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What I noticed about your list of LOTR characters is that you left out all the bad guys. Perhaps someone might relate to one of those or might feel that one of them wasn't really properly understood.

Since people are asking what books I would recommend. I'll tell you what I'm reading right now (I read in parallel): Black Hawk Down - Bowden Cisco Internetwork troubleshooting - Chappell The Romans in Spain - Richardson The Planet Pirates - McCaffery Corsair - Dudly Pope The Chess of Gligoric...

I really am not looking at this as Evil MS. It is much more likely it is simply teething pains for implementing a new technology. It is very common to have problems with a new technology with multiple vendors. Each vendor is doing something slightly different that the standard does not...

I'd be more impressed if Ghost had dos based firewire (It doesn't). USB 1.1 is too slow.

Microsoft crap = 116,000 vs very reliable = 419,000 Kia crap = 3,010 vs very reliable = 8,630 Hyundia crap = 20 vs. very reliable = 51 Compaq crap = 10,700 vs. very reliable = 54,800 Make your own conclusions as to the validity of this survey method.

I look at this action with sadness and delight. It is sad that they can't seem to keep their schedule: If they can release it quickly then They would be able to gain a foothold and market share. It would produce competition with Intel and thereby lower prices, encourage innovation, and give...

Start out with the assumption that at all times you are "staticy". You can not feel the amount of static necessary to do damage. With that in mind - Always use a wrist-strap (they are very inexpensive) and ground it. If you are working on a computer get in the habit of touching exposed metal...

What I did was buy metal tables, grounded them and permanently attached wrist straps. I also tried to force myself to always use the wrist straps whenever using the table. Then because I didn't like working on the metal (I didn't like the sound, or the feel) covered the tops of the tables with...

Time, I find this information very interesting: Tell more. Good stuff. What's the tip?

It is not that the speed is needed; 10base is fine speed wise. It is compatibility with everyone striving to get rid of their 10base in favor of 100base. Mixing the two standards (i.e. 10base with 100base products) also causes issues with either speed (dropping everything to the lowest) or...

Perhaps Tannin , given your problems it would be wise to deal with ESD protocols. Perhaps something unseen is causing your problems like static electricity and that the difference between good and RMA boards is simply how well the boards protect themselves from stray static charges. You of...

It sounds like the PS failed in a dramatic way. The machine may or may not be brought back to life with a PS transplant. It may be worth a try if you have a spare PS.

There are actually other advantages to a print server too that have not been talked about. I will agree that most of the time these are minor and that in general they are simply neat toys. There is a certain OS independance using a print server. As long as the OS has the capability to output...

I'm sorry but I'm the one that voted no editiing. My rational is based on the number of times I've responded to a post and by the time' I've finished I discover, someone else has responded while I was constructing my reply. If there needs to be a delay of 5 minutes to cross the pacific and at...

I always thought any cooler that blows also sucks depending upon orientation. Your's however is attached to a black hole: I'm impressed.

Your drive is showing signs of imminent failure. Backup regularly and start looking into replacing the drive before failure occurs.

I must be a pure simpleton - I use pure Outlook as my PIM and OE for news groups (I wish Outlook could deal with newsgroups directly) and IE for browsing. I find them to be satisfactory with relatively few problems and since I have office, it is effectively free. Not quite sure why I need to...

Yes to a limited extent CPU's do do stuff while it is waiting for ram: That is the part of the point of multiple pipelines and hyper-threading. However, in the end, the CPU is limited in how much it can do by the amount of data it can be fed. If that data comes from the cache then it will run...

The whole point of cache is to compensate for the slow speed of ram. While time is correct that RAM speed has not improved at the rate of the CPU's, the RAM caching technologies have and that does a lot to keep the performance increasing rather than evening out like it would have a long time...

Don't forget that Outlook Express and Outlook are two different programs. Perhaps MS is telling you that if you remove one it will break the other and that would be unexpected and worth a warning. Note, to my knowledge removing OE6 does not break Outlook: But then I haven't tried it either.

Handruin, I too am coming late to this discussion, however, I feel I have something to say. Any programming class you take will have a lab component and as a beginner the vast majority of your time will be in the lab not in lecture. I suggest that you take one. It is not that one can not...

First disabling the Windows ipsec service would be normal for an external VPN client. It is so that your computer does not try to authenticate with the direct connection (which it can't). The Nortel IPSEC is used so that your computer authenticates within the VPN tunnel rather than outside the...

You will most likely need at least a second NIC and you will need to configure routing on your local computer OS. When you are on the VPN your computer's IP address will be different than your home IP addr unless you've assigned your local IP addresses and subnets to match your office and that...

Peculiar side effect. It could have been worse: At he is still alive and well. Since he has ceased taking the product, I assume if he regrets his previous decision.

And you should see what the Govt. is currently proposing as cuts to social services. A little Oregon governmental history: Oregon has a bi-annual budget that is required by law to be balanced. In case you haven't heard the US has been having a ecconomic down-turn recently and Oregon is...

Off-hand, I'd say that your mental health policies are about the same as Oregon's. We went through the same process (the federal Govt. forced the state to disband it's mental hospital and everyone went to group homes that were not funded or to live on their own as best they could) and have...

g - g = 0 n - n = 0 i - i = 0 m - d = 13 - 4 = 9 = i m - o = 13 - 15 + 26 (carry) = 24 = x a - c = 1 - 3 -1 (carry) + 26 (carry) = 23 = w . . .

And the answer to the difference between programming and coding is: programming - .......coding ____________ progqwxi... Sorry, it take a literal computer type person, like me, to think dumb stuff like this as an answer to your question; convering the letters to numbers, subtracing them...

I'd like to nominate jtr1962 I did a quick review of his posts to confirm my opinion of him and concluded that he would make a fine moderator. From what I can judge, his ethics/values are good and he is cares. He also listens and thinks about what is being said. He does not assume that he is...

People grow cotton because consumers demand cotton. If the manufactures could produce Hemp equivilents to cotton garments at a cheaper price then they would, because they make more money. Unfortunately hemp is not equivilent to cotton: Specificly in its ability not to wrinkle and its comfort...

optimally, you need to get them to start the bidding rather than you starting. Without knowledge of at least the order of magnitude of what they are willing to pay, you can't optimise the price because the value of anything is related to what they are willing to pay combined with the costs of...

You're right, that is a good clause in a contract - it creates consideration where there was none before. It could easily make the disclaimer valid where it wasn't before.

The photos probably have a processing lab color correction error. On the other hand, I choose to believe that normal smog is brown based on the poor people creating it. The green smog come as an evaporate from all the green money based in Houston.

When I look at Dell's mass-marketed low-end computers then I don't get much hope.

Bill Gates wrote a newspaper column and in one of the early issues he actually placed his personal Email address in it. A few months later, he mentioned that he had to change (cancel) it (He made a point not to tell what the new one was) because of the volume of Email he recieved. Even he can...

I don't know of any. Note, I did say that I'd be surprised that any modern inkjet's will last like the original ThinkJet. Currently if you don't want junk, and still need color, you are almost stuck with color laserjets or solid-ink transfer (crayon printers). With that in mind, perhaps it...

Correction: the set of cartridges is more expensive than the printer.

And my preferance is to buy a better printer that has enough quality built-in that disposability isn't an issue. The reason that a set of cartridges are cheaper than a printer is that the printer is junk and not expected to last and the company is gouging you for the ink. They are using the...

I gave my brother a few years back an original HP thinkjet 51604A. He is still using it (yes you can still get ink cartridges for it) and it is over 18 years old. We aren't talking high quality output, speedy (though it was actually reasonable speed for the time), or heavy use but I'd be very...

There are no more plotting communists; Now they are Terrorists, Muslims, Arabs, ... depending upon your own personal prejudices. Get with the program.

They aren't selling them at that price any more. I clicked on the link and was greeted by a message that it was out-dated. I then searched their inventory and the drives are now $277

To my knowledge there is no newer version or add-in to QEMM. If you are asking to troubleshoot QEMM, then I need far more very detailed information.

I'd visit with you because Salem is also considered part of the Northwest, but unfortunately Seattle is a good 4-5 hours away and that is just too much.

Yes you can, but again you need to know the product because older KVM switches didn't work with scrolling mice and as before be vary careful with the resolution limitations of the KVM unless you like to view your screen with a variety of problems.

I use a Cybex Switchview at 1600x1200x75 and it works fine. It is also not very expensive compared to what they used to be.

You guys get all the best deals - The nearest Microcenter from my location is at least 500 miles. Hard to argue that it is a "local competitor" to the local Best Buy store. It could be worse, I could live in OZ.

CougTek, In the future, Please control your language.

If you place the appropiate permissions (no read, no write, no change, no execute) on the files involved (not the shortcuts) then there will be little that the employees can do to execute the programs. Another solution is to place a firewall up that prevents all access of the web except through...

I uninstalled the SP and it didn't solve the problem that was created when I installed it. Me annoyed.