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"Done?" Since Nits stops by once in a while I won't mention the fact that probably 50% of those hundreds of tabs I keep open are pictures of one or more naked women... and who can ever say they are DONE looking at naked women? Oh, wait. I just did. Hm. Well, too late. I typed it. I'm not going...

I can distinctly recall an article, written in "PC Magazine" in about 1991, that suggested that the full computing ability of an 80486DX might never be fully utilized on a desktop PC. And a couple years before that, another article that suggested we'd never need 32-bit applications on desktop...

Open a terminal window and use tar and gzip + cron like a normal person?

I think the silliest Firefox extension was the "Abe Vigoda Status" extension that would, when clicked, tell you if Abe Vigoda is alive or dead. Sadly it does not appear to work with Firefox 2.

Canada, as I understand it, mandates availability of inexpensive (compared to the US) broadband services. I may be off base on that but I've talked to folks on Slashdot who run ISP services in the Yukon territories, where I wouldn't think population density would support an internet service. DSL...

Picked my Ex- and her wife up from the airport last night. They went to Vegas for a week. The whole time I was sitting in the cell phone lot I was thinking "Why the hell did I drive all the way over here to do this in the middle of the #$#%@ing night?" Two in the morning, at ORD, and it's still...

A.D. obviously deserves a round of applause from the membership. Congratulations!

Jas is the x86 version. I loaded it on a nice C2D machine a few weeks ago, just because I could. I like it better than Vista but it's sluggish compared to my standard Linux desktop or to Server 2003. In the end I put SuSE back on.

If you're talking about a real laser printer, not a crappy personal model, I'd stick with the manufacturer's toner, because having a valid warranty and/or service contract is a good thing. If it's out of warranty or a crappy printer to begin with, all I'm going to say is that all printer...

64-bit isn't any faster, but the kernel used by XP64 is the same as the one in Server 2003, and that kernel *is* faster than the one that shipped with XP 32-bit version. Subjectively, about 10% faster. For Vista, 64-bit appears to do exactly zilch over 32-bit. Ditto for 32 vs 64 bit Server 2003.

XP64 uses the same faster kernel as Server 2003. It really is subjectively faster than XP. Unfortunately it also has driver issues, no 16-bit support and the same resource hog crap that XP has

A portable device that isn't portable anymore probably isn't worth a whole lot. I have a hard time thinking of things to do with PDAs even when they have a full battery.

Hook up a bunch of cold cathodes to the header on the motherboard? <ducks> Actually Bozo, I'm somewhat ambivalent about the P180 at times, too. I love the quiet but I wish they'd done the drive cages differently. Cable routing in them is pretty awful too. If you have a full-size motherboard...

Not from anything inside Windows.

Yesterday I taught a class for my boss's rich friends (wife of a baseball player, wife of the guy who owns the biggest regional bank, wife of the dude who owns half the car dealerships in my part of Indiana... you get the idea) and for some of my co-workers. Not that it's terribly relevant but...

Be prepared, Nits. Your man shall wish to lie with you afterwards. ;) On the other hand, Spartans were so queer their wives had to dress like men and wait for their men in the night; after the deed those studly spartan dudes would go back to the dorms fulla other manly gay spartans. Apparently...

There's always Delphi, Will. The one that drives me nuts is Foxpro. Microsoft has a product costs less to buy than Access, yet has a developer-type license (you have to buy Office Enterprise to make redistributable Access Apps). It has 90% of the feature set of SQL server, including...

Pretty much, if Alan Moore write it, it's available used and probably not out of print. Alan Moore also wrote "From Hell" and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and the forthcoming "Watchmen." Watchmen is widely considered the greatest comic book ever written. There are only a few things...

Jas doesn't need to have anything special done to make it boot on a normal PC; it's pre-hacked.

In the past I've used rubber-backed runners (long carpets with rubber beneath). I'm a big guy and I can roll a chair on those, with carpet underneath, just fine. I don't like the vinyl things either.

V for Vendetta, the graphic novel, is way, way, WAY better in every way. You watch the movie, you see the watered down version. Also, my (very, deeply gay) ex, after seeing "300" this weekend: "That made men look kinda hot. And I think I want to kill something." I've been watching "The Wire"...

I think VB is like a permanent stain on the soul. Kinda like murder.

That is good to hear. Paugie did you get a working PC yet or are you still cyber-cafe-ing?

I um, have the Jas 10.4 ISO file around here somewhere if anyone wants to take the time to play with it. I installed it on a PC but then I sold it so it got a proper WinXP install before I really got to play with it.

I understand that Konq is more or less the same thing as Safari, which might make your life slightly easier.

I thought Clocker and Tannin corrected our notions of MTBF years ago...

Fark.com Photoshop thread on upcoming Wii games. Some of them are pretty damned funny.

My "computer chairs" are just old, coffee-stained, no-adjustment-having meeting-room chairs. They don't even roll. But I can spend 20 hours in one and at the end of that time I'm still comfortable, which is more than I can say for some chairs I've been in over the years.

No doubt.

NOW the VB guys come out..

I think Nits is the fifth female-type-person to sign up. We had some posts from Tannin's tech Kristi and some others in some of the darker topics in the Pub from someone named Hannah and there have been a few others with questions in the support forum at various times. Anyway, ddrueding, if you...

Looks like Access 2007 will leave your DB format unmolestered unless you choose to run the Conversion Wizard. I just opened a half dozen different .MDBs of various vintages (2000, XP, 2003) and they all seem be OK and functional before and after I used 2007 on them. But I am not an Access...

That's why you get Parallels Desktop!

The homeboy whose post is right above yours seems to have some problems with "safe" anything. I personally have photos of ddrueding snorting his cocaine of off the ass of a leprous midget hooker while SMSing while driving blindfolded and simultaneously putting five WD Raptors in a software...

Lando!

For what it's worth I've been using an Access 2000 database in 2007 all week. So it'll at least open old files without issue. I dimly recall having issue with Access 2000 converting older MDB files by default. Microsoft says that when you wave your magic "Convert Database" wand, the file format...

I think that just proves the adage: "What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away."

QuickTime Alternative. But yeah, Quicktime sucks donkeys through a straw and gargles afterward.

Well, I'll throw out the usual plug for TrueImage + some kind of USB drive, but that's all stuff that costs money. You could maybe look into Microsoft's SyncToy Tool, which allows you to mirror the contents of arbitrary directories in multiple locations, including network drives.

It's not sleeves and it's not cases. It's the media. As the media becomes less expensive, quality control goes out the window. Crummy discs from TDK or Maxell or S*ny or Memorex are, well, crummy. And there isn't much you can do about it. That said, meritline.com and supermediastore.com both...

When Celeron 300As were all the rage, I must've set up 20 systems on Abit motherboards that ran at 450MHz. I had one that wouldn't go past 333MHz no matter what I did. But, yeah, that's really disappointing.

I'm under the impression that the impetus for their interest is a legal threat from a client. But they still don't want to spend money and won't accept a free software solution like knowledgetree. I'm obviously going to have to find out more about how their systems are set up before I can do...

I don't think Shared Folders is foolproof enough, actually. They want a single point to access all the data that's associated with a project, no matter where that data is located. OK, that sounds like dfs, except these people don't know how to manage their data in the first place, let alone...

That is a royal pain in the ass to set up, Chewy. So much crap just runs over port 80 when its native port is blocked that it's really not worth worrying about outbound stuff. If there's an application I don't want to talk to the internet, I'll firewall it on an external (real) firewall rather...

The customer is an architecture firm. Apparently, they had an IT guy come in to set up what they were calling a Backup system. The dude implemented a backup system. He set up tape drives and RAID5 arrays that are mirrored with dfs for redundancy. Except, what the client wanted is the ability...

WinRAR pisses me off. I mostly make .BZ2s or plain old .zip files. I'm lazy and those are more or less the default compression tools for Linux or Windows.

Has anyone ever used or had any experience with any sort of Document Management System? I've been asked to choose and implement such a system and other than knowing a couple names (e.g. EMC makes Documentum), I really don't know a whole lot about them. I know they tend to be horribly expensive...

I take the other extreme. I have machines that have never been upgraded to Firefox 2 because it hasn't been closed in the duration of time that Firefox 2 has been out. Having hundreds of open tabs, several word processor documents, a DVD ripper/transcoder and several half-composed e-mail...

Why would you or anyone else ever close Firefox? Server 2003 remains the pinnacle of Microsoft OSes.

It did? I can't think of anything XP does that 2000 didn't. For that matter, unless you have some program that refuses to install on 2000 (say, Office 2007), there's STILL nothing that makes XP worth the bother. It's no more stable and it's not really faster.