You can use them like a huge-ass storage device for any ole types of files, instead of for burning DVD-format movies, right?

Yes.

Can I just write a bunch them as regular data files onto a single DVD-R (which I understand can hold 4GB+ data)?

The dual-layer blank DVDs can hold almost 8GB. We just got a dual layer burner at work, but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Huh, I could back up my entire mp3 collection onto 4 DVDs.

If you don't have a DVD writer, you can't burn DVD-Rs, though.

You can't just stick a blank DVD in a CD burner.

Oops, I missed the part about not having a DVD burner.

If you don't have a DVD writer, you can't burn DVD-Rs, though.

D'oh! I am DUMB.

::grumbles:: I don't want to have to get a DVD-writer! The external ones (since I've only got a laptop) are pricey, yo.

Am I missing something here, or is MS dumb?

If I have Auto Arrange on, when I drop something onto my desktop in XP, they're arranged up to down, left to right. Yet, if I hit SHIFT and click to select a range of icons, they're selected left to right, up to down. Which means I almost tried to e-mail putty.exe to work, which wouldn't have gone over well -- I'd have lost the two scanned images I'd put there to the vagaries of our e-mail filters.

Why would they change that behaviour? W2K selects like it auto arranges. Can I change XP back?

Anyone used this [link] (it's the iTalk Voice Recorder that plugs into an iPod)? Any idea what the sound quality and recording level would be? (Quality wouldn't have to be that great if it's just used for voice.) Any other solutions for recording audio with a mic into an iPod?

I just got an external firewire drive to store my music on. I've copied my iTunes music folder to it. Do I now delete that folder from my hard drive? Or just the contents of the folder? Will iTunes automatically find it on the external drive, or do I need so tell it to look there?

Now this IDE To USB Drive Adapter would be useful for anyone, even techs when helping, transferring old hard drive data to a new hard drive. You won't even have to open the new machine and attach the drive.

Just got two. Thanks Daniel!

do I need so tell it to look there?

Pretty sure you have to tell it.

Go to iTunes / Preferences / Advanced - you can change the iTunes folder location there.

This is a guess, but I think you should tell iTunes about the new location before you delete music from the old location.

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Also, once you do this there is a chance iTunes might lock up if you open it without the external drive attached. I mean, either that will always happen, or it won't be a problem. Mozilla has this problem when I click "save as" and the last place I saved something to is on a filesystem that is not currently mounted.

At work (which is going really well so far) we have a form, made available online, which we have to fill out. It is created in Adobe. At this point my company only has Adobe Reader.

The form is badly designed: for instance, it permits only numerical entries in some fields which should also allow letters and symbols, and in some fields it displays numbers as integers even when you input a decimal.

The other problem is that Fill-in Forms is not enabled, so we can't save the values.

I know that buying Acrobat would give us the ability to save the data we enter. Would we also be able to change the formatting of the fields? My boss is trying to decide if it would be worthwhile. As it is, we have to edit the printed form in pen to make it correct.

Thanks!