CoffeeFiend

That's great news. Thanks for letting us know... </sarcasm> This has nothing to do with "Technology News", please learn to post in the right sections.

Simple: there aren't any switches. But you can just keep a copy of your CamStudio directory and throw that in $OEM$\$Progs or make it a SFX (winrar/7zip/whatever). Don't forget the start menu shortcuts either (it installs under "all users" by default). If you care to have the uninstall entry add/remove programs (in addition to the "uninstall" start menu entry), just backup (export) the CamStudio entry (under HKLM\Soft\MS\Win\CV\Uninstall\) and import that at install time. Or just capture/repackage the whole thing. Pretty easy too.

Still, I don't see why would anyone bother really. There's already countless free scripts, and scripting engines and such things - most being free. Batch files (.bat & .cmd - obviously free). VBScript (using wscript and cscript - free again). JavaScript (not just for web pages - still free). PowerShell (new shell from microsoft - quite powerful, and free as well). AutoIt (no introduction needed, free of course). Tons of people use perl and python for admin scripts too (free, from activestate). And there are some really nice scripting engines like Alintex Script.net (free too). And any "real" language can do a far better job too (C, C++, C#, Java, VB, VB.Net, Delphi, you name it! Lots being free, having free tools and compilers). bat2exe / cmd2exe are popular converters as someone mentionned before (and free). That's dozens and dozens of great, powerfull, versatile, quality options and they're ALL free! And if I was going to pay for a batch-like scripting engine, I'd buy winbatch instead (which is a FAR better and FAR more powerful app that's reliable, is well known, has extenders and also has good support - I've seen it used by some very big places). And if not, then it would likely be an automation tool instead. Good luck selling your product. It's very clearly overpriced. Not that I'm one of those "everything must be free & Free" / open source guys, but selling a product that's vastly inferior to free products? It'll take a LOT more than that to part me and my money. Personally, I'm using my own installer scripting engine (always work in progress)

...which is a FAR better choice IMO.

That's perfectly normal, it does that because the NTFS's part's CHKDSK bit isn't set. Not that I'd ever use Ghost 10 though...

Personally, I use the new Office 2003 features quit a bit and wouldn't consider going back. If it wasn't v2003, then I'd likely just use OpenOffice instead (mind you I'd miss OneNote and Visio a great deal)

Sorry, I failed to detect the sarcasm tag there Seriously, there's so much clueless people saying that who actually mean it...

Pressure wise... No idea. You just inflate it 'till it reaches the diameter it's supposed to have (that's what my instructions said at least). I've never measured how much I sink, but it's not very much (you just pick the one based on how tall you are). It's neither really firm nor very bouncy really. Helps the old back a lot... 11 miles? I only wish, but that's a plan to be in excruciating pain for a week (well, for me at least) The only execise I can do pretty much is walking

ACPI that finally works properly? Volume Shadow Service? Basic firewall/ICF? Defragmenter support (instead of defraggers hacking the kernel to hook themselves up)? Prefetch? Remote Desktop? Remote Assistance? System Restore? Cleartype? Hibernate? Hot docking? New start menu (more than a skinned old menu)? New image preview and zip file handling? CD burning? Wireless Zero Config? Network bridging? UPnP? Automatic updates? Fast user switching? Faster boot times (and bootvis)? Far better deployment tools? Better IE security since SP2? Driver rollback? Better GPO settings? x64 version (and MCE and Tablet versions and embedded too)? Improved memory management? Improved SMP kernel? Redesigned registry and config subsystem (faster, uses less memory, mostly lockfree)? DEP/NX support (so won't run buffer overflow exploits on stack)? Better application compatibility? Improved command line tools (like net use) and new ones (such as openfiles or eventquery), or even just improved apps whose looks haven't changed so people don't notice (like notepad, or new calc that's more accurate)? Etc. I hate it when people pretend it's just win2k with a new skin and activation. It's FAR more than that. A LOT of stuff has changed. I'd never go back to win2k...

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More or less same as yours. -Strech -Good posture and ergonomics (right height, not looking at sides, etc) -Use a trackball instead of a mouse (MUCH easier on the wrists - one that's thumb-driven, the others are totally unusable) -exercise balls are good (I swap the chait for it every now and then)

That won't work, it's not like he starts the worker processes manually. Don't know if he's still around and looking for an answer, but priority saver will do what he wants, and it's free too. Very stable and all (part of my unattended install, got it on every PC, very nice app)

phpbb is free, the other 2 aren't. I've picked other regardless

I have NO idea why you're saying this. It's truly nothing personnal. It's just that I can recognize hardware with s***ty drivers and no support when I see some, and never buy that junk again. If you ever had bought similar junk that just isn't supported by their maker, and gone thru basically hell for years with it, you'd wouldn't be praising them either. Creative is to sound cards what Norton is to Antiviruses, or what netburst is to CPUs. Lots of people still buy the junk because of clever marketing, but it's clearly sub-par. And yes, I definitely have a better card now (BlueGears in the main PC, also an M-Audio in another).

3rd party drivers working doesn't make it a good card. AC3 did NOT passthru work with win2k, and it was NOT something to do with my setup. It didn't work for anybody who were using creative's drivers. Took 'em forever to fix it. That's a very well known issue. Even then sometimes you needed to replace DLLs to get it working (past SP2). Nothing wrong with my setup (other than using a creative card, that is) Well, so you see it perfectly normal to buy ok hardware but with s***tiest drivers ever made, and then rely on others to hopefully make drivers for it? I'd say having half decent drivers is a very basic requirement. I've had issues with other companies' drivers before (nvidia), but nothing that REQUIRED me to use 3rd party drivers to get basic functionnality or for my PC not to BSOD. It's TOTALLY unacceptable, even if there are 3rd party drivers. Well, back when XP came out, they only had that Win98-driver "patch" (like I mentionned before) on their website. They did have full WDM drivers made for XP, but you had to pay 15$ to be sent a CD (why pay pennies for a couple MBs of bandwidth to support a 350$ card when you can ask 15$ for a half cent CD?) And it's still that way. Want the remote to work with the live drive? They've got updates to the required software ("remote center") on their website - not the full thing, so you gotta install the app from your win98 drivers CD still or it won't even install. Or again, buy the CD... And buy another CD when Vista's out too... Not the level of support I expect out of a 350$ card. DAC wise, I disagree too. They're well known to be overly "enthusiastic" about their specs. Or if you look at the audigy's [Phillips] DACs, which support 24/96 (it even says so right on the box) - but it's just too bad the 10k2 can NOT feed it with that (16/48 only), making it pointless (well, except they can write "24/96 DACs!" in big everywhere) Their DACs are truly NO better than comparable cards from other companies at the same price point (often worse) And I'm still skippin a lot of stuff, like the APS 2.0 driver being cancelled. Anyway. Long story short, kX drivers is NO excuse for creative's drivers sucking so badly. And PC hardware without proper drivers is really just an expensive paperweight.

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Don't be so pedantic. Everybody knows what he meant - PC as in the old x86 box running MS OS'es (Windows typically). I can't help but laugh when I think someone expected Windows apps to run onto OS X

Well, what's the point of having good hardware if the drivers suck badly? It's still makes for a dysfunctional POS. Perhaps you've never bought a SB Live 5.1 a few years ago. The AC3 passthru for Win2k was broken, for YEARS (was only fixed at some point past SP2). And since I had bought the card to get 5.1 sound from DVDs, that was frustrating to say the least. The drivers for XP? Their very own instructions, right from their website: Install your win98 drivers from your existing CD, then install this thing over it after. Nevermind the Win98 VXD-based drivers did BSOD WinXP... Then reboot, hope it doesn't crash, and install these WDM drivers on top. Wow. Now THAT'S quality software if I've ever seen any And these was the issue with SB Lives used with via KT133 chipsets, which would make Win98 BSOD every 5 minutes. PCI latency patches only made win98 crash a bit less often (still like twice a day). Without the SB Live, the system ran just fine (even though KT133 wasn't exactly a great chipset either) We never got the promised ASIO drivers either. They're well known for over-stating their specs (borderline outright lying - like the 24/96 claims about the Audigy) And now they want to charge for driver downloads. I would have expected more from a card I've paid 350$ for (plat version with live drive). I'd say that's the single piece of hardware I've bought that had the absolute worst drivers I've ever seen, and perhaps the worst support too. EAX is perhaps the ONLY good thing about creative's cards. Nevermind Aureal A3D was far better (but they were sued into oblivion by creative who didn't even have a case) Anyhow. I vote with my money, and I'll only buy a creative card as the VERY LAST option, just before having no sound at all on my PC.

Actually, that's becoming less and less the case. Back then, upgrading your sound card usually got you significant improvements - better DACs, better SNR, etc. Upgrading from a SB16 to a SB Live was a decent step up. But nowadays with surround sound... Between a SB Live or a X-Fi, there will hardly be any difference in your movie's 5.1 surround sound over spdif. Last time I upgraded my main sound card wasn't so much for a huge improvement in sound. It was: -to get rid of creative-made junk -to get rid of the driver nightmare creative junk comes with -to get rid of creative's proprietary 3 pole 1/8" minijacks and 9 pin minidins for spdif links (good luck finding extensions for that - you have *NO* idea...) -to get Dolby Digital Live, which creative doesn't do -to get better connectitivity (just look at the basic X-Fi, IIRC, spdif out is same plug as microphone in or such! What a mess!) etc. It's MUCH nicer overall, but surround sound quality... Not much change there. And about onboard audio... The main point my nicest sound card has over my onboard HD audio? Lower CPU usage. Regardless, I'm never buying another creative-made piece of junk, ever.

I sure said "more expensive than 100$", but surely not crazy. In fact, I do think they're decently priced @ ~100$ for the network module. I mean, you're getting a complete embedded system, not just a network jack. There's a decent with processor running on there (ARM or otherwise), which is usually running a lot of stuff: often a web server (http/https), ftp server and/or tftp server, telnet server, SNMP (different versions), IPP, NCP, NDS, LPD, SLP, DHCP client and BOOTP, and other protocols including proprietary ones (for remote management/config namely) or features like IGMP snooping. And all this not only over TCP/IP, but often supporting other network protocols too, like Novell IPX/SPX or AppleTalk. Newer (recent) versions include even more stuff, like IPv6 support, SSL/TLS/IPSec, 802.1x authentication, etc. And developping all this software to run on an embedded system isn't exactly trivial (it's not quite like just installing apache on your box - you even have to write the TCP/IP stack, OS and all). And there's more hardware on the card, like a network chipset, memory to keep the config settings and firmware (usually RAM and flash), etc. All that, often coming in interchangeable (e.g. ethernet or usb modules or modules with both - or even wireless nowadays)/standard slots (EIO), warranty, support, firmware updates, software for remote admin, etc. I just can't see how this should (or could) cost less than that, and it's well worth it. I love my laserjet

Yet, you seemingly have no problems with the worst "language" (and I use that term loosely) that is PHP which has countless major issues. Let's put it that way, I'd basically use ANYTHING before PHP. And PHP scripting jobs are typically low paying jobs (not that I'd take the job even if it paid - I'd switch fields before that). It's popular as php hosting is dirt cheap any easy enough that any clueless n00b can write some dirty hack job, but that's the only thing going for it. Other than that, it's god awful - a real atrocity in every aspect. I'll take anything over PHP, be it Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, VB.Net, Java, C++, etc.

TypSoft seems nice too. But there really are countless others: Apache FTP Server, FreeFTPd, GuildFTPd, Platypus FTP Server, WarFTPd, CesarFTP, Encrypted FTP, Baby FTP Server, etc. Edit... Yet another one know doesn't know the fundamental difference between ftp server and client. BlazeFTP is a client.

Same here, I wouldn't go with an injet period. Not exactly what I call a nice printer...

Neither - seriously! (Besides, scripting PHP for a living? No thanks!)

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