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Fark.com Photoshop Contest: Real Life versions of Far Side cartoons. I like the "Beware of Doug" one.

I'm not filing an insurance claim to cover *dents*.

My car got nailed by a couple downed tree branches after the thunderstorms that passed through the area last night; my new car has two dents the size of softballs in the hood. >:( I'd be even more pissed, but there was basically a whole tree about 18 inches from the passenger side of my car as...

Perhaps it's a matter of my ongoing dislike of things Debian.

This would be in addition to other employment opportunities. Volunteering. There is a need for newer equipment. I'm not talking about the BS upgrade cycle that most businesses are in, but the honest reality of dealing with nothing but seven or eight year old PCs. They don't have internet access...

XP64 uses the same kernel as Server 2003, a newer one than 32-bit XP uses. I've stated before that Server 2003 feels about 10% faster than XP, and that's probably what you're seeing, Bozo. I've had 64-bit Linux for a while. Side by side (well, co-mingled X sessions, anyway) with 32 bit Linux, I...

I can throw it up on my server if you'd like, mubs. It's a 130MB download. VMware server is more or less the same as Workstation, only better, because you can close the session window and leave the guest running, and if you have the client tools installed, you can remotely connect to the guest...

Google Images is never enough.

Balance the size of the driver database against the system install time when Windows 2000 or Windows XP first came out, against the improvements of today's hardware. If the hardware is worth your time to work on, I'll bet it's still faster than the install-time estimates by at least 15 minutes.

Personally I can't stand Ubuntu. I'm willing to sudo lots of things, but there are times when I want to be logged in as root so I'm not constantly prompted for credentials. I'm not going to bitch about having to continuously re-enter a password when using Vista, then turn around and say "But I'm...

Hookers and blow!

Actually, VMware Server is free now. You can install it on 2000 or XP or Linux and do whatever you want with it. Basically, once it's installed, you can just treat the VM session just like another PC and load whatever the heck you want in it. Buck, were you working with WINE or with Crossover...

I might've believed a drive geometry problem would cause those difficulties. In 1994. Go Compaq!

http://www.suseblog.com/?p=141

Naw. I tend to hit nude.hu, babes.coolios.net or kindgirls.com for my porn fixes. :P

I had the pleasure today of needing to do an emergency mass-hardware replacement on a Server 2003 machine. The machine was a whitebox server built by one of the local screwdriver shops, but it was a Windows Server 2003 with some kind of business-critical database running on it. The PC was a...

My oldest brother SWEARS by similar devices. He gives them out to family members as birthday presents and the like. I've had them. I don't think they're that useful or helpful. On the other hand, I sleep with a full (but nearly silent) desktop PC about about 15 inches from my head at night and...

The funny thing is, I've been to #1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 before for legitimate reasons...

A couple of weeks ago I did a quick and dirty "data recovery" job for the local women's shelter. No charge; it was only about 5 minutes of work restoring the data off a ZIP disk that someone accidently formatted. After I fixed the disk, I spent 10 minutes showing the lady who brought me the...

LunarMist, Patron Saint of Dialup.

You might as well put as much stuff as possible on the install disc. You never know what you're going to run into out in the world, and I certainly do hate having to go looking for that RTL8139 or Agere WinModem driver for the hundred-millionth time.

You might try booting the recovery console and issuing the usual fixmbr and fixboot commands.

A tiny bit of research shows that Photoshop will run under WINE. mubs, you'd probably want to get the Codeweavers Crossover Office product (comes with the commercial version of SuSE); it's substantially more polished than messing around with plain-old-WINE.

Laugh all you want. I happen to think I needed those ears.

I'm not sure why you'd bother with keeping a Virtual machine up to date, if you're just using it to run one particular program. Nor do I see of an appreciable difference between various versions of Photoshop; I'd install a full copy of Photoshop 6 (which seems to do everything newer versions do)...

I saw the woot deal. My favorite recent woot was the $15 Powerline Network adaptor set. I've bought PowerLine/Ethernet bridges before that were $50 apiece, but I got six Logitech ones for $50. Score! Anyway, I got a whole bunch of different toys to play with, and I haven't really looked at all...

Man, I'm going to want to dump a bunch of 250GB drives soon. Anyone up for trading 40s and 80s for 250s?

Here's the direct link. You're obviously not going to get anywhere unless you're logged in. I originally registered using my role as Technology Director for my training company. I went back and re-registered, basically indicating my interests as an IT Service Contractor, which include things...

Yay I found it! Well, OK. 4x750GB (if I get one from Clocker) will be very useful to my future plans for high definition pr0n storage. <Mr. Burns> Excellent. </Mr. Burns>

As if I wouldn't want 750GB of extra disk space! Even if it is Seagate. I signed up for the Seagate thing and I'm not seeing the special offers, either so name your price, Clocker.

I'd evaluate SuSE and Ubuntu for a target platform. And I wouldn't discount a Mac, either. You upgrade infrequently enough that it might be a better option. For the most part, the Linux equivalents of Windows programs are 3 years or so behind in terms of features. On the other hand, a 6GB...

They may *think* they have a Windows license. In reality, unless they have a retail CD, they almost certainly don't. OEM Windows discs (sold with brand-name PCs and the "cheap copies" available at computer stores) are mated to a particular motherboard basically forever, once activated. At least...

It never played here at all. :(

There are services that do this already, though I can't name one specifically. Basically, you have to send an e-mail or visit a page every 10 days or once a month, and if you don't do, the service will kick off pre-written e-mails for you. Eric, seriously, is there something going on in your...

I asked Handy about it earlier in the day; short version is, yes, there are issues with SF's hosting right now.

I bought the Draft-N device, but looking around, I've got quite a few spare APs, range extenders and routers. I'm going to try to see whether I can make a blanket of 2.4GHz coverage with the stuff I've got. Maybe take a channel back that way.

What brand and how much did you pay? I'm excited. One of my customers is ditching their Toshiba POS notebooks for T60s. I'm hoping I can get them to hold off long enough to deliver something with a Merom chip.

... and just to contine to stress a point: I've never seen data transmission rates improve after a downward negotiation (e.g. V.90 to V.34 speeds then back up to V.90 again) on a PCI piece of shit. I have seen external serial modems do this.

I'd like to have 10. :D My current upgrade strategy is to move to two powerful fileservers to replace the five I have now. I'm thinking Core 2 Duos or maybe X2s , 4GB RAM. I'm going to move my storage to SATA enclosures. The rackmount chassis I have now aren't designed for hotswap drives...

Yup. Back when SR had a Counterstrike forum, I'd read it just to find out what kind of weird crap Clocker would post after a night of drinking.

Modems are slow. This is a statement of such pure obviousness as "Water is Wet" and "Fire is hot." I really don't care what infirmities or life activities your friend has, Santilli. They are not relevant to the fundamental question of what to do about a supposedly slower-than-normal modem...

That's actually tempting. Thanks C.

Thank you A.D. Let me know if you'd like to see the more complete document.

Some dickweed has finally gotten around to making a malware trojan that looks like a Firefox extension, too. This is the REAL extension And here's the story about the malware. Note that the initial infection does not come from Firefox but from a standard-issue trojan download.

Clocker used to PUI quite frequently. And CSUI as well.

I'd consider it for the right price, MaxBurn.

ISDN works fine. It's faster than dialup and available EVERYWHERE, until cable and DSL. In Chicago, ISDN is billed just like local calls - a certain fee based on the distance between exchanges, usually $.02 a minute or so. That doesn't strike me as unreasonable. I will admit that dealing with a...

I hate Lucent-based Winmodems worse than other kinds, but any modem is going to work. 1. 5kb/sec (40000 bits per second) is a very fast modem connection. 2. Your friend should stop fucking complaining. 3. Very likely, no WinModem will improve on that speed. 4. A real exteneral serial modem...

Yes. I work for a company with six employees, total.

My living room has several fake trees and a lot of very real river rocks in it (around the trees). My office, I just don't care that much. 95% of the time if I'm in there, I'm looking at a monitor. As far as pictures... I am really, really lame. If hanging something up requires more than a nail...