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Alan - as gnome noted - run the Windows Task Manager and set it to the Processes tab and see which processes are sucking up CPU. That should point you in the direction. I think DTN uses two processes (one as their datafeed concentrator and another for display) - so checkout the CPU being used...

To give you a radical comparison, I just loaded a workspace on an older Pentium II 400 MHz machine with dual monitors - with nine charts (each with scrolling T&S and multiple technical studies), four action maps, eight market scanners, two trend channel scanners, and three Gann Frame scanners...

Your broker will NOT roll your contracts automatically. When they expire they're cash settled and that's it. If you want to roll them, you've got to do it yourself. However, don't do anything with futures until you learn a lot more about them. You should never trade/invest in anything...

rs7 - would doubt XP is the source of any slowness you perceive, I've got an XP box that's extremely fast. In fact I just upgraded my daughter's computer from W98 to XP and it performs better under XP than it ever did under W98. However, you might want to fire up the Windows Task Manager and...

rs7 - With XP, don't worry about Scandisk and "resources" isn't an issue (the old W9x-based systems used a fixed sized system-wide resource allocation page regardless of how much memory you had - the NT-based OSes like W2K and XP don't do this). Re: the touchpad scrolling the page...

If it completely replaces the income tax and businesses get appropriate deductability along their component stream and the VAT has no loopholes or preferential treatment like the current tax code is chock full of it could be OK. Would you rather pay 20% of what you spend or 30-40% of what you...

Unless I read it wrong, the announcement applies only to calendar spread tick size - didn't say anything about changing the tick size on the straight contracts. The calendar spread tick sizes on the eminis was already less than the straight emini contract tick - they're just reducing it...

Don't bet the farm based on what the CBOE website says. The characterization on their website could definitely be a typo - under normal conditions an index with only 30 stocks in it would be characterized as narrow. However, the IRS might allow the Dow to be classified as a broad index just...

It's because the NDX which the QQQ fund is tracking is a broad index - the QQQ itself (nor any other ETF) does not qualify for treatment under the "options on a broad index" provision.

I'll agree to disagree. Here are a few counterpoints for you: 1. Wordperfect - did not have 90% of the office suite market before Dell started shipping MS Office pre-installed. Wordperfect started losing their market place way back in the early days of Windows when WP chose not to support...

Also make sure the file name isn't something like MyDoc.PDF.TXT If a .TXT got appended to the PDF doc by mistake, your system will be trying to open it with Notepad rather than launching Adobe Acrobat Reader. This kind of appended extension confusion happens most often on PCs that have the...

You assume they haven't already done the analysis - doesn't take long given the current state of the market. At best, any "Linux potential" would be almost completely guess work at this point. If you look at the market pragmatically, there is no Linux desktop market worth an existing vendor...

Schattenjäger - My earlier comment had nothing to do with whether Linux will surpass the Mac market share or whether it's "better" than Mac or Windows - both of which are highly subjective, frought with religious debate, and in the final analysis are meaningless to the specific point...

With fewer desktops running Linux than even Mac, it seems tough for a software company to justify spending the time and money to do it - especially since in most of these cases it's not really a "port", more like a rewrite and then having to do duplicate support/maintenance/development. The...

As of NATO's 12/11/02 update, the following countries belong to NATO: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Are you getting a higher interest rate on the short cash than you're paying to be short the stock? BTW - be sure you don't confuse delta neutral with risk neutral. In the case of the positions you cite, they can be both risk and delta neutral, but a merely delta neutral position could still...

OK, so everyone pretty much figured out a long time ago that Vinny was shortboy - but, are the recently created IDs of ronbgelf and leonj looking an awful lot like Vinny/shortboy alter egos too?? So does that mean that not only did shortboy come back like a LSD flashback, but he's gone Sybil...

Depending on the exchange, they're either routing to a pit-based device like the CME has (orders can be routed through TOPS to a flat panel device a broker is using or to a hand held enabled pit) or they're routing electronically to a computer at the broker's station outside the pit and then...

When it is time to come back to earth the Space Shuttle must slow down in order to be less susceptable to Earth's gravity pull and to lesson the friction on it as it enters Earth's atmosphere. The astronauts maneuver the Shuttle into a tail first position and fire its OMS rockets for a few...

Gee, ya think maybe they don't have as many subscribers as they claim?