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Hey, did anyone else notice that Windows Update works through Firefox now?

My expectations for anything are so close to zero that the difference is entirely irrelevant.

Well, for the IT-inclined, a private Windows Software Update Server isn't all that hard to set up. For those who aren't so inclined, making an updated windows install disc with all the updates slipstreamed in is pretty simple as well.

If they are available, it won't be til the last item, which won't happen until 8 or 9PM Friday, your time. I'll bet the last item will be a shirt again, since they launched the shirt.woot.com site.

woot is wooting off today.

This is at least the third time in the last 10 years that Oz has made some kind of effort at Internet Censorship; I don't think it's a new idea for the down under folk. I am glad that it was ineffective, though.

So says the New York Times.

OK, nothing is going to make me hate IE less. But I found this Add-On for IE7 which provides two much-needed and missing features. Specifically, installing this provides AdBlock-like functions and inline spell checking, such as those provided with many browsers that are actually good.

It's not worth my time to bother with. Particularly not on a $330 laptop.

Several people in my office bought $330 Acer Slugmachines when they were on sale at Circuit City a couple weeks ago. They are everything you'd expect in a $330 laptop. Celeron CPU, 512MB RAM, 4200rpm hard disk, Vista and hardware that will not function in XP (specifically the sound). I don't...

Say it with me: Still better than Compaq or S*ny

Why is it that every time I explain my various depression and anxiety issues to someone, the first thing they say is "You need to get stoned" or "You need to get drunk"; is that the only way people deal with life?

We need a proper left wing in this country.

Microsoft responds to multimedia/networking complaints in Vista. You all ready for this? It's expected behavior that only impacts LAN operations and not internet connections. Uh-huh. Because that makes it better. The dual Pentium/133 I had in 1996 could play MP3s and handle a 100Mbit network...

If you'll look up about a half dozen posts, you'll see I already linked to that... I think I am just going to start paying the pirates, since they're the only ones who can bother to release a product I'd even be willing to install on my computer.

Saw that on BoingBoing.net the other day. I must admit that it made me laugh. Re: Bioshock moronic install options. I'm a grown up and I can afford to buy games whenever I feel like it, only now I completely doing want to because installing a PC game nowadays is like taking a big ol'...

I saw it on a student's laptop, but I didn't know it was Steam title, and I won't install anything with SecuROM on my PCs. Dammit. The demo is sooooo cool.

God-FUCKING-Dammit

I want a Wii as a possible alternative to walking or other fitness things. They even made a Fitness title. However, if they don't want my money, that's their problem.

I think I would buy a Wii if I ever saw one. Also, the Bioshock demo was pretty neat, if you have a PC that is capable of actually running it.

Seven reasons why Rudy Guiliani is a lying, deluded douchebag.

Maybe it's time for a photography forum. There are three active photography threads at the moment, and each of them seems to have some fairly lively discussion.

He was kind of a precursor to internet/geek culture in a lot of ways, and I've read things about the guy before. Still, it seems as if he lived the life he wanted to live and was better for it.

Your best bet is almost certainly Cedega. There probably are a few UT or Quake mods that fit the bill but there's still a challenge of finding people who have the same mod and still want to play some old game.

I wish. :(

Ms_Nitsirk's situation has improved substantially. Today she was taunting me about the window she now has and the half naked people she gets to see through said window. I think she told me these things because she hates me.

Also, I should come by, if only to pick up all the women you owe me. >:(

Try installing Server 2003 or even XP on the same hardware. I actually suspect that a lot of your complaints about poor network performance will go away.

I just came here to post that, and to laugh at ddrueding's dumb ass for being the one person on the face of the earth who actually likes for his computer to run like shit.

I hate modular connectors. They stick out more. If I'm buying a 600W+ PSU, I'm probably going to need most of the cables, and frankly they just add another point of failure.

Couple weeks ago, some little shithead attacked my car with a BB gun. He broke the windshield and back window, and while the glass guy came and fixed that, he noticed that there were holes in my tailgate and interior trim as well. Today I went and got an insurance estimate for the body damage...

You could've bought a Palm Foleo or Asus Eee and purchased two or three extra terabytes of disks with the money you had left. If you're afraid to run the applications you use, it's not like application compatibility is actually important.

On a Linux box with SCSI boot drives, I used to be able to unload the IDE driver and pop an IDE drive out of one of those enclosures. The drive I was putting back in was the same make/model, though. I'm saying it might be possible that you could get it to work, but generally speaking Howell is...

Those things have way too many trade-offs to make sense IMO. I'd rather go with a vastly more capable X-series Thinkpad and have a computer I'm not afraid to load software on, or something that I need for just the quickest and dirtiest internet access. The price tag for such a limited machine is...

As I had foretold, Superbad is indeed the massive pile of win than I said it would be, and all who were involved in its creation shall one day be worshipped as gods. Gods of dick jokes, but gods nonetheless.

I have seen their site and it is not pretty. Smelly, though. It is smelly.

That sounds ugly and potentially dangerous.

Ms_Nitsirk, who is a person I know, had about three inches of water in the quasi-office basement/dungeon thing where she works. Only a couple of her PCs might be affected but my limited experience in that area is that if you let a PC dry out, it'll be OK. On the other hand, my limited...

What CPU do you want, paugie?

How to Man Up your Gaming Smack-Talk. I am not a very good gamer but I did find out from running a few LAN parties that I can say things so wrong that I can make a whole room of gamers fall silent. Anyway, the link is teh funny.

New homeowners = SOL Also, Handy, 2 > 0. You're swimming by comparison.

There's no way I'd use a Shoebox for a corporate machine. Proprietary motherboards, flakey power supplies and frankly even the aesthetics are a problem on those things.

I use Samsungs if possible and beyond that it depends on budget.

One thousand posts is indeed a good number of posts. Thanks for many questions, Will.

Server 2003 Web edition is like $300. Microsoft likes to give out free copies of Windows Server when you go to tech conferences and stuff, though. I don't think x64 is worthwhile yet, at all.

That's unbelievably overspecified for a business machine. For an engineer, it'd be a good setup. You can safely drop to whatever the cheapest C2D is. I'd use an Intel motherboard with integrated video, and an 80 or 160GB hard disk. 2GB RAM would be gone, too, if the price per gigabyte exceeded $50.

Windows Server 2003, x64 edition. It's the only decent choice at the moment.

Handruin, that is very good news about your house. I have a feeling that the next several years are going to be a better time for those of us who don't own homes. And I am completely jealous of the fact that you can get a date. With anything. Seriously. I hate you.

I honestly couldn't stand to watch Die Hard 4. After the fourth or fifth completely moronic thing involving computers came up, I gave up on it. I am glad that I didn't pay money to see it.

I'd absolutely look at the Quad core before an expensive dual core setup. The subjective difference between a fast dual core and a "slow" one isn't all that great, whereas the advantage of quad is fairly obvious. IMO the only dual core Intels worth looking at are the slowest ones in any category.