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Paper isn't prone to data corruption issues and it isn't likely to become obsolete in the near future.

You can do it with Virtualdub, which is a free and tiny program.

There are such things as Archival quality CDs. They're very expensive but might be worth looking in to. Also, it should go without saying that pictures should be printed out and stored on paper as well.

In the late 19th century, doctors actually used steam-powered vibrators to cure Victorian women of "hysteria." The book "The Road to Wellville" by TC Boyle (and movie of the same name) give mention to this fact. If that isn't amusing enough, apparently early home versions of those devices...

I'm a moral relativist. I don't really believe there's such a thing as evil. However, there are things that I find to be despicable and worthy of hate. Social conservatives who seek to further their opinions in the public sphere truly disgust me.

Here? Naw. Just don't post pictures of women of that... caliber and we're probably fine. :) My all-time favorite dumb USB toy is a USB Dancing Homer Simpson. I had one, but it broke the last time I moved. I found out the stupid thing is a holy grail for people who collect Simpsons memorabilia...

What reason is there to see the "conservative" side of the story as even possibily correct? There's a vaccine that can prevent cancer and they don't like it because, in their worldview, that might lead to someone having more sex. Wow. First of all, what young woman is thinking "Now that I...

Yet another reason to hate conservatives in the USA.

The full version can be used to upgrade. As far as I can tell you can upgrade from any supported version of Windows as long as the new key you put in is legit.

Yes, really.

There's some dumbass on a Torrent site I use who keeps posting neat stuff in Apple Lossless (.m4a) format. Apple Lossless appears to require iTunes for playback, or a program called "dbPowerAmp", which I have never heard of, to reencode to a decent format. I've tried installing filters and...

Do an upgrade installation from your actual media. That will work just fine.

But maybe you know women of a different caliber than the ones I know. :D

My experience with Ubuntu, the couple times I've tried it, has been dismal, but the only problems I've had with Fedora have come from corrupted ISO downloads. Maybe it's what you're used to.

I've observed them to work well enough with Server 2003's Enhanced Secuirty Configuration, but that doesn't appear to be installable on other versions of Windows.

Do they have a 65nm fab yet? Isn't that the thing that makes the Core* chips so wonderful?

The story as I understand it, is that everyone gets Home Basic (or Pro Basic) when they get their PC, and the "upgrade" versions will require payment and online activation from Microsoft. They're talking about requiring activation before Aero becomes activated. I cannot think of one compelling...

It costs $.014 to make a zinc penny and as I understand it, copper is at an all time high price on commodity markets right now. Something like $4/lb.

Last time Buck took a long break from posting it was because he was on vacation. The time before that he was very ill, which is why I was concerned enough to ask if anyone had heard anything. If something happened to him, we'd never actually know, would we? Fushigi's also been gone a while...

If I had to guess, I'd say a glass cylinder that's two inches in diameter and eight inches long is probably pretty had to break in normal use. :)

Where the heck did Buck wander off to? He hasn't logged on in ages.

Firefox as a class: I get to teach a 15 hour class on Firefox starting today. It'll be attended by all of my co-workers, which I suppose means that the pressure to make it a good class will be somewhat higher than normal. I'm not exactly sure how I'll fill up 15 hours talking about a web...

I think we need play-by-play from CNN Sport.

Another opportunity to use my extensive knowledge of porn! Actually vibrators and other sex toys can be easily and safely re-used so long as they are cleaned between uses. Glass toys are easiest to clean; they are simply boiled. Most other toys are cleaned with a bleach solution. Eric, you can...

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The Gregory Santilli Memorial Firefox Extension

My disdain come from two things: 1. itunes, which is awful and 2. The fact that iPods are essentially closed systems. You're carrying around 4GB or 60GB or whatever and you can't use the goddamned things as disk drives. More generally I also think headphones are medieval torture devices, but...

Site with free online tests. No paying $15 for anyone.

Nice to see mubs again. Hiya mubs! When one of my brothers gave me an ipod, I sold it about three days later. Stereodude's MobiBlu would be a really interesting device if it came in a 4GB capacity. Were I a portable music sort of person, I think I'd want to be able to carry around enough music...

One of the things I impress on all my students is that good marketing is not the same thing as high quality. The example I almost always use to demonstrate this is S*ny. Almost everyone I teach knows someone who has been through two or three Playstations, or has had a S*ny DVD player that...

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If apt is something you really want, you can bolt it on to just about any major distro. My SuSE machines have apt repositories set up. I've only seen Linspire (on a genuine Walmart PC, naturally), but it didn't look particularly different from any other Linux system. So I'm not entirely sure...

time, do you have a copy of spinrite? Do you need one? ;)

Many timez over gratz to Tea and to Tannin, who are always useful. Or at least interesting. Or, at really least entertaining. Or at really, really least completely, uselessly, pigheadedly wrong about the whole nvidia thing. Did we congratulate Bozo for his thousand posts yet?

I think the rational outcome on AMD's part will be a move to more reasonable pricing. I don't know if they'll do it but to me it looks like the logical way to go. One of the problems I have with AMD at the moment - OK, the ONLY problem I have is that there's a big unappealing gap between...

There is only one book in my stack of reading material ahead of American Theocracy. I knew I'd get to it eventually. :)

Do you have a Draytek at each end point or are you connecting to something else? Just curious, since I have no Draytek experience.

I build my own servers and I have enough parts to replace anything on them that breaks. About half the total number of PCs that I deal with as a contractor are IBM machines of one sort or another, but the rest is a mix of Dell, Compaq, Toshiba (notebooks) and Whiteboxes. I don't mind IBMs, but...

I kind of think that Dell exists to make Compaq and Gateway look good. And then I work for a while in a Compaq shop and I start longing for Dells again.

Let's not forget my other favorite Dell issue: The "We install a power supply that is rated for .1W more than the total component draw" issue. Nothing like finding a Mid-Tower case with room for two more hard disks and another optical drive, yet with a Prescott P4 and a 205W PSU. 205W?!? Even...

I'm rather enjoying only needing to run one air conditioner at the moment, actually. It can stay 65 degrees all year round.

The Vista Upgrade Advisor says my x2/4600, x850, 3GB system needs a better video card to be fully-Vista ready but that the right version of Vista for my needs is "Vista Home Basic Edition."

Another interesting change in SuSe.

I haven't tried 10.1 yet, but to be fair it is the first 100% free SuSe release. Apparently they've added yum-style updates to this release, which is really quite handy for users interested in trying out packages that aren't included with SuSe (e.g. MythTV). I'm not aware of anything else...

At least you can get Asus to give you an RMA...

You need to try a board swap. RAID1 is a bare minimum for important data these days. It's not like a 250GB drive is expensive any more. I'd also quote something like one or two 250 or 400GB USB drives that can be removed from the site and used in an alternating fashion to store backups. That's...

I'd like to point out that Tannin violated Tea's rules with his item #1: He's complaining about ATI drivers, which are by definition not hardware. Also, I have no idea what part of Catalyst drivers don't just work every time. :P Also, SiS isn't my favorite chipset, but the recent versions...

Open source works, time. That's why you can get a CPU-optimized version of a Moz-based browser and support for a modern web browser on platforms where none would be available. That's why bugs in Moz-based products are fixed within a few hours of being found. The Firefox extension API literally...

What is a $40 PC? Kind of related to Coug's recent topic, someone just asked me if I have an old PC I could sell for $40. I have several computers sitting around, from P5/166s to Celeron 300As to P3/800s, that might somehow be considered for that price range. The main problem I have with that...

I did not find out in time to get Will his payloa... I mean delivery. :(