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Thanks. I was thinking as much, but wondered if anyone had any positive or negative things to say about 3.9.

3.9 is on the ATI site now. Any recommendation as to what version I should install on my AIW9600 that just arrived? The included CD or 3.9? Or the CD to get going & then upgrade? There's no noticeable indication on the CD what the driver version is; the disk is labelled 180-V01071-200. Once...

I don't care.

Ah, c'mon, what's wrong with this?

Linus weighs in with a priceless quote in this article.

I was out xmas shopping last night. Very uninspired by pretty much everything at the mall. I can always find things for my wife but I have great difficulty finding things to put on my wish list. At least things that are affordable. We also do a pull-a-name-from-the-hat with her family and I...

I stand corrected. Take Pradeep's comments on GSM over mine. On the cel phone modem issue, the Treo (as with any internet-accessible Palm) supports PDAnet which lets it be a PC modem when hooked up to the sync cable. I haven't tried it, but intend to at some point. Nice option to have when...

Was that a firmware update, by chance? I've never heard of a phone needed to be updated to find new towers. My ancient Sprint phone, a Samsung SCH-8500, did it by hitting *2 and the phone updated itself, power cycled automatically, and was going again. I didn't even know it needed the update...

For being in a mall, Basi Thai in Oakbrook Center is OK. Not great, but OK. There are plenty of decent Thai places around the western 'burbs. Corner of Cass & Ogden, just north of the Pizza Hut. Route 59 / Naperville by the CompUSA. I like almost all cuisines. Thai, Indian, Chinese...

I'm under 40 years old and have achieved the highest technical position I probably can without going into product design. The next 'logical' career step for me is management. I don't want to work 20-30 additional hours a week for another measily 10-15% income. It's not worth it. I like what...

Not everyone checks the board every 4 hours...

Monitors, too?

I just broke down and ordered an AIW9600. At $209 shipped from newegg, I couldn't resist.

And some are happy with the status quo. Not everyone has to be concerned with self-improvement. Not to mention some may reach their peak early in their career.

How loud are the cooling fans in those projectors? The projector Merc linked to does 1080p with a res of 1024x768. Is something getting thrown out/down-converted or is HD like NTSC were the 525 'lines' actually inlude the VBI + CC area?

Nothing for December:

I agree with CougTek on this one. I would point out that a person's job, even their career, is just a means towards an end and not the end in and of itself. It's great that I enjoy my job, but I still only work because it gives me the income to enjoy the rest of my life.

To me it would be useful to have options on ignoring: - Ignore user. - Ignore a user's posts in a specific thread. - Ignore PMs from a user. (I probably wouldn't use this but someone might) - Ignore an entire thread (disappears from the threadlist). Selectable from both the thread list and in...

Disk Array Sales Firming Up, Says IDC An estimated 197 petabytes of disk capacity was sold in 03Q3. That's server arrays only and doesn't include consumer drives.

Judge tells SCO to put up or shut up.

Everyone keeps mentioning this SR place. What is it? Senior something? :wink:

CitiBank is so far the one credit card company I refuse to do business with. I had been a long-time cardmember and closed my account as I had migrated to lower-interest, no annual fee cards. About 8 months later, I receive a bill with a charge on it for a magazine subscription renewal...

Apparently, the d20 system goes back a really long time.

Recorder or something like that. AIR it did something really brain-dead like record the position of mouse clicks screen-relative instead of app-relative so things would get messed up if the window wasn't open in the right spot.

Forgot about that. That's one of the reasons Windows is less stable, no? :lol: Are those free with the OS and supported by Microsoft? If so, and I'm 100% serious here, where are they? I could use some good scripting tools to automate some brain-dead GUI-only apps at work. And do they work...

It probably would have been cheaper to buy another accounting system. Probably a vertical-market type app? Most mainstream accounting apps for the platform are quite a bit more sophisticated. But with vertical-market, it's always a crap-shoot. Outdated, or at least no longer mandatory. This...

But... Will you be blocking outbound comm as well? So that if you somehow acquire a virus/'bad thing' while surfing/emailing it won't be able to call the mother ship? Will it stop the 'bad thing' that your kid brings home on an infected floppy/CD-R from a friend from communicating? Will your...

Actually, I understand Dell's position on this. Think to last year's Turbo Tax fiasco that included C-dilla/SafeCast. Someone spots C-Dilla on a PC, calls Dell support to have it removed, and suddenly Turbo Tax stops working. That TT uses spyware is inexcusable. But the end result would be...

Emulator cards haven't been necessary for almost a decade and I haven't worked with them since 1995. In that regard I'd have to say your company is behind the times; not the platform. Which probably means their system isn't very current either. As such, I could probably understand you not...

My condolences.

Before my last upgrade I was using 5 PCI cards: - SB Live - SCSI - Promise card for large ATA drive support - NIC - Modem With the last upgrade I ditched the modem and, through mobo integration, got down to just: - SCSI I don't see why you wouldn't achieve similar results. BTW, the new mobo...

Out of curiosity, are they ditching their AS/400 or just moving to a TCP-based product? Anyway, have you tried, in Outlook: Tools - Options - Mail Setup tab - Email Accounts... - More settings... - Advanced tab - Logon network security drop-list and making sure it's set to 'NT Password...

Since I've only 1 Athlon XP-class system in my 'farm', the SSE boost isn't doing wonders for my point production. Also, it is still pulling down core 65 units and I'm not deleting them in the hope of getting a core 78 unit. It produces what it produces... In other sucky news, I found one of...

People vote for elected officials usually on the basis of the cadidate's positions on one or two issues. - Right-to-lifers will generally vote republican as Rs are generally against abortion and Ds are generally pro-choice. - Environmentalists will generally vote democratic as, while Ds aren't...

I wouldn't call myself charismatic. I'm still relatively introverted (although much less than how I was back in high school). And I'm certainly not an ass-kisser. In fact, I think several past managers and my present one have liked that about me. I'm not afraid to tell them that something...

I tend to think of my 'success' as the product of several factors. In no particular order: 1. Ability to communicate effectively, especially when writing. For some reason this is rare among technical people. 2. Good timing / 'luck'. I've left jobs before getting laid off a couple of times...

I use Tiny Personal Firewall V. 2. The free one that, IIRC, is no longer available. They went commercial with version 3 and I haven't followed it since then. It's not that user-friendly initially, but I like the interface better than anything from Norton and the others.

Job histories, eh? Started 'consulting' in Fall '87 for $8/hour, no benefits. Really just a contract software tester. That lasted a few months until the consulting company's clinet pushed us out because my boss, who was also contracted to the company, wasn't doing what he was supposed to...

1. I guess they're going SCSI, then... 2. jtr, it should be parental unit board.

IBM also used the term Planar Boards to describe the boards that drove certain terminals. Perhaps IBM's goal was to move away from being specific about the logic or importance of any one board over another. Considering some systems used cards for the CPU logic and had a backplane-type...

Suggestion taken. :D

I'm not sure when the d20 system itself became the default reference. I played the original D&D and AD&D while TSR owned the system, mostly skipped 2nd edition, and just a few months of 3rd edition; the campaign I'm in now has more or less finished migrating to 3.5. Somewhere between 1st & 3rd...

By Monte Cook, Internet Message Board Wandering Monster Table.

None taken. We have 1200 users doing OLTP-type workloads; that's a far cry from a small business/home server doing file/print/media handling. Although OS/400 does have media streaming capabilities, robust file & print processing, and better security than practically any platform out there, the...

Chicagoland, of course, but if I go from my house to our downtown office, that's an 88 mile round trip. Not much room for error if the batteries aren't at 100% (not only charge but general condition). My house is hardly the farthest out from downtown. My current commute to my normal office...

Transfer rates are practically immaterial in OS/400 land. IOs/sec is what matters. In a transaction processing environment, the system does lots of very small I/Os and relatively few large ones. Large I/O requests are typical only when backing up & restoring. Even index builds, where a...

Everything, but if using the TS client I will be doing a bit of side-scrolling. Screens can be definied from 320x200 up to 1024x768. But smaller screens are easier to manage & require less bandwidth.

That's what the center control channel is for. It communicates with the mat through some serial protocol or other (identifying the vehicle for billing, providing the charging rates the car can handle, etc.) and activates the current. If you make the mat pressue-sensitive as well and make it...

But it's nowhere near Wintel land. PowerPC-type CPUs and OS/400. The disk subsystem is U160, no more than 5 drives/cable. 5 SCA drives in a can--intelligent mounting chassis--w/1 cable to the controller. No more than 3 cables and 2 RAID5 sets per controller. Some cache on the controller...

Try this: Parking places have either a permanent or rollup mat that covers the from 1/4 of the space. The left 3rd is +; the center is a control channel; right is -. When you put your car in Park or engage the parking brake, 3 probes descend from the car to engage the sections of the mat.