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Depending on the ass in question, that could be a beautiful thing.

Make your base hardware config. XPPro and XPstupid. Take that machine, and install all the possible hardware that might change (nvidia video, s3 video, ATI video, Agere modem, Intel Modem, 3com NIC, Realtek NIC, Promise RAID, Via RAID) etc. This will get all the appropriate drivers on the...

OK, let's try that again: OpenSuSE.

[url=http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org]OpenSuSE[/org] looks to be the direction for future non-enterprise SuSE releases, much as Fedora has been for RedHat. SuSE, until recently, hasn't been distributable from CD/DVD. It was available on LiveCDs and from SuSE FTP sites...

Minor editorial problems aren't THAT big of a deal. I wouldn't want to work for a company that didn't proofread business communication, but everyone makes a mistake every once in a while. What I hate nowadays is the unerring specificity in job postings: "Must have 25 months experience with AJAX...

It's just Albatron. Their Intel boards have those same issues. 9600s work fine with the Gigabyte K8T800-based board. More widely, I can say I object to motherboards made for the "lights in cases" crowd - DFI, Soyo, Asus, MSI, Chaintech... Abit is the worst of the bunch. They get all the press...

Fortunately, they link to a torrent on their web site with all the content. Go them! Personally, I think time working on an inkjet is about as well spent as time watching paint dry, but then, if someone wants to pay me by the hour, I'll do either one.

Has anyone had to backup iTunes, format a drive and then restore iTunes? I have a customer bringing me a laptop with 41GB of iTunes files (read: many thousands of dollars, even at $.99 a track), who says he has so much spyware crap on his 2.4GHz notebook that it's taking a half hour to start...

That is foreign to my experience. Usually I install Netgear or Linksys hardware at customer sites. The couple of times I've done something optimistic like put an AP/router up in a drop ceiling, it's had to come down because it's stopped routing or switching or whatever.

Allstarshop almost always has the lowest prices in the US on ATI cards. But from personal experience I can also tell you they have problems with inventory - knowing whether something is in stock, and shipping it in anything like a timely fashion. I'm a big fan of Gigabyte-based ATI cards for...

There is a real love-fest over at Slashdot for m0n0wall at the moment. Looking at the feature set I think I can see why. If you have a crap PC you can put a Firewall on, it looks like it's about a generation ahead of Smoothwall.

This site has repair manuals for dozens of Inkjet printers.

Greg needs to reduce his Crack intake.

I have strong and well defined opinions. nvidia, Cyrix, Sony, , HP/Compaq Computers, Lexmark, Abit, AOL and WD are at the top of the list of things I will take every opportunity to shit all over. I'm quite fond of the K8T800. They just work. Albatron boards - apparently all Albatron boards...

I believe we've had this discussion before, but I know of no reason not to choose a working and stable Via solution over a buggy and weird nVidia one. Via stuff works. Year in and year out I purchase and build around four dozen Via-based systems. I put the parts together (any collection of...

The truth is, Firewall + SPI is really about all you can hope for or need, unless you need to do QoS (bandwidth throttling) or a VPN end-point. If you're running XP SP2, I wouldn't recommend turning off the builtin firewall. It's simple and does very little in the way of logging but as far as I...

I went to Wizard World Chicago today. That's the local humongous comic convention. I wore a shirt that said "I'm somebody's fetish", which made me quite popular. I ended up getting my picture taken fourteen times (once by a baddass-looking guy dressed as "Blade" and another time with a couple...

Actually statistics related to web-anything seem to be dodgy as all hell. Have you ever looked at reviews for web hosting providers? Or ad services that pay per click? Everyone involved has too much of an axe to grind. Google used to have browser stats for main page visits available...

I've spent hardly any time at all. Every couple days I VNC into the PC that's doing the work and check the status of a blue bar. When that gets done I check the integrity of whatever it recovered. So far, the stuff from Runtime Software is the ONLY program that's been able to deal with an NTFS...

Actually that is the crux of our argument here. I believe I've staked out the zero good whatsoever position. Oh, I'm sure there's SOME good. Like the amount of good in a Republican Catholic Priest NAMBLA member playing Warm Oil and Astroglide Twister with a Half Dozen Altarboys and a randy...

I am very happy that, about three months ago, I finally got to a place where I can say to literally every person I see "You have to use Firefox or I'm not going to help you any more." Especially when someone thanks me for making them switch the next time I see 'em.

100 personal, 20 economic.

I'd guess that the numbers on just about any techie site would skew heavily to non-IE browsers; we're more aware of the alternatives. The stats on a widely-known general use site would be much more interesting. Weather.com or Ebay or Amazon, say. Even at that, Firefox has been downloaded close...

Wasn't my choice. I've been a general-purpose IT Contractor for years. From 1998 to 2002 I supported myself primarily by doing service work for small and mid-size businesses, between contracts to very large corporations (prior to that I did tech work, but as a high school or college student I...

Taz, my mention of graphics cards at THG had nothing to do with you but rather my objection to the people who get horny because they think Blue LEDs inside a computer make it run faster. Or whatever. I see a lot of that type in my "day job" and usually a couple hours a day convincing them...

Yeah, you RMA more WD drives in a year than you actually own, you get a little bit of an attidude. What can I say? Oh, yes. I hope they rot in hell. That's what you can say.

I understand how to build a decent Socket 7 system just fine, Tannin. I probably built a few hundred on my own. Which is not bad for someone who never worked in retail. Certainly enough to be qualified enough to know shit when I smell it. I saw Cyrix chips mounted on Asus, Shuttle, Biostar, PC...

So somewhere in the world, probably next to the candy cane trees and gumdrop mountains, there were motherboards that enabled the magical Work Like A CPU Is Supposed To feature?

I'm not sure quality was ever up.

If I make the not unreasonable assumption that the multiple different white-box vendors did in fact have at least a partial clue, I'd expect that at least one or two of them would build a "proper-according to Tannin" Cyrix system, that worked as well as AMD and Intel or WinChip or NexGen systems...

Well, it would be if I were incorrect. But I'm not.

The difference is, Intel replaced their bad chips. As I recall, they used the bad P5-60 to 90MHz chips to pave the driveway around their corporate HQ.

mubs, I used SMP Intel machines for YEARS. Starting with an SMP 486/33 (OS/2 machine!), then an SMP P5/133, then a PPro 200 dualie, then a P3/600. At about the 1GHz mark, coincidently about the time I started to do HEAVY video encoding, I stopped caring. I looked at how much CPU I was using...

No. Things don't work that way. Unless you've got a multithreaded process - Adobe Premier for instance - your encoding app is going to be assigned to run on one processor and stay there. So if Santilli is getting twice as many encoded frames per second on a Xeon vs. his A64, that is a 1:1...

Actually Taz and time, I have some sheet music here that attributes it as an English folk song.

If you're talking about just ripping, that's a function of the DVD drive you're using. If you're talking about encoding, the important thing is that you can buy four Athlon 3000s for what those two Xeons cost, and those A64s will be faster for absolutely everything else.

And I typed all that and completely missed the fact that he wants eSATA...

Do you actually NEED SAN-type capabilities? How many people access this storage? What are your I/O loads like? Do you have any budgetary constraints? I have a staggering array of SATA/PATA storage on my home network, but I designed for the possibility of multiple simultaneous failures as...

Actually, as I'm looking at the data... It did very well with small files - pictures - from a spot check of a couple hundred out of 460,000 - I only found two that didn't open. Which were probably bad images to begin with. That's a massive segment of my recovery, but it's not everything that I...

Nope. But it also doesn't make me gather up the paperwork for every cent I've spent in the preceding three months, either. I don't live in fear of a paypal auditor, and most importantly, money that goes to paypal isn't going to the hillbilly sisterfuckers who run the state of Indiana. In this...

Use google's site: keyword to search! Actually I guess that won't work. A lot of those big company stores show you different prices depending on your zip code. Bastards. My definition of "doesn't get it" are sites that have 1MB flash intros, or anyone who stores textual information in Flash.

The sun is falling and it lies in blood The moon is weaving bandages of gold Old black swan where oh where is my lover now Where oh where is my lover now Torn and tattered is my bridal gown and my lamp is lost With silver needles and with silver threads The stars stitch a route for the dying...

$.31 is groin-grabbingly good for 16x Verbatims. Buy. Buy. Buy. Buy.

Can I rent it, or something?

... and there's my data. All of it. Right where I left it. I used RunTime Software's Get Data Back NTFS and RAID Recovery tool. Processing took around 16 days, all told. I recovered 937GB of data. Recovery was largely automatic. I'd say that's pretty goddamned impressive.

Sam's Club is selling 100 packs of 16x +R Verbatims for $31. They are really great disks.

I don't understand that sentence. Free space? So, like, you haven't formatted it yet?

Yes. Paypal fees are a terrible and onerous burden. Roughly in line with my state sales tax.

250s are fine. In groups of four or more.

So... a C3 integrated system with up to 1GB RAM (probably 128MB in the base config) and 4x500GB PATA drives. No hardware RAID but MAYBE GBoC. The 1U case is interesting, I guess. All the ports are on the front of the enclosure. Is that normal for 1U setups? I've never really dealt with the...