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New York sent Daniel Patrick Moynihan to the Senate. Hardly something to complain about. I can get behind high taxes (as long as they aren't regressive taxes like sales tax) for social services. People deserve better than homelessness. There's nothing worse than seeing someone wither and die...

Television as it presently exists would cease without commercials. Besides, on the rare occasions I see regular TV, the commercials are usually more entertaining than the crap that comes on between them. Since the support for this was so widespread, why didn't the legislation just out-and-out...

Anyone seen "Punch Drunk Love" yet? It just came out on video in the US. Interesting movie. Very beautifully shot. There's some REALLY interesting art direction in that movie. If you happen to watch it, pay attention to the use of colors. Barry (Adam Sandler) wears a solid blue suit and red tie...

Gotta concur with Greg and honold: The desktop lives and dies on low access times. High STRs are basically meaningless. How often are you loading 20MB in a sustained burst from a disk drive? How often are you seeking around to access DLLs? I'd be a die hard SCSI guy in a heartbeat, except that...

I think it's a shameless example of the current regime shamelessly pandering to the masses. 17 months from now, when voters go to the polls, they won't remember Enron or Bechtel or the Patriot Act. They'll remember that George W. "Asshat" Bush stopped the phone calls that they used to have to...

They're mass market, like Fry's or Best Buy, only heavily shifted toward PC goods. I've heard horror stories of Tiger shipping out returned motherboards without manuals or interface cables, of receiving multiple damaged cases or ISA products when PCI was ordered. But, I've also heard goodness...

Holy crap. Spacewalker.com's main page takes 2 minutes and 48 seconds to load @ 26.4. I'm starting to think motherboard manufacturers just hate me. (next there will be an "improved" version that includes flash and uses java to animate all the text, or something). I got a good look at the very...

Next he'll be mentioning hot grits.

Man, I hate it when my Ellison acts up.

Huh?

Usually I dump the installer files to a network share or something. But if I'm not the person who installed it, there's still an issue. Where's the media-type info in System Information? I didn't see it when I looked.

Here's an interesting thought. I work in scads of different places, annually. I see a lot of different attitudes towards pirated software. Some places are hardcore about not pirating software. Those are places where the secretary makes do with wordpad and no one has winzip installed. Those...

On my single solitary XP machine, it says "Windows XP Professional 2002 Version Service Pack 1". It doesn't say that I installed from a volume license or retail disk or MSDN disk (mine is from the Indiana University Volume License, actually). In the normal place in the registry...

Musta been.

The standing offer I can make is to move my teaching outlines to SF.

For the non-EPIA mini-ITX machine, how the heck is cooling handled? There can't be a full-size fan in those things, right? I notice today that there are mini-ITX systems from shuttle that support real desktop chipsets, which means real-desktop CPUs and therefore real desktop heat. Anyone know...

I appear to have gotten my windows mixed up. Ignore that. I suck. :(

Cooling & mini-ITX For the non-EPIA mini-ITX machine, how the heck is cooling handled? There can't be a full-size fan in those things, right? I notice today that there are mini-ITX systems from shuttle that support real desktop chipsets, which means real-desktop CPUs and therefore real desktop...

You can't, unless you can decrypt the serial number in the registry. What *I'd* like to know is how to tell which version of MS Office someone has installed, so I know which of five different disks to use when installing service packs or running the repair procedure.

A web log Possibly also the dumbest word in the english language. Bloggers hold immense power on google, in part because google owns one of the biggest blogging sites (google has a high pagerank in and of itself, so sites attached to google get rated highly). What we're bascially talking...

I don't see anything about warranty length. Perhaps the most important part of an IBM/Hitachi drive. Sounds really appealing, other than that.

Death to truetype! Burn all postscript! 80x24 console displays are all I need. (Sadly, I'm basically serious, even if honold isn't).

My browser is set to download images from originating server only. Things that aren't on the same site as the URL I'm looking at literally don't exist. Moz cleared a space to show me that something is there, but I don't see anything. Yes, I could visit in IE or something, but somehow I think...

FreeBSD is faster for a lot of serverish tasks, can be updated easily and seems generally less flakey and more Unix (TM) like than Linux. It's also generally a step or two back from Linux in terms of hardware support, although it did have USB support first. I'd suggest FreeBSD for someone...

Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI adaptors use a 26 pin interface.

There's supposed to be something there, right? Something I can't see? Probably best that I can't see it.

Powers that be? This site? It comes up every few months - ways this site can attract more visitors. Truth is, we can't think of many. We get the occasional visitor with an off-the-wall question, or someone who linked through redhill.net.au, but in trying to be distinct from SR we really do try...

Some of the raptors are quiet, too. One of my students has four in a desktop PC, in a RAID 10. Two of the drives, purchased retail from a local shop, are quite loud (loud = not unreasonable for a 10,000rpm drive but shocking compared to recent IDE stuff). Two others came from newegg and aren't...

No fair toying with me like that, Handy.

An on-topic post. What the heck is that doing here?

Cable costs can only be better than SCSI. Particularly for you Grantie Digital fetishists. Even if we're talking about gold-plated GD cables, there are going to be fewer wires. High value controllers? My guess would be that 3ware will continue its tradition of making fantastic equipment. I have...

I know the feeling, man.

Known about 'em for months. I like the options included in Google Language Tools. Swedish Chef. RedNeck. That sorta thing.

Well, it ain't Apple II Floppy, either. Those were 20 pin. Where the hell is Tannin?

I don't know how you guys do it. I could sell at a profit, but I don't think I could afford to eat if I did.

I'm basically a PC guy, Prof. It ain't Apple SCSI. IIRC It actually used the Apple (II) floppy interface.

I'm serious. If you'd like I'll convert your discs to +Rs for you, but everything I'm aware of works with -Rs. Fewer things work with +Rs, so I wouldn't expect improvement from that. Don't blame your video guy if his equipment is working fine and did what it was supposed to do. On the other...

$200 Handicam, PC and AIW?

Get a less sucky DVD-ROM? I've never seen a DVD-ROM or DVD Player that DVD-Rs don't work in. I think I'd double check to make sure the discs play in a set top player before I went complaining.

You realize you're talking to someone with over 3TB of disk space (gotta love those $105 160GB samsung drives!) who describes his collection as "sizeable", right?

Prof, I can honestly say I've never seen your sig before. But I fired up IE to take a look. God god is that thing large and hideous. P2P stuff isn't any better than web stuff. Usually it's worse. There's zero quality control and a lot of crap just gets renamed and reposted. More video, though.

You sound like you could benefit from my expertise, blake.

I like Radeon AIWs. Need to borrow one? I use SVHS VCRs with svideo outputs to help in the quality department. Disk space could be as much or as little as you need. 5 - 10GB of disk space would serve you VERY well.

USB "2.0" seems to be on every new motherboard now. Whether that's Hi-Speed USB is a matter for consideration. Firewire adoption still seems glacial in comparison to USB2 - a year ago USB2 was downright exotic. I'd wager most of the members here don't have it. Where are you seeing new FW...

Yup. That's right. USB 2.0 doesn't mean what we think it does. Isn't that funny? Apparently, a manufacturer can claim USB 2.0 compliance with a device that only handles data at the pathetic 12Mbps that "USB 1.1" offers. More here. I was reminded of this because of recent grousing about scanning.

Finding good pr0n is hard? You aren't looking in the right places, my friend. Had I but known you were having difficulties in that area... /me wishes I had a fast connection so I could actually partake in my hobby. :(

I'm pleased whenever I get to talk to a human being. Doesn't happen that often.

SR has a LOT of people with around 100 posts. Many don't visit all that often, but contribute when they do. In a real way SR is a very loose community while SF (lots of people with 250+ posts, and lots with fewer than 5) is a very close one.

Not true. I pestered the guy I talked to about AMD's warranty during my single retail-chip RMA experience. When you RMA a retail chip to AMD, you talk to a human being. The AMD employee asks some interesting, leading questions to find out what you know about computers and processors.and then...

I need a couple of these. Hopefully the street price will be a bit more like ~ $250ish.