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I did - Wikipedia. Unfortunately, it left out Colombia in its list of biggest South American countries. :-? PAL Argentina 38,592,150 Brazil 186,112,794 Falkland Is 2,967 Panama 3,000,463 Paraguay 6,191,368 Uruguay 3,415,920 SubTotal 237,315,662 NTSC Bolivia 8,857,870...

It's risky challenging Splash on technical issues, but I have to say: "bullsh*t". I stand by my earlier post. :) As I said, tiny South American countries (except for Peru) - no way is it even close to being most. SECAM is essentially modified PAL. Countries using it are gradually migrating to...

That's curious. It's still #1 for me ...

Number 1 now. 8)

Buck, didn't see your post. Answers are No, Yes and Yes. May your music be merry. 8)

Dylan fans still exist?

Paugie, it sounds like your provider has a problem providing continuous service - perhaps not surprising seeing it's really a form of dialup. I suggest you dig up a 'keep alive' utility that pings a web address at regular intervals.

Jesus. I hope it goes better than you fear, Gary. Good luck.

You can't see the 4% - it's like trying to determine whether a car is travelling at 48 or 50mph. Better that than mixing fields like NTSC.

It's not just Eurolander types - AFAIK only North America and Japan use NTSC (just checked, also Taiwan, South Korea and some tiny South American countries). And it's more than just a few scan lines (625 vs 525). PAL offers 576 viewable lines - 20% more resolution than NTSC's 480. Then there's...

Tannin didn't mention that fragmentation also occurs when you have a lot of churn. Windows is really good at that.

It means you want it to be bootable.

I was trying to explain that the analyzer usually understates the effects of fragmentation because AFAIK, it estimates it as a fraction of disk size rather than calculating the effect on individual files. Consequently, it will rarely suggest defragging, so you should ignore it and defrag anyway...

Just to change direction slightly, what are everyone's current views on PCI-e cards? I like Sapphire X300-SE for business. It seems to be equivalent to a 9550, and the price is unbeatable. For entry level gaming, has anyone tried nVidia 6200 'turbo cache'? The Leadtek 128MB version looks like...

Fragmentation is a function of the file system and has nothing to do with the arrangement of disk blocks. The Windows defragmentation analyzer is hopeless and should usually be ignored. Nevertheless, I'd defrag if it recommends it. Video files tend to be huge - you should expect some...

The suspect capacitor does appear to be bulging slightly in your angled pictures. I notice that two adjacent ones have some sort of substance around the rim at the top; it might be poor finishing, or it might be that the electrolyte is actually seeping around the 'safety valve'. It's probably...

Gradual deterioration often means caps. I know you've been through this before, but are you sure the cap tops are all concave?

It's a total, complete, absolute scam. 1. Adding a small amount of hydrogen to the fuel mix does not improve combustion of the hydrocarbon fuel. 2. It takes energy to electrolyze the water into hydrogen and oxygen. Even ignoring the fact that this is only about 65% efficient, it is quite...

A 19" CRT monitor has a viewable picture width of just over 360mm. Your monitor has a 0.24mm stripe pitch. Therefore, the absolute maximum number of pixels that can actually be displayed across the screen is 1500. In practise, the picture will start to degrade as you rely on less than 3 stripes...

I think that Firefox is a flawed product, free or not. It certainly can't do things I want a browser to do. I think that unless Opera goes downhill, I wouldn't take the time to even look at alternatives.

That would make it a perpetual motion machine, fed only on a diet of water ... which highlights the conservation of energy paradox that you're supposed to swallow here. :roll:

IMO, it's snake oil. Think about it. Even if you don't know anything about internal combustion engines, don't you wonder at the arithmetic?

Speaking of more sophisticated solutions, I found two affordable ones that are able to detect update conflicts (there was a truly powerful one that could tell you exactly what had changed in any Office document, but the $400 price tag for one user left me a little breathless). One is ViceVersa...

You can turn on an option to compare file contents instead of just file dates, but obviously it's slower. I was able to fool it easily by changing the timestamp and nothing else. To be fair, that fools nearly all of these programs, but it's a not uncommon situation. Also like most programs, it...

Sorry, I was a little too cavalier in my summary. Network drives don't have a recycle bin. Doesn't this mean that while the local copy gets saved, the remote copy gets killed? (I haven't tried it). I forgot about the renaming feature, but I'm not sure how useful that's going to be. Windows...

It's highly unlikely to be the cards if you're running a normal resolution on a 19" monitor. IMO, your problem is the four-letter word printed on the monitors, one that is infamous for sample variations.

A Tualatin processor draws bugger all power, Greg. If, apart from the optics, you only have two spindles, the 200W PS should be sufficient. If you're worried about heat, have you checked the CPU temperature? (It may not be possible on a Powerleap card).

1. Mubs, SyncToy requires Dot Net. :( 2. Even though M$ specifies XP, it will run on Win2k. :) 3. You need a 'validated' copy of XP to download it. :( 4. When I downloaded it with Firefox, I followed the steps and faithfully entered the code, only for M$.com to inform me at the last hurdle that...

Drive letters are assigned on a per user-session basis. Logical drive mappings just don't exist for services such as the Cobian engine; you need to use UNC (eg. '\\server\share'). You have exactly the same issue with anything launched from the Windows Task Scheduler. I'm fairly sure that's in...

Well, I'm not sure what I did previously, but here's one way to do it: 1. Press F10 at boot and create mirrored array. 2. Power down and disconnect one drive. 3. Power up and install Win-whatever, then install nVidia IDE drivers. 4. Power down and reconnect second drive. 5. Power up. The BIOS...

If you find it, let me know. I know someone who would kill for that.

After more experimentation with different swap partition sizes in different places, I realized it only failed in the original place at the original size. I also used Hitachi DFT to zero about 5% of the disk, but then experienced a different problem. How's this for a possible explanation: Linux...

Thanks Bozo, but I already tried that. :(

What tool would you suggest?

Others may care to add other examples to this thread. I installed Suse 9.3 on an nForce4 (Athlon 64) PC with virgin drives. Everything was fine. I experimented with software RAID, including breaking it, and somewhere along the line, Linux started having a 'kernel panic' while booting. I didn't...

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The extra driver files appear when you select Multiprocessor. On a working system, they went away when I changed back to Uniprocessor, but they hang around forever on the broken system. Well, I tried everything I could think of or find on the net, but now I'm admitting defeat. The exercise...

Okay, I've tried to reproduce the technique I outlined, but the result is abject failure. :( I'm starting to wonder if I was using XP64 ... In fact, I think screwing around trying to get the array to boot just hosed the contents of one drive. :x

Neither. I can't see any APIC or ACPI options in the latest BIOS for this Gigabyte K8NF-9. Also, don't forget it works fine with a virgin installation. Here are the files and their versions: 5.00.2195.5201 hal.dll 5.00.2195.5400 kernel32.dll 5.00.2195.5400 ntdll.dll 5.00.2195.5438...

Yes, it's been a while. Do you spend time at sea? The car is cool, BTW. ;)

Well, I think LiamC may have been onto something when he suggested ACPI/HAL problems. Rather than just switch between reasonable HALs such as ACPI PC, ACPI Uniprocessor PC and ACPI Multiprocessor PC, I bit the bullet and selected Standard PC, i.e. not ACPI at all. Windows appeared to rebuild...

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Why is this a problem? Unless ... don't tell me Pradeep is stuck with a P4 Dell POS? :hurl:

You have HAIR? Lucky sod.

I should also point out that I have enough confidence in Cobian to have deployed it on client sites.

I tried Syncback and a couple of alternatives back in March, quite possibly because mubs mentioned it. Syncback relies on the Windows Task Scheduler to run without requiring a logged in user. You can do that yourself with any program, although Syncback semi-automates the process. If you are...

Thanks Mark, but I already performed a repair exactly as you described. Merc, can you elaborate on your upgrade suggestion?

Wouldn't that involve reinstalling all the software? :eekers:

I tried it, but no dice. According to M$, an FDD conflict like that is down to copy-protection software. Even though I couldn't find it on the system, I installed an updated version of the software just in case, but it didn't do anything. I did the deed, but twas to no avail. I've also...

A quarter. It used to be about half, but they've reclaimed much of that. Dutch companies include Philips (invented audio cassettes and CDs), Shell Oil, Heineken (world's 4th largest beer producer), Unilever and in part KPMG. No question they should have "idiot" stamped on their foreheads. :P