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My phone is a Kyocera, about 3 years old now (it's the right size and shape, so I'm not getting rid of it until it dies). Most of the parts inside are from Ericsson.

Krispy Kremes are disgusting. I mean, really, really gross. I've had chicken from KFC that had less grease. My favorite didn't make the list. I'm partial to a large, cinnamon and glaze donut covered with peanut crumbs that's locally called a "Bear Claw". Yum. Also, I greatly prefer the...

Since I'm logged in as Administrator, creator/owner of the files, have full control from both the share and the files (not that the share perms matter, since I'm on through terminal services) and the problems are within access, not file-level, I don't think that's the case.

Vanilla Win 2000 SP3 File and authentication server. I've only accessed it remotely, but it appears as vanilla as can be. It hosts some Access 2000 .mdb files that a small number of VB applications work with. The DBs are tables-only. No macros, no code. I've been using the apps with test data...

On NT, or even Win2000, it's easy to get to places where you can type faster than the letters can be displayed. This was absolutely the norm with everything prior to NT4. With NT4 things started to get better. I'm not sure whether to attribute the increased responsiveness to NT or to better...

And then there are times when you wish it didn't matter, put it does. Just ask the poor folks who attend beaver.edu. I have to wonder what it is you Aussies are doing that "bugger" is a synonym for exhaustion, though. ;D

I think you were drooling over my Phaser 850. Which makes way nicer output than any color laser I've seen, but not as nice as one of those 6-tank 2400dpi Epson inkjets.

Color lasers won't ever replace inkjets. Why? Photoprinting. Laser printers can't do it

It's silly to do an "us against them" thing with the graphics-chip makers. Frankly, both sides cheat as much as possible on benchmarks, and I really don't believe there's such a thing as an unbiased source of information about ATI or nvidia. Both nvidia and ATI make products that perform...

ATI and Matrox. When I had 16 PCs, it was half-and-half. Now it's 5 and one. (My notebook has an S3 chip in it. I'm not counting that, since it isn't like I had a choice).

Prescott supposedly has "hidden" 64bit-ness, too, at least according to the Inquirer. Intel's delaying it in the futile hope of finding a market for Itanium.

Why the heck would anyone out-and-out need an all-in-one? Last I checked, a fax machine was about $50, a printer another $50 and a scanner, $50 more. Each of those devices, save maybe the printer, is well-suited to its job and unlikely to break (printers, of course, die every time you look at...

OS X has a completely 3D desktop. It's not just that it's pretty, it's stuff like extremely high-quality video scaling, too. The system would probably be quite a bit more responsive with a fast 3D card. May I also remind everyone, as someone who has used NT since the 3.1 release, that early...

DVDShrink rules. There's a miniscule quality difference between it and my other favorite, Pinnacle InstantCopy, but the time factor - probably 10 to 1 in Shrink's favor - really, really makes it a worthwhile choice. IfoEdit is too damn complicated. I used it for about a week in favor of, oh...

This large piece of bondage furniture in my garage has exercises I don't think I've ever done before. Chest flies suck.

While being buggered isn't anywhere on my personal agenda, I did weight training in H.S. mostly to keep the sorts of idiots who normally bother honors students and choirboys from bothering me. :)

...If you can put up with the lousy range the Palm IR has.

... as long as you don't get one of the communist dain-bramaged also-locked-at-2x Lite-On "16x (but we really mean 2x)" drives, like I have. :(

I don't like the real world. The person I care most about wants nothing to do with me in the real world.

I bought a weight machine-thing today. Er, more precisely, I traded an air conditioner for it. It's about 7' tall, has two benches and any number of pulleys and swiveling doodads on it. There's 300lbs worth of plates. It says "Marcy by Impex" on it. Of course, I figure that dragging the...

Most cell phones seem to have a 1 year warranty. Take it back to the place you bought it, beg and whine and they should give you a loaner until yours gets fixed.

Well, we rather need some feedback from Tannin, but assuming that we get it, the right thing to do is probably to break things up into sections (CPU, hard disk, Monitors, Video cards, maybe?) with one or more people working on each section. Tannin can probably drag himself indoors long enough to...

At one point during the early moments of the XP install process, it says "Press F6 to install drivers." It's only there for a moment. In NT4 and 2000, the installation actually stops to remind you. They're serious. If you don't do that, it's not going to see all your drives.

Yes. He's like that. Especially if you get him into discussions of history or politics. On the other hand, I note that he hasn't exactly chimed on the Redhill thread in the computers forum. I forgot to bring it up on the telephone.

595 on my satellite-doohickey is the Playboy channel. I'll never miss the evening news again. They have sports, too. Topless Pillow fighting is a sport, right?

$500. That's uh, less than $1200, at least. The Svideo and audio transceivers I'm using were only $58 apiece. Hm. There's this.. And this, which is nifty but lacks the full integration I'd like to see in a "media server" product. Cheap though..

Sinuses. Or maybe it's my phone.

What channel is that one on? I confess that I find DirectTV #595 entirely too entertaining to have tried watching anything else. I only just hooked the satellite doohickey up last evening. I watched the evening news. Which is how I heard about "Secondhand Lions". Which was an entertaining way...

My voice is probably a bit higher than it probably sounded. We're always gravelly when we wake up and I've been having a wonderful time with sinuses lately anyway. I also tend to deepen it while I teach. Helps with projection. I am however, neither frenetic nor squeaky. Tannin sounds nothing...

Hard to explain. Part would be that I'd think I'm imposing. This is as much a product of the mores of the region where I live as anything else. Another part would be that I'm not sure I'd know how to behave or interact with Fushigi or his wife. I tend to make myself physically ill in situations...

That's alright now. I'm just not ready to go back to bed yet. Hence the posting. Mostly on-topic stuff, too. And speaking of unfair advantages, Tea could be typing with feet, too. As far as cell dropouts, I can only apologize and assure you that Verizon offers uniformly poor service to...

Also, WRT Raptors, I have run across them perhaps half-a-dozen times now, and more than any other drive I can remember, they have been as non-uniform as can be. I think I mentioned before about the noise: Some of them are as quiet as any modern 7k drive. Others have had the (SCSI) Barracuda...

Egads, I hope you aren't pushing 22" displays on ALL your customers. :) Or 17" LCDs for that matter? For new displays I am deeply fond of the KDS XF-7T. I buy them new for a smidge over $100. They're 12x10 but .25dp and do 10x7 @ 100Hz+ and seem to have uniformly nice, bright screen image...

6:35PM Eastern Oz Standard Time = 3:35AM Central US Daylight Time. Just a helpful reminder for any future trans-pacific calls. :D That was, to be honest, a great deal of fun. Except for the part where I still don't know how to call back. I'll have to figure that out. It's quite enjoyable to...

802.11e is apparently the forthcoming standard for streaming video. I guess that's a start.

Irony: Going to see a PG-rated movie because of on an interview with its 13-year-old star, that was conducted on the Playboy channel. "Secondhand Lions" was quite entertaining. Duvall and Caine did a fair impression of a couple of my eccentric uncles.

Does your video cable have a little Ferrite donut on it?

For those single-frame jobs, as long are things are bolted to the floor or a properly-weighted base, they're pretty nice. If you don't know what you're doing when you're putting one together they're #$%-ing scary (yes, I've had the entire contents of a rack fall on me. Mechanically inclined I am...

$1200?!?

Also, find a better place to steal your copy of XP or go back to 2000. Not being able to install SP1a is a deal-breaker.

I have an APC sealed rack with its own cooling. It lives in my laundry room now. They come apart you know. If you want cheap, musicians are usually selling them. :) I'd really like to get a better rack for audio. Something oak that matches my furniture.

That IS what I'm thinking of. The only other interesting aspect would be finding a nicer carrier for video than a big, thick VGA cable. I'm working on wiring my house now. Cat6 for ethernet. Cat6 for svideo. Cat6 for stereo.

Dammit Tea! I was just cooking dinner. You probably called while I was out messing around with my grill. My cell phone number, for anyone who might actually care, is 219-PH1-UKSC. Sometimes I even answer it.

Pttp. Upgradability is important in all this too.

Where DOES my day go? I thought it was still mid-afternoon here.

Nope. That's just a big antenna. I'm good for that. What I'd love to see is a consumer devices with some RCA or maybe SPDIF connections for audio, and svideo connections for video, a Tivo-like MPEG encoder chip, shoutcast-like server support and 802.11A/G awareness. On the client end, a...

I work with NT and Embedded 2000-based POS (not vomit boxes) systems from time to time. ATMs aren't that different from those. Some of my Bank's ATMs (BankOne) in Northwest Indiana are Windows based, too, albeit different-looking from the one in the picture above.

Plus Redhill is only open to customers for 5 hours a day. I guess the rest of the day is service time? I have Tannin's home number too. Except I'll bet he's still asleep. Lazy so-and-so. Sleeping in the middle of the night like that. It's downright inconsiderate.

Why doesn't anyone make a keyboard with a smallish LCD (12 or 14 inch) attached? I can think of at least five or six applications for that in as many seconds, even more if someone can make the video signal run over CAT5. Why doesn't anyone make a remote control that can be programmed or...

Wow. That actually borders on useful. Too bad I'd never willingly turn off a computer. ;)