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Something like : http://titan.fsb.hr/~dzorc/zback.html jaclaz

Well, with all due respect , besides the fact that Windows XP didn't make sense (as OS on laptops - or whatever - on the International Space Station) even when it was supported by MS, the only meaningful updates to XP are or could be "security patches" and particularly those preventing "remote code execution" and similar. Now I would think that the good NASA guys (or whomever is the International Space Station ISP ) have some "sound and solid" firewall/filtering and that astronauts don't do much browsing/searching for p0rn, warez and similar possibly "insecure" sites.... As well I don' think the good NASA guys ever used Excel to calculate vectors and routes.... http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/users/vuik/wi211/disasters.html ...and certainly never multiplied 850 by 77.1: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/excel_2007_bug/ BTW, in that occasion (strangely ) the good MS guys misrepresented the bug: jaclaz

Naah, much earlier than that : http://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html jaclaz

I don't think there is a way, if not by using a VBA function. Something *like*: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/342753-insert-alt-enter-into-cell-column-defined-comma-counted.html Once said that, the reasoning: may not be "exahaustive enough". Why not using on the same rows more columns, one for each telephone number? Those could be the "rightmost" columns (possibly also hidden or "closed") and you could have as last right column of the area you print (or whatever) something with a formula like: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/298732-formula-insert-alt-enter-into-cell.html Say that you have: A1 Name B1 Surname C1 Telephones A2 John B2 Doe C2 =TEXT(Y2;"(000) 000-0000")&CHAR(10)&TEXT(Z2;"(000) 000-0000")<- this will result as the phone numbers on two lines and formatted as you like. Y2 5551234567 Z2 9875554321 jaclaz

What is a "1080p" screen? Seriously, the quality of what you see (in my personal scale) is connected to (remember, games were excluded, thus fast changing images are not that much an issue): Quality of video card (and it's drivers) 40% Quality of display 50% Quality of the connecting cable 3% Type of connection (VGA/DVI/etc.) 1% Prejudices of the onlooker 6% <- and in any case beauty is in the eye of the beholder . Until we are within "normal" resolutions (and in the case of a LCD display "native" resolution - a 23" is likely to be 16/10 1920 X 1080 @ 60 Hz ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/66949.aspx http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10216488-1.html The difference could be only if - for any reason - the VGA port of the monitor has "worse" circuitry than the other ports. I.e. it is well possible that a given couple video card + Display may work sub-optimally with VGA,, but I would call that a (rare) exception. Probably on non-native resolutions, it is more likely that a difference can be found. jaclaz

Surely not, but you just gracefully descended off the paranoids' bus today. Noone was even thinking that you were not fully qualified for the *whatever* you are qualified for . It was just myself and puntoMX remembering the good ol' days.... jaclaz

@puntoMX Sure , and there are also Gold coated Audio cables, and coat hangers, just google for comparisons. jaclaz

It's not like a (say) 1280x1024 screen will have more (or clearer) pixels through displayport than through VGA. Check: http://superuser.com/questions/15884/hdmi-vs-component-vs-vga-vs-dvi-vs-displayport There may be very rare cases in which the VGA signal may "catch" some disturbs/noise, but apart from that, there is actually no difference in the way the signal is transmitted. Think of beer the difference from getting the SAME beer as bottled beer or canned (or directly as draught beer ) is barely noticeable (if noticeable at all). The quality of the beer will make a difference, though . jaclaz

As a "general rule", even if you find only the XP drivers, you can have a look at the inf files and use some of the pid/vids inside them to search for other OS drivers. Is your PC one of these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-of-2-Dell-OptiPlex-GX150-SFF-Desktop-Pentium-3-Small-Form-Computer-PARTS-/261212632640?pt=US_Wholesale_Desktop_Computers&hash=item3cd17c7640 The GFX150 comes in different form factors. The good guys at DELL have not (yet) understood that different products should have different names. Manual is here: ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_optiplex_desktop/optiplex-gx150_User%27s%20Guide_en-us.pdf Drivers here: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/Product/optiplex-gx150 (select Windows 98 in the drop down list) should apply to all of them. jaclaz

Can someone provide a translation of a few key sentences here? http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2013/05/06/windows-8-at-6-months-q-amp-a-with-tami-reller.aspx I read 'em as: Noone thought that SP1 was a suitable name, so we decided to call the update Windows Blue for a change, <some meaningless mumble-jumble>. <some meaningless mumble-jumble>, <some more meaningless mumble-jumble>, Hey, it's "green"! <some vague mumble-jumble> It will be an improvement. This is our last chance to put together our act.<some false mumble-jumble> <this is ONLY meaningless mumble-jumble> Really, beside the total obviousness of each and every sentence, it reminds me school when we had to fill a given number of pages and struggled to use longer sentences to express non-new ideas and absolutely trite arguments in a "politically correct" wording (along the ideas of the teacher), adding senselessly repetitive sentences to reach the assigned length (and get a better grade). jaclaz

For no apparent reason : jaclaz

But, IIRR, your NT of choice is XP SP2 (or have you moved on to SP3 at long last?)... and that qualifies you as a die-hard, too. Of course, being a regular DOS user (true DOS, not a simple DOS box) is also a great die-hard qualification... then again, the whole MSCDEX vs. SHSUCDX matter itself is actually a bona-fide true DOS subject. Well actually I still have machines running NT 4.00, 2K and the XP (SP2, you are right) I normally use is due to a couple of softwares that I cannot really run on 2K. I expect to be qualified as die-harder. jaclaz

Actually I would not consider myself a Windows 9x/Me user, though I have used them and like to play with them, I am much more a NT user. Now, DOS is another thing. And no, no intentions to start the usual flame war about 9x/Me vs. NT or the more common NTFS vs. FAT32. jaclaz

The bad news being that I wasn't that much young (not even then ) the good news are that when the CIH/Chernobyl virus struck (you should remember it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus) I saved quite a few motherboards by simply hot-swapping with a good "reference" BIOS chip. This same approach should work still today.... jaclaz

I have to disagree with you, not only a lot of people are math challenged, but when it comes to certain types of software most users are "feature challenged". (or at least have been till now) I have been working in the building field for many (maybe too many) years, but - seriously - I know maybe two or three people capable of using AutoCAD "properly" (in the sense of being capable of using the features that it offers), As you might well know AutoDesk outputs a new version of Autocad every year or two. I guess I have seen them all, the only "revolution" I can remember was the R14/2000 version (in practice the first versions running nicely under Windows). Sure each year some new features were introduced, but the point is that noone (exception made for very high end users, which actually - often - use Bentley Microstation instead ) uses them (not only because they dont' even know how to use those features, but mainly because they have NO use for them). Still, on the PC's of each and every engineer, architect, surveyor, draftsman and what not there is a copy of the latest (or near to latest) Autocad (whether "original/licensed" or "pirated" is another matter ). Same goes more or less for Photoshop. Noone - if not a handful of high end graphic designers/illustrators/photographers - actually know how to use it if not "fully", well enough and actually *need* it's features. Sure these people *need* it but they are a little number when compared to the common sillogism "graphic tool" = "Photoshop" or "drawing app" = "Autocad". The photos you (or anyone else "average", no offence whatever intended ) took of a cousin's friend last year at the seaside have nothing to do with the work of (say) David Hamilton, besides the uglier model and the much worse photographer you had also a bad camera, a terrible lighting, a senseless composition of the scene. Sure you can use Photoshop to remove the red eyes and the other friend pulling faces behind her, but the result will suck big anyway (and you could have used any much cheaper soft to get the same result). On Amazon, Photoshop CS6 (new, not "used") is (casually) a little over 600 bucks: http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-65158237-Photoshop-CS6/dp/B007R0RKV8 So it is easy to compare. It's not "thousands of dollars now" vs. 50 US$/month (600 US$/years), it 600 US$ now (and maybe another 600 bucks not earlier than two or three or four years) vs. 50 US$/month for the rest of your life. Evidently even the most math challenged users maybe started to realize that it was foolish to buy a new version of the software with added features they wouldn't use. Most probably a large number of them (possibly with the world crisis as additional reason) stopped buying a new version of the software every year, and the good Adobe guys "invented" a way to force them to start again (BTW in the meantime saving the costs for the CD/DVD's, the box, etc.). Just like it is the issue with the MS guys, Adobe is of course perfectly free to choose the business model and licensing terms they prefer, whatever it is, and also to provide no alternatives, the real issue is AGAIN attempting to attribute this marketing move to preferences of their customers' base. jaclaz

Good . But that was three years ago, you have just been told how, besides being "better" , SHSUCDX also uses lots less memory, so you now have TWO reasons to keep nonetheless using MSCDEX.EXE. jaclaz

Sure , but on a brand new machine (within the first few months) it is more likely that the Windows is "working", over the years, due to any number of reasons it is possible that something "goes wrong" in it, and the user may have each and every kind of half-@§§edly coded services or device drivers, automatic updates, background scanning or defragging, whatever. Flashing under Windows is dangerous. (or at least it is more dangerous than under Dos). If you prefer, flashing a BIOS under *any* multitasking OS is more dangerous than flashing it under *any* singletask OS. The difference is in the "multi" , and that's exactly (in the "multi" part exceeding the "single") where Murphy's Law waits patiently an occasion to prove itself right once again jaclaz

Patent on what? It's WHAT, more than ten years that third party "Bios savior" (watch it it may be a Copyright) exists: http://www.ioss.com.tw/web/English/RD1BIOSSavior.html http://www.realworldtech.com/ioss-bios-savior/ And there are patents by Asustek, Hon-Hai (Foxconn), Inventec on similar approaches: http://www.google.com/patents/US8205069 jaclaz

That is Rule #3 . Rules of the SHSUCDX club: #1 You DON'T TALK about the SHSUCDX club. #2 You DON'T TALK about the SHSUCDX club. #3 You DON'T TALK about memory footprint! Ooops. jaclaz

Well, there is not even a need of doing a statistical analysis, a psychological/targeting one is good enough: Are you cheap, a geek (or BOTH ) or simply cannot afford an Iphone BUT want a smartphone -> Get a Google/Android smartphone Are you trendy, have lots of money or demented enough to replace the expense for many good meals with an awful amount of money -> get an Iphone Are you "Corporate", do you think (wrongly) that your employees actually use the smartphone you bought them for work -> get a Blackberry Are you for any reason affectionate to MS (because they have been good to you all these years) or, more simply, are completely demented -> Get a Windows Phone Are you BOTH cheap and geek AND have no use for a last generation smartphone (or you are jaclaz ) -> keep your good ol' Symbian (or keep using a normal cellular phone) The good news are that overall the amount of completely demented people is fairly little , the bad news is that, even considering that a small part of #1 and #2 are "Corporate" the people that actually "work" are a minority (a number of "Corporate" that migrated from #3 to #2 or #1 did that only to be able to play Ruzzle during meetings ). Humanity is doomed. jaclaz P.S.: @Charlotte Yes, hooks and more than that correct spelling are a good thing, not only in hand-writing: jaclaz

Sorry, but this time I have to disagree with you. Should you need it, I am a (self-declared ) authority on the matter of "I" vs. "J" in handwriting as I greatly suffered (and still suffer from time to time ) from this particular issue. According to official papers (here in Italy) a capital "I" in hand-writing is considered "J" when the lower part of the letter extends below the horizontal line of all small letters no less than half the amount the descending letters (like the "g" in the posted logo). If it descends less than that, then it has to be considered a plain "I". I cannot provide a reference but I have seen myself the instructions given to municipality clerks when the digitalizing of birth certificates took place. Indeed. jaclaz

Only problem being that this piece of info was kindly provided by ricktendo .... jaclaz

Most probably you can also "cross-link" the two files. I have NO idea how currently your spreadsheet is made and how the data is input in that, but check the attached Calendar1.xls and Calendar2.xls. (of course just an example) when some data is entered in calendar1 the corresponding cell in calendar2 becomes red.... Just a basic idea, then you might need a third spreadsheet to "merge" the calendar of the first two (at the end of the day). jaclaz calendars.zip

Actually there is NO disagreement whatever. MSCDEX is "crystalized" in time to it's last release, which was BEFORE a number of changes happened to the ISO 9660 standard (and it's integrations) SHSUCDX is continuously updated If you are in the usual nostalgia trip and want to - say - explore an AOL CD : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/america-online-aol-cd-discs,11854.html MSCDEX is more than OK . If you want to access data written to a CD (or DVD) more recently it is possible that MSCDEX will choke on it. As said elsewhere : jaclaz

The 6.2.9200.16438 version seems connected to the Windows8 SDK: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/hh852363.aspx according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK but cannot say if cabarc.exe is in that. jaclaz