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  1. sechs

    Strange days on planet Earth

    I'm not quite sure why it isn't entitled, "National Geographic's How People Are Ruining Planet Earth Real Quick Like."
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    Go Indiana!

    Com'on. These are the folks who put "waving fields of grain" and pictures of wheat on their license plates, despite the fact that most farmers in the state grow corn.
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    Bizarre Audio Product

    I'm sure that it's great for your walls....
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    IE / Java Related Prob. In Win2K & WinXP

    Stop using Windows.
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    Adobe Buys Macromedia

    Just around the corner? This has been possible since PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5).
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    Bridging a DSL router - HELP!

    If you have *a* static IP address, then your router/modem is likely taking that. Makes it difficult to pass the WAN address to your router. NAT is not a limitation on VPNs. I've run a VPN (Cisco, I think) through a double NAT setup with absolutely no issues. Depends upon your VPN client.
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    Something Funny in Canada?

    I was a bit to surprised to see most of the provincial PC parties resisting affiliation with the new federal Conservative Party.
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    Least Expensive NAS Devices (?)

    I've communicated with a few people who have purchased the Buffalo NAS product. The consensus seemed to be that it wasn't terribly exciting, but did the job. The ability to expand with USB drives seemed to be a real plus.
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    NEWS: Seagate First To Market With Perpendicular Tech (?)

    I may also release a perpendicular drive this year.
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    Something Funny in Canada?

    So, to where are the former PCers flocking? They're not excatly prime to join the Liberal Party....
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    Something Funny in Canada?

    Idiots!
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    Black and White Video?

    Try using the control panels instead of the CCC.
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    Something Funny in Canada?

    In a thread on another site discussing the possible demise of VIA (Canada's national passenger railroad) it was mentioned that there would likely be a Conservative take-over in elections likely to be called soon. Is there something funny going on? I guess that there's a scandal beating up the...
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    Consolidated SCSI Drive Sale Thread

    Now asking $140 each for the 15ks After this, they go to the wolves!
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    Hitachi breaks into song

    Have you made a check of consumer intelligence lately?
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    It's sunny in Halifax! Spring! Spring!

    According to this measure, I'm not sure that's ever really stopped being spring here....
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    win2k doesn't boot and gentoo kernel options

    Just be confusing, partitions start with 1, and extended partitions start with 5.
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    1TB Drives

    I was hoping to make the switch to punch card soon....
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    ChevronTexaco Buying Unocal

    Like telephone, oil is determined to unify itself....
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    win2k doesn't boot and gentoo kernel options

    If the first partition on your drive was extended and now its primary, the second partition (primary, as before) has changed from partition 1 to partition 2. If that's the issue, I'm not sure that it'd lead to the message that your getting, however.
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    And you though computing was fun and games

    Like many others - it is a business....
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    Schiavo

    Talking to yourself again? You really should stop that....
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    Schiavo

    Where's the thumbs-up button?
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    500 GB Hitachi

    Considering that there aren't massive complaints about the 7k400, I'd say that Hitachi is going to keep grabbing that capacity crown with five platters. Will anyone else follow suit?
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    Schiavo

    Now they get to argue over what to do with her body! If I recall correctly, the husband wants to cremate it and give everyone ashes, and the family wants her burried in the their plot.
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    Slow day?

    I've actually had stuff to do. Not anything that pays, mind you....
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    /still looking for a job in Canada.

    Why would you want to live there?
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    W2003 Server SP1 released

    Didn't they go gold (RTM) today?
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    Recommendation for low/mid-level P-ATA PCI adapter

    There are plenty of those ATA133 cards that Maxtor handed out like candy....
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    500 GB Hitachi

    Is this a three platter or five platter design?
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    Schiavo

    Others agree and certainly won't explain things to you.... If you're going to be an asshole and insult people, rather than making a principled argument, why don't you just come out and do it? It's this kind of idiocy and lack of respect that makes any kind of intelligent conversation on...
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    /still looking for a job in Canada.

    What we need is a "righteous" war wherein we can get lots of these disagreeable elements to join the military and die. Right now, only the poor folk do that.
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    /still looking for a job in Canada.

    Learning Quebeker (they don't speak French in Canada) would be awfully helpful. A review of the film "Canadian Bacon" should help you considerably.
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    Schiavo

    Many in the "religious right" see this as a right-to-life issue. If you're against abortion on these grounds (they argue) you have to be against this, too. It's people going out of their way to kill innocents. I have found that conservatives tend to be far more hypocritical and unprincipled...
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    Schiavo

    I always see these things as a quality of life versus quantity of life issue. Some people believe that all life is precious, no matter how poor the quality. And, unless it's food. Others believe that a poor life is not one worth living. In this particular case, some parties are given to the...
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    Favorite Quotes

    When angry count a hundred; when very angry swear. - Mark Twain, from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, March
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    Posting...so...very, ........ very ......... slow.

    I've experienced no major issues.
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    BootCD problem: Ramdisk (xmsdsk.exe) and Ghost.ini

    While you certain can run Ghost in batch mode, be default, it runs the full-screen interface. Check your online manuals. There are enough command-line options to kill a horse. On a bored day, I used to force maximum compression, which is not an option in the program.
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    BootCD problem: Ramdisk (xmsdsk.exe) and Ghost.ini

    Perhaps I'm missing something. Why do you have to do this manually?
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    BootCD problem: Ramdisk (xmsdsk.exe) and Ghost.ini

    Is there some reason that you cannot use command switches instead of the .ini file? That would alleviate the whole issue.
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    Consolidated SCSI Drive Sale Thread

    The 10k.6 is sold Make me an offer on the Atlas 15ks
  42. sechs

    Consolidated SCSI Drive Sale Thread

    Not any more....
  43. sechs

    Consolidated SCSI Drive Sale Thread

    The 9LPs are sold. Atlas 15k: now $160 each or $300 for both Cheetah 10k.6: now $100
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    Format 250GB Drive As Single FAT32 Volume?

    The issue is file system formating, not partitioning. Will the DOS format command not work?
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    Getting around SMTP server blocking...

    How about tunneling your connection? When I worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we used to tunnel through the squid server using HTTP. Slow, but effective.
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    Remote Printer

    Why does it need to be USB at both ends? Generally, a print server is going to have you network the printer.
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    Remote Printer

    Why not a wireless print server?
  48. sechs

    NEWZ: Intel Plans To Drop Pentium Moniker

    How's "Hotpieceofcrapium?"
  49. sechs

    Firefox Window resizes

    Correct. So have we determined that the problem is outdated and incompatible extensions?
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    Firefox Window resizes

    I have 1.22 installed. How does that work?
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