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merc: I do walk away sometimes, and no, I am not auto-looged on. For the two posts I lost, I was right at the PC, typing away like amd and then hitting the submit button. Aaaaaah! You're brilliant, Merc! I just checked my SF cookies, and yes, they're all set to expire today at various times...

:( Second time it's happened to me! I log in, type a long reply, and hit submit, and end up seeing the login screen again! Looks like this is a time out issue? Or maybe switching to another instance of the browser (IE 5.5) while in the midst of the typing? Maybe I should clear the channel...

Cripes! Life has gotten so complex, has it not? I used to know most chipsets quite well, then about 2 years ago, I completely, completely lost it, especially with Intel & Via chipsets. Don't have a clue now. :evil: My trusty ole BX based dual is chugging along nicely, thank you! When the...

Yes. With the cows.

Thanks, merc. And yo, Tannin, no offence meant!

Tannin, man, you're demented :mrgrn:! Kill! Kill! Kill 'em browser beasts! Seriously, how do you switch between tabs? Clicking vide de moose is too painful; I just prefer opening in a new vindow so I can Alt-Tab fast. I must confess, though, that I haven't spent too much time trying to learn...

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/chimpculture030102.html :D

Well, at the time I bought the retail box, the only OEM versions I could find were 2002. Maybe they're in the channel now...

Got a letter today. Was mailed on Dec. 31. :-? "You recently requested a Not For Resale version of Norton Systemworks 2003 Professional Edition in response to a message that was either sent to you via e-mail or posted on the Internet. The message that you responded to was sent by Symantec a...

I'll check, Blake. But normally, a fan powering off and on should just cause a change in the humming noise. The sounds I hear tell me something is wrong--maybe a bearing is sticking or giving out.

Bizarre things happen if you're a little bit out of spec! Is your cable length ok? For low-speed devices, max is 9.5 ft, for hi-speed devides, max is 15 ft. These can be doubled if you stick a powered hub in-between. I believe the maximum "hops" or tiers of hubs you can have is 5. The other...

Thanks for responding! John: The duration of the noise ranges from 0.5 secs to a max of 1.5 secs, and I haven't noticed any drag on performance. Nothin's changed, power requirement wise; of course, a cap could have died in the power supply, causing this problem. I don't hear any of the...

Yes, really. It started to happen after I made a small change a few days ago. I have 2 HDDs (a WD 80GB JB, and a Quantum FB+LM 30GB), each the master (and sole) drive on it's own channel on a Promise Ultra 100. The opticals are on the MB IDE ports. I had the HDDs connected to the center...

Really? I didn't know they were that hard; they've always looked soft and chewy to me....

That's from the MS KB article. A ratio of 2kb required per 1MB of file size shouldn't be causing this problem in your case; a 744MB file should require 1.5MB RAM. I'm failing to see how this could be causing the problem in your case.

It's amazing how many people had a difficult 2001 & 2002. I did too....... Lets hope the new year will be better. Here's wishing everyone lotsa happiness, good health and prosperity. And for Tea, something extra: all the tree-ripened, sweet, aromatic bananas from all over the world that she...

I was looking for similar stuff yesterday; try PriceGrabber. You'll get many pages of results but since most items have thumbnail pics of 'em, you can scan them pretty quickly. I saw several Antec EasyUSB type bay adapters with 4 & 8 USB ports.

Yup, Blake, USB sucks. USB's coming up with the "P2P without the need for a host" concept; it's called "USB To Go" or something like that. If only Apple hadn't tried to charge the royalty they did, USB wouldn't have had a chance. Unfortunately many mfrs. still don't put FW in their machines...

Yikes, I forgot price info. Aten switch model US401: $30 IOGear Active Extension cable 15': $30 APC USB 2.0 3 ft Device cable: $5.49 PCCables sells a 15' active extension cable for $15; USB 2.0 device cables are $2.29 for 3 ft and $1.99 for 18". :D

All right, folks! I'll cut to the chase: everything woiks like I had wanted it to! And John/Blake: Have you ever used ICS with AOL?? Not a trivial task, if you can get it to work at all. We can go into gory details if you wish, but I'll spare everybody else the pain. After much reflection...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaarrgh!!!! I logged in and typed a 1000000 word reply and hit preview and it cleared the screen and asked me to login again!!! I have to run now; will come back later. Sorry.

Yes Cliptin, I tried that, didn't help. Besides, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having a switch? Blake, I paid $30 for the switch that didn't work (no grins, please, that was a Belkin); KVM's that support USB seem to be at least a couple of hundred! John, ICS is fine, but the ISP here is...

Blake, I'm a little confused about the USB KVM suggestion. I'm not sharing keyboards or mice; not sure how a KVM would fit in my scenario. John, if I had only printers, that's the route I would have taken--far cheaper and easier. The difficulty is in sharing the USB DSL modem (AOL!!!) and the...

Howdy Doody! I need advice from the wise folks here. :D I have to share a bunch of USB peripherals between a PC and a notebook that will come and go. The peripherals were all directly on the PC originally. These include USB DSL modem, an Epson inkjet with a factory USB interface, an HPLJ 4ML...

Like we already didn't have enough to worry about. Read more at The Inquirer.

Ha ha, you're funny, Cliptin! :wink:

Check out http://www.batterysupply.com/ for rechargebales.

Thanks for the reply, Pradeep. As Blake said earlier, but that seems to vary greatly by person. How you can stand UXGA on a 15" I don't know. SXGA+ on my 14.1" Thinkpad consistently gave me homicidal thoughts. Blake, that exactly is the problem with LCDs. When designed & manufactured, there is...

Tannin, I'm sure you saw this over at The Inquirer.

Thanks, Tea, you're such a sweetie. Smoooooooch! There! That's a kiss fer ya!

Thus far, the gentle persons of this forum (who I respect greatly) who have posted in this thread seem to run their displays like I would. Sorry if I sound like a stuck record; what then prompts manufacturers to do something insane like sell a notebook with a 14.1" LCD that runs at 1400x1050...

Congrats, merc! You very eloquently expressed my (and lots of others') reasons for coming to these forums! May happiness, good health and prosperity be with you in the coming year and always. :D

honold, thanks, that's the info I was looking for. I would run a 22" CRT at 1280x1024 as well, so if you're comfortable runing the 20" LCD at 1600x1200, I would be too. Blake, this is the one thing that has puzzled me--cramming more and more onto a given size. Just what kind of people are able...

Blake, ain't that the truth! I need you to try and use my Stinkpad, then! But there are some generally accepted guidelines, which say that a 15" LCD is equivalent to a 17" CRT, etc. So, Size CRT LCD 15 800x600 1024x768 17 1024x768 1152x864 etc. I realize these are not...

Pradeep, I see that the 20” Dell LCD runs at 1600x1200. Do you find that acceptable or do you feel it’s too high a resolution for that size? I know this is quite subjective an issue, but still wanted your opinion. I bought an IBM notebook last year (TP23) that has a 14.1” LCD. The thing runs...

Thanks, blakerwry. I'll use the Code method for now and hit you up later if I need to. :D

Sorry for being so ingnorant, how do I stick in a Jpg file in a message I'm posting? I don't have the message sitting on a web server, so can't use a URL. Alternatively, I need to use a fixed pitch font for a portion of my message. Thanks!

Hmmmm. I must try this "bie" thing sometime.... :wink:

Jalepeno pepper. But it wasn't a choice, so I picked green pepper. I know the title says single-topping, but my favorite type of pizza is the veggie-lover's kind, with every veggie topping available. Liberally sprinkle crushed red pepper on top of all that. You taste buds go crazy.

My closest Taeget was out. Had to go to the next closest one. One thing I find a little puzzling though is that if I stick my ear close to the sub I don't hear much, but sitting in my chair, there's good, solid base. Some of the reviews on the Newegg site that merc linked to alluded to this as...

Thank you kind people, thanks--good advice! And misery loves company, does it not? LiamC, I must chide you for tempting and distracting me :mrgrn: blakerwry, I have an Inwin somewhere in storage that has the brackets for the add-on card screws integrated with the removable mammaboard tray. So...

Well, you didn't, did you? If it was my box, I'd gladly borrow that mean looking thing in the photo. But then, I'd never have one of those VBs in the first place.....

Someone I know has an HP Pavilion 6912 and wants to upgrade the RAM in it. Yours sincerely was nominated, of course, to do the job. I'd like to get it done by the end of the month. It's a very small chassis, completely cramped inside. And of course, the two DIMM slots are behind the...

How come nobody noticed before lazy ole me?

Thanks Cliptin--you clarified my point the way I would have. Gwammar Povice: There ain't no such thing as "intimate odour". (I'm asking for it, no? Talking to the Gwammar Povice in this fashion!)

That explains this post! jtr1962, you can have really bad power inside cities too--especially if you're in an older industrial area with huge machines that cause severe flutucations in the power in surrounding areas with variation in their load. One place I worked at years ago had a newer PC...

So these are good, eh? Thanks merc. I need to upgrade my crummy Hi-val ones I bought years ago.

Naw. But if you go to StorageReview, in the Bar&Grille forum, Davin's thread ("impressionable you idiot" or something like that in the title) has some links that are fascinating--optical illusions. Check them out!

Jake: no pics. I'm behind the contraption with a lens most of the time. I don't own a digital camera or scanner, and don't have access to one. I look like, well, an older guy with a big nose. They say ears and the nose are the only parts of the body that never stop growing. As you get older, the...

I have, for a long time, also bought Panasonics. Then, years ago, they came out with CD-Changers for PCs, and I bought one. This was in the days of Win 3.1. Of course it never worked right. The thing would constantly shuffle discs, eject and close the tray, etc. After 6 months of harassing...