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My avatar has a thing or two for skulls. Ever since Mega Man 2, he's incorporated them into his logo, his creations, and even his headquarters, the Skull Castle. Also his transporation, the Skullker, and even his belt buckle.

Peggy Mitchell was the host of local puppet show here. I infer this is the Eastenders character?

Must have been a case where the drive refused to be given up until the application exited.

LUK, what happens, and in what order, when a Refresh (F5) is done? I ask because I came across this situation. I had a case where I needed to create an MDS linking to multiple image parts contained across two discs, each inserted into a different drive. ImgBurn was open at the time I inserted a disc into a drive it had been using, so, I knew I'd need to Refresh to get access to the drive, or close ImgBurn and reopen. When I pressed Refresh, ImgBurn returned a dialog because the last file it had used to burn was no longer there. I had deleted it, so, that's not the problem. But, the dialog only has Retry and Cancel on it. So, it seems that this refresh for the loaded file name occurs before whatever happens that "frees" the drive because after Cancel, the only option I could use, the drive was still inaccessible. (I even tried switching to a different mode so the file field would be blank and Refreshing, but, the drive still wasn't accessible.) So, I closed and reopened ImgBurn, but, it made me wonder. I am guessing that the drive refreshes are done then after the refresh for the file field. And, if so can they/should they/shouldn't they be moved in order of operation to occur before a file existence check?

Oh, yeah, like anyone could resist making a comment about where I'm stuck living in after THAT reply!

"The Doctor Dances" You know? For a dumb title, it's a pretty good story! I was afraid it would be just a gimmick, focusing on a "What if" idea: let's a story where the Doctor dances! Really dumb. Thankfully, though, it's just a small side part. So, the title is all that's wrong with it. Because the whole explanation of the gas masks and the nanites works well. But, my favorite part is how jubilant the Doctor is when he realizes: "EVERYBODY LIVES! Just this once, Rose! Everyone lives!" Which is a Doctor Who rarity! In fact, the only time I can think of where no one died (Enemies included.) was WAY back in Season 1 with The Edge Of Destruction. Because death always surrounds the Doctor. Everywhere he's gone, people died. Not that it was his fault, but, it seemed like he walked hand in glove with the Angel Of Death. Especially given the Time War and what the Doctor has had to do in it. What little we know, anyway. "Boom Town" Loved the play on words! I think it is a better use of Slitheen this time around. Much like Father's Day, this works best in the simple character interaction moments. Rose and Mickey, the Doctor and the Slitheen at dinner. Set pieces that sound silly when taken separately, but work well as character analysis. For instance, the Slitheen taunting everyone into seeing who could simply look at it, knowing they were condemning it to death. Sci-Fi Channel even had a DVD extra from the first series boxed set, an interview with the actor playing Captain Jack. Aired during the last commercial break. Plus, an ad during the closing credits for the latest series of mini-hardback novels, like I Am Dalek. No Who next week because of a weekend long holiday movie marathon for Memorial Day. After that, we approach the end with Bad Wolf and The Parting Of The Ways.

What you doing looking in my toilet?! :&

I still remember how Simon Furman slipped in a reference into Transformers about a warrior named Hooligan from the planet Millwall. I knew it was all but over for Western civilization when Michael Jordan had to make commercials on TV begging idiots, both whose favored team won OR lost, to please don't do bad things such as riot in the streets post "da game." You know it's all over when you have to have such a mental giant cajoling the populace not to engage in their baser instinct.

What support for .TIB? You can't do anything with it other than burn it to a disc as a simple data file. It doesn't do anything. It's not bootable. TI now makes bootable images of the recovery media to ISO files for storage on the HD that ImgBurn can burn. (I have used it to burn them and tested them. UltraISO can even edit them to add the .TIB's to the image and those burned images boot. The .TIB can be restored from them, too. However, be aware that the boot environment for TI is Linux, so, make sure your file split size in TI is under 2 GB. I use 1.5. One thing I like that Acronis programmed into that field is it can convert "1.5 GB" into the KB most other programs would tell you to convert to on your own.

I guess I have to do everything myself. It should have been in one of the reviews listed up front on the main page. Actually, two points: "5 stars for films, 1 for packaging, April 26, 2006 Five films on two discs, divided this way: four films on one disc, with one film on the other." "No worries; the prints are very good!, April 14, 2006 . . . The movies are crammed on two-sided DVDs. It's mystifying why Universal saw fit to cram four titles on one double-sided DVD and one title (Golden Earrings) on one side of the other double-sided DVD (leaving a complete side with nothing on it). It seems a waste of DVD space to me;"

It appears to be an incredible fucker design. Check out the reviews on Amazon.com for some possible insight: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6ESX...?v=glance&n=130 What APPEARS to have happened was Universal used a DVD-18 in the production process for both discs, even though one was supposed to be only a DVD-5. So, Universal decided to just blank out one side of one flipper. So, it appears there are 2 flippers, but, 1 flipper has data only on one side, and that it was made this way at the factory. Notice the file names. My guess is the book standard required some data to exist on that flipper side? I don't know. Maybe the other data side wouldn't work with a blank side on the other flipper? Anyway, it's a dumb production "error" apparently. That 2nd flipper was never supposed to be one?

Gentlemen, gentlemen! Whether you call it one name or another, even regardless of the sport, I think there is one thing universal here: regardless of who wins or who loses, regardless of the sport, regardless of the name used... people will riot over the most idiotic things!

Seems like what I had e-mailed you about on this was the case: for want of a better term, a "mastering" error.

And the rats from the first MGS: "Snake! What are you doing?! We don't need a goddamn rat catcher!"

Oh, man, I love so many of the "dumb" things the MGS games let you engage in. Like one of my favorites: switch to the remote controlled missile and use its first person camera mode. Then, fire and guide the rocket in a loop pattern BACK at yourself and watch as your strike yourself. Oh, getting Meryl to blush in embarassment after staring at her then and THEN busting a cap in her ass! "What are you doing?" BLAM! Oh, and you wouldn't believe I'd be laughing to tears pulling the remote controlled missile prank on Meryl, too?

Oh, I am quite familiar with the game series. I owned the first NES Metal Gear when it was new. (Subsistence will give me the first chance to play the real Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2.) In fact, I have a "record" in The Twin Galaxies Book Of Video Game And Pinball Records for Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge. (Long story.) Also, you can get Sniper Wolf's dogs to piss on you in the box in Metal Gear Solid. Those pics are from... Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. MGS 2: Sons Of Liberty had Substance tacked on to the end of its re-release, though. Generally, the extras in the R1 packages of the re-releases were ones tacked on to the original R1 release when released in PAL format.

I am no longer certain of the mental states behind the creators of the Metal Gear Solid games. Take these images from Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. Now, I thought the purpose of camoflague paint was to hide, to blend in, and NOT advertise you're an enemy agent with the U.S. army: http://www.konami.com/gs/uploads/JZw081205201224.jpg OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY... http://www.konami.com/gs/uploads/txo081205201225.jpg GOOD GOD! IT'S A WALKING BOX! http://www.konami.com/gs/uploads/oaK081205201226.jpg

SUFFER, BASTARD, SUFFERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Stony Curtis and Ann-Margrock were mentioned on an ad for last night's episode of The Simpsons!

It might. I can't remember the exact circumstances of the creation of the audio CD I had burned on the CD-RW. It was nearly a year ago, but, I believe it was created in Nero. Nero didn't burn it, just created the image used as the source for the burn.

Of course. Got nothing returned, as expected. IF it is some kind of infection, then, any attempts I make to find it will not bear fruit. So, I need independent information.

I was sitting here, working away on the latest problem to deal with on the computer. And, imagine my surprise when this box pops up and starts scrolling through a list of DLL's! It didn't show up for long, and, I've no idea what triggered it... which worries me! It appeared to be an installer and the box itself had a logo for something called "Outside In." Now, THERE'S a name I don't like. Anyone have any idea what this might have been that ran?

I knew it was over for American civilization when, locally, the library started offering Spanish only video tapes and, at one time, when the unemployment office automated service started OFF in Spanish and then said, "For English, Press 1."

Oh, you want a mushroom cloud? Here ya go! kevdriver

Here's what I want to try: a way to give my own names to windows so I can control some dumb things like when some apps name their window with constantly changing strings, such as when an app's window name is the name of the application AND the current version number. Thus, in a piece of code I have that waits for a window based on its name, when the application is updated, the code must always be updated to reflect the stupid new name change of the window. So, is there a way to run an application through its shortcut, or any way, and tell it what to name the window that will run it. For example, let's take ImgBurn. After clicking the ImgBurn.lnk that launches ImgBurn.exe, it runs in a window named ImgBurn. (This is HOW it should be, no funny version numbered names, etc. Good job! ) Is there a way I can control this process so that when I run the shortcut, the name of the window isn't ImgBurn but, say, Donate Thousands Of Pounds To LUK