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Killing the Buddha.

My cats do that, too. Or they would if I didn't shut the door on them. I'm not so big with having an audience when I'm in the bathroom. Actually the hilarious one is my cat Will. Will gets in the shower with me in the morning. He stands at the very back of the tub so he doesn't get wet, and he...

Had I to guess, I'd say 95% of what you're experiencing is the self-fulfilling expectation that your Mac is now faster. Seriously, email isn't an application where an 80MB/sec transfer rate is helpful.

On the other hand, Decorative Rock is a very acceptable lawn substitute, even for us northerners. Or you could just pave it all. Since I'm allergic to grass pollen, I'm good with that option, too.

Meh. "Chosen by God" beats the hell out of "Appointed by the Supreme Court".

Hi Ed!

Those are great, until you forget to empty the receptical. Personally I take a plastic bag upstairs every other day and scoop 'em on my way out the door in the morning.

Man I wish I lived someplace civilized. In your country I'll bet they let the elect the head of state, too.

I *thought* component it was sync-on-green RGB: one cable of luminence, and green-blue and green-red chroma. I might be mistaken, though.

Fish are too damn much work. Plus they creep me out. I'm guessing three hours and fifty-nine minutes of your pet-care time this morning was spent on those fishtanks.

You backed up DVDs to CD-R? I'm going to pretend that you meant DVD-R and continue from there with this advice: DVD players don't all play all DVD media equally. My oldest (Sony) jukebox won't play discs recorded on (Sony's) DVD+R format at all, for example. Furthermore there are substantial...

Well, at least the lawn mowing will get old reall fast. ;)

That's Aussie dollars, right? Anyway, I agree that there are WAY too many people. And WAY WAY too many of the wrong KINDS of people. In fact, the people who run the Darwin awards (google if you've never heard of 'em), even have a name for the human population dynamic: They refer to the...

Welcome Hala! As an opening guess, have you actually USED any of the recovery console tools? I'm specifically thinking of fixboot and fixmbr. Also, when you say "hangs", do you mean that your PC just stops after it checks for a bootable CD? Or does it ask you to insert bootable media? Or does...

Hopefully you can make up those points in the swimsuit competition! Um. Yes. We have all agreed to hate each other's politics, and for the most part we just don't talk about those things here. Getting that out of the way lets us concentrate on the things about one another that we actually like...

Mercutio has been very quiet lately because his working day has less-involved sitting at his personal PC and more involved doing other things. This is not a happy turn of events. Mercutio has also started playing an Online Multiplayer game, which seems to suck his home-computer time away very...

Hello sir. Good to see you again.

Personally, I think other vidcap hardware has better output. And the software that comes with the card - unless you're using Snapstream - isn't just bad, it's downright brutal. Also they're incompatible with 99% of other vidcap software, and also with a surprising array of other programs that...

I've lived through an unfortunately similar number of incidents like the ones in that column. It'd be sad if it weren't so damn funny.

Seems to be alot of that going around.

As I understand things, the spin rate of a 16x DVD is comparable to a 52x CD-ROM drive. Both approach the physical limitations of the media at the moment.

In my experience, DVD ripping speeds are usually limited by the drive's firmware, moreso than any technique a software decrypter uses. My fastest "ripping" drive is a 3-year-old LiteOn, that actually rips at around ~12X. Newer drives seem to hit a wall at 2 or 4x, which has just GOT to be an...

The best thing you can do, WRT to power consumption, is to shut your (CRT) monitor off when you aren't using it. They use tons of power and generate HUGE amounts of waste heat, especially the big 19"+ ones. Yeah, I leave eight or nine computers on all the time in my house, but I almost never...

I'm doing an office move right now. It's the most horrible thing of all time.

Probably not. It takes for-frickin'-ever to burn a dual layer disk. I fully expect another speed bump in the near future.

Probably. But for now the problem is solved. ;)

Tivo user bliss

The ones I use most are Acrobat Linky Magpie SpiderZilla Flash Click to View (although, on most of my computers, flash STILL isn't installed) Quicknote mozCalc Scribe I'm sure I'm missing a few as well.

So much for "swooping in and posting occasionally". :)

I keep buying widescreen TVs, because most of my viewing is movies or TV shows that were produced in letterbox. Which should someday be the standard for all new TV content as well. But for now watching 4:3 content is mildly unsatisfying and even a little annoying. I can stretch the picture...

Is Seagate still shitting forth 5400rpm drives?

I think it's better than wasting time with an AV product that's actually installed on a PC. If a machine is so borked it can't connect to the internet to run Housecall it probably needs to be gold disk'd anyway.

I've seen viruses get by Norton and McAfee both. My personal thinking is that a lot of people think that AV software is a license to do stupid things on their PC (Hm, a stranger s sending me an attachment called "Iloveyou.exe"! Better see what it is.) I also wonder if virus writers know how to...

I keep a PC running in my garage, but it's out there on my workbench, waiting for me to test spare parts. Its case even has some rust on it, where paint got chipped off. But I think putting a whole rack of known-god equipment out there might not be wise.

I'm jealous. Holiday pay is good pay, and at work I wouldn't be putting up with dumbass kids trying to set each other on fire with #$%#$%ing fireworks.

The OS would override it if part of an update.

Mr. Cosby isn't trying to segregate African-American culture from white/mainstream culture. Rather, I think he's trying to maintain the positive, diverse elements that make black culture different from white. Is there a "white culture"? Yup. You see it on just about every network TV show...

"Executables and Web Content are not two great tastes that taste great together." -- Tackhead, on Slashdot Some pie to the first person to guess what he's talking about.

Well, the video seems to cause an error with Firefox for me (something about a Windows Media DLL, on more than one PC), but as far as playing piano goes, I can tell you that I neither look at the console nor anything else while I'm playing. I usually shut my eyes, in fact. Makes it easier to...

Anyone seen Fahrenheit 9/11 yet? The theater I saw it in - an 11:30AM showing, mind you, was half full. Not only did we the audience applaud at the end, applaud someone for saying things desperately needed to be said, we applauded in middle of the movie. We cried and laughed at the same time...

<url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040625-2.html>Why isn't our press like this?</url>

Seems pretty much true to me. Guess no one else remembers that Microsoft video...

A stout Clue Stick for to beat them with. Perhaps something in a Louisville Slugger?

Does anyone else remember the "Introducing Windows 95" video that Microsoft made, featuring actors from some situation comedy or other? I wish I could find that again. It was so unintentionally hilarious.

Absolutely not. My students never do.

I just threw away several BX-based Celeron systems.

I hope you at least wash your hands afterwards!

Oh yeah, like I could get someone else to touch me... Nope, I'm refering strictly to the evilness factor of any and all things related to AOL.

If the plastic slip covers get too hot they can actually melt the printing on the front off or warp the CD. So don't leave a binder or soft carry-case on your car's dash. Jewel cases aren't that durable, but the cases DVDs typically come in are damned near impossible to damage and don't...

Spider Man 2 was literally perfect as a comic book movie. OK, the score was weak. But other than that? Flawless. Great script - which might be expected with a Pulitzer-prize winning author as a co-writer. It perfectly captures the mood of decades worth of character development. Peter Parker is...