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Microcenter is like Disneyworld, but the employees can have facial hair!

Newegg's search has behaved oddly since last major site redesign. Right now, you're almost always better off searching for manufacturer than a product ID or specific set of features. Yup, that's what I'm objecting to. Their standard of packaging doesn't do a whole lot to protect the front and...

Oh my, how that helped. I made this in about five minutes, which is much better than the 40 minutes I probably would've spent screwing around with image placement.

There's nothing wrong with the Samsung 250GB drives, but if you're thinking of buying hard disks from Newegg, be advised that sometimes their packing for drives isn't the best in the word. It's better when you buy five or ten drives at a time, because then tend to pack them better (usually in...

I know of no useful function for SMS texting, but Google will send one for you for free. I guess that's kind of cool. And also, Handbrake, a pretty neat-looking DVD Shrinking and Recoding App (supports H.264) has been ported from its Mac-y original to Windows. It doesn't support deCSSing, so...

Works great! Thanks, Will.

Wow. The second-ever useful .NET app!

My life would be much easier if I could find a tool that de-suckifies Word-created HTML pages. I know such tools exist, and I don't particularly care what OS those tools need, but my searches so far have just turned up tools that remove private information from .doc files. Anyone know what I'm...

That is in my opinion a very twisted view of reality. Public schoolteachers aren't just teachers any more. They also have to be babysitters. They are sometimes put in the position of having to teach manners and behavioral lessons that should've been learned at home or in a pre-school. They have...

Because some of the extensions do great and worthwhile things. Some of them fall into the category of "Why doesn't everyone use that?" Perfect example: Linky Linky lets you select a whole bunch of links at once, right click and open them all in tabs. So simple it blows my mind, but amazingly...

The first tool that springs to mind is the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

Coug, I completely, utterly don't care how fast those drives are. They're fast enough. If I wanted fast, I'd buy x15s. I don't. I want capacity from a brand I trust. I don't trust WD. I don't trust Maxtor. I don't trust Seagate. I only access those drives through a network connection anyway. The...

DDR400 in the game machine. I'm not sure about the HTserver. I haven't rebooted it since I put it in. The x2s are sub-optimal because neither model I own is really in the "best bang for the buck" category. I wasn't really planning to spend as much as I did to get a 4400, but I wanted an x2 so...

Just to update a little. 'Cause Coug reminded me to do it. Also, "Pokey" now has a GA-7S748L instead of an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe. I have another x2/4200 sitting here. I'm trying to decide if I want to order some kind of nforce4, since I no longer have an nforce2 (for maintaining disk images), or...

Each file server has two arrays, a "live" RAID5 array, and an array that stores the daily backup for one of the others (which is soft-RAID0, which I realize is a risk, but no moreso than making a JBOD, which was my other choice for 2-disk high capacity RAID...). Those machines each have a...

How does it feel to be part of the problem?

I thought the congressional pay issue was widely known. Get elected to the US House for a couple years and you never have to work again, even if you're too lazy to be a lobbyist. Anyway, the way I feel about George can't be summed up in an online forum without me getting a visit from the Secret...

Thanks for picking up on those things, everyone. I'm starting to HTMLize it now as well.

They can get warm, but not dangerously so. I don't keep much else in my closets. Some boxes of comic books and the small amount of stuff that goes on hangers. My "computer room" is air conditioned year round, but that's more to keep ensure that it gets no hotter than room temperature in there.

Aw, I'm not really arguing about the cost. More the fact that some awful retailer wrangled you into buying WD.

Some of my cases are eight or nine years old. I COULD buy shoeboxes, but I kind of like being able to upgrade whenever I feel like it. I might feel differently if I were forced into a BTX upgrade the day after tomorrow or something, but we all know that's not going to happen. I'm also not too...

The woman will be too busy with all the nonstop orgasms I will give her to notice my crappy old cars or state of housekeeping.

Owning more than one pair of sheets is a sure sign that one is no longer a bachelor.

It's Mozilla with some extra letters. Maybe Tea just likes seeing more Monkeys in software.

I'll settle for the woman.

I used to hang my Tshirts, but the closets in my apartment are kind of small, and I put computers in them, so I don't have as much hanging space as I used to. My ex- bought me a couple hanging organizers to keep my shirts in. So for the last few months I've been trying to learn to properly fold...

It will when you finish translating it. :D

Turnabout is fair play. :P Actually, little crap like that is exactly why I asked for help with proofing. I habitually turn of spelling and grammar checkers, and that's the sort of thing I might miss, just from being overly familiar with the text. Wow, yours might actually be dumber than mine...

My instructions for dealing with Spyware. I just spent some time updating this long document to better suit its audience - people who are frightened and confused by anything but exact directions. This is a 1.5MB download, approximately. Anyone who wants to look at it, either for factual...

OK... Why not buy the drive and, I dunno, leave it in one place?

Why not buy a 3.5" drive in a USB enclosure? You'd have a better choice of manufacturers and more reliability if you went that route, and you wouldn't have to lower yourself to owning Western Digital-anything. Are you carrying this extra drive around?

Ground loop?

IISAdmin probably relies on specific IE-related .DLL files to operate. Just about everything that uses Microsoft Management consoles does. I'll bet TweakXP modifies or uses incompatible versions of those files.

It doesn't require IE. I viewed my link and Groltz's link, and the associated videos, in Firefox 1.07 - a proper browser, mind you - without any difficulty at all. I don't even have any media-playing extensions installed on this machine. Tannin, you can be happy that you got to use Opera's only...

I'm just full of techie goodness today!

What goes in a 5.25" bay besides DVD Burners or 3.5" hard disks with spacers or fan enclosures?

One think I have to say: I really dislike the fact that pretty much every ATI x1x00 card seems to need active cooling (er, of the models I have seen). I think that's a serious flaw from a reliability standpoint. mubs says he's not a gamer, but the Avivo featureset might be appealing. I think...

Seems like a useful tool to me.

I don't use an Administrator-level account when I'm using Windows in the first place.

Browsing the web and reading email safely with the administrator account under Windows

time is also a David. We also have a rather large number of folk who could be called Bill, IIRC. I think we have 5 of those. Be glad he didn't say "Bill"

Who are you and what have you done with P5?

As if there weren't already enough good reasons to hate Blizzard. For the record, the group I play City of Heroes/Villains is about 1/3 gay folks, we're known as "gay friendly", just like the group Blizzard banned in WoW.

Buy now and we'll upgrade the shipping on your first two RMAs to next-day air!

Yes.

PM me if you can't get to the torrent.

I suspect it's because a lot of web sites were designed by people whose heads are still up their print-publishing asses.

Yes.

As it happens, I tend to agree that Jakob Neilsen's ideas are essentially full of shit. At one time his design guidelines included having an introductory logo or image as the front page of any web site, which explains those 2MB Flash intro screens on every Taiwanese semiconductor firms' web...

Fixed width is bad. If you've ever used housecall.antivirus.com from "Safe Mode with Networking", you'll understand.