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As some of you may have noticed, I haven't posted here or on SR in the last 2+ weeks. This has been due to first the illness and then the death of my cat, Tiger. I recently wrote something about her life that I wish to share with everyone here. Also, if anyone has some space on their site...

I know it's a little late, but thanks for the nomination, Mark. I had a death in the family so I've been out out the loop as far as SR and SF goes for the last two weeks.

Thanks for the tip. Believe it or not, I was finally able to dig something up. I found out on one site that something called the Trione V. 3.60 DMA driver would do what I wanted, but wasn't able to find it. A few days ago, I did find it at...

That sounds like an even better punishment to me. Maybe have repeat offenders caned and knouted. :mrgrn:

Yes, I'm aware that there are legitimate uses to send e-mail that way, but perhaps ISPs should restrict that ability only to clients who have provided proof that they are a legitimate business/newsletter. There is no reason to allow that ability across the board. Regular ISP accounts should...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't preventing people from sending multiple messages at the same time prevent or at least limit SPAM? If a spammer had to individually send the SPAM to every addressee, there wouldn't be enough hours in the day to reach any significant number of people, and the...

:roll: I really hope this was supposed to be a joke. Why not use a hammer while you're at it? :mrgrn:

Looking at the maintainence schedule for typical lasers, it is likely that the only consumable the average home user will need to replace are the toner cartridges. Most of the rest of the items are scheduled for 20,000 pages and up. Assuming you use the printer for 5 years, that's 11 pages per...

I know that. :) I wrote a semi-serious response anyway just to see what kind of feedback it would get. I have nothing against upgrading, but only if it offers me functionality I need, bug fixes, greater stability, or any combination thereof. I never upgrade just because a new version exists...

I'll take that as a compliment. :) I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way about XP. I'll see if I can pick up a legal copy of Win2000 on eBay. In truth, I would like to try it, maybe just with a test partition in a dual boot configuration as timwhit suggested. I'm just not...

Exactly what does this have to do with racism? To the best of my knowledge "Islam" isn't a race, it's a religion. If they're going to take him to court, it should at least be on charges that make sense. Typical lawyer speak-dealing with emotion rather than facts, and using hot button words...

I was wondering about that myself until I found out that it goes for $600, and then I had my answer. I would imagine it's pretty easy to unload to a body shop as well. The way people drive nowadays bumpers are getting smashed left and right. I'm not sure how they did it, but I would guess a...

I'm usually not inclined to talk much about other members of my family on these forums, but I just had to share something that happened to my father yesterday with everyone here. Last night, probably during the middle of the night, the front bumper of my father's car was stolen. They cut the...

Here's an example of just the type of upgrade horror story I was referring to: http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=5553

A couple of reasons: 1)I'm familiar with it, and it is fairly easy to configure. 2)I already own it. 3)It does what I need it to do, and is reasonably stable as long as I don't use IE. 4)I refuse to give M$ any more of my hard earned money(probably the main reason) 5)Any new OS may have...

:cry: What I thought was odd was that above 64 MB I believe the standard is called SXMS instead of XMS, so I assumed that any program capable of dealing with SXMS, as QEMM9.0 is, would recognize memory up to the limit of whatever the SXMS standard is(I'm guessing either 2GB or 4 GB)...

CORRECTION: The QEMM switch U:1M:768M, which appears 4 times in the above config.sys file, should really be UR=1M:768M or USERAM=1M:768M I cut and pasted my config and autoexec files, but I had taken out that particular switch because it didn't do anything, and put in back when I was posting...

Here's some information: config.sys autoexec.bat The M/B is an AOpen AX6B with a 440BX chipset running a 450 MHz PII overclocked to 504 MHz. There is 768 MB of PC133 SDRAM(2x256MB, 2x128MB). Hard disks are Maxtor 5T040H4(40 GB, 7200 RPM) and 4G100J5(100 GB, 5400 RPM). I have a Lite-On...

I'm sure most of the people here remember alternative memory managers like QEMM. I currently have my Win98SE systems set up to boot into a several different configurations-EMS, no EMS, CD drivers, no CD drivers, and each of these alternatives is available with both the default HIMEM and QEMM...

One person there got really lucky. The morons at Worst Buy thought the price was $110(because the ad said save $110), gave the guy the drives for $110 minus 10% of the difference, or $96 each, and he purchased 2 of them. The guy actually made $48 purchasing two drives(assuming the rebates are...

I'm using a fairly inexpensive mechanical switchbox to switch between three computers and was having severe ghosting problems at higher resolutions until I purchased low loss VGA cables. This more or less cured the problem, although some barely noticeable artifacts are visible onscreen in a few...

This seems to happen to me occasionally as well, almost always when I'm downloading from train-sim.com(a very busy server). I would say on average it happens once every 100 or so downloads, which is why I always check for file integrity after the file has finished downloading. If I get an...

Something like this is long overdue-there's really no viable way for the average person to back up a 100 GB hard drive these days. Tape is too slow and way too expensive, CD-R or RW requires too many discs, and using another hard drive isn't really safe. The transfer rate(36Mbs) should give a...

While not defending this stupid warranty change and possible collusion, I can certainly understand it from a business standpoint, just as I understand why Tannin will no longer use WD drives from a business standpoint. The simple fact is that over the last three or four years hard drives have...

That cat in my avatar has every bit the attitude that the picture of her suggests. :diablo: Sometimes she'll even log on as me and start posting things here at SF. Apparently her and Tea get along really well, and like to have some secret chats while Tannin and me aren't looking. I still have...

Here's another no vote, and the reason is because, frankly, we're too much in a hurry to pop pills for everything without going after the underlying problem. For example, a person may come in who is legimately depressed(as I was for about 6 months after the WTC attacks). Instead of the...

Thanks again. :D I didn't know that using the hosts file worked with Opera. I'll also give Proxomitron a try.

Thanks for the tip. I tried it and it doesn't work. Maybe it's an M$-Macromedia conspiracy. :x I've thrown in the towel. I'll just use opera on sites that have Flash content. If I could get it to block ads I'll probably use it all the time. It seems to be a much faster browser than IE...

I have an unusual ability to be able to either listen to or tune out TV while I'm doing something else. Sometimes I can listen and imagine what the pictures look like without actually seeing them. Generally, this is pretty much the only way I watch TV(while I'm doing something else), since...

You mean the "Mr. many names Jaseon Hegal", as you referred to him once? P.S. WTF is going on with SR? I just got an "access forbidden" when I tried to go to the forums. It also seems pretty dead here, outside of Tannin and Tea. Maybe everyone else is watching all the excessive 9/11...

Chicago is probably a great deal like New York in that respect. In fact, most large American cities have their own unique characteristics. I really meant middle America suburbs when I said middle America, especially those built in the last 20 or 30 years. Those are truly homogenous, bland...

Too bad. :( I was LMAO thinking of Tannin doing those things. He didn't mention what you were doing the whole time. Perhaps hiding under a table pretending that you didn't know him?

I was up all night playing MSTS and my brother called about 9:05 AM and said that something happened to the WTC. He didn't have cable and wasn't getting reception so he came over to our place to watch. I was in utter shock when the first building went, although after that I figured it was only...

Believe it or not, there is a similar invasion of American pop culture right here in America, so I know exactly where you're coming from. As strange as this may sound to you, one of the negative parts of the decline in crime in my city in recent years has been the influx of many of these...

A number of years ago I did a close repeat of that scene where he asked for breakfast in a fast food place after they had stopped serving it. In fact, I think that scene in the movie is based on my outburst. :wink: It made Tannin's tirade look like child's play(we New Yorkers are...

I've found lacquer thinner works pretty well for that also. :wink: Dan uses proper methodology to test heat sinks, which is a refreshing change. Why most sites just strap the heat sink on the CPU, run Quake, and then report the temperature is beyond me. This is completely meaningless and...

Yes. I was thinking along the same lines. I would venture to say that given how most people use their machines, perhaps 1 GHz or its equivalent is enough, especially if software bloat can be reigned in. An interesting possibility is underclocking existing processors. Say you have a 3 GHz...

Very true, and here I think there is some room to improve the overall performance of computers without encountering the heat problem. Storage performance especially is abysmal, but as long as we only have mechanical hard disks there is limited room for improvement. I think the latest iteration...

I had a similar problem when I first started experimenting with TECs, so I just made my own power supplies. I purchased several large transformers from surplus places, large filter capacitors, and a bunch of MOSFETS, inductors, etc. Eventually I had my own switching power supply that I used to...

I'm sure everyone here is intimately familiar with Moore's Law, which basically states that computing power will double every 18 months or so. Of course, it was never a law in the strict sense, but merely a means of predicting the evolution of computers which thus far has been fairly reliable...

My condolences, Jake. It's at times like these that life can seem unfair. I can only hope for you and your sister that time will heal the pain and leave you with only cherished memories of your brother-in-law.

I'm already disturbed about one thing I just read regarding the 9/11 memeorial ceremonies. They are planning to have the names of the victims read by celebrities. Nothing wrong with reading the names, but I feel it would have been more appropriately done by either the families of the...

Correct, that's exactly what I'm referring to, and I think what Macromedia is doing should be made illegal. They're trying to pester people to the point that they just give in, and that's 100% wrong. If it's any consolation, I feel that PA and DRM(if it's implemented) will be the beginning of...

AdShield blocks popups just fine. I guess the stupid box from Macromedia isn't considered a popup. BTW, the site I was looking at is www.frostytech.com, which is one of the few sites that uses the proper methodology to test heat sinks. They apply known heat sources of 50W and 100W, and...

Yes, indeed it is. Boiling point is the point at which the vapor pressure of the liquid exceeds the pressure of the surrounding environment. As you raise the temperature of a liquid the vapor pressure goes up, and the temperature at which the vapor pressure exceeds the ambient air pressure is...

I didn't realize the media in Australia was as bad as in America. It's true that the media attention lavished on 9/11 can be a bit much at times, but it's also true that the same event probably would have received just as much coverage regardless of where it happened just by virtue of the fact...

I'm not sure whether this belongs here or in Technical Support, but I figured here would be better here since the problem is not with my computer. The problem is that everytime I go to a site that has a Flash ad I get a stupid pop-up box asking me if I want to download Flash 6 from Macromedia...

Thanks for those pictures. I remember standing right next to tower 1 overlooking West Street facing the Winter Garden with my mother and brother on July 4 two years ago. I never imagined that 14 months or so later everything would be gone. I even remember us casually discussing what a mess...

A little food for thought-if glass was indeed also a supercooled liquid like pitch, then the glass funnel also would have dripped(or at least distorted) over the years. I heard a while ago that old window panes are distorted due to the manufacturing process, as that link by Mercutio mentions...

After I finished laughing hysterically at those pictures, I noticed the person added two messages in German. Can anyone here translate? I think he might be apologizing or something. Occasionally my brother sells things on eBay. Once somebody selling the same item as him linked to one his...