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My retry was 1880kb/sec. Fast enough I couldn't take a screenshot. I'd say it made a difference.

Almost all the traffic we're dealing with is passing between Very Big Routers in a datacenter someplace. It's POSSIBLE that the routers in question are load balanced somehow so that the IP address is not representative of a physical interface, but the datacenters I've been in seem to just use...

I've never seen that bug before. First time I'm using Intel onboard graphics. Maybe that's it.

At home, different cable segment, 26.1kb/sec. Tracing route to storageforum.net [69.57.180.83] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 73.55.216.1 3 8 ms * 8 ms ge-1-44-ur01.griffith.in.chicago.comcast.net [68...

Comcast issue, maybe?

Actually I take that back. I can hear a little clicky noise when the drive is being written to. It's not noticeable from four feet away, though. The fluorescent lights in my office are making more noise than anything else at the moment.

The 100GB 7200rpm SATA drive in the Thinkpad T60p that I'm working on right now is a Hitachi, apparently. I do not notice any drive noise from it at all, and I'm doing a doing a fairly disk-intensive partition resize (on a partition with data!) at the moment. Speed is... better than I can...

So has jtr. ;)

I just installed Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 on a new Windows PC. I notice that the cursor disappears while I'm trying to compose a new E-mail. It's driving me nuts. I can't see where I'm typing. No, switching cursor sets does not seem to help. Anyone else seen this?

There are cards that will do HD, and there are cards that have component input; those are not cards that cost under $40. Under $40, you'll get Svideo, which is essentially the same picture quality as component as long as you're looking at standard-definition TV (there's a big jump between...

I'm downloading at an average of 30kB/sec over a 6Mbit cable line that really isn't being used at all, otherwise. I'd call that pathetic. I'd send a Traceroute, but Comcast has had ICMP blocked on my cable segment for the last several months.

I might have an (754-pin) Athlon64/3000 + Biostar board here in the next few days; I know I'll have it by the beginning of January, but it's a matter of when I can take the machine down to pull the parts.

December 10th, 2006 was a truly sucky day. That is all.

Coincidentally, guess what I downloaded Friday when it was released?

jtr, It must be awful to lose your father. You have my sympathies.

A Real-life horror movie.

Don't use headphones?

It's better than my words for S*ny and Western Digital product lines. Also, I think time might have some historical data worthy of examination. Don't forget time.

No Sony Rootkit. No evidence of Sony Rootkit. I've removed it before, but not under a completely different set of symptoms, which is why I did not think of it as the problem. But I really thought that was it. I can't even tell where the stupid thing comes from. It's not Nero. The PC I was...

Channeling the wisdom of every "Boobies" thread on Fark.com... I'd hit it. :)

I think there's a strong correlation, myself. I've heard rumblings that the bigger and newer Samsungs aren't as wonderful as the old ones, but my experience remains excellent overall; I might see a Samsung fail once in every six months. Considering the number I have deployed in the last four or...

Renaming the file did not work - Windows seems to BSOD on boot without it. Fortunately, one of the students in a class today brought an Inspiron notebook. It also had the file in question (is it a Dell thing?), but its copy was 693 bytes larger than the one on my cursed PC. I copied the...

No Sony rootkit. I've run several tools that promise to remove the Sony rootkit, and none of them detect it as being present. Google, Google Groups and Microsoft's various support venues cannot tell me what sonypvl3.sys is, either.

I find it A LOT easier to use Fedora for server-y things than anything else. There's nothing in the basic config that actually PREVENTS you from enabling unusual server functions, for instance, which is a point of annoyance I have with SuSE.

woot is wooting off today. If anyone sees more of those Logitech powerline ethernet adaptors, please buy some. Every time they have some, I buy three. Usually they're all spoken for before I even actually get them.

I do not know yet, but it's certainly possible.

Paugie, could you tell us more about this saute that you make? Philippino cuisine is something I'm curious about.

I see your unhealthy food and I raise your bet.

I completely forgot about that fucking thing. Thanks Chewy!

I have before me a great mystery. It is a Dell XPS 600. 3GHz P4, 2GB RAM. nVidia-based motherboard, GF6800. It has XP Media Center on it. It also has well over 30GB of installed PROGRAMS. I mean a 27GB program files directory. Only about 4GB of user data, but every fucking program known to...

Samsung drives aren't "bleeding edge" units. I suspect that they cost Samsung less to manufacture because Samsung isn't competing in the state of the art space that Hitachi and Seagate typically occupy.

I'm pretty happy with the 400GB models that I have. They are not as loud or hot as my bigger Hitachi drives.

Usually a Ribeye or DelMonico.

I do not know where to get curry- anything, except the yellow powder that I have been assured is nothing like actual curry. I have one of these and I really like it. Indoor Steak, No Grill - I learned this one from, of all places, Slashdot Preheat Oven to 500 degrees Wait 15 minutes for it to...

My ex started the process of moving in with her first girlfriend while we were still living together. :(

Great. Another place to find out that straight chicks won't have anything to do with me. :(

Bachelor Chow is accomplished with as little work as possible and ingredients I might actually have on hand. With that in mind: Lasagna. 1 Package of fresh, cheese filled ravioli from freezer part of the grocery store. 1 package frozen spinach. 1 jar of Pasta sauce (I use Prego Garden...

The other frustration I have at the moment with looking at that personals site is that that 80%+ of the bi-girls are only looking for women, which doesn't do the common stereotype of that sexual preference any favors. :(

Naw, the biggest issue is removing the latest and greatest. A static test doesn't tell you much, unless the product sucks to begin with.

Actually, the thing that's interesting about the command line tool is that the updates are downloaded to the selfsame folder. Put the damned thing on a thumb drive, update (a2cmd /u) and you're never any more out of date than the last time you updated. Very Thumb Drive friendly. Which is rather...

Chatting with another tech about Anti-Spyware stuff. He mentioned programs from this company.

Leprechauns, Unicorns and Geek Girls. I'm telling you. You're as likely to meet any of the things on that list. Actually, I do know Geek Girls. They all also like girls.

There are still no geek girls. No other ones. None that I know, anyway. They are like leprechauns or something.

I still think editing is unnecessary.

I asked the young woman I mentioned in this post to help me make a better profile for the personal site I belong to. She wrote many pages of comments about things I had written. She said lots of kind and confidence-inspiring things about me. Plus, I communicated with a girl for more than the...

I had to dig up a patch for Magic: the Gathering (the card-game one, not the other one) when I wanted to play it yesterday, only to find out that if your screen res is higher than 1024x768, it runs in a non-windowed 1024x768 portion of your screen. And that's a 32-bit Windows game. Not like...

Microsoft has a downloadable VM for VirtualPC 2004 that includes a full XP Pro install and IE7.

Computer industry executive finally realizes his place in life. Details at Cnn.com. We are not worthy!

... which would be great, except that if we didn't do it, one of our students probably would.

Car threads make my eyes glaze over. But I think this is cool.