Maybe they were just very good swimmers?

O: Slashdot seems to have an open door policy for @$$#0l3$, though. ;)

I think it's past my bedtime.

I posted that the newer WD Green drives use 500MB platters and I meant 500GB. 500MB platters would make for a very physically-large 1TB+ hard drive!

It appears that this does not effect the older 1TB+ Western Digital Green drives such as the WDC10EADS. Those use 333GB platters and are native 512-byte sectors. The newer (newest) Western Green drives, like the WDC10EARS, use 500MB platters and have 4K sectors. One way to tell the drives apart with a quick glance is the old Green drives had 32MB of cache and the new ones have 64MB of cache.

Nah, it was Windows XP Pro. I should have specified that in thedf;dafjlajflf A problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer.

I updated yesterday and haven't had any problems. I feel like I won the lottery!

I agree. Dell must have used magic to make their old batteries or something. I own an old Latitude C600 with Intel P3-1GHz CPU, and have two batteries for this laptop. The batteries are 7+ years old, but each is still capable of powering this laptop for 2-3 hours with average use. As far at battery life is concerned, it's pretty amazing.

Yes, Microsoft does currently release security updates for the RC. I have it installed on a spare drive in a PC, and it updates on the rare times that I boot into that OS.

Not if you use the Google Apps spreadsheet program. It doesn't round by default and gives weird results to some of the simplest math. Play around with it a bit and you'll see.

There's an extension for Firefox 3.x named oldbar that makes the address bar work like the one in Firefox 2.x. I don't know if it works with Firefox 3.6, though, as I have not yet upgraded.

He/She meant that the newest nVidia chips have hardware support for decoding "MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 (a.k.a MPEG-4 ASP), VC-1/WMV9 and H.264" via VDPAU in linux (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). The biggest benefit of VDPAU is hardware decode of HD content like H.264, but it's also nice that SD DivX/XviD/MPEG-1/MPEG-2/etc. is accelerated, too.

Or, "I was a Windows admin in a previous life and now can't get laid."

The post to which I was replying didn't mention h264, so why would I acknowledge it? ;)

You can most certainly put H.264 into an AVI container, though you may be hard pressed to find a reason to do this. There are tools available that make it an easy task. I've actually had to do it a couple of times, and it worked just fine.