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Yes, it follows every link unless you tell it otherwise. It takes some tweaking to get it right. I had to grab Waydale about five times altogether in order to get just the good stuff without links to ads and whatnot. GreaseSpot One was even harder because of all the godforsaken popups and ads. It was nowhere near as elegant as the Waydale archive. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

Get BlueSquirrel's Grab-a-Site. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

Go to Start/COntrol Panel/Administrative Tools/Services and disable the Messenger service. Then head over to google.com and download their latest toolbar, which has a popup killer in it. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

How complicated do you want the answer? :)--> DCOM is used in business apps as an adjunct to CORBA or Enterprise JavaBeans. The advantages to DCOM are that it requires no additional object request broker software (like CORBA objects do) and it is not language-specific for development (like EJBs are.) What all these things do is a nifty and useful trick called remote method invocation or RMI. A program running on one machine may pass data to and call routines ("invoke methods") in another program running on a different ("remote") machine on the network. Thus, you don't have to reinvent the wheel--if you have another program that already does something that your program needs, you don't have to program your own way to do it, you just invoke theirs. Very handy. This happens all the time in Windows, except that the two sharing programs are usually on the same machine. For example, if you use Outlook Express as a mail client, you may get emails that look like web pages from time to time with all the graphics and whatnot. What you don't see is that OE is really calling the browser functionality of Internet Explorer in the background to actually display that email like a web page! Whenever you click on a "mailto" link in a web page, Internet Explorer calls the mailing methods in OE to send the message! These are called COM objects, for Component Object Model. DCOM objects do the same thing, except now you could call the mail bits of OE from the IE on a completely different machine. (The "D" stands for "Distributed.") Ordinarily, you wouldn't go to the DCOM overhead of passing IE mail requests to OE on another machine, but if you had an application that had to, say, shoot off a million emails at a time, and you had a special server that could handle that kind of traffic, you could stick the mailer bits on the superserver while all the piddly user-interface bits remained on your machine. DCOM objects are used quite heavily in Microsoft's programming and database environments (VisualStudio and SQL Server). As long as the computers sharing DCOM info are behind a firewall, there's nothing inherently unsafe about it, and it's quite a useful technology in multi-tier programming environments. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

Do NOT use Decombobulator on any work or office PC without checking with your Network Administrator first! ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

DCOM is required for certain corporate apps to communicate properly. It's probably OK to shut it off on your home PC, but anyone in a business setting should not just shut it off without knowing what it is or what it does. I know you meant well, John, but you have to be careful telling folks to shut stuff off without fully understanding what it does. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

John: Hold the phone there, chief. DCOM is not something you want to turn off willy-nilly. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

I like the edit job...nicely done. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

They only bought the lion, the other animals were going elsewhere. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

Check your LMHOSTS file and see if some program wrote that URL in there. Create a new shortcut to IE 6 on your desktop. Change the command line to read "IEXPLORE.EXE -nohome" without the quotes and it will open to a blank page regardless of what evil twerp has set your homepage to. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

I'm not aware of any FireWire scanners, although they wouldn't surprise me. The original scanners were SCSI, followed by parallel, then USB 1.0 models became the norm. FireWire 800 holds great promise for the future as memory and drive space climb, but until you have a specific need for FW800 I wouldn't worry about it too much. The thing I love about that FireWire DVD-writer I built is that I didn't have to load a single driver to install it. I just hot-plugged it in to the FireWire card, flipped the switch, and got the familiar "da-ding" sound of a new peripheral being added. I've had to load drivers for about half of the USB peripherals I've had. Not that that's such a big deal, but it does help to be able to Plug-n-Play like that. ...scratching the itch of the mortal unknown...

John: You do realize it's perfectly ok to have BOTH FireWire and USB 2.0 on the same computer, right?

For what it's worth, in my notes, I have it written as "It's better to come home hot and bothered, than satisfied and sorry."

This was an all-around good movie. Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, and Haley Joel Osment do a fantastic job. Our theater was sold out--odd, nowadays, for a movie that doesn't have a single nude scene, grisly murder, or four-letter word...

Here's the answer to "where are they"--the Carnivale is in OK or thereabouts, Brother Justin is in CA. From the HBO website: I can't say for sure, but I think Management is a metaphor for God... The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

SGL: 1) That's an odd metaphor. 2) Wars and aggression stem from homosexuality? WHAT? 3) This makes even less sense. 4) Absolutely. It would only be in different form. Matriarchal animal societies are every bit as vicious, if not moreso, than the patriarchal ones.5) The sooner the better, as far as I'm concerned... The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

Dot: Private topic received and replied. :)--> The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

You're right. That was his "Bedhead" short. No, I'm talking about the ones where he shows how the films were shot on such a low budget. The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

I have no idea what you're talking about... The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

What if your son came to you and told you he was sexually attracted to small children? It's not that I don't like Trefor as a person. He's a well-spoken gentleman with a good deal of patience, probably moreso than I would have in the reverse situation. However, what I object to is his selective dismissal of the parts of the Bible that he doesn't particularly like. It's "situational theology", if you will, and the same thing Wierwille did to justify his adultery. No one's forcing Trefor to be a Christian, but if he's going to claim to be one, shouldn't he have to abide by the same restrictions others do? We all sin, but to practice sin as a lifestyle seems a bit hypocritical. That doesn't justify screaming "WITCH!" at him and trying to burn him at the stake or anything, but no man can serve two masters. [shrug] I don't have an answer for it. I certainly don't have any authority at all to force him to choose how he lives his life. The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

I have the 2-pack El Mariachi/Desperado DVD and one of the best parts is Robert Rodriguez' "Ten-Minute Film School" shorts. I had a much greater appreciation for the movies after I watched those. The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

Hope: It wasn't Vangelis, it was Angelo Badalamenti...and I had it too. ;)--> The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

Twin Peaks was a good show. Pity it ran out of gas when it tried to go for a full season. I fear Nip/Tuck will run out of gas, too. I don't see how they can keep abusing their main characters like that forever... Still, as Hope said, perhaps once Ben and Brother Justin meet up Carnivale will get moving... The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

Look, I don't want to get into this again with either of you. I already apologized to you both for my error on the other page, and there's too much vital information on this thread. It doesn't need to turn into yet another bitchfest. You want to have a go at me? Be my guest. But why not be courteous and start another thread, at least? The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."

Ex: She asked, I answered. What business is it of yours now? The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the word of God..."