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And go... where? Where is the magic forest where geek girls grow on trees?

A cool-running nVidia card remains an oxymoron. :P

I did get my script working, finally. Now I need to polish it up and think of other things it can do. It's a simple thing right now. It makes a folder and copies a bunch of small, no-install .exe files into that folder, puts some shortcuts to those programs in the start menu and then downloads...

It took me about five years to find a full time permanent job, out of college. I hate being a full time contractor and I am deathly frightened that I'd never find another decent job. Also, I hate moving with the same passion I exhibit for Western Digital and republicans.

Well, I have 31 years of interactions with women to go by, and so far I got nothin'. Here's the ideal that I'm looking for in a lady: 1. A geek - these are about as common as unicorns as far as I can tell, but the girls who like comic books or dungeons and dragons or hard drives are the...

Prove it. They aren't here. I have no idea where the fuck they are, but they aren't any place that I am willing to go, so they might as well not exist. I see lots of 24 - 30 year olds with three or four kids (with three or four different fathers), no education, divorced and looking for the...

50 point Suppress Magic. :P

I drink tea (note the lower case) and strawberry milk. Also, isn't it "sloe gin?"

Sadly, there's nothing of interest outside my apartment.

So far as I can tell, if they're human and female, they just won't.

Well, apparently, Vista's cmd.exe needs quotes in places XP's doesn't...

OK. I found a program to elevate a Batch script. Now I still have a problem with Vista not being able to find the explicit path c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. ... which XP and Server 2003 both do just fine.

The hard part is elevating the batch file that actually does the heavy lifting. It should look something like runas /noprofile /user:%username% "call \\servername\sharename\binapps.cmd" With the contents of binapps.cmd... md c:\program files\bin cd c:\program files\bin copy...

You guys have no idea how little contact I have with women.

Grumble. At least you people know women who are straight.

The frequently inebriated users at totalfark.com generally spell it "Vodak" and I have come to prefer that spelling. It conveys a certain level of amusement.

I wouldn't know what to do with them anyway. :(

Don't buy it. BS. Four times the standard CPU performance of VMware and disk performance that exceeds physical reality? No disclosure of what hardware was used in the tests? Um, no.

Walmart will have $100 HDDVD players tomorrow.

Tea seems like more of a Rum sort of a lass to me.

No tropical islands. All I'd do if I went someplace else is exactly what I do at home: read, get on the internet and listen to music. Why waste the time and money to travel for that? I'm not getting on a plane again until the whole flying experience no longer feels like incarceration, either.

Buffed Slingers would eat them alive. It's all about the number of figures in a stand and the fairly high base damage and numer of shields. Slingers also have the Luck attribute. They do tons of damage and they're hard to kill.

Evil. Poorly manufactured and not worth the money. Plus I will no longer have any respect for you.

Uh, no. The rule is, up to 7 hubs chained off a root hub for a total maximum of 128 device per root.

I've told Nitsirk, only half-joking, that my ideal career would involve being the towel boy someplace where it's very warm and there are swimming pools and hot chicks in bikinis. ... and I make pretty regular offers to be her towel boy. Don't know if she's made the connection to the other part...

I've been to all the Museums many times. The MCA less than the others, but still. Generally I'm not too excited about live music. I understand going to a rock concert and screaming the whole time, but every time I've ever seen a live classical performance, there's some jackass with a...

White Magic, Warlord Retort and Halfling Slingers. Cast Heroism on them, and the little eight-figure units have enough punch to one-shot Sky Drakes or Great Wyrms. I still play pretty regularly. :)

Meh. There's nothing I particularly want to do in Chicago. Or southern California.

Transcend's thumb drives are very often the highest performance models when product comparisons are done. I would not be surprised to find out that their SD cards are the same way.

One of my cousins lives in the San Fernando valley. I've only seen him a couple times in my life, but he likes to talk about the fact that his apartment complex and grocery store are pretty much inhabited by porn chicks. I'd put up with a mudslide or two if I saw the occasional 20 year old...

5'10 and 255lbs. However, that's down from what it was three years ago, when I weighed about 330lbs.

My personal notebook has a nine cell battery that will run the laptop for about five hours if I'm not using the DVD drive or 802.11 (which I normally don't). At times when battery life is even MORE important, I can get another three hours out of the Ultrabay 6-cell battery that I also have. In...

I am not positive but I am just about convinced that a Vostro is just a shitty laptop with different color body panels. I didn't even know there were Vostro desktops, but now I see that there are. The wikipedia entry seems to support my conclusion as well. "Known issues Currently, all Vostro...

When I get done with it. The perfect version is just going to grab the file straight from MVPS.org.

Anyone had the opportunity to play with a Dell Vostro for longer than two minutes? I got to hold one for a couple minutes, and it felt as craptastic as an Inspiron typically does. One of my business customers is showing a lot of interest in them as a cheaper alternative to the Thinkpads (They...

Scorpios are 5400rpm products, even setting aside their WDness for a moment. I guess if I were looking at a 5400rpm secondary drive that wouldn't matter so much. I haven't looked at notebook drives in a while. I'm surprised by how... uncompelling everything is.

I finally sat down and started working on a batch file to replace the hosts file on a Vista machine. It takes about five minutes every time I want to do it, so it's worthwhile to automate.

I've seen them used as aquariums. If I could get a 5" VGA screen, one of those would make an awesome home for a mini-ITX PC too.

Absolutely none. I am, as always, interested in capacity. If 100GB seems small to me, do you really think I'd be happy with 16 or 32GB?

I just decided to buy a nifty new Thinkpad T61. I already have a T60, but that machine is for my personal business and not for my trainer job. So I bought another one. It came with a 100GB 7200rpm SATA drive. A not-known-for-reliability Hitachi drive, but a 100GB SATA drive nonetheless...

Likewise. A CCNA course would probably be your best bet as a technical starting point to networking. Network+ just isn't very technical.

Ahhhhh

udaman's posts make me miss phpBB and the phpBBignore extension I had for Firefox. The most giant Cooler Master HSF thing ever. I am sad right now because my newest Thinkpad is not recognizing the 2GB DIMM I bought it.

I'm more of a daytime poster.

I typically buy Seagate external drives for backup needs. No one likes tape, and in a small shop or a home, it's pretty doubtful that anyone would pay it the attention it needs. I've never tried a Freecom Toughdrive. It looks like it's using a laptop part, so the capacity is rather smaller than...

Someone from Coolermaster wrote a rebuttal to my review of one of their products on Newegg today. In fact, that person wrote responses to about 30% of the reviews present. I didn't know anyone did that, but it's a damned sight better than going on, say the AsusTek manufacturer forum, only to...

I've run into something similar for the internet connection at my office. I fixed it by replacing our router with an ancient Thinkpad and a couple PC Card NICs. The "new" system is also vastly more able to handle many hundreds of open bittorrent connections without much degradation in overall...

Here's a description of what it takes to get Leopard running on a PC.

I like the arrangement we have now, including the names. Sometimes I'm not in the mood to look at tech support stuff, so I like that it's separate.

Lack of availability of MS Outlook and MS Access probably do hurt it as a business platform. I don't really think either is a big deal, but an awful lot of business type people would disagree with me.