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Have you tried doing a jump to the left and then a step to the right?

Try reversing the polarity of your dilithium crystals.

That's not true! I like boobs of all shapes and sizes! :D

Oh. I see now. You're trying to share a printer that's connected to your network in another way. You're just doing it wrong. You need to go to printers, add a printer, local printer (do not detect), new port, TCP/IP port (note: give the printer a fixed address!), type in its IP address, then...

The woot monkeys are awesome. I do not know how you can complain about getting a woot monkey. I am so buying more of 'em. I need one to send to Ballarat, for one thing.

The way fonts work, in general, is when you don't have the font specified, the system uses a close substitute. I would GUESS that Windows would operate on some minimal number of fonts, since I have worked on PCs where the font folder has become corrupted. I have also observed Office 2000 being...

2003 Web Edition works just fine as a print server, Greg. Sounds like someone has been playing with Security Templates or Group Policy or maybe has File and Printer Sharing blocked by a Firewall program. You aren't using Norton Internet Security or something, are you?

It's usually easier to find someone else's BartPE than to build your own. I've tried demonstrating the process in classes a couple times and frankly the whole process is more than a little buggy.

I've gone out of my way to buy the WRT54GL routers rather than the current WRT54Gs. The extra $10 gives a router with 8MB RAM rather than two, and a router running Linux rather than whatever the proprietary OS on the 2MB model. The current-model GLs seem to be living longer than the Gs. In my...

IE supports saving the entire contents of a web page into some weird IE-only format that I presume you could deal with later. You could also paste stuff into a .RTF. You'f lose some formatting, though.

A power supply tester costs all of $15. They don't detect everything that could be wrong with one, though. And at least Seasonic only charges you if the PSU is bad. Try sending an RMA to Abit or Epox sometime. Those guys want you to foot the bill for shipping, both ways.

I have a confession to make. I have a great deal of empathy for those Trenchcoat-mafia types. A lot of them are acting out against the same system a lot of lonely, geeky, socially maladjusted kids run up against. They're the butt of jokes. They're the ones who are teased and humiliated every...

USB devices?

Some farmers certainly are very well read. Depending on where they live they might spend five months basically "on vacation", which gives them a lot of time to pursue whatever interests they have. But generally, yeah, people in rural areas don't exactly have a broad and expansive range of...

No, but a quick google shows a site that also cites the study Sol mentioned. The article more or less agrees with my thesis about the correlation between religious belief vs. intelligence and education. It's a fun read.

Also, YARRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr!

Part of my job is to prepare manuals for my students. I know exactly how much work it takes to create something. I'm also a decent-enough musician. However, as a creator of intellectual property, I am most pleased that someone finds my work useful or pleasing and that my work is appreciated...

OK. But as a general rule, I'm thinking that high rate of fire is not something that every citizen of the USA has any legitimate reason to have. If you're hunting, there aren't many circumstances *I* know of where you're going to get off more than one shot against whatever varmint got you in...

Some behavior is taught, certainly. But teamwork is a very different thing from basic social behavior. Societies don't form where members are constantly in danger of killing one another, yet human beings do form societies even in the most isolated places on earth. On some fundamental level, we...

Oddly enough, religious faith among seminarians is somewhat lower than in their congregant population as a whole, for many of the same reasons that other educated people lose their religious faith. A fundamental part of most higher education is learning logic and the ability to think...

There's a major difference between not paying for a physical object - you are depriving someone of that object - and a collection of bits, in which case both you and the person who made those bits still have a complete set of ones and zeros. Furthermore, given the restrictions on the purchase...

Not too terribly long ago I had a student who, despite an quasi-ivy league education (education tends to cure religion, and he went to Northwestern), professed to evangelical christianity and vigorously attempted to convert me. My student could absolutely not understand what factors could even...

Just to take this conversation to the land of Godwin's Law: Mein Kampf is a book that has had a localized effect on history. It is undoubtedly an important text, but only for a few decades. In historical terms, it's just a promising rookie prospect to your holy book's solid lifetime...

It's likewise hilarious to find individuals who claim to believe the whole and literal truth of the bible as the revealed word of god. Those same people have to begin making exceptions literally on the first page of the book... if they managed to read that far.

I figure I need about five fonts, total.

This warms the cockles of my heart. Handy, most statistical polling is done with samples that you'd probably think are staggering for their smallness. Presidential polls are usually taken from samples of 500 or 1000 or maybe 2000 people. If you remember from the '04 election, there were 10 or...

In contrast, all my monthly expenses (gas, food, rent, insurance, electricity) + my expensive media-collecting habits - don't quite work out to $1000 a month...

Most of the population of Europe pretty much thinks of religion as the quaint thing their grandparents do. Even "conservative" nations like Italy, Spain, Ireland and Mexico have legalized abortion and gay marriage. Apparently lawmakers in those countries understand the difference between the...

Pradeep and Sol - not a big fan of guns. More particularly, I'm not a big fan of the sort of person who is a big fan of guns in the USA. It's one thing to talk about sport shooting with a gun you keep at the range, or hunting for something you'll actually eat, but the minute you start to oppose...

That was a google April Fool's joke about four years ago, Lost6200. So, anyway, this week's Newsweek Magazine shows something even more disturbing than usual about the US population: This is the article about the study in question 48% of COLLEGE GRADUATES do not accept the theory of...

I can't imagine the circumstance that would make that Seasonic a lesser PSU than that Antec, other than sheer wattage. Maybe corrupted info in CMOS? That would explain why everything was normal after you swapped PSUs.

Do you have, say, a PCI video card?

You might pull one of the video cards as well, or drop to a single, less capable video card for testing purposes. Likely culprits in this are the motherboard and the video card(s), if the system is powering on at all. From your description that sounds like the case.

The Screaming Woot Monkey (i.e stuffed monkey slingshot thing) is awesome. I bought three. They shall strike fear in the hearts of my students. And they are loud, too.

I was very unimpressed with the 300 soundtrack. Was expecting awesomeness. Received tired, recycled crap that was cribbed from Poledouris's Conan the Barbarian soundtrack and from the more bombastic Hans Zimmer stuff. Bleh. Lately I have been switching between piano music by Debussy and by...

I am normally better at counting small numbers than that...

In my experience, the two things that slow down system startup more than anything else are Antivirus software, unnecessary services and having too damned many fonts installed. I suspect the programs that don't have any startup options are services. Hijack This can show you which of those...

Samsung is a memory manufacturer, much moreso than a hard disk company. Seagate is a hard disk company that is not a memory company. I rather strongly suspect that Samsung's SSD products will very shortly make it a leader in the secondary storage marketplace. Duopoly may be a short term scenario.

"The Watchmen" will fail as a movie if it is played as anything other than straight, deadly-serious. Rorschach and Veidt in particular are characters that could go down into campy-comic-land and that would be TRAGIC. Actually I have a real problem with its adaptation as a film because there are...

1. I'd like to apologize to Clocker for the direction this thread has taken. Hopefully useful information was extracted prior to this becoming the SF Roundtable on Gayness. 1a. Not that there's anything wrong with that. 2. No one has to tell me about the magical powers gay guys have to get...

For what it's worth, being a gay as a guy is actually a pretty good deal. There's lots of casual sex... and your "friend" actually has the same drive you do, so there's no argument over what to do with that empty half-hour you might've spent watching "Survivor" with the girlfriend you no...

All the BSGs, streaming

I know all about "nice changes of heart" and hey, at least yours was straight. You got at least one kind of fucking I didn't. :( Still, everything about that situation has just sucked. Buyers falling through. Renting AND paying a mortgage, having an uncertain living arrangement for over a year...

http://movie6.net/movie/tmnt-.html

I found 300 on dailymotion.com about a week ago. I didn't even have to torrent it. :D Today I watched TMNT the same way.

In English, fair means very light skin and light complexion, probably best exemplified by the pale folk of the British isles. Of course, it's possible to be fair-skinned and non-European, which is what mubs said.

My working life in combination with my particular set of interests and social dysfunctions, make doing anything like that pretty much impossible. I work odd hours. I like solitary activities. I don't drink. I don't care for sports or crowds or popular music or being outdoors. I don't speak to...

I think that if WD made a 15k SATA drive, what they'd sell would just be a serial number so you could find out where it was in the RMA process.

That house does not look very special to me. It's missing like $3.8 million worth of special. Unless it has a Hot Chicks Room. But you'd think they would put something like that on its web site. Also Merc's pedantic English tip for the day: It's is the contracted form of "It is" or "It has."...

No, no. I'm pretty sure they'd be going to westerndigital.com if they were wanting an RMA.