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Bush just lots a whole bunch of votes in Northwest Indiana. w00t! Honestly, I think protective tariffs are a dumb idea all the way around, except in the case of dumping, but since that's what happens when we open steel markets... Paying farmers not to grow anything DOES have an interesting side...

Both Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan (the last man on the moon), went to Purdue. Meeting the two of them, at the same time, is a memory I can genuinely treasure, even if all they did was shake my hand. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the US had far, far more knowledge of Sept. 11 than is...

NT's graphical-ness was bolted on in NT4, it was NOT designed that way. Yes, the graphics are in the kernel now, and it's very hard to make XP start up as console-only, but all the system-level utilities have a command-line component, and the entire operating system can be run from a prompt.

I keep thinking I'm going to buy a new laptop but all the subnotebooks I find have those asstastical Celerons in 'em. Has anyone else tried the new Duron 1600 chips? I saw 'em on newegg for $40 and bought a couple. In terms of raw performance they really do appear to equal standard-issue...

The biggest unions sold out in the 70s, but the causes of workers still need to be championed, especially in these days of throw-away employees. Public School Teachers and steelworkers get shit on. They'd get even more shit on if they didn't have some kind of collective power.

George Bush is an actively evil and stupid person, but I don't think that makes the moon landings of the 1970s a hoax. We've had 35ish years for something to come out from a person who might've been affliated with a hoax. We haven't. We *do* have moon rocks and dust and stuff, and I've...

Sort of. It maintains a Master File Table, which Windows 2000 and up will recognize. If you put a dynamic disk on a Win98 PC and run fdisk, it shows up as "Non DOS disk" instead of as being an unreadable NTFS (large) volume. Take my word for it, they're perfectly interchangable as long as you...

My brother's theater includes 10 subwoofers and at least 15 speakers; that's EXACTLY what he did(*). My main receiver could do 7.1 without problem and a slightly higher-end Carver Sunfire (drool) can process 9.2 with an extra amplifier. The bass signal is mono, so it's really easy to split it to...

Whoops. Just ignore me. If you're doing DPL2, your receiver must only be a 2 - 3 years old and is not in need of upgrade.

$250 buys quite a lot of receiver these days. Something like an Onkyo TX-SR501 or 601 is probably right in that ballpark and a fabulous buy. Put off your surrounds and spend some cash on an upgraded center. Video switching alone will make that purchase worthwhile.

I'd suggest getting a copy of Scott Archer's "Designing a Windows 2000 Active Directory Infrastructure", finding the individual responsible for that mess, and playing whack-a-mole with his head until you're exhausted. Internally, there's really not much reason for your guys to be using .com for...

Get the astroglide and a Hindi-to-English dictionary, 'cause here's yet another hilarious example of how much love Dell has for us all. That's right: If you're a Dell customer, and call to get help with Bonzi Buddy or new.net, they won't help you. Isn't it nice to know that's what Dell...

Most new receivers also support Dolby Pro Logic II and Neo:6 listening modes, both of which involve the rear speakers even more than most 5.1 movie soundtracks. Depending on what you're listening to, the surround channels can either add "presence" by duping the left and right on a slight delay...

Try making a new Outlook profile for him. You can always add his existing PST as a data source later, if that works. His PC is part of an appropriate domain, right? And if not, is he at least part of a domain with a trust relationship with the one containing your exchange servers?

I like being under blankets. In my old apartment, I didn't realize that my heat didn't work until January. I woke up one morning and it was 40F inside 'cause I had left a bunch of windows open during a sudden temperature drop.

That all looks very run-of-the-mill to me, Greg.

Eric fits in well here. We seem to have a large share of members who are depressed and (WAY) overstressed. Probably even more than are willing to admit it. Not that I'm one to be offering advice on any such topic. Good luck Eric.

Look under "TV Wonder". Note: I wouldn't wish that card on Osama Bin Laden* *"W" can have it, though. If you're using ATI, there are compelling reasons to use MMC for capture, namely, support for Video Soap. Mostly, I work in Virtualdubmod, cap with Huffyuv and send the output to...

Joliet reads just like ISO9660 on OS9. 8.3. The pain of DOS will live for eternity.

I appreciate the sound of Dipole speakers for music, something like a Wharfedale WH-2MP. For entry-level bookshelf-type surrounds try something like a pair of Acoustic Research AR17 (smaller) or AR15 (bigger). They should come in right at your budget and are well wirth the $150 or so a pair...

That should be $50 for 36 feet. Is your set-up primarily geared for movies/TV or for music, Buck? And what kind of budget for these misbegotten speakers?

I usually buy Belkin. Costs me $10 for 6 6' pieces + maybe $10 more in corner pieces . They're supposed to be self-adhering. They aren't. Install with a staple gun.

Macs read ISO9660 CDs, just like everything else. I strongly suspect they support Joliet extensions as well. UNIX systems needs Rock Ridge extentions but Linux can handle Joliet without any problem.

The classic "consumer" wireless speakers are made by Advent. The problem with those units is that they work with a Rectocon wireless transceiver, which expects RCA stereo inputs, NOT speaker cables, which means they won't work as surround channels. At least, not the ones I've seen. The...

What it comes down to is talking the guy out of RAID0 for everything. His OS will be on a WD800JB that he already has. I'm hoping to convince him to take RAID1 + RAID0 on different volumes but I freely admit that I don't fully understand what he's doing yet - some kind of digital sound mixing...

That's the 13G0255 - 250GB version. Anyway, it'd be nice for some pictures.

Approximately 1TB disregarding RAID config. I'm building a digital audio workstation this weekend (if I feel up to it. My foot is #$%#ing killing me) that's going to use a Promise TX4000 controller and 4 SATA 7k250s, on a Gigabyte 8I875. College kids and their money (he wouldn't spring for the...

I'm probably the only one who remembers the good old days of alt.cascade. There was a whole newsgroup dedicated to nesting quotes. It was great fun for the people who couldn't figure out how to uudecode binaries (porn). Lutefisk > Lutefisk > > Lutefisk > > > Lutefisk > > > > Lutefisk...

Anyone here seen the 1975 version of Rollerball? I just watched it for the first time. It's almost frighteningly prophetic in this context.

If you can score a copy of Ulead MovieFactory, you can do all of the above with that. It's not an ideal solution, but it's not bad, either. For AIW-type cards, I like capping with MMC directly and editing with vdub.

Cable select is a standard, AD. It certainly should work.

Tried installing Toast (or something similar) yet? Windows 98 and 2000 call 'em CD-ROMs, too.

Can you describe the exact jumper settings on your drives? eg. IDE0 M=WD80GB, S=DVD or whatever. Have you tried them all in cable select mode?

What did you use to affect the transfer? Ghost? WD's program?

I've already given a bunch of money to Clark and to Dean, but unfortunately, I think the blank "war" check we let Mr. Bush write two years ago will keep him in office. (Besides, I live in the state that gave the world "Senator Quayle") The outrageous thing is that our economy - measured at...

To be honest mubs, I probably don't strike most white collar types as corporate material. There are "guys like Merc"... and mubs, and i and Howell who struggle constantly with employment. Ours is not an easy path. We contract and we temp and we never get to know the people around us or the...

Are you refering to typing - which Eric has 'e're been notably imperfect, or his conduct? I don't see any reason to question conduct from that post. Also, the dynamic disk thing? The volume information makes its home in the MFT instead of the boot record (it breaks fdisk), and is accessible...

The built-by-ATI cards have fans. <boo hiss!!> Sapphire has really taken a leadership position by offering even R300-based cards without 'em. The other option is the good ol' bt8x8. Those have an advantage or two - support for dscaler if you're doing HTPC stuff, and of course they ARE cheap...

The 3.9 Omega Catalyst Drivers seemed to eliminate whole swathes of problems I was having with Snapstream PVS and the couple of games I have installed. Installed ATI's AIW support files with Catalyst 3.9 appears to be a one-way ticket to hell for a gamer.

There's a Puerto Rican/Cuban/Mexican market not too far from my house. I'll have to try that recipe sometime. In fact, I've probably had them but since I don't speak Spanish and the clerks there don't speak English, I'm never quite sure what I'm ordering from their deli. I do very well with...

How much money do you have? I'd suggest a 64MB ATI 9200 VIVO, if you can find one. They were about $60 apiece but the supply died up about two weeks ago in the US.

That's 5 or 6 km/l, Pradeep. Almost certainly not worth the money.

I'm not quite capable of navigating stairs, so it's been a day on the couch with my laptop. Until it ran out of battery. Then I napped. And then woke up, realized I wasn't done napping, and promptly got back to business. Very pleasant except for the throbbing parts below my knees (see, I'm...

I think I'd stick with a card rather than integrated graphics. But then, I have a well-known dislike of certain N-word hardware manufacturers. Still, the ATI 7000 makes a very nice 2D image, and that's more than I can say for nvidia, Intel and S3-based integrated graphics.

Thanks guys. I'm sure I'll be fine.

I'm home now. They gave me something to calm me down first thing. Gurts worse now than when it happened. It didn't hurt at all until the nurses started poking at my feet and washing them and stuff. That was the wisrt part. It was not fun. Doctors suck. Hospitals suck. Mean nurses suck most of...

Since i just tore the entire bootom of my right foot off, I think I can safely say I've had better. Waiting for the abulance to come now. glass bootl efell in shower while I was in there. Stepped on it went crunch.

What the bloody hell are we going to do without Tea? I swear, the women in my life always desert me. grumble grumble grumble grumble

Two words: Bad Santa I laughed so hard I almost passed out. "Santa was with an unclean woman." kinda sums up the whole thing.

I *own* a PDA. It's a little Toshiba deal I use for surveying 802.11 networks. Sometimes, when I'm bored, I play Defender or Breakout. I'd certainly never do anything so silly as actually try to input something on it. If you need scheduling software, my best advice is this: Try something...