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Fear thee not. A mere 45 posts to go and Tea will have a toast of her own.

Must... resist... urge... to... talk... about... pr0n... Did "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" get a mention yet? When "Pulp Fiction" was showing at the $1 theater while I was in college, I went to two showings a day, sometimes between classes. It was literally the cheapest way to kill...

Never mind the disparities between memory configuration and operating systems on the three test systems, what's important is that AMD's graph on AMD's home page is longer!

I think I scared Mickey away. Don't worry Mickey, you're family. If WD's ongoing suckiness is your fault, I'll only take some fingers. And a thumb. I promise. And maybe a kidney. But that's it. Ranting is best when it's done from the heart. Somehow I doubt that WD's senior management gives a...

Er, because he dies at the end, right?

Conversely, Raising Arizona is my favorite among the Coen Brothers movies. Nick Cage was also in "Moonstruck", another movie I find intensely amusing (not "best list" material, but enjoyable nonetheless).

honold, what's up with "The Big Lebowski"? Is it one of those movies you have to be stoned to enjoy, or did I just miss something? I only just saw it about 6 weeks ago, so I'm pretty sure I would've noticed any particular "quality" to that movie, but given that the single impression I have is...

*AB drives are like (and, if you could see underneath this text, there would be at least 20 minutes of really loud, profane utterances in combinations I assure you that you haven't heard before)-ing time bombs. 15 months then *poof*. Head crash/20% bad sectors/motor failure. Given the choice...

time, the cinematography in West Side Story was groundbreaking for its time. It was filmed on New York streets, not sets, and the opening shots moved from a bird's eye view of New York to the streets of the Jets and the Sharks. Technically, that was thought to be impossible at the time. West...

Anyone ever seen "Brazil"? I love the set direction in that movie, and of course one of the key plot points seems to be that technicians seem to be the only people in the world who have a clue what's going on... Terry Gilliam was going to do "Don Quixote", which is one of my favorite literary...

That's OK, it wouldn't've made my list. "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" would, though. Certainly a fun twist on Pygmalion. You'd be surprised to know that late 70s porn actually had things like props, budgets, actors who memorized dialog and sometimes upwards of 20 minutes between sex...

AotKT is on the rarified category of being "so bad it's good", the genre pioneered by Ed Wood. One of my personal favorites, "Vegas in Space" is in this category as well. Besides, you can't have a worst movie of all time without Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan or Richard...

Oh man, I could get in a lot of trouble.

There's going to be a time to switch to LCD? Do I *HAVE* to?

1. Rebates suck 2. WD is on my shit list again. Is it THAT hard to make a reliable 5400rpm drive??? I went *out of my way* to buy those things... 3. Samsung 120GB drives, $94 shipped, every day, from Econopc.com. They've been hovering under $100 for a couple of weeks now. Wanna how I can get to...

Here and here.

That's an overpriced 28.8 connection, O-Canadian-in-denial. Didja see how I worked that? Aren't I clever?

Aluminum foil hat? I hear tin foil works better, if you can find some, but looking at what the author had to say, I'd at least be a bit concerned, myself. Tough times have come when we get to the point that every machine has to have a firewall, just to keep our software from narc-ing on us.

Hard to buy IDE drives nowadays when warranty (or rather, the politics associated with having one) ends up being the deciding factor. :| newegg.com can't keep 80GB Samsung drives in stock, BTW.

What I meant to imply by the last post, for those who don't get it, is that I just built a machine that probably SHOULD have imposed some kind of special challenge to a builder, but didn't. Nine IDE drives, SCSI, overclocking, multiple NICs... Surely somewhere in there I should've had a recipie...

I now have a single PC with 800GB of disk space, not counting the two mirrored drives. And it's... commonplace. Pedestrian. The damn thing doesn't even make noise. It gave me no problems when I was building it (first new machine I've built for myself in easily two years. Mostly I do cascaded...

I cannot imagine a reason to drop support for that chipset. It has a high-quality WDM driver, and it's a high quality chipset.

Unfortunately, I think the only Linksys thing I've ever had fail - other than my AP with a bad (?) antenna, which went back to the store - is a single PCI NIC. Not worth the trouble to send in. I've never dealt with Linksys for RMA. I'd suggest the "ignorant consumer" approach. "There's this...

In quite possibly the most annoying decision ever, 2003 Server does not support the DEC Tulip (e.g. Linksys 10/100 and a bunch of other generics) NIC chipset. No idea why, but the first two machines I thought about moving to 2003 Server both had a Linksys card in them, and the setup program...

Bravo! That was a good one, Mark. I thought it had something to do with painting over the "s" key on Tea's keyboard, but I think the brain tumor story sounds a lot better.

RealTek stuff is perfectly serviceable, honold. Sound is acceptable, and I've had fewer problems with RTL8139As than recent 3Com cards. I managed to track down full sets of Intel, Agere, Conexant, PCTel and ESS WinModem drivers. I'm not going to bother with USR. At this point, USR is actually...

I assure you I had nothing to do with it.

Done. I'm a little weak on Intel motherboard stuff. AMD/Via boards all have more or less the same stuff (Realtek LAN/Audio, Via or NEC USB2...) but Intel can't seem to be bothered to be uniform.

Not in any browser I use. Or IE, even.

As long as there's a George Harrison I know everything will be OK. Hu- Wha- He is? Oh. Well that's it then. We're boned.

DX9 is required for ATI vidcap. Besides, gamer-types get their panties (gamers, your secret is safe with me ;) in a twist when they don't have the latest version of DirectX. Hard to track who is making current WinModem chips. Cirrus Became Ambient became Intel Rockwell became Conexant Motorola...

ATI Capture Driver for Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9700 (3.27MB) Catalyst Win2K, XP (3.27MB) Catalyst for 98 (6.55MB) ATI Control Panel (4.66MB) Rage Fury Pro for 9x (12.3MB) Anyone else wonder why the stupid control panel app is bigger than the driver? Stuff for ATI 7x00, 8x00, 9x00 VidCap &...

Since I more-or-less have javascript turned off, nvidia's site doesn't function very well. Besides, I know someone else will link it for me. ;)

Maybe it's time for a "car" forum :|

Via 4in1 1.46 - 1.4MB DirectX 9 redist - 33.6MB []DirectX 8a redist 11.2MB (for 9x machines) Total is 46.2MB so far.

Simple question: You've got one CD - 700MB - and you need to fit onto that CD hardware drivers of highest utility. We'll limit ourselves to drivers for 98, 2000 and XP, to make things easier, and no vomitbox hardware or printers. I'm just curious what y'all think should be there.

I know perl. I also know that debugging someone else's perl program is next to "sliding down a razor blade into a bucket of iodine" on my list of favorite things to do. What's wrong?

Try nice -10 gzip -c /dev/random >> /dev/null Assuming you have the right to set nice numbers, and that HPUX has a /dev/random (sometimes it's called different things). That should increase your load average somewhat.

Took me 2 weeks but I finally got the file transfer manager to download something. Before, it would do SOMETHING... at .1k/s or something similarly ridiculous. 15 minutes ago I made another hopeless stab at downloading the thing from MSDN... and I finally got a good transfer rate. My place of...

Er, unless I miss my count, that's also substantially more than four wheel drive, Howell. Do Aussies actually tolerate Paul Hogan? I should think they would've deported him to, oh, Burma by now. Of course Yahoo Serious is apparently some sort of celebrity over there, rather than the ironically...

There's no brain-dead way to strip attachments. Perl, maybe. The format of netscape mail (and lots of other sensible mail programs, including just about everything on UNIX systems) is called mbox. This is a plain-text file that is portable without alteration to dozens of mail clients. Except...

I dunno. Sometimes Carlos cuts the stuff in tha dime bags with Drano. You can never really be sure...

Hittin' tha rock in no way impacts my sobriety!

Hm. I might've thought they'd do more checking than that. I know I had to go through hell to get the MSDN password for my company changed. I actually just give my taxes to my father's accountants. I know how to do them myself, they're just better at it in a blood-from-a-turnip sort of way.

Odd concordance: SR, right now, has 95695 posts (probably 15% of them from the 10 or so most prolific posters) 12948 users SF has 31716 posts 206 users They have 3 times as many posts, almost exactly, and 63x more users. SF really is a community, folks. For a little over a year, we have...

Loud for a CPU fan. But amazingly quiet for a small jet engine. ;) Speaking of fans, Doug, how do you like your Microflow?

The only requirement is that you file paperwork at the county clerk's office. They'll advise you what you need to give your state dept. of revenue. You'll have to pay taxes several extra times a year on estimated earnings, which well and truly sucks, but if you don't make any money, you can...

After examining the machine I was reading from this morning, I think perhaps the reason I didn't notice the wrapping issue might've been the 1600x1200 screen resolution I was using. Just a guess, but little things are a lot less noticeable when that's your window size. It was that, or all the...

Beats the heck out of "Assweasel", I suppose.

Same topic, different names. I really don't feel this country is the "land of the free" any more. That's a very difficult thing to say. Certainly not what I was raised to think. Everything that I read and hear about, related to my rights as a citizen of the US in, oh, probably the last 10...