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Anyone else get a real sinking feeling as they read that? Damned shame.

I just outfitted a classroom with Sony dual format drives. <sob> Oh well. Any word on availability of the *GOOD* drives?

There's always Linux, Jan.

A score of 7 EQ really makes it seem like there's something wrong there, doesn't it? It's not like I'm an unfeeling sociopath or anything... There's just a very large gap between "the people I care about" and "all the filler people." Amy always said I was extremely sensitive toward her. I...

I don't know the answer to that question, jtr.

Fushigi, I think Comcast has largely moved or is moving to a 3Mbps downstream service.

It's just that they'd never seen a pair of boobs that big before, Howell. You really ought to stap those things down or something. :D

My scores were 7 for EQ and 62 for SQ. I did it by hand.

386 CPUs ran 16-bit Windows 3.1 pretty well, despite being 32-bit processors. I'll bet Athlon 64's do OK with XP, too. Running 32-bit code on a 64-bit chip is inefficient, sure, but if you remember back that far, it wasn't like you gained speed going from Windows 3.1 to OS/2, Linux or Windows 95.

At least they're responsive. Just about the perfect online vendor IMO.

I'm interested in that chart. Most non-retail drives still end up in the hands of ignorant non-computer people. Maybe the initial buyer "knows what he's doing", but I can assure you that 99% of the drives are going to end up in the hands of people who don't.

This is a social environment, but it is distinctly not face to face. I can take the time to be articulate in my comments here without having to deal with the stress of nonverbal communication. Body language and facial expression are things that I don't seem to process very well. Very possibly a...

Doug, what you really want to do is get a copy of the IE Administrator's kit to grab the whole install of IE6 SP 1. You can use that to grab the relevant install files to COMPLETELY reinstall IE. With that in hand, CraigLC can completely uninstall IE (as completely as Windows will let him...

Sun has $6 billion in the bank. There will be a long downward spiral unless the whole world suddenly discovers another need for expensive non-commodity, high-I/O minicomputers. It also has no sustainable markets anywhere but the high end, as far as I can see. Sun is really the last of the...

Which version of Windows is this? You can try running sfc.exe. Under 2000 or XP that should be "sfc /scannow". You might also try running IE's repair process, which is usually found in Add/Remove Programs, or in Win98's System Information applet under "Tools". Sometimes removing the existing...

That is my understanding based on conversations with telco guys in my area. I also know that GTE's first DSL rollout in Indiana had some customers reporting 5Mbit connections.

Your provider is artificially limiting your bandwidth, Howell. Every once in awhile you'll hear from someone close to a CO whose DSL ISP doesn't do that. Example from the "How Fast is Your Connection" thread from some time ago:

I think the issue in question is that button-down shirts (that's what I always call them, anyway), ensure a certain minimal standard of presentability for everyone. I wouldn't care if the 6' blonde in my office wore a skintight miniskirt but because I'm absolutely certain I don't want to see...

No deity of choice here, e_dawg. And flagreen, DSL service levels are in large part a function of distance from a CO. Which is why the lucky guy across the street from the Central Office can get 7Mbps service while the guy a half-mile away only gets 384kbps, for the same money. As it happens...

By shirt you mean something that has buttons down the front and perhaps on the sleeves, correct. Not "shirt" as in "covering for the torso"? I wear polo-style shirts or long-sleeve T-shirts when I'm working. I wouldn't accept anything else. Anything I have to iron or launder in a special way...

(Insert obligatory anti-WD comment ________here______________) Just to recap: WD: ass-all except for Raptor Hitachi: 3 years on 8MB cache drives Seagate: ass-all except OEM 8MB cache drives Maxtor: ass-all, except sometimes when you find a retail box that says 3 year warranty, or if you buy...

Perhaps there's a legal requirement that law firms keep email data?

Case law in the US is such that if any effort is made to retain e-mail for any length of time, it can be subpena'd for retrieval, regardless of the costs involved in processing or retrieving that material, even when that cost exceeds the penalties that might be invoked by the court proceedings...

I ordered DSL service today from Verizon. Supposedly I'll have it by the 8th of the month. Hopefully I'll have my own wiring done by then. I'm pretty sure the service I'll get will be crappy and pathetic, but it'll be faster than a modem and always on, which in my opinion is a good start.

You haven't seen enough bad motherboards.

Maybe someday. Tannin probably just put up a sign that said "Out to Lunch. Back in November."

Several mini-rants to follow. Maybe because of the externality of the renderer with respect to non-Email traffic? embedded 1-pixel transparent .GIFs as the perfect example of that. HTML does not need to exist in the domain of email. If you're spending as long formatting fucking text as you are...

Intra = Within. Something that's Intra-compatible would be compatible with itself. You probably learned all about intra-compatibility with yourself at age 12 or so. :) I think The JoJo has a bad motherboard, but I don't want to say that out loud.

I imagine that at least one of those theaters will be somewhere near Chicago, so I'm planning 7 straight hours of assal horizontology prior to my screening of Return of the King. Folks, if you haven't seen those movies, yes, they're that good. As opposed to "The Matrix", which has only a pair...

If you're using Linux, you're using perl. A lot. And RedHat and Suse both install really easily. I imagine Mandrake does, too, not that I've tried.

My highest hope for this film is that they abandon the miserable remains of a plot, kill Keanu in a horrible, painful way, have lots of gunplay and about a half-hour of Carrie-Anne Moss doing yoga in those leather pants she wears. Return of the King on the other hand, will be cool beyond words...

Shoot. My email client doesn't even support MIME. And I LIKE IT THAT WAY.

Australia has a Tweed Coast? Do you have Mohair and Seersucker Coasts, too?

I'm only thinking of you, and the amount of time you'll want to spend playing HalfLife 2, when I say "PBBBBBBBBbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbTttttttttt!"

Er, it appears that it was, after a fashion.

Since Pradeep's in the USA now, I think the Aussie constitutional requirement that he work "Bruce" into his son's name is lifted. Human gestational times are quite a bit longer than five weeks though, and it didn't LOOK like Pradeep had a shotgun wedding. Just the same, if Pradeep DID have a...

Maybe because the driver suite doesn't fit on a floppy?

It means the drivers aren't provided in a format that would allow them to be accessed during the "Press F6 to Add Drivers" portion of the Windows installation. How that can be, I have no idea.

IIRC, you can set the shell for 2000 in HKLM> Software> MS> Windows> Currentversion> WinLogon Change it to cmd.exe and you should be dropped to a shell post-logon. No explorer bar or anything (unless you started explorer after the fact). The Office Toolbar also makes a nice, lightweight shell.

Eh. $50's fine. Whatever.

I have an 8500DV that I really hate. The proprietary back connector thing falls off from time to time and then I have to spend 20 minutes cursing ATI while I move my AV rack around so I can put it back on. I'll sell it to you for $60.

I seem to be at the point where it's just easier to give up. I've tried to write replies to the above that would be brief and would still adequately contain my thoughts. I can't seem to find that particular set of words.

You're only now noticing this? elm, my text based email client, gives a count of line numbers in a mail message. For a simple email, it's usually 8 lines or so. For HTML mail it's usually 50 or so. The worst offender is Outlook Express, because it includes both plaintext AND HTML in the same...

To respond to Jake's accusation that I wouldn't attend a perfect function for me to meet people: Philosophically, I really would like to spend my whole life on an island someplace, away from everyone except maybe the one person whom I really do enjoy being with. There's an issue of identity...

Tough to say. I was much more uncomfortable when the camera batteries died. I don't know if I could go out, even if I knew where to go. I don't know where to go, though, so it's a moot point.

Roaming profiles are generally not a good idea anyway. They create obnoxious amounts of network traffic and seem to add an exciting extra chance of causing profile corruption.

If you find a tracker for a popular movie, you'd be surprised how fast bittorrent works. I downloaded a 3GB screener of Terminator 3 in 20 minutes earlier this summer. The problem is finding decent trackers. Slackware would probably be faster to grab off an FTP site. It's not THAT popular...

Speaking of, remember to use her name every once in awhile. Calling her "Hon" and "Dear" and "Sweetie" all the time is heading down the road of taking her for granted.

When I was with Amy, I had the power to make her friends jealous and to make her melt. Regularly. How? I am a romantic person. People get married and forget all about romance. I never forgot important dates. What's an important date? Birthdays, anniversaries, first day of "that time of the...

My sincere congratulations. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful future together.