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    Visio : No maps for China or Taiwan for "diplomatic rea

    PST Response: Visio 2002 Professional Chinese Maps Support Reference Number; 2Q-1HP3U3 Hello James, Thanks for your enquiry regarding the availability of Chinese maps (People's Republic of China and the Republic of Taiwan) in Visio 2002 Professional. For diplomatic (geo-political) reasons...
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    Matrix reloaded?

    Went to see it on Friday. I was disappointed by the first 20mins or so, but the rest of the movie was even more of a rollercoaster ride than the first one - very exciting. Overall not as good as the first but still pretty good.
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    Adaptec 29160 BIOS flash problems

    Okay, so I tried to flash the BIOS on my 29160 from 2.57.2 to 3.10.0. I got a failure code 8, could not verify. Sure enough, while the adapter works fine, hitting ctrl-A to change the config of the adapter gets me a blank screen now. Trying to restore the previous BIOS has much the same effect...
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    Convert FreeBSD partition to NTFS or FAT32?

    I have an old 14GB disk formatted under FreeBSD with files on it I would like to migrate to my WinXP system. Is there anything Partition Magic-like that will convert it directly, or do I have to build another FreeBSD box?
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    Intel vs. AMD? ATI vs. nVidia?

    Such a controversial topic that the forum ate my post last time. Anyway, to sum up : Since Jake will soon be the happy owner of my dual Athlon mobo, CPU and RAM, I'm looking for a immediate replacement and hoping for some advice. Here's the scenario : What am I buying : - Motherboard - CPU...
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    (New) Poll for Moderator!

    No, it's not deja vu, we're voting here for the new forum moderator to join our brave band after Time asked to be left out of the nominations. This is for an 18 month term starting on the 15th of October 2002. Note as president I will only vote in order to split a tie. (I'm sorta making rules...
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    Nominations for moderator!

    Well, it's that time again (actually, it's well past that time again) - time to nominate a new moderator to join our select band. As usual, this is for an 18 month term which will start from the 15th of October 2002. Just as a reminder, our current moderators are Mercutio and Cliptin (Flagreen...
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    (Some of) my dual Athlon system for sale! Plus Sun Ultra 5..

    (Since Tim had such good success...) Selling for noise level reasons really, and because I don't need the extra CPU power any more. CPUs: 2x Athlon 1700+XPs. No pencil trick needed to get them to work in MP. Motherboard: Tyan Tiger MP (2460) with latest BIOS. 4x 64bit slots, 2x 32bit PCI...
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    Whose war on whose terrorism?

    This is a transcript of the speech my father gave to U3A, I thought some might be interested. Whose war on whose terrorism? 12 August 2002 Eleven months ago 4 passenger aircraft took off from the east coast of the United States, with enough fuel to take them to California. Teams of...
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    Any awk or sed gurus?

    I'd like to write a gawk (or whatever) script to parse a web server log file and produce a very basic report once a month. The program would go through the log and extract all the lines which show a PDF file being downloaded. Then delete any GETs from 2 specific IP addresses. Finally, it would...
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    I have an admission to make...

    I no longer even visit SR's forums. Am I missing much?
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    CNet rides again

    http://reviews.cnet.com/techtrends/0-6014-8-20069949-1.html?tag=st.re.9870989.fs.6014-8-20069949-1 What do you think? Are we obsessed with unnoticeable differences in speed?
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    Best opening scene for an action movie?

    The Replacement Killers was on TV tonight and it made me think about this topic - it has a pretty good one and is exquisitely shot, pun not intended. What do you guys reckon is the best single scene - usually before or during the opening titles - for an action movie?
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    CMedia 8738 locking up both my systems

    Well, since someone was laying in to Creative, I thought I'd spread the joy. I have a couple of generic boards (by Eagle) with the CMedia 8738 chip on them. They cost me about USD10 each, but they do everything I ask for (I think the Santa Cruz and the Game Theatre are built on the same chip...
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    Volunteers/help wanted for a project

    My dad's project, actually. He's forming a non-profit organisation which will run a website. The website will (eventually) document every print of Australian flora or fauna published before 1900, mainly for research purposes. So basically it will be a database with a bunch of pictures and...
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    Episode 2 : Attack of the Clones

    Well, I went to see it over the weekend. It was certainly better than Episode One - having your intestines pulled out through your nostrils is better than Episode One - but it wasn't what I'd call good. Why can't any of the actors actually act?! Slight spoiler (highlight to see): I thought the...
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    Enjoy putting the boot in?

    I'm getting rid of a lot of pent up frustration from work in the latter stages of this thread on SR which started off on laptops but has devolved into the unveiling of one Jason Hegel as the biggest corporate pirate since, oh, at least Enron (or possibly Global Crossing). :eekers: I'm enjoying...
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    "Back" button in browser - strange behaviour

    Perhaps I hadn't noticed this before, but I seem to get almost a random event when I use the "back" button in my browser (IE6) once I've read a thread here. Sometimes I get the navigation at the top and no main page. Sometimes I get a php error. Sometimes I get a "warning, page has expired"...
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    Build a FAQ

    No, not a FAQ about the site - a FAQ covering some of the questions asked often in forums like this. Perhaps if people can contribute ideas and answers in this thread, then we can clear it all up and post it somewhere else, perhaps an HTML page posted on this site? I don't think a forum is the...
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    Don't like the titles for users

    Newbie -> No Life, not good. Can we get rid of the titles altogether, please? Post count alone seems fine to me. (I don't judge people, exspecially here, on a basis of their post count, it's just more of a interesting statistic.) Thoughts?
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