Shamus_McFartfinger

Yeah. I think I'll pass for the time being as well. Too rich for my blood. Speaking of rich, I saw an ad in the local paper today wanting people to pre-order their PS3 for November 17th (I think) for the bargain price of a grand in my money. (US$740 or ?400). Bargain!!

LOL!! itway isway away ameshay atthay indowsway oesday otnay upportsay igpay atinlay

Nor can I. At least 2 years that I'm aware of. <snicker>

Wait a little while and you'll be able to use ImgBurn to do this.

I'm in almost the same boat as I mostly still use w2k (which is 7 years old now). I find it alot easier and faster to navigate than XP. Hmm.... Lightning, are you going to dump 98/Me support as well? Lightning? Hello? <tap> <tap> <tap> Is this thing working?

I'm in almost the same boat as I mostly still use w2k (which is 7 years old now). I find it alot easier and faster to navigate than XP. Hmm.... Lightning, are you going to dump 98/Me support as well?

Microsoft may be finally realising how bad their browser is. It's slow, bloated and poorly designed next to the lightning fast and flexible Firefox and Opera.

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4823/53/ By Stan Beer Sunday, 02 July 2006 Windows 98 and Millenium Edition users will no longer be supported by Microsoft from July 11, leaving an estimated 70 million users exposed to hackers. In addition, security vendors are following Microsoft's lead and phasing out support for the ageing Windows versions, leaving users open to new virus attacks, according to a report in the Washington Post. It would be tempting to lambast Microsoft for this action because, after all, 70 million plus users still represents a significant proportion of its cutomer base - according to the Washington Post report around 13%. However, as a former Windows 98 (and ME) user, it would be hard to argue with the logic that support for the ageing platforms cannot continue into perpetuity. In fact, even in their heyday both Windows 98 and ME were widely criticised for their instability, bugginess and lax security. For many of us, who had to endure almost daily system crashes for no apparent reason, the arrival of Windows 2000 could not have come a minute too soon. What is surprising is not that Microsoft has announced the withdrawal of support but that it has continued support for both products for as long as it has. Also surprising is the number of Windows 98 and ME users that still persevere with the platforms. While their frugality is admirable, perhaps even necessary due to economic circumstances, there have already been two major upgrades since they installed their products and a third upgrade is around the corner. Understandably, Microsoft and other security vendors would rather focus their time on patching newer versions of Windows than on an operating system that should have been retired long ago. Analysts have already said that Windows 98 and ME are becoming risky propositions to run because of the dwindling support for them in the security space. Microsoft is under pressure to boost growth in its stagnating operating system sales and there are at least 70 million users out there who are long overdue for an upgrade.

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle....BENQ-BLURAY.xml Mon Jul 3, 2006 9:07am ET AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - BenQ Corp., Taiwan's top maker of cell phones and computer equipment, unveiled an optical disk writer which can handle the new Blu-ray high volume DVD storage format selling for 799 euros ($1,022) from August 2006. A late August launch means that BenQ is one of the first electronics companies to sell a Blu-ray burner, simultaneously or even ahead of the main Blu-ray inventors and promoters Sony Corp, Pioneer and Philips. The price of 799 euros, including value added tax (VAT), is aggressive for the first generation of Blu-ray disk recorders. Products from competitors will be priced at up to $1,500, excluding VAT. Low prices and early availability of Blu-ray devices are important in the emerging battle for the next DVD standard. Blu-ray is competing with a format called HD DVD, led by Toshiba Corp. which has started selling a player at $499. Blu-ray and HD DVD offer up to 50 Gigabytes of storage on a DVD sized disk. Most Blu-ray and HD DVD players will also play back and burn CDs and standard DVDs. Studios hope the new formats, which offer the possibility to store high definition movies, will breathe new life into the $24 billion home video market. ? Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.

I just downloaded and installed eCover from that site without any probs. Great little proggy.

I'm a dedicated Pioneer fan. No bells. No whistles. They just work.

Google might but I don't see Microsoft losing too many users. They've got what, 85% of the market share? There's a myriad of search engines available but really only 3 flavours of operating system worth mentioning. As much as I'd like to see Linux gain in popularity, I'd not like to see it because of a ridiculous bill passed by a committee made up of individuals no doubt looking to line their own pockets.

I'll have to get you to buy lmao2k a beer for me.

Du er mest v?lkomnande , min v?n.

Yeah, I know it's an old thread but that's life. Yesterday I took lmao2k's advice and bought some external cases for IDE HDs and added a 400gig drive to one just to see how good (or bad) it is. The result: brilliant. Apart from a really dodgy user manual that fails to mention that the casing overrides the master/slave/cable select jumpers on the drive itself, it works really, really well. It (an ARTEK case of some sort) uses USB2 that gives me a sustained 20MB/sec. Also, because the Disk Management Service within Windows is so flexible, you could theoretically add a dozen of these things to a PC and treat them all as a single drive which negates the need for specialised file servers altogether. Anyone wishing to add a large amount of HD space to their PC or network setup would be wise to at least look at something like this as a viable option. I'm thoroughly impressed.

I'm impressed that Google and Microsoft are against it given the staggering amount of bandwidth these guys would need and use. Then again, perhaps that's why they're against it.

you have to wonder how they can make great DL + media and the - DL is crap and with it being crap then why bother? I don't know. I went to one of those computer market type thingies before work yesterday and of the ten or twelve vendors selling media, not a single one of them sold "decent" media. It was all Princo, CMC and various other brands I've never heard of that looked equally dodgy (just from the price). It's getting harder and harder to find suppliers of good media without resorting to buying it online.

LOL!!!!

Is that what it says? I fear you may be dissapointed as my assets total around $4.50. The bank owns everything else.

I used an online translator. I hope it actually says what I hope it says.

Err.... wasn't that Armageddon with Bruce Willis? Independence Day was the one with the Aliens using Windows XP on their mothership without a firewall. <cough>

Why not add a word about this somewhere? I was really worried to see it today for the first time after a clean install. This is what Kerio 2.1.5 reported: Honestly? I don't know. It's not something that many people ask about. (You'd probably be the third person I can remember in the last couple of years which shows you how many people are either "click-happy" with their security software and let anything pass through just to get rid of the requester or don't run firewalls at all. )

Probably because alot of newer media (like Verb -R/DL) is garbage.

Just for shits and giggles, have you tried different media? It wouldn't surprise anyone if your CMCs are the root of your current dilemma, regardless of their past performance.

I'm still wondering why they need to create a proprietary format (*.daa) instead of using a standard ISO. I must be missing something.