Dave Garrett

I like uTorrent too, but anyone contemplating using it should be sure to read the FAQ, particularly sections 1.7 and 1.11, to make sure they have a compatible router or modem. If your router is on this list and you try to run uTorrent, you can expect your net connection to drop every few minutes as the router gets overloaded. This happened to me when my old router died and I unknowingly replaced it with a model that didn't play nice with uTorrent. The constant connection drops were driving me crazy until I figured out what had happened, upgraded to a Linksys WRT54GL, and flashed it with the DD-WRT third-party firmware mentioned in the FAQ. If you have everything properly configured, uTorrent flat out screams.

I ordered this, along with the other four Conns released at the same time, from BMG at the beginning of September and have yet to receive it. When I check my account, it's still showing up as backordered.

This is the same company that worked on the kinescopes of Elvis' appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show which were released on DVD not too long ago. I believe one of the principals is or was a "Gort" at the Steve Hoffman forums. They have a blog (or they're at least somehow affiliated with one - not sure of the exact relationship) as well - there's a piece talking about the Elvis DVDs here. Edit: a little more digging turned this up: LiveFeed Video Imaging

We could do a thread just with them Pocahotass. Where the fruit lies The cocksucker Proxy Chances are, for every one you think up, someone in the porn film industry has already beaten you to it. That said, I'm not sure anyone will ever top EDWARD PENISHANDS (yes, it's a real movie).

Ad-Aware 2007 Free Spybot Search & Destroy I use both of these - I normally run full system scans on my machines using one right after the other, as they will each find things that the other won't. Combine with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, and you should be pretty well-protected from a software standpoint. From a hardware standpoint, if you don't have a NAT router, you should get one even if you're only running one computer off your DSL connection and don't need to share it with other computers - it will provide an additional significant layer of protection to the computer(s) behind the router. I've heard mixed things about Zone Alarm - my dad uses it and has been relatively pleased with it, but other people I know don't care for it. I've never used it myself.

No, but you might be out your PayPal account. PayPal really doesn't like chargebacks. But last I remember, they usually wouldn't yank your account the first time you filed a chargeback through your CC company. More than that, and you're probably on thin ice.

Nice coupon. Too bad that my local Borders has so little worth buying. Anyone interested in the On the Corner box that hasn't got it already might want to check their local Borders - mine just got 4 copies in last week. I used a 25% off coupon to pick one up last weekend - if I'd known they were going to have a 30% off one, I'd have waited. Depending on tax in your locale, you should be able to get it for less than CD Universe is charging with the 30% off coupon.

Try sleeping with two people and a 70-pound German Shepherd in a queen-size bed. My wife loves to remind me that she suggested we get a king-size bed when we first moved into our house, several years before the dog came along. Hindsight's always 20-20.

Klipsch ProMedia 2.1

We live five minutes away from a large farmers' market in Houston, and when they're in season you can find huge strawberries there for cheap. They haven't had any for about a month now, and although I can still find some in the grocery stores, they're getting scarcer and they're not nearly as nice as the ones at the farmers' market. I eat a fair amount of raspberries and blackberries as well, and the supply of those is also starting to dry up. Unfortunately, I'm not too fond of apples or pears.

That's what I thought too on Saturday, but I went ahead and ordered anyway. Think about it, if you want the set, you really don't have anything to lose by ordering it - at worst, Amazon will cancel the order. But if it turns out to be a real deal and you didn't order it, you'll be kicking yourself later for not doing so. I passed on this set and the Art Pepper Galaxy box during the big Zweitausendeins sale because I thought I'd already spent too much on the two orders I placed. Many times since then I've wished I had just gone ahead and spent the extra cash to get those two sets at what was then a ridiculously affordable price.

There was a thread about it on the Steve Hoffman forum several months ago.

Sgt. Hartman soundboard

I ordered these: and got a shipping notice for all except the Strayhorn, which I assume was sold out or otherwise unavailable.

Our first dance was to the version of "Daydream" on "...And His Mother Called Him Bill". For the processional we used "The Single Petal of a Rose". And later on in the evening, I'm pretty sure that most if not all of "The Far East Suite" was played.

My external hard drive claims to be full, but it's not This is the first reference I stumbled across after I experienced this problem when I tried to copy a >4GB DVD ISO image to the drive in question. There's also a Microsoft KnowledgeBase article that covers the conversion: How to convert a FAT16 volume or FAT32 volume to an NTFS file system in Windows XP

NTSC? Do you mean NTFS? There is apparently a way to switch the filesystem on hard drives from FAT32 to NTFS without reformatting them - it's a relatively simple command-line switch. I have one external drive that I failed to notice was default-formatted as FAT32 before I loaded 100+ GB of FLAC files onto it, but I've never felt brave enough to try to perform the filesystem switch as I don't have a good set of complete backups for the drive.

Last night, using the 40% off Borders coupon: Duke Ellington - The Jaywalker (Storyville) Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (2006 remaster) King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (2004 remaster)

I always wanted "MTHRFCKR" vanity plates. Unfortunately, even if someone was asleep at the switch and actually approved them, Texas has a 6-character limit on license plates.

Then you need to have this: Techpreservation Test Pattern DVD Information And Download

This was my solution. I had a credit union account that I wasn't really using much anymore, and it typically has only $20-30 in it. I do have to pay a dormant fee of $1 every month there's no account activity, but I'd rather do that than give Paypal access to my main checking or savings account. I've heard too many stories about sellers who have had money sucked out of their accounts by Paypal after a buyer received goods and then filed a bogus claim with Paypal. Since Paypal isn't subject to banking regulations, you really have very little recourse if they decide to take money out of your bank account.

There are a bunch of freeware file renaming utilities available here. I suspect that if you try a few of them, you'll find one that solves your problem. I had a similar problem a while back with a FLAC file that was bundled together with other FLAC files in one zip file - WinZip, my usual zip file tool, choked on this one file and would not extract it, claiming it was corrupted, even though I could play the file with the FLAC plugin for WinAmp. I finally found an alternate freeware zip/unzip tool that was able to successfully extract the file.

In the early 80s, I had all of the Mothers' Verve LPs in dead mint original pressings, which it had taken me several years of searching to collect. My copy of We're Only In It For The Money even had the original inserts, in mint condition like the LP and jacket. I was an impoverished undergraduate, and eventually hit a patch where I needed money badly enough to convince me to sell all of them. In retrospect, I should've just sucked it up and stocked up on ramen noodles; I wound up not getting as much money for them as I'd expected to, and although I eventually replaced most of them, the replacements weren't as nice as the ones I'd let go.

I was really disappointed to discover that Yusuq Madiq apparently doesn't live in the US.

Agreed. I carry the small version of the Rewards card on my keychain, so it's always handy when I need to present it. I've also used the same coupon more than once without any problems, but perhaps they're starting to crack down on that. I used the 40% off coupon plus $5 in Borders Bucks I'd accrued to pick up the first Jazz Icons box set yesterday for about $20 cheaper than I could've gotten it for online. Granted, that's an unusual occurrence, but you can come pretty close to equaling online prices if you use the 25% and 30% off coupons. I rarely bother with the 20% off ones anymore unless I use one to pick up a single CD.