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I'll hold my tongue, but it's probably worthy of comment by someone.

Uh, 'cause WD advertises at SR?

Dear lord yes. That man can play guitar.

Set it to master, and try a different cable. You might want to attach the drive to your primary channel and check the drive with PowerMax, too.

Man, I HATE the XP picture viewer. I own ACDSee, and I like it much better. ACDSee is non-free, and versions after 3.x suck progressively more, but there's a similar program that works just as well: IrfanView. It's a much more flexible program, capable of doing a lot of things XP's viewer can't.

There's a visible bell howto out there somewhere that will probably put you on the right track.

Check the For Sale forum. Couple people have offered X15s recently, if you really want speed. Raptors (sorry Mickey) mostly seem to be an expensive mistake. Just ask ddrueding.

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Sigh. So what you're saying is, because I'm not part of the majority, there's no reason to serve my interests as a citizen of the representative republic. I'd say that says a lot about you and your beliefs. See, if we went very far down the path that viewpoint leads us, we would get to a place...

Sigh. So what you're saying is, because I'm not part of the majority, there's no reason to serve my interests as a citizen of the representative republic. I'd say that says a lot about you and your beliefs. See, if we went very far down the path that viewpoint leads us, we would get to a place...

So you think the US, one of 192 countries in the world, should act unilaterally at any time its interests are challenged?

So you think the US, one of 192 countries in the world, should act unilaterally at any time its interests are challenged?

Well, not technically. That's the point.

I'm more impressed by the kids in "Barely Legal". :) So, raise your hand if you knew what "autochthonous" meant before you saw Buck's post.

Nope. No. It was the former Enron executives.

PPbbbt. Can't type. Eating.

So whose fault is it that there's no UN mandate for peacekeeping in Iraq?

Also, I did some checking, and it doesn't look like his Baby Monitor is the culprit. I saw one just like it this afternoon and it's a 2.4GHz variety. Also, my "A" equipment works fine if I take it someplace else and use it. This is a very curious thing.

The FCC is too busy prosecuting obscenity violations, creating radio monopolies and being run by a 30something who doesn't have internet access at home to do anything about interference in the extremely-short-range low-power 5GHz band.

At this point, I think that if I had done that, he probably would've called the FBI or something.

The only down side - which I wasn't thinking of when I posted earlier, is that an amplified signal in either 2.4 or 5GHz range, might keep someone I don't want to aggravate from using his/her phone.

Er, which pages isn't it working on? I went from 16 to 20 point proportional font and 13 to 15 point monospace, and everything is bigger now. Is there a particular page that didn't change?

Well, I saw him this morning whilst taking out my trash, and asked him if he knew/understood what all his wireless crap is doing, explained that his wireless gear was insecure, and that his baby monitor was causing me much grief. He acted like I had committed some kind of felony for even...

Actually I don't think that one's too funny. Much as I hate nVidia for their cheapass, get-way-too-hot, poor image quality, bad memory-having, cause more problems than they solve GeForce cards... Anyway, unless I saw Quadro-type cards failing all over the place like I have pretty much...

Guess I shoulda gotten the 300D anyway.

Looks to me like a drop-dead date for the US to end its operations. The words "End the mandate for the muiti-national force" are a good clue. We are still a "multi-national force", right? "Coalition of the Willing" ring any bells? I seem to recall some discussion about the US pulling out at the...

Lots of ways. It depends on how much work you want to do, how much editing you'd like to do, and how much money you can spend. I'll do my duty as a friendly neighborhood freedom-hating liberal and tell you all about them. Option 1: ADS Pyro. It's an analog AV to 1394 bridge without the...

Bush administration, and Mr. Bill Green, re-define the word "soon" as == Two Years. As in "I plan to pay my mortgage company again soon, like maybe April 2006." or "Soon the child I'll be conceiving 15 months from now, through some kind of goddamn miracle, will be born." or "That Glacier...

... and, continuing the conversation with myself, the nice folks at somethingawful.com http://www.angelfire.com/hero/mukaze/coh/heroes.html]have come up with some pretty funny uses for the City of Heroes character generator[/url].

I can find a home for it, as long as it has a couple working PS2 and or USB ports.

[i]Issue[i] has other meanings as well, some even more novel than the one tGP came up with. Anyway, I have a "fix" for the moment: 10' cable to USB hub, which is now hung off a curtain rod, to 6' USB cable, which has a Netgear WG121 802.11G adaptor, which is balanced atop a picture frame. Maybe...

Me neither. Hope it's catching.

Yet another treasure from our friends at BBspot.

You know, ATI has been accused of a great many things, but until now I'd never heard of ati-radiation... :)

I can see the monitor through a window, especially at night, when their lights are on and the blinds are open. They could probably see me, too, but only by monitor-light, since I don't turn lights on very often. Our houses are the same design, mirror images of each other. Like I said, it's only...

I'd say lucky is more like 6 months for the cheapy 40mm ones.

If you're talking about the Baen library, I'd also highly recommend the stuff by John Ringo (Gust Front et al), East Chicago resident Eric Flint (1632 et al - which isn't up right now, but that changes periodically). A lot of Baen hardbacks, if you buy them, include very large samplings of other...

Place is wired. Upstairs, 4 or 8 ports per room, and into a closet downstairs.Even my garage has 4 ports. But I have one PC that's along an exterior wall, in a very large room with a cathedral ceiling and tile-over-concrete floor. Perfect candidate for wireless. Anyway, Im hoping the guy is...

The worst thing is that he appears to be using his WLAN to share a dialup connection and a couple printers. I keep thinking how evil it would be to print out a bunch of crap on his printers (That? What? You don't like printouts of Paisley patterns?), but, again, that's probably illegal somehow. :(

It depends. Some titles look a lot better on HDTVs with progressive scan DVD players. Others don't. I saw a lot more problems with 3:2 pulldown - basically bad film-to-DVD transfers than I noticed on my first actual TV (which I bought maybe 2 years ago). Also. DVD=Shrink DVDs don't look as...

No. There are just things I don't want to deal with, and frankly something like this is *really* high on the list, since I'm the party in the middle with no idea what's going on. I slap a new PC in place, and make someone pay me for it. Much less hassle. To top it off, my boss sent me an email...

OK, not really. It's not like he's George W. Bush or anything. But he's pretty bad. This guy moved in about two weeks ago. He works from home and talks on a 2.4GHz cell phone constantly. He has an 802.11 AP (with, hey, all the defaults left in place). These things didn't cause a problem for...

I mean, really, if a technician says "Is there anything else wrong with your computer?", isn't that usually an invitation to respond with the litany of problems one has with one's PC? When I asked them on the phone the contact said "I thought that was the problem you were fixing." I hate...

I got a call from my weekday job on Friday. My boss had a server built and installed at a client site - didn't tell me anything about it. Guess what? Her "server" (nforce2, XP2500 in a ricer case with a for-crap PSU) doesn't work - it crashes every 20 minutes. I visited their site once, to do a...

The guy at the camera store sold me an Image-Stabilizing 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. The guy at the counter said it was a good "starter" lens, and it was the first thing he recommended. I tried a number of other lenses but ultimately came back to that one. I think the IS really helps a lot.

100 people on an AP is *way* too many, Blake. Remember that 802.11 is shared bandwidth to the AP. If you're doing 11Mbit wireless then you're talking about splitting ~7.5Mbps (actual wireless throughput) among however many people happen to fall into the same AP's coverage area. Hopefully you'll...

A projector with similar specifications is the this one. Infocus does make good projectors, your cousin's experience notwithstanding.

I didn't like it either. I think I turned it off about 15 minutes after I got the laptop. I more or less use it on my lap in my living room, or on a desk while at a client site. I don't carry it around much while it's on, so I just decided the drive protection thing was a gimmick that I didn't need.

The amazing thing to me is, Cosby is getting a TON of flack over this from mainstream Black intelligentsia. Michael Eric Dyson and Tavis Smiley both sounded extremely upset when discussing his comments on Smiley's radio program. Now, I may be wrong about this, but if anyone has the right to...

My money says "In god we trust." When I'm bored I've been known to cross those words out of my bills. I certainly don't trust whatever god is involved in this. Christmas is a federal holiday. Why? Ever been to court? The standard oath ends "So help me God." and is sworn with one's hand on a...