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  1. Pink Floyd - Yet Another Movie

    Joy Division - Colony (Peel sessions)

    Joy Division - Day of the Lords

    Joy Division - Heart and Soul (this is a really happy song)

    Skold vs KMFDM - All or Nothing

    Skold vs KMFDM - Why Me

    Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

    The Dirtbombs - Shari Vari

    Massive Attack - Mezzanine

    Massive Attack - Angel

    The Ventures - Apache '65

    The Ventures - Ram bunk shush

    The Ventures - Telstar

    The Ventures - Cruel sea

    The Ventures - Perfidia

    The Ventures - Walk don't run

    The Ventures - Diamond Head

    The Ventures - Out of Limits

  2. My wacky prediction:

    Windows 98 and ME will survive the next coming decades, as they'll be the preferred OS of choice for "Desktop PC" hobbyists.

    Windows XP and newer, due to their complexity and probable crippling from Microsoft Activation, won't be as much "fun" to toy around on. (Basically I think desktop PC's will be gone in 15 years or so).

    Everyone else will have abandoned these archaic things long before then, in favor of the latest gizmo that fits in your pocket.

    So, in my view, Windows 98 and ME will achieve immortality and appreciation from computer hobbyists who enjoy big bulky boxes that take up lots of space. It's kinda like muscle cars from the late 60's and early 70's. I mean, who is going to give a darn about the 2008 Dodge Charger or whatever. But the 1970 Charger, that's another story. Back when you didn't have to be an astronaut to fix your own car.

    Of course, I could just be blowing smoking up everyone's.... ahem. :)

  3. Hmm... I wonder what model Pavilion you had, do you remember? Because mine has a sticker on the front that says "Designed for Windows ME + Windows 2000 Professional." I've seen people put XP on these computers... so it's not like it can't be done.

    Maybe we had the same computer. Hehe.

    Im tired of the new OS's and how they suck. Windows vista and 7 especially.

    For me, it's not so much that the OS's suck, but rather: The software sucks pretty bad, and the user interface is crap.

    The software sucks because it's deeply integrated into the computer and everything is "internet-ready." Meaning, they have way too much access to your computer just for some simple crap like managing photos, ripping CD's, anti-virus programs, and whatnot. Does everything always have to be connected online? I really think it's excessive and an invasion of privacy.

    And the user interfaces just look stupid to me. I prefer the Windows ME interface the most. :)

  4. Who knows...

    I've never bothered with windows update myself though. If you're running windows 98/Me you already have a measure of "security through obscurity." I don't know what good any updates would do for windows 98, hate to say it.

    http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5164450.stm?dynamic_vote=ON#vote_5164450

    Mikko Hypponen from Finnish security firm F-Secure said that it was still providing updates for Windows 98 users who run its anti-virus package.

    "In fact, 98 users are not at that great a risk as people might think: most of the new malware we see simply won't run there," he said.

    Yes, Dells suck. I had two Dells. One of them I threw into a swamp in the woods, the other one I gave away.

    The computer I have right now is an eleven year old HP Pavilion 7845, which was designed for exclusively for running Windows Me. I've had ZERO problems with it.

    I tried fiddling around with a Dell, in my case it was nearly impossible to find a stupid modem that worked on that worthless piece of junk. Plus the fact I had windows 2000 probably didn't help. Seems to have been a terrible OS for 56k modems and overall bad driver support. But yeah.

    One of those Dells was an Optiplex Gx260, which I attempted to "downgrade" to Windows Me and 2000 from XP. It was a nightmare, I eventually did get the graphics drivers to work, aftering trying several strategies, and I got the sound to work, but I never was able to find a modem for it. So I gave up. And I decided I wasn't ever going to waste that much money again.... seeing as how, by the time I was done screwing with it, I could've bought a cheap new computer from BestBuy or WallMart for the same price.

    If I want to indulge my Windows Me hobbies, then I always check the specifications at the manufacturer's website, and if it says the exact OS the computer was designed to run (like Windows 98/me), then I'll go ahead. But If it doesn't say, then I don't bother with it. Because I want to know exactly before I spend money on it, then I'll just go and get the appropriate version of Windows off Ebay. At this point I have a collection of Windows CD that I bought off ebay including several Windows ME discs, windows 98, I have the windows 95 floppy disks, and DOS and windows 3.1. And Windows 2000. That way, if I'm messing around with old computers, I'll be able to install the right OS. Sorry, I know that probably won't help you though.

    Advanced Troubleshooting for Dell Dimension 3000

    http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/en/SM/adtshoot.htm#wp1043338

  5. The Doors - The Crystal Ship

    The Doors - end of the night

    The Doors - the spy

    The Doors - Ships with sails

    The Doors - wandering musician

    The Doors - Albinoni's Adagio in G minor

    Kings of Leon - Back down south

    VNV Nation - Beloved (Tim Schuldt featuring D-Foundation remix)

    Merle Haggard - swinging doors

    Merle Haggard - the bottle let me down

    Merle Haggard - sing me back home

    Merle Haggard - Okie from muskogee

    Merle Haggard - are the good times really over

    Willie Nelson - blue eyes crying in the rain

    Willie Nelson - angel flying too close to the ground

    Willie Nelson - if you can touch her at all

    Willie Nelson - always on my mind

    Neil Young - Speakin' Out

    Neil Young - Tired Eyes

    <3 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

    <3 The Byrds - 5D

    <3 The Byrds - my back pages

    Vanilla Fudge - you keep me hangin' on

    INXS - Never tear us apart

    Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars

    Metallica - Unforgiven II

    Metallica - Whiskey in the jar

    Kings of Leon - Pyro

    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes - Home

    MGMT - Time to Pretend

    Dragonette - Easy

    Snow Patrol - Run

    Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul

    Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters

    Travis - Sing

    K.D. Lang - Anywhere but here

    Radiohead - fake plastic trees

    Till Tuesday - voices carry

    Rob Thomas - Ever The Same

    Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

    Mozart - Concerto No. 21: II Andante

    Paul McCartney - Lonely road

    Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

    Paul McCartney - Magic

    Big Wreck - Under the Lighthouse

    REM - Country Feedback

    REM - Bang and Blame

    REM - Let Me In

    The Righteous Brothers - See That Girl

    John Denver - Rocky Mountain High

    John Denver - Sunshine on my shoulders

    The National - Beautiful Head

    The National - Cardinal Song (...save it for the deathbed)

    The National - 90 mile water wall <3

    George Winston - Reflection

    Robert Miles - Children

    Real McCoy - Another Night

    Rammstein - Ein Lied

    Coldplay - what if

  6. Just read Ecclesiastes. It has all the answers you seek in life.

    Here's a few pearls of wisdom:

    Ecclesiastes 1

    Everything Is Meaningless

    1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

    2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”

    says the Teacher.

    “Utterly meaningless!

    Everything is meaningless.”

    3 What do people gain from all their labors

    at which they toil under the sun?

    4 Generations come and generations go,

    but the earth remains forever.

    5 The sun rises and the sun sets,

    and hurries back to where it rises.

    6 The wind blows to the south

    and turns to the north;

    round and round it goes,

    ever returning on its course.

    7 All streams flow into the sea,

    yet the sea is never full.

    To the place the streams come from,

    there they return again.

    8 All things are wearisome,

    more than one can say.

    The eye never has enough of seeing,

    nor the ear its fill of hearing.

    9 What has been will be again,

    what has been done will be done again;

    there is nothing new under the sun.

    10 Is there anything of which one can say,

    “Look! This is something new”?

    It was here already, long ago;

    it was here before our time.

    11 No one remembers the former generations,

    and even those yet to come

    will not be remembered

    by those who follow them.

    Wisdom Is Meaningless

    12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

    15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;

    what is lacking cannot be counted.

    16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

    18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;

    the more knowledge, the more grief.

  7. Who else thinks that we're headed for a Great Depression... or at least Japan-style stagnation? Anyone?

    just look at all the trends, they're all pointing down despite whatever flash-in-the-pan gains are made on Wall Street. I think all that stuff is B.S. anyway.

    So a couple of fortune 500 companies stock goes up, what does that say? Did they create more jobs in Singapore? More telemarketer jobs in India?

    I don't understand how the status of a multinational corporation, which half the time doesn't pay taxes thanks to all the loopholes, is a reflection on the real economy. Main street doesn't have anything to do with Wall Street.

    Plus the "unemployment" stats are nothing but lies. They don't even count the people who gave up looking for work, like me.

    Anybody need to hire a hit man? LOL.

  8. Basically if I understand correctly then, it's a Windows 98 issue and your computer works fine otherwise, right?

    I don't know... maybe I'd try installing another graphic card and see what that does. Assuming you're BIOS allows you to do that, because you'd have to change the settings to use something different than the integrated graphics chip I think.

    So if you have any spare (older) graphics cards laying around, maybe give them a try.

  9. No problem.

    and it tells me that there is something conflicting with it.

    Did it say exactly what?

    Another suggestion, and I'm grasping at straws here, you might check to see if the motherboard / BIOS has any upgrades available that correct that. But I'd be cautious of doing that unless you're 100% certain.

    Good luck.

  10. Boz Scaggs - Miss Riddle

    Boz Scaggs - Vanishing Point

    Smashing Pumpkins - Blue Skies Bring Tears

    Larry The Dinosaur 2 game intro

    Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird

    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

    Nine Inch Nails - the frail

    Smashing Pumpkins - Everlasting gaze

    Smashing Pumpkins - Raindrops & sunshowers

  11. Neil Young - Light a candle

    Neil Young - expecting to fly

    Neil Young - sugar mountain

    Neil Young - the old laughing lady

    Neil Young - down by the river

    Neil Young - helpless

    Neil Young - see the sky about to rain

    Neil Young - on the beach

    Neil Young - heart of gold

    Neil Young - only love can break your heart

    Neil Young - Don't cry no tears

    Neil Young - Out on the weekend

    Waylon Jennings - This Time

    Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach Texas

  12. According to Wikipedia a MTP driver for W98 could be found in the MS MTP Porting Kit.

    Is there like a simple download for that?

    There was a thread with a short list and some useful information on this a while back: SDHC Micro SDHC card readers for Windows 98. The list is out of date now, but there is currently no shortage of card readers with official Windows 98SE/ME support. Kingston, Belkin, Vantec, or Rosewill, to name a few, have a number of models with compatible drivers. It gets even better. With NUSB, practically all readers are compatible.

    Cool, thanks. :) Where can I find NUSB?

  13. Coldplay - Paradise

    Talk Talk - It's my life

    Talk Talk - Tomorrow started

    Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous Girl

    Pet shop boys - Domino dancing

    The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks

    Nelly Furtado - Try

    Boz Scaggs - Payday

    VNV Nation - Weltfunk

    Nelly Furtado - Say it Right

    VNV Nation - Prelude <3 <3 <3

    Modest Mouse - World at Large <3

    Joy Division - Disorder

    Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never have

    Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place

    Weezer - My Name is Jonas <3 :)

    Smashing Pumpkins - Luna <3

    Sponge - Molly (sixteen candles)

    Smashing Pumpkins - Raindrops and sunshowers

    Smashing Pumpkins - Everlasting Gaze

    Soundgarden - Rusty cage

    Duran Duran - Come undone <3

    New Order - Here to stay

    VNV Nation - Honour

  14. Is this not a non-issue since (I assume) all cameras are using one or another model of flash cards which can be read with any semi-decent flash card reader?

    Possibly. But maybe not.

    The limit my cameras use is a 2gb memory chip. Bigger chips won't work on "older" cameras from only 4-5 years ago. At the very least, I think they're phasing out the older 1 and 2GB chips (do they sell those anymore?)... which will have the effect of phasing out the old cameras that require them.

    As far as flash readers... I don't know... do they have any for Win9x? I don't have one.

    Because MS (and Apple are even worse) don't like you having such flexibility (too dangerous, users must be protected from themselves, blah blah), so now more and more cameras are using MTP/PTP instead.

    Didn't know that. But then again, I'm behind the times. :)

    You know, a list of compatible flash readers would probably be good to list as well.

    Might as well start stocking up on old peripherals before they're gone for good. I might grab me one of those HP Scanjets.

    *Edit*

    I looked on Amazon and they still sell the smaller chips. :) It's just that whenever I go to Walmart or Bestbuy I never see those.

  15. Sisturn Moth - Sad Comes Bad

    http://www.myspace.com/sisturnmoth/music/songs/sad-comes-bad-65670140

    Sisturn Moth - Orange Fur Herdin'

    Sisturn Moth - Nymphs

    Peter Gabriel - Sky Blue

    Nirvana - D7

    Manfred Mann - Hollywood Town <----- really trippy

    Joe Walsh - Certain Situations :) (MY FAV JOE WALSH SONG)

    Joe Walsh - The Friend Song :) (this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside)

    Jefferson Airplane - Today <3

    Procol Harum - Repent Walpurgis !!

    The Chambers Brothers - People Get Ready <3

    The Chambers Brothers - Romeo & Juliet <3

    Prince - A Million Days :(

    Prince - Call My Name <3

    Neil Young - Albuquerque

    Guns n Roses - So Fine

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze

    David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

    Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

    Bob Seger - The Long Goodbye <3

    Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

    Jane Siberry - Temple

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