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That's 3.5 years, Coug, even if MBTF *did* mean "lifespan". Again, I know the Optorite drives are cheap, but I'm pretty sure they're just the drives Sony didn't feel like putting its name on. They are usable products, particularly given Fushigi's budgetary constraint.

That every Canadian can actually see a doctor when he or she is sick?

If you're in Euroland, why do you care so much about our politics?

After a little thought, I've decided this was a poor decision. Not going after a spammer... going after the WRONG spammer. Windows Messaging pop-ups are so easy to stop it's disgusting. Really. Even if you're a total moron. You don't know what causes them, but hey, right in the title bar for...

I've only ever used the 4x models. That 8x unit doesn't look anything like the ones I've bought (DD2203, according to their site).

Ever hear of Section 8 Housing, Bill? Granted, I'm not sure the federal government still specifically funds that program, but there certainly are government funded programs for providing shelter to those who can't afford it (I know, for example, that when Chicago demolished Cabrini Green, a lot...

And only 1.5 million direct from federal sources. The NEA and PBS are similarly self-supporting. It annoys me a great deal that certain people in our government claim that we need to stop supporting public broadcasting (all $1.5 million of it, for NPR), while they at the same time sponsor...

The 2.4GHz-equivalent area is more or less where AMD and Intel actually run together in terms of performance (with Intel breaking away over 2.8 or so).

There aren't any books yet for the new requirements. I teach with the McGraw-Hill "Mike Meyers A+ All in One Exam Guide", which has the distinct advantage of being readable, not as dry as the other books on the subject. Frankly, you and most of the other folk who visit here should be able to...

Getting new drives is a slightly more regular event at my house. I do check pin alignment before I install hardware. It's usually more of an issue with CPUs - one of the reasons I no longer buy CPUs locally is that I ran into too many that someone else had gotten before me - probably checking...

You know the requirements change on the 26th, right? Questions on Bluetooth and 802.11, XP and ME. I might be thinking of the recommended RAM for ME, I admit. The A+ test won't normally ask disk space requirements, except the confusing case of 98 FAT16 v. FAT32. You're much more likely to get...

Most states offer food aid to the poor already. Here in Indiana we call it EBT but most people still use the generic term "food stamps" People who use it aren't necessarily on welfare. A lot of them work, but can't afford to feed their families. People on food stamps can only buy certain...

WinXP requires a P2-300 with 1GB of disk space and 128MB RAM. Those exact same requires are also used by WinME.

That's "silicone implants". You knew that, I hope. I'd think a full ATX board of any type would be a little bit large for a lesbian android. I think perhaps something u-ATX or maybe one of those VIA SFF deals would be better for Adcadet's application. The bigger question is, what weapon system...

timwhit, I use Office-type binders (the kind meant to hold paper), since most of my collection just lives on bookshelves and doesn't travel around. The fabric binders I have come from CDProjects. Wallgreens has the big ones on sale about once every three months for maybe $15. The ebay one you...

Why do you need to sell one, bahngeist? The P4 probably has a higher resale value. That Intel name and the extra RAM are what people would look at.

So why build all the robot women? Guys, I think we should keep an eye on adcadet. I think he's building an army of lesbian robots in a psychotic attempt to rule the greater St. Paul metroplex.

It's my belief that health care should be considered a basic service. Does anyone think that a sick person shouldn't be cared for just because s/he doesn't have a Free Pass from BlueCross? Does anyone actually think people will go out and get sick on purpose? "Quick, breathe on me, Mr. SARS...

Hilariously, I just sent a drive back to newegg only to receive the same, still bad and certainly not repaired drive back. After dealing with a shipping mishap that's taken over a month to correct, I don't know if I'm willing to deal with them.

Apparently A.D. is building a robot woman that likes other women. I've been down that road and it's really not pretty. If anything, he must be building two robot women, although that leads to some confusion about what he's doing for his wife. Hopefully there's a little man for her already.

Since I missed this thread, too, I'll go one step better and suggest webmin, which has a very handy interface for working with samba, among other tricks. It is really very easy to get samba working for simple network file sharing. The only complexities are things like password synching and...

And just to add to the confusion, I've seen CPUs that have been damaged during installation (chipped), do similar things. Although that one is at least easy to verify.

So what are you doing for the Robot-Woman?

Gigabyte boards are really just about as nice as things get without moving into Tyan/SuperMicro workstation boards. Little touches like color coding all the connectors on the front I/O header, rounding the edges of the board and the aforemention plastic coating around the ZIF socket add up to...

AllStarMicro will sell you a 64MB Radeon 9200 VIVO for like $60. Even if you think "I'll never need Video In", it's very cool to have. The 9600 is a very respectable card though. If it fits your budget, I don't see a problem with buying one.

I listen to NPR every day. It's marvelous news.

Well Bill, the first thing we'd have to do is pick a model for coverage, then determine how much it cost, and then extrapolate a few decades. Is that what you're proposing?

Unlike Dell, IBM has an army of VARs and consultants, including its various service arms, to explain and promote its products. The challenge when dealing with IBM is getting to the actual experts, instead of the random know-nothings that float around most service firms. Dealing with IBM can be...

q: Why shoud we, as a nation of self-reliant individuals, pay for public education, even if we don't use it? a: Because doing so improves the quality of life for our communities and our nation(s). Employers that provide health insurance to you and your family aren't doing it out of the joy...

IIRC Mr. Happy Face is from Norway.

Both Dahmer and Bundy had a stronger sexual element to their predation. The Green River guy killed prostitutes because he didn't like them which, OK, that's slightly sexual, but it's not like the Dahmer fascination with sex zombies (he liked to pour acid into the skulls of his still-living...

I am aware of that. HOWEVER current economic policies in the US have been sold as "promoting job growth". This has not happened even though current economic indicators show that our economy *is* growing. So what are businesses doing with that money if they aren't expanding?

There are sick, sick people in the world. The remake of the Texas Chainsaw movie reminds me that the real-life story of Ed Gein has spawned three of the most memorable villians in movie history (Buffalo Bill from "Silence of the Lambs", Norman Bates from "Psycho" and the Texas Chainsaw guy...

I care, about both topics. "Jobless recovery" means that busineses are becoming more valuable (richer) without giving anything back. On one hand, part of the business where I work as a trainer is teaching the unemployed new skills, but since most of the guys I know who have finished high levels...

e_dawg, would you actually sell an overclocked config to a customer? Is anyone using the new 1.6 and 1.7GHz Durons?

They APPEAR to me to be OEM'd Sony burners. I'm not sure. I've installed a few dozen of them. Optorite is at the utter bottom of the barrel, down with Cyberdrive and MSI, in the CD-ROM department, but I'm pretty sure their DVD writers are OEM'd units by any other name. They come with a full year...

I prefer dark meat, so the not-all-white meat McNugget (which, incidently, is basted in beef broth repeatedly during preparation. That's probably enough to give a vegan nightmares) is superior to all those other places that have flavorless white-meat strips. I'm shocked to learn that ANYONE...

Nice new sig, by the way.

Gigabyte boards have a plastic coating in the areas around the CPU to keep that sort of damage from happening, EdwardK. One of the little touches that keeps 'em at the top of my "buy" list. Tannin and myself have both voiced negative opinions of Abit in the past (and we probably aren't the only...

My last few builds have been: Shuttle AN35N-Ultra XP2700 Crucial 512MB PC2700 Samsung SP1213N or SP1614N (8MB cache models) OptoRite DD0203 Dual Format DVD Burner -or- LiteOn LTC-48161H (DVD/CD-RW combo) 64MB Sapphire 7000 or 9200 VIVO (price difference is $25 for video-in) These are builds...

256MB or 512, adriel?

I'm thinking that it's the end of the year, and for the greatest portion of it, we haven't been through our usual, ongoing discussion about PC building and price points and best parts for the money. So... What's everyone who builds PCs from time to time putting in their systems right now?

Not quite. Different VMs work with different specifications of the language, and some leverage proprietary extensions (coughMScough). In theory, given the same language spec, the VMs should work the same, albeit more slowly or quickly depending on implementation. Microsoft lost a lawsuit to Sun...

Well, it's xmas time already, and at my training company that means breaking out fun classes in consumer electronics. This year, because of lab upgrades and student interest, I've been asked to do a short class in video editing. On short notice. And a stipulation that the software I teach be...

Microsoft's VM is serviceable but old. It doesn't match up to date specs, and some new apps made for actual cross platform compatibility won't work with it (most java apps are made to work with the Microsoft's VM). Sun's is completely up to date. It's not well optimized for Windows, probably for...

ZIP codes weren't made mandatory until 1967. The post office does still make an effort to deliver mail without them, though. There's all kinds of stories about oddly-addressed or lost mail that manages to get delivered to the right person. FM really wasn't interesting until it could do stereo...

Yet President Asstard has no problems sending our troops to foreign lands so they can engage in "low-intensity conflicts" that result in "high intensity body bags", and then has the nerve to address all his made-up terrorist hobgoblins and actual rogue nations with the words "Bring it on." Oh...

You'll be a Hairy Aussie in no time!

Sadly, the US is full of people who will vote for him, based on rhetoric about his made-up "war on terror" and his status as a "friend of bidness" and an anti-intellectual good-ol'-boy. Speaking of Vietnam, the situation in Iraq seems to be heading more-and-more that way all the time. We'll...

SnapStream PVS is awesome beyond words. Screw Tivo, the $65 I spent getting Snapstream justified every penny I have in my HTPC. Besides, how many Tivos can hold 800GB? Also, Punch Drunk Love remains the best movie I've seen in the last two years. Fushigi - Sorry, no other Lem fiction. I've...