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You know what would be awesome? A way to open up a folder full of images in thumbnail vew and then be able to move the thumbnails around freely relative to each other. It would help me decide which of a group of images that I've culled from a larger set as post-worthy I actually want to edit and post, and which are too repetitive or not as good as similar photos. Any photographers or image people know how to do something like that?

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Oh, hey; Windows has these cool little option called "auto-arrange" that I can uncheck. shakes head I've worked in IT for years. I've done the same thing on my desktop. Yet I never thought about doing it in a folder.

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I love the way Dell describes drivers and software on their support downloads pages. They're so informative. What am I downloading? "Dell driver". What hardware is it for? "Dell device." Gee, thanks.

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#overlyhonestresearchmethods: Average age of observed patrons was 48. But this number may not be entirely reliable as at least one researcher (myself) is pretty crap at judging ages by observation.

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As it turns out, it wasn't my onboard NIC freaking out; it was the 1000-base switch I've been using for years now. I should have tried swapping that out first, but I hadn't seen any problems on other devices connected to it until today. The only other device on it is my print server, and I don't print very often. But I've now swapped it out with an old 100-base switch I had sitting around and all is well. Thanks for the offers of replacement NICS anyway!

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I tried every driver listed under this laptop on the Dell support site, both under network and communications. Then I tried a couple other drivers that people on various forums suggested as working with this model, and those didn't work either. Finally, I opened up the case and got the Intel model number off of the mini-PCI card and downloaded the driver directly from Intel. *That* worked!

Now just two more pieces of hardware to figure out what the heck they are. We have a "Broadcom USH" and a "PCI serial port". Whee!

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I just saw a referral to my Flickr page from this site. I just played around a bit with it and it's really slick! It lets you select a small chunk of map and see all the Flickr photos geotagged at that location. I think it'll be great for seeing what other people are finding interesting either near home, or at places you plan to visit.

http://www.earthalbum.com/