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You want to hear something completely odd, Merc? Maybe it has to do with the circles of people I usually end up hanging out with, but I've never personally known a gay or lesbian, at least not one who would openly admit it. Given that I live in an area of the country which probably has an...

I still definitely want your old stuff Merc just in case something else in my system goes. The combo you mentioned sounds good. I should be able to spring for the 184-pin RAM once I get paid for some work I did recently. Once you get it all together just PM me for the shipping address, and...

Sure it seems like GWB doesn't give a shit about the average person but he's far from the only leader to do so. In general politicians treat their constituents as cash cows to finance the programs which get them reelected. Both parties are guilty of this. The Dems were actually the champs at...

While it's convenient to blame GWB for the economic problems this country is facing, the fact is that there are long-term global forces at work here responsible for the rise in poverty. It's a fact that Americans can't compete with the $75 a month labor readily available in India and China. To...

Amen to that, Splash excepted of course.

Some good news. The guy who sold me this is actually taking care of the problem. I returned the processor today. He said it is likely that the adaptor board is bad. If so, he'll replace it a no charge. If it's the processor, he'll sell me a new one at his cost (~$40). Either way, this will...

At first it looked like New Orleans dodged a bullet but now I heard that the levees are leaking, slowly filling the city with water. They also said it might as long as two months before the water is drained. This isn't pristine lake water we're talking about, but fetid, filthy water resembling...

I know if I was spending good money to have a house built I would periodically drop by unannounced, maybe with a few "inspectors" in tow, just to make sure I was getting what I was paying for. Also, when you have any work done, you get someone reliable with lots of references. These people who...

Umm, that's what building inspectors are for. I firmly believe in the old adage trust but verify. Hurricane Merc? :lol: That's only two letters away but I think the next one will be the real bitch, especially if they name it after my sister. :mrgrn:

I agree, and one thing that I really don't think we should do is continue to give disaster aid to places which don't make reasonable preparations. The purpose of disaster aid to to help a place cope with the once every few hundred years anomalous disaster, not the ones which happen regularly...

I haven't been able to get through, either, for the last few hours. It looks like New Orleans was spared the worst of it but the damage looks pretty bad.

Just saw 40 feet on bouy 42040 and wind gusts to 83 knots on one of the other bouys. :o This is starting to remind me of The Day After Tomorrow.

Knowing what I know about fonts, which I'll grant isn't much, my guess is that the rendering engine in Firefox can't deal with some of your fonts so it defaults to what it considers the closest substitute. Of course, the substitute is wrong as you've discovered. I had a similar problem once in...

In that case then a board upgrade sounds even better! :) Don't sweat it too much on the four DIMM slots. If your boards only have three, then that'll do, so long as they support 512 MB DIMMs which I'm sure they probably do (and which my 440BX doesn't). I'll just use two of my 256 MB sticks...

There might be a monkey wrench in the works. Powerleap wants an order number for their RMA request form which I don't have because I bought it on eBay. I contacted the person I bought it from on the slim chance they might still have the number handy but I'm not holding my breath. It looks...

Buck: yes, it's a slot-1, and yes I did try cleaning the contacts. I can always try again, nothing to lose at this point. Handruin: I just checked the eBay auction date and it was early 2003, not 2004 as I thought. Time flies. I've had this then for over 2.5 years. Therefore, it is probably...

Ironically Greg my Powerleap died the day after you got yours.

About a year and half ago I upgraded my 440BX board with a 1.4 GHz Celeron Powerleap upgrade. Today when I went to my machine it was unresponsive. I tried hitting the reset button and it didn't even post. I opened it up, switched some of the DIMMs in the hope that maybe it was only bad...

Mr. K kind of reminds me of all the customers I used to encounter when I worked at the taximeter place. Not too bright, not too articulate. To add to it most couldn't even speak English that well. They would come in mumbling something in a thick Jamaican or West Indies accent like "$%&@#@...

Thought I'd bump this thread because I've been doing some output and efficiency tests on some white LEDs I've gotten from eBay. Here is the thread with my results at CandlePower forums. Two years and 2 months after starting this thread it seems even the cheap white LEDs available on eBay are...

If nobody else wants it before you're ready to throw it away you can throw the Aureal in with the other stuff I want.

I'm still waiting in New York. I probably wouldn't carry a gun even if it was allowed unless the crime rate started back up, but it would be nice to be allowed to if I wanted.

I'm interested in the Diamond S3 and the Hercules 3D.

75 on economic freedoms, 100 on personal freedoms. No surprise that I'm a libertarian.

My main concern would be the lifetime of the flex cable connecting the key's display. I highly doubt that it will last for millions of keystrokes. Other than that, and probably the cost, it's a nice idea.

Don't feel bad. The rear derailleur on my Raleigh is broke so combined with the heat wave it hasn't seen much use either. Hopefully in the fall I'll be able to do a good 1000 miles or so. Not riding makes me feel lethargic.

Generally it's only a problem if you have a fairing on the front wheel. I tried that, BTW. In crosswinds the handlebars were literally yanked right out from my hands so I decided to go with the rear fairing only. For a given amount of pedaling output, the rear fairing seems to offer about a...

Here's my wheels: Drive train: 14-speed manual shift, 12-23 7-gear rear sprocket, 42-53 front chainring Performance Specifications: Acceleration (level ground, no wind, rider feeling good): 0-20 mph.......4.5 seconds 0-30 mph......11.0 seconds Top Speed ~35 mph (level ground) 65 mph...

These will last all of a week on New York's wonderful potholed streets. Solid state storage is a much better choice. The cost and capacity will be here within a few years as well. The one electronic option I'd like to see in autos is still nowhere in sight. Namely, automated driving. I'd...

Roast them slooooowly over an open pit first. :bibber: Spammers are evil incarnate. :arge:

Better start staking out land in Alaska then. In 50 years NYC will probably have a tropical climate, and most of the southern US, especially the desert areas, will be too hot to be habitable (think temps >150°F for most of the year, with peaks probably well over 200°F). This isn't even getting...

I've noticed that pattern myself-an usually hot summer is generally followed by a very cold, snowy winter. I wouldn't be surprised if we have a couple of rare below 0°F days over here this winter. In fact, I'm actually looking forward to it.

I'd like to see their salaries equal to the average wage along with a clause forbidding outside income of any kind (let's see them try to make it on $25K). :diablo: This way it's in their best interests to raise the standards of living for everyone. Beyond getting reelected, right now they...

Tea, Ebay is famous for selling old hard drives at ludicrous prices. Dig around a little more and you'll probably find 10 or 20 GB drives with closing bids for not much less than a brand new 80 GB drive goes for. Seriously. I wouldn't be surprised if this drive fetches $10 US or more. I...

Sorry, that's 4.5 million songs and 22.5 TB. Still a gargantuan amount of storage to fit in a PC.

I'd love to know what kind of storage this kid is using. Even going at the highly inflated price of $20 per song that means he had 45 million songs on his machine, and at an average of 5 MB each they would have required 225 TB! Atomic level storage anyone? Seriously, on this issue songs...

Find a good lawyer and I'll join you.

Interesting but I'd say the lawsuit will go nowhere. What these people did basically amounts to carpooling, and they had valid reasons for doing so. Instead of suing, the bus company might have asked why did they choose to do this instead of taking the bus. I'm all for public transit. Always...

No, I mean $10K. I'm in business for myself with one client. The future may very well see $100K or perhaps even optimistically $500K, perhaps within 10 years if I'm lucky. I decided to do what I do for two reasons. First of all, decent-paying jobs seem to exist less and less in today's...

Same here. I haven't paid a dime in interest on my credit card purchases ever. I limit myself to what I can pay in full at the end of the month. BTW, I have $14,000 in credit despite the fact that my usual annual income is well under the $10K mark. Go figure.

It hit 106°F during that heat wave we had on the East coast about two weeks ago. I was as pissed off as hell having July weather in early June. The summers have definitely gotten hotter. When I was a kid 90° days were relatively rare. 100° was practically unheard of. During the last ten...

I've never had a car or a license. I live in a place where they're a luxury, not a necessity. For all the talk about the freedom having a car gives you I find that not having one gives you greater freedom. I'm free from worrying about registering, renewing my license, car payments, car...

I'm keeping my old battery as a paperweight/doorstop. Very handy sometimes actually.

I have the exact same UPS and had the exact same problem. You can get a brand new battery right here on eBay for only $23.95 shipped. Much better than the $35 to $40 most places charge just for the battery. I bought one, it fits fine, and it works well. I think it's normal for the battery to...

Well, not serious to the point of having ever considered a career in bicycle racing, but I think riding 55,000 miles since 1980 does make me a bit more of an ethusiast than the average occasional rider. And yes, I still ride, but only about half as much as I used to in my prime. Anyway, I...

I can count the number of really good days in my life on my fingers and toes. Besides that, I'd say general bad days outnumber general good days, at least in my life, by at least 20 to 1. And no, I'm not prone to bouts of depression for no good reason. When I say bad days, I literally mean...

All I can say about this ultrasonic directional sound is WOW! 8) The applications seem virtually endless, and the physical principles certainly seem sound. Excellent reading, e_dawg! :) I long for the day I can buy a set of directional speakers and watch TV without disturbing those around...

I'm not looking at DLP sets at all because I don't have the room (most are 40" or larger) and they look dark compared to a CRT or a backlit LCD. Brightness is a big concern to me since I sometimes have the main light on when I'm watching TV. The "main" ceiling light in my bedroom has 4 32W T-8...

A while back I started a thread after I broke my TV. I haven't bought one yet because my brother let me borrow his 27" until I saw one I liked. I initially was going to get a flat screen, and then when I saw the prices dropping I decided to wait for a CRT HDTV. Anyway, my dad recently...

Thanks for the compliments, Gilbo. I try to do my part on SR along with a few others to keep at least some semblance of civility and intelligence there. Sadly, I rarely find threads worth posting to in either forum. Not much is happening on the hardware front, which I suspect is partially...