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 | Yes, Vista supports VS'05 - I don't think any service packs have been released yet for Vista but there is one for Visual Studio '05. Oddly enough, I believe that the VS pro package includes a Mac version.  |
| | I would put a router in after the modem and plug both your pc-s into the router - i think most routers will also create a lan for you. You will need 2 more cables.  |
| | Re: Max use of AMD64 Maximize your system to do what? gaming? audio? graphics? video? W/o that info, I suggest that you buy as much memory as you can afford - 1 gig of memory is only good enough for bare bones editing.  |
| | I agree with Scru (how did that happen???) - it is not worth upgrading from XP to Vista. The up-grade can go wrong - and Vista will cost a couple hundred bucks; not all non-MS software will survive the conversion. Wait until you upgrade your laptop and the cost of … |
| | Re: hollystyles [QUOTE=hollystyles;336546]Er hi.. I have no idea how I got to this page, but here I am and although it's a little late perhaps, erm.. thanx peeps![/QUOTE]Happy (belated) B'day - how did you get your post date to be from the past? You share your b'day with Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate … |
| | My only advice to add for point and click is make sure you get auto-stabilize. On digital photography in general, get a really big card and shoot and shoot - don't delete anything until you get it home and loaded onto your pc and then only delete obviously bad shots …  |
 | I use FF because I don't like advertising all over my screen. I particularly hate those roll-over and scroller adds that require that click to close. There may be add-ons to IE that do the same thing but I have not found them (or really tried). I only use IE7 … |
| | I ran across this interesting bit of medical news: [INDENT]One human chimera came to light when a 52-year-old woman demanded an explanation from doctors after tests showed that two of her three grown-up sons were biologically unrelated to her. Although the woman, "Jane", conceived them naturally with her husband, tests … |
 | Re: Firefox Commands [QUOTE=Maxipak;557968]I'm not actually sure if this thread should be in this category but it seemed like the most logical choice. Anyway I'm looking for a book, or some source of information, that provides details on all the commands that can be used in Firefox; about:cache, ect. Any info would be … |
| | Check out BitTorrent via wikipedia and remember, even with file-sharing programs, you are not anonymous.  |
| | I think you meant decrypt rather than encrypt - google is your friend; be prepared to let it run a long time. |
 | [QUOTE=TheNNS;495531]I hate it when people in some forums seem to know everything and think they're always right.[/QUOTE] Hey! Leave me out of this! I been working 12 hour days  |
| | [QUOTE=froogap;555836]I'm hoping someone can give me some help with a self-made problem. I intended to get a reduced price lan drive for my home wifi network and bought a) a LanDrive case and b) a 500GB Western 'Element5' USB drive. However, when I stripped down the drive I found that … |
 | My mother is 82 now and walks about 4 miles a day. When she was 76 she took the Grand Canyon tour, walking down into the canyon then down deeper into the area where there is a village, then walked back out (talking all the time, I am sure). She …  |
| | Hmmm - have youi compared the color coding of the jacks? some cables have the RTS pins crossed for direct pc to pc connections so hold the 4 cable ends up to the light at the same orientation just to check to make sure that each end has the same … |
| | Midi, he was probably thinking about the 'burbs with the concomitant sprawl. Sneekula, worker strikes are not a major problem with mass transit; they may have major impact 'during' the strike but have no effect on mass transit in general. Remember that it is workers' strikes that gave you a … |
 | I'm probably wrong but it looks like the pattern a .410 shotgun would make choked down. If I am right, I would like to know the distance for that spread (er, if I am wrong, nevermind). |
| | I have a couple of recurring themes in my dreams but I will stick with the positive one(s): I am walking down a hill on a sidewalk and as i take a step, I push off with my toes and I rise into the air. My drift back to earth … |
 | He was all of the above but he had a dry wit that sometimes I liked. I remember his appearance on Laugh-in - "I decided to do it when they promised to fly me out to Hollywood on an airplane with two right wings". He had the wit and intelligence …  |
| | I drink so much sparkling water that I am buying a 20lb. Carbon-dioxide tank and will be making my own shortly. I go through about 2 cases of Talking Rain a week (though I have had to cut back since we dropped our Costco membership) -- fortunately my current place … |
| | [QUOTE=niek_e;541318]Or do you mean the pentagram hidden in the image? But what do Mercury, Venus and Earth have to do with it? Niek[/QUOTE] Kool, did you see that right away or make it? |
| | I have good luck with the large the 120mm fans mounted using silicon rubber rivets. I also have a Zalman cpu fan (dang near 10 pounds of copper with a 120mm fan mounted on - okay, I exaggerate but it is heavy). |
| | Here is where an interesting outcome for the Law of Unintended Consequences comes in. 1)most pilot wannabes flunk out because of the requirement that their eyesight must be 20/20 or better uncorrected. 2) USNavy surgeons started doing laser eye surgery and now almost no one washes out of flight school … |
 | I named myself after my favorite [s]Comic book[/s] <<okay, darn it - how do I do that strikethrough thingy??>> graphic novel from the 80s. GrimJack was one of the coldest/coolest characters ever!! I think there were about 90 comics in the series - which was just re-released and 6 new … |
 | Well, at least they only removed them from the DN S db and you can still get there using their actual IP address (//88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks). I think that this will actually get way more attention and free advertising than just letting the web-site alone. I just donated to their defense fund. …  |
| | Check out Fryes - they generally have laptop specials in that range - getting XP might be a problem, though. I ended up sucking it up and accepting VISTA - if it gets too bad, I will pick up XP and dual boot. I walked into Office Depot while they … |
| | Well, I hope my 2-cents is not too late - I bought an Antec case that has the large 120mm fans that are mounted using silicon rubber rivets. It is incredibly quiet and does a real good job of keeping my machine cool (I keep a history and the shooters … |
 | Re: Plan a dream [QUOTE=linux;521973]I don't know what my planned dream would be, but can someone tell me the answer to my long awaited to ask question? How can I start to remember my dreams again? I used to almost every night, now I never do! I just wake up in the morning and … |
 | Well, the top layer has a plushy cthulu(sp), a bunny-man in a noose, assorted CDs (games, music and data), books, pay stubs, coffee stains (bottom layer), UPS -- there is more, it is BIG corner-type desk. I finally took my (portable??!) O.E.D. off the desk and put it back on … |
| | [QUOTE=linux;525761]I just want the actual view of the desktop. I hope there's an ISO somewhere. I've looked everywhere.[/QUOTE] I googled "amiga workbench emulator" and found (among others) this [URL="http://www.amigaforever.com/"]amiga site[/URL]. I have a couple of Amigas around here somewhere - at least I saw my old 1500 on the upper … |
| | Re: best password There are a couple tricks to use that could help: color+noun+special char (replace one of the letters with a # like 6 for 'o' or 1 for 'i') and have a representation around your desk somewhere - you know all those ty collectables hanging off of geek computers were often …  |
| | [QUOTE=ithelp;488768]The moment I post in some web master forum about renting signature link, I get many responses, but in geek forums like this , I do not get any response. What are the reasons that geeks do not feel like renting signature links ? Your thoughts please.[/QUOTE] Wow! I sneak …  |
| | Re: some quotes [QUOTE=jwenting;491800]- Ronald Reagan <<reagan nuttiness snipped>> [url]http://www.thereaganlegacy.com[/url][/QUOTE] Ronald Regan: Pakistan is nowhere near getting 'the bomb' - they will never have an atomic bomb The Contras 'are the moral equivalent of our founding fathers' I will not negotiate with terrorists (said while selling missiles to Iran not too long after … |
| | Re: Some LASIK Idea? Hey, if you decide to go the laser surgery route, try and get an ex-USAF doc - Pilots need near-perfect vision uncorrected so the AirForce docs do thousands of these operations with near 5 nines success rates. In fact, they are so successful that there is a decided lack of … |
| | Re: Lefty or Righty? There is a very interesting (possibly tongue-in-cheek) theory on handed-ness put forth by William H. Calvin in his collection of essays [URL="http://williamcalvin.com/bk2/bk2ch1.htm"]The Throwing Madonna[/URL]. Homo Sapiens sapiens is the only mammal that is predominantly right handed - other species are roughly 50/50 whether left or right handed. I like his … |
| | Have you heard of the 'big mac index'? It is an interesting attempt to compare the buying power of different currencies called [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index"]burgernomics[/URL] and here is the 2007 index: [URL="http://www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml"]2007 burgernomics[/URL]. I hope this puts some perspective to the concept of currency exchange rates. A little googling will probably bring … |
| | Re: Any Bromides? I am going to get creamed for this (gawd, I love my sense of humor): If your a homo, take a bromo and wake up feeling yourself in the morning.  |
| | I am currently slogging through Space Hack but for thrills I play: Quake 4 HalfLife2++ Sin: emergence Max Payne2 Prey UFO for Xmas, I am going to buy myself Crysis and then all other games/gaming will stop -except I play a PBeM post-apocalyptic computer-moderated game from MadCentral call Twilight Earth.  |
 | [QUOTE=jwenting;468442]France is a thread to world peace through their support for every terrorist and dictator out there. That support is not because they actually like those people (I think) but as payoffs so they'll be left alone by them. Just another way in which France always immediately surrenders when threatened. … |
| | Somewhere along the line, my E: drive where I keep all my game/non-system stuff got replicated to F: Now when I boot, chkdsk comes up and says all these sectors are unreadable for both E&F drives. F: should not exist how do I rescue my system? I would at least … |
| | Thanks for allowing the choosing of more than one offense - I am not sure about what you meant on the pda thing. I think face-sucking in public is offensive but I think holding hands, leaning on each other, or walking arm in arm is okay. Same with the religion …  |
 | Re: I wish you... [QUOTE=Ene Uran;497555]Yule has a nice ring to it. Actually, that Santa Claus thing is based on paganism too, so you don't have to be too apologetic..[/QUOTE] Actually, Santa Claus is based on a misunderstanding of the Dutch pronunciation of St. Nikolaus (sp. is various) back in the day when New … |
| | Gerbil has it correct! I also use Spybot Search and destroy and Ad-Aware as my cleaners. I just bought a Toshiba notebook - the deal was so good I did not even try to get it with XP loaded - if Vista P***es me off too much, I will buy …  |
| | Hi all! On my XP machine most of my USB drives do not show up on the My Computer list of drives. I know it can be seen because it shows up on the 'safely remove drive' list and I can get to it via msdos (ewwww). I fixed this … |
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| | [quote=jwenting;448024]to install some sense of what the government is actually spending on things into its own staff. They spend tax money like water as it is, not caring for the cost of things. The $10.000 cupholder story from the USAF may have been made up, but the phenomenon is real. … |
 | Re: Murphy's Laws How 'bout the 3 laws of thermodynamics re-phrased: 1) You can't win 2) You can't break even 3) You can't get out of the game. Murphy fought entropy and entropy won |
| | I live in Seattle which is only Earth-quake prone - we don't actually get them all that much like they do in California but since I use FireFix - I picked up this cool little add-on eQuake Alert!!! which keeps me up to date on all the quakes of the … |
| | I used listen to [URL="http://www.spiderpowerradio.com/"]http://www.spiderpowerradio.com/[/URL] - they have been down for almost a year so I am not sure what they play now. I turned a co-worker on to them because he was an old school spinner from NY; after it went down he started [URL="http://www.globalvortexradio.com/index2.html"]http://www.globalvortexradio.com/index2.html[/URL]. He has been having … |
| | Re: Memory Size [quote=joshSCH;460806]Actually the urban legend that we only use 10% of our brains is false. I read somewhere that we actually utilize the majority of its potential. Hmm.. your title is a bit confusing. Memory usually refers to RAM... and I seriously doubt hard drives will be commonly replaced by anything … |
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