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Pbbt... Merc is busy with unpacking. Like, I can find 15 computers but not the box with all my keyboards in it. I have priorities, man.

It's worth seeing in the theater. It's worth $8. I'm going again tonight. The workprint download is awful. I'm OK with that 'cause it'll drive more people who were on the fence about seeing it into the theater.

Couple more things: 1. Very early in the movie, while the ship carrying Anakin, Palpatine and Obiwan is landing a ship very much like the Millenium Falcon is visible in the lower right corner of the screen. 2. It's scary how much Ewan McGregor looks like Alec Guiness. 3. There's a "The...

Sorry, the version I have is a couple releases out of date. Distrowatch says they're still using 8.01 though.

I would like two of whatever they're smoking.

Let me boil it down for everyone: V > III = IV > III > II > I Did you all get that? I was immensely satisfied. No, Jar Jar does not talk (although, curiously, Ahmed Best is still credited). I was a little disappointed by this - his actions in the second movie obviously had very serious...

Looks like you have a helper! My cats help me build computers, too. Sometimes by standing in the empty cases, sometimes by smacking my tube of silver compound off my workbench and off to someplace where I cannot find them. My cats are very helpful.

Howell, that post makes my teeth hurt.

I think Lucas authorized Timothy Zahn to write them. The novels have been around for at least 15 years at this point.

I largely tend to agree with EBB. Life sucks, people die, and there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it.

No, but the Scepter Xg9 19" costs about the same and is really nice.

It doesn't look like that's something people are doing with that particular unit. At a guess, whatever's storing data on the drive probably knows the drive is a 160GB model. If you stuck a 250GB model in it's place and ghosted the contents of the 160 (assuming Toshiba didn't do something funny...

There's a real-deal screener on fulldls.com, if you really want it. Quality, especially the sound, is terrible. I saw all the other Star Wars movies, including the first one (I was 2 at the time, so I don't remember it really well but...), on opening day. I remember standing in line through...

Only naughty words. The video is sans boobage.

I used to work in several. They are really nice compared to coal plants.

Having looked at a co-worker's top-of-the-line Asus 640x200something PocketPC, I think the #1 thing that would keep me from using a palmtop is the terribly small screen. On the other hand, I've heard rumors that Toshiba is planning a laptop with a 19" display, which sounds exactly like...

I have to wait until tomorrow night. Stupid job!

I work in a windowless office! A windowless office with no ventilation system. A windowless office with no ventilation system at the end of a hallway that ends at a blank wall. A windowless office with no ventilation system at the end of a hallway that ends at a blank wall with no sprinkler...

Actually I bolt apt onto SuSE But from everything I can see, even Debian unstable has nothing on Ubuntu. There's a much better organization for development with an only slightly weirder name.

Apparently. The links work for me. For those of you who don't go to the movies regularly, the MPAA has these cute little PSAs about how downloading hurts the "little guys" in the movie industry - the gaffers and best boys and craft services people. Of course, the MPAA doesn't mention the fact...

Western Digital drives don't count.

When she still has that PC four years later, she'll thank you for planning ahead.

Movie opens at Midnight tonight, presumably worldwide. Who is going to be missing some sleep tomorrow?

Debian has one thing that recommends it - apt. It has several strikes against it, at least in my mind: 1. Hardcore GNU zealotry - woe be to the person who talks about Linux without mentioning the "GNU/" part that Stallman insists should come first! 2. VERY slow updates. Sarge will be out soon...

I think you can find room for another 256MB RAM in your budget now. :)

Ouch. Nope. I appear to be on a 6/1 link right now. I'm torrenting like a fiend and I can't seem to hit my DL cap.

I'd suggest going to a Socket 754 Sempron 2600 and a GA-K8VM800M (They're like $60 new). The CPU is the same price. You'll save cash on the video card. You'll be able to find a NEW 17 or 19 inch CRT for around $100, but if possible buy a lease-returned model from your local screwdriver shop...

http://r4nt.com/v5/article/120/

How do you get your cat to hold still? When mine see the camera they either run away or try to bite it.

SuSE 9.3 is the current version, and at the very least 9.1 is missing the graphical installer and some of the more recent refinements to YaST that make it so nifty. The drivers Mandrake (and Suse) did not have are basically drivers to enable 3D. Only important if you're planning to play games...

You probably need a cable box + an IR blaster to handle tuning. No, Buck, MCE uses some weirdo format that's based on MPEG with some DRM added on.

Er... the fact that you have to do ANYTHING to make nvidia's NIC driver work is my definition of "not working out of the box". The software is there, just not enabled for whatever stupid reason. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I guess it's pointless to ask why FLASH of all things is a requirement for "prime...

Not only that, why would you want to? MCE has a decent 10' interface, yes, but it uses a proprietary recording format for video that AFAIK cannot be transferred to any actual useful format. Blah.

I'm big on the idea that a laptop should actually be, y'know, portable? Indiana State troopers "carry" toughbooks... the couple I've met through work tell me they don't like taking them out of their patrol cars because they're so damned heavy.

SuSE 9.2 is a VAST improvement over 9.0. 9.3 is incrementally better still. I counselled my students to SuSE + GNOME + apt-get for updates and software installs. That configuration takes a bit of work to set up (mostly in installing apt) but is trivially simple to administer. AFAIK, no Linux...

I'd suggest you quit buying massively overpriced midrange server hardware. Seriously. You can buy an Athlon64+board+RAM for the price of either of the motherboards you're bringing up here. Ultimately you'll get the same level of reliability, lower costs for power, less heat and more real-world...

I'd say you learned a valuable lesson, young man. No, really, I completely sympathize. I killed an important customer's personal hard drive a few weeks ago by plugging it into the wrong removable bay on his case (it fit, but was a different brand). It went "bzzzt" and then I spent two hours...

He's testing a very large sample (about half is collection, apparently - more statistically necessary, but perhaps he needs that many to distinguish between the top performers), and he's requiring that at least one of the programs he listed be able to detect it. Given the size of sample I...

What the hell is wrong with the Liberals?

And what makes you say that? Looking at the list of programs and their rankings through that site's semi-annual testing, I can see real changes over time and a consistent testing methodology.

Meh. I did not find them particularly challenging. Harder than Linux+, though.

Since I don't fully understand British election rules, I'm not sure this is 100% accurate, but current projections show that the British have voted to allow Labour to retain control of the house of Commons, thereby granting another term in office to someone whose mouth moves every time George...

Clicky for results. Note the surprisingly good showing by Symantec/Norton AV and Kapersky.

Meh. The Legend desktops weren't that bad. The towers, though... <gag>

I'm fine with $15 + shipping.

I have an Audiovox CDM-8900 right now. I hate all phones but this one is marginally less annoying than the rest I was looking at when I bought it. I don't do anything but talk on it - a lot - and I'm glad to say that the talk time is decent (about 5 hours on the extended battery). I'd love to...

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. In the US at least. Yay comic books! Yay free stuff!

Me too. I use it for classroom instruction from time to time but it's getting less relevant.

I'll take the keyboard and mouse kit off your hands.

The default password is no password at all. Someone set one, and clearing the CMOS will fix it. On the other hand, it's impressive that a CMOS battery has lasted long enough that it's still a problem.