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First of all let get something straight it's not a contribution. It's a tax. Taxes are not contributions. I contribute to charity. I don't contribute to the federal government. The Federal gov't takes my money. I also never said that charging everyone the same amount of money was practical...

Well then I guess the grocery store isn't fair. Best Buy's not fair. McDonalds isn't fair. Not a single retail or commercial establishment in the country is fair if that's your criteria.

Which model is that?

Bah, not worth the coin. ~$10 per gig is all I'm willing to pay. I got a super fast Buffalo 4GB stick for $43.99. It's also unclear if the "GT" Voyagers are actually fast with small files. From the reviews I read they don't seem to be. I did order 2 Corsair sticks today. The 2GB Voyager...

Perhaps, but they don't necessarily have a load on them 24x7.

Who knows... Either one will need the sealed lead acid batteries to be replaced with some frequency.

What a difference ~22 months makes. $27.99 with free shipping. Sorry for dragging up another old thread

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I almost bought one of these today for $19.99 from Newegg. However, the reviews at Newegg convinced me not to do it. I will be the first to agree it had an impressive showing in the X-bit review, but there were way too many people on Newegg who slammed to...

A salt water pool is much easier to maintain and keep clean.

Not to mention it's still not fair. Truly fair would be everyone paying the same dollar amount just like they do for everything else in the world.

The super high unemployment over there might have something to do with it too.

I'd support this only if they repeal the 16th Amendment. Otherwise we will end up with a VAT and an income tax like all the other countries that have tried it.

Anything I should be worried about in this? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:00:40 AM, on 1/26/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0013) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe...

Yes, it's running in safe mode. I found some info on it here. Apparently it's very new. I did have to laugh at the moderators on that forum for scolding the guy for making a very informative post.

I would spend more on the audio myself. What made you pick that TV?

Yeah, in a little while once I put the drive back in the machine. It took some sleuthing to even get HJT it to run, but I figured out how to outsmart whatever was on the machine. I had to rename both the executable and the directory it's in. I think I got rid of the Vundo finally, but it's...

Uncle Steve knows best!

Well, I'm about to give up on this one. Clearly this is beyond my ability to fix. :( I thought I had it all clean and the machine was working, then it was back.

Just FYI XP Home doesn't have the Security Configuration and Analysis snap in, at least this one didn't.

I guess Avira Antivir isn't so good for remote scanning. I'm rescanning the drive from my laptop (via USB) with NOD32 and so far it's found 85 "infiltrations". Who knew...

Just for a little clarification... I get the following error when trying to get into things. "The operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I'm not sure if this is a legitimate windows error or not (especially with...

It's XP Home, so how would I go about doing that?

And they'll still have vertical banding. :p

Shouldn't the virus scanner have picked that up when it was attached to another PC that is virus free?

Something is still causing some odd behavior on this machine. There are two user accounts, and I created a 3rd one to test with. They are all admins. However, once out of safe mode despite being admins you can do virtually nothing with the PC. The control panel is hidden. You can't install...

Finally! I got Spybot started by renaming the exe file and now it's doing it's thing.

So, I cleaned it with the drive in my PC (with ad-aware & others), but when I put it back in the machine (notebook) it still acts strangely. It seems to behave in safe mode for the most part, but spybot will not launch, nor will hijack this (in safe mode or standard bootup). I assume there's...

Nevermind... A quick trip to usenet took care of the problem I was having with Ad-aware.

How so? Besides, my other options are: Spybot - super slow to start because it scans for over 100k "bots" and can't be forced to only search a certain directory / drive. Adaware - free version won't let you only scan a certain drive either, so it takes forever and a day to scan your whole...

Yeah, but at least there'd be an option other than pulling the drive for those cases where you can't or don't want to. I use Avira Antivir for virus scanning.

I wouldn't get that upconverting DVD player. I would recommend the various Oppo players. http://www.oppodigital.com/ Also note that you can only get "upconversion" via the HDMI output, not any of the analog outputs. Depending on the scalar and video processing in your TV an upconverting DVD...

So, what's the consensus on this one? I'm trying to clean up a computer for a coworker. I'm doing this mostly because the Geek Squad at BB told him to throw it out and buy a new maching. I gave up on running any applications on the actual machine, pulled the HD, connected it to mine via USB...

Everything is done for profit. You fix computers for profit. So what? You don't see me trying to tell you how much you can charge for your services. You want drug companies to develop new drugs, you have to give them a financial motive. They aren't going to develop new drugs out of a sense...

Yeah, and the French economy is just booming! I'm sure those riots were really just celebrations of the functional social welfare program.

The Macbook Pro is ok (not withstanding the fact that it gets so hot you'd swear it was going to combust), but the standard Intel powered Macbook is a complete pile. It feels so cheap and crappy.

You need to start eating lunch at Panera Bread. That place seem to attract fairly young attractive women. It's erie the draw the place seems to have.

First of all gov't involvement in the health care industry it what has "ruined" it. The health care industry is one of the most regulated industries in the US, yet costs keep going up. So the solution must be to regulate it more? I don't think so. The solution is to unregulate it and allow...

Isn't that the saying by Lord Acton? "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely". Yet people like Mercutio and Sechs think we should give more power to the gov't because they'll be more responsible with it than "evil" corporations.

Socialism and communism fail every time it's tried but yet people try to explain away the failures as the result of some outside pressure or some big conspiracy. Socialism and communism will fail every time they're tried until you can solve the "greed" of the people in the program. People are...

You're out to lunch... The gov't's job is to stay out of the way of its citizens and empower them, not run and control their lives. I don't have to be able come up with a comprehensive list of what gov't should do. I don't have one already thought up. That's not the way I think. The gov't...

Just cause we have the best system doesn't mean it couldn't be better. To assume that just because we have the best system, that it can't be any better is foolish.

I'm well aware of that, but it didn't exactly work out so well for the citizens. Yeah, they had all equal outcomes... Equally poor and miserable.

Lets not forget Cuba and the Soviet Union either.

It could be but the Intel drivers under XP don't let you set the jumbo frames on the virtual adapters, only the single physical adapter. I have no idea if other gigabit cards behave differently under XP.

Well, I got two of my PCs working correctly with the VLAN setup with mapped network drives via the exclusive gigabit VLAN using IPs instead of host names. I haven't tried to get the 3rd PC working yet. It looks like my plans for Jumbo Frames are dashed unless I use two physical adapters in...

It looks like you can't control Jumbo Frames on a VLAN level, only on an physical adapter level. :(

I'm not trunking to a PC. I'm want my PC be members of multiple VLANs by using 802.1q. This means the PC has at least two virtual NICs in it. I just want to keep my gigabit traffic away from the 10 and 100Mbit traffic.

Yeah, that's the plan. I have more of the Intel Pro/1000 MT cards. I am planning to put one in each in my two non-cooperating machines. I have to find them first though. :(

Well, that's just it. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that gov't programs never work as claimed.

While we're at it, it looks like nVidia's networking adapter doesn't properly support VLAN either. *sigh*