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thanks, r. i have xp pro, media center edition so i should be ok. mario mentioned his needs a wall wart ac adapter. i'm hoping to get one that takes power from the +/- 5v on the usb buss. i read about some (even the pg music ones) that are starved for current unless you use a 'y' adapter and two usb ports. any thoughts on that?



I'm not the best one to ask about the drive, but from my POV I'd say use the power supply. The first Ultrapak HD I got was defective. It fried my motherboard USB bus and three accessory cards before I figured out it was the drive. PG replaced it, but I've only used the replacement drive to install the program. I'm still a little nervous about using it and frankly afraid to leave it plugged in.

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re: flooding. my nurse's aide said she went fishing yesterday and the concrete picnic tables at her favorite river campsite were under 6 feet of water and the river was swollen to twice its normal width but she managed to catch a big catfish. which reminds me...not until moving down to oklahoma had i seen catfish fritters and deep-fried okra for sale in convenience stores. its a culture thing, i guess.



I was gonna say it's a Southern thing, until the convenience store bit registered. Haven't even seen the catfish fritters in Georgia . . . not that I was looking. Good eatin' though, the both of them, when done right. (Wait--but we have boiled peanuts! Why, I have no idea.)

R.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."