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Since we all know how well Java cross platform compatibility really works, Google is apparently working on a native x86 run-time browser plug-in. I'm thinking this won't work very well on current mobile platforms but I'll bet it's neat on a desktop.

When I buy drives, I'm often buying in a quantity that results in direct shipment of manufacturer packaging. Seagate, Optiarc and Samsung drives all ship in cartons of 24, for example. In all cases the drives are packed in a Styrofoam container that is sized to fit perfectly in its shipping box...

Several of my customers are at a point where they need new server systems. Well, OK, maybe not need, but the machines in question are five and six years old and I would like to move them on to new hardware. None of them have particularly huge workloads. They might run a database system...

What are you putting on your boot drive that takes 60GB? Most of my systems at home I could probably install comfortably on an 8GB drive. Unless they use Vista. Which I don't.

I would prefer to give my students the opportunity to load OSes themselves. Like I said, it used to be simple and now it is not.

I use VMware to demo things on my classroom PCs, particularly old versions of Windows. This lets me show the progression of features from, say Windows NT to Vista. In Server 1.0, it's a very simple matter to import an image onto another machine and start it. On the new version, it took me 40...

Hitachi drives have never been problematic in my experience. Even my 75GXPs had a reasonably long life. WDs have never really been good in my experience. The one time I let my guard down, I got a bunch of shitty drives. I went a long time without using any Seagate drives. I was lured back to...

Have a nice marriage!

The new VMware software is very, very, very clunky, then.

The people I work with don't even have stuff. They take home the old lab PCs and chairs and crap when we're ready to get rid of them.

I was surprised how funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall was.

I don't think I like the new version of VMware Server. It's too damned much work to import a VM onto another host and I don't like that it's browser based, if only because browsers sometimes crash. The older software was a lot simpler.

My coworkers get pissed at me when I just bring in extra stuff from home. That's the only way I get anything fancy or even interesting.

Yes, but now you are going to have a bunch of data on Seagate drives. I would not exactly call that a positive.

My parents live in a very wealthy community, in a very wealthy neighborhood and they are in fact rather wealthy. The hospital is three blocks from their house. My neighborhood, I have no idea. I won't go to the doctor unless I'm sure I have something that's immediately life threatening. I've...

Six weeks I think. My brother had a 14 hour wait last spring for a compound-broken arm and some really bad abrasions after he got "bumped" by a car while he was riding his bike. Do people who go to the emergency room with anything less than gunshot wounds and cardiac arrest really get decent...

As far as "uploading" goes, you know you can map a drive letter to an FTP site in Windows, right? It sucks because it doesn't support Resume, but anything that will write to a file in Windows can be made to write to an FTP location.

I like UPS a lot better than FedEx. I think it depends more on your regular driver than anything else. But I've had FedEx do more stupid, irresponsible shit than UPS ever has. My mother managed to injure herself on Thursday (she broke her foot), so I wound up being largely responsible for...

I like UPS a lot better than FedEx. I think it depends more on your regular driver than anything else. But I've had FedEx do more stupid, irresponsible shit than UPS ever has. My mother managed to injure herself on Thursday (she broke her foot), so I wound up being largely responsible for...

ddrueding: There are better kinds of chick flicks. I happen to know that you have a substantial number of movies from Girlfriend Films, Abby Winters and Viv Thomas, all of which feature female characters acting in the most lovely and natural ways imaginable. You should watch those instead of the...

I have this discussion with my boss annually. The people I work with can't stand that I want to be at work and don't want to be on vacation. I think it makes them feel bad or something. I don't really feel like I have anything better to do than show up for work. I know exactly how lame that is...

I have three whole weeks of vacation I'm not taking this year.

I am in my office. Everyone else got to go home at noon. One of my shithead students scheduled a make-up class for 4 this afternoon. I am betting he will not show. I am sitting in my office and I am thinking of things that make me hate the world. Everyone else getting to go home at noon is on...

It's not perfect. That site tends to be overloaded at times. Fortunately there are five or six other places on the web that do the same thing. The people I work for really like embedding Youtube clips in Powerpoint. It's a new toy to them. There's another way to do it but you have to install an...

I know the point values keep changing but that 30k figure really leaps out at me. I guess we've made some progress since 2001!

Youtube's sound is mono-only, which is a bit of a rip-off. When I need to snag a youtube video, I grab it using the downloader at vixy.net, which will also convert it to a useful format at the same time. Once it's in a useful format, it's trivial to stick it on a DVD.

Fallout 3 has annoyed me. The original games were fun and had a lot of humor. Fallout 3 has basically five indoor tilesets and three outdoor tilesets (one of the outdoor ones is only used in one place). There are by my count 12 kinds of bad guys in the game, and with sub-types differentiated by...

MSRT actually does something useful, possibly for the first time in history.

I am acquainted with a person who received a botched sex change operation. She has a substantial amount of nerve damage just where you wouldn't want it when you're paying $75k to have your ween turned inside-out. All in all, gotta say that Expert Sex Change is probably better than the kind that...

Some folks from reddit.com sent the employees of CERN's Large Hadron Collider a "Half Life Survival Kit", including a stuffed headcrab. Amazingly, they got the joke, and there are pictures and video.

Some terminals were amber on black. Some were green on black. The first PC I purchased for myself had Hercules graphics, which was a "high resolution" green monochrome display, and I've always preferred that scheme to any other.

There is a terminal theme. Green plain text on a black font. Just like everything should be.

I would LOVE to can this guy. LOVE to. I've never in all my years of contracting work had someone who is so completely needy, helpless and micromanaging, especially not all at the same time. Unfortunately, he's not my customer, directly. He's close friends/frat brother/country club buddies with...

Here's my fun story for the day: It is 4PM. I have just wrapped up a class where I have been lecturing for two hours. I am in need of, shall we say, a porcelain vacation. I go in the men's room, normally my exclusive province, as I am the only guy who works in my office. But apparently a...

Apparently, several times.

As in doorstops? Sheesh. What else are WD drives good for?

Translation: Adobe is a bunch of assholes who hate its customers so much they won't let people do the one thing that would probably help system performance more than any other possible hardware change.

You're basically paying the money to have someone to blame when it stops managing that traffic, I think. I was involved in a commercial-grade web service setup many moons ago that used a few of them, but they arrived pre-set in whatever configuration they were supposed to have. They are...

There *are* other places that can start a program. Services, for example. Or putting things in win.ini. Hijack This should be run at the very least, and Process Explorer.

I honestly don't know if it does or not. They're manually re-sizing the dimensions of the images they are printing in Corel Draw. The plotter they're using is an HP 1100T I think. Plotters are something I never get to play with. Even the customers I have who use them usually have people expert...

A client of mine has a plotter. An enormously expensive, two month old , 48" wide plotter. They use the plotter to print blueprints, sometimes, and posters. At least, that was the plan. They have gobs more money than sense and no one there actually knows how to use the plotter. Or much of...

I just read this very interesting article about right wing talk radio, written by a former producer.

Server 2008 is pretty cool. Most of the time.

Yes. Not that I'd know.

OK, enough about cholesterol. Let's talk about something fun. Like boobs or something.

Any DDR2 memory that needs to run at more than 1.8V in order to operate is defective. I don't care if your hardware gives you the option to do it or not. If it's DDR2, spec says it works at 1.8V. I'll give you a third option, which is that your Gigabyte motherboard just can't handle what...

My take is that it's the finished Vista product. The one they should have waited to release.

Every file in every folder is EXPLICITLY marked Read-only? Not just the greyed out box that means "There's some read-only stuff in here." And you're sure you've cleaned off any viruses present?

Don't say that, man. Food is the only fucking pleasure I get.

Usually when I add "redist" to my search terms it takes me to the right place. I guess for this it didn't.