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The terms of UM's agreement are identical to that of Purdue's. You should be able to buy VERY cheap upgrade copies of XP Pro from your bookstore.

Yup. But I sold two of them. Fry's just sounds like a geek Mecca to me. Microcenter is bad enough, but the idea of a place with a "motherboard aisle" gives me happy thoughts.

Pradeep: Probably, yes. License transfers depend on the specifics of the license in question, but the local Not for Resale copies I've got (from Purdue and Indiana U) indicate that the license simply CANNOT be transferred to a 3rd party. Adcadet: Wow. XP Home is eXtra-Puketacular. 5 network...

No, but the blue thing in the background to this picture is a waterfall. :) I like the crays that look like couches better, myself, but you've gotta admit that a PC with a waterfall would kick major ass.

The longest run (12 cables, 20 - 35 feet) was in a wall with removable wood(like) paneling. That was really easy. I popped off the panels and bored the studs. I had access to the wall my closet was on, with those panels off, so I also bored those studs and used a long fiberglass rod (cable...

... and in an example of the sheer irony of life, I picked up a job today to "fix" the PCs of a "Marketing Company" (The kind with a lot of telephones that seems to be most interested in your business around dinner time). Turns out that through the fascinations of their various loser employees...

You might want to throw a real fan in that thing. Those old ENs have passive-cooled CPUs.

Sad thing is, I make more money selling parts on Ebay - something I've only done a couple of times - than I do for complete systems.

Yes but they're almost all quiet little Maxtors and Samsungs, not SCSI Barracudas. :) Anyway, I just finished fixing this little problem. Here's a description of the finished product. The rest of that topic at slashdot is pretty interesting, too.

Yes, but will it be Tornado proof? Blakerwry, I've never found a game I couldn't crack with clonyXXL and CloneCD.

Unfortunately, the basis for my familiarity with the local computer shops in my area is having to fix their screwups. I won't go near small retail computer places as a result (that and the fact that I don't like the 175% of wholesale prices that the stores here charge their customers... ECS...

... and I suppose the even simpler Media Center version will be called "Oakie". BahdumDUM-ching!

Be sure to visist xupiter.com and say yes to everything it asks to do! Yes, that was a joke. Although it's a really good thing to do to someone you don't like.

Turn it on in Network Connection whatever > Properties > TCP/IP Properties > Advanced > IP Security > IP Security Policy > Secure Server, in Windows 2000 or XP.

I really hate it when certain monkey-types substitute "z" for "s" in their posts. But I'm nice and I don't complain about it. See how easy that is? :P

Umm... I've got a few RMA-able Barracuda IIs in the 20GB range. I'm using everything I've got down to 20GB, and I have a couple of 8GB drives still in service as well. I'd probably be using the Seagates, too, except that they suck in almost every way (hot, loud, slow for 7200rpm). Anyway I've...

I dimly recall George the first as saying something like: "When I get my newspaper in the morning, I turn to the same section as every other average American, the International News". George I's administration lost any kind of momentum it might've gotten from winning a popular war due to the...

Much of great Western Thought (Voltaire, Balzac) has come from France, as has Great Art (too many to name, but of course it birthed impressionism in art and music). Some of America's greats have chosen the Sienne over our own shores. Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Jim Morrison...

Tell me where, in what country, Is Flora the beautiful Roman, Archipiada or Thais Who was first cousin to her once, Echo who speaks when there's a sound On a pond or a river Whose beauty was more than human? But where are the snows of yesteryear? Where is the leamed Heloise For whom they...

How many ranks can we have. We're a "storage" site. Maybe we could do ranking by powers of 2 instead of multiples of 10. 16, 64, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192...

Check this out.

Just try my links, OK? (for those curious, since I'm the guy who hates everything on the web that isn't JPG, PNG or plaintext, I use a program called Streambox to download otherwise uncopyable streaming realaudio files and to convert them to better formats. My connection at home would never be...

Thanks. We certainly like it. :)

I have a radio everywhere I spend significant time, and if it's on, it's tuned to WBEZ (91.5), the National Public Radio station. I'm enough of an addict that I've volunteered for their pledge drives, gone in at 3:30 to work through "Morning Edition". Chicago is unique in public radio. More...

I noticed the same thing, Coug. It's not just you. As for why we don't shoot him, well, I personally think he's too stupid to die.

I usually wander off to read between midnight and one, actually, and read until I pass out.

I'm an extreme insomniac, but I think it's Doug you're referring to on that count, mubs. ;)

Well, I've gotten a kick out of this thread so far.

In Chicago, Kevin Matthews is a well known DJ. So at least Fushigi and timwhit will get this. :) I worked for ABC Radio for awhile. While I was there, this drug-addled moron who has never even heard of a shower, let alone been within 10 feet of one, got pissed off that he lost a game of...

Clearly Pradeep has spent too much time on the wrong side of the world. High resolutions are only a good thing if you've got serious amounts of screen area. No laptop has serious amounts of screen area.

This is exactly the same situation that played out with the 1st nforce chip. It was king of all it surveyed for l6 weeks until Via released... whichever chipset it was, KT266A? KT333?, that made the many supposed advantages of nforce go "poof".

Is the "Sensaura" technology the thingie that makes NF2 do native dolby digital out?

If Roxio was a less stupid company, they might make a demo of their $100 program available. Then I could look at it, shrug my shoulders and uninstall it without breaking any laws.

Yeah! A spinning ball and a Lovely PC Speaker rendition of "Disco Inferno" (9 minute version) every time I boot up my PC. That would be cool!

I have everything Microsoft makes on or around my desk (mostly "on", but sometimes a pile tips over) at work. LongHorn isn't available to the public yet. Longhorn is supposed to offer a SQL-Server-backed relational filesystem. It'll be a very interesting thing to see, but it's also something...

Bear with me as I pause to remember the 3 month period when the Matrox G100 was available... Sigh. What a great card that was. All the justificatons for buying Matrox in a card that cost maybe $30 new.

Funny story. Total urban legend. Check snopes.com if you don't believe me. I shook Neil Armstrong's hand once. He was unbelievably gracious for someone unique in the history of mankind .

Hard drives have tech support? :P Seriously, I remember having to call and pester Seagate about CHS data for drives I'd never seen back in the early 90s (I haven't been a tech as long as some, obviously), but, um, what else is there to ask about? They don't charge for RMA calls, do they?

I seem to recall something about a revolution of an oppressed people in 1776 against a lawful goverment that was fulfilling its obligations as a sovereign. Were the initial actions (The Boston Tea Party, for example) of our founding fathers terrorism? After the revolution we developed the...

$20ish. It's for a good cause. :)

At this point we come to a question of globalism. The French, Russians and Chinese are all respected entities in US diplomacy (I might also point out that they all have "the bomb"). Those motivated to acts of terror - in the US, in Israel, in Ireland, whereever - do so because their opinion is...

So you aren't willing to accept that 9-11 was predicated by certain misguided foreign- or at least blatantly pro-Israeli policies on the part of the US?

What's "a few", 'cause at $20, the number I've heard before, that's an insane premium.

Hey Doug, if you can wait a few days before buying anything, I'm going to be able to shake loose a couple of 1700s from my personal collection very shortly. Normally I'd use them to upgrade more of my stuff but since there's a need...

I've got a worse decision forthcoming: I have an IBM external RAID array with 10 4.3GB Barracudas in it. SCA drives, all, and everything is hotswappable. The cabinet only does U2W SCSI and for all that I only get 36GB of disk space. A prime piece of technology, worth a small fortune. Of...

Who the hell says King Shrub is "Enormously Popular" here. "Popular", maybe, but some of us have some sense, dammit. I suppose we could enact Godwin's Law at this point. I mentioned that before: Any time someone invokes "Hitler" or "Nazis" in online debate, rational argument is at an end...

EAP = external source for authentication, besides that which is built into your data link protocol. It's not a replacement for VPN-anything, but rather an enhancement for making sure you are who you say you are.

I'm pretty sure the city you're thinking of is on the Southwestern tip of the Illinois side of the line, AD. It was in the running as our national capital at one point. I've never crossed the Mississippi but I've been to Cairo.

WEP is a trivial hack. You should be looking at IPsec instead.

Seagate had that gigantic quarter-screen flash abomination on SR in early 2002. I think that's what you're remembering.