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That's not a bad thing. Plus, I am omnipresent, so that's one of those 4 - 10 right there. :)

Plus, it is absolutely not possible to have internet browsing habits that're more "suspicious" than mine, and *I* don't get email about horse whips very often. :)

If you'd like to do an author search for threads by PW, you can read all about it yourself.

No friends. No conversations unless they're about computers (usually someone asking for help). Barely see coworkers - private office with my own bathroom and kitchen, and I'm almost always teaching News comes from National Public Radio. Don't ever watch commercials, even though I watch some...

I thought "Simon Cowell" was some kind of Canadian celebrity. I did a google and apparently American Idol is some kind of big-deal TV show. I'd never heard of it.

What am I not being serious about?

I have a Seagate 20MB MFM drive out in my garage.

It's actually 8 Maxtor drives in RAID10, and 2 "loose" 120GB Samsung drives run off the motherboard. It runs 2000 Server on an AMD2800 with 1GB RAM. I went on a buying spree not too long ago. It's about 3/4 full with video. Not even half of it is pr0n.

I did try myth some time ago, and I wasn't really impressed with it. Snapstream impresses me, it just doesn't work very well. :( I suppose some improvements might've been made in ~7 months, but to be honest, none of my Linux machines are set up with hardware to make an attempt at video capture...

The reason I own a tivo is that snapstream won't stop crashing. If I load nforce2 IDE drivers, I get crashes after as little as 2 minutes. Wrong version of MMC? Crash. Wrong 3ware driver? Take a wild guess... These aren't app errors or bluescreens, these are land-of-DOS hard locks. Snapstream...

ATI doesn't have an HD capture solution at the moment and Snapstream doesn't support HD either. 720p = 1280x720 = no way on current capture hardware. And Snapstream doesn't belong in the same sentence, without a negative modifier, to the "S" word. You know, "stable". The PVR card DOES bring...

It's pretty easy to set up and manage. Per e_dawg, there are some idiots (not that e_dawg is an idiot) for whom the insta-upgrade between utterly-inadequate-for-anything-but-prototyping MS Access and SQL Server makes it the ONLY solution.

Ooh! Ooh! Me too.

Since I was playing with it last night: Remember how I said the WinTV PVR software is bad, and that the card doesn't work with most external capture programs? Well, let me tell you how bad it really is: The recording feature does not have a timer. That's right. If you're recording, you'd...

Certainly not me. And e_dawg, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Pro Tools is a very common Mac-based mixing/looping/sampling program. For a DJ or amateur performaner, it's a gift from the gods. It's REALLY easy to use and you can work miracles with it. But, because it's really easy to use, there's no effort involved. It's very much a case of "throw shit on...

There are drivers for Linux and OSX also. And the driver is for directly attached storage only.

BTX?

IIRC the 160GB 7200.7 SATA has a 3 year warranty. The most recent drives I've purchased for myself have been MaxLine II 250GB models. Those have been the only exception I've made to the "only Samsung" rule in the last eight months.

Do you have a MIME type set for .doc as x-msword?

It can't be anything but noise. Seagate and Samsung drivers exist largely to make Maxtor, IBM and WD drives look faster, I think. Can't be price. Everyone else is cheaper (in small quantities, anyway). Go look at any page of price listings on pricewatch. Let me know how many times you had to...

I could write a great big long rant about popular music, but the thing that KILLS me is that I had 12 years of classical voice and piano, and I'm passable on maybe a half-dozen other instruments, and I don't think of myself as a musician. Now, some dumbass with a copy of Pro Tools can make a...

Speaking of disk-related goodness, my local Best Buy is selling a 160GB NAS for $200. Sweet!

CDex is fantastic software. Absolutely something worth money.

Pinnacle is really, really awful. Use Ulead or Sony's software instead. See my post about video editing class for more.

And, since I'm cleaning off my desk and I can finally see them again, next to my stuffed Cthulhu teddy-dark-elder-god, I have an Android's Dungeon playset with Comic book Guy, Prof. Frink, Hank Scorpio and Dr. Stephen Hawking action figures (also a wind-up Bender from Futurama).

-or- Comic Book Guy: We are hardly nerds. Would a nerd wear such an irreverent sweatshirt? Lisa: [reading the shirt] "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN". Lisa: Oh, only one person in a million would find that funny. Professor Frink: Yes, we call that the "Dennis Miller Ratio."

MMMmmm Unexplained Bacon.

My drive was $130 with $25 in instant rebate (isn't that a funny term? Why not just change the pricetag?) and $30 in MIR.

Does anyone really want to know if a bunch of harelipped geriatric transvestites can or can not get "satisfaction". Frankly the thought of the shambling corpses that make up the Rolling Stones doing anything remotely related to sexual gratification is as stomach-churning as plain old...

Have you done an SFC on it? I've seen the "displays help for the wrong command" thing before, and seen SFC fix it. For the rest, who can say for sure? Colo'd equipment might be making horrible grinding fan noises and you'd never know.

The LC02 is in fact several kinds of lust-inspiring but I have to wonder if it's worth $175 with no PSU. It sure is a pretty case though. The generic 2x PCI or 1xAGP+1xPCI riser is really interesting, however, since a component like that would be the perfect solution for my needs. I've got a...

The main reason I bought it was to have a burner that wasn't a Sony (Nero 6.3.0.2 calls it "Generic 4x DVDRW", in fact). It has a cheap tray mechanism that releases discs at variable speeds (sometimes the disc is still spinning, sometimes it seems to take a day and a half to eject at all). The...

I've discovered that my crappy I/O magic DVDRW burns every 1x disc "-r" I've put in it at 2x and every 2x "-r" disc I've put in as 4x. Tested with an ~950MB MPEG2 video as a video DVD. 3 brands of 1x: Ritek, Verbatim and Khypermedia Burn times are around 9 minutes. 4 brands of 2x: Ritek...

1. The Rolling Stones deserve painful, hideous death. I say that about a lot of things. I'm a very bitter man. But as usual, I mean it. In 1998 I was contracting for a video production company in Chicago. It was a cool job, moving SGI video servers to NT4. Shortly after I started, someone who...

Yeah, that was the first replacement I thought of, too. I *really* like the Sonata. Spent the last 20 minutes looking at microATX desktops. They all have something wrong. Either 1/2 height PCI or they're too big for set-top applications. My idea was to build a semi-portable PC that replicates...

I've had x10.com blocked out of my hosts file since the first time I saw their popup (Netscape 4 days). If x10 makes anything but ads, I'd never know it. :)

The Via media thingy has an OEM ATI Remote Wonder that also includes an infrared transmitter, for $35. That could make a dream remote for a lot of people. Also, I started putting my little SFF guy together and just discovered that it can only handle 1/2 height PCI cards. So much for a set-top...

Well, that's how it's pronounced, but I'm fairly certain it's never briney sea creatures I'm looking at.

When DVD-ROM was a new format, dual-layer disks were not available for pressing. Dual-sided discs are still cheaper than dual-layer (the layers have to be pressed seperately), so some (ahem) video companies still use them. If you really want, there are dual-sided blank DVD-Rs, too. The DVD...

I think SR needs a page redesign on their computers forum. Maybe if the top 1/3 of the page was a 72-point bold, underlined "Search" textbox, newbies might use it. ;)

I think I'd like to finish the storage server article someday instead. Cripes I'm pathetic.

I list "pr0n" in under Interests in my profile. How straight-edged can I be?

Some older DVDs require a flip, too. One of the features on my oldest DVD mega-changer is that it identifies and automatically plays the second side of two-sided DVDs from Sony Pictures.

The big question is "why"? dvdshrink is a program I would gladly pay for. Unlike other, crappier DVD-stealing programs, it does what it advertises without hiccups or bugs. No outcry has been made of its author's legal troubles (does he have any?) nor has anyone solicited for donations. Why...

Well, at least we haven't heard from the Aussies yet. BTW, this week is statistically the coldest part of winter for US residents.

As of 4 days ago the official one was still 2.4. If you visit their forums there are several variations being maintained outside Knoppix. There's probably somebody with a 2.6 (maybe even 2.6.1) based distro.

The 9600 uses the semi-hardware-encoding-but-only-with-MMC Theater 200 chip, just like the other expensive ATI cards. It has a radio tuner (cool, if you listen to radio programs regularly) and a much less severe cooling setup than the other high-end cards. Also, it doesn't draw so much power...

... and $500 cheaper if you use *nix instead of 2003 Server. $1050 (drives + OS) buys 6 250GB Maxtor drives. Of course, that's less impressive on a 4-drive 3ware card...

Via Media Center thingy link.