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You have hot Swedish chicks to whom I would be a exotic foreigner. :-) Hm. Actually my friend is very interested in Scandinavian fabric arts. We kind of tossed around the idea of taking a trip to the land of reindeer and Ikeas at some point in the future while she was visiting the weekend...

I had some bad experiences with taking photos so I kind of gave up on that. I'm not interested in the outdoors at all really, or in bourbon, horses or guns, and that's pretty much all Louisville seems to have to offer. Even worse, I'll be away from other work I could be doing.

I'm teaching classes in New Albany, Indiana, right across the river from Louisville. The classes are only four hours long, so I have metric buttloads of free time, but from what I can see there's not much of anything going on down there that I'd be interested in doing. Guess I'll just take a...

I hafta go spend Sunday through Thursday every week for a month in Louisville, Kentucky. Ugh. Need games that will run on my Thinkpad 'cause near as I can tell there's not a damned thing in Louisville I want to actually do.

I think it's hilarious, too. Yes, it's a 4GB card with four GPUs, but it's not like there won't be something that's better in every way available by September.

It's limited edition, duh.

That's really funny 'cause XFX sent me an email on Friday that they were missing serial number 68/1000 of their 5970 limited edition product and distributors, retailers and customers should consider it stolen.

time, can you come talk to my brother about his speaker wires?

I'm under the impression that nVidia's current design is kind of a brute-force-just-keep-adding-transistors solution, where ATI has made some more elegant design choices that led to a smaller chip.

More correctly, all PDF readers have a built in javascript interpreter, which is most assuredly what I meant. I'd been awake for about 20 hours when I wrote that. Anyway, when Adobe is swept from the Earth like the plague that it is, we will hopefully be given some better format for our...

Apparently, there's still a little life left in OS/2 after all. eComstation is releasing a major revision to its product in the next couple weeks. I'm not sure what the point is, other than supporting newer hardware for existing OS/2 installs, but I am impressed that they're still making an...

I'll get the champagne if someone else gets the party hats and streamers.

It's even more retarded than that but the net result is the same. The users wound up with their Internet Explorer icons changed to point to K-Melon, and ClamWin for AV and they've been given instructions to just leave their computers on and locked, rather than shut down. Of course, there's...

I have a pair of somewhat expensive Sennheisers (I don't remember the model, 550something, I think) for the infrequent times I need headphones at home. I also have a pair of in-ear noise canceling cheapies (CX400s) that I generally only wear when I know I'm going to be spending a lot of time...

I have a lot of female friends whom I know through another forum I belong to. Some of those I've bought off-color prank gifts for, including a size extra-small thong and a rubber ducky vibrator in a bondage outfit. Now, I probably order something or other from Amazon at least twice a week, and...

At this point, yeah. PDFs need to be considered suspect. My dad got one of the 1,001 variants on XP Antivirus a couple weeks back from looking at home design blueprints in PDF format. PDFs have a built in javascript interpreter, and Adobe has fuck-all interest in providing secure products, so...

I can't stand the guy on a personal level, but there's a social obligation involved so out of all my customers, he's the one guy I couldn't ditch even if I wanted to. And yes, he really is that tight. He's not putting money in these machines, either, 10 minute startup time be damned...

And FYI, Windows 2000 will run on 48MB RAM. It checks for 64MB at install, but it'll run on 48MB.

They don't have licenses for 2000. Nor are RIMMs readily available from any source I'd trust.

They need two functional computers. Specifically, they need two that have a licensed copy of Office 2003. The cost of obtaining new hardware plus Windows plus Office is prohibitive for them right now, whereas the existing systems already have licensed software on them. That would be...

Slashdot says one of the iphone devs ported Android to a 1st. gen. iphone.

Little known fact: Aliens and Blade Runner seem to take place in the same universe, based on subtle hints like the fact that characters in each smoke the same brand of fictional cigarettes.

I have not received it yet. I'll let you know. As I said before, it's worth $25 just to try to get one.

I have a customer who is still using Windows 2000 systems on a daily basis. Those machines aren't connected to the internet, so they're basically fine, but they're also 10 years old and still being used daily. My least-favorite customer just hired two people and wanted me to put two 2GHz P4s...

Something I'm seeing right now is crappy old machines that are getting pulled out of whatever closet or basement that are being pressed in to service, or home users deciding to tough it out with their ancient system for another year. Yes, this probably is related to the current economic...

Does anyone have any strong feelings about how to deal with old computers and modern software? I'm talking about 10 year old hardware, the sort of thing that might've been upgraded to XP when XP first came out. I'm noticing at this point that even something like Spybot Search and Destroy is too...

The sack full of Micropolis drives were to be vigorously applied to Prof. Wizard.

There's at least one company that offers a 24 3.5" bay 4U chassis for $200. They're kind of crummy as far as chassis go, but that does get you to the kind of storage density you're talking about.

Howell, you know that when Foxit is asking to update, most of the time it's to address security issues, right? And that those issues are largely created by the file format itself?

Sumatra PDF. It's a bit primitive.

Not really a good idea for my specific needs, oddly enough.

Ask them for a small part sometime, like a cable or fan adapter. Watch them look for that part for two minutes and then disappear. Last time I was at Microcenter I wound up having to explain to a group of employees that the guy who was asking about "iSCSI" was not talking about the hard drives...

I think the breakdown with Flash is "Flash for IE" vs. "Flash for everything else."

Microcenter seems to always have some deal or other going on CPUs. I'm guessing it's a loss leader for them, to get people in the door. On the other hand, the employees know nothing and can't even locate smaller products most of the time. If I didn't have a customer a few blocks away from one I...

Even if running .exe files has been disabled, you can still run command.com. So start that up and use the command prompt to run Firefox or notepad or the registry editor if you need to do so.

I'd say it's much more important to have fast access to operating system files that are in constant use than whatever userland data. As far as the pagefile, Windows wants there to be one, and constantly shifts 4kB blocks in and out of it even on systems with tremendous amounts of RAM (8GB, in...

What did people in Chinatown do to deserve having to pay in order to have Adobe shit inflicted on them?

The user shipped the machine to me. I'm going from the date he started bitching that it wasn't booting. Which, hm, actually is a month. Weird. I'm almost positive the drive is a G2. I took steps to keep SSD performance up, like moving the swap file and Documents and Settings directory off of...

Does Amazon ship to Russia?

Yeah. Guess I'll call tomorrow. Their web-based systems don't appear to be able to deal with storage stuff yet.

I can't even figure out where on Intel's site to submit an RMA for a storage device.

Intel X-25M 160GB, 2nd generation. Manufactured September 2009. Reads as 0 bytes, cannot be formatted, March 12, 2010.

I don't have to use a stylus on my phone, but it's much more comfortable and accurate than trying to deal with the hard keyboard my phone has. One of the things I'm looking forward to on the EVO is a much larger on-screen keyboard, but I suspect I'll wind up missing my stylus and being able to...

That's more or less the level of discourse in the Senate at the moment, Last year, Senator Al Franken's hearings on Employee conduct among military contractors basically led to a number of Republican Senators (34 of them, if memory serves, but whatever the number was, it was too many)...

Something very similar happened in about 2002, when everybody everyone started putting USB 2.0 stickers on products without elaborating that you can implement USB 2.0 without the 480Mbit Hi-Speed part of the spec. Now in that case the literature does say 3Gbps, but who the hell knows what was...

All three of my discs at least start and play through the first 10 minutes. There is a distinct difference in video quality between Fellowship and Return of the King, but even in FotR there's a superior picture to my DVD copy.

Sadly, if the transfer is bad it's unlikely they'll correct the issue until they get around to doing a "digitally remastered 20th anniversary edition." Also, this is why I don't normally buy BDs until I've actually watched them. But I am Peter Jackson's bitch, and will buy Lord of the Rings in...

... as opposed to the unflinching certainty of a WD drive dying...

There's nothing wrong with the theatrical versions of the movies. I've seen both several times and in general the things that are in the extended editions are, you know, things that didn't NEED to be in the films. I'm not sure I understand what the "digital copy" is for. It says "for PC and...

Been a while since Fushigi has posted.