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I was watching some footage of the recent French riots over the jobs for life issue thing over there. Whatever, who cares?! One particular piece shows some kind of riot control vehicle with two water cannons on it. Each is apparently separately controlled, allowing to target two different areas simultaneously. At one point, one cannon fired water at protestors while the other was stationary. At that moment, I was immediately reminded of the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movie Daleks. The way those shot CO2 fire extinguisher gas was very close to the jet of water.

Most likely, as most sale prices never include shipping. It's now called the eBay Jack Effect. I haven't ordered from Meritline in about 2 years. Haven't needed as I've been able to find good deals on the same stuff at Staples, sometimes, (For instance, on genuine Sony DVD-R's) and Office Depot (For Ritek.)

Well... *I* was in the front row when the current cast performed locally. To Hell with what any of you think of me for it!

Ah, that's something I didn't factor in! Remember, I'm from the old school where the HD light only returned information when the HD was accessed. My first PC, a 286, had the light data cable connected directly on the board next to the ATA plug for the HD. The NEC is the first and thus far only drive I have come across where pressing the Eject button activated the HD light normally. (I had one hacked DVD drive firmware to turn off the locked read speeds, but, quickly reverted to the real deal because whenever a movie DVD was inserted, the drive accessed the HD. Slowed EVERYTHING down, even in a DOS prompt.) The JLMS 166s LiteOn DVD-ROM with DVD-RAM read only support doesn't do this. Of all attached drives, only the NEC does this. My HD is on an SATA, the LiteOn is a Master on the Primary; the NEC is a Master on the Secondary. The two connected external USB drives have their own lights, and, being USB, shouldn't access the bus, right, that the ATA's are on. Actually, the light may have always come on, but, was so quick, as noted, it wouldn't be noticed.

Rest easy, everyone! This dreaded scourge to national and personal security has been safely apprehended! It was a titanic struggle, as the link will show: http://www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=35412

I believe I may have asked this before at the old forum. Anyone who has the NEC 3500a ever noticed this? Whenever I press the Eject button to eject or load the disc tray, the hard drive light blinks, indicating disc access. What surprises me is this happens even in DOS, even at the system boot prompt which I have password protected in the BIOS. So, even though the computer is sitting there waiting to boot, the HD accesses when the drive eject button is pressed. Anyone else have this? And, why would this happen? The NEC is a Master on its own Primary channel, whereas the HD is an SATA drive.

You know what's coming... In the words of that classic sage, Binky The from Garfield (TYPOED GARFIEND! ) And Friends's very first episode: Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Whoopty doo! Whoopty doo! May it be pleasant! OPEN UP YOUR PRESENT! Just for you! Just for you!

He's been dead almost a month and this is only the first I am hearing of it?! A truly demented man so, naturally, in this country, I have only had access to his works through The Doctor Demento Show. "I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! I'm happy! And, I'll punch the man who says I'm not! I'm happy! I'm happy! PUNCH! I'm happy! I'm happy! PUNCH!"

Meritline just had a sale ending today on these. $29.99 after Meritline's rebate.

Some here were just dying to wonder when I'd get around to replying to this... NEC 3500a - Still going strong after a year and a half. Sony DRU-500a - Still working, even though I don't use it anymore because it started behaving oddly on 4x Ritek, only writing to 2x where it had been writing 4x Sony DRU-700a - Piece of trash, died after 2 months Two IOMega LG Super dual format with DVD-RAM burners - still work, but, never did burn properly to media other drives had no problem with Panasonic LF-311s - still works, but, such a pain it's almost as if it NEVER worked right! Half a dozen LiteOn CD burners since 2000 - retired due to spotty behavior after about a year each.

"Would you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" The Farts Of The Daleks Part 1

It was SUPPOSED to be February! But, thanks to Sci-Fi's deal, they got the DVD's pushed ahead to July 4th, because who would watch it on Sci-Fi if the DVD's were already available? The sets are probably already out in R2?

In those same interests, the DVD recorder stand alone also now only recognizes these DVD-RAM's as read only discs and would not change the protection status. I'll see if they can be formatted by the recorder, but, probably not.

Personally, I wouldn't cross flash. Some people shouldn't be seen naked at all, let alone first dressed up in the clothes of the opposite sex, first, before stripping. Oh... you meant THAT cross flashing!

Sci-Fi also had the balls to call the show a Sci-Fi Original, like they do with Stargate and BSG. Which, of course, it is NOT a Sci-Fi Original! Never has been. Always has been BBC, home grown and bred. Surprisingly enough, Sci-Fi made very edits to fit more ads into the show. The proof of the pudding, though, will be how Sci-Fi chooses to handle the "goddamn" in Dalek. Have David Hasselhoff come in and dub in "Gosh darn?" Probably a creative BLEEP or if they're in a cheeky mood, dub in a Dalek laser sound effect over it. But, Doctor Who with ads is not new to American viewers. Back when Sci-Fi reran the Tom Baker years in 1992 and then again when Fox aired The Enemy Within. (Which, BTW, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on May 14th. Interestingly enough, the 10th anniversary of its BBC premiere, May 20th, should coincide with an American premiere of a new Who episode! )

Credit where it is due to Sci-Fi Channel. They did air the show as they promised. In fact, they put the first two episodes into pretty heavy rotation. Premiered last Friday, followed immediately by a rerun, then by a rerun on Sunday, Monday morning, and Thursday night. Episode 2 will get another rerun tomorrow, followed by the premiere of Episode 3, followed by a rerun of it. Initial reports are the show did well in its premiere. A little over one and a half million for Rose's premiere, and the ratings rose for The End Of The World to about 1.6 million. The reruns afterwards each got roughly the same ratings, interestingly enough, 0.78 million. The premiere time slots got roughly the same ratings as Stargate does in those slots. And, with Stargate being the #2 show on Sci-Fi, that is some promising news that people are watching!

In the interests of fair and balanced reporting of the facts I hooked up an USB DVD-RAM burner I have, one of the IOMega rebadged LG's. It managed to read in the two discs that the Lite-On couldn't.

I never thought to look on Snopes about this. I remember how my mother fell for a story being spread around. With her, though, interestingly enough, the story actually happened only because someone else was tricked before her. It was the story of how a year after 9-11, people were warned not to drink Coke products, or Pepsi, or what not. That another attack was planned then, and, someone repays a "kind soul for an act of kindness" by warning of them, cryptically, of the impending attack. My mother helped someone by providing them some change at a check out counter at the store when they were short a few pennies. Apparently, the person who she helped had fallen for the story of an impending attack and told her not to drink Coke products on the first anniversary of 9-11 because they had been told the same thing. So, yes, the story in this case really DID happen. But, only because someone else was fooled into believing it before and that drove the actual event into creation. Sadly, my mother didn't drink any Coke products, she later told me. When she told me of it, trying to warn me, I told her it was ridiculous and planned on drinking an extra Coke on the anniversary. And, I did.

And never really knowing is half the battle! G.I. JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE!

You can find all kinds of weird relationships if you look hard enough. Ever seen the sheer volume or strange coincidences between Lincoln and John F. Kennedy? Such as, apparently, Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy a secretary named Lincoln? Or how supposedly when converted to Roman numerals, the phrase Cute purple dinosaur, with subsequence substitutes, such as V for U, which was common to begin with, and adding all the numbers together gets you 666.

But, what I took from the story, the order was for the driver to go in and remove ALL items from the company from the shelves. Nothing is going to be delivered and put on the shelves until they've been paid for by the store or the distributor for the store. You can believe that some big company ain't going to give you diddly until they know the money is in their pockets ALREADY. Which would mean by the very act of delivery, they have been paid for.

Actually, my file is tremendous... unfortunately. Contains things like manufacturer information, DIP settings, etc. Plus, with an entry for nearly every type of recordable disc I've ever used...

I find it hard to believe. How can anyone pull product from a shelf that was already bought? The company would still have to refund the sale back to the store. A pyrhic victory at best. If the store was closed down, then, that would be the only way the companies could have won. Plus, I find it hard to believe because the US has never done anything like that when they could still make a profit off the sale. Look at WW II. We only stopped selling to Germany when it became clear we could only get back at Japan if we helped end the war in Europe first to get allies on our side for when we wanted to take Japan.

Yes, I have managed to salvage CMC before. BUT, it has required in many cases reading the files that could be read in one drive, then reading the previously unreadable files from another drive.