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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...
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    Screen capture program that gets entire applications (scrolls down)

    I used SnagIt for years and often used the scrolling / capture feature. It worked well. But I have one observation. It often ran afoul of DEP. Now I stopped using SnagIt (and Windows, for that matter) about a year ago, so this problem may have been fixed by now. But as of a year ago I was...
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    Will a bullet fire in outer space?

    Is that why they call that thing a firing pin??? Edit: Uh, considering some of the replies in this thread, I thought I'd better add a :P or something.
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    Best file copy software?

    I generally stick with Robocopy, too. If you're interested in an alternative with some special capabilities, you might look at XXCOPY.
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    Vista Install Help: Need to Change Cluster Size on Format

    Ouch! 512 bytes? Was the drive converted from FAT32? If you're talking about installing Vista onto a boot / system drive (or partition) with 64 kilobyte allocation units, then I guess you might boot with a pre-install environment disc and use the format command. I don't think installing the...
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    file syncing utilities?

    I agree. On Windows and Linux, this software is a huge help to me. Their support forum is inhabited by some very knowledgeable users, and their devs (including the company owner and the chief dev) frequent the forum as well. For everything from synchronizing directory structures to...
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    LHC startup delayed till November at least.

    I'm barely bright enough to know how to use the Slugger. I'm not a talented Cable TV guy like Jeff Goldblum.
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    LHC startup delayed till November at least.

    A Louisville Slugger is all you need. Those suckers (the aliens) are advanced, but they just can't deal with wood.
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    What is your earliest concrete memory?

    Earliest solid memory was from just before my 2nd birthday. An elderly friend of the family put me on the neck of his plow mule. I remember how sunny it was, the smell of the animal and the harness leather, the brass pommels on the harness, the man's hat, and my Mom's purple and yellow dress. In...
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    Who is your Daddy?

    My Daddy is dead. He used to write songs on occasion, but now he just decomposes.
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    bear encounter on my hiking trip - does this look like a black bear or a grizzly?

    Heh. The reference to the difference between black bears and grizzlies is the punch line to an old, old joke. I just couldn't resist posting it. I guess I should have tacked on a smiley. Seriously, though, any North American bear can be dangerous under the right circumstances -- those right...
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    bear encounter on my hiking trip - does this look like a black bear or a grizzly?

    Difference between a black bear and a grizzly? Black bear chases you up the tree and eats you. Grizzly knocks the tree down and eats you.
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    Print checks on regular paper?

    Oh, man! How did I miss out on tuxpaint? I never heard of it before. Last evening I played with it on my notebook in the living room while my wife was watching space movies in honor of that fake moon landing they did 40 years ago. :D I got a lot of dirty looks because I was having too much...
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    What is man's greatest achievement?

    1. language 2. disposable diapers (Didn't get to use them with my kids, but did get to use them with my grandkids.) 3. OSS
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    Print checks on regular paper?

    I would do an MS Paint check and send it to them. Oh wait. I can't do that. I use Debian. Wonder if MS Paint will run under WINE. Screw that. A GIMP check?
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    Become a Sales Engineer or stay in Engineering?

    Damn, this is a long message. I'm new here. Don't want to be known as a gas-bag, but I'm going to post it anyway. I might be reading a bit much into the way you're expressing yourself, but I'm going to take a stab at providing a viewpoint which has already been alluded to, but not expressed...
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    Laptop Portability For College

    I've been carting portable and laptop and notebook computers around with me since they first became available. To my way of thinking, unless you are plagued by some factor like having to carry a ton of other stuff or a physiological problem then portability is nice to have, but not the huge deal...
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    Guy is hooking me up with my inspection sticker

    I'd be at least as concerned about the effects of failed rear brakes on directional stability when stopping or reducing speed as on their effect on the overall stopping distance. Behavior of the vehicle in extreme maneuvers requiring simultaneous application of brake and steering input away from...
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    What kind of spider is this?

    I wish the pic weren't so blurry, but the size and general look of the creature reminds me of the brown recluse. Do you live in its area of distribution? Edit: In every case of my personal acquaintances who have seen the brown recluse in their cars or houses, there turned out to be a LOT...
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    If you could marry any fictional character, who would it be?

    Since Dejah Thoris is already taken, I'll go for Podkayne of Mars.
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    Worst Graphics Card Purchases

    Of course. I do need the machine to be very reliable because of the role it plays now. (I write for a living, and I do sysadmin chores with the system, also.) Nonetheless, the computers with Intel and ATI subsystems run stable with Xfce's compositing enabled more reliably (absolutely no...
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    Worst Graphics Card Purchases

    nVidia Quadro FX Go 1400 in my Dell Precision M70. This isn't entirely nVidia's fault. I got the system with this several hundred dollar ($800, IIRC) optional card for doing some light CAD/CAM work when traveling. It never was all of that and a bag of chips even under Windows. When I...
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    Recommend some good fiction

    I can recommend anything by Christopher Moore. Practical Demonkeeping (1992) Orbit Book Co. ISBN 9781841494470 Coyote Blue (1994) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-06-073543-0 Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (1995) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-81097-2 Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997) Avon...
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    Since MS is dumping MS Money, where would you go?

    We've been using GnuCash for a couple of years. I use in in Linux (Debian Lenny). Wife uses it in Windows. Wife is a CPA and absolutely loves GnuCash. I do, too, but not for any reason other than it isn't awful software like Money and Quicken. (Plus, of course, it works in Linux.) I guess...
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    If you could do anything this summer, what would it be?

    Complete ground course and flying lessons. You know, a crash course. Oh wait. Shit.
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    If the savior Jesus came back to life as a pizza delivery man

    You're going to hell. I just got a one-way ticket, too. Damn, that's funny!