aah! Some sense is sinking in at last.

Firewire cards for $8! - what brand, and where?

And have some time to go for a walk.............

A truly talented guy!

No need to be your usual gentle self, Handruin. They're actually a nightmare to deal with. Initially, a business thinks, "we'll get big selling to WM". Then over time, WM becomes their biggest customer, and then often, their only customer. That's when WM makes them sing the high notes. I read...

Naw. I think she can bit back real good.

Sir Merc: I am not fond of WalMart either. But you grossly underestimate the beast. Notwithstanding everything Buck and you have said, the beast is unstoppable. Like the Borg, everything in its path will be assimilated. Someday, they'll be too big, and assuming the politicians (note I didn't...

Watch out, Dell, HP!

Thanks for the confirmation, Howell! Vhy? You talk like that? Seriously, I don't want to make fun of anybody. I just think that accent is cute sometimes. Like in Germany, Web address are like vvv.storageforum.net. Like "Mawy Mawy, quite contwawy". Like East Indians who mix ws and vs, saying...

Gee, that was awesome - thanks, Howell! You're the best! The first link (dvdrhelp.com) seems to have a wealth of info. I'll try it out this weekend and post here. Thanks again.

Somebody with cash to spare ought to try this.

Tventy-vun views and nary a comment. Hmmm......

Ol Merc seems to have an ant in his pants...and he can be a mighty stubborn lad too.

dd, I haven't tried it yet :oops: (hangs head in shame). People may laugh at me, but I usually use EZ CD Cremator for my burning needs. You see, I'm too lazy to experiment (at my age, I've done enough of that), so I use whatever works for me. I have Nero installed on my W98 boot (I triple boot...

I want to "bust" a system recovery CD, update the OS to the latest service pack, update the drivers, and then burn it. I've never worked with ISO files. Which tool would be best? WinISO is the first to come to mind. Any recommendations, comments, practical experience with this and like tools...

What do you use then, Merc?

Don't tell me there's a jumper on the card....

Whew! A lot of posts all of a sudden. I didn't time my compresssion, so I can't be definitive. Going by gutfeel, it seems slow. But that could be because of the reasons I've already mentioned. Compression resluts (damn Merc and his Veronica) seem to vary; my Netscape email went from ~318MB to...

You're right! :oops: You know, the m/c is 100% stable, but when it was my main m/c, I could not get Caldera Linux (2.x, I believe), to install. No matter what. It would crap out during install with a fatal error and reboot immediately, so I didn't even know what the error was. I tried...

So Intel's into poetry now? :P

Seconded. Going about killing those handsome animals! Tsk, Tsk. I'll bet one of the four hunters was Pradeep. Why do you think he bought a set of expensive snow tyres for his car? Just you wait, DB, when it really snows, he'll out-tyre and out-gun ya.

Maybe I'll try Winzip's command line and see what happens?

It seems to choke a lot on .pdf files. Dunno why. And .exe files too. So you think it'll still be slow if I build an Opteron 248 system with 15k.3 drives?

Ha ha, that's funny, Blake!

I tried replying here twice yesterday, trying to use additional emoticons, and it crapped out on me both times. I'll stick to just the standard emoticons now. I sent an email to support@ some outfits that make compresison programs. Pkware said sorry, no can do. :evil: Winzip said they had a...

Back when the 300A came out, I bought a BH6 and overclocked the 300A 50%. When I built my current m/c circa December 2000, the BH6/300A became my daughter's m/c. I've ripped all her CDs (stuff like Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc.) and they run on a virtual CD drive; I got tired of swapping 25+...

jtr, I agree with you on the money issue. I've never wanted to be super rich; just have enough to pay the bills, have decent housing, transportation, health care and educate my one kid well so that she can do likewise. Having a decent pot will take the worry off tomorrow, and let dreamers like...

I guess you're right in that SATA can be pretty competitive with SCSI assuming the drives are similar (RPM, TCQ, etc.). But I think SAS will get the upper again when it comes out, no?

Aah! The precise Fushigi! I hear you, but the issue in this post was SCSI drives, SCSI controllers and transfer rates. As such, the host, controller cache and OS are immaterial. I've never personally used SCSI, so pardon my ignorance and correct me if I'm wrong. If you have an 8-drive RAID-5...

Fushigi's running 65 raided drives in 8 sets on one host; he said that in response to a post I'd made, but I can't seem to find that post right now to reference it. He's got practical knowledge of this situation; maybe he can shed some light on this.