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I'm impressed! There's even ported version for VIC20 and Gameboy! This may not be practical for end-users, but geeks and researchers can have a field day with this. I especially like the little sensor board setup. Yow!

There is a web site you can use to pimp-out your MySpace called Thomas' MySpace Editor. Just type the desired colors and fonts into the form and then cut & paste the code into your page. Simple!

Thanks for the repsonse, blix. When you use the MD, do you set the Record Volume manually or is it set automatically? Which outputs from the DJM-500 do you line out from? Were you mixing mics, instruments, and/or samplers/cd players down to the MD?

I've tried boastMachine and it's fun and simple to use. The features list is pretty extensive and says it supports multiple users. The software is Open Source and FREE.

For CD ripping and mp3 conversions, I recommend Audiograbber or CDex. You can find both of them at nonags.com.

First, what are your laptop's specs? This can be helpful for us in the forum to help you with troubleshooting. Second, are you doing a fresh operating system install, meaning formatting the hard drive and using an XP disk designed for new installs? Or are you using an XP upgrade CD? Using upgrade versions are always buggier. Finally, are you getting your drivers and bios updates from HP? HP now owns Compaq and they have support info here.

I haven't found a complete comparison chart, but I did locate some good articles. Here is a recent and in-depth feature in Network Computing. Here is a side-by-side from 18 months ago in Processor. Here is a real-world test scenario. And as a resource, Seagate's SATA FAQ I'm going to to keep looking for charts.

There is a good article and product comparison chart in the March 2005 issue of PC World. They cover storage capacity and transfer times, even breaking it down to "Cost per gigabyte." http://www.pcworld.com/article/119271/article.html One of the most simple and practical advantages was touched on by microscopic^earthling. This should have been a logical advancement in PC technology a long time ago. Those wide ribbon cables have always been impractical for working in tight spaces and can really block airflow. The smaller, thin SATA cables make perfect sense.

I'm a little stunned that the people who sue for stupid things are getting all of the blame. I don't know of a single case where a plaintiff walked into a courtroom without some sleazy lawyer by their side doing all of the dirty work. It isn't the plaintiff that went to law school and figured out how to game the system. Without the enabler to find the leagal loopholes, the person trying to collect cash for what appears to be their own dumbness would never get a penny. Those lawyers are doing the deed to get a chunk of the cash. They encourage the litigous behavior. That being said, there is another side to this suing thing. We all get up in arms about the guy breaking his neck on the sandbar or the woman who won millions from McDonald's when she spilled coffee in her lap. Our instinct is to say, "these lawsuits are a waste of time and money. Those people are just looking for a hand-out. We need to change the system." Well these examples of absurdity make up only a small fraction of civil lawsuits. If a manufacturing plant knowingly dumped their toxic sludge near your home and took no action to prevent it from getting into your drinking water making your entire family sick, you would want to punish them... and rightfully so. Well the laws that allow you to punish the dumper are many of the same the same ones that apply the McDonald's coffee lady. When you hear Dubya and the Republicans talk about "tort reform" they are focused solely on protecting corporations from class action and civil suits. Read their tort reform proposals and you will see. They absolutely do not want to restrict a corporations ability to sue a person or another corporation. They want to limit and restrict individual's rights to sue in any form - even in cases you may agree with. Sure some suits against corporations are truly unwarranted, but others are not. The problem is not directly with the law, though silly loopholes should be closed. The problem is also not directly society's fault, because the law is more complex than that. It is a matter of personal responsibility, but in these cases you must identify several individuals at multiple levels, not just label one person or group as the cause. I recall Randall from Clerks discussing how title does not dictate behavior. I find this to be true. If you are a cop, does that mean you are inherently a good person? Of course not, but the majority of cops would likely be. If you are a lawyer, does that make you inherently bad? No way, beacuse not all lawyers are ambulance chasers. If you are a CEO, does that make you a good businessman? Ask the employees at Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Global Crossing, Xerox, and Adelphia. If you are a citizen of a country are you exactly like the rest of your fellow citizens? My point is that maybe we should ammend the title of this thread to: Weak Individuals... and The Corrupt Individuals Who Prey Upon Them while Convincing Everyone That It Is Society's Fault.

As a former Novell network administrator, I can tell you that although you have a degree of power, you shouldn't get carried away with it. Yeah, it can be fun to watch someone's surfing or takeover their mouse and keyboard, but by doing that more for fun than out of necessity, you make the complainers point for them. If their complaining gets loud enough someone might take your admin privileges away.I'm sure you're not being a jerk and messing with people all the time. And sometimes you have to try a bunch of things with new technology so you can learn its limitations. Just remember, in your position, you're supposed to be the "good cop." You're the one they call when something breaks and they need to get it running again. You should get to know your ethical code because you will often be responsible for dealing with users doing unethical things. You're sort of like Spider-Man - part cop, part vigilante, part everyday nice guy. That's what it takes to be in charge of a network and keep your users confident that you are not taking advantage of them.As for the users, tell them if they were at home they could do whatever they want with fewer prying eyes. But on the school network it is your job to keep bad people from doing bad things so you have to watch out for everybody and keep track of what everyone is doing... ethically.

Just a follow up the earlier posts. The plugin for Maxthon does exactly what the original intention of the thread was. With one click, the date and time of when the page was last modified is displayed in an alert. You can find it here: LastModified 1.0

MySpace is getting a bit crowded and therefore slowing down. It takes FOREVER to go through profiles because there are so many of them. And it takes a lot of time to weed out junk from your profile searches. That being said, I think MySpace is pretty good and has potential to be even better. I use the Music section the most. It is a good place for artists to post their music so their regular web site bandwitdh doesn't get used up (as I learned a few eeks ago). The blogging ability is pretty good, too. I play in my wife's band and we have a page there: https://myspace.com/browser I hope that link doesn't count as advertising a web site, which I know is forbidden. It is relevant, right?

I think separating "society" from "culture" is in order here. Society is only a population of individuals. In theory, these individuals move around like atoms in a molecule - some pull close together, some push each other away. The ideas and actions of indivduals can influence or repel another individual. Sometimes the ideas and actions can influence or repel a number of individuals at once. A culture is the retaining or repetition of the ideas and actions of a society over time. This would be laying the foundation of a culture. I make the distiction because a population can be called a society and share a dominant culture. Then their are smaller societies within that larger population, each of whom identify themselves through cultural differences. Within those smaller societies, there can several levels of even smaller societies (better identified as communities) with their own cultural practicies. As an example, I belong to a society in the good ol' US of A and we theoretically share a dominant culture. However, The overall population is divided into smaller societies that interpret elements of the dominant culture differently. Inside the smaller societies, there are major differences in how to go about establishing these cultural differences as norms within population. Inside those even smaller societies there are differences that create sub-groups divided by geography, religion, ethnicity, income, age, gender, etc. Okay, I've gone a long way with this, but there is a point. Society dictates culture. If society demands a change within the culture, change will gradually occur. If society ignores the ideas and actions of their culture, existing ideas and actions will take a stronger hold. Case in point: If a society accepts a degree of violence within the culture, the violence will continue and it become part of the culture. If it rejects ALL violence, reducing violence will become part of the culture. If society accepts or rejects gambling, alcohol, and other things that tend to fall under the category of addiction without addressing that they are cultural, AS WELL AS being a matter of personal responsibility, the only result is a newly created societal division and not a cultural norm that is acceptable to society. Geez, I think I wore myself out on that one.

To partially answer my own question, I got a plugin from the Maxthon forum that I will try later today when I'm on my regular computer. If the results bear any relevancy to this thread, I'll post them later.

I just realized that it did the same thing for me, only giving me the date and time of when it downloaded to my computer. And I already posted in the Maxthon forums. Grrr. Is there something that can be changed in the code to give the ACTUAL last modified info???

This would make a great plug-in button for Maxthon!!! Typing in the address bar every time would be a bit of a hassle. But if there was a button on your toolbar that you could click to get the info, that would be awesome! I'm going to take this to the Maxthon user forums and see if it can be done. It may already be there or someone may already be working on it so I'll find out.

No, not haunted. Just really a crappy electrical system and poor grounding. It gets weirder, though. Sometimes when my upstairs neighbor turns on her bedroom lightswitch I get FM radio through my right speaker! Weirder still, sometimes it is an oldies station and sometimes it is alternative rock! Sometimes The Monkees, sometimes The White Stripes! I can walk over to the stereo and tune in the same station! haha Anyway, that's unrelated to my other noises. I'll be replacing the fan in the power supply myself and it should be pretty simple. The connector is a two pin plug, unlike my last one that had the fan wires soldered to the board. qwijibow mentioned something about the danger of working inside the power supply because of the large capacitors that keep their charge. There are two tricks I learned working on my old Fender tube amplifier. I wonder if they could apply here. WARNING * DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU ARE KNOWLEDGABLE * I'm only speaking of amps here. On a tube amp, you can turn it on and strum the guitar while pulling the plug out of the wall. You can hear the sound fade as you strum. This can reduce the amount of charge in the very large caps. There's also a method by which the amp is off and unplugged, where you take very well handled screwdriver - CAREFUL NOT TO TOUCH ANY METAL ON THE SCREWDRIVER - and hold the metal against the amp chassis while touching the metal top of the cap. Any really good electrical techies know if this would work? I'm not recommending ANYONE DO THIS... EVER!!! So... DON'T!

Yeah, I guess it does. My snarling is to illustrate a point. You're the mostest moderatorius, Nils. Keep up the good work!

I love that Kevin Smith movies can spark such dialog. Free-thinker? What would be an alternative, an enslaved thinker? A non-thinker? Ask you friends the next time they label you. Non-believer? Non-belief as religion? I would need a definition of "religion" to go any further. Some cultures don't even have a word for religion. Are they free-thinkers? Maybe, maybe not. Are they then non-believers? Ah, words. Ain't they fun?

You can also try MenuMaster. Seems pretty cool to me.

I'm a hard-coder, myself. I use Dreamweaver to generate sample sites very quickly. What is nice about DW is the little "properties box" that allows you to go through your options very quickly. Master using the properties box and you will be flying through your site creation in no time at all. The built-in FTP client leaves a little to be desired, but all-in-all the software is pretty easy to use. Here's a quick tip.... Make a simple site in DW. Your pages are HOME, ABOUT THIS SITE, CONTACT, and LINKS. Design your HOME page, save it as index.htm, then Save As ABOUT.htm. Make changes to the page that turn it into your ABOUT THIS SITE page, save it as about.htm, then Save As contact.htm. Change the page to reflect your contact info, save it, then Save As links.htm. Change the page so it has a few links on it, save it, then create a menu with the names of all the pages (with links). Copy the entire menu, open up each page you created and paste the menu on each page. Check it out! In about 10 minutes you have an entire sample site with uniform pages and a uniform menu! Okay, this is sort of a lame lesson, but I never said this was a tutorial, just a tip. But that is really how easy it is to design a site in Dreamweaver. Once you have a few pages, you can go through the Menu bar and try all kinds of things. Good luck!

Grrrrrrrrr. I spent the time to make up a graphic to help this... less than admirable person... and they were just spamming! I see now that they have -1 reputation points and must have only been screwing around to get free hosting. You out there! Yeah, you! The one thinking about wasting all of our time with junk posts. Don't do it. Some of us really need help and others do a lot of helping. Don't be a loser! Get it????

That's funny! So I opened up the power supply... lo and behold, the fan is missing a blade! It must have broken off somehow! So the fan is wobbly because it is missing a blade and causing the exact noise described above. This is great news becuase it should not be an expensive fix. However, it really irks me that a power supply that is less than a year old would throw a blade and cause me such problems. Thanks to everyone for the replies! At least I don't have to replace the whole thing, only the fan. Once again, my fellow forum users assist with sage advice!

Here's the other thread I mentioned. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/82088-topic/?findpost=1064290423

Yes, a squealing noise. Now don't start with any disgusting thoughts about how I'm making my computer squeal! I replaced my power supply (ATX mid-tower) about a year ago. When I first installed the new power supply it made a high-pitched noise when it ran but went away after a few days. Two days ago I heard it again. I turned the computer off for a few hours and started it up again. After about 15 minutes it gradually began to make the noise louder and louder. I turn it off to cool everything down and try again. Between 15-20 minutes it comes back. This obviously makes me think it has something to do with the power supply overheating, but I'm not completely sure. Has anyone else heard of this? What can I check? Also, I have another thread (Advice on Eliminating audio noise) running about a different noise. It is sort of an intereference noise that I'm hearing through the speakers. I mention this because while I'm hearing the power supply squeal from the back of the computer, I also hear it through the speakers. I want to make clear that these are two different noises, with one thing in common - I can hear both through the speakers. Thanks to anyone who can help!