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Umm...perhaps you guys would like to drag this back on topic? This might have a little more to it than what you might think. With Pres Bush's ignoring ( or only giving lip service to ) the imigration issues that have arisen lately and well as the North American Free Trade Act ( NAFTA ) and also his newest creation of CAFTA ( Central American Free Trade Act ), it wouldn't come as too much of a shock if he were to announce his intention to create an American version of the EU.

And with that helpfull little link, I do declare this thread closed.

Having established that this is a free forum, I now declare this thread closed.

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Good for you! A good way to quit as well. Sounds like your manager was a nutjob. If she can't handle the 'stress' of an employee quitting she should find something a little more suitable to her intellectual prowess ( like putting rubber a**holes in wooden hobby horses or sniffing the farts out of the bus seats after hours ).

:D I have 2 320s, 2 250s, an 80 ( workpad drive ) and a 100 Gb ( front C drive )! I'd thought about scuzzy drives since I can stack quite a few on the same cable but that would also mean I have to replace all my drives. I going to wait until Seagate comes out with their 500 Gb SATA drives before I start replacing them again. I'll come up with something. When a problem presents itself, I usually won't give up 'til I find an answer. Oh and BTW, part of the reason I need to clean up this mess of wires is because I have two motherboards, two PSUs 7 HDs, two optical drives and extra fans in this case. You can imagine what a mess it is and why I need to clean it up. Coming up with a way to control the fans was interesting. Meta - I just read your link about IDE cables. It looks like my biggest problem will be pin 28 on the cable. Without the ability to determine master/slave relationship with the drives, the computer won't boot properly. I'll come up with something.

Does anyone know how many HDs you can stack on a single IDE cable without giving the motherboard a seizure? I've got 6 HDs on a system using an IDE cable for 2 of them and the other 4 on SATA cables ( IDE drives with SATA converters ). I'd like to put them all on a single cable and clean up the rat's nest of cables in my system. I have a 5' IDE cable and am thinking about adding additional IDE sockets to it and giving it a try.

Could you be more precise with your question? What are you trying to do?

If you guys would like to restart this thread without all the bull**** quoting, you're welcome to. You might want to set the discussion concerning Child of Flame aside as well. Contact him via PM.

Removed discussion about emulators. This is a game developer's board after all. That sort of thing should probably be carried on privately.

Thread pruned. Shall we try again guys?

Thread pruned of form flames. Knock it off guys.

That's because other than your gruesome fascination with 'The Hoff' ( or whatever ), you're an eminently forgetable kind of guy ( other than the herpes-like outbreaks reading your posts create ) . Have a good time alanshu!

Because you are a very smart person! :D

A great read guys but let's keep it cool eh?

:D Alcohol seems to be a common theme here . Let's see. On my 18th birthday my buddies from work decided to take me out and get me drunk. Cool! We got off work at 11 PM and started to head over to one of the local late-night restaurants. They'd picked up a 12 pack of beer and a pint of Wild Turkey. I'd had a beer or two when the Wild Turkey came out. They all decided to take a shot for me and I'd take a shot for each of them. To hell with that, I upended the bottle and guzzled about 2/3 of the pint. Really bad idea. We get to the restaurant and order. I don't even remember the food coming to the table. I do however, remember at some point the waitresses brought out something with a candle on it and everyone singing frigging Happy Birthday to me including the two cops a couple of booths over! The next thing I remember was leaning over to whoever was next to me and asking where the restroom was. With a guy on each side of me dragging me toward the restroom off we went. Guess what? I didn't make it. As we passed the register I yakked all over the floor .Out the front door we go where I puke again. As we are leaving the stupid night manager is telling everyone not to bring me back again. Getting 86ed from a Village Inn? How despicably low is that? The two that were carrying me threw me over the car as they were fishing their keys out. Another group of kids had just arrived and were laughing at me. What does drunk little me do? I pick a fight! "Come over here! I'll kick your ass!" meanwhile I couldn't even stand up on my own. Idiot. The kids thought this was quite amusing. My buddies took me over to a house that was across the street from where I worked and threw me on the floor to sleep it off. Apparently I started to puke on the carpet when one of them threw a cleaning tray under my face where I promptly puked on about $20 worth of ...ahem...'contraband'. I do remember someone had some harsh words about that . I woke up the next morning at about 15 minutes 'til 7AM when I had to be at work. I combed the puke and contraband out of my hair and walked across the street for my 8 hour shift of hell. It was a very bad day. I've never been able to drink beer or Wild Turkey since then. Hmm...My brother and I had moved back in with my parents for a short time when I was about 22. They went on a two week vacation. PARTY TIME!!! We decided to finish panelling my parents basement. Drinking and whatnot, we proceeded to do this one night. Booze bottles dropped whereever they were emptied. The usual sort of thing. About a week into this, we decided to go out for some pizza. When we came home, my frigging parents' truck is in the driveway. My brother turns to me and says that we had left the 'contraband' sitting out along with the paraphenalia. S**t!!!!!!!!! We immediately drove off seriously talking about joining the army. Had we been able to find a recruiter at 9-10 PM, we probably would have. Screw it, let's go face the music. We went in with the pizza and found my parents upstairs ( Peoples' Exhibit A was downstairs ). I go upstairs and my brother goes downstairs and hides the evidence. Cool! We just might get away with this. We offer the pizza and start to BS. As my brother is coming back in the room, my mom turns to me and asks "And what is the **** doing in this house?!?" My brother turns 180 and goes back into the other room to leave me 'holding the bag'. Bastard! Should have looked harder for the recruiter.

He's dead, as is this thread .

One of the things about the masons is that they spend about $50 million per day taking care of injured children. Anyone that does that can't be too bad. Most people here have probably heard of the Shriner's Hospitals I'd imagine.

Discipline . I had a bleeding ulcer when I was 12 years old. How freeking stupid is that?!? Seperate emotion from intellect. Tough to do I know but sometimes the situation can demand that. Baring that, find out what alleviates your stress level. With some, physical activity works. To those...try curls with 1 gallon milk containers ( no joke, it works ). To others, determine what 'intellectual' activity works. Gaming for example. I wouldn't recommend argueing on the fora . That sort of thing usually gets my blood pressure up. To those of you that have martial arts backgound...go snap a few boards. I've always found this to be satisfying. Visualize the source of your irritation on the wood and 'bust it up'! Pine is cheaper than a jail sentence! ( trust me in this . Know your limits though. Don't go pounding on a 2x4 unless you know that you can break it! A busted hand will only increase your frustrations! Sometimes reading some 'escapist' literature can do what nothing else will. Something a little more esoteric...pick up a rock that looks like it will work. Focus the cause of your stress into it. Place the image of your frustrations into it and place the problem there. Throw the son of a bitch into a lake or pit or somewhere where it will no longer cause a problem to you or anyone else. Say goodbye to it and all the problems it caused. This is a simple 'spell' call the 'anger spell' by Starhawk. I would imagine that a Christian could modify it so as to not come into conflict with their faith.

Cool. What programs are you using?

jorian, that happened to me a month or so ago. They showed up again several days later. It's probably a glitch in the board database. Keep an eye out for them and let me know. If they don't show up again soon, I'll notify admin about the problem.

I've seen DVDs that do include the codex on the disk but it usually comes with a menu for you to start from. One of the options is installing the codex. At that point, the DVD becomes playable if your system wouldn't play it before. I don't think it will work on a DVD stand-alone player though. Only on a PC.

Are you asking about adding the codex required to run the DVD to the DVD itself? Self extracting I assume?

Thread pruned. Let's keep it on track guys.