Recent content by SammySnood

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    Small Business Owner: Recommend an alternative to QuickBooks

    http://www.gnucash.org/ You'll either love it or hate it. I use it for personal accounting. Wife is a CPA and uses it for small businesses. With all of these recommendations you'll need to investigate feature sets and compare to find what you need. The only feature that SAP doesn't have...
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    How to delete typed URL in Firefox

    Or, if the "awesome bar" is bugging the heck out of you, just go into about:config and change the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults value to -1.
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    The generic works just as well..............?

    WRT medicines, there's more difference (sometimes) between brand name and generic versions of drugs than just "filler". I'm told that Omeprazole doesn't work for a fair number of people that Prilosec does work for. I always thought generic was always just as good as brand name. Until I almost...
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    Visually documenting a network

    Okay, that makes me a moron. I've been using Dia for the purpose ever since switching to Linux. I forgot that there was a Windows version! :laugh:
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    Visually documenting a network

    I tried Network Notepad while I was still running Windows on my admin systems. For smaller networks I actually preferred it to Visio Pro, and it's free.
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    OMG windows 7 is God

    On a related note, have MS separated the previous version feature from system restore for Windows 7? In Vista if you wanted system restore you had to have previous versions enabled, and that was a non-starter for some folks security-wise. Forgive me for tacking this question onto this thread...
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    Vista wont install on my workstation

    That's funny. I hope it all works out now. That's the kind of "victory" that can drive you nuts, though. If the system just runs without any problems, then it's not going to bug you. But if you start seeing weird little hard-to-explain gotchas here and there, it's gonna drive you up the wall...
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    Vista wont install on my workstation

    Most good hardware diagnostics I have personal experience with are not Windows executables. They generally run from a minimalist environment (like a text mode app running on top of Linux) so as not to have a complex graphical user environment having an effect upon the testing. Even those...
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    Vista wont install on my workstation

    So you had an install failure at different points with the two modules? Did multiple install attempts with each module always fail at the same point, or was failure happening at inconsistent points? And, yeah, there may be something intrinsic to the system (particular hardware combination?)...
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    Vista wont install on my workstation

    That's a better idea, I think. It seems that your Windows installs were happening more or less consistently at a specific point of the installation. If I didn't misunderstand and that is the correct idea of what you were seeing, then I think that's really a hallmark of memory module issues...
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    Vista wont install on my workstation

    Ouch! Can you return the memory and get your money back -- or use it in another system, maybe -- if it doesn't work?
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    Vista wont install on my workstation

    Years ago I had the same sort of thing happen to me when I was trying to go from Windows 2000 Pro to Windows XP Pro on a laptop. I could consistently install Windows 2000 on the thing, but not XP. What I was getting was hard drive corruption issues, even though the HD and its controller checked...
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    Talk me out of buying a motorcycle

    Popping willies on crotch rockets? Only my wife is allowed to pop my willie. And you can even make some 50cc bikes do wheelies. But you have to abuse them pretty badly. The most fun single wheel riding I ever did was on my old RD400C -- brakies. Best place to learn to ride motorcycles...
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    Quick poll: Heinz or Hunts?

    Melinda's habanero ketchup
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    Ever go back and watch a TV show you used to like...

    When I was in grade school my favorite radio shows were The Shadow and Sky King. I was happy when a new version of Sky King was aired on TV in the early 50s. Other early TV favorites were Milton Berle, Mr. Peepers, Our Miss Brooks, the Republic Serials like Commando Cody. During my teen and...