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Odd. I was just thinking of how long it's been since Buck's been around.

Windows isn't a "desktop OS" - Windows is Windows, with some tunable parameters for desktop, application or file server workloads. You use essentially the same kernel and support files no matter what version of Windows you have (more or less, anyway). That said, x86 as a platform isn't really...

I've been pretty happy with the $15 X700SE cards that come up on woot.com from time to time, but I don't build many systems that that kind of hardware.

Speed is good, but I wish they'd take some time to reduce CPU overhead instead. Plus, I have a feeling that the market will prefer Wireless USB over greater speed.

MCSE to the rescue! The rule is: sub-"Basic" versions support one core, one processor (e.g. Starter or Legacy Windows) Home versions support one processor with as many cores as one processor can have. Professional versions can have two processors each with as many cores as any one processor...

It's supposed to be good for 500 - 600 calories an hour and a nicely elevated heart rate.

I don't particularly care for console games and their goofy, non-standard control systems. I bought Monster Rampage - I love the 25-year-old arcade game, but I'm really looking for things that require a lot of activity. I'll probably by Wii Fit when it comes out. The other titles available for...

My commute to my day job is 8.6 miles to the usual location, or 4.1 miles to one remote lab, or 160 feet to another remote lab... or 44 miles to the fourth one. When I am out doing contract work I might spend six hours in my car just driving around. I played Wii Boxing for about two hours...

Man, you're really missing out on March 14th, Steak and a BJ Day. On the other hand, I think I saw a movie about the three ghosts of Steak and a BJ Day once. It was on Cinemax really late on Friday night.

I've used these on C2D builds a couple times. I've been shipped defective fans four times out of the maybe 150 C2D systems I've put together. It doesn't have a temp sensor so it runs full blast all the time, but I don't recall the noise level as terribly objectionable. It's not silent like some...

I have an eyepatch and hat this year.

Well, the answer to that question is obviously yes, dd. They can push anything they want onto a Windows machine and there's nothing you can do to stop it except unplug from the internet or block traffic to Microsoft domains on your client machines. They're saying it's a major update to Windows...

$100 for a 1.7MB program that allows full PDF editing on Windows. The Foxit Reader is 1.5MB, and unlike the almost gross incompetence of Adobe's products, it doesn't make web browsers misbehave. It doesn't constantly bug me for updates and although I don't know this for sure, I'll bet it's a...

Uda, you have once again succeeded in making my head hurt.

... or $200 on Ebay when the people who bought them first start selling them for the upgraded version.

This thing looks kind of sexy.

Dogs are probably smarter than we think. I miss my dog. :(

I've been wondering why they renumbered my favorite cases. That's actually an excellent thing for me; I use nothing but NSK* cases in my "fleet" and lab computer builds, and more efficient power supplies are a selling point.

I don't think that multifunction devices are ever a good choice, but after getting a few converts to Samsung for small workgroup laser printers, I would be more willing to take a look at their MFP offerings than, say, HP. Depending on what they're doing, they might be able to find a deal on a...

Off the top of my head... Set up a proxy server that requires authentication. Put them on a subnet with no immediate internet access. Make them use a VPN that authenticates off a RADIUS server with some access rules. This would require Linux hacking but is kind of an awesome learning project...

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch?r

21000 miles. The Factory alarm system was "tampered with" (ie someone tried to steal my car), and apparently the car won't start without it.

My car's alarm system crapped out Wednesday. My car won't start without it, apparently. Dealer says it won't get fixed until they get a part, not til Tuesday. Every single time I've had to take time away from work in 2007 it has been because of my car. That is aggravating. However, I found a...

I don't have a problem with stupid rednecks. They can go about their beer swilling and varmint-eating ways. I have a problem with anti-science fundie-types, but those folks are hardly limited to the south. Anyway, I don't know if anyone else has ever tried teaching, but it's part of what I do...

I rather suspect it wouldn't've happened with proper regulation and government oversight. This country is rather more heterogeneous than the average European or Asian nation, too.

I'm OK with a bunch of Apple fanboy/hipsters taking a hit.

Medicade works. The Interstate Highway system works. Our Military works. Rural Electrification would never have happened if some jerkoff had said "We'll let the market handle it!" Our borders are more than secure enough. I'm not afraid of evil Mexicans "competing" for jobs Americans don't want...

Yes, because our current system of rugged and informed individuals vs. multinational corporations with the same rights as citizens works so fucking well. Face it, the state is the only common source for the public good. There are no other institutions that connect everyone in society. I don't...

That kind of touches on something fundamental about the nature of journalism, but one of the first things I consider is what outside entities could have an influence on reporting and how pervasive that interest might be. Most news reporting in the US is done by media conglomerates with ties...

I think anything which shows up on WorldNetDaily can safely be discounted in any argument where facts might need to play a part. WND is at best an opinion site which masquerades as news in service of a right wing worldview. Same for Fox News. In either case, the media oonsumer should seriously...

NPR, CBC, BBC, ABC (Oz), the Christian Science Monitor and probably the Financial Times of London. Most news organizations in the US are far too compromised with the concept of info-tainment to be reliable sources for news, unless the only things you care about are the latest thing to crawl out...

Might it be a limitation of the chipset, the driver you're using or some peculiarity with that motherboard? I'd probably try the drive in a different PC.

Email your host's support service. They probably use an automated tool to create DNS entries and it's possible that those tools failed or were interrupted in this case.

I don't ever expect to have any level of agreement with you or Howell on most topics. I felt it was important for others who might read that article to be aware of the linked source's rather heavy-handed biases.

From my regular visits to Fark.com, I can tell you that most of the crap on WorldnetDaily comes from people who think Fox News is too liberal; it's on about the same level with Newsmax.com or FreeRepublic.com in terms of its shrill and biased hard right viewpoints. In other words, nothing on...

Laugh if you will, but something very, very similar to the last one of those really happened to me. And I've had to deal with someone who thought the windows date and time tool somehow hooked into Windows system restore, too.

When I use the dig command for an MX record against your domain, the returned record is an SOA record that 1. Isn't an MX record and 2. Doesn't have any hostnames or IP addresses that might give the least clue where your mail server is. What it should look like In other words, your...

Actually, I lied. Looks like you need to recreate that MX record.

I see valid SOA, A and MX records when I dig your domain. Maybe dyndns.org is handling the records for that domain in a weird way. Are you using the name servers you're supposed to?

WSUS requires a Windows 2000 or 2003 Server and either domain membership + appropriate group policies or a registry patch that would need to be un-done before the PCs were removed from your shop. For your shop, you would be better off with slipstreamed install CDs + rmvb add-on packs. Or, you...

Well, me. But as usual for me I have a sticking point in wanting to say things that are not negative and that is mostly what I am thinking about. I've been avoiding caffeine for the last few months. Last night I had six Red Bull energy drinks (didn't know what they were). I've been up close to...

I'm actually kind of surprised that you're bothering with the SCSI drive, given the cabling gymnastics you had to deal with.

There's probably a default firewall config someplace that's messing you up. I'm not familiar with Roundcube but if local works and the server is running that's a really obvious thing to check.

Thank you Paugie.

Those video cards are a fantastic deal, really. They're decent enough for midrange gaming (WoW or Counterstrike) and cheaper than even the crappiest cards newegg sells.

I really wanted to get one of those Console Coolers for my car. The $20 video cards are good. I bought three of those. I was also hoping for another big flat panel.

I have IETab installed on all my Windows PCs so I can't really check. :(

My pro-AVG argument is that it's a lightweight program instead of a CPU/RAM-sucking vampire, it's free and doesn't require much interaction to install (unlike AVast) and that it updates every day without user intervention. All I want to be able to tell my customers about any security program is...