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I already have to deal with six Phaser solid ink printers. They cost a young fortune in consumables and, once again, don't come close to matching the moronic photo printing requirement I am having to deal with. The newer Phasers are very fast printers; I think our newest is three times faster...

Unfortunately, that Samsung laser printer is no longer made and no model of equivalent features was made to replace it, and no, no human being on Earth would look at color laser output and compare it favorably to something with a 4 or 6 tank photo printer's. These are not my standards. My...

Random. And no selling. It was a "give." x2/4600, 2GB RAM, 250GB Seagate drive. Just some spare parts I had.

I gave all the parts for a new computer to someone I have never met today. It's nice to be able to do things like that.

They aren't *my* students.

... particularly if you've ever called Lenovo support and ANY other company's support service in the same day. I had to talk to Applecare today - supposedly renowned for its support - and it was like talking to a brick wall compared to Lenovo. Talking to Dell, even GoldSelectWTFBBQ Service, is...

*I* don't care about speed. I'm not going to have to use it. In my mind, slower is better, so the evil students use fewer of our consumables.

Budget is any amount of money that will result in three classrooms having functional, photo-capable Inkjet printers. My boss literally wants there to be a photo printer attached to each individual computer, so if I find one or two networkable printers (not HP, not Lexmark) that can handle the...

My latest Dell catalog says something that I find VERY interesting: It explicitly states in product comparisons which models have "North American Based Support." This tells me two things: 1. They know full well that Americans have a hard time with the accents of the people staffing their call...

Cars are universally boring and stupid. Let's have a thread about pretty girls instead. And ban uda from posting in it. Also, when did this thread explode? We just started a new page a couple days ago...

I guess I could buy some kind of crappy print server if I had to. I have four printers right now - probably $600 worth of hardware and ink, all told, that are useless now because someone walked off with a power cable. They are all different from a standard power cable, and I can't think of a...

Once again, I have the opportunity to purchase new printers for my classrooms. The people I work for demand photo-printing, and strongly prefer the biggest rip-off of desktop HP Photojets. My objections: 1. Current HP PJs install 300MB of drivers. SRSLY. 2. Assholes keep stealing power packs...

At the moment, I'd say the tide has shifted back to AMD: The motherboards are cheaper and have more nifty features, the CPUs are cheaper and more importantly they are faster at available price points than Intel's. For $160, one can buy an AMD x2/6000 or an E6550. If you aren't planning to...

Actual recommendations: GIGABYTE GA-P35C-DS3R - For $150, it doesn't do anything all that special, other than be a rock-solid motherboard for an Intel Processor. Intel 946GZis - $80. Barebones, trouble free and, once again, rock solid. No overclocking features. Only two DIMM slots, but decent...

I want 19" 1024x768 screens.

Economic Libertarian "Let the Market Rule" road construction? Yup. That'll be great. Until the day you need to get to the little town in the Midwest where your family lives, and find out that the ROI on maintaining the roads to do it weren't high enough to make a private company interested in...

I'd pay a great deal more money for a large LCD that was NOT super-high resolution. I spent 90 minutes today trying to make a crazy old lady happy with that Samsung 904 I wrote about. 120dpi, extra-large fonts at 800x600 (on a widescreen, naturally) was the only thing that made her stop bitching.

The Samsung 904BW is one inch larger than yours, mubs,, and based on the one I was just looking looking at a minute ago, it's atrocious. I'm positive it's not a TFT panel; I've bought better monitors from fifth tier fly-by-nights (Sceptre, Hanns-G). I can't believe it says Samsung on it. I...

There used to be a passenger rail service that ran, as far as I know, between Indianapolis, IN to Danville IL then at least to Champaign, IL. The train ran through, and made stops at many of the tiny little towns between those larger cities, including the very, very small one where I grew up...

Yes, but not legitimately. I have a program that unlocks PDFs. I can unlock it if you want.

You can get proper Samsungs - 940Bs - for $225 off of Newegg.

Aren't your files .3GPs or something? VLC and Media Player Classic play those just fine.

You know how other people have interests and expertise in other areas? Well I don't. Computer crap is pretty much my whole life.

The list represents an ideal. I read someplace that when Bill Gates decided to start looking for a wife, he started by making a list of all the qualities he wanted in a woman and weighting them. That's a supremely nerdy thing to do, but I was thinking about that stuff as a way to organize my...

I don't see any evidence at all that the job market is better for techies. I couldn't get a decent job during .Com and pretty much all the students I've ever trained for computer work have had the same struggle. Only a very small number have gone on to any kind of tech work. I already work as...

Class action settlement cash.

Never saw any the whole time I was at Purdue either. I don't think geek girls are real in the first place.

And go... where? Where is the magic forest where geek girls grow on trees?

A cool-running nVidia card remains an oxymoron. :P

I did get my script working, finally. Now I need to polish it up and think of other things it can do. It's a simple thing right now. It makes a folder and copies a bunch of small, no-install .exe files into that folder, puts some shortcuts to those programs in the start menu and then downloads...

It took me about five years to find a full time permanent job, out of college. I hate being a full time contractor and I am deathly frightened that I'd never find another decent job. Also, I hate moving with the same passion I exhibit for Western Digital and republicans.

Well, I have 31 years of interactions with women to go by, and so far I got nothin'. Here's the ideal that I'm looking for in a lady: 1. A geek - these are about as common as unicorns as far as I can tell, but the girls who like comic books or dungeons and dragons or hard drives are the...

Prove it. They aren't here. I have no idea where the fuck they are, but they aren't any place that I am willing to go, so they might as well not exist. I see lots of 24 - 30 year olds with three or four kids (with three or four different fathers), no education, divorced and looking for the...

50 point Suppress Magic. :P

I drink tea (note the lower case) and strawberry milk. Also, isn't it "sloe gin?"

Sadly, there's nothing of interest outside my apartment.

So far as I can tell, if they're human and female, they just won't.

Well, apparently, Vista's cmd.exe needs quotes in places XP's doesn't...

OK. I found a program to elevate a Batch script. Now I still have a problem with Vista not being able to find the explicit path c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. ... which XP and Server 2003 both do just fine.

The hard part is elevating the batch file that actually does the heavy lifting. It should look something like runas /noprofile /user:%username% "call \\servername\sharename\binapps.cmd" With the contents of binapps.cmd... md c:\program files\bin cd c:\program files\bin copy...

You guys have no idea how little contact I have with women.

Grumble. At least you people know women who are straight.

The frequently inebriated users at totalfark.com generally spell it "Vodak" and I have come to prefer that spelling. It conveys a certain level of amusement.

I wouldn't know what to do with them anyway. :(

Don't buy it. BS. Four times the standard CPU performance of VMware and disk performance that exceeds physical reality? No disclosure of what hardware was used in the tests? Um, no.

Walmart will have $100 HDDVD players tomorrow.

Tea seems like more of a Rum sort of a lass to me.

No tropical islands. All I'd do if I went someplace else is exactly what I do at home: read, get on the internet and listen to music. Why waste the time and money to travel for that? I'm not getting on a plane again until the whole flying experience no longer feels like incarceration, either.

Buffed Slingers would eat them alive. It's all about the number of figures in a stand and the fairly high base damage and numer of shields. Slingers also have the Luck attribute. They do tons of damage and they're hard to kill.