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Samuel Adams is an "OK" commercial beer. There are definitely much better beers and ales available in certain US locales. A slightly better "local" commercial ale available here is Shiner Bock, made in Shiner, Texas by ex-Slovaks. http://www.shiner.com/ Another one would be Celis Gran Cru...

"I'll take Pondscum & Scalawags for $60." OK, let's see Pondscum & Scalawags for $60. [Q:] He looks like Satan, runs a large database company, and always has billgates on his mind. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [A:] Producing nearly worthless "upgrades" every...

YES, (Anderson, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, White) I THINK IT COULD. 8) OK, now from that list of Tannin-recognisable artists/groups, these are the one that I've seen live in concert: [list:22c4c958e0] Ian Anderson (with J.Tell in 1971), Jon Anderson (with Yes 1978), Bauhaus (1984), The Cure...

As far as vinyl goes, I sold all of mine back around 1982/3 through about 4 auctions. I was anticipating getting most of the recordings that I was still interested in re-obtaining at a later point in time on Compact Disc. Yes, it was a fairly big gamble, but *most* of what I wanted eventually...

The Suburbs... heehee. BTW, I'm thinking of an American band called the Suburbs. Oh well, I don't recall them very well other than seeing a few records by them about 15 years ago or so. However, I actually saw once (1980-ish, maybe) a sort-of cutsie punk-rock outfit from LosAngeles with a...

Cuz yer uh DAWG! arf! arf!

Or the antiquated CAM specification, which Adaptec eventually absconded with after burying then buying Future Domain.

Er.... probably in classes at the uni, or at work, or maybe busy at home, or maybe stuck in freeway traffic, or maybe -- like yo -- trying to kindle a burgeoning career in rap. But, then, what the hell is The_Giver s'posed to be, sort of a The Giver antichrist ? :idea:

That would probably be an obfuscation for the word bald. follicle + ly -ly = Like; having the characteristics of... Besides, I would have used a different spelling: follicly.

I heard something on the radio news station the other day about a fight he has scheduled in Roma this summer with someone named PeeWee. :D

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This was during one of Symantec / Norton's 2 (or was it 3) dark periods when the somewhat-recently-purchased Norton Utilities Group was seemingly on the brink of swiftly losing all customer confidence. This incredible "WARNING: I AM A VIRUS!" problem with NAV for Macintosh (I'm thinking...

I believe the "old" (and still manufactured) 2x or 1x AGP series ATI graphics adaptors called the Xpert had solid stable drivers for Windows, but the various Rage series for AGP most certainly had ongoing (I'm talking years) driver stability for Windows. The last I heard, the more-recent...

..·· The only problem about the term "SCSI buddy" was that some thought the wrong way around: Going from an ATA channel to a SCSI device. "Oh Great! Now I can hang a Cheetah X-15 off my cruddy little IDE channel ! ! !" (...er, wrong IDE breath) ..··

. . Ah... took the word from me mouth! I would not want yet another computer around the house. My better half has long complained about the 2 computers and the 20+ guitars, 4 amplifiers, so... However, I could compromise on this ONLY if there was the ideal little pie-in-the-sky USB device...

. . I definitely would not want to have to do this with a general-purpose computer. I would MUCH rather have a TiVo-like device; far more convenient and less expensive. True, the TiVo is just a box that runs customised Linux and uses the embedded version of the Motorola PPC processor...

. . I am aware of TiVo and that other video recorder thingee with a hard drive that's just like a TiVo, but competition. What I DO like about these two machines is that they can record dozens of hours of television broadcast material unattended and not use videotapes. What I DON'T like...

. . :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: . .

. . I recall that a few "decent" graphical CPU roadmaps -- basically, well-illustrated timelines -- used to be available back in the days of Pentium II and Pentium II Xeon technologies. But, I haven't seen anything like those earlier Roadmaps in a while. I would guess it's because...

. . What about ballroom dancing? Isn't that an Olympic sport? I'm not being sarcastic, but wasn't ballroom dancing or maybe some other form of dancing allowed to compete in the Olympics? . .

. . Monsieur Clocker: The best way to approach upgrading such devices as the SCSI host adaptor that you boot your system on, is to: 1.) Install the Adaptec card into the PCI slot you plan on using, which would likely be a 64-bit PCI slot. Do nothing else. 2.) Power up your system...

. . I don't know the exact history of those Via problems back then, as I was dedicated to a platform that centered on i440BX / i440GX stability. :) But, I definitely used to hear about them for some number of months. As for Matrox BIOS updates, well, there would be only one nowadays (of...

. . The slowness to deliver was to do with MS WHQL certification. I never did use their beta drivers when Windows 2000 first came out. I stuck with the default (stable) Win2K installation drivers until the first final drivers update arrived. . .

. . The cure (back then) for the Matrox G-100 and G-200 to be compatible with the various idiosyncratic Via chipsets was a graphics card flash BIOS update. The OpenGL support problem was a definite screwup on Matrox's part -- it eventually showed up. . .

. . The last I heard, Denmark had the worst national taxation rate at between 45% ~ 70% (depending on your gross income). I also believe New Zealand was "catching up" with Denmark in a hurry, though. Better hope that this trend doesn't decide to cross the Tasman Sea! :o :o :o . .

. . The only problem with Number 9 is that Number 9 cards have not been made in years. But back in the day when they were around, I had (at work) six imaging workstations with Number 9 Imagine-128 graphics adaptors. Our work -- as it still is today -- is high resolution full colour 2-D...

. . The Barracuda IV is w-a-y quiet compared to any 10kRPM SCSI performance hard drive and just about any other hard drive currently in existence as well. Performance is also much better than the Barracuda III, but not quite even with the latest Western Digi hard drives. I use a 60 GB...

. . I rarely watch the ol' tele, but I thought that I heard of an Australian export that is basically some sort of daredevil-based real-life show, where they use just common folk off the street to perform daredevil stunts -- or something like that. . .

. . ...the painter_ to do their thing,... ...between Fox and and and and and Hounds. Pradeep, you are in serious trouble! Expect a knock on your door soon by the the the the the Tasmanian Ministry of Language. . .

. . A *much* improved security analyser over the old command-line-based HFNetChk making it a must have for those running Windows XP or Windows 2000 (Workstation or Server). Note that M-BSA can only run on WinXP or Win2K, but it can check NT4, Win2K, WinXP, SQL Server, IE, or IIS over a...

. . Well, we had an earlier discussion on this topic -- which I nicknamed "Hyperthreading and the Fine Art of Tossing Handgrenades" for some reason -- where we uncovered most of the "hyper"bole surrounding SMT...

. . . Curse of the 3-lettered-enterprises: . . . ALi, SiS, and Via all made me stay away from AMD. . . .

. . Ah.... Here it is. http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0227/idf04.htm Anyway, Clawhammer will require AMD Socket 754 and Sledgehammer will require AMD Socket 940. With 940 pins on a processor not much larger than an existing P4, those pins must be more like filaments...

. . It's known as "The Ultimate Flame." ...And this is a phenomenon known as "Rogue Tags" --->

. . After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away...