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Where do you men find time to peruse all of this porn?

Most motherboards come with built-in NICs; the folks who sell stand-alone NICs aren't really trying to appeal to the flashing lights crowd....

ICQ? I remember having to use ytalk to "instant" message with people.

I imagine this is backup, like the old 8-track tapes. You search an extract table and pull the appropriate tape(s) to get the actual data.

Try using the previous version of Ghost. It seems to work better. Otherwise, if Linux supports your chipset, then you can just boot into Knoppix and use dd.

There are people here who have a Christmas break? Oh boy.

If I were arguing something, perhaps. I was just pointing out ways that the petrochemical industry is not necessary. We lived before it and we can live after it. This time, tho' we can use electric cars.

Ever heard of cement? Everything else can be , has been, and is made from plant or animal matter, which, ultimately, is solar power.

One of the funny things is that most people don't consider coal to be an alternative to oil. It's plentiful and domestic (there's a ~300 year supply in the United States alone), and if mined and used properly, quite clean (although there's a lot of effort in "properly"). Oh, and it's cheap...

P.S: My parent's local phone company is Sprint. Pindrop my ass.

Is this flash?

Back off. I'm tired of you thinking that every comment I make is, in some way, trying to troll you. If you really think that I'm trying to troll you, do something mildly intelligent and ignore the "offending" comments. You've done a darn good job of making a fool of yourself; no need to bait!

Early 80's? My family had a party line in the late 1980's, and they didn't live out in the middle of nowhere. They didn't get touch tone until the mid-90's. I think that they were forced off of a pulse-only line in 2000. You guys should look into indoor plumbing. Plenty of Appalachians...

Do you have a problem with people trying to help you? This indignant attitude isn't very conducive to... well, to anything.

This is not RAID.

Another reason to never fly Continental again!

Maybe you should be considering a different monitor, then.

840x525 isn't a fun resolution?

What on earth do you have that doesn't support 1680x1050?

FYI, Dell is cancelling any coupon that they can find to have been sold.

People with whom I've spoken are kind of luke-warm on this monitor. Yes it's wide screen. Yes it has slightly better specs than the 2001FP. But what does that get you? Wide screen has advantages for certain uses, but, for the most part, it's just a 19-inch LCD with some extra screen area...

You need to figure out what kind of wireless topology you'll want. A repeater just repeats the signals to and from the access point. This basically allows you to extend the network in the direction of the repeater. It does not add any bandwidth. If you have multiple access points, each one...

There goes my Thinkpad discount....

I think I've got a buyer on the RAID card. Would anyone be interested in buying or trading for the Maxtor drives?

You need the GmailFS plugin. Turn your Gmail account into remote file storage....

That would not, in fact, involve Linux. Wait until he tells them that Linux is just the kernel!

Does this mean that my revision A 2200+ is now a collector's item? Is Sempron the replacement in the mobile sector, as well?

I guess this is why the Xbox 2 will be based on a PowerPC chip from IBM: you get what you pay for.

Okkay, GUI-bound users: What do you do when XWindows fails to start due to some issue with the aforementioned hardware or configuration? You'd be looking for some command line skills right at that point. Furthurmore, how will these people write shell scripts if they never use the shell...

If you have to start with "this is a mouse, this is a keyboard," then it may be some time before you get to Linux.... I found it really useful at first to know how to use key Unix commands and combine them. Piping and redirection are your friends. If you can get past that point, maybe you can...

You mean that they don't comply with the PCI-E standard or are simply ignorant of what their board can do?

I can see them getting out of the desktop market. IBM has been nothing special on your desk for many years. Laptops, however, are a different deal. Everyone has at least heard good things about Thinkpads.

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. - Chuang Tse

Maybe we should work on a national menorah and having the president pardon a sheep every year for passover.

Where are the big Hannukah sales? What radio station will go to an all Hannukah music format this year?

The Macy's here had their Christmas decorations up before Halloween. I feel that some people need to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas more often....

Once you *actually* have a business plan and prospectus, let us know....

Once you have a business plan and prospectus, let us know....

Didn't I hear about SpaceMonger here? I've been using it for over a year now, if only to wonder at the amount of media files I have....

I'm not against the EULA. There's one.

If a lot of these files are ending up somewhere other than temporary folders and the appropriate document folders, then you either have a bad application or need some organization. While you can do a file search for the worrisome file types and delete those which aren't where they belong, I...

Oh, and hacking these files is probably against the EULA.

Is this not a well-known hack?

My statement applies to all dynamic disks, irrelevant of their volume structure.

Most standard tools can't do a volume recovery on dynamic volume. File-wise recovery is probably your best shot. Why on earth was this a dynamic volume?

This was a dynamic volume?

A gig makes a difference. I have several previous generation games -- Battlfield (both 1942 and Vietnam) and Call of Duty, for example -- wherein there is a marked difference in single player with 512MB vs. 1GB of RAM. While you can turn down graphics options, you can't decrease the size of...

I have a Belkin router. Except for a blown fuse on the original one that I bought, I've had no problems with it. It has just enough options for me to be secure about it. I know people with Linksys routers, and I feel that Merc has pretty much hit the nail on the head with those.

I have a Plextor which has done extremely well. I've heard bad things about Lite-On DVD burners.

Well, I've pretty much decided that it's the drive. I used it's connector for another drive today -- and no temperature abnormalities. I'd guess that this is some kind of electronics foo foo, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what happened.