I've never seen OEM replacement bands for sale anywhere. Which is annoying because I don't like leather/metal bands and while all three OEM Casio bands I've had lasted a few years (my current one is 3 or 4 years old and isn't showing any signs of stress cracks yet) the generic replacement bands I can find are only good for 6-12mo and the scraping from popping the pins in/out scrapes the holes wider. As that happens te pins become more likely to pop free by accident and eventually the plastic around it snaps and the watch is junked. 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

JazzJackRabbit wrote: it scrolls whatever window is under the mouse cursor When you actually install the driver provided with your mouse instead of just plugging your mouse into the USB/mouse plug, that would be the default behaviour....

JazzJackRabbit wrote: Do you guys think it would be realistic/easy/hard/impossible for MS to remove XML support from Word and put new product on the shelves in 60 days? I suppose they still have the code for slightly older office products that don't use XML, so im sure they could continue work on the non-XML ones and improve them. If everything was not true, would it be not true that everything is not true? So by saying everything is not true, you are automatically denying that everything is not true. Im so confused... FreeDOS - An open source modern MS-DOS/PC-DOS replacement.

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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: As far as betas are concerned, you won't find any software on my machine with the word "beta" in it I hope you are not using any product from Google. The most of the products from google are still in Beta. :-)

Well, I just discovered the index service :D (why is it disabled by default???) and found out, my search is really, really super fast now. So I'm happy with windows search (the xp one, I mean).

JazzJackRabbit wrote: Full row selection in new Vista explorer has got to be the "feature" that is single handedly responsible for screwing up explorer. Agreed 100%. It also makes marquee selection harder - you can't start a marquee in the currently-selected row because that does a drag/drop instead. It also makes dropping into Explorer harder, because dropping anywhere on a folder's row will drop into that folder, and dropping on a file's row will run that file with the dragged thing on the command line. So when I drag in, I have to aim for the two pixels in between rows, or hope that the window is big enough to have blank space below the last item to use as a target. :mad: --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ "That's what's great about doing user interface work. No matter what you do, people will say that what you did was idiotic." -- Raymond Chen

Another good one is to accidentally click on lock computer. Then before thinking click the only button available on the lock screen which is Switch User. If you run a dual-monitor setup with a high resolution the Switch User goes into some 640x480 (res?) crap and starts throwing your desktop into a coniption. It takes a couple of more switches to get things back to where they where but not without your icons being shifted all over the place. Todd Smith

Very nicely put sir. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal - Friedrich Nietzsche .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. [Microsoft MVP - Visual C++]

So do you still lookup every single error in the MSDN help when you are compiling code to see what could possibly be wrong? Or do you have some/most of them memorized and know exactly what to look for and howto fix them? Sure, this instance of the bug was annoying when I first encountered it too, but the next time I encountered it, I hit F5 and never put a second thought to it. At that point, and every time thereafter (which hasn't been many), it is a VERY minor thing. Just something you learn in your every day dealings with software. Hell, I'm sure you've told a user of your own software howto work around a bug before and asked them to be patient until you can get some time to work on that section of the code again. How can you expect different of anyone else?

Thank for the explanation. I never thought of that. John

I'm not sure you understood the issue, either that or I'm not seeing definitive answer to my question in your reply. See this link: http://www.carltonbale.com/2007/05/how-to-break-the-2tb-2-terabyte-file-system-limit/ Most of the older windows operating systems (including windows xp 32 bit) only support MBR partitioning meaning they cannot create or work with partitions more than 2TB in volume. To get around this problem Microsoft introduced GPT partitioning in latest operating systems. With GPT there are virtually no limits on the partition size. The problem here is not connecting to the drive root or working with files >4GB. It's whether the system that does not support GPT such as windows xp 32bit can connect to a network share >2TB in size and work correctly with it. I would hope that network protocol would abstract it all away. However, I have read reports that xp had problems writing to linux (yes, I know, slightly different) network share that was 3TB in size. So I wanted to ask if anyone knows if that really is a problem or not.

SharpKeys. It works in all windows os's (I'm using it now in Vista) and there's nothing else you need to know because after all it works and once it's set up you never think about it again. :) When everyone is a hero no one is a hero.

leppie wrote: I have a test case where on a Core2Duo it runs 4 times faster Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there wasn't any improvement. I meant in terms of thread management and processor utilization, it doesn't seem to do a lot besides what you'd expect if you run additional threads for additional cores. leppie wrote: The JIT must be doing some good work. That's what I concluded. Marc Thyme In The Country Interacx My Blog

Pete O`Hanlon wrote: Were you actively looking for one, or is this just some sad perverted hobby? At this point, both. :josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.

Don't do this on a work computer, but take ownership of the Program Files folder away from TrustedInstaller. Or, go whole hog and take ownership of the entire drive. Give ownership of the drive to the local Administrators group. Problem solved, heh. :) Flynn If we can't corrupt the youth of today, the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...

We have 2 of their courses on disk. They aren't bad. You can progress at your own pace. Of course nothing beats a live instructor to talk to. "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

yeah, you are probably right -Matt Newman

I find it annoyingly common for people to be unable to communicate in any form, but email is especially frustrating. At the moment I'm in a running battle with a webhosting company, trying to accomplish the simple task of releasing my locked domain names, changing registrars, and cancelling the hosting service. For two weeks now we have been swapping emails - several a day - with no visible progress. They keep responding with the same instructions, almost word for word, despite being repeatedly and patiently informed that the instructions don't work. These people are supposed to be tech support professionals who live by email, yet they are incapable of communicating in the medium. Thank the gods of geekdom that I've never needed real tech support! They're morons... And yes, if this isn't satisfactorily resolved soon, I will be posting a detailed rant for 4 million+ potential customers to read, naming names. "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

Mike Mullikin wrote: I don't base my choice in OS on eye-candy but MS could certainly stand to loosen up. Couldn't agree more. It isn't necessarily the eye-candy that I like, it's the amount of available options (or lack thereof).