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Doesn't do RF. I need something with compatibility with my changers (all five of them) and with my ATI remote. I don't think that product exists. Free - That stuff is great, up to a point, but from my standpoint it is in fact cheaper to just buy more changers (I'm kind-of locked into Sony for...

Guess it'll have to be cash: My spares: Diamond Supra 56e USR Courier i-Modem v.Everything x2/v.90/ISDN USR Sportster v.90 I have a couple of 14.4 and 28.8s as well.

Why use CD-RWs at all? IMO they're more trouble than they're worth.

I could stand to do an LCD touchscreen, I think. Even if there are wires involved. What sucks about my setup is that I need two remotes for everything, because my ATI remote is RF and everything else... isn't (I use a Rotel RR969 for the rest). XP will do voice control, apparently. I haven't...

I can probably help you out with that. Do you have anything I want?

What, exactly, are you smoking tonight?

It's not as bad as it sounds. OK. Maybe it is. I buy lots of CDs used or secondhand though. $10/CD for me is way high. Most of the new issues I buy are either imported, on limited-release labels (e.g. Chesky) or, much more likely, from a budget-classical company called Naxos. I've been...

You need a streaming server set up. I've only ever dealt with Real's server products, but I think you can probably do Windows Media Services.

I have a 7' steel-with-oak-finish filing cabinet. I also have 3500 Cs, which is probably as bad as a sizable collection of vinyl.

Floppies used to be a lot better, actually. When they were $3.50 apiece.

My Grand Marquis can do 40 in reverse. :)

The issue in question is this: SCO owns the COPYRIGHT to Unix and the original SysV codebase. It doesn't own any patents. Copyrights and Patents are different things. IBM, Sequent and SCO were collaborating on a next-generation UNIX product for IA64 called Monterey. As things tend to do, it...

... also true for most fixed or limited frequency displays. I actually memorized the keystokes needed to fix that particular problem without the display. It's one of those things that amazes the hell out of people, at least partially for the fact that I'm using the PC without using the mouse.

Excessive amounts of water are hard on the kidneys.

Oops. Apparently the Powerplay series did make it to market. Those would do CDs or DVDs.

Escient was purchased by Rio which in turn went bankrupt (assets are now owned by a liquidator) before such products could be developed.

Part of Earthlink now IIRC. Netcom was a clueful, large ISP that was very progessive for its time. If you REALLY want Internet old-timer cred, you need an account on WELL (now owned by salon.com).

You guys are all pansies! 110mph is nothing if you're going forward. Real men try for speed records in reverse. :D

CDs with the cases are highly obnoxious, too. At least, they are when you're moving several hundred of them at once. I feel like shit.

Weird. I have an AC-on-wheels to supplement the other two in my apartment. I'm more tolerant of "warm" than I used to be but with all my PCs I'm usually fighting a losing battle to keep temps under a 80F in my computer room and 76 - 78 in the rest of my apartment (I like cool, as in 60F, because...

Speaking of getting in shape: I'm moving containers full of books, CDs and magazines (one magazine, actually, but about 80% of its printed run to date) down to my cars for the driving to my house and it is killing me. Granted, it's over 80 here and about 80% humidity, but holy cow does this...

Minesweeper is a frickin' click-fest for people who are into it (I'm not fond of it myself.). WAY too much action. Pong requires regular movement. Now, REVERSI (which came with Windows 3.0 but not 3.1, IIRC) is a nice, slow-paced game. Sigh. Anyone have a copy of SkiFree or Tut's Tomb?

Unfortunately, those devices, and similar ones from KDS, don't have any playback mechanism. The way they work is that you use a catalog program on your PC to read in the contents of a disc, then put the disc in the appointed slot of the changer. Needless to say, this is several kinds of shonk...

Naw. Worst is when someone introduces his fleet of Compaq Presarios, each with AOL for internet service, a virus scanner that was old when Windows 95 came out (It came with my Windows 3.1 install disks!), an Access 2-based line-of-business app, expensive hardware that only works with real-mode...

I know, after helping out a neighbor, that AOL v8 won't work properly without more than 64MB. My help consisted of setting up his PC for a real ISP.

The Voodoo 5 has TV out. It's not very good. 2D-wise, 3dfx made cards that were just below Matrox in terms of image quality. I've never seen an nvidia card that looked that good (OTOH, I avoid them, and I've not seen anything newer than GF4MXs).

On that point I'll disagree sharply. Microsoft's help files and pretty much all documentation needs to refer to a standard interface. Two interfaces would require a good deal more documentation (look at the two different interfaces for XP. Can anyone actually, fully navigate the new XP-ish...

So, what they're saying is, we need Windows 95 back? I think one of the things that Microsoft could do to allieviate some of its problems is to move to supporting more than one shell. Hear me out: XP has the search dog. And the very simple taskbar. And a control panel where you can't find a...

The only reason I'd still suggest moving away from the 5500 is that its two fans are a bit loud. Of course, with all the SCSI disks, you probably don't notice...

I'd say upgrade the thing. It actually makes some kind of economic sense to get a G4 upgrade for that box, unlike a PC, where it's pretty much the same price to just buy a whole second PC. How much would it take to get it to run OS X?

I had an Escort ZX2 as a rental car once. Speedometer went up to 120. No idea if the car is that fast. My (former, now belonging to someone else) ' 97 Contour could do at least 105.

From time to time compgeeks.com has a 3 3.5" to 2 5.25" module for sale. They don't have it right now, or I'd link to it, but I've got a couple of them in the SuperMicro case I'm using to run 12 hard disks.

IBM notebooks are fantastic for a whole bunch of reasons. Some of them are little things, like the fact that their keyboards are fantastically nice. Some of them are just amazing engineering decisions - I can boot off a USB hard disk or thumb drive with my 5-year-old Thinkpad 540. I don't think...

What's wrong with Toshiba?!? As if there are enough hours in the day! Executive Summary: I've had nothing but problems with them. NOTHING. One of my regular jobs is maintaining a small fleet of them for a research group. Once a month I go over to campus to fix whatever has broken on them since...

Really, Tannnin, Toshiba??? How could you! Did you even look at anything decent? IBM? Er... IBM? Hope you had the good sense to buy an extra set of keycaps when the ones you have start popping off. OTOH, have fun with the vacationing.

Hafta wonder where they got their cable. There's no such thing as cat 7 or 8. Most Cat 6 is really 5e with a different label.

The bigger limitation with GbE is cabling. Even with compliant Cat6, the best I've seen over copper - even with 64bit PCI - was something like 400Mbit, and that was with disk subsystems that should've been fast enough to saturate gigabit connections.

Actually as long as we're talking about the way to go, it probably involves an i875 motherboard with GbE over CSA. But that's only if you swing in a P4ish sorta direction. As far as the SMC switch goes, I wouldn't be pissed off if someone threw on at me. I work with SMC managed switches...

And at federal minimum wage @ 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, at American's salary is $12,500. Which says a lot about this country, I think.

IIRC, Microsoft only sells Windows at the contractually discounted price (something under $40, perhaps closer to $25 in some cases) if the OEM includes the price and gives Microsoft a $40 or whatever "cut" for every desktop/notebook PC they sell. Microsoft gets paid regardless, and it's...

Try issuing an SFC /scannow

There was a car in those pictures?

I love Lord of the Rings. I just haven't had time to watch movies today. I'm actually more excited about the marginally-sooner-than-RotK Extended Edition of the Two Towers though. If only because I'll get to see it first. :)

The person I sold it to wouldn't have to know that.

I'd sell it and buy more girls. Or maybe just a non-GM car. :)

Windows isn't an integral part of the PC. Windows' license explicitly states that it can be returned for a refund if you don't agree to the terms. This is the license in EVERY version of Windows. I imagine that if that language wasn't there the contract probably wouldn't be binding in some way...

5. Apparently I'm a communist or a lesbian, which is completely ironic because if I were actually... OK. Bad train of thought.

If you've got GbE - GbE on one network, and 100Mb - switch - 100Mb on another, there would be two possible routes. Which would be used in preference would then be an issue of binding order and in that circumstance, whichever connection was at the top of the heap would more-or-less always be the...

NAT can forward ports, but only if you're willing to give up that port on the gateway machine. Port forwarding is one of those things that basically requires some kind of router-like service, by definition.

Sort of. The living room has a cathedral ceiling. That's unfortunate for acoustic reasons. I guess I could do something with one of the bedrooms. I'm gonna have to give up some computers, too (before anyone goes crazy, I'll probably sell them locally). Movers are expensive. My initial moving...