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Yeah, it's like asking them "Don't you go fucking too much now, son!"

I guess in keeping with my past idea: Friends would let female friends wear CMC Mags as bikini tops!

Well, unfortunately, not everything shows up in Add/Remove. Also check your Start Menu entries for these programs. There are Uninstall entries there that won't show up in Add/Remove due to well, usually sloppy programming. And, sometimes, there are uninstallers in the program directories that aren't referenced ANYWHERE.

Yes... this seems to happen randomly across the system and more often than I am comfortable with. With no apparent reason. I get the same thing a lot with Firefox and other browsers, along with Eudora. My guess is it's related to how high speed connections, e.g. always on, work. They go up and down all the time, and then reconnect themselves. In fact, you're urged by tech support to not turn off the cable modem... however, more often than not, it's the only way to get a real reconnection when they disconnect you. Anyway, my guess is that during these brief outages, the software in question detects it and goes into Offline mode.

Well, there won't be a need for a second Add/Remove Programs. Regardless of where they are installed to, anything that will have an entry in Add/Remove will appear in Windows's Add/Remove Programs. There's only the one Add/Remove Programs.

No, don't do that! You'll destroy all of time and space if you do!

Sorry, you have me at a bit of a loss. A control panel for a hard drive? Or, something from Control Panel that accesses the 2nd drive? I can think of a few things that can give you some access to them, but, for different reasons: Add Hardware, Administrative Tools, and System.

What surprised him the most was I correctly predicted the first President of the 21st century! (Wow... the smilie programmer doesn't know whacko is spelled with an h...)

Friday Night Anal Probes?

Friends don't let friends drive drunk... or do this...! Saw it over on Afterdawn and couldn't resist passing along such sage advice.

Pain_Man passed this one along to me. A disturbing trend indeed. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/index.php?p=114 The funny, ironic, and even sad thing is that at the start of DVD's, Hollywood thought the only way to make them profitable was to secure the PC side's support. By making DVD players standard in a PC they gradually wanted to introduce people to them. I had my first DVD player inside a PC. (I keep forgetting that one I had in 1999 in my PC and rarely used before the PS2. ) Now, Hollywood is willing to toss aside PC users because it's done with them?

Yeah, I've used duct tape, styrofoam, all kinds of patches over the years when they didn't have a spare bay or, for whatever reason, the drive obstinately refuses into a bay, etc. Now, I just say fuck it and slip the bast into an external enclosure! I think the weirdest fix I ever had to employ was on my first 286 machine. Something in the fan made it rattle and whine when turned on. The only thing that stopped this LOUD, distracting whine was to do two things, BOTH necessary: first, hang the printer cable from a nail on the wall; second, place a heavy object (I used a brick.) on top of the case. REAL annoying. Still, beat the one machine where I had to open the case every time I needed to reinstall Windows. It always locked up detecting the SCSI card I needed that I put in the PCI slot during detecting the hardware. BUT it WOULD detect it POST a Windows install. So, had to open the case, remove the card, install Windows, then, reinsert the card, install it, test it, then wait a few days to make sure all was well before replacing the cover. Sort of like how when XP SP 1 first came out and that ASPI.SYS or whatever it was was not being freed in XP. Thus, with some things like Alcohol, the IDE optical drives had to be disconnected to update Alcohol there for a while post SP 1 install before they fixed the installer to work right.

Oh, no. Remember, these events I discuss are, mostly, POST shrink. Yeah, the guy who prescribed the lithium required I had to see him once a week, lay down, talk to him, etc. His first name was Surrendar, believe it or not! So close to Surrender, eh?. And, those were fun. Especially when he treated me like a mental midget once asking me who the current President of the US was! Simply because I had gone off on a tangent rant about the superiority of machines to men. Which they are. Of course, I proved to him just how competent I was by going back through all the Presidents of the 20th Century in order.

Well, that didn't last long. The next Friday Night Lights airs on Monday!

Funny how one can post all kinds of things that people may not like, and, yet, a few repeated characters isn't allowed.

Ah, well, more examples of business buying off the law into their back pockets to affect legal action that does nothing but harm legitimate customers, in the end.

Did once. 9 years ago. Put me on lithium. But, discovered it was slowing me down at work, making it really difficult to perform my task. Besides, after I got to thinking it, I figured there's nothing THAT wrong with me that pills aren't going to help. So, I went off them. After all, life was starting to look for me. I had had my 2nd girlfriend in life. Even had had my first date! Life looked good; looks are deceiving. Within days after my last visit, she broke it off with me. Yeah, you'll say I should have stayed on it, she left for me that reason, the usual shit. Too bad, as I later learned, earlier this year, she had never loved me to begin with. So, to Hell with empty arguments, I say!

Need a little confirmation from any other Opera users. Discovered something that seems to occur in all 9.0x releases of Opera, but is not in Opera 8.52. Would someone else check this for me, too? Copied and pasted over from my post over at Opera's forums: I have had a wide variety of Opera versions installed at one point, to beta test weekly builds, etc. Something I only just accidentally discovered after finding an old Opera 8 installed directory and loading it up to check the Build of the install. I was working around in it because it was still opened and discovered that navigations on TV.COM show pages worked in Opera 8.52.7721 didn't in the current Opera 9 build I was testing, 9.03.8629. So, I tried some other 9.0x builds, 9.02.8585 and 9.01.8552, and got the same results. I didn't find anything here searching for "tv.com" so, I thought I'd ask about it, to get others to try it under 9.0x builds. As it could be possible that I've got some left behind modules or Registry Entries or whatnot from test beta builds. It comes with the territory, and, I willingly take it on myself. Would anyone mind using 9.02.8585 (The last gold/final release.) or the latest 9.03 build (Mine was 8629.) and check out TV.COM to see if you get the same results? Back a show, any show, and load any episode from its list. Then, try any of the "navigation" menu buttons: Recap, Overview, Credits, Trivia & Quotes, Reviews, Pre-Show Buzz, Discussion, or the < and > previous and next episode arrows. They don't seem to show up in Opera 9 as clickable links as they do in Opera 8. Meaning, the mouse cursor will change and clicking on them doesn't do anything because they aren't being recognized as links, it seems. Or, if there's something someone maybe able to tell me I need to change/check, also, freely let me know that, too. One never knows. Thanks!

One "logical" drawback is if you type in smilies, they get flagged as misspelled, but, the spell checker can't possibly think you may want to incorrectly spell something.

First, something to consider, if you have no PATA optical drives, you may just want to consider not using a dual cable and connect each as a Master to one each of the PATA controllers. Second, when you say the 2nd HD isn't recognized, do you mean it's not seen in the BIOS or Windows doesn't recognize it/Windows won't start? If the BIOS recognizes it or you can see it in DOS, then, what is happening is Windows is finding the wrong drive first and not booting because Windows is on the other drive. BOOT.INI needs to be edited to show the proper XP drive to start from. Third, do you have a mixture of SATA and PATA HD's? Because one thing I tended to notice with mixing both types is the BIOS assigns SATA drives priority first, but, Windows idiotically assigns PATA drives priority to getting a drive letter. (Probably because XP was created before there was even an SATA?) Which would cause a problem like that described in the Second section above. Fourth, yeah, shit HP/Compaq drives. Had a Maxtor HD in a Compaq die 31 days after purchase. HP wanted the whole damn PC sent in to replace something that IBM simply would swap out the HD for: send you a replacement and then charge a credit card IF you didn't return the broken one. Screw that.

Well, they've definitely fucked up something. I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with the antispyware engine, like the problem with it I discovered and USB devices. Hey, Xeron, willing to try something else? Try this: install the ZoneAlarm AntVirus version, if you haven't yet. ONLY the AntiVirus version. No other flavors. The 15 day free trial version will do, as I tested it with that. It has to be the AV version only as all the other ZA installers have the anti-spyware engine in them even if you don't install it. The installer INSTALLS IT ANYWAY regardless of if you use the free version or if you don't choose to use antispyware. Anyway, install ZoneAlarm AntiVirus version of the firewall and repeat to see if the problem with the tooltips is there or not.

You know...? NBC, since it has a stake in Sci-Fi Channel, and has aired Battlestar Galactica on its father network... could conceivably air Doctor Who at some point to a national audience on a huge, basic television network! Not that I'm knocking Sci-Fi. It marks the first time the show has had a scheduled airing on a nationwide network since like 1992, when Sci-Fi showed the Tom Baker years.

I once had a very painful dream in my youth that the similar happened to me. With a folded lawn chair. I had spilled Kool-Aid on the carpet and that was my punishment: she jumping on a lawn chair on my nuts until they burst open, flying out goo. Even my dreams ne'er end well for me... :&

It may not be related to this problem, so, I can't guarantee anything... mostly because I don't remember it. It was whatever option that prevented animations from web pages in browsers. I went over the options in ZA just now, but, I can't find what it was in this version.

Yeah, that's something I admit, as I said, that I really like in Version 2. And, I'm surprised that, not only wasn't it in IE 7, as noted, but, that it took so long for anyone to implement.