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Now all we need is a list of relevant ages. For Eric; we need to know the year of your birth, and how many of the people born that year are still alive. If it's less than half...count yourself lucky and double-check that I'm in your will. ;)

Try it. If it works, then great. If not, then no. This will not damage anything and the results will be immediatly apparent. It will either work or no, instability will not be a problem.

The talk of a licence expiring is from their beta period. If you got a beta licence to go with their beta software, it was designed to expire quite a while after the full version was released. Just go back and get a full licence (still free, and reverse compatible with your old VMs).

...and the 3-screen version is $600.

In Firefox I got a plugin that moves the downloads status bar to just that; another status bar along the bottom opf the window. Far more user friendly. Perhaps Opera has a similar plugin?

Sounds like a faulty thumb drive. I had similar corruption on some I bought super-cheap from a street vendor in China. It looks fine and the copy goes fine, but when you go to access it the data is simply not there. I kinda figured that it happened when they put in the memory controller for a...

...or a frog. It could be a frog. Don't discount that possibility.

I was thinking the same thing...

Perhaps some of my previous ladies would have appreciated that, but the current one likes it's present measurements TYVM.

ack...it got double-posted...sorry

I-RAM can handle 4GB and costs $115. It uses 184-Pin DDR DIMMs that cost $78/GB Realistically, motherboards only have 4 PCI slots these days. 4x$115=$460 16*$78=$1248 So you can have a 16GB, very fast RAMDISK for just over $1708. Makes the others look like quite the bargain.

Da dorogai

No kidding. I needed at least a 3" wide straightener when my hair was long. OK, so I only did it once (for Haloween; Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt) but it worked out quite well :twistd:

Can we have it in March? It's cold there now...

Completely new install, exact same issue. I also tried re-restoring an older image that was working perfectly. Same issue. WHat drives me nuts is that it is SO CLOSE to working properly. I can see the login screen flash by every few seconds.

So he has a wireless network without internet access? Or is the access via dial-up? Does he use <shudder> internet connection sharing? That thing will cause all kinds of trouble.

Thanks. Do they support external antennas? Do they support bridging in firmware? To complicate things, the remote office needs (local) wifi. So I'll be bridging from the main office with a powerful directional antenna, then re-broadcasting locally with something else. Any suggestions?

This is what Linksys sells for the purpose. 802.11g, connection done in firmware, looks to be compatible with an external antenna. Thoughts?

If you had to install a point-to-point wireless bridge, which hardware would you use? Is 802.11n the way to go? It's offices full of Macs, so my PC tools are useless.

;) Thanks. Unfortunatly, it was a bit chilly out. Next week is a hot tub party in Palo Alto, so I'll see what I can do.

I've got 0.3" on you, but I'm afraid that is the end of the road WRT 4:3 screens. I would love a 24" version with the same resolution, or a 30" version with 2048x1536.

If you are lucky, there are just some additional services that are in non-standard condition on the laptop. If you are unlucky, his wireless router has some kind of internet-cafe type setting; where each machine can see out, but it prevents them from seeing each other. (My Linksys 802.11n has that)

One of my best friends mother just died of Cancer at age 52 within 2 weeks of diagnosis. She is younger than me, and her parents are younger than mine. This sucks.

Yup. The big thing is that the ocean pounds against the shore, eating away at the cliffs and causing massive erosion that drags more massive rocks into the sea, exposing more cliffs (and closing the Hwy)

For my GF's B-Day weekend I took her to Big Sur. We stayed at the River Inn and ate at all the nice restaurants. Drove the pretty section of Hwy 1 both ways (Hearst Castle to Carmel ~100mi) and hiked quite a bit; down to the beach in at least a dozen places, sometimes involving cliffs and...

My GF kept the bedroom clock 13 minutes fast and I made her fix it. A clock that does not tell correct time is broken. Hell, I have broken clocks that are accurate at least twice a day more often then hers!

Thanks for the heads-up, too bad my toys require AAA....

IIRC, 320GB is still the biggest you can get really cheap, with 500GB being the best $/GB.

...except that this post clearly shows otherwise. I you truly didn't care, you wouldn't be here (or anywhere for that matter), and particularly wouldn't be making posts about your feelings. Such things require the feelings to exist. You may wish otherwise, but that doesn't change the facts.

Hilarious. So long as you aren't the one responsible for teaching them about computers ;)

That is yours I take it? considering the image was taken hours ago...

It seems that is happening more and more these days. Perhaps he just needs a laptop, generator, and a satellite link? I can just imagine all the people of Ballarat setting off into the outback to find the witchdoctor and have to voodoo removed from their computers. ;)

Nice post Tannin, lots of good stuff. The primary thing I got from it is that life is shades of grey as opposed to the black and white context that we had been babbling about, and that everything everyone does is at least a little darker than we'd like to think it is. I'm ok with that, but just...

Afraid not. I actually do teach here; class sizes are around 50 now. But I do it completely for free and for fun. I plan to keep it that way.

I just had a meeting where I seriously discussed selling my gaming center with an interested buyer. It's been 3 years, a lot of fun, and a good learning experience; but I need to stop trying to make things I enjoy into profitable businesses. As soon as I try to make money off something, I lose...

I like drive rails. With rubber grommet mounting points.

I hate to flog this particular horse, but I just had an outage for about 2 minutes.

I got all the speakers plugged in and jury-rigged a stretch of speaker wire into an SPDIF cable. The sound is quite good; easily as good as my last, less "boom-y" as Merc said, but the sharpness and clarity is easily comparable. I'm still doing some initial listening, but I suspect I'm picking...

I'll back Chewy on both of the above comments. 1. Everyone has something that others find interesting; you just need to identify it and market it appropriatly to the right people. 2. Go to the bars with a gay friend. Female is better; going out with a gay guy and finding a subtle yet very clear...

I don't know either. That's why I spend $100 every few years and don't worry about it ;)

I go through high-back leather office chairs about every 3 years. The one I have now I bought from OfficeMax 3 years ago for about $100. It has no labelling on it, so I can't reccomend an exact model, but it's by far my favorite. I've been looking for a second identical one for my GF, but I may...

Should I be trying to get a 50' optical cable to connect my X-Plosion to my reciever? Or will a simple coax connection be enough?

I'm looking specifically for a P&S that can make the most of low-light/fast motion/no flash shots from about 10 feet away. I was under the impression that the F30 was the one to get. Is it worth waiting for the F40?

I'm not holding my breath for fast/affordable 36GB+ SSDs this year. This is one of those technologies that is taking forever to reach the mainstream market. I've been waiting for years.

My surround right/left and rear right/left speakers have mounting points, but the front right/left and center channel don't. I'll have to figure something out, they are kinda heavy.

Yay! A potentially quiet/cool 15K drive! I'll take them for all my workstations until SSDs become more common.

Indeed. I joined not long after, but it was many months before I posted here regularly. I stuck around at SR for quite a while, then realized I wasn't hanging around at any forums, and felt that should change, so I popped in here.

It's a tough one, and the reason it's a tough one is because the problem is bigger than it seems. People lie about stuff all the time (doubly so on dating sites), but certian things are OK to be "called out" on, or even to admit yourself later. This isn't. The problem isn't her weight, she has...

I would, but the instant gratification potential casued me to splurge on the 7-channel, better version. (3 optical SPDIF ins!)

...and in less than 2 hours, crutchfield was able to charge my card, prep the order and ship it! Now I have to refuse the order and get my money back...eventually.