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Paugie, are you saying that you've been using the same razor blade for months? That is really awful. Tannin, not everyone can grow a beard. I have exactly the same problem as mubs. You know, you'd think someone would figure out a way to make hair removal easier...

At the moment I'm limping along with three 400 disc CD changers and three 400 disc DVD changers. :) Indexing those is kind of a pain, though.

I haven't noticed any particular problem with bigger Samsung drives. I have lots of 250GB units. Generally the "least reliable" Samsung units I'm aware of have been 80GB 2MB cache models, but even those I think I've RMA'd four out of about 350 over a three year period. The Hitachi 7k250 and...

I probably would've jumped if the drives had been Hitachi or Samsung. As it stands, the 400GB Samsung drive is a very reasonable $145 or so. That's still a lot of money when you want to replace 24 drives. Personally I don't see a problem with PATA. I just want capacity.

Either way it's a scam. My barber did it with hot towels, a brush and shaving soap, not hot lather. I'm thinking that, even if the man is a professional shaver, I've had years of practice to get good at shaving and so far, here is what I know: If I shave the way you're supposed to, I have a 5...

Runtime Software's Get Data Back has a 30 day trial. It's by far the best recovery software I've found. "Free" programs for Windows tend to either not be worth the bits they're written with or else only show you want you could recover if only you gave the developer $99.95.

Anyone here shave with a straight razor or old-fashioned safety razor? Couple days ago I got a haircut and my barber offered to shave my face, too. My face didn't get irritated at all from his razor and today it was almost painful to go back to the Gillette disposable. I've looked into it and...

Total for all drives is probably 14TB or so, but a lot of it is mirrored data. I'd like to replace my 250GB drives en masse, but that would be kind of expensive.

I'm not knocking sports as a tool for social interaction. I'm sure plenty of people become friendly with teammates who play, or who meet as fans in a bar or at a game. I just don't think sport in and of itself is worthy of the pedestal on which it seems to have been placed. The Olympics seem an...

Dredging up a thread from SF's antedeluvian period, one so old that JamesW, honold and PeeWee all posted in it (ddrueding says "Who?"), I give you the awesome and hilarious story of a 419 scammer scammed back. How scammed was he? If you scroll through the exchange, you'll see that the scam/spam...

Beginnings of a Firefox document. Had nothing better to do, so I spent most of the day writing it and putting together screenshots. It concentrates for the moment on Firefox features not available in crappier web browsers, and it assumes the user is running Windows. Comments?

Absolutely. I've never seen the point of competitive sports. Some sports I find particularly irksome, like golf (for the huge space needed to "play"), football and baseball (for the large space needed to play, lack of action, strict/obscure rules and large amount of equipment needed). I...

Amateur. ;)

Microsoft bought essentially everything they sell. Microsoft bought Word, Outlook, Exchange, Visual Basic, Internet Explorer, MS Antispyware, Defender, Frontpage, DOS and Foxpro. The list of tools developed in-house is a lot smaller: Excel, about half of Windows (the parts that didn't come from...

Software? We don't need no stinkin' software!

Why do you hate your pr0n, timwhit? Of course, when that drive dies, let me know. I can donate 250GB of replacement pictures and movies to replace the loss. :) I will admit that I have a WD 250GB SATA drive at the moment. One of my students bought it not realizing that his PC didn't have any...

It's possible. One of my uncles lives in a place where the only thing for five miles in any direction is cornfield or pastureland, and he's got a 768k DSL connection. Another of my customers is in Manhattan, Illinois. The only reason the whole town (population of about 4000) has cable internet...

Western Digital offers class-action settlement for people who mistakenly bought shitty hard drives. The ironic part is Western Digital is offering backup software (Retrospect) to the poor bastards who already have WD drives, something that should come in the box with all WD products anyway...

Rumored new tech in AM2 chips to compete with Conroe.

I have a client who used Hughes service for about three months in 2005. He lives in BFE Northern Indiana and his connection sucked kinds of ass that have not even been invented yet. Could've been an installation problem, but he'd lose his signal pretty regularly in poor weather (rain, mind you...

Sports are for people of insufficient good character to enjoy a good book.

Someone just asked me this, and I don't know the answer, nor care to soil myself with anything Blizzard makes: Is it possible to run two instances of World of Warcrap on the same PC?

Just a couple of quick tests I ran with a "blank" Windows XP Pro image under VMware (hosted on an Athlon64/3200 with 2GB RAM): I started with an 8GB virtual drive, all space pre-allocated. I split the drive into two 4GB partitions and installed XP Pro + Updates on one, along with Ghost 2003 and...

Since that was posted on digg.com about five hours ago, it's safe to say they're sold out by now. :( I agree that's a fantastic price for a drive of that capacity. Hopefully we'll see 400GB drives in the $100 range in another few months.

I note that Opera 9 has a content blocking feature similar to the adblock extension in Firefox. Good to see the Opera people doing something right.

Does anyone out in SFland understand the point of Joomla? Someone just called my office asking about a class in it, and like everything else that no one has heard of, it was passed to me. As far as I can tell it's just a way to populate data in a specific web page template. Surely there must...

If you've tried the Vista beta, you might not think that comment so ironic.

WinFS is actually something that I very much cared about; having file metadata contained as part of the file system instead of hack-ish addons would make my life a lot better. There hasn't been a fundamental improvement in file systems on Windows since NTFS brought journaling and long file...

Foxconn case A64/3800 2GB RAM nvidia 6150 or ATI R200-based motherboard 250GB Samsung HDD 16x NEC DVD Burner $550, shipped from Newegg. That's pretty much insane.

I still use CRTs in preference to LCDs. I have *two* LCD monitors out of all the PCs I have. Every LCD monitor large enough for main-monitor use (I'm thinking this means 24" or so) is unfortunately saddled with 16:9 orientation. LCDs have color accuracy issues, refresh issues and viewing angle...

Universal USB Hard Disk Adaptor doohickey. One device that can handle 2.5" or 3.5" PATA or SATA-to USB2.0 conversion? Seems like a good deal to me.

Cruel <> interesting!

On the other hand, I didn't have to teach anyone how to do anything with VMware. It's just there and it just works.

To be on the safe side, a 9250 is probably better for its thermal characteristics. The Gigabyte 9550s I'm familiar with can get warm from mild 3D use (e.g. someone playing Counterstrike) but are normally cool to the touch. The 9250 is a much simpler chip. You won't be TEMPTED to mild 3D use...

Generally, if a motherboard is dual-BIOS, the second one is read-only.

Benefit #1: 500GB of porn. Benefit #2: Not a Western Digital Benefit #3: Comes in box which can be used to store punier hard drives. Benefit #4: Not as loud as a chainsaw Benefit #5: Box can also store Western Digital Hard drives, and is flammable when doused in lighter fluid.

9550s are nice and work very well for being fanless. For that matter, even a 9250 is a decent option. Remember that S3 Unichrome is essentially a seven year old chip that doesn't even fully support directX 6. But, um, if you're watching a movie on such a machine, will you really be doing heavy...

Both Yahoo and MSN's IM networks have some nasty worms going around right now. I think I'd start over on that machine. I really do. You don't truthfully know everything that was done to your machine, and the fact that there's any doubt at all in your mind should be reason enough. A couple...

I happen to think that Visio is one of the best things Microsoft makes, but I know there's a program called "Dia" that is available for Windows and Linux that can be used for many of the same tasks; I've done network diagrams with it.

I feel your pain mubs. I just finished a computer-building class for 12 people. Every one of them bought an Athlon64/3000 or 3200 of some sort. The price cuts hit yesterday and my students were about to hang me over the drops. Also, in a different thread, around a month ago, I mentioned that...

Could also be that the system's PSU in inadequate to the task of powering USB devices along with all the other crap you've put in those machines. Weren't you using some tiny, silent PSU?

An interesting commentary on the state of Windows development. Even more interesting, it's hosted on MSDN.

The Math behind iTMS. Synopsis: "Weird Al" Yankovic probably makes about $.04 for every track some iTunes Music Store user pays for. He makes about $.30 for every song on an actual compact disc. That's... pretty sad.

Tool to turn a mass of extensions into a single .XPI file. In other words, this is something that allows for a massive number of extensions to be installed in one go.

You should be seeing some difference with the waste of electricity that is a Raptor. The only thing I can think is that the 40GB drive you're using is a single platter with a massive areal density advantage over the Raptor. On the other hand, I've been saying that those cheapie boxes as a...

Does Singapore have hot chicks in tiny little thong bikinis? 'Cause I'll bet it has better weather than Chicago, and we probably have the same goons and politics. :)

Current version of Virtual PC are... not all that good compared to VMware. I've had VPC crap out on things as basic as a console-only (no graphics) RedHat 6 install. VMware actually seems faster for Windows images too. I have no idea who uses Virtual PC or for what, but it's only impressive...

For what it's worth, Industry Press is claiming that a $250 2.4GHz Conroe will bury a $1000 2.6GHz Opteron 285 on performance and on power consumption. That's... pretty special.

American Theocracy: All I can say is, just about every page of that book made me more pissed off than the page before it. I didn't feel like eating for two days after I finished it.

Busy on weekend. Yes. Stupid work. Plus it's seldom if ever worthwhile to debate RWIndiana. I think his posts make me dumber.