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Actually, leaving the Indexing service on might well be one of the niftier things you can do with Server 2003. There's a pretty simple recipe for using the Indexing Service + IIS to make super-fast (Google-fast?) searches against the files on your computer. You have to write custom web page to...

You could always take up scientific computing as a hobby. Never know when you'll need to simulate air currents in a hurricane or all the molecules in a nuclear explosion.

I started learning with a short list of commands and a general idea of things I wanted to do. I started learning on the command line though and I'm still most comfortable there. Stay out of the GUI when you're learning. Stay out of the config tool (linuxconf, Yast etc). Set a goal (I want to...

In the past, the "noname" hard disks at CompUSA have been Maxtors, but who can really tell in this case.

I tell any and all of my students, in every class I teach, to ditch Norton or McAfee for AVG. I do this without any reservation. It works better and doesn't try to be some kind of extension to the OS. I got tired of bitching out home users who can't be bothered to whip out a credit card once a...

Apple has absolutely nothing to gain from doing that. They sell hardware - and make money doing so. Their OS works WELL with that specific hardware. Apple can't possibly support the billion and one possible configurations of beige box in the world. Supporting OSX on non-Apple hardware would, I...

Been there, done that. Maybe because I'm more often dealing with corporate versions of the poxy Symantec Malware? I hardly ever see "Norton" Antivirus, but I support Symantec AV Corporate several places (which, oddly enough is not usually the problem), and of course I hand out Ghost licenses...

The Norton Removal tools never work. N E V E R. I've tried them dozens of times for dozens of different products, and each time I've had to do the manual removal. Anyway, tell your customer to sit down, shut up and install something decent like ZoneAlarm if he has to have a Nonstandard Firewall...

Those town-hall things are usually filled with pre-screened republican zombies. No surprise they booed him - there wasn't a single other person there capable of thinking for him or herself. Anyway, todays reason I think George Bush should be removed from office and then voted out of humanity is...

Geeks make better lovers. It's a fluffy piece, but it's something we've known all along. :D

It should come as no surprise, but I'm going to say it anyway: I believe that it is actually unethical to install Norton Internet Security. I've run across spyware/malware programs that have more useful functionality and aren't so difficult to remove. As an IT professional, you should be...

I'd say you ought to know better than to install that piece of shit, but someone is probably holding a large-caliber handgun to your head while you do it, or it's part of some unpleasant gang initiation ritual or something, right? Anyway, you need to start all over again. That means finding the...

You guys missed a wonderful chance to get the best sound card ever made. :(

I wouldn't trust a case/PSU under about $35. Not only because of unfinished edges, but also the possibility of bending the whole back of the case while installing the I/O plate or just bending one site to the point that devices can't be installed or covers can't be put back on without Buck's...

Most of the portable DVD players I've seen use a laptop-type DVD mechanism; they're basically the same thing on that count. On the other hand, the laptop will be heavier and therefore harder to move.

Always wanted to read Shogun. I've never found a copy at a time when I was looking for something to read. I just finished several science fiction novels by Elizabeth Bear that I enjoyed very much.

Bush given stern lecture at Town Hall forum. This guy is my new hero.

Bought it. Haven't read it yet.

We tried that in the 70s. Everyone ignored it. I know of at least one sign on I-74 just outside the little town where I grew up that says "Peoria: 100 kilometers" (not km, mind you, kilometers).

If you check Tea's IP, you'll find that she's posting from sub-Saharan Latvia.

I have a Logitech Ultra X-2 Keyboard that I've become quite fond of. This is a keyboard that uses a laptop-like key mechanism with plastic buckles beneath the keys. The other night, my 13lb. male cat decided to dive-bomb this poor keyboard, landing squarely on a couple of the keys (b and n)...

Anyone have any thoughts on these budget PCIe cards? The choices I see are: GF6200 ($35), X300SE ($45), GF6500 ($45), X550 ($50), GF7300GS ($70), and x1300 ($75). $75 being my limit for a low-end card. I'm not doing the building here, so I included the nvidia "options". ;)

Er... just so I know: were the wires on the USB connector weird colors or was there any indication on the board itself? I've found off-brand boards that used an odd USB connector before and stopped from attaching "standard" front USB to them because the +5V (normally red) wire didn't match the...

We stopped measuring stock prices in eighths about five years ago. :P

What's the equivalent GPU to the onboard video on an nvidia 6150-based board?

It may have already passed for some folk, but sometime very soon it will be 1:02.03AM on April 5th of '06. Unless you're in Europe, where the neatness of that date won't happen until May 4th.

Of course, Coug is still talking about a Via-based platform. "Cheaper" they may be, both ATI and nvidia chipsets are both out of the realm of the truly low-end machine.

On the other hand, he's posting on topic.

Doesn't do much good when the only PC available is in pieces in front of you.

Vista seems to take steps along those lines. I have no idea whether it actually works or not.

Just what we wanted to read on this subject.

I'm not the person who started the work. I'm the person who finished it.

Humor me, o new guy. The first few things I see suggest that top-end Celerons might be a reasonable alternative to top-end Semprons, but that's not what we're talking about here. Are you suggesting that there's some critical difference in the mainboard chipset for the Celeron over the Sempron...

Care to back up that well reasoned and insightful opinion?

I just spent an hour and a half replacing the system fan in an Inspiron 8200. Every single other component in the system had to come out to replace a part that probably cost $2.00. The sad thing is, I had the old fan completely off and out of the system in about 10 minutes. I spent the rest of...

There's no question in my mind that the Sempron is the way to go. Tannin's already covered the "why" pretty well, but as I believe I've said before, the $300 AMD machine you're talking about really isn't a bad computer anyway. What can you complain about, besides not having some massive amount...

OK, topic #2: Keyboard/Mouse Schmutz. I'm far from blameless on this one. If I'm gaming my hands sweat a little and grey funk builds up on my trackball. However, I clean mine at least once a week. However... Does anyone know how to prevent that stuff from building up in the first place...

I don't know. I think it's pretty damned funny. At least you got them to send you something. I had no idea that you need to be a Dell Certified so-and-so to flip a rocker on the back of a PSU.

You're only just finding that out? The best you can really hope for is to find that certain computers suck less. :D

It's something we've discussed before. :) The 18 year old officially has a crush on me. :cry:

Actually I'll bet e_dawg is an outgoing guy. Probably none of the rest of you, though. ;)

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DriverPacks look kinda interesting.

http://www.google.com/romance/

Man, there's not an extrovert among us here at SF, but dd seems to seek chemical comfort quite often. He's got all the same massive numbers of entertainment options as many of the rest of us (more, since he has actual friends, apparently). Seems like he wouldn't need the company of a bottle when...

It is. You need to enable large disk support in the registry or work from a Windows install disc that has XPSP2 or 2000SP4 already integrated.

"...if the state starts paying for contraceptives we will have more babies than if we just teach people to not expect free prostitution from poor people. " -- Missouri State Congresscritter Cynthia Davis

Sol, standard vacuum cleaners have brushes that spin and contact with each other. In other words, they generate static as part of normal operation. As a background to my previous comment, I'd like to add that I have a rather extreme allergy to common dust. I've worked in manufacturing...

Samsung's got a pretty nice phone in the same space. It has built in 802.11 and a fairly impressive camera builtin, but the battery life is crappy. The more interesting issue is, how would you really use it in a car? Aren't front-seat mounts for those things illegal?

Off topic to anything but holy crap is the April Fools version of Slashdot.org hilarious. Go for what? She's still in high school. I don't see anything wrong with talking to her about depression and anxiety or how crappy antidepressants are, or computers - she wants to grow up to be a geek...