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I see someone visited the HP printing website :)

What I meant to say was that when the ink runs out, you would be better off buying a new printer than getting new cartridges.

Quite true, Mark. However, inkjets (the cheaper ones, anyways) are more or less disposable these days. The low end inkjets sometimes cost less than a new set of colour and black ink cartridges, meaning that it would be cheaper to buy a new printer than it would be to buy new ink cartridges! :)

2 pL droplets, eh? That sounds like high quality, slow speed, and possibly higher potential for clogging to me. Anyone try the new HP PhotoSmart 7550 yet? It uses the new PhotoRet IV with 4800x1200 dpi and 7-colour printing (3 colour + 3 photo + 1 black). CNET tested it and found it to be poor...

I think some products are bought simply on style. Those Tt Golden Orbs, rounded cables, aluminum cases, plexiglas windows, and neon lighting is all about turning your computer into a conversation piece (or something like that... I'm kinda speculating here because I am not like that, but I know...

Duplex printing does rule. Unfortunately, you have to spend quite a bit on a personal printer to get duplexing capabilities. BTW, does your duplexer curl the paper even more, or does it reduce it by feeding the paper "the other way"? I have never had the pleasure of owning one, but I love the...

A colour laser... those things have expensive consumables too! Cheaper than ink cartridges, yes, but colour toner cartridges are shockingly expensive.

My Canon S600 was one of the first Canons to introduce ink tanks that were individually replaceable for each colour. Instead of having the entire 6 colours + printhead assembly all in one monolithic cartridge, the S600 came with 2x 3 colour cartridges, each colour with its own clear plastic ink...

Myself, I tried the whole printing photos on an inkjet thing in 2000 (I had a Canon S600 inkjet), and I found it was a little inconvenient (the whole process of scanning the negatives onto the computer, editing the photos to make them look good, and printing them -- which takes forever if you...

Sounds good. Are there any other good webmail providers? I refuse to use that automatic spam generator thing called hotmail.

I use a Startech Starview SV211K KVM. It is a 2 port KVM kit that came with all the cables at an economical price. I was worried about the quality at such a low price, but I haven't noticed any ghosting yet. http://www.startech.com/kvmplanner/planner1.asp?referrer=mainkvm

BTW, thanks for the support, Jake. Life's tough being outed as a Microsoft devotee. :)

Hey, enough with the snide remarks, time... I started this thread with the intention of letting fellow IE fans know about this great little program. I didn't set about challenging all Mozilla/Opera users and Microsoft bashers. Leave that for the pub and brewery.

Forgot to address this. As I mentioned before, I never was affected in any way by any of these suuposedly serious security issues. Why would I stop using IE if I never had any security problems with it? Also, I was saying that 99% of the users out there probably haven't been negatively affected...

IMO, IE 3.02 and 4.01 were far better than the sluggish and supremely unstable Netscape. Almost every version of Netscape I used until... well, Mozilla 1.0, which is not even Netscape anymore, was slower and less stable than its IE counterpart. And you're right, IE 3 and 4 weren't exactly that...

I have always enjoyed using IE for the most part. I don't care about all these security holes and patches. If the browsing experience is good (and it was for me), and nothing malicious happens to my computer in the process, then I have no reason to hate IE. Everybody talks about all the horrific...

It adds the tabbed-browsing and pop-up blocking features of Opera and Mozilla with that familiar look and feel that you have grown to love with IE. http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?p=57636

Time makes a good point here. Most of the big name PC guys do not make their own laptops. They merely market laptops produced (and usually designed) by Taiwanese ODM's like Compal, Quanta, Arima, Acer, Inventec, LG, etc. Apparently, Quanta produces Dell, Gateway, and Apple notebooks, so it seems...

I have never had a single virus problem and I have been using Outlook Express and now Outlook 2000 all my life. Like others have said, apply your service packs and patches (as you should be in the habit of by now if you have been using Windows machines), set the security settings to Restricted...

Separate client. Use OE for news. That's all it's good for.

That hosts trick seems to slow things down a bit, though, in my experience. BTW, I love your avatar. If I had to describe a cat's attitude to someone who knew nothing about cats, I would just show them that picture. They would understand without so much as a word being said.

Just to clarify further, the optimizations we were talking about involving Outlook are for corporate environments only. Home environments using Internet Mail (i.e., not Exchange server) always use Personal Folders (PST), which is always local and fast... (unless you are one of those strange...

Nothing you can do about it, Adcadet. Outlook just plain runs slower than OE. When I first started using Outlook (switched from OE5), I noticed the same thing. My god this is slow, I thought to myself. After a month of getting used to it, I never once thought about how slow it was... until I...

Use Proxomitron, one of the most powerful universal web filters available. Unfortunately, it is not the easiest thing to use, but it is more powerful than most of those simpler ad blockers. Another way of doing it is by redirecting the domain name of the ad server to 127.0.0.1 (aka localhost)...

I have heard similarly good things about IBM as well. However, my personal experience with them is a mixed bag. The older ThinkPad 385XD I have has always been very stable software and driver wise. But the hardware has been unreliable. I had to send in my ThinkPad twice during the first year...

Tea, Very important suggestions... the basics. However, I did make those changes already (but neglected to mention them)... within 30 minutes of using that computer for the first time, as a matter of fact :) I am not using the "classic" folder view, however, as I am used to having the extra...

Can't you tell IE to stop asking you to install Flash? BTW, with Opera, if you press F12, you will get a bunch of quick access pop-up and cookie options.

Anybody have any ideas? My computer at work is an HP e-Vectra. P3-600, 128 MB of RAM, 7.5 GB Quantum Fireball lct15 4400 rpm ATA-66 HD running Win2k. The 7.5 GB is a single partition, formatted as NTFS with 512-byte clusters. After suffering through excruciatingly slow multitasking performance...

Clocker, Like Steve said, your router/firewall should automatically block all ports that you don't specifically forward (assuming you are not putting anything in the DMZ). So, if you're not forwarding ports 137-139, you have nothing to worry about. BTW, have you tried using your LMHOSTS file...

True enough... Sigh... stupid fiscal responsibility policies :evil:

Good point, Pradeep. I do both. If it's a related topic, I usually click Ctrl + N; if it's new/unrelated, I usually click on the blue e. As you noted, I do save memory when opening new windows as opposed to new instances. But as Cliptin mentions, keeping separate instances open helps prevent...

What about a 6.5 like they did with 5.5? MS really needs to endow IE with MDI/single instance tabbed browsing. Being hobbled with 128 MB of RAM at work, my penchant for using 20 browser windows at the same time while PowerPoint, Excel, and Word are open causes massive swapping. I guess I could...

And just how do you expect power management to work when we are folding 24x7? :)

Ah, so that's what all the fuss was about. It's animated. I have all animations, video, and sound turned off by default so I never noticed. To tell you the truth, I find most animations, etc. distracting... (but these are not too bad)

Thanks for the link, time. I knew somebody on here would know what that was.

I could, but like Stereodude said, if I do that, then I cannot see computers over my LAN. I do have a firewall/router, but this laptop is not hooked up to it. My server and desktop are behind it, though.

You forget, CougTek, that MSFT has numerous campuses around the world. I know at least one such campus exists in Texas. I thought it was in Austin, but they could also have one in Houston as well. In any event, Gary could just be a IT guy who subscribes to various MSFT programs for developers /...

This is the first time I have seen this... advertisement, I guess you could call it. I believe it was after I left my browser open to the USOpen.org site for several hours... I come back to my computer to find this: (IP address edited for security reasons... not that it would make a...

So that means you the part where you said it was so dense was incorrect as well? Anyways, I think one of the reasons why water remains a liquid when you would otherwise think it should be a gas is due to the polarity of the molecule. The hydrogen bonding that results probably keeps it together.

Ice, as you know, also flows in glaciers.

Yikes! You could probably code the darn thing yourself just as quickly :)

The nForce rocks. I found the new drivers to be great, as I mentioned here

If you can desturate and play with the image characteristics in Photoshop, I am almost certain that GIF would be the most efficient compression algorithm for these continuous tone, almost monochromatic HD labels as you yourself alluded to.

Just wondering how you have your IDE drives configured. As we discussed previously, devices on the same channel are not capable of concurrent access. Thus, if the reader and writer (or HD and writer) share the same channel, the data stream from the reader must be stopped while it is sent back...

Not fun. I don't know... I've had the odd problem with Nero, but I was able to get it working well recently with the audio filters -- I have come to love the equalization and normalization features when creating audio mix CD's for the car. Before (used EZCD Creamator), I'd scare the living crap...

Thanks, Tony. I didn't even know about this thread as I haven't checked the Pub & Brewery for the entire month of August. That was a bit of a blast from the past, eh? As you have noticed, I haven't put as much time and effort into my posts as I have in the past. Am I getting lazy? I prefer to...

LOL...

Now, to your post where you decided to meet my supposed challenge of being able to convert name brand buyers. I love how competitive you are, but that was not a challenge, and that was not what I meant exactly. You were only talking about a small subset of the lost sheep I was referring to...

I always wondered how small stores can compete in the PC retail industry and still come away with a healthy operating margin. Now I know. The good ones (like yourself) simply know how it's done. What can I say, Tony? I think it's fair to say that your posts in this thread are instant...

Holy crap, Mark. You sure know how to get attention around here. My heart skipped a beat when I first read that subject line. Then when I saw your name in the Creator field, I had a feeling it was probably your computer, which of course, it was. ... but you sure had me going at first!