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First Handruin, and now Fushigi. :o Who else here is/was under the threat of being laid off? It's really disgusting the way loyal employees are treated nowadays. All the more so when you'll read about some CEO making millions, and enjoying expensive perks, while 10,000 from the same company...

I think it's a nice change from today's world of mostly look-alike cars, and something I might not mind owning if I absolutely had to have a car. It's similar to my brother's Mark VIII, which is also a change of pace from the endless tide of ugly econoboxes, SUVs, minivans, and family sedans...

They won't solve all our problems, but they will let us get more mpg than current vehicles do. Long term, once we find better batteries and fusion becomes viable, we won't need fossil fuels any more. And that could be within ten years if we put our minds to it. Hydroelectric, wind...

I also forgot to add that electric motors have two more advantages. They are much more amenable to being precisely controlled, so that antislip traction control on rain, snow, and ice works much better than current implementations. In fact, locomotives use a carefully controlled small amount...

I'm guessing it was pressure from some oil company to drop the project since it would have greatly decreased demand for fossil fuels. The idiot that dropped it should be made to suck on an exhaust pipe until he croaks. I too have often wondered why we don't just do away with the mechanical...

That's certainly good news. Anything that improves fuel economy but is transparent to the driver is good news in my book. What kind of mileage improvement does DoD give on a heavy truck or bus, BTW?

Very interesting but WTF does anyone need 1000 HP for? At least anyone besides a locomotive engineer? I can imagine the performance figures for this- 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds, top speed of 300 mph. Nice in the Indianapolis 500 but absolutely useless for real-world driving. Of course, at $250K...

The processor arrived today. It took me all of 2 minutes to connect everything and fire it up. It POSTed the first time at 100 MHz FSB and has been running stably all day at 112 MHz FSB. I tried going to 133 MHz but it wouldn't even post, and my M/B doesn't have any settings between 112 and...

I just resubmitted my avatar. Hopefully it should appear OK now.

For some reason my avatar is no longer appears in the gallery list of user avatars stored at the SF. Maybe this had to do with the recent move. I don't see Mercutio's there, either. We're the only two people here who have kept the same avatars we started with, so maybe this has something to...

Thanks anyway. That trick sounds interesting. Do you have any links to it? Moot point though. Yesterday I bought a 1.4 GHz Celeron and Powerleap adaptor for $128(a bit more than I had planned to spend). It is compatible with my M/B according to Powerleap's website. I may have been able to...

Try turning off your speakers and see if you still get the noise. I recently had a periodic high-pitched whine similar to what comes from a television sawtooth wave generator coil. It turned out to be coming from my speakers intermittantly whenever I was running Internet Explorer. I'm not...

Good riddance. 2002 and 2001 were the two worst years of my life. I can honestly say after ringing in 2003 that I'm not entirely sure if I want to be around for another New Year. So many of the problems today seem intractable. Terrorism, environmental destruction, consumerism, materialism...

Such a room may not exist in reality, but it exists in "The Twilight Zone". And the person you are about to meet is part of an imaginary group of people collectively called The StorageForum. These people and this room, up until now, have only existed in his mind. But a turn of events will...

On a 15" monitor? I like to watch TV on my bed in case I fall asleep(which is likely with the quality of most of today's programming), and that's 6 feet from my computer, plus it's at a right angle to the screen. Both factors make for rather uncomfortable viewing, to say the least. The room...

I've been thinking of doing something similar myself but instead running the TV output from the card to a regular TV and using the PC to store my shows. Problem is that TV resolution stinks and the flat screen HDTVs are still too pricey starting at about $5,000 for 40". Hopefully they'll have...

That glass looks tinted. I imagine it would distort the colors of the monitor. Anyway, desks with upward facing monitors remind me of those stupid ergonomic chairs where the person looks like they're going to accidentally slide off. I can't imagine getting too comfortable on one of those...

The best possibility for me is the adaptor and 1.4 GHz Celeron(100 MHz FSB). The CPU alone is going on Pricewatch for ~$65. I should be able to overclock to at least 112 MHz, which would give me 1.568 GHz. :) Now it's just a matter of paying as little as possible for the adaptor.

Thanks Mercutio and Cliptin. It looks like the Powerleap adaptor will be the best bet here since it will let me go up to 1.4GHz. The system is flashed with the latest BIOS so I should be OK according to the compatibility list. I guess all that's left to do is check eBay from time to time for...

I'm interested in upgrading my current processor and I've noticed that 1 GHz PIII slot 1 processors are available which use a 100 MHz front side bus. My AX6B motherboard is slot 1 and 100 MHz bus(currently overclocked to 112 MHz). The current processor is a PII-450. The problem is that...

Given the poor state of the economy plus the fact that even a 5 year old machine such as a PII-300 is still good for basic websurfing and other common home uses, I would say many people are holding on to their old machines longer. My fastest machine is a PII-450. About the only time I wish it...

Well, I thought the one of you in the suit with short hair was an imposter, but the other one is certainly you. As to whether your personality matches your looks, that's difficult to say. Generally, once I've spent any time with a person, I say their personality matches their looks because I...

I like the idea of a group meeting, but since we're from all parts of the world and have different vacation days the logistics would be a nightmare. Also, some of us are either students or broke and just don't have the money for long distance travel, or in some cases the time. I've been...

You must have a thin skin. How could you possibly be cold with all that fur? I was doing some gardening last week with just a light jacket when it was a bit over 0° C. I was even perspiring a bit when the digging got tough. I start to feel cold around 0° C if I'm not moving around too much...

It might be a good idea to check the news to see if the MTA is on strike. The deadline passed at midnight today but if the talks break down we could still see a strike. A transit strike will make getting around NYC that much harder. Driving around the city, especially in Manhattan, isn't a...

Just to update everyone it's going fairly smoothly. I did 30 files so far, and it's not bad now that I have a method. I paste the lines of interest(which incidentally are only a small part of the entire file) in a text file. I can then open this file with Excel and configure it to put each...

Funny, I watch the Chinese channels quite a bit. I don't understand a word they're saying, but sometimes the subject matter seems interesting. I even listen to Chinese pop music sometimes, although as of late it's gotten almost as bad as American pop music. In fact, they seem to be imitating...

Not really, but occasionally when I just feel like watching TV and there's nothing worth watching, and I'm too lazy to look in my tape collection I might watch an infomercial or two. At least infomercials go in depth about whatever it is they're selling. You just can't do that in a 30-second...

New York started this over a year ago, but as with the Kansas law, there are too many loopholes. For example, charities and political parties are exempt, as are any companies that you did business with in the previous year. The Direct Marketing Association fought the law all the way. I guess...

The biggest joke of all with most spam is the "Click here to unsubscribe" link. Either the link is broken, or if you hit it your e-mail address gets put on a list of "good" addresses that are then sold to other spammers, and you end up with 10X the crap coming in. I once had a webtv address...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm going to try out a few of the suggestions here and see how it goes. Yes, I do have Office97 installed so I should be able to paste the numbers in the cells properly, and then hopefully import them back to the text file in the same format as they were...

There's the problem of transferring the numbers from the text file to the spreadsheet and back again after changing them. Using cut and paste I get the whole line of text in one cell of the spreadsheet, not one number in each cell. By the time I go through all the manipulations to get the...

I assume this problem would be solved before we started using NVRAM for long-term storage. :wink: Since Mercutio expressed his wish list I figured I might as well express mine. Motherboards with slots for NVRAM modules are near the top of my list. CF or something similar for removable...

I'm currently in the process of editing a couple of hundred unicode text files. The editing process involves changing a few dozen to a few hundred numbers in each file that appear in the following format: point ( -115.214 0.2 648.984 ) point ( -115.214 0.325 648.984 ) point ( -115.356...

This shouldn't cause that much of a problem since most circuit boards made these days are coated in electrically resistant lacquer. There is a chance a whisker may lodge between two pins of an IC, but even this can be made a non-issue by coating the board(and all parts on it) with lacquer after...

Believe me, I wish CF were near universal right now. I hate spinning media, especially anything susceptible to magnetic fields. I just think the reason more people haven't bought into it is because after seeing all the so-called floppy replacements fail, they've become jaded and are not...

With compact flash selling for tens of dollars for 128 MB it doesn't seem like a viable replacement for floppies-yet. I'm sure at some future date solid state media will be dirt cheap like current CD-R disks but until that time I just don't see compact flash as a viable floppy replacement. One...

Actually, I consider backups and archiving to be two entirely different things. Generally, backups are of data that changes fairly frequently, and are therefore worthless if they are more than a few weeks old. Archival life of the media is just about irrelevant here. I make the backup, verify...

Maybe I've had more luck than most with UDF CD-RWs, or maybe I'm just more willing to put up with their limitations, but here's a point of view from the other side of the fence: I always assume that CD-RWs will only work in a CD-RW drive, and not in plain CD readers. Using this as my working...

This is the best news I've heard in a long time. The guy actually has the nerve to complain when he's getting a taste of his own medicine. The sooner SPAM is made illegal, the better. Anyway, this just goes to show what I've said all along, which is that 99.9% of all the SPAM we receive is...

A P4 system with onboard video?! Why? I didn't know such an aberration existed. Seriously, I don't use Autocad but I use GMax, which is a freeware version of 3DStudio Max, on my PII-450 with a Voodoo3 video card(16 MB RAM). Even with this system it seems reasonably fast, so I think any...

I just installed it and it does seem to be a reasonable replacement for MSOffice. There are some compatibility problems, at least with Excel. The graphs on a few of my spreadsheets were messed up, but other than that everything's OK so far. Maybe it's just a matter of getting rid of a few...

While the answer to this question was obvious when RAM was very expensive, I'm wondering why nowadays motherboard makers don't put a certain minimal amount of RAM(say 128 MB) on new motherboards. It would only add a few dollars to the cost and would definitely be a good selling point...

Another nod for the Promise controllers. I bought four Ultra100TX2 controllers on eBay a few weeks ago, and they come in very handy when you've filled all your M/B's IDE ports, as well as when your built-in controllers can only do ATA33 or less. About the only issue I've had with them is that...

The rate is 7.65%(6.3% retirement, 1.35% Medicare) for employees, and the employer pays a matching amount. For those who are self-employed the rate is 15.3%(12.6% retirement, 2.7% Medicare). :o The retirement portion is only taken out of the first $84,900 in earnings(in 2002), not that many...

I don't feel the current tax system is fair in the least. I hear of far too many rich individuals and corporations that get away paying hardly any tax while the average working person pays over 25% in income taxes alone-more if you add the the additional taxes the employer pays on their behalf...

I didn't know they even made anything that could do 1600x1200 8 years ago. I would have to guess it cost well over $1000. Nowadays, I've already seen a flat screen 19" monitor for about $200 after rebates. It's amazing how cheap computer parts have gotten. The $200 4 MB SIMMs price was...

I'm not surprised. It seems nowadays they would rather hire morons so that they can justify paying them $7/hour. I guess they figure anyone better qualified will either eventually want too much money, or will leave once something better comes along. Also, the part time market is by definition...

I figured as much, but it didn't hurt to ask. ;) I imagine it would be technically possible to make, but not at a price that would make sense since the SIMM stacker would cost more than the RAM I'd be using in it. Those probably made more sense in the days when a stick of 4 MB RAM went for...

As some of you may have read here, I recently tried to upgrade my PII computer to 1 GB but mistakingly purchased single-sided 256 MB sticks. The machine has 2 256 MB and 2 128 MB sticks in it currently. I also have 2 128 MB sticks that I removed to make room for the 256 MB ones. It would be...