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I think that the cars are not selling well.

Yup. There was an article in Purdue's school paper about that guy every single year I was there.

Groltz, we really do miss you when you aren't here. Congratulations on 1000.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I...

Speaking of "Busted"... (maybe not safe for work if hot geek Everquest-playin' chicks in purple bikinis are not safe for work. But it's probably OK to read the article, which is what I linked to)

Lack of performance, but astonishing battery life. I've heard of OS9 Macs getting 10 hours out of a single charge when they run everything out of a RAMdrive. Sometimes the trade-off is worth it.

Wrapping a .JPG inside a Word document would be soooo funny. But really, all it would do is shift your name to the bottom of whatever pile they have. I hate to say it, but in the current job market, not going along with their petty, bullshit rules is just going to make everything harder for you.

I'm personally fond of the 12 year old boy who realized he could make real-life money by being a (female) Simwhore in the Sims Online. Enterprising little tyke. Of course, a lot of these stories came to attention of the general public because of a site that IIRC was called "The Alphaville...

Er, has there been a time when Seagate wasn't the biggest drive manufacturer? Ever? It certainly has been for as long as I can remember.

Moulin Rouge is quite possibily the most unwatchable movie I've ever seen roughly three minutes of. 1. Behavior of players in WoW tends to be highly anti-social. Someone gets to a high level and gets bored, so he wanders into the lowbie areas and starts killing all the Non Player Characters he...

In the past, rather than make a .DOC file, I'd send a .HTML file renamed .DOC. Not that that addresses any of your concerns. In my experience everyone wants .DOC (really, really funny when they want it for a pure Unix job) or plain text. In either case, the agency in question is going to run...

They won't take back laser printers if you've used any of the included toner, even within the 30 day period.

I can't say I've ever needed Hydravision for anything. The basic ATI driver does two monitors just fine on its own.

I can't understand why anyone plays WoW. Everyone looks the same. That's just so... blah.

I don't know about that. The US is very much an anti-consumer place. If you've noticed, recent HP inkjet printers (yes, Tannin, we know) have started coming with extra-dinky cartridges. Why? Because California, one of the only decent places in the United States of Crap, made it illegal to...

I had a very bad experience with BenQ CD Burners. I can't believe they make things that people call "good" these days.

On linux systems I just check my mail directly on my mail server with elm. I have no idea what your definition of a lightweight mail client is, but it does everything I want - it can send and receive e-mail, has a worthwhile and useful editor (vi) and can search messages VERY quickly. It takes...

If you want to go way, way back, NCSA Mosaic was probably a better browser than pre-1.0 or 1.0 versions of Netscape. Thing was, it was slower, since it only made one HTTP request at a time. But in terms of stability I distinctly recall it being the better browser. And don't go hatin' on lynx...

Well, sure, if you're doing one-off purchases. Personally I'm looking at it as credit terms from a distributor, though. My local distributor - the guy I buy cases from, basically - gives me 30 days to cough up cash. I come, pick up a half-pallet of computer cases, sell them as computer systems...

The funny thing to me is, my father has a customer in Richmond. When I was in high school I used to go with him to visit that customer from time to time, and then we'd hit museums in Washington DC... Anyway, the area around Richmond is quite well off. I'm not saying there aren't poor people...

Tannin's got the right idea. Sysprep would in fact wipe out all the currently installed hardware and force a re-detection, but I have no idea whether or not that would actually fix things in this case. It kind of sounds like there's an honest to goodness software conflict there. I've found...

I cannot believe some of the companies that got hit by the latest round of stupidity. I was talking to someone I used to work for at Honeywell (in a branch that does IT support contracting), and apparently all THEIR computers were killed as well - the whole company. Gotta wonder how useful a...

So I'm a Newegg junkie. I make about 20 orders a MONTH from Newegg.com on average. I pretty much buy everything but cases and motherboards there. A while back I decided that I don't like the current "updated" version of the site, so I bookmarked the old version. I've been using that the last...

Is AAM turned on?

I've had customers like that a time or two myself. I don't mind so much when they're MY customers, but at my trainer job, where I'm part tech, part network administrator, trainer, copy-editor for business communication and the all-round only competent person, some people really do just drive me...

Lately I've used Tyan, Gigabyte and Intel and I liked them all just fine. Usually Intel on Intel gives me a nice warm fuzzy, but as I've said in a couple other threads, Gigabyte has been so good to me in the past that I actually feel guilty for my customers when I *don't* use their boards.

I just paid $33 to put 12 gallons of gas in my car.

Meh. The parents will learn. About the time little Billy down the street needs to be fed through a tube for three or six months. Sorry. I'm pretty anti-kid.

Amendment: Anyone who permanently attaches a light inside a computer case no longer counts as a human being. Happy?

Look at it this way, Groltz: I know from my time living in BFE Cornfield, Illinois, that parents who buy kids things with little engine keep buying them things with bigger and bigger engines. About the time they are 10 or 12, the culling begins. They ride out in the street and lose fights with...

I don't think that anyone who puts a light inside a computer case should count as a human being any more.

What's wrong with an Intel board? I mean, other than the fact that they have kinda crummy BIOS options.

Advice for those looking to be freelance techs.

Er, that's what that big long list of command line arguments I rattled off a couple posts ago does, too.

I'm kind of philosophically opposed to paying $50 for a heat sink. Especially when the normal AMD retail HSF works so well.

It was a toss-up between the 7K250 and the PATA T7K250 in this case. The T7K250 is REALLY inexpensive - $100 - but I thought I'd stick with a known quantity and the skinnier cables.

I've been asked to build my first HTPC in almost a year. I have a budget of $900 which fortunately does not include anything but the PC, OS, keyboard and mouse. This is what I have come up with. Mobility A64/3400 Gigabyte K8VM800M 1GB Corsair PC3200 RAM Logitech Cordless Desktop Keyboard &...

Actually, it does. You can use CIFS i.e. \\192.168.1.5\sechsshare

Wow. That is 100% counter to my experience.

xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d Works great and it resumes on broken connections really, really well.

I am unaware of any reason not to like LiteOn drives to begin with. They are fast and reliable as all hell.

I installed it with whatever was on mozilla.org about 20 mintues before I posted that. It worked OK then.

FireFTP is a very handy, featureful FTP client that lives in the "Tools" menu of your Mozilla-type browser. It makes its own tab and everything. I like it.

I thought nlite was really cool, until about the fourth time I tried it, and it didn't work right. Or close to right. Or leave me with a computer that would boot.

I can install any Windows OS in that amount of time, taz. I sysprep everything and generally use a common set of hardware. OS install time = time to ghost a 2GB image + time to type in user info and a product key. Very fast and very simple.

As long as the Texans stay in Texas I'm OK with that.

I find the fonts in the default GNONE environment somewhat nicer, if that is at all helpful.

There are now more non-caucasians than caucasians in Texas. Yet more evidence that Texas needs to stop polluting the USA with its continued statehood.

Er, why not just boot up in Safe Mode (Command Prompt) and do it? SMCP let me do funny things like move \Documents and Settings off the C: drive. I imagine it'll let you kill whatever other file you happen to want dead.

Tannin, it's stupid NOT to do the sysprep thing if it'll save you bench time. Maybe only one in five installs is new - that's still saving you probably an hours' work every time you have to use it. Even if you add in a set of disks for P4/Intel (and the SiS/nVidia one might also work with that -...