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Me too. Things sure get around.

First of all, thank you very much, i. I really mean that. i had very good suggestions, as had Merc. My initial feel was Law as well. Unlike Merc, I happen to think that there's always a need for ethical lawyers who are decent human beings as well. But then I don't know enough about you to say...

Straight to the point, hairy-one. We've been trying to tell Merc that for years, but in a not-so-pointed way. Really, you need to make a drastic change like that, Merc. Think of it like clothes; when you've been working in the yard and they get dirty you change, don't you? When the current...

I try, I try, Sir, to be useful around here. PS: Handruin, I thought Blake had some excellent choices, too. My comment certainly wasn't meant in criticism.

Afterthought: Kudos to Blake for trying to help out, but I think he got a wee bit carried away.

No. Baby feeding bottles meant to mimic the real thing....

I am not my eyeball! What about the rest of me? Who do they belong to? Who do they represent? The reason I requested i to change his/her avatar is because it feels like he/she is staring. And staring is rude, is it not? It also feels like somebody's going to slice the eye any minute (that's my...

Correction! I'm so old I'd forgotten! I actually learned on Wordstar, Calcstar & CP/M! Started out with the dinner-plate sized 8" floppies, then graduated to the itty-bitty 5.25" ones. At the time, there was a company here in the U.S. that made dedicated word-processing machines. Basically...

VoidPoifect, eh? Hmmmm... I learnt word processing on it. Dos 2.x perhaps, CGA monitor, either 8088 or 80286. WP 4.2. Then 5.1. Then 6.0 for Win. Then 6.1. Then ... you get the idea. It was my staple wordproc till Word (Office) 97 was released. At that time I split 50-50 between the two. With...

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Howell: Meanie meanie meanie Meanie meanie meanie :(

I read in the L.A. Times a few days ago that an all new Cavalier would be out next year (2004). This was an article, not an advt. So looks like youy need to find a way to wait for a year, Coug, either for the Prius or something better than what's available today.

Abandonware more OSes here. No links to download. Seems more like a compilation. Oldversion.com more apps here. Can download.

I've heard of several goofy problems that mysteriously disapper when you do an SFC, even though SFC has nothing to do with the problem. Who knows how the beast's nevous system is wired.

Optimizes the boot process to minimize boot time. Works only with Win XP. As it is, XP boots a lot faster than W2k. When you bootvis it, you shave more seconds off. YMMV - for some the savings is 5 seconds, for some 15. In my case, I was setting up a notebook, with an already slow disk drive...

Naw, I wanted the old version. I run 2k, not XP, but am setting up an XP notebook for a relative. I realized I didn't have bootvis; never needed it till now. There were apparently issues with P4-Hyperthreading and bootvis, so MS pulled it and released a new version. Then They pullled that...

Thanks, Pal!

Aah, Steve, we posted at the same time! Yes, please email it to macharya1 is-at yahoo.com. Thanks!

Found a couple of copies, one in the English speaking world and one on a .de site. Don't know how legit they are. I'll play with them and see. Thanks.

Halp - can't find it anywhere. MS has pulled it off their site. It'll be used on an AMD system, so no worries about the reasons MS pulled it (P4 Hyperthreading issues). PM as an attachment if it'll be more convenient. Thanks!

I vaguely remember this incident. IIRC, here's what happened. The victim was a jewellery store that was repeatedly burgled. From the MO, it looked like it was the same burglar. Tired of this, the owner rigged up a live wire inside the store, with warning signs outside. The burglar broke-in, was...

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First off: once you're at the item's page, there's no option to "buy now" or "add to cart". Instead, there's a "click to find" button. Huh? Helooo, I'm already at the product page. What am I supposed to find now? When you click on the "find" button, you get a looooong page with a zillion items...

My experience was similat to Merc's. If that dolt Jason who was angry because I woke him up (I called the Sales #, mind you) would take my order on the phone (which the web site says they will), they would have had some business from me. All he wanted to do was point out how stupid I was and...

Looks like you want one of the "Drive Copy" utilities that clone a drive. Drive Image will do this. A crippled version of Drive Image that Powerquest calls Drive Copy can be found here. Drive copy is limited to 80GB drices, and runs in DOS mode, I believe :-? I've seen similar programs at...

e_dawg, the man is independently wealthy. :wink:

I have a spare 128MB SODIMM you can have. This is the original SODIMM that shipped with my Stinkpad T23. I replaced it with 2x512MB SODIMMs from Crucial. I don't know where it is, but should be able to find it within an hour or so.

Tried to buy something off eCost.com for the first time. What an absolutely, incredibly bad site design and user experience! I had to close the browser, delete cookies and retry. It took 4 such attempts before I got to the final checkout screen. I deleted my item here and closed the browser...

Amazing! I've always wondered about this; not so much for transmission from the powergen facility, but inside the house where it was inconvenient or impossible to have an outlet. Please! Elucidate!

You're weird and funny, Pradeep :lol:

The new version of DriveImage (2003?) apparently can image the Windows partition from within Windows while Windows is running. There's an easily found thread on SR about it. But genereal impression is that people don't like it compared to DI 2002, and that it is very slow.

I take it you use W2k, Pradeep, or is it W-2003? What OS runs on your "hawk-eye" monitor? Do you use Clear-Type? How good is the Hawk-eye LCD without Clear-Type? Aah, questions, questions! TIA

Reminds me of the good old (yes, I'm that old) days of AC vs DC. Edison promoted DC and had cables (that transmitted DC) buried at a shallow depth in the sides of the streets. Many a horse got electrocuted when it rained. Would this be a problem these days as well, jtr?

Corvair, There's no doubt at all that I defer to your deeper knowledge and experience. I know a little bit here and there, just enough to be dangerous without being useful. Having said that, my earlier post was in no way intended to be critical of your posts. I was just sharing my subjective...

Growth is not possible without change. Change is often times painful. So is growth (that's why they call it "growing pains"). An absence of change (flow) leads to stagnation (cesspool). No pain, no gain. All very worn, corny stuff, but true nevertheless. Sometimes we take life and ourselves...

Script! So that's the problem! What the heck do you think life is, a software prgram? Been watching too much of "The Matrix"???? Just let go, man! No script required. Be/do/say what comes naturally at the moment. Live in the now! One point jtr was so bang on was that work regiments us. To...

Merc: before I forget, when I do get to see you, remind me to kick you in the butt repeatedly till you beg me to stop. For all his nuttiness, flaggy has an astute side that is amazing. And jtr, I understand what you're saying, but have to disagree. I'm not writing off the world yet. I've read...

Right on. Yup. Note that I'm only agreeing that flagreen and his various avatars are nutty, not that Merc is. :D Not true. You're probably heck of a lot more extroverted than I am. That recent experience you recounted of driving back from somewhere, seeing some kind of show, stopping, talking...

Alas! the site's slower than molasses......And here I was, all excited...

Here!

Why this sudden, intense obsession with excrement?

Anytime the issue of a dual-proc system comes up, there seems to be much gnashing of teeth. Even if every program one runs is SMP-unaware, is there not a benefit to having a second CPU? A CPU eating program like Santilli's possessed Photoshop can hog one processor, and the OS and all other...

Thank you for the kind words, folks, and for the advice. I typed in a pretty longish reply this morning, and when I submitted, I got an error and my post was swallowed by the BBS black hole :( Handruin, thanks for the link to the wall-mount bracket. The web page for it says it's a pack of 10...

The Amazon deal was too good to pass up, so I ordered the Linksys WRT54G. I guess it would make sense to get the matching Linksys PC cards, "WPC54G Wireless-G Notebook Adapter"; according to their web site, this router and card now support WPA. More for the kids' sake than mine, I hope the...

WPA is the tighter security. :oops:

Thanks a million, Merc. Amazon has the Linksys WRT54G (interoperable with B) for $57 after rebate; should I jump for it? IIRC, WEP is the newer, better security protocol, right, with WPA being the wimpy one? Yes, all notebooks are running Win XP. So you think keeping the wireless router at...

Hi there, I’ve been nominated to help three college kids share internet access in the home they’re renting. It will most probably be DSL (384-1500k / 128k); the fallback is cable internet. Still trying to figure out if DSL is actually available. All three girls use notebooks running Win XP...

Congrats, Merc! One thing to watch out for: property taxes. Usually you'll get a bill every 6 months, and if you haven't planned for it, it can be a nasty surprise. Some lenders (depending on how much one had to stretch to buy the home) will make you pay the monthly pro-rated tax along with...

I read some of the stuff on this site and found it pretty disturbing. If it's true, it sucketh big time. I am normally paranoid, but have let down my guard in the last year or so.

Yeah, yeah, I know who to call. But if people are to believe you're a lawyer, you'll need to change your moniker to "The Taker".