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21000 miles. The Factory alarm system was "tampered with" (ie someone tried to steal my car), and apparently the car won't start without it.

My car's alarm system crapped out Wednesday. My car won't start without it, apparently. Dealer says it won't get fixed until they get a part, not til Tuesday. Every single time I've had to take time away from work in 2007 it has been because of my car. That is aggravating. However, I found a...

I don't have a problem with stupid rednecks. They can go about their beer swilling and varmint-eating ways. I have a problem with anti-science fundie-types, but those folks are hardly limited to the south. Anyway, I don't know if anyone else has ever tried teaching, but it's part of what I do...

I rather suspect it wouldn't've happened with proper regulation and government oversight. This country is rather more heterogeneous than the average European or Asian nation, too.

I'm OK with a bunch of Apple fanboy/hipsters taking a hit.

Medicade works. The Interstate Highway system works. Our Military works. Rural Electrification would never have happened if some jerkoff had said "We'll let the market handle it!" Our borders are more than secure enough. I'm not afraid of evil Mexicans "competing" for jobs Americans don't want...

Yes, because our current system of rugged and informed individuals vs. multinational corporations with the same rights as citizens works so fucking well. Face it, the state is the only common source for the public good. There are no other institutions that connect everyone in society. I don't...

That kind of touches on something fundamental about the nature of journalism, but one of the first things I consider is what outside entities could have an influence on reporting and how pervasive that interest might be. Most news reporting in the US is done by media conglomerates with ties...

I think anything which shows up on WorldNetDaily can safely be discounted in any argument where facts might need to play a part. WND is at best an opinion site which masquerades as news in service of a right wing worldview. Same for Fox News. In either case, the media oonsumer should seriously...

NPR, CBC, BBC, ABC (Oz), the Christian Science Monitor and probably the Financial Times of London. Most news organizations in the US are far too compromised with the concept of info-tainment to be reliable sources for news, unless the only things you care about are the latest thing to crawl out...

Might it be a limitation of the chipset, the driver you're using or some peculiarity with that motherboard? I'd probably try the drive in a different PC.

Email your host's support service. They probably use an automated tool to create DNS entries and it's possible that those tools failed or were interrupted in this case.

I don't ever expect to have any level of agreement with you or Howell on most topics. I felt it was important for others who might read that article to be aware of the linked source's rather heavy-handed biases.

From my regular visits to Fark.com, I can tell you that most of the crap on WorldnetDaily comes from people who think Fox News is too liberal; it's on about the same level with Newsmax.com or FreeRepublic.com in terms of its shrill and biased hard right viewpoints. In other words, nothing on...

Laugh if you will, but something very, very similar to the last one of those really happened to me. And I've had to deal with someone who thought the windows date and time tool somehow hooked into Windows system restore, too.

When I use the dig command for an MX record against your domain, the returned record is an SOA record that 1. Isn't an MX record and 2. Doesn't have any hostnames or IP addresses that might give the least clue where your mail server is. What it should look like In other words, your...

Actually, I lied. Looks like you need to recreate that MX record.

I see valid SOA, A and MX records when I dig your domain. Maybe dyndns.org is handling the records for that domain in a weird way. Are you using the name servers you're supposed to?

WSUS requires a Windows 2000 or 2003 Server and either domain membership + appropriate group policies or a registry patch that would need to be un-done before the PCs were removed from your shop. For your shop, you would be better off with slipstreamed install CDs + rmvb add-on packs. Or, you...

Well, me. But as usual for me I have a sticking point in wanting to say things that are not negative and that is mostly what I am thinking about. I've been avoiding caffeine for the last few months. Last night I had six Red Bull energy drinks (didn't know what they were). I've been up close to...

I'm actually kind of surprised that you're bothering with the SCSI drive, given the cabling gymnastics you had to deal with.

There's probably a default firewall config someplace that's messing you up. I'm not familiar with Roundcube but if local works and the server is running that's a really obvious thing to check.

Thank you Paugie.

Those video cards are a fantastic deal, really. They're decent enough for midrange gaming (WoW or Counterstrike) and cheaper than even the crappiest cards newegg sells.

I really wanted to get one of those Console Coolers for my car. The $20 video cards are good. I bought three of those. I was also hoping for another big flat panel.

I have IETab installed on all my Windows PCs so I can't really check. :(

My pro-AVG argument is that it's a lightweight program instead of a CPU/RAM-sucking vampire, it's free and doesn't require much interaction to install (unlike AVast) and that it updates every day without user intervention. All I want to be able to tell my customers about any security program is...

Hey, did anyone else notice that Windows Update works through Firefox now?

My expectations for anything are so close to zero that the difference is entirely irrelevant.

Well, for the IT-inclined, a private Windows Software Update Server isn't all that hard to set up. For those who aren't so inclined, making an updated windows install disc with all the updates slipstreamed in is pretty simple as well.

If they are available, it won't be til the last item, which won't happen until 8 or 9PM Friday, your time. I'll bet the last item will be a shirt again, since they launched the shirt.woot.com site.

woot is wooting off today.

This is at least the third time in the last 10 years that Oz has made some kind of effort at Internet Censorship; I don't think it's a new idea for the down under folk. I am glad that it was ineffective, though.

So says the New York Times.

OK, nothing is going to make me hate IE less. But I found this Add-On for IE7 which provides two much-needed and missing features. Specifically, installing this provides AdBlock-like functions and inline spell checking, such as those provided with many browsers that are actually good.

It's not worth my time to bother with. Particularly not on a $330 laptop.

Several people in my office bought $330 Acer Slugmachines when they were on sale at Circuit City a couple weeks ago. They are everything you'd expect in a $330 laptop. Celeron CPU, 512MB RAM, 4200rpm hard disk, Vista and hardware that will not function in XP (specifically the sound). I don't...

Say it with me: Still better than Compaq or S*ny

Why is it that every time I explain my various depression and anxiety issues to someone, the first thing they say is "You need to get stoned" or "You need to get drunk"; is that the only way people deal with life?

We need a proper left wing in this country.

Microsoft responds to multimedia/networking complaints in Vista. You all ready for this? It's expected behavior that only impacts LAN operations and not internet connections. Uh-huh. Because that makes it better. The dual Pentium/133 I had in 1996 could play MP3s and handle a 100Mbit network...

If you'll look up about a half dozen posts, you'll see I already linked to that... I think I am just going to start paying the pirates, since they're the only ones who can bother to release a product I'd even be willing to install on my computer.

Saw that on BoingBoing.net the other day. I must admit that it made me laugh. Re: Bioshock moronic install options. I'm a grown up and I can afford to buy games whenever I feel like it, only now I completely doing want to because installing a PC game nowadays is like taking a big ol'...

I saw it on a student's laptop, but I didn't know it was Steam title, and I won't install anything with SecuROM on my PCs. Dammit. The demo is sooooo cool.

God-FUCKING-Dammit

I want a Wii as a possible alternative to walking or other fitness things. They even made a Fitness title. However, if they don't want my money, that's their problem.

I think I would buy a Wii if I ever saw one. Also, the Bioshock demo was pretty neat, if you have a PC that is capable of actually running it.

Seven reasons why Rudy Guiliani is a lying, deluded douchebag.

Maybe it's time for a photography forum. There are three active photography threads at the moment, and each of them seems to have some fairly lively discussion.