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The secret with these things, Merc, is retaining balance. You decide how large or how small a part of your life it is going to be (not too large) and you take responsibility for making sure that other parts of your life retain interest. If you find that you are thinking too much about it, it's...

Your example house is pretty typical, Buck.

I haven't tracked housing prices in any detail, Howell, as I'm not in the market myself. (Not interested in buying or selling.) But the biggest rise seems to have come along quite recently. Two main factors seem to be at work: (1) very low interest rates for the last five years or so, and (2)...

Nope. $250k is bottom dollar: that's more than ten year's wages for the average guy. Realistically, you are looking at $300k to $600k. It's a joke.

Nonsense, Howell. NYC isn't the problem. Land for housing is expensive everywhere. For me to buy an ordinary, average house here in Ballarat — a very ordinary, average town, in an ordinary, average state of an ordinary, average country — I'd have to spend roughly 20 years worth of my (ordinary...

Gahhhh.... You are trying to treat symptoms and ignoring the disease, JTR. (Well, probably everyone, not just JTR.) Complaining about housing prices and trying to deal with them by buggerising about with transport systems or building regulations is like trying to treat dysentry by sewing your...

Hi Frank! Nice to see you again. I always enjoyed your posts. How are we all? Welll..... Maybe I better let Tea answer that one.

Do we have an all-time hall of fame somewhere? Inevitably, it was a Friday. "Red Hill, good afternoon, this is Tony." "Oh ... yeah. Look, I brought a computer in to be fixed last week and I've just picked it up and it's lost Windows." "It's lost Windows. Hmmm.. You're not getting anything...

Just whatever it is that comes in the box. Well, I have Acrobat installed, version 5, I think. Acrobat 6 is such a space and processing power hog. I hate stuff that loads itself into startup without asking for permission.

As for removing NAV turds in the registry, Fushigi, I couldn't agree more. It takes forever. Do you do it the same way as me? Search the registry for anything with "Norton", "Symantec" or "NAV" in it and take out the entire entry? (But you have to watch out, because there are completely...

Just so, Santilli. People have learned not to laugh out loud when they see the two incredibly out-of-date and horribly clunky-looking OS/2 machines that run the mission-critical things in my office. But in the 10 or 12 years I've been running OS/2, I have never been infected by a virus, and...

The other evening I had a friend visit me at the office. We had a whole stack of stuff to talk about and information to exchange: Word documents, Excel data, lots of maps, all sorts of stuff he was pulling out of an Access database. No problem. He brought his laptop, and we were at the office...

Thanks Coug. Funny you should mention that one, it was one of the other two that I decided not to get in favour of this one. Reasons? In rough order of importance: * I need to know PHP and MySQL (and doubtless the tricky bits of interfacing one to the other, which are more likely to be covered...

Nope. Far as I know, Pearl is a Janis Joplin album. I just laid out $100 on PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson. It was the best-looking (and easily the most expensive) of the three PHP titles I found in a local bookshop. It's a massive great tome, but on very fast...

Thankyou Doug. I'm going to need to learn lots! Sometime over the next few days I'm going to have to make time to slip down the street and take your advice at my local bookshop. Funny thing, it never occured to me to buy a book! I buy books like an alcoholic buys beers, but this will be the...

Thunk* ------------------------------------------- *Thunk: the sound of a hammer hitting a nail on the head.

Flagreen, what on earth are you talking about? You really need to practice reading posts before you respond to them instead of reading things into them that ain't there. Nowhere in that post did I mention, or even think about, American greed for oil or anything of the like. I'm talking about the...

Prompt end to the war in Iraq? I don't think so. It's going to fester and leak the puss of human greed, cruelty and conflict for decades to come. Nothing is more certain. We should note, however, that the US is not to blame for this. America took a country that was a walking human rights and...

Damn shame. You'll have to drink scotch. :roll:

I think the Incoherent One was trying to say:

Nope. But it sure does look good. I can't wait.

You think Ad-Aware would still dfetect and remove Alexa or the Media Player unique ID after Microsoft bought it? Hell, the only reason we are in this pickle in the first place is because Microsoft think security is something to do with a Peanuts character and a blanket. I can't believe you...

No no no no NO! What on earth are you saying, Merc? Good grief, that's exactly the worst thing that could happen! Ad-Aware is free. Ad-Aware is honest. Ad-Aware is a product you can trust. Please, don't even think about it.

I'd sneer at the almost hysterical tone of your post, Time, except for one thing. I feel exactly the same way. Your view is entirely justifed by the facts at hand. I haven't met that particular nasty (yet) but a pretty fair swag of other beasts. Spyware is now the single most common reason for...

Windows 2000 has some serious problems with USB and other hot pluggable drives. I firmly believe that these are deliberate - i.e., that Micro$oft are carefully not fixing them so as to try to force you to spend another $250 of your hard earned on a copy of XP Pro. This isn't quite what you were...

And the benefit of hitting "preview" before hitting "submit" is that your posts don't come out scrambled, Tea.

That's right, Jan. Retail packaged Athlons. You can no longer buy Athlons on trays, not unless you are prepared to pay extra to not have all the crap. Unbelivable!

I'd be perfectly happy with the old-style bulk-packaged CPUs - just a bare CPU on a plastic tray - but AMD refuse to sell them these days unless you order them in ridiculously large quantities (~100 pcs, as I recall) and if you can get them in sensible quatities (5 to 10 pcs), they cost more...

We are continually appalled by the needless waste generated by computer packaging. The most conspicuous in a long, long Hall of Shame is AMD. Their CPU packaging is truly dreadful. I spoke to the Technical Manager for AMD Australia about this some time ago - a year or m,ore - and he said that...

It doesn't. Australia, I mean. But this is because the theory doesn't wash up. First, it is, on the whole, reasonable to claim that the post-revolutionary USA was more "forward-thinking" than Europe at that time. But it is difficult to make very much out of this even so: consider revolutionary...

Wow! Great feedback here. Thanks guys! Subaru sounds like the way to go. I'll go talk to the local Subaru man a little later this week (today is hopeless: too much else I have to do). But I should still have a closer look at the Rav also, I guess. And consider the Impreza as well as the...

Funny you should say that, Bender. Just this afternoon I started to wonder about Subarus. I'd always regarded them as too damn expensive, but if I have gone so far as to consider a $30,000 Toyota, then a $30,000 Subaru is equally in the ballpark. I mentioned them to a friend who is well-up on...

Ahh. Thankyou, CityK. That resolves my confusion.

Looks like Kristi is having the little blue Barina and I'm buying a new one. But what? For me, the Barina is just about perfect in all bar a couple of cruical details. First the things I like about it, and also the things that are OK but not great. $15,000 brand new with all the usual...

What a daft response. First, o the best of my knowledge, you grew up in and live in the US. That is the more-than-usually right-wing, inward-looking environment I was talking about. Oh sure. You are really concerned about "ugliness in tone and word" and not simple disagreement at all. Yeah. I...

Two things I forgot or didn't make clear. When I spoke about having a handicap in my 4th point above, I didn't mean that growing up and living in a "deeply religious, and deeply conservative" society is a handcap. (Well, I think it's a handicap, but that's just personal and subjective opinion...

I hear what you're saying, Flagreen, and respect your point of view. In no particular ordeer, these are things that occur to me in this context. I rarely read the political threads anymore. Sometimes I duck in for a quick comment, but not often. I'm torn between believing that you genuinely...

Dual layer as far away as that? Last I heard it was supposed to be 2nd quarter this year - i.e., Real Soon Now.

In Australia, you would call the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. I think you have a case.

For some reason, I am reminded of the time when my brother and I had an argument - well, we used to have a few of them back then, one every month or two I guess. We were teenagers. I was maybe 19, he was about 16. Anyway, we were standing out in the back yard and getting really steamed up about...

Oh you are unquestionably right, Flagreen. It is better to be a black sheep. You are a black sheep, and while your posts anger me from time to time (this very thread is a prime example - what a load of sour-milk codswallop it is!) you never fail to provide a balancing virtue within a day or two...

Damn! I always forget to switch back to BB Code Mode when I've been writing web pages.

Ha. It figures. I suppose it's another one of those things you picked up in jai ... er ... I mean while you were somewhere else for a while. I think the real point here is that magnetic domains can have any number of orientations (north, south, up, down, east, west, and points in-between. I...

My oath it was. I mean ... er ... Wait a minute, you do know what it's refering to?

Tea, I'm surprised at you. That's a most unlady like thing to say!

By the way, has anyone seen Tea tonight? Last time I spotted her, she was walking around absent-mindedly thumbing through an airline timetable and whistling something that sounded like Wagner but was probably Smetana. Or possibly Grieg.

Yeah. A very attractive prospect. But they are over $4000, Tea. I can't afford it. Sorry. Maybe next year. PS: I forgot to say that the Toshibas don't have a PS/2 port or proper BIOS either. Put that in the minus column too. PPS: I should have said before, in my first post, I simply don't care...

As I see it, we have three choices and three choices only. (1) Toshiba Satellite A10 series. * Typical specs: Celeron 2.4, DVD-CDRW, 40GB, 14 inch 1024 x 768, whatever chipset Intel use for stock-standard Celeron/P4 notebooks. (You can vary this with P4 CPU, DVD burner, different hard drive...

I think you better change your nic. Lucky Dog would be more like it!