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I did a 38" plasma a few years ago. The dot-pitch sucked. I don't know about current models, though.

They stated in the review that the model tested was intended for industrial applications. It's not a speed demon, that's for sure.

Overblown. It took a device driver update and a major hardware change (video card) to cause deactivation. And as anyone whose done it knows, phone activation is painless and takes less than 2 minutes. It is MS' fault? Yes. Is it a big deal? No.

Merc hasn't posted in 2 days...I wonder what he's up to?

Nope. Just waiting for someone to post something interesting.

The bank is still holding it. They've retained an agent who is trying to sell the house and get what they can.

Nope. It's in a city, and it's been about 70F for weeks now. But it's starting to get colder at night (55F?). Can't stand roommates, so that is out. The house is only about 1000sq.ft.; my parent's house has an addition that makes all the difference. This house would be essentially gutted and...

It is a good deal, especially if I can talk him down to $280k-ish. The interior is good except for the kitchen; I hate tile. The floor, counter tops, and cabinets are functional; but I would replace them anyway. I'd likely do Pergo in the kitchen and living room to facilitate dancing. Vaulted...

Thanks for the encouragement, Chewy. Fortunately for us, the housing market is in a crash right now; the place we just looked at is listing for 30% under what it sold for in 2002. Of course, that is still in the sticks, a major "fixer-upper", and it's still $460k. The other place we looked at...

For stuff like that, it's always cheaper to get locally. I'm not sure what you have around you, though.

:p Thanks. It's actually just the right size for video games when sitting forward (captures peripheral vision) and good for reading when sitting back (all right in front of me). When I first put it on the desk I thought "shit, too big". But now I'm thinking "darn, a 50" would have fit"!

My new computer monitor. ;)

I think for the moment I'm good on technical stuff. I'm trying to focus more on composition.

That was a really good read. His description of aperture was the best I've seen.

I haven't had this many problems sleeping in years. When I was in High School, I'd give up trying to sleep at around 2 AM and take huge walks around town for hours. When I was doing the .com thing I would just go to work, it motivated the staff knowing that the boss was working 15 hour days...

Yup. When I was a kid, thats what I would watch when I was sick. It would take 2 days while the parents were at work to finish it. If I was sick longer than that, I did the original BBC version of Hitchhiker's Guide.

That's actually not that bad for HP drivers...a whole different kind of hell.

I always set up NOD32 in "silent" mode. No pop-ups for me.

Strange, because they became the market leader by selling decent stuff. How long do you think they will continue to be the market leader until their rep is trashed?

Thanks guys. What I was hoping for was for the OCR software to look for fields (e.g. "supervisor") and grab the text in the next box as field "supervisor". I guess I should stop hoping and get to work...

I'm told that you can buy Dells at Walmart now?

I don't know of any software out there that can do it all, so I was looking for software and a process.

Sorry for the confusion. Some are old-school carbon copies done on typewriter or dot-matrix, some are printed out of DOS programs or Windows. They all contain the same fields and the same information (e.g. "Supervisor: Bob Dole"), but the layout is different. All are hard-copies, so the first...

A client receives printed forms in similar but not identical formats from many customers. I need a way to scan it in, identify the fields, and then enter the data in a similar format Excel spreadsheet used internally. I'm pretty sure this will be a multi-step workflow, but it will have to be...

Sweet.

(self-test) Because of the crop factor of the smaller sensor?

I assume that this 1-5x 65mm macro is not a good general purpose macro lens? Too much of a good thing? Not able to capture entire flowers, etc?

I suspect it means "out" thought port 80. That is the new thing in firewalls, blocking traffic both ways and creating rules both ways. The site should not require unsolicited traffic into your machine on any port.

Not sure what you mean. On a proper OS, it would look like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddrueding/1595667398/

No issues here. I use the following DNS servers: 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.4

It says that it is a kernel memory leak, and that it could happen without Kapersky, but doesn't mention how. I suspect it would be something more ridiculous than copying 16,400+ files. I just tried copying 50,000+ files and had no issues at all. Edit: In fact, it just finished copying 87,118...

Only occurs when running Kapersky 6 or 7? Apparently this was easy enough for everyone else to avoid?

I think the phones need some more computing power before they can be as good as the computer programs, but those can handle accents. Even without learning, Vista's voice recognition was able to handle Russian, German, and Canadian accents quite well.

I would be perfectly happy with a phone that looked like a bluetooth headset. Voice activation/recognition and text-to-speech are really ready as technologies.

Oh, I'm hairy? I wonder how long that has been going on? ***Puberty at last*** Well, we needed another hairy one to replace Merc, who has moved on to bigger and better things. ;)

I was looking at the larger, more capable cell phones, but I really do travel with my laptop just about all the time, so all I want is a cell phone with EVDO and tethering that is as small as possible. Priorities: Bluetooth EVDO Thin Narrow Light Short Removable storage Not a flip phone I...

Considering all my contacts went with the phone, I need to keep my number so they can reach me. Transferring my number to a different service will take too long. I'll probably just get a Motorola MOTOSLVR L7c. It seems to be the thinnest phone they sell (most significant measurement when carried...

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As I mentioned in "Something Random", my cell phone bricked itself. I've been using an LG VX9800 on Verizon for years. I have a KRZR K1 in my trunk that I was thinking of switching to, but I'm thinking of re-evaluating my service as well. My GF is still using the pre-pay phone she got years...

Based on many forum posts around the 'net, my phone is toast. Of course, I never did get around to backing up my contacts (100+), many of which I don't have elsewhere. I'll start a cellphone thread and see what's what.

My trusty VX9800 cellphone seems to have bricked itself. I just glanced over at it, and the "Verizon Wireless" boot screen is displayed and the status LED is red. Nothing is happening. Every minute or so it goes blank and seems to reboot back to the same screen. Removing the battery for a...

2004...is it an SATA hard drive? Does your old drive have a 3rd-party SATA controller? Might as well plug it in and try. If it fails, try doing a "repair" installation...

Turns out SARG has an active pre-built plugin for Smoothwall V2.0 and 3.0. Looks great. Testing now.

Thanks for the tip, blakerwry. The 3 that looked most promising were Squidalyser, Squint, and SARG. SARG seems to be the only one thats still in development (others last revised ~2002), but Squint seems to have the best looking reports. I'll give SARG a try and see if I can customize the reports.

It's not for my home, that runs a decent-sized company (~1300 employees).

I have a cheap tablet PC in there, for surfing on the can. It can also stream music via wireless. I haven't installed speakers yet, I'll probably wait until we buy a house.

It probably generates about 150W of heat, I don't think that would be enough for the purpose. But the rack in total is 67A@120V = 8040 Watts! That is more than enough ;)

Works from home...I wonder why it timed out from the office. Ugh...good thing I'm moving closer to work. Edit: Heh, if I drove a 1985 'Vette, it would be 75,000lbs per year.

I like this idea. The firewall in question is the beast mentioned in the "Something Random" thread, and could easily handle another GbE port and the involved routing. All the servers are on a dedicated bank of managed switches anyway, so additional hardware is a non-issue. Thanks for the idea.