Now I can be insulted remotely and STILL not get salt or catsup: http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/10/news/fortune500/mcdonalds.reut/ heh heh heh. Stew

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060402/AUTO01/604020302/1148/BIZ Stew

According to MS, I guess. 'Lessee, if expected annual PC sales are nearly double from the time period when Win XP launched, and we include the upgrade coupons and we include......' Spin, boys, spin.... *snicker*

"....high speed wireless broadband to become widespread sooner than you think." http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/wifi_hotspots_a.html When/if I can get a reliable and affordably priced solution here at my home office, I can see jumping over. I wonder what this will do...

heh heh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

How're you making it you sick, twisted freak? Hope you're well. Stew

As proof that one should listen to Edward Neth as well as to one's own instincts, I've possession of a brand new Samsung (8-chip) 256mb PC133 SODIMM that I can't use in my laptop (Latitude CPxJ GT650). One might think that after all the years of reading, listening, and observing, I would've...

Sounds like it's time for Service Pack 3. (g) I feel for anyone left who has a dial up connection.

The listing was included in one of the sale e-mails and I didn't recall reading or hearing about such a device before (or anyone using one...): http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204251276&adid=17070&dcaid=17070

Just wondering. In the last couple of weeks I've had both an external 250gb FreeAgent drive brought to me that had gone tango uniform. Now, this week, a brand new Seagate PATA internal I ordered for a laptop arrived DOA. FWIW, I have been seeing (over the past several months) a lot of Hitachi...

FYI, Google news hits from their front page: http://tinyurl.com/lz2w6 Stew

FYI..... http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21488395%5E15306,00.html

FYI, I'm seeing annoying web performance with AVG 8.0 due to (2) new added features of the program: -"Web Shield" -"Link Scanner" Obviously a well-intentioned part of the program to avoid malicious scripting on websites. One of the interesting features of the Link Scanner

Again, a nice little software firewall that's very friendly and appears to be extremely effective. Example: I had installed it for trial on what is - in effect - my main machine on the home network. There are shares involved, primarily the "My Music" folder to the 3/4 other machines on the...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140419-c,companynews/article.html

Hi, I haven't done a defrag for over a year in the thought that with the high access times and large hard drives, a defrag isn't needed very often. Now while poking around Vista Home Premium I find that the kids in Redmond set as default a defrag every Wednesday at 1:00 a.m. That explains why...

It is now final: http://www.marke****ch.com/story/dell-sells-tenn-refurbishing-operation-to-genco

All, I've purchased fully 2-3 dozen used Dell systems off of ebay both for myself and others and using moderate to extreme caution when doing so have had nothing but good experiences. Great, in fact. However - My last transaction for a notebook over there has turned ugly (though I'm covered by...

It's installed by at least some of the OEM PC mfrs, it (at least at one time) secretly rode "piggyback" on downloaded AOL AIM installs. It apparently has the ability to identify machines that connect to it's update (updates are automatic and not prompted, btw) and game servers. Some articles...

"...it's weawwy taking a wong, wong time to install and initiawize. Wet's hope it's worff all of the twouble."