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That's a good and bad thing. I love computers too much to give up on them as a career, but the writing is on the wall for those not in corporate IT. Retail's rough. It's hard to justify service work. Programming is largely done overseas... Your statement here is just a sad commentary on the...

Er, have you spoken to a dermatologist about that?

Continuing the woot/MSI story, woot.com upped the warranty on the card to two years from 90 days and has reached an agreement with MSI to remove their name from the press release about stolen video cards. Also, if you scroll upward from that link, you'll see that a statistically large number of...

Iggy Pop's (who?) concert rider reads like it was written by Tannin in one of his funnier moods.

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How many do you need? I'm pretty sure I can find a couple dozen.

I am not tired of curing any ignorance of how awful WD is. However, lately, you guys have been doing it for me. Western Digital, the Mark Foley of the hard disk industry. Everyone feel better now?

0wned. The republicow actually looks like she's going to cry at one point.

Proper thumb drives, good ones, have a read-only switch. The 4GB pqi model I've been using certainly does. Hijack This WILL make a backup folder whereever you use it. My basic plan, however, is a tiny batch file that copies it and copy of other programs to c:\program files\bin (the other...

For what it's worth, Sol, "Call of Cthulhu" is based on a pen and paper game of the same name. A lot of the game elements, like fear and losing sanity, seem to stem from that. The fun of the pen and paper game was in the fact that mere mortals could in no way stand with even footing with the...

My best score is 117 I'm trading someone a 4 drive DVD duplicator for an Xbox360 so I can play Dead Rising. I feel unclean.

When they no longer have shareholders, I imagine.

Safe Mode with Networking is not a good choice, Tannin, as there are Spyware thingies that start up when Networking is initialized. Your better bet is to throw all the shit you need on a thumb drive and run it from there. Also, there's no reason to bother with msconfig; Hijack this keeps a...

Kwotes Random, funny crap from other people's IRC/IM sessions.

Some of my customers use Roboform. The simple hint I give to everyone is to take the stupid, common word you were going to use for a password and shift it up one row of characters on the keyboard. The result is almost always nonsense, but easily remembered.

Bozo, the fact is that the shrill, moralizing bastards that make up the republican party are as or more guilty of the very crimes they stand up and condemn in others. If I had to guess, I'd say that a similar list for other political parties would not be as expansive nor as extreme. Again, I'm...

I finally bought "Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth" but that happened the same day my monitor died so I haven't played it yet. It looks rather console-y but the manual mentions rules for morphine addiction and the effects of losing sanity.

Security Software that is not evil. Don't Use - Software from "big name" security companies. Symantec/Norton, McAfee, Trend, Computer Associates. Every single thing they make, everything they touch, sucks. This is the lesson techs learn over and over and over. Firewall - Use the one built into...

Dynamic disks have been around since Windows 2000 was in beta. Seven years, anyway. You would think that disk utilities would figure out how to work properly with them by now.

Can you get Kapersky shrinkwrapped or OEM copies? Or NOD32? Or perhaps just install AVG and be done with it? I mean, is Antivirus software really a profit center for you?

There are spyware programs that directly interfere with spyware scanning programs. Some varieties of Coolwebsearch do that, for example. It would not surprise me if you found one of the nastier varieties of some similar spyware.

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Everything I have ever said about Republicans is true. I hate this country. Can one of you Aussies, Brits or Philipinos sponsor me for citizenship?

That's not just ANY Jesus Christ. That's "Buddy Christ" from Kevin Smith's movie Dogma. Which, to certain humorless right wing evangelical christian jerkoffs, is probably even more blasphemous. Personally I just think it's funny.

Buy her a WinCE PDA. Sync it with both.

You don't need Exchange. You *do* need a single-drop IMAP server that can pick up her (no-doubt) POP3 e-mail. Building Linux boxes to do that is something that gets me lots of business, since IMAP solves a lot of E-mail sync problems. There are also a couple different ways to change the types...

My Viewsonic P815 bit it over the weekend. Dead. Kaput. Shuffled off this mortal coil. It is an ex-monitor. I had it for years and now I need to replace it. So I've been looking at large monitors. They all suck. Strike 1 - Everything big is widescreen. I can either buy a 20" 4:3 or something...

Well, Comcast is down in my whole apartment complex. I haven't had Internet access for 2 days. You'd think all the idiots not being able to watch football on Sunday would be enough to get a tech out to fix it, but no, they're not even willing to send someone to look into it til Monday afternoon...

I'd trust a refurbished Seagate more than a "quality assured" new Western Digital. Pity it's only 250GB.

Why the fuck would you reinstall Mcafee?

nVidia lies and anally rapes puppies. I know this without needing any kind of chart at all. Actually, that would not be a chart I'd want to look at anyway. But I'll bet someone at nVidia would.

Act is just about the biggest piece of shit I've dealt with in the last five years. The was a good version, apparently, but it was released years ago, before it was owned by Symantec or... whoever owns it now. The current version runs visibly slower on a 3.8GHz P4 than the one from two releases...

Handy upgraded his PC and actually spent his own money on computer hardware. We have failed him. Sniff. :D

It's good to know that it's possible for at least one of the chronically depressed, socially awkward techies who comes here... Try okcupid.com. Everyone who isn't me seems to have good luck with it.

Now if only some Korean/Japanese LCD manufacturer will remove his head from his rectum long enough to put a 24" 4:3 LCD on the market...

Wouldn't that depend on the character encoding used by your browser and whether or not you had the relevant fonts and/or input locales set up in your OS? I mean, a text box is a text box, and all you can do is type in it. What you see is going to depend on the other stuff.

The 6100-based onboard video seems to make more color banding when upscaling video, in my opinion. I can't really say anything about fonts, since the only thing I have 6100s connected to are old 17" monitors. Depending on usage, a 3700 or 3800 is could very well feel more like an upgrade than a...

Almost as bad as rediculous or they're/their or its/it's or wierd or... Gah. Can't type any more of them. Head hurting.

Most video apps seem to be threaded applications. I don't know if that's because of the applications themselves or if some Windows libraries related to video processing use/require use of multiple threads. Virtualdub, Nero Vision and Ulead Moviefactory are all dramatically faster with a second...

Gee, punish people for using their internet-enabled software. That sounds like a great idea to me.

Firefox, at least, has a prefetch feature that starts downloading data from links in the active page so that subsequent clicks load faster. If the prefetch is not turned off, that looks exactly, to a corporate proxy server, like the user clicked on the link and went to the NSFW location. Which...

As a responsible tech, you HAVE to teach people how to deal with Spyware issues. You can't just reformat constantly. That's even more annoying that the occasional trip to safe mode. I've known users who could re-infect a system with spyware to the point of unusability in as little as 10...

As long as we're all in agreement on IE...

You linked to pictures of Sung-Hi Lee. That got you modded. I link to NSFW things sometimes, but generally not images or movies. The times I have, I've been modded too. I can do whatever I want on the internet. Maybe you can too, but some of the other folks who visit are working in places where...

Adaware is still helpful, though Spybot has certainly improved a lot more quickly. I've making do with a mix of tools including just about everything that one can download from merijn.org. Spybot does still seem to do the most good. I've tried Spy Sweeper and Ewido, but the fact that neither...

Consoles also have suck-ass controllers, horrid UIs in-game, almost no in-game modding and grow stagnant very, very quickly. Plus, there's the god-awful squidmonster and snot bubble Japanese influences on everything.

This just goes to show that no good comes of nVidia video cards, ever. However... I wonder if the reason MSI is making a show of this is that someone at *MSI* violated an NDA to get their cards on the market. I had the couple that I had for about two weeks before the "official release date" and...

Lunar, what are you doing using IE? Not that I don't 100% agree with the non-IE parts of your comment.

Merc is about to fall asleep but... Intel's HD audio is in theory a 5.1 or 7.1 setup that can deliver ProLogic II to a set of surround speakers. There does not seem to be any advantage in audio quality for stereo. My experience with Intel-based boards is almost entirely midrange boards which...