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That should be $270, if you've already got the PC. You guys are supposed to correct my math!

I do have another storage server idea, one that might be appealing to budget-conscious types. $150 P3 500, a lease-return machine, or maybe that Celeron 300A you've been ignoring for the last two years. Add a $30 Promise Fasttrack, four $60 80GB drives and a linux install, and for all of $240...

I was just looking at some things related to the storage server article and noticed that knoppix.org isn't distributing knoppix at the moment over concerns about European software patents. Which is a shame, 'cause I really wanted to discuss its use, per discussions in our storage server thread...

Building a Storage Server In this day and age, an 80GB hard disk is more than most computer users can fill, but at the same time, there are some in the world for whom even 800GB is not enough. 800GB? That’s around 133 DVDs. It’s 10,000 hours of reasonably high-quality MP3 music, or 1100...

As I understand things, official ATI open-source drivers for the Radeon have been added to xfree in the last couple of weeks. So, not yet, but if you're willing to wait through a refresh from your distro of choice (or compile xfree, which is not the easiest thing to do), it'll be here soon. No...

I'd suggest reading on the links in Blake's thread about making a router in the Computers forum. I know not everyone has the time to set up a router/firewall but that really is the best way to go.

For $7000, I think I'd get a kick-ass backend system and 802.11 to Terminal Services or something. I can't think of any reason to carry around something like that.

Some of you guys know this and some of you don't, but I tried for years and years (five of them, in fact) to get a professional, corporate-type job. If you can imagine going to interview after interview, taking call after call from recruiters for temp work, and not getting anything - during the...

Probably ditched her out back at the Tweed Coast. Tea probably likes the Tweed Coast. Glad you're back, Tannin. This place isn't the same without you.

That's a deer, man. They can jump pretty far and pretty high. That truck might've not hit it with its front end at all.

Hi HeddaLora. Welcome to our little group. The C200 is a 1MP point-and-shoot job. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done, especially if the job is taking photos that'll wind up on line. I've played with them, but the one thing I thought as I did was, "shouldn't this thing be a little cheaper?"...

The PhDs I work for at the local Purdue campus stand among the biggest group of (childish, immature, egotistical) boneheads I've ever met. There was more than a little sarcasm in my remark. :)

Yup, that's her. Salon is a great site. I don't visit as often as I should, partly because there are pretty much always stories related to my, uh, personal trauma. The first time I read this, it was heartbreaking in a way. I've probably been through those interviews. I certainly didn't get a...

You're probably making things harder than they need to be by using PDF. Granted, you're in academia, so maybe everyone isn't a total moron,, but in general, resumes should be in $%#ing Word format for minimum confusion. People who collect resumes can write all kinds of programs to manipulate and...

The XP version tends to operate FASTER on decent hardware. For real hell, try installing several versions within the same Windows installation. One of the women I work with has Office 95, 97, 2000 and XP, all installed on the same PC. Stuff is *always* breaking on that thing. I think in Office...

Bite me. No. Seriously. Bite me.

Exactly what education do you have, Mickey?

Like "master"? Or possibly "slave"?

Well, I started to make a joke about what kind of girl you're going to be marrying in Bangkok, but the soon-to-be Mrs. Saari probably wouldn't like it. Congratulations JoJo! Dammit, now I've gone and gotten that song from "Chess" stuck in my head.

It must be the something in the drinking water.

Have you fixed anything cool with toothpaste lately?

I more-or-less use this site for one.

I'll have nothing more from that guy and the freakish ass he's obviously talking out of.

Excuses, excuses. blah blah 20 hour blah. Don't they have buses and cell phones in Australia? Here's my suggestion. 1. Take several good books, possibly pillow and lap blanket. 2. Arrive in less important part of Australia. 3. Buy cell phone and several batteries. 4. Immediately board bus 5...

I pretty much have 2 or 3 word docs open at all times. I don't even have access or powerpoint installed (or outlook, but that should go without saying).

Drive to Ballarat and find Tony for us.

Unfortunately, Outlook is one of those things you can't get away from in the business world. I discourage its use whenever possible, but there's always some dumbass who actually WANTS to sync all the crap with their PocketPC instead of playing games with it like a normal person, or the asstard...

More surface area exposed to cooling.

The only place where I notice an improvement between Office versions is Outlook. The first couple versions were really, really, really, really awful. Outlook XP is only really really awful, so there's been improvement. The thing I notice about Office 2003 - I'm the only person I know using it...

I'm not positive but I think interupt requests depend on bus clock speed more than anything. I have some kernels of goodness for an article. I spent a couple hours on an outline this weekend.

SuSE is desktop-y like Mandrake. You might like it.

Your free trial is running out. It's from date of install. ;) If you - any of you - need more trial copies - I've got them. I'm not aware of any activation limit with the trial copies. My students all use the same number over and over. We haven't had a problem yet.

I #$%#-ing hate not having a ghost image of something.

I'm up late waiting for Windows 2003 to finish installing on a troubled PC.

I know the first Might and Magic came out in 1986 or 87, for the AppleII and PC, at least. It was one of a number of similar games (Bard's Tale, Dragon Wars) that sought to capture a pen-and-paper feel. The designer (John van Canegehm, or something like that) undoubtedly played Dungeons and...

Actually Coug, I was born December 10, 1975. I have pretty decent recollection back as far as 1978 or so. The original AD&D Players Handbook was released in 1979. The original DMG was released sometime in '80. I remember my brother being PO'd that he'd had to wait to actually find out how to...

My brothers (5 and 7 years older) both played AD&D. I learned when I was five years old or so, mostly because there weren't many kids in the town where I grew up. I remember getting the rulebooks taken away from me when I was in kindergarten, because the woman who was supposed to be teaching...

I don't know how much help I can be but... The biggest thing is to use the highest quality settings you can afford on your hardware. Even if your target is 352x240 for a VHS tape, it doesn't hurt to cap 5kbps 720x480 and downsample the result at the end. Something else: There are a variety of...

He'll learn better with two computers. Seriously. One to run *nix and the other for some form of Windows Server.

I'm 3 for 4 on Maxtor sending back bigger drives on those I've RMA'd. I've had two Maxtor drives fail on me in warranty period. One was a 740x, the other a DM8. Usually I get back about 20GB more than I sent in. One thing I will point out though, is that they've NEVER sent back the same kind...

That's a Zalman cooler. I don't think it will be loud. I have a 9800 Pro. It's not particularly loud. I don't notice it with the case on.

I had similar problems with a 40GB Quantum drive a few years ago. I swore up and down there wasn't anything wrong with the drive, except for the times when there was. Back your data up off that thing, jtr, and RMA it if you can; that might live several more months, but it's dying right now.

Has anyone else seen "Master and Commander" yet? It's a very realistic film. A bit like "Saving Private Ryan" in that there's a lot more sense of what it was like to be in that place and time. I enjoyed it immensely on several levels. But the main reason I ask is, I had a very hard time...

I believe CougTech is referring to ktech in this case, who I don't think broke the 5k barrier like some did pre-MBF, but certainly got to 3000 awfully fast in the weeks just after. Really, Coug, I am clinically depressed. Seeing things as "sucking less" than other things is just about as...

If they're doing something interesting and dynamic, you need to sell TWO servers, Buck, one for web and one to handle their DB or whatever server-side processing they're doing.

I don't know if I'm a bigger geek for immediately identifying the term "d20", knowing who Monte Cook is and what he's written, or the fact that I've been to his site more than once. :)

You're probably right. We can do that elsewhere.

I don't know what brand. They came from UpgradeNation.com, I think. They come in purple boxes with the cable and MovieFactory 2.

XP2800 GA7S748 non-integrated motherboard(1) 512MB PC2700 SP1213N hard disk Aopen realtek NIC(1) Optorite/Sony 4x DVD burner LiteOn 48x CDRW/DVD-ROM Dell 1901 LCD Crappy Enlight desktop case(2) (1) - Why that board, in particular? Well, the owner of the company I work for was trying to be...

Yes, but Koalas are evil