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That is why in my culture, life is referred to as "the ocean of family life", for the breadth, depth, and unending nature of it!

Congrats, Paugie! You're a "free man" now, no more responsibilities or worries about the kids. Good for you!

The biggest issue I have with CFL is the flimsy glass; I've broken too many trying to put them in the socket or take them out. Since the CFL glass tube is usually long, trying to put them in a wall socket with a built in fluted shade is a nightmare. Incandescents never had this problem; never...

Sheesh, how do you do that? Set the camera at 10 fps, use a cable release, and go to sleep for an hour? (I know the math is off).

I think you hit the nail on the head, LM. D700 in spot focus, matrix metering mode. Thom Hogan's book on the D700 says: Most of the stage was dark. Even though I think I focused on a face, half pressed the shutter and recomposed the shot, many faces in each shot were overexposed (burned...

I'd like print out the Exif info for a bunch of pics; I'll pipe the output to PDFs. Output can be in one file with the picture file name preceding the Exif dump for that pic (so I can identify which pic the info belongs to), or it can be multiple files, one file of Exif info per pic. I took a...

Happy Birthday, Greg. I wish you a hamper full of iThings as gifts. Maybe you'll eventually get to like them.

I was eyeing one, especially because I drove a lot over the Christmas holidays and wanted to use it for navigation. I ended up buying a dedicated GPS device instead. In no hurry now, with the developments on the job scene. Someday guess I'll buy a Samsung. So many people gush about the iPad, but...

It is well known that if you see more than a few similar shades at a time, your brain starts to get confused.

That's why you need DST. Daylight Shortening Time.

Since we're swapping tooth stories: All 4 of my wisdom teeth have been removed; all impacted and painful. Most painful experience was the tooth taken out in the US when I was visiting in 1983. Was referred to this old geezer who couldn't get a grip on the upper wisdom. He calls for the aide to...

Indeed!

Mass suicide threat at Foxconn factory in Eastern China

There's a write-up here I read in October.

Awesome! We're a nice, cozy community. Here's to another fab decade.

I've never used a CDMA phone, so I have no idea how to change anything there. My experience is limited to GSM phones. In your world, that's either AT&T or T-Mobile (mostly). In the GSM Samsung Galaxy S (also known as Vibrant, Fascinate or Captivate, depending on the carrier) running Android...

And of course, assuming the Social Security fund is still solvent. Living abroad also comes with other baggage, such as having to file a tax return each year, and declaring all bank accounts and investments worth > $10k. American citizens are obliged to pay income tax to the US on their...

Can't help there, I don't have an Android. Am still on Symbian. I'll check tomorrow with some other guys in the office and get back to you.

Coug, no offence at all taken! What you are alluding to is this here. See #4 on the lists. I've had my dark days when I've lived off savings and depleted them down to nothing. So regardless of how much I make, I am careful about new expenditures when I know my income stream will stop soon...

There are plenty of natives with incredible amounts of wealth. As in any rapidly growing economy, they took advantage of opportunities by being in the right place at the right time. There is a waiting list for Roll-Royce cars. Audi is a hot seller. Porsche sells the Panamera here ( I know a guy...

I was born and brought up in India and have brown skin & dark eyes, and had black hair (what's left of it is mostly gray now). I lived in Orange County, So Cal for 22+ years; a few miles from Buck. Decided to move back to India for good. Didn't like the way things were going with respect to the...

No idea. It's usually in your phone set up options. If it's a GSM phone, under the "Network Mode" option, you'll see an option to use GSM or UMTS. GSM is 2G, UMTS is 3G.

Using the phone in 3G mode drains the battery a lot quicker than using it in 2G. I keep my phone in 2G mode unless I want to look something up on the net. It takes a few seconds to switch it to 3G, do my data thing, and switch it back to 2G. Email sync with Exchange works just fine with 2G.

Gosh Coug, you don't miss a thing, don't you?! Thanks for the concern, but we're safe and sound. We were away traveling starting Dec. 26 and returned on New Year's day. Most of the action from the cyclone was some 190 km south of where I live. Overall, I hear the wind was worse than the rain...

It's a legal requirement to have heating in the dwelling place, AFAIK.

Happy Holidays, All!

Awesome, Coug!

Haven't tried to rip audio from music DVDs yet. Tried EAC ripping a CD to FLAC. Looks like EAC is a rat's nest of config options. Trawled the net and did some reading, configured as best I could. I'm out of time, that's the problem. Leaving on a long trip Christmas day and wanted to get the...

The danger is if Junior decides to pull some stunts to impress his people that he's the boss. Playing with nookillear toys is not good.

Many, Many Happy Returns of the Day, Doug!

Good luck, Coug. I hope this keeps up for you.

My bad with respect to DVD Audio. What I really meant was that I wanted to rips bit of music out of DVD movies. I guess that changes the game somewhat.

Thanks all.

I haven't ripped a CD in decades. What's currently the best way to rip entire audio CDs to FLAC? I want to feed the CD, fire off the ripper and have a bunch of flac files at the end of the process. It's too tedious to rip one track at a a time. I'd also like to rip sections of DVD audio to...

Thanks Bozo, I will try that. But most of what CC Cleaner will do has already been done by other tools or by hand, so I'm not optimistic I'll get dramatic results with it.

Thanks all. Coug, Chewy seems to say removing SP3 install files is not safe. I'll have to look up DD's post on that.

My Dell Latitude was purchased by my employer in August 2007. It has since been and continues to be my only work machine. About a year ago IT wiped XP on it and put Win 7 Enterprise with Office 2007. 2 GB RAM. I wait a tad when opening programs or large files (like powepoints), but I guess I've...

Hope he's ok. Many times, change is just cosmetic, not fundamental. It appears Russia is one such case.

There also numerous $NTUninstall folders. Hard to quantify the size since I'll have to check each one individually. The system is quite stable, so I don't see the need to uninstall a service pack or an update. Thanks.

The C drive in my daughter's PC (Win XP SP3) is 87.5% full. Windows is the biggest culprit at 5.32GB. In the Windows folder: Installer: 1039 MB $hf_mig$: 795 MB ServicePackFiles: 461 MB assembly: 326 MB SoftwareDistribution: 294 MB...

The cornucopia of choice in the modern age is out of control. Look at the rate at which new phones are released. Each model is sold for 4, perhaps 6 months before the next "new & improved" one is out. Most of the time, it's incremental improvements that are not worth it. There is also the...

Hah! Now I know how the manufacturers are naming their stuff. Why pay their Marketing guys or an outside consultant firm when this free site does exactly the same thing?? !!

Why? You can set your browser to delete all cookies when you exit the browser, except the ones you want to keep, like for this site.

Your better half is one smart cookie, DD.

Congrats, DD!

And finances.

Totally awesome. How the heck do they run such a massive place? Their fulfillment and logistics operation is pretty good.

Oooooooo, harsh, harsh.

Congrats, Merc! Thanks for being here, and please continue to enlighten us!

I would too. In fact I feel silly using a Bluetooth headset. The first time I saw somebody using one years ago, he was walking and had the Bluetooth headset on the ear I couldn't see. He was pacing up and down a long driveway (I was waiting for my car to be fixed), and I thought he was some kind...