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I am fairly certain there are more blind, geeky nymphomaniacs in Oregon than there are in Indiana, even if they have to keep them in zoos.

The HardOCP guys are only offering subjective opinions. I respect what they're trying to do, but there's something to be said for verifiable information. Anyway, the Sapphire x1950GT is down to $105 after a rebate today. Which I think puts it into the "why buy anything else?"-category.

Today's xkcd is way awesome.

How is Oregon's supply of blind, geeky nymphomaniacs?

Be glad you didn't buy that PC Chips board, Clocker. One of my students brought me one today. It is mysteriously locking up. The temp sensors on the board are all reporting temps around 130C, and I suspect the board thinks its about to melt down. An IR thermometer shows temps between 40 and 55...

Haven't had it long, have you? ddrueding sent me some all-aluminum SATA to USB enclosures with 750GB drives in them. I let one drive run inside that enclosure for about two and a half days and it died. When I took the drive out, I had to handle it with an oven mitt.

Yes. Or that.

Does Boxing require a second player? I also saw something this morning about how the state of West Virginia is buying thousands of game systems so that they can use Dance Dance Revolution as a PE activity. Thought that was interesting as well.

Seriously, I've never had a drive enclosure do anything but piss me off. Either there's a fan that breaks after roughly 42 seconds of operation, or the drive gets too hot and dies on its own.

I think the scarcity is a marketing ploy, actually.

I don't think I could lower myself to Tannin's standards. And being without the internet for four days would be very painful. I could do it if I had enough things to read, but I don't really see the point in doing so.

Anyone have a Wii? I saw something earlier today which suggests that some of the more active Wii games like Tennis and Boxing do a comparable or better job of burning calories than an aerobics class. Interesting.

ddrueding, I sincerely hope that you do not treat your women the way you treat your hardware.

An indoor diesel generator might do wonders for your mood... :)

I've never had a vacation, no. If I take time off work it's really because I want to go work some other place and/or have absolutely nothing else to do. The only place I really feel comfortable is at home. Other places lead to greater or lesser levels of anxiety. Sometimes that is bearable...

Travel sucks. How much do I not like going places? Well, I ran out of food early last week. I chose not to eat an evening meal for four days until I got around to making a trip to the store. I didn't want to go out to get restaurant food, I didn't feel like buying groceries because that...

I haven't done anything to deserve that.

The list of new features doesn't look very interesting. Not to me, anyway. :(

There is a reason that I live well beneath my means, actually.

So, apparently, the guy who shot up that mall in Kansas today? One of the guys he killed was a cop. Someone who almost certainly had a gun. Concealed carry does what, again?

Basically, there is no job in the entire universe that is as torturous as a sales job. Go watch Glengarry Glen Ross and be glad you have that whole medicine thing to fall back on. Coffee is for closers.

There would be issues with accountability in that case which I don't really know how to address.

There's like eighty-hundred-kaspillion blogs about doing the switch to Ubuntu from Windows. They can't all suck. Find some and read them. There's probably something worthwhile on lifehacker.com or something.

I can't handle this not having work to do. I don't have any contracting work scheduled until June, and my teaching schedule is more-or-less clear as well. I slept 34 of the last 48 hours. No idea how I'm going to make it through next week. :(

ATI is being stupid and retarded about launch dates some more.

Man outsources his dating efforts.

It would've flashed by in the config.sys stuff.

More than likely, the drive wasn't an MFM drive, nor RLL encoded. It was probably formatted with Stacker or Doublespace on it. Ages ago, ,we used to basically compress our whole hard disk and selectively uncompress just the parts that were needed. Turned computers into slugs, most of the time...

Try phpGroupWare.

If it's the same kind of controller it should work. I've replaced controllers a few times without difficulty (eg Promise Fasttrack to Promise Fasttrack), though never from one chip to another.

Hardware or software RAID?

The newest versions have a sucky Vista theme I don't like and use more RAM than rev4. It *is* really nice, though.

She does not know any other women either. :(

From the PC Gaming thread... Actually I am taking a friend to a concert in a little over a week. It is not a date (she is a taken woman) but she is a real woman. Last time I took someone to a concert she turned gay a few months later. But that was Melissa Etheridge and this one will be Norah...

Meh. The places I have lived since I moved out of my parents house, gunfire is generally something I expect to hear a few times a week. Hell, I lived in a place for several years where I could expect to see muzzle flash a few times a week. I suspect these facts might have some bearing on my...

LM, I think you know full well how likely THAT is for me. :(

I have a PC that, if I lowered myself to install the 8800GTX I have, literally could not be made faster with any commodity part. It is as top of the line as things get. 4GB RAM, 3.6GHz+ CPUs etc. And there's not a damned thing I actually want to play. Nothing. Again. I have a whole month of...

Assuming you are using the precompiled kernel, you will boot a non-smp kernel (no harm there!) and you'll probably have to configure the new NIC with YaST. It's never a bad idea to make a backup but it should be straightforward to make the switch you need.

I will have five total when I get these. Some will be given away, though. I was actually waiting for a BoC. Usually when they do the woot-off on a Thursday, the BoC hits between 4PM and 6PM on Friday. No BoC, but since I had the page reloading every 3 seconds I was well-poised to snag my monkeys.

I got three of them. Again!

No, but with mudslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and typhoons and radical islamic separatists, your roof probably needs to be replaced every few decades too, paugie.

Some .wmv files are problematic under linux. WMV is a common format on for-pay porn sites (e.g danni.com) since it can be copy protected. There are ways around the copy protection on Windows, such as fraps. Adult torrent sites generally offer the same content with protection stripped, and those...

Thunderbird can import OE stuff. Installing apps is the thing that Ubuntu is super good at. You use Synaptic or just click to open a .rpm or a .deb or a .tgz and your package manager should handle it.

"...as is the ultra-light membrane and the over-sized leather muffs, which strongly remind one of the older Kate Bush." I think the woot guys are making a very naughty joke, there.

The Ubuntu 7 liveCD loses since it does not have Frozen Bubble. That is the suck. :P

Article about the basics of Antivirus software from consumerist.com. The Consumerist is not a tech web site. It's a pretty interesting place for consumer rights information, and it's good to see some of the things we've largely been saying repeated there. I don't agree with the author's...

Left handed golf things and whatever the hell sake is are pissing me off.

You have your hobbies and I have mine. Either that our you are remembering that one thread about Asia Carrera.

Auzentech, my good man. Auzentech. Nine letters. Much better than four.

Man, I don't know. I've heard that those new ATI cards were going to be released at the end of February, the end of March, the end of April and now "sometime in May." Who knows?