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My first-ever programming job was done in a tiny, underventilated, uninsulated office above a heavy equipment garage. Carbon Monoxide and diesel fumes usually had me completely loopy by about 10:00AM. So I know of what you speak, i.

The place where I work is on this absolutely beautiful, natural forest campus with a southern exposure. It's fall and it's really pretty outside, but except at lunch time, or unless I go hang out in someone else's office, I don't get to see it. It's not uncommon for me to find out that there've...

I don't like Windows 98. Or Windows XP. Or Windows on computer cases. But I wish my office had a Window or two. Does that count?

Glad timwhit said it, so I didn't have to. ;)

I suggested that case to LunarMist a month or so ago. I've never seen a *bad* Lian Li case, but then, I've never wanted to pay for one, either. Have you looked at what SuperMicro has to offer? Something like an SC742 with an extra 5-in-3 bay?

Western Digital is also responsible for the failure of Democracy in Afghanistan. See how easy it is? Honestly, though, you got one bad card. I don't think that's a reason to indict the whole brand. It's not like my had-more-drives-fail-than-actually-owned-in-a-single-year experience with WD.

I'd blame Western Digital. But that's just me.

I think there are more bad things than that. But of course, that's Tea's list, and Sock Puppets presumably have a very limited idea of "bad", unless they've been spending too much time with DrunkenBastard.

Maxblast doesn't work with drives attached to RAID controllers. In fact, if you go read the thread in the Tools forum, there's a LOT of things that make Maxblast not work right. You'll have to move your drive to one of the native, motherboard-controlled IDE channels. As a general rule, you...

So, you want to write to an NTFS volume under Linux? That doesn't work. Well, OK, there are tricks you can do, but in general, it's discouraged because Linux doesn't grok NTFS security descriptors and therefore might be screwing something important up while it's writing to the drive. That would...

Eric's typing always goes to pot when he's stressed. We had a thread about that a long time ago.

I really liked my Canon G-series cameras as well. As far as CF, the main issues I see are that it is the best-supported flash format. Innovations and high capacities happen in the CF realm first, then funnel down to all the stupid formats, probably because the of the demands of the pros and...

Couple years ago I bought a Dell 2.4GHz, 533MHZ fsb P4 (it was $100, shipped, with a monitor). It was slow when I got it. So I added RAM. 512MB + the 256MB it started with. Then I switched up the hard disk to something 7200rpm (as I recall, there was a 5400rpm drive in it to start). Still slow...

I had the opportunity, yesterday, to work on a Dell XPS laptop. Two inches thick and 10lbs. if an ounce, unusually dim screen for a Dell, it was the hottest and loudest notebook I've ever seen. Oh, and no modular features, either. For the life of me I can't see the point in something like that...

Yet another reason I wish I could get out of this country.

The book industry is pretty down on Amazon for that idea, too, especially in the EU.

Sure I am. You search. You find relevant references. Ta-Da! You have taken something - arguably something covered by fair use - that ordinarily would've required a physical copy of a book and therefore a sale of that book.

Dynamic volumes are bootable, sechs. The Windows installer does not create dynamic disks at install time, and diskpart.exe/Disk Management doesn't allow the change of the system volume once Windows is running. But if you partition and format a dynamic volume on another machine, Windows can...

It's very hard to make money as a writer, especially if you write for a living. Google Print is, in effect disassociating or anonymizing authorship from the written word (do you look at the copyright on anything else you get off the web?). In that kind of environment, it's hard to maintain...

President Shrub tells The Onion to stop making fun of him..

Tannin, you could get away with a Shuttle box. That's in your weight range. At that point, you aren't even talking about a notebook any more.

PowerDVD is pretty much give away software. Almost no one needs the full version. Most people just want to be able to watch DVDs in their computer. The other stuff basically replicates what Nero does (version 7 just came out), but again, most people don't need most of those tools. I'd pass...

... also a huge and very nice Thermalright Heatsink that somehow didn't make my list before. ;)

The waste tray on the Phaser is part of a maintenence kit you're supposed to buy every 50k pages. There's a new tray and a couple sets of replacement rollers in the kit. The kits aren't cheap, but the kits are worthwhile for the new rollers regardless. Your printer has a page counter that says...

On the other hand, I'm still stunned at how well and how easily this all came together. A month ago, I sent out PMs and Emails to everyone I could track down. The generosity and the leap of faith everyone took to get cash or donated hardware so that this project could move forward was simply...

Start the recovery console from your Windows install CD and run fixboot and fixmbr.

Episode IV as an animated .GIF

I don't like talking or even thinking about it, Vlad. In that situation, I was literally powerless to help, since I did not know any where to take them and I did not know my pets' lives were in danger until after the fact. I don't know what was said to the vet who euthanised my cats; I can only...

We must've been watching two different shows. They've got the self-important O'Reilley/Hannity/Savage talking head thing down pat. The "Gravitas Face-Off" with the DateLine anchor was a riot. Here's links to this week's episodes.

Over 15?!? I've only counted 7. Man, I guess those level 2 guys really know their stuff.

Has anyone managed to catch "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central? Why is the only decent news on TV coming from the comedy channel?

OK, a more serious response. Laptops are absolutely not one-size-fits-all, and my needs and Tannin's are vastly different. But here's my list of features. 1. Mass. As little of it as is possible for full functionality. I can't understand people who buy six or eight pound notebooks at all. Buy...

Perfect women are luggable?!?

I browse Slashdot at -1. I've picked up I don't know how much weird tech knowledge in STRANGE places there, so I try to look at everything when I read a thread. Some of the Slashdot trolls are really creative and funny, too.

Nonetheless, that is the case. I'm sure there are parts that overlap, but the laptops are indeed made by different companies. Inspirons are made by the same company that makes most Gateway and HP vomitbooks.

Asus notebooks look like a pretty good deal. They can be customized in much the same way as a desktop and have nicer chassis than your typical vomit-book. I have no idea how durable they are, how hot they get or whether their service is worth a handfull of spit.

They aren't even close, and a cursory examination of even the chassis is quite enlightening in that regard. Latitudes are manufactured to MUCH higher standards and have Latitude-standard parts across the product line. Inspiron = Vomit box. Lunar, have you looked at IBM X-series models?

A lexicon of words coined by the writers of "The Simpsons".. Some of these really have entered common usage. I've heard non-geeks say "anyhoo" and "cromulent", for instance.

IBM T-series, but they are kinda expensive.

Latitudes are better than many other options (Compaq, HP, S*ny, Toshiba), not as good as others (IBM). Inspirons are a reason to slide headfirst down a razor blade into a bucket of iodine.

It'd be different if there were another option. There isn't. All the printer companies are in on this. Sadly, the world still runs on paper.

They're about $250 in the US. No savings to be had there!

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I need to make changes to my company's DNS records like NOW and Dotster's been down all day for me. Can anyone get to it or is it just my problem?

I'm not familiar with the R-series, but IIRC the Ultrabay drives are a slightly different shape from a standard slimline drive.

I think we can forgive you, as the pontificating performed in your previous post seems particularly perceptive. Personally, I didn't go to a party to meet anyone. I went to a party because my friends impressed on me that my company and my help would be appreciated. Fortunately, my chosen role...

Printers and scanners pretty much all do this sort of thing for anti-counterfeiting measures. I'm not too happy about the idea, but I doubt any company is out there saying "no, we won't help out the FBI/US Treasury Dept./whatever." either. I guess if you could find on the RGB values of whatever...

I can't think of a good way to make auto-logon work without rebooting the PC.

In my family, being seen without a watch is indication that you don't have one. So someone gives you another one...

Pepsi with Lime is really good, but I don't like the diet version. Actually, I don't like most diet sodas, but caffeine-free diets I don't usually mind.