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1. I don't have anything to live for anyway. There's nothing I'm looking forward to, no place I want to go and no one to do anything with. 2. Work for no reason is the very definition of torture. Exercise is work for no reason. 3. I lead an otherwise virtuous life. I do not smoke, drink or...

Open the Add-On manager and get rid of pretty much everything except the Java and Flash stuff. The only toolbar that should be installed is the status bar. Anything else is just bullshit. Also, switch your dad to Firefox and don't ever look back.

Exercise is not anything I would ever "plan" to do. Exercise is punishment for doing something wrong. I'd sooner lose weight by having parts cut off. I'm about 75lbs. lighter than my all-time high weight, just from watching what I eat. The shape of my body does not change very much from weight...

Plextor's Japanese parent has announced plans to exit optical drive markets, according to These guys. This should surprise no one who has seen a price list lately, but I imagine that huge swathes of the computer trade press will now have to find a new optical drive vendor whose nob they can...

I walked 50 feet from my apartment to my car and fifty feet from my car to my office several times this week. Even that was basically a drag.

I just got in a shipment of new Logitech keyboards and mice. Sixty of them, for my classrooms. These keyboards say "Compatible with Windows Vista" on their boxes in very large letters. Some of my students saw the boxes, and they asked me about Vista keyboard compatibility. ... so I just...

That's probably a good thing. One step closer to dance instruction. ;)

I've had that sort of layout before. You'll be fine. :)

My friends don't go out. I don't belong in bars. Also, my point of view on the woman who lied about her weight is this: She's a big girl. So what? There's a HUGE pressure on those stupid personals sites to lie about yourself. Now, I like to think that if one lies, one isn't going to find people...

Be happy you can get a non-gay female to talk to you in the first place. :P

The smallest Vista I've been able to make is about 14GB with no apps and no drivers. Vista basically wants a backup of every, single .EXE on your system, which is part of the reason for that large footprint. Were you not reading any of the Vista sucks threads, LM?

A little light in the digital input department. Your Klipsches will sound louder and boomier. You are probably used to that. You can still use them for your front left and right speakers if you really want though.

Sometimes I leave one in my pants pocket when I throw those pants in the laundry.

It's happened to Hotmail.com TWICE. Two years in a row. The second time it happened, Microsoft gave the guy who renewed it for them a check for $1000, which he sold on Ebay for considerably more (close to $10k) which he then gave to charity.

I've never had one fail. And I've washed mine a couple times.

Try #2: My gaming PC has a GA-K8N Pro-SLI and is installed in a P180 enclosure with a 700W Enermax SLI certified PSU. I find that an 8800GTX collides with even a low-profile SATA cable on port #2, preventing the card's installation. When I removed that cable, I still couldn't get either card...

Silly question, but doesn't a DVI connection do away with the need for display calibration?

Er, GTXes... And I will say, in their defense (y'all might want to write this down), that the cooling solution on those cards is a lot nicer than the 7900GTSes I handled. The fan in those things, at full bore - as they are at boot time - is audible but not disagreeable. 8800-series cards look...

My first experiments with the BFGTech 8800GTSes are a bust. I either don't have a power supply that's beefy enough to power one on, or I have two broken cards. I'm using an Antec 550W SLI Certified PSU and an X2/4600 at the moment. 1 hard disk and 1 stick of DDR2 - a pretty minimal system. An...

I'm not terribly happy with Lunarpages.com hosting. I don't like the control panel they use for Windows hosting and their solution to the crush of spam is to just stop their mail servers and manually delete all mail queued for delivery. They do that basically weekly. On a randomly chosen...

Spinrite?

Generally not a problem. Also, a funny.

Whoops. Crap. Wasn't thinking about Intel SLI support. Grr. Maybe I'll password protect the BIOS... The case he wants is this one, which is basically the most hideous thing I've ever seen.

Acronis TrueImage. I installed it and checked the option to make removable storage bootable. Just about everything new enough to deploy TO can handle booting off USB.

He wants SLI 8800GTXs - $1100 worth of video cards. He's getting an Intel Board (forget the model) to PREVENT overclocking; I'm not going to support him if he's stupid enough to do it. He's getting an X-Mystique for sound And yes, he wants the Extreme Edition chip (Another $1000) I'd NEVER put...

ddrueding: Hitachi drives for now. I installed an x1650 in my machine for now. I see that ATI's new chip will be available in a couple weeks. I'll re-evaluate my needs then. I found an idiot who wants a Quad-Core PC, SLI GF8800s and Vista on the day its released. I'm guessing that will be a...

Recovery console, then fixboot and fixmbr

Likewise, though in one case with an Enermax PSU and a Gigabyte 865-something board I felt I was cutting it close.

8GB Thumb drive. $99. The ultimate tool for doing deployments. In 8GB I can fit my entire classroom disk image + all the miscellaneous printer and scanner crap I have to install.

Yes. She didn't actually email me until after she talked to Comcast.

I've noticed a lot of brief outages lately. Five and ten minutes long, maybe, but there have been five in two days that I know of.

One of my students is a WoW player. She's on a 6Mbit cable connection to the internet and has a very nice PC (x2/3800, 2GB RAM, Gigabyte nForce4, x800 Pro). She emailed me to ask why her World of Warcraft updates take so long; her boyfriend's notebook (which is a Dell Inspiron of some kind...

The Tech Lounge has pictures of new Antec Stuffs. Nothing particularly drool-worthy, but the P190 having room for a second PSU is kind of interesting.

Wanna swap for RAM?

I had an xbox360 for a little while. I played the one game I wanted to play and then I sold it. I could not stand the controls on it. The reason I have the HDDVD drive made for Xbox is that it is substantially cheaper than a set-top HDDVD player.

It's not the same thing. Nero Digital is its own MPEG4 implementation. If you use the simple profile, anything that can play back "modern" Quicktime can play back Nero Digital as well. If you turn on the bi-directional encoding, you need a device or program/codec that is expressly compatible...

I'm looking at the pile of parts that's going to make up the guts of my new home theater system, and I am annoyed. It's my first personal Intel desktop in eight years. E6400 (not overclocked) 4GB of Corsair DDR2/800 Gigabyte motherboard (the one with 8 SATA ports!) Auzentech X-Meridian 4TB of...

Up a little early, are you?

This is an $1800 CNC Machine. Neat, huh?

I have some.

Cars are boring as hell. Lego Car factories, on the other hand...

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest to you that something has eaten your Windows install, or at least important parts of it. Maybe a repair install of Windows is in order?

Go to a command prompt. Type netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt See what happens.

People ask me why I have so many computers. Stupid crap like what you're describing is a big part of the reason.

Why bother reinstalling?

This is me coming to say "I told you so!" to timwhit. I told you so, timwhit. That is all.

That's a worrisome thing to just let lie. I guess one thing to do would be to disconnect the drives and use them one at a time on different channels, to see if the error persists on the same channel or moves with one or more of the drives. Or if the controller throws the error with no drives...

Could you maybe pull the drive and work on it in something with similar hardware? A desktop with an intel chipset would be a good start.

Here here! I will buy some 1TB drives. I will buy them on general principle.

I like Mission style stuff myself. Never been to an Ikea, but I hear their stuff is particle board. On the other hand - and keep this in mind - a couch is something you'll either have for 20 years or something you'll get rid of in three or four. The three-year couch is perfectly OK, especially...