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Not wrong. Stephen Fry was the Narrator and read all of the Guide entries. But the OP was not wrong either... what point are you making?

Come down to Mountain Town Station downtown. Home-made beer, and free wireless!

I once had a boss express concern that the hand-made cable I was hooking up her desktop with wouldn't be able to get a full 100Mbit... as hand-made cables are never as fast as store bought cable.

I wanted to ask her if she was fucking kidding me?

My kingdom* for a mod point!

(Sopor42 promptly gets off his "ethical" high horse...)

*It's NOT my mom's basement, i swear!

Oh it is, is it Mr AC?

Just to clarify... the process is slightly more involved if the drive in question has "more than one type of content", even if fully up to date, b/c then Windows (XP) doesn't give you the "do this every time" option. For that you have to actually access the drive properties autoplay tab, select "mixed content" then "select an action to perform" and then "take no action" and finally apply/ok.

How is this news? This has been going on for MANY years. The first example that came to mind is 11 years old, and I'm sure this is not the oldest.

Thank you for invoking Miller's Corollary. You lose. This conversation is now over.

Why in the HELL do my posts come from AC when I'm logged in, and have NOT checked "Post Anonymously"?

I don't know how in the hell that ended up AC...

Did you actually look?

A curosry search brought no results for the movie Inkheart on TBP or Mininova...

Not saying the torrent isn't out there somewhere, but it's not on the big ones yet.

I will always trust Seagate...

...if not to produce 100% failure-proof designs, then to do everything they can to fix the problem and make it right by the costumer.

Years ago I had a Barracuda die and need replacement under warranty. It was real clear when I sent it in that there was NO guarantee of any sort for my data. What I received back was a different drive (different serial) complete with ALL of my data. That's as good as I can ask for.

My WRT54GL running DD-WRT v.23 (can't remember if it is SP1 or SP2) at home has been running non-stop for well over 6 months (don't know exactly when the last time I booted it was, but it was most likely just b/c I was going to be gone for a week or two)

Can't say the same thing about the Netgear GS748T smart switch I have running at work, so I'm doubtful that Netgear vs. Linksys is the issue here... (yea I know, not apples to apples...)

That would work for our area normally (I'm close to CmdrTaco) but on the 27th it got up to 59.9F, 28th it got to 55F, and 45F on the 29th... not cold enough for food. This time of year is not all that cold, remember we're only a little over a week into winter.