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  1. Mercutio

    Once upon a time, at a movie theater this weekend...

    Looks like the only way to get programs off a Tivo is to use a series 1 (legacy, no longer sold) unit. Looks like the only way to get support for digital audio is with a series 2 unit. Not an appealing compromise there. :(
  2. Mercutio

    advice/comments invited: CD/DVD RW drives in ext. enclosures

    As one of my engineer friends says, the problems USB has on Windows are largely the fault of Microsoft, not the USB spec. I'm inclined to believe him: neither Macs nor BSD machines seem to have any problems with USB devices.
  3. Mercutio

    SR has details about the 74GB Raptor

    And I'll point and laugh, 'cause I know better than to buy a Western Digital product.
  4. Mercutio

    Non-alcoholic drinks

    I like Pineapple juice a lot. Not in the least alcoholic and it has a nice fringe benefit for your "athletic sleeping" partner (*) On the rare occasions I'm forced into a lounge or bar - usually by a client who wants to meet there - I almost always drink cranberry juice or juice and soda water...
  5. Mercutio

    Once upon a time, at a movie theater this weekend...

    Is there a way to transfer the individual files off the tivo (direct or otherwise) and watch them elsewhere, without another encoding step?
  6. Mercutio

    Image management software

    Has anyone used Canto Cumulus before?
  7. Mercutio

    Once upon a time, at a movie theater this weekend...

    Yes. Some of us like stuff that's good. :) The 2nd season of "Angel" just came out on DVD. I'm working through that, and when I'm done, I have the 3rd season of "Family Guy". And then a long wait before anything else that's good comes out (Shield season 2 maybe, or Sopranos season 4) I have a...
  8. Mercutio

    Once upon a time, at a movie theater this weekend...

    Modern music production is such that any schmuck can be made to sound reasonably good. This is why Britanny Spears has a musical career. Otherwise she'd just be selling her body on the internet like thousands of other reasonably attractive 18 year olds. Anyway, I found the music to be genuinely...
  9. Mercutio

    Suggestions for a new avatar

    1. I've graduated to 56k, which is hopefully temporary. 2. I still browse with most images filtered out.
  10. Mercutio

    Once upon a time, at a movie theater this weekend...

    I'm not much for horror films any more. I used to like them a lot, but that's before I looked old enough to rent pr0n (horror movies being the easy road to T&A). :) I plan to see Cabin Fever when it comes out on DVD though. Also, I'd really like to see "Lost in Translation", which is something...
  11. Mercutio

    Image management software

    I realize that it could work both ways.. A lot of database engines that do support BLOBs have (or had, the last time I looked) file size limits that made databases of that sort less than desireable.
  12. Mercutio

    Image management software

    Perhaps Eric will show up with a bright idea or two. I recall him as someone else who had outrageous image-storage needs.
  13. Mercutio

    Suggestions for a new avatar

    How about the letter "i" in a nice font? How about a monocle?
  14. Mercutio

    great hosting deal...

    I worked on a "Zeus" today. It was a dual Xeon 550 with 1GB RAM. I'm sure at one time it was a pretty nice machine but I was decommisioning it for a 2.8GHz dualie that I named "Cronus". Greek gods are passe. Every once in awhile I run across the germanic pantheon or (more likely) Apostles or...
  15. Mercutio

    Image management software

    Yeah, thumbsplus isn't gonna cut it. I sicced it on a directory that only had 80,000 images in it, let it run over night, and had to kill the process when I woke up this morning. It looked to me like it barfed before it even did anything. I'd like to be able to use the filesystem rather than a...
  16. Mercutio

    new in Office 2003

    Outlook 2003 - now with less suck.
  17. Mercutio

    Arizone Convicts

    Maybe Great Britain or Japan.
  18. Mercutio

    Brilliant Clerks at Food Lion

    My favorite change story: I stopped in a 7-11 to get a drink one hot summer day on my way home from work. While I was in there deliberating between their fine selection of tasty cold beverages, a positively stunning young woman walked in: short blond hair, daisy duke-style cutoffs and something...
  19. Mercutio

    Arizone Convicts

    That was tried. We ended up with Aussies. A group of people with an international reputations for being simultaneously as loud and obnoxious as Americans and also so laid back that the whole country is practically comatose. Hm. Know of any other big islands?
  20. Mercutio

    New Zealand or Bust!

    It's those damn Kiwis. I knew there was a reason I couldn't get broadband! It's their fault! Off wi' their heads! Now that I've got that out of my system... the truth is, telco networks are so outrageously overbuilt right now that there's really no reason why they can't do this. I don't know...
  21. Mercutio

    filter outgoing email messages

    procmail on *nix can do that. I imagine you'd find a number of similar projects on freshmeat.net. Some of them might even work with Windows. Exchange has some conditional filtering builtin as well (I don't pay much attention to my Exchange server, so I can't be much more specific).
  22. Mercutio

    Sept. 19th is "Talk like a Pirate Day"

    Arrr! I be plannin' to make the lives of me hearties a great deal more surreal on September 19th, Talk Like a Pirate Day. I'm tired of boring, somber religious festivals Talk Like a Pirate Day is the kind of holiday I think everyone should partake in.
  23. Mercutio

    Image management software

    I need to get organized. I don't know how many images I have. Between digital cameras and collecting fine art images and yes, porn, I have a LOT of images. Very possibily more than a million (the computer I'm sitting at has ~123,000 .JPG files on it, and it's not one of my file servers). I've...
  24. Mercutio

    Airport names as bad as Washington DCs

    In 1970, Pierre Trudeau declared martial law in Quebec. So why not name Montreal's airport after him? Yes, I am posting this just to get a rise out of Coug. Retaliation for the Gabe Newell thing. ;D For those who dont get the DC reference... In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired a whole lot of...
  25. Mercutio

    SF Folding@Home Graphical Sig

    I don't think Hannibal Lecter would want to share new blood. I think he'd enjoy it with fava beans and a nice chianti.
  26. Mercutio

    SF Folding@Home Graphical Sig

    The Carthaginian General who marched elephants across the Alps only to have his ass handed to him at Zama?
  27. Mercutio

    Alaska Airlines

    Do you remember his name?
  28. Mercutio

    Look, it's Merc...with hair!

    Dammit Coug, you made me start IE. 1. I don't have a neck. 2. I have fewer chins 3. My glasses are WAY thicker 4. If I left the house with that hairstyle, it would only because I was already clinically brain dead yet retained enough motor function to operate a doorknob. Other than that, yeah...
  29. Mercutio

    MozDev

    I've heard that the largest collection of porn in the world belongs to the Vatican. I'll settle for second place. SteveC, I think there're nightly builds of .6 that'll probably work. I generally use Moz though, so I downloaded the version that works with my browser (it's about halfway down the...
  30. Mercutio

    Arizone Convicts

    The "pink underwear sheriff" has made national news for being tougher on inmates than anyone else. He's actually famous for it.
  31. Mercutio

    Seagate Warranty Information

    I won't buy any drive that only has a one year warranty. I have a lot of 160GB Samsungs now and the odd 200GB Maxtor with a valid 3-year warranty.
  32. Mercutio

    MozDev

    Attack of the paleolithic threads! I just found this which is quite possibly the greatest tool man has developed since the printing press, no, make that the Wheel. Install it, restart Moz or Firebird, and then when you hit CTRL-SHIFT-S, everything in all tabs thereafter is instantly saved to a...
  33. Mercutio

    Seagate Warranty Information

    People buy Seagate ATA drives? Like, of their own free will? When was the last time Seagate did right by its customers in the consumer market, anyway?
  34. Mercutio

    A good day at the office

    I thought I was having a positive day once. Turned out I was on a morphine drip. Congratulations!
  35. Mercutio

    new in Office 2003

    The place where I work does TONS of Microsoft Office training. Yet the other trainers would only get maybe 3 or 4 of those jokes. :( Besides, you can't say whether or not you're too geeky until you've found the "Top X Signs that you are a geek" thread.
  36. Mercutio

    Users are stupid and I have proof.

    It's a button! You press it! Lots of computers ONLY have a power button nowadays. How hard can it be? Sometimes it's labelled. I'll admit, the standard 1 / 0 label is a little obtuse (lots of my students aren't aware of the standard layout or symbols for tape recorder and VCR buttons...
  37. Mercutio

    Buying a LCD in the next day and need advice

    You might be able to get away with an 18" LCD at that price point, if you dropped the hard requirement for 1600x1200. You could also do a flatscreen 21" CRT if you were willing to accept a lease returned display. In fact, I'd say that's you best bet.
  38. Mercutio

    Quick question: best Gforce FX5900 card

    <Insert MP3 of cackling laughter> The article on HL2 performance is, uh, interesting. I'm an incredibly pessimistic guy, but reading that, I honestly wonder if there wasn't a problem with their testing methodology. 33% - 50% differences in performance? The best "optimization" for the...
  39. Mercutio

    Users are stupid and I have proof.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/32742.html
  40. Mercutio

    [NEWS] - Windows flaws allow PC takeover

    When I left work at 7:30PM CDT on 9/10 this fix was not being distributed by Windows Update. I found out about this patch from the newswire blurbs on salon.com at about noon today, and I checked all day long. The -036 patch wasn't there. That's some marvelous frickin' work they're doing...
  41. Mercutio

    advice/comments invited: CD/DVD RW drives in ext. enclosures

    CD to CD works fine, even if they're both in USB2 enclosures.
  42. Mercutio

    Mandrake 9.2 RC2 available on mirrors

    You can't afford the $.15 a blank 700MB CD costs?
  43. Mercutio

    Iraqi crisis explained...

    I should amend my comment: I am disgusted on a whole new level. The US had no right to invade Iraq. We were the aggressor and the conqueror. But, we rationalized that Saddam was lying about his weapons and he was a cretin to his people. Except, he (apparently) wasn't lying. So he was a...
  44. Mercutio

    Iraqi crisis explained...

    If that is the case, then I am disgusted beyond words.
  45. Mercutio

    His Name is Linux

    IBM isn't the company of the monopoly any more. They haven't been for a long time. I've worked with/for IBM's service division, and the truth is, that group will work with whatever you put in front of it, as long as you pay your bill. On the hardware side, IBM's PC servers traditionally ran...
  46. Mercutio

    Walgreens 15 TDK 4x DVD+Rs - $32

    Title says it all. Two of the Walgreens in my area (both the ones I've been in today) have 15-packs of 4x DVD+R discs for $32. You can get 4x discs cheaper in bulk, but they usually cost $2 apiece in small quantities, without shipping charges, so this is a pretty good deal.
  47. Mercutio

    LBA48 and linux file serving... how much trouble?

    Most distributions have shell scripts to change your window manager.
  48. Mercutio

    Mercutio's Term as a moderator is at an end

    Well, after the ether binging and all the mescaline, we usually go looking for hookers. Once we're good and drunk, we fight over whose turn it is to give The Giver a bath. We pal around with our celebrity hangers-on and the hookers, snort record cleaner, make threatening, vaguely-coherent phone...
  49. Mercutio

    Need Bootvis.exe

    Whoops. That was directed at Howell. i's post wasn't there when I started. :(
  50. Mercutio

    Need Bootvis.exe

    Dear you, You suck. Thank you for your attention in this matter, Mercutio :)
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