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15% of $25,000 is $3750, or $310 a month. If the tax burden at that salary is reduced to only 10%, the earner gets an extra $60 a month. $60 a month at that income level might be the difference between being able to make a new car payment, or being able to afford to turn the heat up a bit. That...

So far as things go, I've been proud the couple of times I made it into the highest federal tax bracket. I'm proud to be able to do my civic duty. It's distressing when I realize how much of my income is taken away in taxes, but at the same time, I also know that as someone who is at least...

If you've got a proper 2000 server - AD or not - you can have it handle the print queuing. Set up your generic spools and point your PCs to that. 2000 also supports point-and-print, so PCs will pick up the right driver the first time they try to print (if you've configured it). Of course...

Ah yes, Clocker, but you also have to understand that the top 10% of US taxpayers control something like 76% of the wealth in the US. The bottom 10%, .4% of the wealth. If you consider everything in between as a "middle class", that's still only 23% of all wealth in the US for the 80% between...

I actually wonder how much of SD's qualitative judgement of his new display is based on the psychological imperative to judge costly things as better than things that are less costly. I've seen many large LCD displays connected to DVI (even a 20" Dell, although I don't know if it's the same one...

I have severe organic depression. Am I insane? A great many artists of any type are to some degree not operating in the same reality as the rest of us (Van Gogh, Pete Townsend, Willa Cather, Ann Coulter). Homosexuals choose not to breed. By standards (in the US) up to the DSM III, homosexuality...

Wow. That's actually a pretty well-researched spam. I really doubt that many people in the US or Europe actually know of the Republic of Congo's President actually is. :)

The essay was "A Modest Proposal". A particular favorite of mine. jtr, you in part miss Tea's point. By definition, an IQ of 100 is a median IQ. 50% of any population should have an IQ below the median. If everyone in the world suddenly had an increase in intelligence, a new, fair IQ test would...

I find that it's easier and faster to read lengthy passages of text in the "vertical rectangle" format than the standard monitor layout. I guess that's because books are almost always taller than they are wide.

OK. That's monumentally stupid. We're getting back to AT-style stupidities, here. We've have no standard for front USB, audio or firewire. The couple of boards I've seen with flashcard controllers built in (gigabyte and... soltek, maybe?) seem to use different cabling for those, and now I might...

I can confirm that there's no practical difference between an 8500 and a 9000Pro. I think I picked up 3 Quake fps between the 8500DV (slower memory timings than a vanilla 8500) and a 128MB 9000Pro.

I have no doubt that the Bayesian mail filters on the email client are a good thing.

Yes, that is correct. And I do know how to spell it. I just didn't, that time. The definition, of course, is "a person who arranges things according to the alphabet".

Is the 3-jacks in a vertical column some kind of new standard in the backplate arrangement? I've seen it on Abit and Asus boards, but nothing that I buy or use. Is that the direction we're going?

I don't imagine baseball would be much fun if some players on the team stopped doing their jobs.

Cripes. That's really crappy news. You definitely have (had?) one of the more interesting jobs out of all of us, too. There are always things that programmers can do to make themselves useful, at least.

Tea clearly has some abcedarian tendencies.

I figured that you or Groltz would have a better idea what to do with those than I do. Let us know if you figure anything out. :) The big problem I'm having is that, yes, there are 6" LCDs in the world, but it seems that almost all of them are NTSC. If I can't read text on a 32" NTSC display...

I figured that you or Groltz would have a better idea what to do with those than I do. Let us know if you figure anything out. :) The big problem I'm having is that, yes, there are 6" LCDs in the world, but it seems that almost all of them are NTSC. If I can't read text on a 32" NTSC display...

Hey, speaking of goofy case modifications, I was looking around for small LCD screens I could mount in my linux boxes when I ran across this. No idea if it'll work. Still looking for a screen that'll mount in a couple of 5.25" drive bays so I can get rid of some $#%%^#-ing monitors.

Or perhaps she found that banana DB's been hiding from her. Also, that should be "PQ Drive Image" in the first line of my previous post.

IIRC, PQMagic version 3 supports drives only up to some obnoxiously small size, like 32GB. Maybe it's time to upgrade? The products are good for different things. I think ghost generally operates fast, but I can get a smaller file from PQDI's "High" compression. I've had fewer problems with...

One of my now-ex-fiance's girlfriends was on Jerry Springer. She convinced her mother to become gay by having her then-girlfriend's older sister seduce her mother, and the mother came out on the show. No, I'm not making this up. This is real. I've met the girl. I've seen the show. Maybe not all...

Go "Who Cares"!!! Whoo! Brought to you by the commission for people who think football needs edged weapons or at least that scrotum-biting aussie soccer guy.

Whoops. I thought we were doing multiple clones of the same drive.

Use a recent version of ghost. 6.5 or 7 at least. Older versions aren't compatible with newGhost as usual. You might consider using 650MB chunks (it's in the options somewhere) and dropping the resulting files on CDs, just for a slight reduction in pain-factor. Anyway, once you've ghosted...

Well, did it work or not? Inquiriing minds want to blow another $200.

TV shows on Kazaa are 1.) Of limited availability. Depending on which supernodes you're connected to, you may or may not be able to find what you want. 2.) Of widely variable video and sound quality. Still, I'm usually able to find episodes of Buffy two days before they air (someone snags them...

Monk is a funny TV show. As I understand it, the first-run shows air on USA Network (a cable channel), while ABC/Disney- the network that originally developed the show, then passed on it - reairs "old" episodes later in the month. Nothing like that has happened before, at least in the US. A...

I read a lot, too. Usually a novel a night. Who says you can't do both? Considering how much work I have to do in order to watch a TV show I like, the few shows that I enjoy enough to watch I consider to be entirely worthwhile. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is quite possibly the highlight of my...

On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary relies on ordinary people to spot first-uses and derivations of words. A subject-matter expert is still an ordinary person as well. I imagine that any one of us could write a reasonable page about storage performance, for example. When I visited...

Also, on the up side for DVD on a PC, TVs suck. Monitors don't. The picture available to my 27" 800x600 presentation display was light-years better than the best TV I could find. Also, for someone looking at a "Home Theater" experience, it's interesting to point out how little work needs to be...

My corner of the world just got a Krispy Kreme as well. I think their doughnuts are awful. Too damned greasy. Of course, the place has been open for two weeks, and the parking lot is always full. Some people just don't have good taste.

Futurama got picked up by the Cartoon Network, IIRC. Of course, that's a channel I couldn't get even if I had cable. Kazaa Lite & my brother's VCR are what make the little bit of TV watching I do possible. I just picked up the DVD release of the first season of "The Shield". I can't believe...

.. and that's what I get for missing the preview button. The rest of what I wanted to say: ISA/PCI slots are still at the same interval. Full AT-style boards often had 7 slots, and most mid-towers have 8 slots on the back (a lot of cases have a slot "above" where the AGP slot usually falls. So...

AT backplates for ATX cases aren't impossible to find, by any means. I've got a couple laying around. Worst case scenario is "break out the dremel", and even that's not a really big deal.

I've found that dual drives are a fairly easy sell. Most people will take the speed hit in copying CDs to not have to swap the disc in the middle of the process.

Many cases have mounting holes for both, but most of the holes don't line up between AT and ATX.

Looking back at the computers I sold in 2002, out of 39 machines, 31 had CD-RW drives. That's a damned good rate of adoption. 19 had DVD-ROM. Most of those drives went to college kids. Only one machine I sold had a DVD-ROM and no CD-RW. Seven machines had a CD-ROM for a second drive, and seven...

I like to tell people that DVD-ROM is the optical medium of... sometime in the future. Everyone responds with "But I don't want to watch movies on my PC!" Of course, when a 16x DVD-ROM costs and performs about the same as a 52X CD-ROM, the DVD is the superior choice. Yet I still get argument...

My UNIX-y opinion of VMS is that the environment is unusually verbose. I don't have any operator experience on a VMS system, but I've know of a couple of old VAX machines that probably have a half-inch of dust on them, happily whirring away, still doing whatever the hell they do. The local...

Rage Fury Pros are roughly equivalent to Voodoo3s (good enough for Quake3). Just saying "rage 128" isn't all that helpful. ATI did make about a billion different versions of that card.

Couple of my favorite MoM strategies: 1. Always play using the Jafar portrait. I $#%-ing hate Jafar. 2. Lots of White + Halfling + Warlord - slingers are nasty to start out with, but altar of battle or Call to Arms and they come out as champion units. Add Lionheart and they're shooting down sky...

Master of Magic? Someone else plays Master of Magic? What a great game. We'll have to start a strategy thread. IMO the best thing for your DOS gaming needs is an AWE64. It came in ISA and PCI versions, and it was really just about the last Creative card to have non-fuxored DOS drivers. My...

I don't remember if Nero has a builtin recorder, but it does have a WAv editor with hiss and pop removers. Plus, you already have a copy.

The lack of "+" was aught but a mere typo. Tea must've taken my "=" key. I'm not sure if nvidia motherboards are a worthwhile purchase or not. My gut says no. I have horrible problems with nvidia graphics cards overheating and doing other odd things that no one else complains about. In the...

nvidia. Need I say more?

I've said before that my opinion of Soyo isn't all that high. Until recently, they lived contentedly in the same space as DFI and FIC (low end boards aimed at resellers). Because of their recent change in focus, I view new products from Soyo with a healthy dash of suspision. That said, I'll...

Not for me, but I could use a recommendation for a decent P4 motherboard. Actually two: a "budget" vanilla model and something on the higher end of things.

It's good that you made it, but it's incredibly distressing that more IT people are being put out of work. Doubtful there will ever be so many IT jobs again that they'll all find similar work.