I cast my vote for Joel's mp3 player. My sister-in-law got one and the thing works perfectly. The fact that it connects USB and can be used as an external drive makes it even better.

I've played all the US released FF's starting with the one on the NES, plus FF5 on an NES emulator (didn't finish it, though). The only reason I bought a Playstation was FF7. The only reason I bought a PS2 was FFX :) FFX is, in my opinion, one of the best in recent times. Its full-motion-video is, of course, fantastic. The real-time rendering engine (ie just regular walking around) is where the biggest improvement lies. The designers kept tight control over the camera, which means they always make sure you get a good view of the 3D world as you move around (yes, the world is fully-rendered 3D instead of the pre-rendered backdrops in the PS games). Some of the non-pre-rendered scenes, and some of the monster battles, are simply breathtaking graphics. The battle system is pretty cool, too, as you can switch out characters during the battle. I don't much like the fact that the battle system is completely turn based now, though. The thing I don't like about this game, like the ones on the PS before it, is that it is more movie than RPG. That wouldn't be too bad, but it makes it worse since the dialog is so damn teenage-highschool-drama-ish. I miss the old days of having to fight around alot to get enough gold to buy the next cool weapon that you simply couldn't do without. That always felt like such an accomplishment :) Oh yes - there's also no overworld map. Now that sucks - because it makes the game seem much less open-ended that its predecessors. There's nothing cooler in an FF as the first time you get to fly the airship ;) The abilities system is quite inventive, but my favorite is still the junction system from FF8. Overall, it boils down to whether or not you'd like to spend 390USD to buy the PS2, memory card, and FFX. If you think you'll play other PS2 games (there are quite a few really fun ones), then I would say 'go for it'. Otherwise, rent a PS2 and FFX to see whether or not it's worth it before you buy. -- Russell Morris AFLAC Software Research Center "WOW! Chocolate - half price!" - Homer Simpson, while in the land of chocolate.

Sorry. I do have the driver, what I don't have is the "Custom Size" page anymore. Some of the reports are really big and print on a special printer on the computer room. But I tried every single paper size and none of them would make it fit (not even changing the letter size). So until I find a Custom Size page and make it as big as I can, I can only print (to a file) half of the report (the left half). Now, does anybody know how to get the Custom Size Page on the printer? Thanks. Rodrigo.

This is clearly a reaction to the Linu¢s attitude that if some component in Windows in flawed - IIS Server, for example - the whole thing is fundamentally flawed and should be pulled from the market, in favor of Linu¢s software, which never has serious flaws becasue "many eyes" are looking at the code, and therefore software defects are couaght before they manifest as bugs. Right.

LOL you've hit the nail on its head CG, you have :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Yeah - a friend has an iPaq and a 1Gb microdrive. It's slower than a CF card (but not much). I'd definitely recommend one if you have the spare cash. cheers, Chris Maunder (CodeProject)

No, I was implying that you shouldn't depend on a spell checker, nor even need one for day-to-day communications. Besides that, spell checkers are not infallible. You may spell "there" correctly, but what if you meant "their" or "they're". As far as the spell checker is concerned, you spelled it correctly, but it may be used incorrectly. There are many other examples to pick from - won, and one to, too, and two read and red no and know then or than (sounds slightly different but often transposed in use) new and knew right and write Add to that the possibility of merely stringing a bunch of words together - all spelled correctly but convey a completely different meaning than the author intended. So, a spell checker might be a good tool to have, but there's no replacement for simply knowing when and how to use a word. The "spell checker" for a piece of source code is the compiler itself. If you spelled a variable name incorrectly, it will flag the variable as not having been previously defined. Any other type of spell checker in a programming environment is pointless and a severe waste of memory. How can a spellchecker possible flag "delimeter" as a misspelled word? How does it know that you didn't want to spell it that way, especially if you defined it with such a spelling? To hell with those thin-skinned pillow-biters. - Me, 10/03/2001

doubles speed of ROMsBasic programs by 1 1/2. didn't always worked though. (disk or printers):) like I said, there some things I know, but this win nt thing, is puzzeling me. Registry entries that are not there (got moved, or missing) Security :You are not allowed to perform that operation, please contact your admin!!! (WTF where is my win2k disk, I guess I'll be reformating my disk) I can't even boot from CD (neither have access to change the bios), sh**t I gues I have to install a second hardrive Ntsf , you don't have access to that file,(come on) You know what i mean, it's like learning the backways again :) Rodrigo.