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  1. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    I had a couple of PMs lately in which someone asked about my current state of mind. It hasn't changed. I don't know what's going to make the difference in my life. I've been thinking about that a lot, trying to come up with a combination of events that might give me some kind of relief. I...
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    Writing something

    I'm trying to write something but words aren't coming. I actually set aside time and... nothing. Poof. Argh.
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    Splash: What are you using for new systems at work?

    80 - 110MB/s isn't all that much when you've got a 2 drive RAID0 and 1000BaseT. 32/33 PCI really is a bottleneck in higher-end performance.
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    What about Howard Dean?

    Perhaps we'll end up with a good, working system like Canada's. IMO that should probably be our national model, since our elderly are already getting on buses and taking daytrips to pharmacies anyway. 20% of Americans have no healthcare. 40something million people. You don't think that's a big...
  5. Mercutio

    Building a dirt-cheap HTPC....

    If it's a theater PC, it positively needs an nforce2 board anyway.
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    What about Howard Dean?

    Dean's plan would repeal the Bush tax cuts, and most of the other candidates would either repeal them completely or at least reduce them. Clark's plan involves tax credits to defray premium costs for families, and full coverage for high school and college-age students. The coverage offered...
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    What about Howard Dean?

    So exactly which rich prick would you vote for who is *not* supported by special interests? Clark's campaign is largely financed and managed by FOBs (friends of Bill). Kerry is independently wealthy by marriage. Dean isn't taking matching funds. His money can come from anywhere. We only...
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    What about Howard Dean?

    Tell that to the couple million people who lost their jobs during the Bush appointment. Kinda neat how that coincides with rising corporate profits.
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    Tools to make Gecko browsers rule even more

    Ted's Mozilla Page - Home of Flash Click to View and Mouse Rocker Navigation.
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    What about Howard Dean?

    That pre-supposes he was elected in the first place.
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    What about Howard Dean?

    I've given money to the Dean campaign, because he elected not to take federal matching funds, but I think I like John Edwards in the national run. He seems more charismatic and holds populist positions very well. Edwards has a little baggage in a Senate Investigation of certain campaign...
  12. Mercutio

    So, um, where is everyone?

    Forum is unusually quiet for a weekday. How am I supposed to fill my workday anything to read on SF?
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    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    Newegg doesn't seem to sell any SiS 651-based boards... and I just got an email from them that says the board I'd ordered Friday isn't in stock right now. Oddly enough it looks in stock when I go to their page. I can either wait or pick another. <grumble grumble>
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    Brrrrrrrr....so bloody cold

    Nothing to do with the weather, just some interesting comments from that speech on a very important day for the national political process.
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    [NEWS] - It's about damn time

    If you're using an onboard DAC of any kind (ie, an analog output), you're subjecting your output to the predations of gobs and gobs of EMI. Hence, crappiness. Digital output to an external decoder - a receiver, basically, makes everything better. PC speakers, even fairly high-end ones like...
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    [NEWS] - It's about damn time

    It *is* a big deal, because it WILL lead to wider proliferation of multichannel audio setups. Just... really crappy ones. Still, as multichannel hardware becomes more common, more and more people will be interested in true multichannel content, like the SACDs I like so much, or perhaps more...
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    DVD Shrink 3.1.1 Released

    I think I like the 3.5 Beta better than the 3.1 series. The new ones don't do selectable compression the same way as the older ones. :(
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    Article on Longhorns news file system

    Not really. Mostly it's a convienence factor. I guess you might manage to improve performance by mounting an important directory on a different, faster drive or something...
  19. Mercutio

    Wireless Network Problem

    You may have a bad antenna. I've had that problem before. Also, try moving to channel 11 if possible. It doesn't overlap with cordless phones.
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    Article on Longhorns news file system

    GNU's fdisk isn't bad, nor Disk Druid (another OSS tool). diskpart.exe accesses the same APIs as Windows' Disk Management, and can be made to do a few things the graphical tool can't, like extend partitions on basic disks.
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    Building a (really cheap) Server

    Gods yes. You could move dozens of those little bitty MP3 streams around before you'd notice any difference.
  22. Mercutio

    Alternative Browser

    ... and thereafter begins to render them in an initially incorrect fashion, causing those same page objects to jump around the page like hyperactive epileptics, before coming to a stop in the correct locations that Moz and IE would already have determined. Could be, although I only used...
  23. Mercutio

    [NEWS] - Memtest86+ v1.0

    There's a 6:00AM on Sunday?
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    I received this hilarious spam

    Large, but oddly apropos cartoon on this subject
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    Replace Epox with MSI?

    I have a few 7VT600s in service and 52 7S748s (the motherboards my boss purchased for our labs). The boards are functionally identical and the experience of using them from a technician's perspective was more-or-less identical, as it is with every other gigabyte board. I am not a SiS fan by any...
  26. Mercutio

    Alternative Browser

    Stop button: It's enabled for me in Firebird if there are any animations playing on a page. When the animations stop, it's disabled. That's fine. I'm also quite happy that it has a consistent location; with Opera, if I ever had a CHANCE to click it, I'd have to remember which button it was...
  27. Mercutio

    Never, ever, buy something from ecsauctions.com

    Ebay does have an arbitration system but sellers and buyers are strongly encouraged not to use it. I've complained to ebay several dozen times for fraudulent auctions and shill bidding. I've never seen any action taken. I doubt they'll do much for you either.
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    Alternative Browser

    Day 1, hour 8: Every once in awhile the cursor goes off in the weeks and I have to TAB it back to where I wanted. Not sure why. Scroll wheel: In firebird I go into about: config and set it to move 1 screen at a time. Opera doesn't seem to do this. Lots of wheel movement, just like IE, to scroll...
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    Alternative Browser

    Day 1, Hour 7: The squamous close tab "x" is WAY too close to the regular Windows Close button. I have now closed Opera twice when I meant to close a tab. Good thing Opera has all those recovery features. Apparently the "Stop" button on the main toolbar flashes for about 1/2 second when I click...
  30. Mercutio

    Epox 8KHA+ leaky capacitors

    There have been at least two stories on /. on that very topic, and one on an individual selling capacitor replacement kits as well as offering resoldering service. This *is* an epedemic, and it'll probably take some time to resolve itself. A couple years ago I actually had a cap explode off an...
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    Alternative Browser

    Day 1, minute 5: I have installed Opera 7.23. The default skin looks like blue-on-gray plastic. Quickly switched to "text only" buttons, to save eyesight, sanity. Day 1, minute 11: Still can't find a "stop" button. Day 1, minute 14: Elements on page keep moving around as page is rendered. This...
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    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    In my experience, SiS has made a lot of chips that would've done better in a landfill than a motherboard. My memory stretches back to 386 and 486 machines, but even so its rise from the muck is a VERY recent event, and I am not yet inclined to trust that current SiS chipsets aren't just a case...
  33. Mercutio

    I started running again

    Please don't joke about that, David. I make acerbic and witty comments from time to time but for that one matter the jokes cut a little too close. I can't really write about it, but I was with someone for 12 years, and even now there is nothing I would like to do but make her happy. Only, I...
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    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    I like Gigabyte. No SiS in Gigabyte's 754 lineup. Which is OK. I'm wary of SiS-based boards anyway. I'm disappointed that Soundstorm isn't available for nforce3, which would've broken a tie between a Via and an nForce3 board (they're functionally indentical) but as it was I flipped a coin. If...
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    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    I won't have the parts for a week. :(
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    Athlon64 3000 - who's taking the $215 plunge?

    Done. Bought a GAK8N nforce3 board and a retail 64/3000. I'm downloading XP 64-bit for Extended Editions from MSDN right now.
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    Alternative Browser

    That's only two sentences. Hint: count the periods.
  38. Mercutio

    I started running again

    Dude, I slept in the same bed with a woman for four years and never technically got to do that. What makes you think I'm going to get it now? No, I'm not kidding.
  39. Mercutio

    Alternative Browser

    To continue this debate, I am the process of pirating Opera 7.23. I will use it for the next couple days and, after washing the heathen code from the sacrificial DM9+ and properly annointing it with pr0n, will report on how much I continue to hate it.
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    [NEWS] - Novell offers protection for it's Linux customers

    Novell didn't *have* to indemnify SuSE customers at all, but it did. It got a lot of positive press for doing so. So to re-phrase, was this a positive PR move, or was there a serious need to reassure SuSE/Novell customers?
  41. Mercutio

    Certifications

    I know the first exam looks dead simple. I have study materials I can email you. Are you still at the same address?
  42. Mercutio

    I started running again

    I used my large gym contraption for about a month, then the central tension cable that attaches to the weights snapped, knocking me on my ass. It's apparently not repairable without a great deal more mechanical skill than I have, so now I use it to hang my coat and various computer parts. I...
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    [NEWS] - Novell offers protection for it's Linux customers

    I can't decide if I'm interested in Novell's Linux strategy or not. Part of me thinks it's a case of a management grudge against Microsoft more than any interest in the technology, another part thinks we have a match made in Server heaven... except SuSE has always been a desktop-focussed distro...
  44. Mercutio

    [NEWS] - Apache use growing

    Er, why? IIS is pathetically simple to administer. The only thing that was on that exam that you might not be able to figure out without basic, grade-school literacy were the SQL error codes. IIS6 continues the trend. It doens't impress me overmuch, even though it breaks Windows' rules by...
  45. Mercutio

    Happy two-years

    Good to see you again, C.
  46. Mercutio

    Another PayPal question...

    I'll take care of it for you, Coug. You can pay me whenever. I can xfer funds into your paypal account. They won't let you go into deficit.
  47. Mercutio

    StorageForum Statistics page

    It would be interesting to get your take on the discussions the precipitated those events, LM. Especially now that 6 months have passed. This is the heart of the matter. I don't think I post too much, nor you nor Blake, nor Tannin (when he's in the mood). We seem to have a solid core of VERY...
  48. Mercutio

    Brrrrrrrr....so bloody cold

    Fookin' New England pansies. Oh! It's 30 below! Looks like we can't put on our ballerina slippers and merrily prance about Jack Frost's Icy Kingdom to-day. We'll have to stay in-of-doors and drink warm milk and think fondly of by-gone friends. Do they not make coats, hats and gloves for you...
  49. Mercutio

    Happy two-years

    This thread hurts my eyes.
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