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What's wrong with a $20 radio shack special and a copy of Bitware or Winfax?

Well, I *am* supposed to be meeting Fushigi tomorrow morning. I'll probably call him Fushigi. I don't know what he'll call me. I pretty much figure we'll have some kind of get together someday, anyway. Hopefully my own neurosis won't keep me from attending, but when you think about it, Clocker...

Emacs. Emacs is a bootloader away from being an operating system, but pointy-he4aded emacs flunkies have made modules to do EVERYTHING, including math. A solution that does not involve a change of religion is to spend a few quality hours with a regexp tutorial and any of the fine tools out...

I thought I was the only one with that particular hang-up!

One thing that I must say about receiving kit from Clocker: The weight of the packing tape around it always exceeds the weight of the contents of the box. No worries about shipping damage when you buy from Kev! I actually had to go get a bigger knife to open my present... Very Big :D, obviously.

.. and that's another limitation of CD-RW, too. Discs become unwritable after a few thousand writes (early discs were 100s, new ones are supposed to be some four-digit number of writes). Yes, there are IDE CF readers, just as there are IDE PCMCIA readers. They're both highly uncommon. What I...

I wouldn't give up one of my precious IDE channels for some asstastic floppy-like MO drive. Now, maybe if extra ATAPI-compatible channels were put onto motherboards, it'd be feasible, but not if I have the choice between 120GB of fixed storage and a 200MB removable. jtr, one of the big...

I keep telling people: The answer to floppy replacement is a compactflash reader in every PC.

From one of the "listmania" lists that includes the Hasselhoff CD: "Apparently, in Germany Hasselhoff is the most popular hobby next to oppressing minorities. You don't want to hang with that crowd." I was drinking milk, and it did in fact make the short, bubbly trip from my nose to my keyboard.

More fun with Amazon. Anyone so inclined can click here to read some really laugh-out-loud funny stuff. Be sure to read the whole page.

1. Disc incompatibility. CD-RWs don't work in an awfully high percentage of readers in the world. 2. Disc incompatibility. To read a data CD-RW in a PC, you have to have some kind of UDF reader installed. Annoyingly, the two most common readers (Ahead's and Roxio's) are both over 1.44MB. Combine...

I have similar issues with InCD on some of the older machines (K6-2/450s, P3/450 and 500 machines) I maintain. I strongly discourage use of CDRW discs, though, so my solution was to remove InCD from Startup.

The new lab is supposed to go live before the new year. After that, the mandate is for most of the teaching to take place in XP. My classes are different, unfortunately, and I'm the person who uses that particular lab the most. I'd guess that if the PCs can get turned on in XP and used two days...

I rent my apartment and I cut up the drywall. I got brave and re-did the phone jacks, since they used the huge, antiquated block connectors, and put in really nice 6-port wall jacks with 2 phone and four ethernet connections. I managed to hide the jacks in my wiring closet just above a shelf...

Got a source for that, cas? I'd really like to know more about the early history of Windows than I do. My understanding is that Microsoft's first adventure in GUI software was Excel for the Mac (PARC blah blah), and that the success of that product led to a more general interest in a GUI for...

Or Slashdot. Kind of a sad day. At this point it'll be interesting to see how computing history describes OS/2. In my classes I end up taking quite a while explaining the impact of OS/2 to my students. It's hard for them to understand... OS/2 was the impetus for the creation of Windows (which...

Consumers are stuck with the idea that bigger numbers = better product. Stereo amplifiers are a great example of this (Do the 500 watts an Aiwa or Sherwood amp put out sound better than the 250 watts from an Onkyo or Yamaha? I think not), so are computer speakers e.g. the $6 3-piece set that...

You're far from the only one. I use 1280x1024 most of the time on my 21" CRTs, 1152x864 on 19" and 17". Web pages by and large aren't made for viewing at anything larger than 1024x768, but I always maximize the window I'm using to make reading a more normal experience. The 15" LCDs I just...

All those inputs and not a single one of 'em for component video. That's a damn shame. Personally, I think Tannin could do with a long tour of the States. I'm fairly certain he could get free drinks and places to stay from California to New York. ;)

There will not be any picture of me. Take my word for it, I look like the fat computer hacker guy from "Jurassic Park". Besides, if you were desperate to know what I look like, you could drive the 12 miles from Homewood to Griffith and find out.

"Storage is my Life", I guess. :) Heartfelt thanks to all. I've been have a rough time in real-world life lately, and I mean that in all seriousness. Having storageforum as a place where I can come, share my thoughts and perhaps most importantly, forget about the less-pleasant parts of my...

Remember those PCs I built for my classroom? XP2100s? There are 12 of them right now. The ghost image that on 'em includes FAH3Console, which is installed as an automatic service when the machines are in WinXP. I imagine that'll add up over time.

Some kind of assweasle registered www.mercutio.com, but isn't doing anything with it. :( Of course, I registered mercutio.us, and I haven't done anything with it either.

Everyone ships Disk Manager. Everyone customizes it so it only works with their brand of disks. I'm fairly certain the Fugitsu version isn't going to work for me. It isn't a big deal; just an annoyance.

Also, where'd our download section go? I liked grabbing Via's drivers from SF rather than viahardware's slow-ass site.

I hit samsungelectronics.com today to snag a copy of the insta-format tool that every drive maker seems to offer with their hardware. Samsung, after making me type in both a "proper" (SP4002H) model number and an actual serial number, led me to a wonderful page not found error. Does anyone have...

The GA7VAX, mostly. I originally wanted the "P" for all the machines but I found some generic firewire cards locally for about $12, which saved me about $10 on the per unit costs. I still got a couple of AXPs, though. They were invoiced at the same price. The boot message about "RAID BIOS not...

My pilot lab went live today. XP2100s running - for the moment - Windows 98. My builders, a mix of non-technical trainers and somewhat clueful A+ students, did a very good job assembling the machines, and in fact I only ended up with two machines that didn't boot up the first time we tried. My...

So this is an Acard controller chip, not a repackaged Promise/HPT? Maybe I'll buy one and give it a try.

There is nothing wrong with using what MS Word calls a passive sentence. It's considered a no-no by some business writing style guides, and business writing is the default for the Word grammar checker (which also checks style, and if you don't believe that, watch what happens when you but the...

iGary is the man to ask, I'll bet. Here's a couple of other choices: ATI Fire GL 8700. They're about $200 in a 64MB configuration, but they're "real" workstation cards with vector filters and everything, but missing the other $2000 worth of stuff that makes ATI's GL4 a high-end card. The older...

Nothing is as ugly as the ICQ homepage.

OpenOffice is another excellent product. So is Abiword. Both are free.

Never eaten lamb, either. What the hell do you do with lamb? Do you Aussies get Mexican food? Mexico's cuisine is its gift to the world (er, that and cheap manufacturing).

I'd just like to express several dozen kinds of annoyance that, after spending damn near 3 hours downloading Moz 1.2.1 at home (90 minutes or so for each of Linux and Windows versions), upgrading it on 11 machines, and using it for several hours... that the most current release does not support...

The last Promise Controller that included full, certified ATAPI was the Ultra33 one. I'm of the opinion that this makes add-on boards somewhat crippled.

You guys actually eat pumpkin over there? The only thing we do with it here is mash it up with some ginger and cinnamon and bake it into pies.

timwhit, Aurelios, at least here in Indiana (there's one a couple blocks away) isn't all that great. Like a lot of the Chicago joints (Pizzaria Uno, Eduardos, Giordanos), the farther you get from Chicago, the worse the pizza is going to be. I ate at a Pizzaria Uno in New Jersey once. It was one...

I'll be perfectly happy to sell you a couple of PC Chips SS7 boards with 16MB of SDRAM onboard. I think I know where I can find a couple. You can try 'em for a couple of days, and when you get done dry-heave vomiting, you can come back and tell everyone what you've learned. :) More seriously...

The best add-on IDE cards are almost certainly made by 3ware. There are a couple of problems with many of the add-in IDE boards on the market. One is that ATAPI support is iffy at best. The second that the low-end cards all have a pretty shoddy reputation (ask Santilli or, IIRC, CougTek). If...

I don't think there will be any official price cuts before Q1 03, but you might get lucky with a retailer clearing out inventory in the after-xmas/pre-New Year time period. There probably won't be anything worthwhile until Clawhammer comes out, at least on the AMD side.

The one true pizza is a thick crust, stuffed pizza from Chicago. You New York-pizza types just refuse to acknowledge progress. SteveC, if you ever make it out this way, I'll put a pie from Gino's East or Eduardo's in front of you, and you'll learn the error of your ways. :)

I always use billg69@msn.com for that purpose. Or sometimes be@be.be, if I feel like doing a minimal amount of typing.

Found it!

You just want to get the services of a well-qualified IT consultant/trainer at a scandalously low price. :P

... and in some language, possibly even one that bears some semblance to the one I speak, all the stuff Grammar Police just wrote actually makes sense.** *(Yes, I am hopeless at all things sport-related, with the possible exceptions of women's rythmic gymnastics or beach volleyball. Cricket...

After a grueling eight weeks of research, tonight I have concluded that the best single-ingredient pizza, at least at the Papa John's pizzaria that's 107 steps from my apartment door, is a very unlikely candidate. Therefore, I feel that I must share my findings with my friends here at...

Can't he establish forwarding from his present id to a more satisfactory service?

Not necessarily. There are some very nice open-source programs for making PDF files. I personally take the view that the only thing that should go over email is plaintext. If you need to find a way to share something else, dump it on a webserver/exchange public store/file share and provide a...

myrealbox is run by Novell, has free POP and IMAP(!) access, better spam blocking than most and the distinct advantage of not being owned by Microsoft or a major target of spammers. Not only that, but the few times their service has been down on purpose, I've gotten messages indicating the...