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In other words, people are putting up with the limitations of their crap software because they paid for it and they don't know there's anything better. ddrueding, it's your job to show 'em.

Apparently this will be 9001. I stopped looking at the post count a while ago, fellas. I'm happier to see Tannin and Handy and P5 and ddrueding and time and i and Sol and CityK and Buck and Santilli and Clocker and Gilbo and jtr and paugie and Coug and everyone else upping theirs. I feel like...

There's a set of instructions for doing several versions of IE on the same Windows install here. Or you could load load one version or another in a virtual machine. I do almost all my software testing in VMs these days. Makes life a lot easier. IE7 CSS support seems to be touchy and/or crappy...

#1 matters a great deal in a lot of circumstances. It's not a "slow computers" issue so much as a "Why doesn't your mail program show that bit of text in the floating, square-margin textbox I so clearly used?" Those capabilities should not be present if not everyone can use them. #3 becomes more...

William Byrd - Mass for Four Voices, Ave Verum Corpus (Motet) Glass/Eno/Bowie - "Heroes" Symphony Eno - Music for Airports Rachmananinov - Vespers I have plenty of time to listen to music today, since I'm trying to figure out just how pathetic Vista (RTM) is on our current classroom PCs. From...

I do not think so. BTX has been killed? Really? When did that happen?

I will say that the warranty on $250+ cards is often "Lifetime" or 5 years or something similarly ridiculous. I got into an argument with someone who works for BFGTech (BFGTech is a local company) and one of his counters to my "Everything nVidia is an utter pile of shit" argument was that they...

My problems with Outlook: 1. Defaults to using MS Word as an Email editor. This is like using an Uzi to kill mosquitoes. Particularly annoying for those of use whose email programs are text-only. 2. Improperly places new content in replied messages above any quote in a reply. I strongly prefer...

I've had *ONE* ATI card fail, going back as far as I can remember. It was a Radeon 9600 or 9700. They shipped my replacement back from Canada Next Day Air and there was a handwritten note in the package that explained what was wrong with the old one and that I shouldn't ever have it happen...

It's all about the fact that HDCP wants "single trusted source" for everything. I have a feeling that it'll be a while before our options are what they actually should be.

Apparently, All-in-Wonder was one of the first things to be tossed after the ATI/AMD merger. So... no, it won't be that.

I dimly recall needing a patch to install it. Or you can just play in a VM. I bought Interstate '76 when it came out only to find that it won't work if you have more than one CD-ROM in your PC. I only recently got around to putting it on in a VM. It plays, which is more than it did before.

Really? I heard it on the 1st while the people at the drugstore were taking down Halloween stuff. Anyway, here's my random thought for the day: 99% of web sites do not understand the point of the Internet.

Hint: If you teach people to use a decent mail program - one that doesn't have its own programming language, people won't use Outlook. But back on topic, proper mail systems use standards-compliant SMTP for mail exchange and offer IMAP or even plain old POP3 for delivery. I can use any E-mail...

At the beginning of the year, I read something about Intel engineers building an inexpensive ($25-ish) and utterly reliable watercooling rig using off-the-shelf parts. The article suggested it might be available in the near future, but of course I've heard nothing about it since.

After a considerable amount of thought, I believe the appealing thing about the music I heard was its resemblance to the light but complex jazzy stuff I remember hearing in a couple really nice department stores my mother used to frequent when I was really little. Which is probably not what they...

Try it with surround. It'll be much, much easier.

I'd be able to use a proper E-mail program and a maintain a proper E-mail storage system (IMAP) for them. That's the difference.

One of the things that I've seen since Shrub took office is a slavering devotion to the White House version of reality. Bush has gotten a pass on dozens of issues that, had they taken place under Clinton, would've led to congressional hearings and unhinged conspiracy theories. The Washington...

I seriously can't believe it's useful. Can't. If I saw an adult doing it, I would laugh at them. Anyway, there are three acceptable forms of communication. 1. Face to Face. Duh. 2. Phone. One I'm not terribly fond of. I actually dislike talking to voice mail systems, too. 3. E-mail. There are...

I think he's going to try to peddle it to one of his other contractors or employees. He really isn't savvy enough to sell it on ebay.

Two of my favoritest games are "Master of Magic" - which I still play pretty regularly, and "Alpha Centauri", which I play less often because it's a longer and harder game. I really like Alpha Centauri for the sweetness of being able to design military units. I like the idea of having to...

I have a very wide selection of Microsofty Ebooks. Probably a good thing to bone up on for an IT support guy. PM me if you need anything, i.

Freaks! All of you!

The P180 has 6 internal 3.5" bays with space for the grommets and stuff. For one of the two I have, I had one of my students fabricate a 5 (3.5")-goes-into-3 (5.25") tray so I could place additional drives. At a minimum you could put in 3 more drives in the 5.25" bays. Who needs a DVD burner...

Customer of mine has a Dell Latitude C400. He's had it 3 years and it's NEVER been out of its dock. 3lb. laptop used as a desktop. It's cosmetically perfect. It's a 1.2GHz P3 system, 256MB RAM, 30GB hard drive. And it weighs 3lbs. The guy can't find the CD-RW or floppy drive it came with. No...

I'm still having trouble with the idea that people send text messages to begin with.

Civ 4 is buggy and stupid and Civ 2 or Civ 3 are just better games. Or Alpha Centauri, best of all.

It's still an abomination. But then, here in the US we have Ebonics and IM-speak.

There's a great deal of talk, in Newegg's reviews of the Aria case, of having to mod for airflow. You might also want to swap out 750GB drives for something slightly more reasonable, perhaps more single-platter-ish.

What color is the sky in your world, Stereodude?

I think it's interesting music. It's what was playing in the Borders I went to last night. I don't know what I heard, exactly, and the guy I asked did not know either, but it was a weird fusion of about five different musical styles.

I'd love to see Bush's head on a platter. Literally. Or the end of a sharp stick. Whichever. Bozo, President Clinton lied about an affair with his wife. Bush and his administration lied to send US troops to a foreign country where their lives were imperiled and he is mortgaging the US economic...

I think I added an extra 0 when I calculated it.

I'm using 1280x1024 on one right now. There's no reason they shouldn't support 16x12, either. A 2D display at that resolution should only need 61.4MB of video memory.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance looked cool, so I bought it. Turned out it was one of those godawful console games that happens to have a PC port. I can't decide if I should shoot for Activision's Money Back guarantee or if I should just microwave the install disc now.

Has anyone ever heard of a band called "Stereolab?"

Mahler was one of the last composers of the Romantic era. He's well known for the enormous ensembles required by his orchestration. Takemitsu is somewhat unique as an avant-garde classical composer native to Japan. He does quite a bit of work for movie soundtracks as well. His music is...

I have an Deskjet 520 that's worked since I bought it, the day I graduated from High School; I see 500s and 520s to this day. It's everything NEWER than that which sucks. Anyway, this is a workgroup printer. It has a monstrous 350-sheet feeder and obviously better construction than a $60 P.O.S...

I like FLAC, but if I bog a system down enough, playback goes to hell. I like Ogg, since it supports multichannel audio. Apple Lossless just pisses me off. It won't play in ANYTHING I use. AACs are almost as bad, simply because an AAC is a container format that might have Apple Lossless in it...

"Stack of consumer inkjets" cause us problems: Because all printers suck, they die. Then you have to buy a new one. One that doesn't use the same ink cartridge as the others. Now you're having to keep multiple cartridges on hand. Different printers also have different capabilities. Why can his...

Why are you bothering with DDR2-800? I tend to set up HTPCs using the MythTV model: The computer by the AV components has to be good enough for playback, but there can be a back end someplace else for storage and transcoding.

DDR2 prices were actually lower than DDR until about a week before AM2 was released. They've been unreasonably high ever since.

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Vista sounds wussier - large, pointless quicktime movie I've never used Vista on a machine that would actually let me install a sound driver. So this is new to me. Basically, new sounds are a couple octaves higher in pitch (probably so they sound better on crappy notebook speakers) and are...

I'm not quite sure what to make of his posts in this thread either. Last five recordings I've listened to: 1. Gershwin's "An American in Paris" suite 2. Mahler's 1st Symphony 3. Miles Davis's "Birth of Cool" 4. Takemitsu's "Orion and Pleiades" 5. Wendy Carlos's "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer"

It actually matches our needs pretty well. We teach classes in things like Photoshop and some consumer photo-editing crap (I think Picture It!) where a photo printer is handy; a color laser isn't really right for that kind of printing - though that was my preference - and, expensive as they...

Duplex printing. 350 sheet tray. Builtin LAN. Photo-printing cartridges that aren't horribly expensive ($18 apiece). It's a little louder than a personal photo printer, but it's a workgroup-type unit, so that's not entirely unexpected. It's also enormous, as big as two reasonably new HP...

Head of the Republican National Committee outed as gay. Can we stop bothering with "republican" and just use "hypocrite?" It's less typing and it's far more accurate.

My understanding of the first AM2 chips that were released is that they were in all ways functionally identical to latter-day 939s save for the upgraded memory controller. I distinctly recall reading something that suggested Virtualization was tech that was not immediately supported with the AM2...