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There's one stuck pixel on my 27" Dell. There are two on one of my 24" Dells. Most of my classroom Monitors have at least one dead or stuck pixel, and most of those monitors are less than two years old. Oddly enough, none of my LCD TVs have any, though.

W's temporary tax cuts were a horrible idea in the first place. You don't increase spending and decrease taxes at the same time. That creates something that intelligent people call a "deficit." If the tax decrease was temporary, it was temporary. The rates never changed. President Dumbass just...

They just put a label on it. To be fair, so do IBM and Dell.

They just put a label on it. To be fair, so do IBM and Dell.

It's more of a general windows complaint than a Vista one, but why the hell doesn't the Printer driver selection screen have a search box? Drivers are named so inconsistently that logical alphabetical order isn't always the correct place to find a printer.

Gosh that's terrible. How dare he! I am reminded of a Doonesbury cartoon from the early part of this decade, in which W was addressed with the question "Is there any economic condition in which the correct response is not 'tax cuts for the wealthy?'" 'Cause 20 of the last 30 years have been...

I've never needed to buy a 48 port switch for anyone where the cost for a Cisco setup was out of reach. I have some 24-port Zyxel switches that have management functions and were quite inexpensive (so cheap that I didn't realize they were managed switches until I got them), but they don't make...

Newegg is very high for Antec cases. I use another US vendor, Provantage, which usually has one or other of the NSK series cases at $65 + $20 to ship instead of Newegg's $80 or $100 + $15. I really like the 3480. I like having the hard drive mounting in the bottom of the case. I also like the...

And the answer to the question "is it worth buggering with?" is No, simply because I can't get a Promise RAID card to work in a system with a 3ware RAID card and therefore don't have enough SATA ports to do anything all that impressive. :\

... So I checked with a couple nVidia cards: my 8800GTX (...since I just got it back from RMA again) and a cheapie 9600-something. Neither card supports HDMI audio, and now my sound is properly directed to my audio card when playing either HD-DVD or BluRay content. The down side to that...

In the olden days the HP Printers had a Windows emblem on them. The Photosmart printers I have (in a stack, doing nothing) have no indication that they're windows only. My advice: Don't trust anything that doesn't do native postscript.

HP has made a lot of Win-printers. I was complaining about some Photosmart printers that require Windows back in January, but even going back, I can remember Windows only printers (HP DJ 892, maybe?) from 1999 or so.

Normally I use Nero Recode in the High Definition profile + AnyDVD to make MPEG4 video files. If it's something that I care enough to preserve a DTS soundtrack (the High Definition profile provides dolby digital only), I'm probably doing a DVD-to-DVD copy. As a proof of concept, I've started...

About 2m from a Linksys WRT350N, I get 802.11n speeds that work out to be about 120Mbit during file copies to a PC connected to one of its gigabit ports. At about 5m, the speed drops off to about 80Mbit. That's as far as I can get from the router without putting some cinder blocks between my...

blakerwry, I can attach a 1440x900 display to an XP machine that doesn't even have SP1 or anything like current devices drivers and have it work OK. I found this out last night while I was messing with an old Pentium4 machine with a Radeon 9200 I'd had sitting in my pile of spare parts. I'm...

After much experimentation, I've found a fun new Vista pet peeve: Take a 17" or 19" widescreen flat panel display. Brand name, generic, whatever (I like HannsG displays for cheapies these days). Most likely, it will have a screen resolution of 1440x900. Attach that display to an XP computer...

I'm sitting here looking at 12 1TB hard disk drives and wondering if it's worth buggering around with all of them just to make a screen shot of one big array, before I set them up properly.

My annual salary is not that high.

Gold is cyclical and on the way down right now from historic highs. A lot of currency trading - I'm not sure about dollar and euro (also falling right now) but a lot of other currencies require contracts that are pretty much going to be too large for a single consumer-level investor to afford...

I don't have any place to put 60lbs. of meat! On the other hand, it would be nice to have an excuse to fix the dent in my Element's hood. I had a tree limb fall on my car the week after I got it. I had a $500 deductible at the time. Cost of repair was $470. There's a funny thing about my...

I just came about three inches from hitting a deer this morning. I sure am glad I had my brakes and done a couple weeks ago. Deer bad.

<threadjack> I always thought it was funny that former Mexican President Vincente Fox's father emigrated from Ohio to find work in Mexico. Fox is living proof that the son of immigrants can become president... in Mexico. </threadjack> We now return you to the disastrous state of the economy...

I think that depends entirely on how open minded you are.

Er... what is?

I had a preorder on it, which they canceled. They re-listed it with the different MSRP but then discounted it to the same price I had before. $52.99 or something like that. It was entirely reasonable. There's a copy of Iron Man on BluRay at my office, but I don't feel like going to get it...

Well, dickhead went and got a quote to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM for his environment: $14,000 just for software and licenses, no labor cost, no database conversion... nothin'. A single user license is $900, and the package does not come with any. Even for Microsoft that's a level of anal...

Vista's backup and restore aren't sector-based like ATI, but it is a really nice for an included freebie. I presume WHS is built on the same software. I tell people I would rather have ATI. Home Server is one of the very few things from Microsoft that's not included with either MSDN or Action...

I ended up buying a book. I don't know when I'll have time to look at it, but at least I have some kind of reference. It's probably been 20 years since I typed in a command line where I didn't have any idea why I was typing what I typed. I do not like that feeling.

That's 'cause you're better at math than that guy is. On the other hand, those stupid rebate checks they gave us back in May accounted for the last "up" financial quarter we're going to see for a while, and those were probably something like $600 apiece.

Newegg sets flat rates on shipping per item for most people. The exception is that if someone notices that you're doing a large enough volume of business ($20k in a month, maybe?), they'll put a "reduce shipping price" flag on your account for a while. I've received as much as 3/4 of a UPS...

I've thought about doing WHS as a class for my students, but I don't think I could get anyone to actually buy a copy of the software. Beyond the automated backup, is it doing anything that you can't do with any other Windows PC with network shares set up?

Er... they wrap the Samsung drives in the shells with bubble wrap, too. Also, if the shell does get deformed, you can usually see it, because the little plastic protective bubbles, once pushed in, stay pushed in.

Well, there's not much we can do about it. There really, really isn't. The IT Admins for Congress actually took the step of throttling how much constituent E-mail is being delivered to congresscritters, in the face of the overwhelming public outcry against this plan. From an ideological...

You know how lip balm (Chapstick, Carmex) is something that you buy, use a few times, and then lose? I actually finished a tube of Blistex lip balm today. I've had that tube since February 2005. I really feel like I've accomplished something.

I think it's a crappy deal too. One of the "other craps" that's in the Senate bailout bill is a provision that will require health insurers to give parity of coverage to mental health issues. As stupid as I think the bailout bill is, that's something I really would like to see turned into law.

Has anyone made any serious attempt to learn Powershell yet? I'm playing with Exchange 2008 and there are features that are not exposed in the GUI that must be configured with Microsoft's new command line interface.

Volume license keys make everything painless.

I'd say you're in for a great career in Japanese fetish porn. :cyclopsani:

Plaintronics is having a big clearance sale today, too.

There's a program I've used for that called WMI Asset Logger that can pretty easily give you that information.

It is, but it's still not the behavior I want.

I came to that link after looking through bunches of mainstream media sites for some kind of layman's description of the bailout package. As of Sunday night there just weren't any. It's moot at this point, but overall I was highly disappointed by the summary I read. What I really want to see...

You need to watch the interview.

There's a HUGE difference between "My Documents" and everything that belongs under your username folder in Windows. You can redirect everything there to a network location with trivial ease, but then part of your login process becomes copying it all back to the C: drive. There's a special...

The Samsung drives are shipped in a rigid plastic shell rather than just a static bag. I think they do better as one off drive shipments, too.

This is the best description of the bailout plan that I've found. From the BBC; apparently the US Media aren't interested enough in this particular story, or think it's too complicated or something.

Setting up multiple partitions for different needs is very much in line with the *nix way of doing things. Windows isn't fully equipped to allow it; you can't easily force \Documents and Settings or \Users off onto a partition by itself as you can mount /home. It's possible, but wizardry is...

If you just bought one they'll ship it in a box that's 8 inches on a side, filled with packing peanuts. Since it's a Seagate drive, it'll be in a static bag that's been wrapped on each axis with bubble wrap. I wouldn't buy a single drive like that either. Given how god-awful the AS-series...

Whomever the next US President is, there is essentially ZERO chance that they will have anything that could be so strongly phrased as a "mandate" to hold office. The US electorate is sharply divided between two partisan groups and a middle so apathetic that they can't even be bothered to vote. I...

Both the National Review and the New Republic have published articles in favor of ditching Palin. Both are hard-right (hard, hard, hard, HARD-right for our non-US memebers) publications serving the thin veneer of intellectualism on that exists on that side of the US political spectrum: basically...