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Ditto... :b-day:

You might be surprised, I still have Word for Windows v2.0 docs about from my final year at school... However I could live without them, but most companies will feel it. Here is Australia, taxation documents must be kept for 7 years minimum, anything related to pharmaceutical is 10+ years or...

From what I understand, it's Word 95/97 and lower, and other suites like Word-Perfect, Works, etc. MS seems to get more clueless in regards to customers and their requirements each day, instead feeding their own agenda...

For your information, the Courier Mail Newspaper here is Brisbane has listed Vista as the number 1 NOT to buy Technology product of 2007, followed by the Apple TV (in number 2) and Telstra's NextG (cellphone) network in 3rd position. (Telstra has had to extend legacy CDMA coverage for at least...

Not surprising, considering the hype surrounding the release of Vista; Bigger, Newer, Better, etc... And what did we get? An OS with so much bloat in the UI, added DRM at ever layer, a crippled sound-system (aka no/little hardware acceleration), WGA overblown, the Allow/Cancel pop-up, missing...

Why don't you use NT4.0 defrag method? Copy the PST file off the HDD onto something else, eg USB Key or network share, delete/rename said original file, reboot, and then copy the original file back... Your PST should now be defragged...

Whilst it's never happened to me personally (I've always got back what I sent), a friend sent in 3x 120GB drives and got back 3x200GB drives (this was back when 250GB was the biggest you could get). Even I was surprised when it happened.

Firewire still has it's place especially with Camcorders and external HDDs. USB simply can not (by specification) offer true sustained transfer rates, unlike Firewire. It's a pity most common desktop users never see the true benefit of Firewire over USB.

I've played with SkyView DVR/CCTV stuff before, and all the mid-range and up offer both Windows Application and Web based access to the footage, as well as time based recording, time lapse, motion sense recording, etc. You just need the storage space for the footage, (all the ones I've used just...

Hi Merc, I think your problem lays with wanting to dual boot, and Vista's new boot manager. (Vista doesn't use ntldr.exe anymore). One option... 1. create a Vista image that resides on a primary partition. 2. create a WinXP image that also resides on a primary partition. (You have two...

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3167 Mmmm.... Tasty... I know when I'm looking at my next system in 18mths time, a SSD boot/application drive may be on order! (With a couple of 1TB for near line storage).

Don't forget to enable "Hook int19" (or sometimes it's called "Hook 13h"). INT13h is used by the BIOS to detect and work with available drives. If you disable hooking of int13h, SCSI cards are not able to install their BIOS, and thus won't work.

Yep, have had to domain login problem, but not the file-open problem. (HP 6701b laptop, C2D T7500, 2GB RAM, etc).

Agree 100%. The worst thing is, if something goes wrong, there's never an easy way to fix it. The easiest way for me to remember what AD is, is simply a LDAP server with built-in kerboras authentication. (Yep, that's all AD is, except the LDAP server has a pre-defined schema).

And even then they have no idea on what the fix is.

Find any working ones?

Are you using exmerge? IIRC there is a setting that drops its connections down to 1 at a time, which should reduce the load. (Exmerge exports the mailbox to PST and reimports said PST to the same named account - and doesn't need matching SID's, which is great for domain rebuilds or migrating...

Oh come on, EXCH and AD aren't that bad. Sure when something goes wrong, there's never an easy fix, and admittedly there are better solutions out there, but AD and EXCH do work well for a lot of organisations. I know I could build a more robust system using NIS+/LDAP and a MTA like postfix...

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?param=sigmatel&st=kw Anyhelp?

A quick search indicates a IDT/SigmaTel HD Audio based chipset, but can't tell you which one? Nothing comes up in google. PS. My first thought was a Realtek HD Audio Controller, but looks like Gateway went cheap and nasty...

Ah, the memories. Some days, I really don't think we have improved that much in the last few years...

Where abouts are you? (SE Asia IIRC)? http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/where_to_buy/retail_outlets/ http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/where_to_buy/authorized_distributors/ Also: www.scsi4me.com www.synnex.com.au (where I got my last batch) Know anyone with an IngramMicro...

Huge Congratulations!

Any application using .NET 3.0 w/WPF works seemlessly in regards to honouring user selected DPI, and admittedly it looks and works pretty well... (All size definitions within the form specifications are relative, not fixed as they were with GDI and WinForms (.NET 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0)). It's just...

A quick google brings up a heap of shareware apps for Windows that do this (and QuickTime Pro can do this as well), or just use 'mencoder' on *nix and set the codec to 'ffh263'. Then just copy the clip to the correct folder on the memory card, or use the phone software to copy it on... PS...

Samsung gets my vote as well for a high-quality 19" panel...

3GP should be be playable on VLC or the latest Quicktime (Windows) or MPlayer (*nix). 3GP is an encapsulated form of H.263 video stream... PS. For those using MPlayer: http://blog.chris.de/archives/22_Nokias_3gp_Files.html

Don't forget laser range finder... Speed of aircraft +- approach rate = speed of other vehicle. Plus much more accurate than a stop watch, and you only need 2-3secs to calculate approach rate.

PS. The SE K800i, mounts under *nix as a USB Mass Storage device. :) Full access to files, pics, mp3s, etc... The only thing I don't get is ability to modify the contacts in the phone, as this needs the SE software.

Mil or Civ? In the case of the speeding fine, as most land based radars are stationary it's an easy matter. However once you mount the radar on a moving vehicle, either car or aircraft, there are other factors such as accuracy of movement (of the carrier platform) and calculation of doppler...

Ended up getting the Sony Ericsson K800i. The M600i has been withdrawn from stores, (no official reason). But after getting into a few reviews on the Internet on the M600i, most user reports were unfavorable about the phone. (Summary: It's a great phone, when it's working...).

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Nope, you need 3rd party software as you've just linked to. You can setup all the power modes you like, but you must manually switch between the modes for them to come into effect... (You can only set what the power/sleep and lid close do based on your power source).

Hi Guys, Long story short, I'm in need of a new mobile phone as I'm switching mobile service provider (from GSM to 3G/UMTS). I'm looking at the Sony Ericsson M600i (since I can get it free on a $29 plan), however can't find any reviews on it. Has anyone come across this phone, or know of any...

Another gripe with Vista. Vista doesn't offer automatic power mode switching based whether you're running on mains or on battery automatically...

I thought the same thing...

Cool, a nice way to play Dune2 and C&C (the original).

172cm & 82.5Kg BMI = 27.9 However: Body Fat = ~11-12% (measured at my last physical) So Am I overweight, or underweight or the correct weight?

Intel based Apple Mac use EFI based firmware rather than the contemporary BIOS we know, and all their boards have a TPM chip that the Mac kernel looks for. So if you can find a non-Apple x86 motherboard that has a EFI based BIOS and implements a hacked TPM chip with Apple PKIs, sure you can...

Cheap a cheap SUV for family stuff, and a bike for the work commute? Best of both worlds... :owneddnce:

Get a bike? http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/detail.aspx?id=266&content=photos or http://www.ducati.com/en/bikes/my2007/ModelPage.jhtml?family=Superbike&model=SBK1098S-07 Should satisfy power/weight, come in under your weight requirements, and have decent mpg? PS. Why the weight requirement?

I wonder what the atom would look like if I drove over it with this. About the size of an atom? :rotfl:

The doc linked to was last updated January 21, 2005? So I would assume nearly 2.5 yrs. New feature for me as well...

Actually it is. This is just showing MS doesn't trust it's customer base, and that MS believes that they know better.

:nono: No need to hear about your "lounge-room" exploits... :P It's not the worst I've had, but the bruising on my knee cap has already gone down which is a good sign. I should be back on the road next Monday. PS. I was running downhill (about 30-35° downslope) at about a 3min/km pace. Kinda...

The latest trend for causing re-activations is driver updates... (as reported on slashdot )

Like if you use the built-in CD burning software, the CD's can only be read by other Vista PC's even if you finalise the disk?

You just need to work out if Ubuntu (or any Linux/BSD based system) has the software you need. I've been running Solaris Express Developer Edition 09/07 for the last 3 weeks, and it's been a pleasant experience. The only things I've had to install are mplayer with DVD/DTS codecs to watch a...

Random injury. Out on my nightly run last night, I tripped over a gutter/foot path and got some nice road rash on my left knee, left shoulder and a nice deep gouge in my left hand... Also my left knee cap is bruised. :( No running for the next week or 2.

Trust me, it's all not that bad. As you're aware I'm going through the same changes within my life. The only one keeping me up at night, is the mortgage/housing affordability situation here in Australia. The rest, no problems, even with Junior on the way. ;) My partner and I are renting for the...