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Yesterday I went and did some work for a wealthy man I know. His current SO is apparently someone I apparently should have known from several years of high school choir classes - a very pretty woman a year younger than me, someone who, a few years before, had been a model. Someone who should've...

I do not have an SO nor any hope of getting one. When I take vacation time from my day job it is only so I can go work more for myself. I usually take my vacation time around Xmas because we don't schedule classes during that time anyway and it is a good time to talk to my personal clients...

There's nothing I do for myself that can't be put off or rescheduled. I take satisfaction in work and in the demand others have for my skills and I have structured my life to accommodate that.

You could've saved a lot of typing with a single sentence. "I am a masochist."

What makes running with a bunch of people with someone else running a stopwatch more valuable or important than doing it yourself on your own time? There are certainly things that would cause me to say no to a paycheck, but at the very least, all of them would require a commitment to another...

Exercise is punishment for having done something wrong.

Mr. Ventura is a very wise man.

No idea on the TV, but AllUC.org is a HELL of a replacement for basic cable.

Calendars and address books are crutches for the weak.

I'd do the job, no question. You can time yourself running any time you want. You do the job and you're a stand-up guy for a whole bunch of other people.

I am trying the current beta of Tbird 2.0 and I literally see nothing different nor any improvement from the previous version. Even the memory usage is pretty much identical. But hey, I found this neat article about using Tbird to view and update a google calendar. For you strange people who...

Comcast, at least, has gone about implementing digital cable in complete the worst way possible. The carrot they use is more channel choices. They also claim better picture quality. The picture quality might be better under some conditions, but not when they keep adding lots of pointless...

Honestly, the HTPC thing is a lot nicer if you dedicate a PC to it. A "cast-off" 2GHz machine with a bt878 capture card, soundblaster or Via Envy and a largish hard drive can make a pretty spiffy MythTV machine (LinuxMCE looks REALLY nice and is supposed to be trivial to set up, though I have...

Between that and this morning's exchange about eating dogs, I think I need the brain-bleach.

The tests you're talking about probably indicate games that are being limited by something other than the graphics cards, and were conducted a very low resolution. An x850 is a pretty pokey card by modern standards.

You really want to use a digital audio output to a home theater receiver. Just like Pradeep said. Very simple.

I am in no way smug that the New York Times says renting is a good idea right now.

I'd say you'll be fine, if you can stand Intel's cruel joke of a stock fan.

When I wanted HBO in HD, Comcast made me sign up for literally everything else they had. Even a bunch of sports crap that no human should ever want to watch let alone pay for. My cable bill right before I completely dropped TV service was $165 a month.

It's true for all Comcast customers. I wasn't aware that there were any other options in Chicago itself. Comcast is turning off everything but local channels on standard cable and giving all its customers a "free" digital cable box in Chicago. The change is supposed to happen in mid-July...

In Chicago, by the end of this summer, there will be no non-digital cable. You will have a box or you will have no cable.

The Westinghouse units are pretty widely recognized as a bargain for the money. I've never personally seen one, but they're certainly nothing to complain about. Not having a tuner is not an issue unless you actually want to hook up an antenna. The vast majority of the time you're going to have...

Today's woot is a $1050 42" 1080p Westinghouse HDTV. Even as a refurb with a crappy warranty, that is making me regret the fact that I have a very large 720p DLP set.

I suppose that I should clarify that I was referring to dd's screen situation with regard to gaming. He does not seem the type to need a CAD app or IDE open all the time.

P5, that is a perfectly reasonable thing to post. I really don't know how to value the x2/4800s I have. They are still ridiculously fast CPUs, and they're scarce, which means they should be worth more than the AM2 ones... and when I bought them they were not cheap either.

So, really, what are you getting out of 2500x1600 or whatever the hell resolution those 30" monitors support, that you aren't getting out of 1920x1200? Other than a warmer video card?

I have a couple x2/4800s sitting around. They're used, but they're in "spare" machines sitting in my office. Those PCs could just as easily have 3200s or 3000s or Semprons or whatever in them. The reason 939s went for fire sale prices last summer was to clear them out of inventory. Now they're...

re: Vista Slow Copies 4GB of files from a 100Mbit switched network to a USB2 hard disk: 3 hours and five minutes, actual time. Vista claimed it would be at most 40 minutes, and even that is unreasonable.

I was pretty "meh" about Children of Men as well. Several people told me it was as good as Blade Runner. Those people need to have their taste recalibrated. The score was the best part of the movie, but it wasn't a particularly deep film. I guess the big deal of the whole thing was the very...

If it's running at all, you can do the standard repair install. Only this time, use a proper key. :)

Or a projector. And as far as I can tell, resolution above a certain point does more harm than good.

Speaking from a purely price/performance ratio, at the moment you're still better off with Intel. The E6400 is ~98% of the speed (it's in a statistical dead heat with the E6600, performance-wise) and 70% of the price. Or thereabouts.

That x2/6000 would be very appealing if I couldn't get an E4300 to do 3.3GHz for about half the price. Methinks there will be yet more cuts.

Children of Men has TWO soundtracks. There's a sucky one (labeled "Soundtrack") with a bunch of no-talent loser morons like John Lennon who are famous for causing crap out to spew from speakers. I saw that one in the store and had murderous involving record producers and a garlic press...

The Video in question. Just to keep you from having to paste the name into a google search.

:D x2/6000 is now a $241 chip? x2/3800 for $83?. I guess it can be said that AMD is hurting.

It wouldn't delete the drivers, but it wouldn't help much, either. You could use a program like Driver Collector to snag the files you need from a working Windows install. If that works. And it often doesn't. You really just need to know the generic names of your video, Wireless, modem, NIC...

Amusing and not very work safe, if discussions about how to teach the mentally challenged how to have sex are even slightly off the menu at your place of business. I figure ddrueding will like it.

Well, no room in the freezer (apartment size, about 2/3rds the size I used to have) and the women's shelter already has a hook up on bread and milk Also, that thing in udaman's post scares the hell out of me.

Well, 80 hot dog BUNS. I don't think I want or need to eat 80 hot dogs. But I don't exactly know what else I am going to do with them. I am open to suggestions. I bought some extra fancy things to try: Apple-chicken sausages filled with gouda cheese and the like.

I have a very large number of hot dog buns sitting in my office. Where they came from is shrouded in mystery, but there are a lot of them. And they aren't cheapie store-brand hot dog buns - they're an upscale brand. And I have eight loaves of them. I know that I cannot possibly eat 80 hot dogs...

I'm thinking that a $1700 Sharp 37" 1080p LCD would really be a better deal. The 30" computer displays use a native resolution that is really not all that comfortable and do not work well with non-computer devices.

I think you should call the cable company about your cable problem, actually. You're probably renting your boxes from them anyway.

I am thinking more generally about the fact that there are a lot of truly video low-end cards that are sitting on the highest of high-bandwidth interfaces on a given PC. Why make a card hog a bunch of PCIe lanes it can't even begin to use?

Where are the 1x PCIe video cards? Does a Radeon x1050 really NEED an extra 15 PCIe lanes to operate? Does a Geforce 7100? Are there secret things we can do with all the 1x PCIe slots on our motherboards besides put USB faceplates in front of them?

If you right click the desktop, there's a view option where you can choose classic (smaller) icons.

Personalize Windows Adjust Font Size Custom DPI will not take a value smaller than 100%

The Windows cursor bug hits a compromised Asus web site. And there are some WoW exploits for the cursor bug. Also, there's a nasty Windows cursor bug that took an exceptionally long time to get fixed.

I believe this comic addresses the problem that many of us have.

I think your memory is playing tricks on you if you ever thought the Rocky Horror Picture Show was EVER a "B" movie. It's more of a C-, I think.