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Remember, Dell Canada, not worldwide. I found a page from as late as 2007 claiming it was David Gair, but he's not listed in their directory.

Please respond only with verified information.

In Windows XP, a client connects to a server. The server is using IOCP to manage connections, and quite often (though not 100% reproducible), after about 2-5 minutes of packets being sent from the client to the server (primarily, though some packets in the other direction are also sent), the client makes a call to ::send which blocks for an age (instead of returning almost immediately, as usual), and tracing it in Wireshark shows that it correlates to a TCP zero-window condition sent by the server.

If I had to guess, I'd say the server gradually stops collecting and processing incoming packets, until its buffer space is exhausted (somewhere below application level), and finally, its TCP window size is reduced to zero, after which the blocking ::send at the client blocks for a long time.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

I've received this one several times now, from phone number 000-000-0000 (i.e. blocked/faked caller-ID), offering tickets to Nassau, Bahamas (though your offered location may vary), in exchange for a phone survey.

I finally got annoyed enough to fake my way through the survey (it's automated, so I just pushed buttons to create invalid or false responses) until I finally reached a human.

The guy who answered asked for my name, and I declined to give it, instead asking how he contacted me ("it's an automated system"), and I asked to be removed from the calling list and/or added to the do-not-call list (in Canada). His response? He hung up.

Now, can the power of the Internet figure out who these pests are? Perhaps we can sic some laws on these phone spammers.

Who has info on these guys?

When connected to the PC in "record" mode, the SDR-S150 is detected by XP as a "USB Video Device" as well as a "USB Audio Device"... mention is also made of webcam in the driver installation status bubbles.

When running software like Skype, however, the camera is not detected as a valid video device; fair enough, the manual says that only MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger are compatible with this camera.

Did Microsoft make a shady deal with Panasonic? Why doesn't the webcam work in general? Has someone made a driver/utility that fixes it?

(A guy called "Sektionschef" made a video-download/convert utility that corrects aspect ratio and converts to MPEG-2, so there *are* people out there working on this kind of stuff).

Occasionally, I have to delay a visit to the bathroom for reasons beyond my control, and I have to grin and bear it until I finally spy my porcelain saviour, but usually in the few seconds before the sweet, sweet relief of a contracting bladder, I can feel a sort of tingling in the roots of my teeth, almost like a tickle.

Is this the situation from which the expression "have to pee so bad my back teeth are floating" is derived?

Have you experienced the sensation? (Do you know why it happens?)