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I am acquainted with a person who received a botched sex change operation. She has a substantial amount of nerve damage just where you wouldn't want it when you're paying $75k to have your ween turned inside-out. All in all, gotta say that Expert Sex Change is probably better than the kind that...

Some folks from reddit.com sent the employees of CERN's Large Hadron Collider a "Half Life Survival Kit", including a stuffed headcrab. Amazingly, they got the joke, and there are pictures and video.

Some terminals were amber on black. Some were green on black. The first PC I purchased for myself had Hercules graphics, which was a "high resolution" green monochrome display, and I've always preferred that scheme to any other.

There is a terminal theme. Green plain text on a black font. Just like everything should be.

I would LOVE to can this guy. LOVE to. I've never in all my years of contracting work had someone who is so completely needy, helpless and micromanaging, especially not all at the same time. Unfortunately, he's not my customer, directly. He's close friends/frat brother/country club buddies with...

Here's my fun story for the day: It is 4PM. I have just wrapped up a class where I have been lecturing for two hours. I am in need of, shall we say, a porcelain vacation. I go in the men's room, normally my exclusive province, as I am the only guy who works in my office. But apparently a...

Apparently, several times.

As in doorstops? Sheesh. What else are WD drives good for?

Translation: Adobe is a bunch of assholes who hate its customers so much they won't let people do the one thing that would probably help system performance more than any other possible hardware change.

You're basically paying the money to have someone to blame when it stops managing that traffic, I think. I was involved in a commercial-grade web service setup many moons ago that used a few of them, but they arrived pre-set in whatever configuration they were supposed to have. They are...

There *are* other places that can start a program. Services, for example. Or putting things in win.ini. Hijack This should be run at the very least, and Process Explorer.

I honestly don't know if it does or not. They're manually re-sizing the dimensions of the images they are printing in Corel Draw. The plotter they're using is an HP 1100T I think. Plotters are something I never get to play with. Even the customers I have who use them usually have people expert...

A client of mine has a plotter. An enormously expensive, two month old , 48" wide plotter. They use the plotter to print blueprints, sometimes, and posters. At least, that was the plan. They have gobs more money than sense and no one there actually knows how to use the plotter. Or much of...

I just read this very interesting article about right wing talk radio, written by a former producer.

Server 2008 is pretty cool. Most of the time.

Yes. Not that I'd know.

OK, enough about cholesterol. Let's talk about something fun. Like boobs or something.

Any DDR2 memory that needs to run at more than 1.8V in order to operate is defective. I don't care if your hardware gives you the option to do it or not. If it's DDR2, spec says it works at 1.8V. I'll give you a third option, which is that your Gigabyte motherboard just can't handle what...

My take is that it's the finished Vista product. The one they should have waited to release.

Every file in every folder is EXPLICITLY marked Read-only? Not just the greyed out box that means "There's some read-only stuff in here." And you're sure you've cleaned off any viruses present?

Don't say that, man. Food is the only fucking pleasure I get.

Usually when I add "redist" to my search terms it takes me to the right place. I guess for this it didn't.

Weren't you recovering from something heart-ish around the last time we sent Doug a present, too?

Ah, OK. Apparently Microsoft's on-site search wants me to download stub installers instead of redistributables.

Why is the redistributable package for .NET 2.0 22MB while the 3.0 - 3.5 versions are only 2.7MB or so? And should I be installing both, like the old VB runtimes, or does the 3.0 series supersede 2.0?

One of the things I've found out is how much it sucks to be that close. My contracting customers pretty much don't call me unless they need me, because I'm at least 45 minutes away from all of them. Mr. Penisbreath whose office is right next door to mine wants me to go over and chat face to face...

I made some fried chicken on Sunday and since I had some flour left I tried a grand experiment: Chicken-fried bacon. It was awesome, even though I did burn the first couple pieces. The main problem with poutine is that I don't know where to get young cheddar cheese curds. There's a particular...

I don't view viruses as much of a threat these days, and I like the fact that I can easily install AVG for people so that they don't have to mess with it. I like Avast better for its P2P and IM scanning options (read: the main ways that threats are likely to gain entry on most home computers)...

Slashdot has a discussion today that might be interesting and relevant.

Fortunately, since I disable daily scanning on every system where I install AVG, it's not been an issue for anyone I know. I'd be awfully pissed if it was an issue, though. I install AVG a LOT. This is the second huge AVG issue they've had since the release of version 8 of their software, too...

Yes. I spent most of my morning with an Eee. I set it up to dual boot XP and Ubuntu. It's a lot snappier in Linux than it is with Windows, especially for boot time. The model I was working with had a Celeron CPU and a 120GB hard drive. I had it side by side with a new Ubuntu-based desktop...

I'm not sure CPU performance is a particularly big deal with those things. They're meant to run a web browser and not much more, after all. Not being able to upgrade RAM sucks hard, though.

Had one briefly. I hated the gamepad and really only wanted to play one game.

Why does the USA not have Poutine? French fries + gravy + cheese curds. Holy crap that just sounds awesome.

I know all about depression and I assure you nothing about it is great.

Wait. What? You're making a huge and fundamentally incorrect assumption about the nature of any other political party that might exist. Right now we are divided between social progressives and social conservatives, and the actual behavior of both parties seems to veer away from what might be...

Well, it sure as hell explains why I hate my Wii so much.

Pandora finally added classical music. I must say that I am pleased and impressed. The devout, sensually minimalist works of Arvo Pärt lead to 21st century movie soundtracks, 19th century choral works and medieval plainsong. I'm finally experiencing what the music genome project was supposed to do.

Liberals by-and-large don't listen to talk radio as it exists for conservatives. Air America was an attempt to create something similar. Many liberals who did attempt to listen found the tone of the discussions there rancorous and off-putting, and it's generally a nonentity in terms of its...

Only if no one else does. Remember the Reform party? I know that it was backed by Perot's billions when he was running, but it had a real, larger, more effective apparatus than the Libertarians, Greens or US Constitution Party, all of which have been around for decades with nothing to show for...

I'm a National Public Radio guy. In my car, it's NPR or nothing.

I have a tab permanently opened to meebo and Google's IM seems more reliable than Yahoo's for me.

IIRC you have to create a mirrored-only mount point for /boot and then you can use LVM to created a RAID10 set with some amount of data on all of your drives. The whole softraid setup is really, really nice compared to Windows, though.

Doesn't the new Adobe crap only use 3D features on the card if you have a new-ish nVidia Quadro?

Stereodude, if you can pull yourself away from Fox News and talk radio, you might consider spending a month or two in the fine company of the BBC World Service, from the CBC or Australia's ABC. The election is over. Rush is just going to be sputtering about the secret muslim gay penis...

I can tell you from experience that drives that are more than about three years old that have been used in a server are more likely to fail, no matter what you do.

I get a lot of use out of Solarwinds IP Monitor, but it's neither free nor open. For that matter, it costs a bloody fortune. But it works really well and integrates SNMP and WMI management, which makes it really nice for general network management.

I normally use Linux for that sort of thing. I think it's silly to pay thousands of dollars for user licenses just to serve files.

Yes, Ts have discrete nVidia graphics. They use a Quadro chip as I recall. I'm told it's fairly underpowered, but Intel's X3100 isn't a speed demon either.

Microsoft Outlook gives me rage.