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A tiny bit of research shows that Photoshop will run under WINE. mubs, you'd probably want to get the Codeweavers Crossover Office product (comes with the commercial version of SuSE); it's substantially more polished than messing around with plain-old-WINE.

Laugh all you want. I happen to think I needed those ears.

I'm not sure why you'd bother with keeping a Virtual machine up to date, if you're just using it to run one particular program. Nor do I see of an appreciable difference between various versions of Photoshop; I'd install a full copy of Photoshop 6 (which seems to do everything newer versions do)...

I saw the woot deal. My favorite recent woot was the $15 Powerline Network adaptor set. I've bought PowerLine/Ethernet bridges before that were $50 apiece, but I got six Logitech ones for $50. Score! Anyway, I got a whole bunch of different toys to play with, and I haven't really looked at all...

Man, I'm going to want to dump a bunch of 250GB drives soon. Anyone up for trading 40s and 80s for 250s?

Here's the direct link. You're obviously not going to get anywhere unless you're logged in. I originally registered using my role as Technology Director for my training company. I went back and re-registered, basically indicating my interests as an IT Service Contractor, which include things...

Yay I found it! Well, OK. 4x750GB (if I get one from Clocker) will be very useful to my future plans for high definition pr0n storage. <Mr. Burns> Excellent. </Mr. Burns>

As if I wouldn't want 750GB of extra disk space! Even if it is Seagate. I signed up for the Seagate thing and I'm not seeing the special offers, either so name your price, Clocker.

I'd evaluate SuSE and Ubuntu for a target platform. And I wouldn't discount a Mac, either. You upgrade infrequently enough that it might be a better option. For the most part, the Linux equivalents of Windows programs are 3 years or so behind in terms of features. On the other hand, a 6GB...

They may *think* they have a Windows license. In reality, unless they have a retail CD, they almost certainly don't. OEM Windows discs (sold with brand-name PCs and the "cheap copies" available at computer stores) are mated to a particular motherboard basically forever, once activated. At least...

It never played here at all. :(

There are services that do this already, though I can't name one specifically. Basically, you have to send an e-mail or visit a page every 10 days or once a month, and if you don't do, the service will kick off pre-written e-mails for you. Eric, seriously, is there something going on in your...

I asked Handy about it earlier in the day; short version is, yes, there are issues with SF's hosting right now.

I bought the Draft-N device, but looking around, I've got quite a few spare APs, range extenders and routers. I'm going to try to see whether I can make a blanket of 2.4GHz coverage with the stuff I've got. Maybe take a channel back that way.

What brand and how much did you pay? I'm excited. One of my customers is ditching their Toshiba POS notebooks for T60s. I'm hoping I can get them to hold off long enough to deliver something with a Merom chip.

... and just to contine to stress a point: I've never seen data transmission rates improve after a downward negotiation (e.g. V.90 to V.34 speeds then back up to V.90 again) on a PCI piece of shit. I have seen external serial modems do this.

I'd like to have 10. :D My current upgrade strategy is to move to two powerful fileservers to replace the five I have now. I'm thinking Core 2 Duos or maybe X2s , 4GB RAM. I'm going to move my storage to SATA enclosures. The rackmount chassis I have now aren't designed for hotswap drives...

Yup. Back when SR had a Counterstrike forum, I'd read it just to find out what kind of weird crap Clocker would post after a night of drinking.

Modems are slow. This is a statement of such pure obviousness as "Water is Wet" and "Fire is hot." I really don't care what infirmities or life activities your friend has, Santilli. They are not relevant to the fundamental question of what to do about a supposedly slower-than-normal modem...

That's actually tempting. Thanks C.

Thank you A.D. Let me know if you'd like to see the more complete document.

Some dickweed has finally gotten around to making a malware trojan that looks like a Firefox extension, too. This is the REAL extension And here's the story about the malware. Note that the initial infection does not come from Firefox but from a standard-issue trojan download.

Clocker used to PUI quite frequently. And CSUI as well.

I'd consider it for the right price, MaxBurn.

ISDN works fine. It's faster than dialup and available EVERYWHERE, until cable and DSL. In Chicago, ISDN is billed just like local calls - a certain fee based on the distance between exchanges, usually $.02 a minute or so. That doesn't strike me as unreasonable. I will admit that dealing with a...

I hate Lucent-based Winmodems worse than other kinds, but any modem is going to work. 1. 5kb/sec (40000 bits per second) is a very fast modem connection. 2. Your friend should stop fucking complaining. 3. Very likely, no WinModem will improve on that speed. 4. A real exteneral serial modem...

Yes. I work for a company with six employees, total.

My living room has several fake trees and a lot of very real river rocks in it (around the trees). My office, I just don't care that much. 95% of the time if I'm in there, I'm looking at a monitor. As far as pictures... I am really, really lame. If hanging something up requires more than a nail...

That's what I was hoping the silver polish would do.

Silver polish did not appreciably change the appearance of the major scratch, but it did help with a lighter one (barely visible in the photo), and it also did a wonderful job cleaning fingerprints and other crud off the plastic. It absolutely didn't hurt anything. I'm going to try a couple...

Here's some pictures of my messy, messy office. Because I have a camera. And I'm bored. Yes, I do manage to do work in this space. Bare hardware visible (stuff not in bags or boxes) is mostly dead or too old to be useful. There are several brown boxes from Newegg in the picture and quite a...

The bad scratch is about 6 inches long and is visible from 10 feet away. It's also visible when the display is actually on. It's a bad scratch. I shall take a picture.

Well... a long and arduous googling leads me to believe that I might be able to repair the scratches with silver polish. Meh. May as well try; the screen is already ruined anyway.

Tannin, that's such a marginal increase in processing power, there's no way it's worthwhile. There's not going to be any subjective difference for paugie. He's got something that works right now, and it's very possible that the vendor could be pulling a fast one on him somehow (remarked chip...

Not worth the effort. :(

I very seldom get to build "high end" systems other than my own. I normally look at Gigabyte's offerings first. I generally only proceed from there if there is some feature or set of features that is not available on a Gigabyte product.

Someone brought me a really nice 19" Dell LCD today that has a couple giant scratches down the front. Their toddler got caught in the cord or something and I guess it went for a little ride off a desk and over some legos or something. There's nothing wrong with the monitor other than the...

My take is that if you're on a new-ish processor, you're almost always going to get better performance than on an old one. You're fretting about a performance differential that's probably going to be too minute to notice, and you're worrying about performance on a top-end chip at that. The...

Apparently Intel is ending its use of ATI-integrated GPUs in its higher-end integrated motherboards but will continue to support Crossfire. Did anyone not see that coming?

Yay! I can officially cut WAY back on the number of PCs I own. I'm going from 14 to eight, including two notebooks. X2s + gobs of RAM + VMware means I don't need half my computers any more.

Handy, I'd be in a homocidal rage if someone made me move all my crap and then said "Oops!" The fact that they yet live and you're still a free man is testament to your restraint. Heat in California: Over the weekend, Yahoo's IM authentication servers and all of Myspace.com died because the...

It's official: $5.4 Billion for ATI.

I don't know of a motherboard manufacturer that offers advance RMA.

Kapersky

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/amd_atitech.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest

IIRC the custom dyndns sites are not free though. I miss my donkey.

There are 3 sticks of RAM, right? So pull two of them and go do whatever makes the PC lock up.

Stop overclocking. Stop overclocking. Stop overclocking. Pull some RAM out. See if anything changes. Run 3 cycles of 512MB to see if anything changes. Make sure the fan on the 9700 is spinning. Make sure the voltages on his PSU are close to normal. You might want to do that with a VMM; I've...

I think the big deal with the 590 chipset is Official nVidia support for overclocking when you use certain officially certified memory modules. 'Cause nVidia knows all about making things overheat. Glad they're finally doing something with that. I'm giving some serious thought to replacing...