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Sounds like the gaming industry is taking a page, or maybe a chapter, from Hollywood's playbook. Little creativity, lots of remakes/series, milk a franchise until it's worth nada, etc. Makes me glad I'm not a gamer.

If considering LASIK or another form of eye surgery, I would take the site linked above by i with a grain of salt. Seems to be run by a few people who did indeed have problems with the surgery; I don't question their experiences. However, LASIK-type eye surgery improves every year. There are...

Firefox 1.5 Beta available here.

And now Bush wants to under-pay the reconstruction workers, hurting the NOLA-area economy even more.

- Subaru Forester/Outback - Toyota Sienna (Highlanders are prob too expensive at this point) Problem is if you want a premium used vehicle, and the Honda name usually carries a premium, you will find them at a premium price, even used. A budget of $10K is not much to work with. Consider if you...

I'd be curious if the MS product was effective. More curious about CounterSpy, though, since that's what I run at home.

GWB's Photo Op Trip

Found cross-posted to Bruce Schneier's blog:

Vs. the Christian way or preparing: Get dunked in water. Having food on hand seems the more prudent thing to do. Not to mention the purchasing of those supplies are beneficial to the economy.

I'm vertainly no expert, but some of their beliefs make a lot of sense: - Stockpiling 6+ months of food. Makes a ton of sense. Think about how the NOLA citizens would have fared if canned food was readily in supply. Dig through some rubble or find it floating. Also makes sense if a family...

Yes, I'd love it if we could say "I accept all of this. Only show me a single summary entry."

I didn't read the article but I'd guess it just wasn't picking up the router as a default gateway when if got it's DHCP info.

Look in the Windows dir with hidden files viewable and you see dozens of $NTUninstall* directories. Plus dirs for SP installs, etc. Each represents a patch from MS and contains the files/data that was replaced by the patch. That's all well and good, but on a patched 2000/XP/2003 system they...

Been there, done that.

We can get 270GB/hour or 75MB/s out of our IBM 3580 LTO2s. LTO3 should boost that to over 350GB/hour; I should know in a couple of months.

Of course, most of being said here is WRT consumer-grade RAID controllers. Enterprise-class RAID5 is fine and has been for many years. But it ain't cheap. I'm specing 5TB of RAID5 disk for a server at work. My discounted price is $126K for everything - drives, controllers, chassis...

Why I like running iSeries (AS/400) systems. They can take the abuse. IBM even tells some stories.

jtr, I think an important point to take from the article is not that America has problems. Nor is it to blame GWB for them, although he should shoulder some of the burden of guilt. I think the main thing to realize is that he is either blind to the problems faced by the non-rich or simply...

Yeah, I've got certain apps that do that. My laptop has a second monitor on the docking station at work but I just use the built in LCD at home so every day I switch from dual- to single-monitor viewing. After switching from dual to single, about 80-90% of the apps simply open up on the LCD if...

I agree that GMail is rather nice, but has some limitations. If your PDA has internet connectivity, you can use the POP interface to d/l email to it. I've done this on my Treo. Calendaring would be a great add-on; I'm sure it'll happen some day. We technically don't allow FF at work either...

Accuweather Louisiana radar. WUnderground tracking map.

On the human front, I have to agree with Merc. I live in the midwest. Tornado zone; I accept that. Coastal Californians live in an earthquake/mudslide zone. The Buffalo, NY area gets pounded on with snow most winters. The desert southwest is, well, a desert. Flood plain along the...

Does the shed have any windows? If so, consider orienting the workstation's antenna so it sits in the window to reduce the interference from the metal. Also, consider an antenna that can be mounted outside the shed. That way, the only holes to be drilled is a small one for the antenna wire...

Hey, erasers are great for cleaning contacts. The red erasers on a typical pencil work just fine. I was using those on rack-mount modems back in the 80s.

I'm still uprgading my Zenith Z-151 I bought back in 1984. No original parts remain, of course. The thing I like about upgrading is that I can eliminate whatever bottleneck I have without having to replace everything else that I'm used to or still works just fine. And unless the uprgrade is...

There are restaraunts that don't make any money in the restaraunt biz. They maintain the storefront just to gain awareness (spread their brand) of their catering business. That's where they make their money. In a similar vein, some, maybe just a very few, swap meet vendors may attend the swap...

I've got pretty much everything from both Niven & Heinlein. They're my two favorite SF authors. I also pick up John Varley works and a few others. Beyond the circle of authors I regularly read, though, I admit that it's tough for me to give a new author a try; I'm very stuck in my ways. But...

Auslese is probably our typical, actually. Riesling is what we find in restaraunts, along with the occasional Gewurtztrammiener. The Beerenauslese we save for special occasions and the few bottles of Eiswein we pick up are a glorious dessert in a glass. I mentioned Riesling because most folks...

Can't you just run a VPN client on the laptop?

Run MacOSx86 on any Intel/AMD PC.

mubs, the way your statement was phrased, "There were no arrests, so she got away with wetting herself in public.", implied that wetting yourself in public was illegal. Obviously, since she knew to show up hours in advance, she should have made plans, i.e. wore Depends or some other...

mubs is probably correct; maybe you can compromise and offer them a version with your contact info removed. Merc's suggestion about them running macros over your doc also has possibilities, although with the various ways people format their resumes I wonder how effective that would be. I'd...

Not to mention babies in diapers...

The LEDs waste energy. Not much, but some. They also increase manufacturing costs, again, though, not by much. I don't care about internal lights; I don't buy cases with clear panels. Seems silly to me. I'd rather look at the PC's monitor than the PC itself. Of course, I'm approaching the...

It would seem that under the current administration, when two parties have a dispute the party with the larger Market Capitalization wins by default. This can be overruled based on party affiliation/donations, closeness to the oil/energy industry, and a few other factors, but seems to hold true...

Buck - I've never seen this before. Or at least in so many years that I don't remember it. It doesn't happen with the various AVG installs I'm aware of nor does it happen with McAfee Enterprise, which we use at work. Will - No problem.

Didn't help. However, on that same panel, disabling boot sector scans on shutdown did eliminate the message. I don't like this much since it'll mean boot sectors - on all drive - won't be scanned on shutdown (but will on bootup) but I can live with it.

It didn't start until NOD32 was installed. This was a clean XP Pro SP2 install with all updates applied. I won't uninstall it until I've determined a replacement. Another install of AVG or something else. Maybe FProt or Trend's product (despite their goofup earlier this year). Also, I...

My W2K workstation at home does this as well. Been doing it for at least a couple of months now. I've no idea why, but my gut instinct tells me it's related to the network config. Nothing of interest in event viewer. Totally up to date on MS patches, AVG, CounterSpy, Tiny Personal Firewall...

So the question is, since the automakers perpetrated fraud/misrepresentation on thier customers, what remedy do the customers get? Hyundai did this; they said their 2L 4 cyl had 138HP when it in fact had 132. No big diff, but it did generate a class action lawsuit. Other engines were...

At least they could bill themselves as "experienced". :lol:

In theory you'd do something like: C: CD\ CD Z:\Backup where Z: is your network drive XCopy *.* Z: /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d And it'll only grab the new/changed files/directories. But I tried this last night and I got numerous "Sharing Violation" messages for files that Windows had open (no apps...

Can't get the Samsung 250GB SATA drive yet? I picked up the PATA version and it seems pretty nice so far. Only 2 platters vs. the Deskstar's 3 and $120 + tax from Microcenter in Westmont. Or are you talking the T7K250, which is a 2-platter drive?

Yes, the wife & I will definitely see Tut's stuff when it hits Chicago. We're members of the museum, so hopefully we'll get in on a members-only night and avoid some of the huge crowds.

Impressive!

I saw little jars of Vegemite at Cost Plus World Market the other day. I hadn't realized it was being imported.

I may have had 2 or 3 lockups on my Netgear routers over the past couple of years, but that's about it. They've been far more stable than the PCs connected to them or than Comcast's service...

I'm soooo glad I don't do PC gaming. I can do just fine with practically any $30 and up vid card. Passively cooled, VGA/DVI/TV out, 64MB RAM is basically all I need.

Hogans Heroes.

More than likely, but I'm not 100% sure as they are installed in a special kitting that's used in the AS/400 disk cages. As to what gen, I haven't seen the naked drives yet so I don't know the exact model numbers. All I know is right konw they emulate (via the kitting) IBM 6618s. But that...