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ooh, I'm talking to Agent Smith? I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. You know, someone important, like an actor. Simsalabim*************poof************ You are Rock Hudson. Question. Is Cypher's statement a comment on his intelligence or the intelligence of the general audience? Especially considering the depth and convolusions you guys are talking about with the movie.

About beaumar's simplicity suggestion, look at how many companies have a circle or circles and/or three marks. Mercedes- circle/three straight lines/three portions, Toyota- circle/two ovals, and so on.

No, no prathapml. I mean how do you want the matrix that you 'live' in to be customized.

I have only watched the first film once so my take on it is slim compared to you guys. Having read what you have written: How can you know true happiness or joy without some pain or misery to compare it too? If all you know is pure joy and pure happiness without something to guage it by, then you sound like you might be a zombie from some prefect world horror movie. (Walgreens, a drug store here in the US, has a commercial like that, spooky, very) Is the 'system' a reflection of the way we behave? Did the subconcious of the original programers come through in the behavior of the agents? Is Smith's statement, about us being a virus, a partial reason for the Matrix itself? In that it controls our growth and spread? Any organism that wipes out it's host, dies. Our host is the whole world. Do you ever get to see the 'real' world in the Matrix? Can you really die in the Matrix? When the Matrix is reloaded, is it a complete re-installation? (wouldn't your body die without the support of the system?) or is it just a 'Windows repair'? Dang. Now I'm going to have to go back and watch them all. P.S. How would you like your version of the Matrix to be written Mr. Prathapml? We are ready to take you order.

lol i get to star out at highs of 30 degrees farenheit! lol. I hate idaho and Happy New Year everyone Just got back from Florida after visiting my parents. Chilled, occupied a lot of time doing not much. (not true. Stunned at events in the Indian Ocean) @BiOhaZarD You're land locked, you grow potatoes and one corner of the state will eventually burp and wipe out a major portion of North America (Yellowstone), what else could you want? And happy new year.

No, it's not funny unless you see the same stuff going on around you. It's ridiculous when you go to a fast food burger stand and the new sizes are 'large', 'extra large' and 'super size' when they were 'regular', 'large' and 'extra large'. I guess there must have been a time when they were 'small', 'medium' and 'large'. Mind you, when I ordered a large chocolate milk shake at McD's, it was setting off my gag factor before I could finish it. Way to much. Edit> Did you see the article in the paper about the midget psychic that had escaped from prison? The title was 'Small medium at large".

Nice job on shading around the Yorkshire terriers hair and the background. New breed, Weinershire. What do you get when you cross a s***zu and a cockerpoo? I'm not going to answere, figure it out. Edit> Wow and s***zu is the name of a real type of dog. What a dirty word filter!

Regular book Stephen Hawking or Micheal Jordan

And how well do you do in school ExtreMaC?

Stainless Spring or Fall

http://www.mdgx.com/xp1.htm#IXPA Bottom of the page. Don't know if it is useful.

@Yzowl This topic has come up before and this is the first time I have seen the article you point to and the first time I have seen a proper explanation of the goings on in page, swap and vm. I have read several articles in the past by people who I thought were somewhat in the know about this topic and none indicated the factors listed in the article you point to. I was under the same impression that Jeremy was/is. I have run Windows without any pagefile space allocated in the past and never saw any problems. Also, it appears that Blackviper is not fully knowledgable about this but did indicate that different configurations and programs were going to have different effects. So it boils down to this: 1) Always have pagefile(s), the larger the better if you are short on memory and always have a sufficient amount regardless. You need to figure out how much you need. 2) If you have a second HDD, put a greater portion of your pagefile there. This should ease the load your main HDD might have. You will need to adjust this, depending on the speed of your second HDD. If you are running a game off the second HDD then you are going to want more of the pagefile on the main HDD (running a game off the second HDD, particularly if the second is faster, speeds up loading of the game but not sure how much it helps otherwise). Spreading the load should reduce the strain on the main HDD and lower the chance of HDD failure and increase the lifespan of the main HDD. Putting more of the strain on the second HDD would be safer than overloading the main because if you are going to have a failure, it would be better on the second (assuming your OS is on the main). 3) More RAM doesn't hurt. Just expensive. Please post corrections, ammendments. Everything above is what I distilled from what I have read.

You guys have given me the same info and it was a big help. I also would like to change the default boot OS but it sticks with the last one loaded (with Windows anyway). I have changed the order in which they are listed in boot.ini but to no effect. Any ideas?

I use XP Home and Pro, Win 98 and now a couple of live distros of linux for the fun of it. Are you asking which does someone prefer? It doesn't make a huge difference to me except I find Win98 is more prone to locking up. When I am more comfortable with Linux, I think I will like it better because there are so many components that can come with it that it is beyond just an OS. If you change the vote to "what do you prefer" or make it multiple choice "which ones do you use", I can make a valid choice.

I love it. It is not a program that I absolute have to have. I am for the most part a home user. I got into Google to find an application to make installing Windows easier because I had gotten a virus and couldn't find a cure. I still don't know what the virus was. I think I located MSFN because of un-attended. When I got here, I found nLite, a lot of nice people and a lot of information. I knew I had come across something really cool when I saw nLite. With some time having gone by, I now see quite a bit of value to a number of people. It lowers the risk of infection, speeds up your OS, makes reinstalling much easier, intergrates hotfixes, intergrates drivers and when I finally get a CD done properly, it will install any programs I want. All at the same time. I can imagine it will save IT's many hours of work each. Now, if I have a problem with Windows, I will have to make a judgement call as to wether it will be quicker to try to repair it (google it, search, look, try and maybe repair) or back up a couple of files and reintall. Hmmmmm. nLite will probably win more often than not for me. nLite and all the developers

Me too. Merry Christmas to all. I'll be out of town also.

Straight, I want my transformer, straight. Breast or thigh (chicken)

Installing the two OS's on two partitions is fairly easy. You will just have to catch your computer before it loads one up and it is the other you want. It will give you a sellection and you have about 30 seconds to choose. The names of the two OS's will be the same if you use the same OS on the two partitions and you can change them in the boot.ini and you can also change the time that is given and the sequence that they may boot up. I don't know about Win 98 and XP working together but if you are running two partitions with XP on each then you can run programs that are installed on one while you are using the other if they are stand-alone programs. If they are tied into XP somehow or are dependent on NET 1.1 and you have that installed on one partition and not the other then they probably won't work. And don't forget, you can install a program off one partition onto the other. Each OS will look at the other partition as just another partition, nothing more. The OS will see the programs on the other partition as programs that you installed there. It just won't have them listed in it's Programs File and registry or anywhere else it might put stuff. This is not completely accurate. It is just based on what I have experienced.

From what I have read, putting your page file on the second drive helps but splitting it between the drives can be an even bigger help. If you have 512 in memory, you may be getting to the point where you may not need much in the way of a page file anyway and if you have 1 GB then you may be able to run without a page file at all. I have read where a number of people zero out their page file size when they have larger memories because they didn't need it and it saved wear on their HDD's. I have run a computer with no pagefile and didn't notice a difference but I also didn't put it through the works to see what would happen. I guess it is going to depend on what you are going to run on your computer. An alternate to this is if you are experimenting with an OS, then use a live build and there isn't going to be a pagefile at all. I've done this with Mepis(Linux), DSL(**** Small Linux, 50MB total) and Win XP Home (used BartPE). Making an XP disk with 130 MB to 250 MB using nLite, you could just re-install windows somewhat regularly to clean out the cobwebs. Use 2 GB for primary partition. I don't think windows will complain about that. Your programs are somewhere else. Permutations.

@ Famer Well the prices on HDD's have been quite low recently and it set me to wondering. Why? I mean the prices on 120 GB HDD's have been down around $40 on sale. What's up with that? Makes me wonder if there is something around the corner and the HDD manufacturers and dealers are trying to get rid of their stock. There are always advances in technology and everytime I buy something, it is old within 2 years. Eight years ago, I had a computer with an 800 MB HDD. I now have 120 GB (two actually, because they were so cheap). That is doubling in capacity every year and using the same type of structure only more disks. In let's say five years you are using your computer with 1tb of HDD. Is it possible that there may be a new form of storage that would leave your HDD outdated? If not that then what about the stability of the medium. We are always doing backups for safety. Most of the CDs we use to back up have a shelf life of 20 years (I think) at the very best. Some are much less than that. I have had two HDD's go bad on me. I can't imagine having 1tb go click-click-click..... And what is the shelf life for a HDD that has info on it and not used? Ahhh, just prattling on.

I like the idea of letting the sender's mail being held by the sender's server until you decide to download it. You don't want it, let it sit there. That was a good idea.

Bad Santa, bad, bad Santa. Screen door in a hurricane. The imagery.

I am going to venture a guess that some of that is self imposed. Wish I and some others around me had the same (similar) drive/ambition/dedication. Best wishes prathapml.

We give three days around Christmas and New Year which invariably gets blended into one longer vacation around a weekend by adding a day or two. Me, I take the whole week off and call it my annual week vacation. Seasons greetings to all. P.S. How about you prathapml?

4 terrabytes? How would you use so much space? I'm taking you seriously because all the rest is do-able and nice.