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Ghostview 4.4(which requires Ghostscript 8 to be installed) displays and prints the pdfs just fine. Ghostview and Ghostscript can both be obtained here in case anyone else has a similar problem. Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction. :D

BTW Blake your avatar hasn't been showing up the last few days. IE tries to download the image for a while and then just gives up. No red x there, just a blank as if you don't have an avatar.

Text selection is also disabled or I would have tried that. I also tried print screening but my monitor only goes to 1024x768 so the result is practically unreadable(which is the reason why I wanted to print these pdfs in the first place). Magnifying and reading in Adobe reader is annoying to...

The program in the link works, but since it's a demo it only converts the first 10% of pages and substitutes blanks for the rest so I'm back to square one. To buy the program is $60. :o Are these people nuts or what? $60 for something I'll use maybe 5 times in my life? It's only a very...

Why not relocate the elephants instead of killing them? Or send them to a zoo? Admittedly a zoo is not the best option, but I'm sure the elephants would prefer it to being dead. There has to be a better way to control elephant populations than just killing them. Maybe we need a pachyderm...

I have a few PDFs that I downloaded which I need to print so I can read them. My screen is too small to make reading a 20+ page document comfortable, and I want to have a paper copy for easy reference when I'm away from my machine anyway. The problem is whoever created these decided not to...

I can't believe how many posts some of those people at AR have. The highest I saw, without looking too hard, was over 14000. In not much more than three years. Don't these people have a life?

My mom has it. My dad and I have Time Warner Cable. The DirectTV box has coax, audio/video, S-video, and DB-15 data connections. I don't know what the data connector is used for. It also has a phone jack which needs to be connected to a phone line only if you want to order PPV movies(which...

Ice on the cold side fins can happen even with a normally functioning A/C and a clean filter. When I bought my bedroom AC in 1994 one of the first things I did was to change the range of the thermostat. Most mechanical thermostats have a one on two screws inside for this. One controls the...

Tiger ate a moth once. My mother didn't want to be kissed by her for a few weeks after that. Kimba used to chase and kill the roaches we had when we used to live in an apartment. He didn't eat them, though. Even he had his limits. He did like to eat flies. :puke-l:

I'll third that. I also think that Friends is another pointless, awful show which never should have stuck around this long or been this popular. Actually, almost anything these days on the big three networks(and most of the stuff on the FOX, UPN, and WB) stinks. Even Enterprise is getting a...

Don't worry, Merc. This too will pass. BTW, that last sentence is to be taken literally, although I can see how it might have another meaning in the context of this thread. :lol:

Sales and excise taxes. Easy to calculate, easy to collect. You just need to exempt certain items(mostly items that are already exempted from normal state sales tax now) so the tax doesn't hit the poor who can't afford it. Another good thing about these types of taxes is that you'll be...

I've known females who were more obsessed with toilet humor than Beavis and Butthead. Besides, I think it's kind of funny seeing a group like this talking about their bodily functions. You would never expect it. I was on one site where somebody started a thread called "How big is it?" That...

This just underscores how unnecessarily complex our tax laws are, especially regarding corporate tax. I've heard that in many cases nobody, including the accountants and IRS, is really sure exactly how much tax a corporation owes. It depends on how the various laws are interpreted. One thing...

Assuming you could find enough of them the wall would probably be stronger than bricks. Of course, aluminum is an excellent conductor of heat so you might have the first R0 wall in history.

A few I made up in my more "creative" moments: The Ballistic Dump You feel the pressure building before you let loose. When you do it comes out with the force of a .50 caliber AA round. If only your butt were pointed skyward you could probably shoot down an F-16 The Comebacker You go, you...

The Norelco isn't as close as a blade, but with blades I got too much irritation to shave every day. At least with the electric my face doesn't look like a battlefield. Changing the blades on my Norelco once a year(if I lubricate them weekly) seems to work for me. My beard isn't that heavy...

That's one of the main reasons I use CD-RWs for backup. I like the idea of using them like a giant floppy rather than having to use Nero whenever I need to back up a few files. You just can't do that with CD-Rs. Sure, you can have multisession CDs, but for a few MB of data at a time this is...

Here's the disk info: Manufacturer : CMC Magnetics Media code : 97m26s65f Dye type : 5 Disc Type : CD-RW (8 X compatible) Capacity : 79:59.74 I don't know why Nero only says 8X compatible. They do write just fine at 12X. Interestingly, my 2X CD-RWs...

You're pretty much dead even at 55 if you hit a wall or tree. Besides, most highways are set up with guard rails to prevent that sort of thing. Going 100 on two lane highways with trees ten feet off the road is nuts. The guy in the Escort was unbelieveably lucky. If he has any sense he won't...

Actually for me it's cycling skills, not driving skills. I never had a license but I did read that certain types of people, like skiers and cyclists, as a rule tend to drive very fast. I imagine I would be no different once I got a license and racked up enough hours at "normal" speeds to feel...

You're right of course, but an accident at 65 will kill you just the same as one at 110. Past about maybe 50 mph, collisions just stop being surviveable with current restraint systems. That's not to say we can't do better, but most drivers wouldn't tolerate the systems used in race cars. Most...

I know I did when I beat a guy who had been bullying me for years with a crowbar. I was 11 at the time. I snuck up on him and just started whacking him in the head repeatedly. He spent some time in the hospital and never bothered telling anyone how he got his injuries. Too embarassed...

Yep, CD-RWs are much more picky about speeds than CD-Rs. You can try to burn a CD-R at pretty much any speed you want regardless of its rated speed. Whether it works or not depends upon the disk and drive. CD-RWs, on the other hand, won't burn at anything other than their rated speeds. My...

I bought these yesterday so I thought I would give everyone a heads up. They formatted error-free and so far seem to work pretty well with INCD in both my Lite-On drives(16X10X40X and 48X12X50X). These are the hard to find at a decent price 80 minute high-speed disks. Backing up before on the...

One of the articles says most peoples kidneys can cope with 12 liters of water a day. Besides the fact that it would be pretty difficult to drink more than that on a continuous basis(i.e. day to day), there is the obvious problem of peeing every half hour whenever you drink any fluids in large...

I was with my brother once driving back from our grandmother's house in Rome, NY. It was the middle of the night. He covered the 270 miles, which included about 20 miles on slow local streets and expressways, in under three hours, including a gas stop. The speedo was hovering between 110 and...

I've heard that it's actually healthier to go a few times a day as it means your digestive system can better flush out the poisons from your system. Of course, you can accomplish the same thing more agreeably by drinking lots of water and peeing alot. I would guess more than two or three bowel...

That should read "Don't feel too bad."

Do feel too bad. My leg strength comes from years of bicycle riding. I basically ride a bike like I'm driving a Ferrari so that tends to require lots of force to the pedals and plenty of well-timed shifting(and braking when some idiot in an SUV cuts in front of me). Tea would put me and Coug...

This might make your sister feel even worse about the Escort's top speed. Yes, that 80.55 mph under human power alone in the article is not a misprint. 8)

You and timwhit both suffered from a sugar and caffeine induced high(yes, Mountain Dew has caffeine, though not as much as Coke or Pepsi). Also, nothing worse than trying to sleep when it's warm and/or humid(which is why I have AC in my bedroom). I personally try to avoid large quantities of...

I purchased my CPU on eBay although everything was in one box from Powerleap. The same person was also selling adaptors separately but I figured I wouldn't save anything buying the CPU and fan on my own once you counted shipping. I'm thinking of trying a noise reduction project for my PC one...

Boot drive: Maxtor 5T040H4 (7200 RPM 40 GB) Other Drives: Maxtor 6Y080P0 (7200 RPM 80 GB)-DM9 model family Maxtor 4G100J5 (5400 RPM 100 GB) I plan to use the DM9 as the boot drive eventually since the 40 GB is getting close to full. The Powerleap seems like a good idea for your P2. Just make...

I still remember from reading loads of Car&Driver road tests in the 1980s that even the most miserable econoboxes(i.e. diesels with 30 second 0 to 60 times) still maxed out at least in the mid eighties. Nothing made in the last ten years is even remotely that slow so I'm sure practically...

It might have been right at home in that Create-A-Fart thread started by Prof. Wizard a few weeks ago. :mrgrn: BTW, it may be tasteless, crude, and juvenile, but it's as funny as all hell. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Right now the temp is 42°C. Room temp is ~24°C, so figure it's been pretty much at 18 to 20°C above ambient, which incidentally is almost exactly the same as my old PII-450. I'm running the stock fan that came with the Powerleap with no modifications. I'm also running the FSB at 112 MHz which...

I am wrestling with a similar dilemma right now. In January I upgraded my PII-450 with a Powerleap 1.4 GHz Celeron but I'm still using my Voodoo 3000 card. Outside of MS Train Simulator nothing that I do would really benefit noticably from a faster card. In fact, most applications only...

Actually Coug I'm 40 now. I'll be 41 in November. Next time I'm by my brother's I'll see what I can do on his machine. I'm curious myself whether my strength or just my endurance went since my twenties. BTW, last fall I had a great time digging a dead tree out of the front yard. After the...

Something similar happened to one of my cousins on a bicycle. He was doing 45 mph and went off the road. The bike ended up wrapped around a lamp post and he walked away. I guess the fact that this guy survived shows that Darwin's Law doesn't always work. :mrgrn:

Exactly. I'm 5'9" and my weight the last ten years has fluctuated between 170 and 190. I don't look fat outside of a bit of flab around me stomach(which goes away when I'm around 170 or thereabouts). Most people my height would look like fat slobs at 180. For the same volume muscle weighs...

Better yet, lower the power requirements enough, and/or use the case for passive cooling of the processor and hard drives, and you get rid of the fans entirely. The point of having no fans is that you have a sealed case(no dust) and only noise from the drives. This can only help from a...

Short term, no. Long term, maybe but not likely. Brushless fans use mosfets to power the various motor windings in sequence. When the motor is spinning the back EMF increases the resistance of the windings, limiting current to a safe value. If the fan stops spinning the winding resistance is...

Merc, you're exactly right that our relationship with our pets is special because we don't understand literally what they are saying to us, yet they somehow get the message across. Suzy had her own repertoire of sounds, as did Tiger. Over time I knew when they were hungry, happy, sad, wanted...

My brother put up Suzy's picture. This was taken a few months ago:

Unfortunately, threads like this are getting to be a regular thing for me. :( Our cat Suzette passed away at 5:45 PM this past Thursday(July 24). She was a beautiful Persian with a sweet disposition, and she enjoyed the same type of special relationship with my mother that I did with Tiger...

One of the problems with migration to a smaller transistor size is increased leakage current, meaning that even if the clock speed is zero the chip will still have a substantial power dissipation. Besides that, the other reason behind the large power dissipation is obvious-the 3.60 GHz clock...

I remember when my family moved to where I am today 25 years ago. We didn't have half the crap we have now, and it was not something I would care to repeat. I also remember having to move stuff to my dorm room when I slept away at college. Doing this every semester quickly got tiring. After...

They've completely slipped my mind for some reason. I usually think of Maxtor, WD, Seagate, Fujitsu, and Samsung when I think of hard drives. I guess ever since IBM's reliability fiasco they've been off my radar.