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Um. Yeah. Just go ahead and remind me what my wears-my-one-caret-and-platinum-engagement-ring-below-the-waist Ex- is doing in San Francisco this weekend. Thanks David. I swear it's not worth talking to people, ever.

I'd say an increased sales tax is a hidden cost. Granted, I got a bunch of documents saying that I would have to charge higher taxes on goods I re-sell, but even a year later, everything I buy locally, I still have that long pause where I think "this should cost a couple bucks less", before I...

But are your machines on a LAN or is your DFS distributed over WAN links? The only near-instant changes I'm aware of relating to Windows directory replication are password changes; at BP I saw the result of password changes from admins in London about a minute later, in Chicago. Yes, MSSQL has...

That is in fact true. You are penalized for not carrying a balance. I've heard of banks cancelling cards belonging to people who pay their full bill every month. We aren't profitable enough. Also, it's possible to ruin someone's credit COMPLETELY by having five or six different credit agencies...

Everyone I work with is a mommy with a kid between 0 and 10 years old. I swear I'm sick every single weekend. They've all built up immunities from living with verm^H^H^H^Hchildren constantly, but I can't stand the maybe two minutes of contact I have with them over the course of a working day...

Make a new one. If yours is the same as everyone else's - you're booting C:\windows on the first IDE disk on your system, copy it off another machine.

Won't work. DFS replicates at the file level. You'd be overwriting transactions left and right. Also, it's not instantaneous. Inter-site DFS replication occurs at the same time as inter-site directory replication (every half-hour plus or minus 15 minutes by default), and that's the kind of...

... and before you get your hopes up that I might know what I'm talking about, I've only worked with MSSQL 6.5 and 7.

Do you just need replication or are you needing a shared data store?

My homepage is SF's forum page on Moz-based browsers, and Microsoft.com for IE (which is, honestly, the only thing I need IE for, since huge portions of Microsoft's site don't work except in IE). I visit SF through google quite a bit, too, which is always through the front page, since I'm too...

[url=http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/02.html]Here are a whole lot of tests that may reveal bias in your personal behavior.[url]. Kinda interesting.

Use the old card. That single drive is a good match for its capabilities, and now you have a new card sitting around for some high-end drive you may purchase someday.

"Natural" keyboards suck. I'm left handed, and there are keys I normally hit with fingers on my left hand, that're on the right side of the split. They're obviously a communist plot to force people into inferior right-handedness.

What is the first web page you visit when you start your browser? Anyone use SF besides me?

It turns out that a fairly large number of online credit processors have ceased to process debit cards, which they were doing before. After prodding and poking about this, the only solution, if I want to use my debit card for online purchases, is to call and make purchases by phone. How utterly...

There's no way to get IBM's unencumbered VM without Websphere. They more-or-less give away developer tools but the client software isn't not free.

I'm more busy at work than usual. No free time = no time to post on SF. It's really annoying to me.

XP has the ability to make a reasonably nice DOS boot disk. Boot to DOS, and use the DOS format command to make your disk.

Might be cheaper to do Metaframe rather than TS.

Isn't there an xtree/ztree equivalent for Macs?

If you can find the IP address of the printer (say, by printing its network configuration page): 1. Add New Printer 2. Local printer, UNcheck "detect my plug and play printer" 3. Create New Port: Local TCP/IP port 4. Type the IP Address of the printer 5. Install relevant drivers 6. Bask in...

So, ten people running ten different sets of random applications that can be run over TS? That machine looks like overkill to me. Anyway, the heart-breaker with TS, for me, has always been licensing. $85 per client? Ouch.

I have some Office CDs that're "not for resale", if you really need something.

Can't your Mac software burn an ISO 9660 disc?

I'd pretty much need screenshots in of your BIOS to be much help. But if possible you could turn off things like Video BIOS Shadow or System BIOS cacheable... but I doubt those are settings that would be exposed in an IBM BIOS.

Don't do it unless you also want to buy Compaq-branded drives with Compaq firmware. Performance is lousy otherwise, and then there's the whole "OEM equipment = no warranty" thing.

So you want someone to actually route memyselfandi.com or whatever? That's a tougher sell. You probably want to visit dyndns.org to read about their services in relation to your needs.

Goodness yes. Now, which OS do you want to be your DNS serving machine to run?

As if CBS has anything worth watching to begin with...

Yet more proof that Google is cool beyond human comprehension.

Have you figured out how to make VoIP in the game work yet?

Well, this pretty much sums up about eight years worth of suspicions.

When did the 12-year-old FPS-playing crowd turn into a bunch of racist little bastards? All the player models in UT 2004 are, uh, black. So I got online and played for a couple minutes as "Big Black Africa" (reference to a Spike Lee movie, "Bamboozled"). With all the specific taunts against...

If you stick at around 5000kbps MPEG2, 2 hours will be right about 4.5GB. If you're capping lossless AVI (e.g. HUFFYUV), you might hit 20GB/hour. 250GB is plenty for most people.

salon.com is absolutely worth the money. But mostly I was thinking of the kind with dirty pictures.

Really, the originals are the best.

Um... I'll look next time I open up a PC that has one. AFAIK there's only one card rev.

Stable Media PC components * Asus A7N266 ($60) Includes support Soundstorm, LAN. Video-out is barely passable and nvidia based. * 128MB PC2100 RAM ($20) * Mobile AthlonXP/2000 CPU ($75) * 120GB SP1203N HDD for ~100 recording hours ($80) * WinTV PVR250 capture card – ($180*) * MicroATX...

Here's a quick guide to setting up Volume Shadow Services, the magical "Network Recycle Bin" that serves as 2003 Server's primary reason for being. I just had the opportunity to actually, in-production use it, and man was it SO much better than pulling files off a tape.

Some yes, some no. Some of my cards are held through local banks rather than big national chains. They've been a little slow on the uptake with the whole "internet" fad.

Whoops. I meant Verifone, not Verisign. Although they're probably the same company.

If you look at the card swipe device at your local B&M, you'll see that it probably says Verisign on it. Store owners rent the device from Verisign for a set fee and pay a pretty steep transaction fee for each swipe ($1.25 per transaction for Credit, $.25 for Debit).

My training company just bought a Kodak 8500 dye-sub printer. It makes photos. The Ektotherm paper that you *have* to use with it looks and feels exactly like Kodak processed-photo stock, and it says Kodak on the back. And the things that come out of it, after the ~1 minute it takes to print a...

Fortunately for me, I have money in several different bank accounts. Only one with a debit card though. I'm in the habit of using my debit card for most of my small purchases. I strongly dislike using a credit card for a $20 purchase, because then I get trapped into thinking "Why am I writing a...

I know of only one reasonably large-scale deployment of Raptors in an enterprise environment. An IT manager for one of the local casinos was in my office, waiting to start a CCNP upgrade exam (the testing area is located in my, uh, suite), and we discussed, briefly, what our jobs entailed. I...

Fortunately, good taste prevailed before I started posting conjecture as to what JtD might look like. Goatse.cx is down now, but there's lots of nasty stuff at rotten.com and/or newsfilter.org. So to Jake I can only say :P

Has any hard disk manufacturer EVER made a general-release firmware update for a drive? Or, assuming that such support is added, would it require a "rev. 2.0" version of the drive?

I don't recall seeing any external drive I own doing that. I turn off power management on all my machines. I don't suppose you've checked your power settings as a first step?

Lesson learned: Don't do that.

Naw, a bad profile will just give "Your profile will not be loaded. Using default." or somesuch. I've seen Windows handle that one dozens of times.