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I would honestly LIKE to use Mozilla, since I like the mail/browser integration, but some of my favorite extensions only work with or work better with Firefox, and I keep hearing mixed messages about whether Moz development will continue.

That's a great board. They work with damned near everything, as do the GA-7VM400s and GA-7S748s. The lesson here is simply to never stray from the true path of gigabyte. They even make crappy SiS-chipsets worthwhile.

Er, you're wrong on that count, mubs. Albatron is a collection of former Gigabyte engineers. Their products are so damn similar they even use the same front I/O layout and the same font for their logo. Their boards are studded with large capacitors - not the hallmark of low-quality...

It's very difficult to have any amount of respect for anyone with that particular set of viewpoints. I can go into all sorts of details as to why, but really what it boils down to see that I see a group of people who are against a number of my ideal of what freedom means. Personally, I hope...

Since this is up at the top of the thread list right now I'm going to mention that I'm taking back every positive thing I've ever said about Albatron. I have three of them in my house, nominally. I had to RMA one last week and two this week. One is on its second RMA. I don't know what goes...

I need something to get this awful taste out of my mouth. If anyone needs me, I'll be looking at transsexual midget foot-fetish rope bondage porn. I can post links if you'd like. I'm sure they'll be more tasteful than Doug's last post.

That's disgusting.

Evil.

A co-worker whom I had previously held in high esteem has a "W" sticker on her truck now. I can't decide whether I should immediately lose all respect for her or if I should just commence ignoring her like I do everyone else at work.

"We are the party of the open door." -- Haley Barbor, Missouri Governor, member of the Social Issues plank commitee for the Republican National Convention, which mere hours later adopted a position on a constutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Just, you know, not an open closet door. How...

How about loose gravel, broken glass and cleats? Man, that would be fun for all ages!

I'd say that's a rule that defies common sense and makes the game less interesting, then.

Maybe a quick burn fuse instead of a string.

Why not? It's still in the air, isn't it? Am I missing something fundamental in the definition of the word "catch"? 120 degrees isn't really very hot, Buck. 500 degrees, now THAT's a hot ball. Even better, why not just use a live grenade? I'd even be so charitable as to leave the pin in.

Er... what's wrong with that? He bumbled a bit with the ball and then he caught it. I'm not seeing a problem there. If he bumbled the ball a bit and then it touched the ground and THEN bounced into his glove, that would be something to complain about. Seriously, I think I'd be more proud of a...

Must... resist... temptation... to... make... porn... joke...

Please stand quietly while I hunt you down for to beat you down with a nice beige case panel.

Sounds good. Can you ship it today?

I've found "Super" equipment to not be very reliable in proprietary operating modes. I went through something similar to what Doug is describing with Netgear and DLink "SuperB" hardware.

Yeah. What Mark said. I've done it using Sysinternals' ERD Commander, but the results are not pretty or functional.

Wait, it gets better! In Canada it's 14 plus or minus two years, or 18 for consentual sodomy or sex with an authority figure. Hungary doesn't have an age of consent for lesbian intercourse, but hetro and gay males have to wait until they're 18. Ireland allows lesbians and oral sex at 15 but...

And then there's Georgia, where the age of consent is or was until recently 12, but only if the child in question wasn't a virgin. Ewwww. Is this thread derailed enough yet?

Personally I think the female gymnasts need to be a wee bit older. It's grossly unfair to watch some lithe little person do the things they do and then remember "Oh yeah, she's only 14. Bad Merc!"

It's a good idea to get A service plan on a laptop. But I personally don't think it's a good idea to buy a laptop from the likes of Circuit City or Best Buy. I tell people not to do it, in fact. No offense to Bookmage. My problem with the laptops sold at retail is that they tend to - what's...

Athlon I'm hoping to get something for around $30. That's a little cheap for an 1800 chip, but I wasn't expecting anyone to have an 1800 just laying around, either. I'm not trying to lowball you; I have a customer with what I think is a heat-damaged chip and I just need something to slap in...

On an NT-ish version of Windows, you can change drive letters with Disk Mangement (control panel, admin tools, disk management). But you REALLY don't want to do that to your boot drive. REALLY really. I mean it. If it's a problem for you, then you need to reinstall.

I'm not much interested in theater sound for film, skeet, although I do enjoy it when present Glass breaking and stuff blowing up only needs to be convincing up to a point. I love my classical music, though, and there's no comparison between seven channels of audio being used to recreate an...

If you REALLY want it, and have an assload of online disk space somewhere, I have it.

Er, Itanium uses its own, vastly different 64-bit instruction set. As I understand things, even current Intel samples with x86-64 support don't fully implement AMD's spec. And of course there's going to be some "big iron" snobbery from HP that will probably serve to keep OpenVMS off commodity...

I suspect part of the reason skeet doesn't like doing multi-channel mixes is that for most types of music, he's used to stereo. The overamplified wail of live rock performances isn't about the melding harmonics of the instruments, it's about the melding harmonics of the stacks of speakers on...

Ahem. I shall now read from the book of Simpsons, season 4F, episode 14: At the construction site for the dam, Cecil is paying Bob a visit. "Hello, brother. All's well I trust?" "It most certainly is not!" Sideshow Bob replies, "The workmen you've given me don't know their asses from the hole...

At the moment, Linksys is unique in offering a Wireless repeater product; I believe it is the only company with FCC clearance in the US to manufacture and sell such a device. So last week when I purchased several of them, at $80 apiece. I was very interested in seeing how they work. And I'm...

No great loss on the Sony models. Sony's come in dead last in PC Magazine's customer satisfaction three years running. Regardless of my opinion that's not a very good track record. I have a hard time understanding why someone would want a no-name laptop. But I've seen Averratec notebooks around...

Walmart and ECS - the two deserve each other? Two fine purveyors of Crap have teamed up with a very special offer. Walmart, home to NASCAR-brand thong underware for toddlers, and ECS, home to surface-mount semiconductors that flake off like a week-old sunburn (I'm not making that up. It really...

Serious question: given the regular rounds of Seagate bashing engaged in on SF and SR (er, last time I was there, anyway), would you have purchased one absent the recent change to Seagate's warranty policy?

Athlon64s can run OpenVMS?

Anyone have an older model Athlon, Thunderbird, XP or Duron they aren't using right now? I'm willing to negotiate on price but I don't really want to buy a new one.

Let me be abundantly clear: I believe Western Digital makes a genuinely inferior product to that offered by any other drive maker. I know some of the people here only buy one or two drives a year. I buy about 70. Tannin probably buys ten times that many for his shop. I've shared my ongoing...

That's the best suggestion yet.

Are you talking about the foam-like padding?

My experience with the 634 is that its range is lousy. I bought one for a customer and another for myself (I'm using it only as a NAS device), and found them to have only about 2/3 the range of a WRT54G. If I get time today I'll write up my thoughts on WRE54G range extenders, too.

So, I did the LAN event last night. It was not as well-attended as I had hoped, but it seemed to go over well with the people who did come. I really didn't have to do much of anything. The games we ended up playing were Doom3, the Clone Bandits mod for UT2004 and Armagedtron (700kB Windows...

Belated Hello to Gilbo then.

Looks good to me.

Anything is better than a Western digital hard drive. Creamed corn. Child molesters. Islamic terrorists. It's all good in comparison.

Do you really think that consumer awareness of Raptors is that high?

The I/O shield included with cases is the one that matches the PC99 specification. Unfortunately, technology has outgrown the PC99 spec, especially with regard to the number of USB and audio connectors on the I/O panel of the motherboard. Personally, though, I find it annoying when a...

I have XP on exactly ONE computer. I am supremely pissed that it keeps fucking telling me to install antivirus software. Hi, Microsoft, last time I checked, AV software was OPTIONAL.

Exactly.

skeet once again proves my point. Compare this quote from the first page of Ulysses with one from our own indecipherable Englishman: With this one from skeet: And, just for purposes of comparison, very possibily the greatest literary challenge in the English Language, here's a snippet from...