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possibly wrong forum, but...
Recently bought a Dell laptop with Vista home basic and an HP C3180 all-in-one printer for my wife's university work.
Vista seems to work okay (resource hog that it is) but I'm having a h3ll of a time with the printer.
Every single freakin' time she shuts the laptop down (complete shut down, not standby) it "discovers" the printer on startup, and generates a "new" printer.
After some time there are a dozen or more C3180's in the printer folder and printing ceases to happen. All instances have to be deleted and re-installation of the printer done from scratch.
Any ideas? I'm ready to heave it in the ocean (laptop AND printer)
My next machine (this weekend) is an iMac.
Theives, for the most part, aren't stealing the data, they're stealing the laptop. And adding a new HD isn't that expensive (cheaper than a new laptop)
That was my point...(I agree it's a brick, but a fixable brick).
Like the ad idea though (was that you or someone else? I scan posts pretty quickly these days)
It's not the end of laptop teft, it's the end of data loss due to laptop theft.
I work for a company that uses full disk encryption (software) so if my laptop get stolen the business plans and performance data that I store on it is safe (unless you cut my finger off and take it with you). A new HD for a laptop is pretty cheap. We get laptops stolen on a fairly regular basis. There's a pile of useless HD's somewhere.
Just saw Pursuit of Happyness and while I thought it was a good movie, it struck me that Will Smith must have something in his contract that requires him to run -- a lot -- in any movie he makes.
My legs are tired just from watching.
Interesting:
"Sure, I have no doubt plenty think I am completely "crackers".
People with big ideas that think outside the status quo often are."
So, by your twisted logic, anyone who is crackers is a person with 'big ideas'
Using similar logic, I have two legs, an emu has two legs, therefore, I'm an emu.
That's rich...
Thanks for the laugh.
If there was any company that I had such a low opinion of I CERTAINLY would't be invested in them.
Yet you spout a bargeload of crap, misinformation and outright lies, and post "...Do not get me wrong, I am a Wave investor too..."
What a load of road apples.
You'll probably never see that kind of press release, because the only news is that a laptop was stolen/lost. The press is more interested in when horrific things happen, not banal things (and to say "We lost a laptop and nobody was harmed" is banality personified).
Fortuitous timing on your part -- I was just starting to look around for performance info for the new iMac, and looking at getting the 24" 1G model, but considering upping to 2G. Will probably hold off on the extra RAM.
For comparison purposes, it's (24" w/ 1G RAM) retailing at AUD2599 here in Sydney.
Looking forward to my first Apple (if you don't include the Apple IIc I purchased back in the 80's)
Thanks for the info/
Good God I hope you don't have a role as influencer of the young.
Ah...
didn't see that one
Same one -- the arrival clck the link in my earlier post.
It must be awesomely cool to be one of the very few in the inner cirle that knows what the truth really is. You must be in a constant state of euphoria.
Damn, forgot about that movie
Loved it. Will have to get a copy of it.
Well, we are in the Grand Final next weekend, but under the least desirable circumstances.
At the end of the regular season, the top four teams in the table compete in a round robin, and the top two from the round robin go on to the Grand final.
We ended up in third in the regular season (only lost three games, but drew 4 -- three of which we should have won.
Too many rain days through the season, so instead of a three game round robin we ended up with 2 games.
1st weekend, 1st played 4th and 2nd played 3rd.
We won our game and the team in 1st won their game, both 2 - 1.
So we go into the second leg of the RR this weekend, my team playing 1st place team and 2nd playing 4th. We've beat the 1st place team both other times we played them -- both games were very challenging, but we won.
They scored in the first 2 minutes (defensive lapse on our side, but we've come from behind against them before, so no drama). On our next attack their goalie kicked my top striker so hard in the right shin that the shin guard split in half, breaking his leg. This is an U12 competition, remember.
By the time the ambulance had finished with him (a clean break -- he'll be in plaster for a couple of months but will be able to play next year -- if he wants to) there was only 5 or so minutes left in the allotted time for the game (there were other RR games from other age/divisions that needed to be played on the same pitch).
We ended up losing 1 - 0, after playing, at most, 8 minutes of soccer. Fortunately for us (or I'd be really really pissed) the other game in our division ended up a draw. We'll meet the same team next weekend in the Grand Final...and it's going to be a hell of a game.
When you short you are selling stock you don't yet own (and buy it back at the lower price, hopefully, later), so the question should be "Who has the ability to sell a stock between $2.50 and $3.00 when it's at $2.10 in the open market?"
Well, guru, the numbers were below what I would have liked, but the very recent launch of seagate's product, as well as the 1st government deal has convinced me to start getting back in, a bit at a time
OT:
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2007/lr20228.htm
Daily KOS co-author fined ~30k for unethical postings on RB...
Cramer with a bit too much coffee...
Pretty good for a Part III.
Of course, as Matt Damon said to Jon Stewart "We're just glad it didn't suck"
Well, it's not a movie yet, but it will be in 2010. And if they can pull off half of what's in the book it will be a fun one to watch...
nah...the number of 'verys' is inversely proportional to the duration, not directly related..
border collie -- Mynx....lazin' by the pool
It's not often a trailer will give me goosebumps...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/1408/
(OT For those that don't get it)
A panda walks into a bar. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why? Why are you behaving in this strange, un-panda-like fashion?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda walks towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
If I ate first I'd be a panda.
Well, thanks. Busier than a brick-layer in Bahgdad
ahem...
"We are almost in the final stages of breaking TPM"
And my car can do almost 200 mph...
almost...
"At Worlds End"
Figgered out the problem with the last Pirates movie. At a bloated 6,498 minutes it's a tad long. The extra, not really necessary bits, are intended to move the story along.
What the movie-makers failed to realise is that we didn't give a rats ass about the "story". Movie goers to this franchise are going for three reasons (three for this movie, two for the other two)
1) Kiera Knightly (looks lovely with a tan)
2) Johnny Depp's Cap'n Jack (doing his impersonation of John Malkovich in part 3)
and for this time around,
3) Keith Richards (born to play the part)
Well, those three reasons and the special effects.
Story? We don't need no stinkin' story!
Heh....
equating Gross Domestic Product to contributions to Global Warming is specious at best.
India and China are the largest contributors of "green house gases".
Not that I think man is contributing that much to the problem (but what do I know)
This 'ground-breaking' technology was pretty widespread in Singapore 3 or 4 years ago.
In case you thought the Pulsar was a car:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars which emit detectable electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves. They may rotate at up to hundreds of times a second or more. The radiation intensity varies with a regular period, believed to correspond to the rotation period of the star. Pulsars also exhibit a so-called lighthouse effect, which occurs when the light and other radiation from a pulsar are only seen at specific intervals and not all of the time. Pulsars are known to have planets orbiting them
Are you for real?
a) the 'second' that you are talking about is a man-made unit of time. To think that an alien being (or scientific group of alien beings) would know that we slice our day into 24 hours, that each hour is sliced into 60 minutes and each minute into 60 seconds staggers the imagination. (If the otherworld entities had three fingers on each appendage they'd probably be counting in base 6. Ever think of that? Unless they had three appendages -- then they'd be counting in base 9.)
b) IF (really big if here, folks) the divide by 24/divide by 60/divide by 60 rule was figured out, how in hell could any living being control a pulsar? Do you know what a pulsar is? It's not a small car.
c) IF IF IF (into the zero probability IF now) the divide by thing was figured out AND control of a pulsar managed, wouldn't they get it dead on? No variation?
Sheesh. Some people will believe anything.
This actually looks pretty good...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/youkillme/
I've been fortunate in that I have full attendance at training. A good bunch of kids, on the whole.
Oh, all play...it's just a matter of how much they play -- and when.
ExTREMEly cool (watch the vid)
http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/microsoft-goes-touchyfeely/2007/05/30/1180205342742.htm...
I know she's skinny, but only 1/8 pickle? She gets a full pickle from me (so to speak)
I believe an inference is not the same as a presumption.
BICBW
yarxxx
1) never presume
2) The good return comes from selling short at the market price before committing to the sale at a 13% or so discount (I'll take 13% a day any day.
3)
Nothing else to add.