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BSD has never really looked "bad".

I want to find something that does everything Dreamhost does, but supports fucking ASP.NET that we HAVE HAVE HAVE to have because the people I'm working with don't want to use anything else. And there is NOTHING like dreamhost in Windows hosting.

That would not surprise me a bit. Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams each have an extremely litigious estate; both produced Anglican hymns that were printed in the standard CoE hymnal until British law extended copyright to some new and unreasonable number of years after the author's death.

Is there such a thing as a non-sucktastic Windows web hosting company?

SuperMicro isn't exactly in the desktop motherboard business, Greg. The differences between 2000 Pro and Server come down to what addon components work with the systems (DHCP server, IIS etc), some licensing issues (multiprocessor support and number of allowed network connections) and the fact...

Intel for Intel, Gigabyte for AMD. Very simple. Wish Intel had some non-sucky onboard graphics options, though. I'd rather have S3 Unichrome than i940.

I *think* he's saying that he saw a gas pump (?) generate a BIOS error message.

Microsoft also does sales support for Netware and IIRC also Solaris and SCO Unix offerings. At least in the case of Netware, they're actually good at it, too. Basically, Microsoft Engineers go on those jobs to look for places to wedge in Windows solutions, so Microsoft can still benefit from...

NPR shows I'd probably grab as podcasts: This American Life (I have complete set of them as MP3 files already) On the Media Marketplace Car Talk Wait Wait Don't Tell Me I like roughly every third Fresh Air - There's way too many interviews with 60s-era rock stars, people who are largely...

12 onboard SATA port. Yes. Right here. That would be me.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17682&ch=infotech

The Vista and Office 2007 nonsense becomes official on November 30th, if you are a smartypants Enterprise customer.

They were sued into submission by a spyware company that claimed its product wasn't spyware. That's the kind of crap that makes me like free stuff.

... IIRC that's only an issue for some Xeon and X-tr33m edition Pentium chips...

There's nothing wrong with the 64 bit OS. 64 bit drivers for the 64 bit OS are not as ubiquitous and I've found them to sometimes lack the features of their 32-bit brethren. You also run in to goofy stuff like apps not working because they have 16-bit install programs. XP64 *is* faster than...

They're all the same, Greg. No differences at all. They all use the same process model and scheduler. There's a slight but observable difference in system speed that comes from having newer or older versions of the Windows kernel, but NT4 just as capable of running multithreaded apps as Server...

Hans Zimmer has some AWESOME film music to his credit. My personal favorite is the piece called "Journey to the Line" from The Thin Red Line, but he's also responsible for Crimson Tide, Backdraft and The DaVinci Code (which is nice but rather more repetitive than I expected). The first track on...

I've thought about Counterspy, but I am deeply hesitant to try security software that is not free. I've seen Spyware Doctor on machines that I've cleaned of hundreds of distinct infections off of. I'm not sure it does anything useful, but of course the only machines *I* see are ones that have...

Greg, there's a LOT of stuff going on under the hood with making threaded applications that can properly take advantage of multiple cores. The simple fact is that many applications that ARE threaded already, but their child processes are so simple that there's almost no real-world benefit. A...

Greg, there's a LOT of stuff going on under the hood with making threaded applications that can properly take advantage of multiple cores. The simple fact is that many applications that ARE threaded already, but their child processes are so simple that there's almost no real-world benefit. A...

Only problems I have with the P180 is there aren't enough drive bays (I wish there was another four drive cage instead of the two-drive bay in the middle) and the lower, right hand corner of a full size motherboard is EXTREMELY crowded by power cabling, SATA drive and I/O headers due to the...

Most motherboards with newer chipsets are fine with SATA drives generally. ATI R200 and Via VT890 (every Via chipset I'm aware of at the moment) are two chipsets I know that have a problem, as is nforce2. Intel chipsets with SATA all seem to be fine, and anything nforce3+ seems OK with it as...

Given a choice between an Asus, Abit or MSI board, I think I'd vote "None of the Above." I've had better luck with MSI than the others. Sorta. I say that as I look at the two dead MSI nv6100-based boards that're here on my desk. Asus = Crap Abit = The dirt that's under the Asus.

There's a DeWalt repair depot in Hammond, Indiana. They've got signs up right now that say "Moving Sale, 75% off." This is the only possible way I could contribute to this thread.

There were several. I liked FoxMarks but I don't think it works with 2.0.

I linked to that about a year ago in the something random thread. ;)

I mainly use NEC 3550s, but I also have LiteOn and Pioneer. I do not think the drive has much to do with the quality of the Burn.

Writable DVD quality varies IMMENSELY even from batch to batch. What I have found to work best is: 8x Taiyo Yuden A-grade media burned at 8x speed. Use 16x Media if you have to, but BURN AT 8X. Not 4x, not 2x, not 16x. I do not know why, but stuff works best that way. And don't use +Rs. Use...

Volume license discs are your friend.

Well, anyway, my guess is the original poster is probably trying to keep a PC with a line-of-business application going. I can't think of any other reason to try to work on a 286. So here is my advice for the O.P.: Buy something cheap and kinda-sorta-a-little-bit newer-ish. Like a Pentium 2 or...

Weren't you ~five years old back then?

Why aren't you using slipstreamed install CDs in the first place?

Health Care in the USA: I had a "medical issue" over the weekend. Normally, when I have medical issues, I let my ex-, who is a physician, take care of it. But I couldn't do that in this case, because of the body parts involved and her pre-stated preference for not dealing with those parts. So...

Full Aero does NOT need DX10. It needs a DX9 card with 128MB RAM. ATI and nVidia both have ONBOARD solutions that offer that level of support. Er, if you want to give up 128MB of main memory, anyway...

4:3 is a better deal for a lot of content, anyway, but so is just dropping cable completely. It's moronic to have it if you aren't going to watch it. TV shows can be downloaded or legally purchased on DVD or on itunes (usually $2 a show; I could buy an assload of TV shows for the $170 my cable...

I also reduced the mintabwidth to 20 from 100, so I can have more tabs on-screen. I dislike the scrolling tab bar, too.

Ask me sometime about my $900 Sony ES Receiver that spent roughly 60% of the time I owned it in the shop. Or my Sony ES DVD Jukeboxes that won't play DVD+R discs. Sony is a shitty company that deserves to die.

The sweet spot CPUs are the Athlon64/3800 ($99), the Athlon64x2/3800 ($140) and the Core 2 E6300 ($200). My recent experiences as a system builder tell me that most people feel that the single-core AMD 3800 is faster than a dual-core 3800 by a large enough margin that it's worthy of repeated...

Yeah... thanks for that. My ample manhood just became an innie. I'm going to have nightmares now. Hope you're happy. >:(

My god! It's full of BOOBS! Seriously? This is either some kind of game that involves CG girls running around on a beach, or it's the world's most perfect jiggle-factor simulator. If it's the latter, I'd say that it's a computing achievement at least as great as simulating weather patterns or...

I'm sure it "can" read movies. Ones that aren't encrypted. Which, at this point, would be BR-DVD pr0n. And you'd need a player application. PowerDVD probably won't cut it.

Here's a fun and hilarious article on how American elections are fixed. And it doesn't even involve Diebold voting machines!

Sounds like a Solution series case, kind of, but I can't recall seeing one with the metal bar in question.

I would hate to live in any world where Opera might be seen as a "proper browser."

On what do you base that statement, time? More on the subject of atheist evangelism.

Actually... I guess the P180 could be a power-supply problem child, depending on the size and type of motherboard involved. But the metal bracket on it unscrews independently of anything else in the case, IIRC, and nothing in it is riveted.

That doesn't sound like any Antec Case I'm familiar with. Was it an extra-tiny microATX or something? I know the P150 and the P180 and the Solution series and the NSK series and the Sonata and the Aria and the Performance series, and most of them are among the easiest cases there are to work...

Really? That's not the four letter word I use...

Richard Dawkins on why there almost certainly is no god.

Nope. And stupid things like that are entirely the reason why.