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Yes, I can see that the FireFox is a registered trademark of the Mozzarella Corp. I installed the early version 1.0, and it messed up my system badly. However, my question is about the origin of the FireFox, or is it just a modern invention for marketing purposes? I still don't understand the...

How is this even slightly amusing? The defective battery packs are a serious safety hazzard, especially onboard aircraft. Until IT confirms the battery recall status I will leave the Dell notebook at work rather than bringing it home at night.

Some Pagan mythogogical creature?

Now Dell has recalled 4*10^6 battery packs. :( Battery Recall

What is the significance of the palm tree?

Perhaps it is the cyrillic alpahabet... ;)

What will Kevin's wife think when a dozen or so 500GB drives arrive from the UPS? j/k ;)

You guys are cracking me up! A little memory loss, Greg? :D ;)

Fortunately I block all jpegs, or I would probably be disgusted as well...

I did not click on the link just in case it was something unpleasant.

Well, I've never heard anything about it. I figured that Google or similar would be the popular site.

I would like an 8GB machine, but how expensive are the 2GB modules?

Nothing at Radio Shack?

640GB? It seems like WD is trailing in platter density. A few years ago they were first with larger drives. A least we will see cheaper large drives though.

So the Pentium Ms did not explode and only the Core 2 Duos explode? What about the Core 1 - does it explode?

...when 250GB/platter is a mature technology. I guess by 2008.

We only get new conmputers every 3 years. I think my Dell notebook has no Cores at all.

Oh great, we use those 2005 Dells at work. How do I know if my notebook will explode? I'm afraid to take it home now.

OK, if you think so... :rolleyes:

I still have the dial up and PCI modem. So what does that make me, besides unhip?

But at least we have grounded receptacles. :mrgrn:

:D Perhaps he meant to say soldering iron. ;)

Wow! What is your day job that the office can be so messy? I could not work in that environment. Is this a smaller company?

I am not convinced that there will even be any American automobile manufacturers left by the time I need to buy another car. Ford and GM would probably be sold off to the Chinese, Koreans, or European conglomerates, etc. by then.

Which is the most popular website?

Wow, the new Intel CPUs must really be good!

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

"HFS,B!" is an exclamation and does not need to be a complete sentence. F'ing is the present participle of the verb we are all too familiar with. ;)

It is more like 9 or 10.

Yuck, that is badly written...

Thanks for the info. The CF speeds have been updated in the RG database (about time). As expected the Extreme IV is only slightly faster in camera than current fast cards. Manufacturers really need to update camera bodies to take advantage of the fastest cards now. They are currently stick...

I drove a Fusion recently, but it ran on regular unleaded.

Nothing seems to be good for the consumer any more...

Yeah, my vehicle runs on plutonium. ;)

I would buy a F30 in a minute if only it had a viewfinder...

At least not his pants. ;) :(

As usual I can't play the WMD file. It must be illusions with mirrors or other object movements etc. designed to fool the brain. Although Asian elephants are usually employed for the magic stunts, they are still not so easy to hide (breathing and other body noises).

:D

In my ancient system the CPU is at 100% for about 15 seconds with no diks activity. Prior to that the RAW file is read in less than a second from one disk and it takes a second or two to write the TIF file to a separate disk after conversion.

Luck you. A trackball is to painful for me to use for any length of time. Anyway, my Wacom takes more of the desk space.

Thanks. I didn't expect it, but where to flee after the SR and other doomsdays?

...like a rolling stone...

But shouldn't a moderate clock speed within a CPU family yield a nearly proportional increase? For example, if it takes 12 hours to process a batch of RAW files with a given processor, a 20% faster processor should do the job in a little over ten hours (some loss to HDs, etc.).

Erm, I meant increases in speed.

Interesting. Does anyone know how well this new CPU will convert RAW files? Will there be many speed bumps soon?

It seems like paranoia to me. And what is one supposed to do while reading e-mail other than having a hand on the mouse, jerk off?

Yes, but it was not as necessary then when the forum structure was only one level. It is too complicated to navigate now without the jump.

I used to run XP and 2000 that way a few years ago. It seemed to work OK, but I don't remember the details. All partitions will be visible with a utility such as PM so the kids could will mess up the the system if they are computer savvy. Of course one could always use removable drives or...

Yes, but I was hoping for some better diagnoticis like temperature, SMART, whatever else, etc. I guess it is not available for Windows (really silly). I'm still a little paranoid about the potential data loss, so triplicate storage will be continued. I bought another Seagate 160GB since the...

Is there a way to move the Forum Jump to the top or am I the only one not liking it on the lower right?