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'too_little' I understand is more gobby than Greyknight, and flies with the keyboard only as his ex-wife emasculated him by removing his joystick which is why BG declined the offer. Had they offered 'much_more', who is a confirmed ace, then you would have been history m8.

Brilliant, cracking joke that thanks!

Silly bloody sods..reprehensible behaviour and in light of the documented decline of the bee population, and the resultant affect this is having on plant/crop pollination. Good show of the Canon Digital Rebel (300DX) abilities though. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=2243176

Topical. BBC Three at it's best. Movie (rc).wmv

LOL didn't see that one coming!

Subject: Texas Trooper Two men were driving through Texas when they got pulled over by a State Trooper. The cop walked up and tapped on the window with his nightstick. The driver rolled down the window and WHACK, the cop smacked him in the head with his nightstick. "What the hell was that for?" the driver asked. "You're in Texas , son," the trooper answered.

Cool, well coordinated too. Some of the comments from posters were poor though.

that's appalling, and to use it as a sig says things about the sig bearer that are better said physically. With a big stick.

Awesome!

LMAO...reminded me of Arnie....

Yep FAT32 is the default. NTFS is much better, it has error recovery and supports larger file sizes.

On a positive note, I now know that Norton/Symantec Ghost 12 supports Dynamic disks. It (so far) has been excellent for me and has worked well. Unfortunately it's not free, and the way it works you would not be able to back up dynamic disks and restore them as basic. It would back up all of your data which you could then use to restore following a repartition and format. They do a trial version. So next time you feel your system would benefit from a refresh: 1. Install Ghost 12/13/14 (or whatever) 2. Do a full back up to external disk of both partitions 3. Re-install XP and delete existing partitions and formatting as required. 4. Re-install Ghost (within trial period time) 5. Restore data 6. Check all data req is back 7. Repeat #6 above for as long as possible and as often as possible 8. Un-install ghost 9. Use Diskwizard (or Ghost on it's last gasp) to copy small drive to large drive. 25GB is a little on the small side, like 50%, for a system drive if you want to install applications on it too.

External drive is formatted with fat32...tsk tsk. NTFS is so much better, but you know that now! If the supplier of your PC made your disks Dynamic I think you should go round and frighten them, it's a mean stunt to pull with zero benefit on a home system. On a corporate network server it is a real boon being able to slam another disk into a spare slot on an external enclosure, and then add it to an over subscribed array in windows. But on a workstation, or home PC, when you don't have the luxury of 'slipping in' an extra drive... Sorry M8, Backup is and always has been an 'also ran' but it will do the job in it's own quirky way. Over a network it can be suicide inducing though, I once backed up a load of stuff, and 'cos I was bored I frigged around with my network settings. Caused the network adapter to reset and lost the entire backup, completely evaporated..

Acronis do a Home trial for 10 days, but sadly it doesn't either. Dynamic disks were verbotten in HP...and Nokia..

Oops my bad, must be getting rusty....perhaps (in light of your experience) it shouldn't be possible to convert system to dynamic. Yes they are both Dynamic, ouch...but at least that demonstrates you are running XP pro. Because you are running XP Pro you have a nice utility installed called....'Backup' Start->programs->accessories->system tools->backup. You can use this to hot back up (using what they call 'Shadow Volume Copy') your disks in their entirety. It will also, if you choose to do the entire system, create a bootable rescue disk - all said and done I don't use it, I use Norton Ghost and basic volumes. I would look at getting the disks repartitioned at some point, as Dynamic disks can be a biatch (most imaging software doesn't like them and only professional version costing more $$ support them) then you can use DiscWizard/Ghost/Acronis to back up.

I'd say 2 USB wouldn't work...

BTW Dynamic disks have, IMO, limited (if any) benefit in a domestic situation. They are designed to be expanded, non-destructively, via the addition of new drives. You can't make the system drive dynamic though! But you can convert an existing non-system drive. If more than mildly interested there is this article: http://www.petri.co.il/difference_betwe ... 0_2003.htm I feel asleep before the page loaded, it's that boring...

I suspect that is your problem m8. If you right click 'My Computer' -> 'Manage' then look down left column for 'Disk Management' and click it you will see your disks. Does the second partition say 'Dynamic' or 'Basic'. If Dynamic you have a choice, back it up then delete the partition and then create a new, non dynamic one then format it and copy data back. Disk Wizard should then work for you

"white man speak with forked tongue"

Funny you should ask, I have noticed the DangerDogz server is getting flaky, I suspect it's fluff from all the sheepskin getting in the cooling ducts. For a change I'm going to carry out the maintenance blindfolded, and with very thick gloves on so I can't feel the key board. Do you think any one will notice? Made doubly difficult because my plans to switch from SubDreamer to Joomla have been thwarted by the raging GPL arguments, and SMF withdrawing their bridge because they don't want their product to be GPL . So it's either Mambo, or a third party bridge hack that I don't like....

You would be better served buying a larger disk for your machine Colin, and an external enclosure for you existing 40Gb drive so it can be the back up drive. Transferring your system is pretty straight forward too, I put a post in the user fixes thread on UBI regarding Seagates excellent, and free, partion migration utility. I have used it and would recommend it without reservation. USB link will be slower than IDE, and is best used for backups really.

Because TS/FB will default to using the USB as a sole sound device. Some use speakers for in-game sounds, and configure TS to use the USB device. However it sounds like you need splitters for your Jacks and 2 head sets.

Very nice pix, my favourite is the scrumptious blonde two British birds flying together .

That is excellent!