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 | I no longer have computer access at work (changed positions for a while) and I will be working 70+ hour weeks until christmas (wish me luck). I will miss you all  |
 | I listened to a BeeB sports review of a cricket game - it was amazing, I knew every word that the commentator said but I did not understand a single thing - I know that is true of any deeply sports oriented talk but it just amazed me!  |
 | I drink sparkling water (Talking Rain is the Brand); I drink it by the case. Lately I have realized that the amount of petroleum wasted drinking bottled water does not justify using it. The bottle is made from petroleum products and petroleum products are used to move it around. I … |
| | We usually go over to a Jewish friends house where we celebrate some Wiccan feast or other with turkey, wine, and friendship |
| | The Nightmare before Christmas. Definitely not Santa Claus vs. The Martians  |
| | jbennet, I had to blow up your avatar to figure out what was behind the muzzle flash (at first I thought it was a Tommy gun) - I can't identify it but it looks like an AK or an AR. Christina>you - your name implies christina is better than you? … |
 | [quote=MidiMagic;439434]If the sex laws of the Bible (especially the adultery, promiscuity, and homosexual ones) had been obeyed by everyone, AIDS would not have ever infected more than a few people, and the epidemic would have been over by now.[/quote] Cripes! You've said that 2 times now - why not post …  |
| | Someone has titled their thread the worst - well, this summer when I was in Paris I saw the best weather person ever. Her name is Femi Oke and she was soooo kool! The news readers on CNN always tried their best to make her laugh (not hard) and she …  |
| | Me? I love Seattle's non-weather, I prefer waiting for the earthquake to suffering through the cold (I grew up in the mountains of Montana) or the extreme heat (I lived for 3 years in Tuscon 113 deg heat and Raleigh 90 deg heat with 99% humidity) or all that rainy, … |
| | [QUOTE=ithelp;465874]Okay let me ask it in more technical way, if two world are moving away from each others at half of lights speed, can they never communicate ?[/QUOTE] The real question is: If 2 worlds have crossed the Schwarzchild limit (the point of no return when approaching a black hole …  |
| | They said I was a henna but I am really more like the tattoo at the beginning of Daron Hagen's Alive in the moment -- especially the violin's 'smudged melody' Grim <<but this might not be the tattoo you are thinking of>> |
 | Re: Nuclear Power [quote=Ancient Dragon;451796]There is no reason why we can't ship nuclear wastes to the sun for safe destruction. Yes it will cost a lot, but probably cheaper than trying to safely store it here on earth for thousands of years.[/quote] The problem with this solution is that when you count all … |
| | Re: Omfg Watch omg so kool I thank Lud every day that that tech was not available on UseNet! Can you imagine what the .sig's would have looked like with that kind of ascii art!?!?!? the internet would have been hell. But I love it! |
| | Re: 9/11 Oddities Er, did you think about what happens to aluminum, flesh and bone when they meet brick, concrete, and steel at 600 mph? |
| | Army of Darkness/Hardcore Einstuerzende Neubauten kraftwerk A death grip on yesterday Fur Elise (both techno and classical) Ode to Joy Moonlight sonata  |
| | [quote=Ravenous Wolf;440552]no complaining from my side. i initialy posted because the guy who started this thread said that the net is turning into a money thing. but ventures the size of the internet had always been about the money. even if they start of as a dream they have to … |
| | You could just get FireFox and make that your primary browser instead. I don't want to start a religious browser war but I find firefox to be a much more trustworthy way to go. |
| | Are you still having the problem? After you hear that 'ping', when you look at the active programs (near the clock) side of the task bar - can you find the green disconnect device arrow? If so, what does it tell you about the device? If you are running XP, … |
| | I have run into this problem in various forms and usually have to resort to ps/2 mice/kbds -- and I have to dig pretty deep into the 'old tech' drawer to find them. I finall bought a usb to ps/2 bender. hope this helps |
 | Actually there is a way to automate it completely. I found the site ([url]http://www.nliteos.com/)[/url]. I found it on one of the stickies here - a list of useful programs. Nlite will build you an image that you can burn onto a cd. Installs are start it and walk away. |
| | I had a similar problem - it turned out to be a bad memory chip. Check your manual to make sure that you have your memory in the correct pair of dimm sockets and then check which socket to use if you only have one memory chip. I am looking … |
| | I just discovered Dial-a-Fix after going through the entire 'softwares worth downloading' thread and it fixed the problem I was having. It reloads system dll files. Give it a try. |
| | Re: Geek Stuff! Oh, wow - what a question! I have been looking around and here are some places to find some interesting geek stuff: [URL="http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/"] http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/[/URL] [URL="http://www.gadgetmadness.com/"] http://www.gadgetmadness.com/[/URL] [URL="http://www.gizmag.com/"] http://www.gizmag.com/[/URL] [URL="http://www.gizmodo.com/"] http://www.gizmodo.com/[/URL] [URL="http://www.ubergizmo.com/"] http://www.ubergizmo.com/[/URL] I have to lock up my cc, sigh! Fortunately, many of the items are one of a kind …  |
| | I am 5'7" my g.friend is 5'9". I used to be 5'8.5" -- I was going with a woman who was also 5'8.5; back to back there was more than an inch diff. in heights. She was the taller one, sigh but she had legs that seemd to go all …  |
| | There is a FireFox extension that will allow you to use your G-mail space (btw - I have 2 gigs) as file storage -- it is treated as if it were an ftp site. [URL="http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php"]http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php[/URL] for more info or get it from the firefox extension box. I have loads of … |
| | You could also try [URL="http://www.fool.com"]www.fool.com[/URL] - you can go through their articles w/o having to subscribe. If you are new to investing, invest in a Mutual Fund that tracks an index (they are called index funds). Watch the fees, index funds should be no-load, with fees below .5% Pay close … |
 | I think both Morpheus (not the paid version) and Kazaa have adware with them. Kazaa is supposed to have a secret (but everyone seems to know about it) program that works like Seti@home and Folding@home to combine spare cycles - they were going to sell the cpu time; I don't … |
| | Re: Paypal's PR is 0 Take a look at the interest PP pays! 4.73% is incredible when compared to the local brick and mortar! Sorry, this isn't the Thrifty thread is it??!! |
| | When i finally decided to buy a new car, the only way I could convince myself it was economic was to promise myself that i would keep it for at least 10 years. I have a 1988 1/2 (says that on the manual) Toyota Corolla al-Trak; I am finally letting …  |
 | [quote=Rashakil Fol]If all you have is an AK-47, everything looks like an enemy combatant.[/quote] Ooh, good quote - I may steal it for use on usenet, heh,heh - more current than the hammer one. |
| | The noisiest fan I ever had was the fan on an old video card; that combined with the graphics halucinations suggest looking at that. Ummm, open up the case and turn it on; if you can not tell where the sound is coming from - try using a bit of … |
| | [quote=friedolin]Thanks for the hint, but no export versions and only file as dtbIV and older works formats. The problem is that the database is wonderful to have lists and individual reportsheet side by side, but I'd like to sort them differently und also calculate and WDB is not very versatile. … |
| | When I am working on a really boring contract, I tune in to spiderweb and crank it up really loud (I use wireless headphones) - [url]http://www.spiderpower.co.uk/content/[/url] - this is really hardcore industrial/ ambient. The really kool bit is that they will play DJ sets by listeners. So if you want … |
| | [quote=grandman]Hi, I've done everything accept install CPU Heat Sink Fan, I read somwhere that you have to use some sort of paste, and need a tool, that has like three legs and a scew piece in the middle to seat the H/S and FAN correctly. I also read that its … |
| | Check out the Zalman quiet cpu cooler - fan sits inside the radiator fins - it is about a pound of copper/aluminm. Also, I don't think it is a good idea to have more air blowing into the machine than out - if you do put 2 fan sucking up … |
 | I am a member of: DaniWeb Geek.com grc.com discussions (good site to find out how secure your pc is) EVGA community OverClockersClub I also follow these blogs: David Horn Housing bubble Technorati TPM Cafe Crooks and Liars - almost as good a smoking gun SavingsAdvice StraightDope.com I'd better stop or …  |
 | Insulting people is not a good thing. Insulting people is just brutalizing them verbally rather than physically. the "I am just telling them the truth, how they take it is their problem" is just a rationalization that makes the brutalizer feel good about what s/he does. If you have a … |
| | Re: I'm puzzled Could you have blocked IE from the web? I do not use Norton as my firewall, I use ZoneAlarm and ZA has options to block access to the net on a per-program basis - verify that you have not blocked it's access. Everytime you upgrade a program that passes through … |
| | Re: Windows nonsense Well, here is my vote - I have been trying to read this from the beginning, it cracks me up! [URL="http://www.ubersoft.net/d/19960422.html"]http://www.ubersoft.net/d/19960422.html[/URL] |
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| | If you use FireFox, you can choose the default dowload location which I always put on my largest drive and name it My Downloads. Every once in a while, I list the contents by size and delete the big ones. If it is an important file (like Eudora and so … |
| | Well, you could go here and download their product - it will tell you everything you need to know: [URL="http://www.dr-hardware.com/Default.htm"]http://www.dr-hardware.com/Default.htm[/URL] There is a program DriverHeaven but when I went to the site: [URL="http://www.driverheaven.net/"]http://www.driverheaven.net/[/URL] I could not find the download for it. You don't want to open your pc??? I go … |
| | [quote=dcback]Thanks for the reply. I don't see the BIOS recognizing the SATA drive on boot up. And when I go into the BIOS, I don't see any place to enable SATA. Any further advice?[/quote] I had/have a similar problem - have you followed the instructions on page 5-33 of your … |
| | Re: Sata & ide [QUOTE=rhoff]Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron[/QUOTE] All the answers were pretty good - just one … |
| | Re: spyware attack I suggest that you get proxomitron at [url]http://www.proxomitron.info/;[/url] this program is one I highly recommeng as part of any safe computing environment. my list includes: ZoneAlarm - firewall AVG - virus protector spybot-S&D - spy killer Ad-aware - spy killer Ad-Watch - guards your registry (comes with Ad-Aware) If anyone … |
| | I just dl-ed mbm 5 and I am puzzled/worried by some of the readings I get. The reason I got it was cuz my Asus probe made a dramatic shift in cpu temp. It was running at 28 C -cpu and 22 C -Mobo then suddenly it jumped to 44 … |
| | Re: Amd 64 question? 40 nm difference in distance for electrons to travel (an odd sort of historical example is the first supercomputer CRAY was built like the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant so that the wires were all of equal length and some of the timing was done by lengthening some … |
| | We probably need a more complete idea of your setup. I would definitely think about your psu - a lot of people put together a really good system and just take the cheapo psu that comes with the case. How many fans? What kind of cooling tower on the cpu? … |
| | [QUOTE=ingeborgdot@yah]So if I go 939 I am looking at these boards. Chaintech VNF4 Ultra zenith Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Asus A8V Deluxe[/QUOTE] I have the Asus A8V Deluxe w the a64 3200+ 939 - I really like it but it was a pain to get up and running - it came with … |
| | You probably could use drinkable alcohol but wipe some on glass first to see if it leaves any deposit behind after it dries -- if it does, don't use it. GrimJack |
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