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Someday, I will get to try Indian food. Someday. (singing) Make of our chai, one chai... Make of our curry, one curry... Make of our Kuhlfi one last Kulhi... Even the County Health inspector won't stop me now... Does anyone but me get that? Oh well.

For sure. When you're in the group in question, I don't think it's a big deal at all. And sometimes the jokes REALLY ARE funny. It's no fun to tell a joke like "Did you hear about (insert country)'s space program? The (insert ethnic plurality) plan to put a man on the Sun. Yup, the (insert...

Sadly, it looks like I might be working for an all-Dell shop in the near future. <heavy, heavy sarcasm> I am aquiver with delight. </end sarcasm>

It's kinda nice to watch the crap you've downloaded from the internet on your substantially larger TV screen.

I'm not a big fan of the Klipsch sound, either. Kef has some really nice full-range, retractable in-wall speakers. I'd avoid getting a sub. Hell, for whole-home audio you might do just as well with mono, as speaker placement for stereo is a bit of a pain, particularly if the room has other...

Pbbt. Actually, what ended up happening was that those of us who are introverts formed a group distinct from the main party. Personally, I did a lot of cleaning, food prep and general running around in between showing off the AV gear and MAME system. The distractions made things a lot easier to...

Anyone have a favorite tea? I've been drinking a peppermint tea with a little bit of milk and a couple drops of honey lately.

I'm sure I accomplished something, since I didn't get home until 4:00... Unfortunately, most of what I accomplished consisted of impressing on a large number of drunken gay women that I'd make a good girlfriend for someone if only there wasn't the obvious problem of my gender. It was a highly...

Funny you should mention that, Groltz... I had three cats growing up. I was the "cat person" in my family - two of them were strays I brought home, the other was willed to me by my great aunt (purebred Scottish Fold), who knew I love cats. Anyway, these cats were 6 to 8 years old when my family...

My favorite watch is a Boccia titanium model. It has a very elegant face is super-light. I own several fancy watches. I never wear any of them (I get them as gifts, usually), as wrist watches seem designed to punish typists. I'm not even sure where most of them ARE. But I like the Boccia.

Well, I'm about to be off to the first party I've been to in... well, if you don't count things that were entirely made up of relatives, my first party ever. I've met many of Amy and Kim's friends individually at one time or other, but there will be a lot of people I do not know. It has been...

I would have a serious rage issue if a vet did anything that caused any of my cats to suffer. I'm really sorry to hear about about your loss, CityK.

I buy lots of cables from cableconn.com. Don't know if they do rounded cables (never looked) but they've been wonderful for me over the last eight years. Plus they're in Ohio, and everything they ship me is next-day. :)

I use LiteOn. LiteOn drives have been very, very good to me. I see no reason to switch away.

Yes, but I have all the porno. And I have the empornium and puretna ratios to prove it. :D

Well, cable is my only choice for broadband, or I wouldn't have it, either. My cable picture sucks. HD pixellates a lot, which means my data stream is being corrupted somehow, and only maybe the 1st 20 NTSC channels on my box are clear enough that I would want to record anything off of them. The...

What's not to love about Showgirls? There are asses and there are boobs. Elizabeth Berkeley could stand around in a thong for 90 minutes, and it still would've been worth $7 to see it. Was there an R-rated recut? I saw the NC17 version in the theater (and had a glazed, happy grin the entire...

I think the more important issue is that everything that comes out of Hollywood seems to need a romantic sub-plot, even when it's unnecessary. Case in point: Batman Begins. Why the hell is Katie Holmes in that movie? However, I cannot lend support to anything that might lead to the display of...

I imagine that, even with the shipping to Finland, an EU$75 EPIA board + CPU from the USA would be cheapest and quietest option... And of course, I know you'll be doing Myth, which means Linux, which means no Soundstorm coolness. So there's no reason to specify an nvidia board, which is my...

Argh. Just when I have new employment prospects on the horizon!

What about a used A7N266 + some kind of lesser Tbred chip?

As I read your last post, I thought you had a PC in your living room. Whoops. OK, well, cheap and little HTPC. Let's see... What you'll be wanting is a Via C3. One of the newer ones that does hardware MPEG decoding (I think those are the 1GHz+ models). Board + CPU will run you about $80 in the...

Important thing to note, now that I've done it a few times: After the installation of an x2 processor on a machine with an existing Windows installation, Windows must be reinstalled before it will take advantage of the second processor. I feel like an idiot, 'cause I've had a few x2s running...

I periodically submit my information to Junkbusters, which really does reduce the amount of crap that ends up in my mailbox. I used to keep a covered garbage pail nailed to the same post with my mailbox. I'd sort my mail right at the box and clear it out every couple weeks when I set out my trash.

Actually... Tony, Buck, aren't you still stocking Socket A stuff? I don't technically have stock per se (I end up with spare hardware regardless), but my bargain-bin builds still end up on Biostar or Gigabyte socket A boards, since they are $15 - $20 cheaper than the 754 versions. Have you guys...

Ubuntu is Debian run by pragmatic individuals. My main complaint with Debian is that the people who run it care more about ideology than building a working Linux distro. Since Debian is Linux-by-committee, updates come at a snail's pace. Debian has one great thing going for it: apt. Apt is...

As you are doing RAID in software, as long as the drives in each RAID0 set are the same make and model, I think you'll be fine. Sometimes I mix and match IDE and SATA (say, Samsung 160GB drives which have both PATA and SATA versions, or Hitachi 7k250s) drives on Windows or Linux software RAID...

In places, Oz doesn't look much different from Indiana. I guess farms and open fields look the same everywhere. That surprises me, as I was expecting everything to look more like wimmera-9 or wimmera-12, a kind of landscape I don't think I've seen anyplace I've been in the USA.

Why not just put in a video card with a decent video out (something by ATI that'll do component out, maybe?) in your living room file server? You could do Myth and have a pretty nice setup, especially since the computer is there already. The nicer KISS players cost almost as much as a PC. That...

I have a 3 or 4MP Elph that I use for point and shoot. It autofocusses for crap, leading to either much futzing about trying to get the focus I want, or really awful, blurry pictures. I carry it in my tech bag and really only use it to photograph hardware for customers (so that, if they need...

I use one socket - Socket 754. Works great!

I don't understand why they can't have two testbeds. I realize there are high-end tests where they need PCI-X controllers and the goodies on that Xeon board, but that machine doesn't represent the kind of hardware that 99% of people use from day-to-day. I'm interested in performance on a vanilla...

Oh, I really don't see the point in these... For one thing, I'm utterly confused about which product is the mainstream - 754 or 939. Last I heard, 754 was the mainstream product, 939 was for "enthusiasts", but 754 is to be abandoned sooner or later. That's a mixed message all on its own. So...

I've used these antennae from Hawking a few times. They work great with Linksys and Apple APs and not at all with Netgeat or Dlink. I sold one to one of my students, whose needs were greater than anything I have ever wanted to use one for. I think he told me he was getting about a city block...

After all this time... And the computers I build, and Tony and Buck and time and ddrueding and whoever else here builds systems regularly - are still a better deal than Dell. :P

"Weeds" on Showtime is pretty good.

PBS.org has streaming Nova for free!

Whereever you work, are you hiring, Gilbo?

Hey everybody, look at this! For those too lazy to click, this asshole republican (but I repeat myself...) wants to reclassify sex scenes in movies and TV shows to match the same criteria as actual, explicit adult films. In other words, movies and TV shows with love scenes - even ones where...

#1 - #3 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly #4 - Futurama #5 - Cracker (British version) #6 - Nova #7 - The Shield #8 - Carnivale #9 - The Sopranos #10 - Deadwood Honorable Mention: Millenium, Batman: the Animated Series, X-Files, The Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus Starting at...

Weren't the 200 and 250GB drives vapor for almost a year after their paper launch?

Inexpensive = $500. And for headphones. Ugh.

That is correct. There are only 13 (or 14. Whichever) episodes.

It helps if you've seen the TV show. I'll mail you a set of discs. :D

I've looked into social bookmarking. It bothered me for some reason. Wasn't something I felt comfortable doing. Which probably just proves that I'm anti-social. I make use of RSS feeds (I just use live bookmarks in Firefox) from slashdot.org, Google news, fark.com (always a good way to waste a...

I am under the impression that it's a driver one needs to load.

The Chenming case is nice. I have a few of them. They're fairly well insulated and they are easy to work on. With a supermicro SATA enclosure, I would only attach one set of rails - two sets made removing the enclosure REALLY hard. I do wish they had a few more 3.5" bays, and I'm not a big fan...

14 people looked at this? And no one else answered? OK... There's three sets of rules that govern file-level security on Window. Rule 1. Share-level security is additive unless there's a "Deny". A user's permissions for a file share are the Most Permissive possible. If the Everyone Group...

mubs, it's a very good movie, but you'll miss a lot if you don't watch the TV series first. When can I send you the DVDs?

I have TERRIBLE problems with getting my apartment's address verified. I don't know why. Standard procedure is for an order to my address to be denied, and to get a note asking that I call so-and-so in Customer Service, who will then verify my address again, have my card declined while I'm on...