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I might do that. Ok, here's the results from the Patriot drive:

Lots of good information there. Thanks! I wish I had checked a little closer rather than just checking the peak read/write speeds.

Hey all, I just got the "fastest" USB flash drive I could find, according to a few tech reviews: the Patriot Supersonic Rage 2 (128G), and have been very disappointed with linux boot times and writing of small files. Large files are fine, faster than my other drives, but booting into an OS from...

Okay I know this kind of stuff is elementary to ya'll, but it fascinates me. I think my Samsung HD160JJ drive is failing. Not upset, since it's no longer my boot drive. It had been relegated to swap partition and archives. Quite a bit of active use, but nothing important. Anyway, yesterday it...

I know no one seems interested in eye surgery, but there is an alternative to LASIK. I wasn't the greatest candidate for laser surgery myself, so I opted for IOLs (Visian ICLs) and I am very happy with them. The healing time is much faster than with LASIK, the visual clarity is better than I...

Goodness . . . I clicked on that. I think I'll have nightmares for weeks.

Merc, I'm not sure about that. What I've watched of Fox lately, they might as well be called the Trump Network. Glenn and Rush I do listen to regularly, and they've never suggested voting for Hillary. Glenn has said he will not vote for Trump, however. I almost hope the RNC does pull the rug...

It is interesting to see how many Democrats say they won't vote for Hillary, and how many (around 40%, I'm led to believe) of Republicans are Never Trumpers. Should be fun to watch. And more relaxing, since every candidate I actually cared about has now been eliminated. I might vote Libertarian...

Looks like the Trump-cult has prevailed. :(

Good summary. A sorry selection between those two. :(

Is this topic banned? I'm almost surprised there is no discussion on the primary season. Just checking. :) If it's legal to discuss it, I would be interested to know your thoughts.

Howell - rude. Merc, not sure exactly how big their library is. I'm waiting for them to get back to me on some questions.

Hey guys, I need a little direction. I have a friend looking for software for their library, and they sent me this list of features they would like: -enter the title & author of a book and provide a call number for that book automatically -follows the Dewey Decimal Classification System...

I think I *might* have figured out how to do what I want, thanks to this page here: http://james.cridland.net/code/google-calendar.html However, now the whole website is down so I can't do a thing. But it works on my local apache/php server at least. I'm hoping I can use one of the php blocks...

oh yes, that made lots of pretty things! I also figured out how to log into the file manager for the site (I'm not technically the owner of the site, so I didn't know the ftp username and password until a couple of minutes ago). I was able to create the file right on the server.

Oh me, must have been more flustered than I thought. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/04/integrating-google-calendar-with-your-website/

I have a website hosted by networksolutions, and I'm trying to figure out how to integrate a google calendar in it and make it look good (ie, fully customized). This page apparently details how to do it, but I get past the first few paragraphs and I'm suddenly totally lost. How do I add PHP...

I concur with the consensus: Best Buy is certainly not the best. Wal-Mart is awesome for a variety of essential items (and occasionally even budget TVs). There are many things I wouldn't purchase there (including most anything computer related), but it's stupid to avoid Wal-Mart altogether...

Thanks for the input, fellas, I'm gonna have to give this a try (if I ever get the time). It would sure be nice to have a failover when the satellite goes out.

I'm sure someone has probably done this before. I have wireless hotspot on my Verizon phone. Is there a way to allow all the computers on my home network (wired and wireless) to use the phone's Internet connection? The router is a Linksys WRT54G.

Hey thanks for the reply, D. Actually, it's more for nostalgia purposes that I want to get these drives working. I'll just keep my eyes open. speaking of making more modern hardware work in older computers, specifically the PC-XT, I was shocked to learn they are actually manufacturing XT IDE...

Just wondering if you all would happen to have or know where I could obtain old Miniscribe drives or parts. Working or non-working, doesn't matter. I need PCBs for a couple 8438 or 8425s. Ebay is obviously the wrong place to look, as they are outrageously priced.

I'm looking for a digital camera with fairly specific qualifications. Although I don't think it's overly demanding, I am having a hard time pinning down the right combination. 1. Ability to shoot video at high speed (ie slow-mo). 1500 or more FPS would be nice 2. Ability to take customizable...

My current setup goes something like this: to find a picture from our camping trip from June of last year I would go to "(storage drive)/unedited pictures/archived/2008/2008-06". I keep the movies separate, so finding a movie from the same time would be more like "(drive)/home...

Hilarious video. But how do we know HP aren't just sexists?

Actually I got a sp3 cd with another computer and that worked. Sorry I would have just deleted my last message but couldn't figure out how. :)

Merc, I may indeed need to take advantage of your offer. It seems the owner does not have the original install media. So yes I would appreciate it very much. I would be willing to pay for that service. :) Well, to a certain extent. Heh

would it be better to use a SP3 install disc? I'm not even sure what he used but maybe installing SP3 from the start would be better than upgrading after install.

Thanks Merc, your offer is much appreciated. I'll let the owner know what's going on and see if he wants to do a repair install or something. I'm not sure if he has the install media or not but I will find out.

Yes, same result.

I'm getting a 0x0000007e on a thinkpad t41 with Windows XP pro. The owner said he just did an update. Now the machine will not boot at all. In safe mode the BSOD appears immediately after the list of drivers loads. I was just wondering if the error would be caused by one of the drivers listed...

I hope you aren't suggesting we just blindly follow the lead of the so-called "experts" just because they are certified. Some of the biggest idiots and failures I know are engineers and architects, who, frankly, probably couldn't figure out how a ball-point pen works. Yes there are many stupid...

From what I've seen of 7, it's somewhat more tolerable than Vista. Although it's similar enough to me it's more like a Vista SP3. Though with a much better name. I am triple booting with Vista, 7 and Kubuntu. I may use 7 rarely for the occasional game (it seems to work better with older games...

Cool. So I haven't had a chance to actually dig into the registry and stuff yet, but is there a "howto" deal for that or is it something I'll have to figure out?

Working on a computer with sound driver issues. I tinkered with it (installing and uninstalling various drivers) to the point where it doesn't show up with any errors in device manager (this is XP), but the sound device does not work and isn't recognized. It's a realtek HD card (ALC880) and any...

Hey guys, I got signed up for a free month of Cricket ISP (basically the same as Verizon's mobile broadband) and I'd like to just plug it into my router to use it on all my home computers. Could I get something like this...

Thanks Merc, that's what I was looking for. :) Haha, just started reading that thread, uda. I'm pretty sure if he can do that, I can do what I'm after without too much trouble. Now THAT is something I didn't think possible. Too much time on his hands?

Well I have acquired some experience changing laptop screens but I never tried doing one with a different resolution. I know the studio 15 comes optionally with a 720p, 900p or 1080p screen. I just didn't know if that meant they could be interchangeable on the same model.

So let's say I have a Dell Studio 15 with a 1280x800 resolution screen. Just wondering if it would be a problem to get, say, a 1440x900 screen to replace it?

Maybe it would be good to get this flu as soon as possible then. "Excuse me sir, could you cough on me?"

We have a DVD recorder which we copied some old home movies to DVD with (rather complicated though which is why I'm looking for something else), and I noticed that it does hang in the middle of the recording when playing on the computer, but it's fine on a regular DVD player. So how can I avoid...

Perhaps just a DVD-R with VHS and a dubbing feature would best suit my needs. Or maybe the one Fushigi mentioned. Hmm I don't know. :(

Hey everybody . . . I'm looking for a decent DVR. One that I can record HDTV (multiple channels would be nice), and also be able to record VHS tapes to DVD or mpeg. And can maybe make DVDs out of mpegs. I'm not sure exactly what I should be looking for, as I know next to nothing about them. Any...

it's now www.experts-exchange.com. Wonder why? Disappointing. Got any more? :)

I've recently developed an interest in LED lighting myself. I'm looking for some decently bright C7s (ie 15-25 watt equivalent), not just the ordinary Christmas light type (those are very dim). Anyone know of some like that?

Actually I made that up. :) But we are spending a number of trillions of dollars on bailing out companies that should die. I'm not even sure what the number is up to, but the most recent one I checked would add up to about 10,000 dollars in debt to each of us. I hope you're right about the tax...

And why are they calling him "Mr. Obama" in that article? I find that rather disrespectful and it irritates me. Can someone explain to me how it is not disrespectful to say "Mr. Obama" instead of "President Obama" or "Mr. President"? I don't know why this bugs me but it annoyed me when they did...

Not disagreeing, but frankly I think you're only saying that because he's a lib. And I'm sorry but in my eyes that would make you as bad as the wacky Bush fanatics. Oh wait, he was a liberal too. :P I had plenty of criticisms of President Bush's policies, and I probably will have more for...

Heard it on the news although it wasn't much published. Apparently he set some thermostat in the White House to 78 because he doesn't like the cold. Which is fine with me. As long as he isn't trying to regulate the temperature (and every little thing else) in MY house - precisely what liberals...

True. It's just limited to liberals. :) Obama is one of the worst. Telling us that we can't go on keeping our thermostats up to 72 degrees then making sure his own is at 78? Blatant hypocrisy. I have a bad feeling about this one.