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Toshiba makes crap. You could by and large replace "Compaq" with "Toshiba" in most of the above comments and they would still hold. Toshiba's last GOOD notebooks probably had 386 CPUs in them. I believe my comments about 1-year-old Toshiba notebooks should carry some weight here. A.D. knocked...

I was born in 1975. :) 145. You've overclocked a palmpilot 146. You have a favorite version of LISP 147. You've described computers as fast as 1.5GHz as "old" 148. You've made your own SCSI cables 149. When you get together with another geek, you start comparing the scars you have from working...

Oh man. I hadn't read this in awhile. There's some good stuff here. We need a "Best of SF" forum or something. This and the pictures thread. Anyway... 109. You know what program someon is running by the pattern of their drive activity lights. 110. You can whistle at 110 baud 111. You feel a...

You guys should know better than to do anything in top-10 format when I'm around. You don't want a Compaq because (slightly seriously) 11. Low weight and decent battery life are important to you. 12. This a company that has yet to master the art of making either a decent touchpad OR a decent...

My gues is all that thick, soft plastic.

Geez time, if you'd wanted to insult him, you could've just gone for a crack about his mother. That "texan" stuff is hitting below the belt!

Tea, I'm going to give you a oranguatang spanking if you don't give Tannin his "s" key back *I'm* interested in 5400rpm drives. I've got one of the 120GB Samsungs... er, around here somewhere, anyway. They are still being released. They are still getting better. Low noise, low heat, presumably...

Bigger fans spin more slowly with the same impact as smaller fans spinning quickly. So why not control the airflow from a bigger fan? :) Since I spent a little while dealing with a FlexATX machine today... how about a small formfactor PC design that doesn't suck? Any PC that I need 45 minutes...

Toshiba hasn't been worthy of a good reputation for a long, long time. I maintain a bunch (bunch = 12) of Toshiba P3 notebooks (four different models) for a research group on my local Purdue campus. Every Saturday or Sunday I call up my contact over there and find out what's broken... and...

My absolute answer: Whatever Apple's high-end model is at the moment. Apple notebooks (except the couple of models that had bad batteries) are great in terms of battery life and features. Put enough RAM in one and run everything from a RAM disk, and it'll go for days. PC-only: I'd buy an IBM T-...

It's not like there's a shortage of DM+ 9s in the world. Hell, SR hasn't reviewed a Samsung drive since the SpinPoint P40. I can remember thinking I was cool for having a 740X three days before SR released its reviews. I've had DM+ 9s (and 8s, too) for a couple months. SR published 15 reviews in...

Two words: DFI P2XBL. What a pain in the ass those things are.

In the positive balance for AOL: Continuing to support Mozilla. Making the passably-good AOLServer internet server available for free (you'd have to have a long memory for that one), owning WAIS (again, an accidental acquisition, but WAIS powers a lot of site-search features all over the...

... and in other news, I'm not seeing technical disccusions I'd choose to take part in. SR hasn't even done any meaningful reviews in what? Two months?

The fact that most of the participants in this poll are willing to ascribe a moral value to an otherwise immoral entity speaks for itself.

Yes, but it'd be really handy when you get a machine in for service that using those godsforsaken RIMMs. I dunno about you but I'm kind of short in the RDRAM department (OK, I admit it, I *do* have a couple... but I wouldn't if I didn't have to). Not to mention POS boards that won't work without...

Please to explain, Mr. honold. As a software company, Sun's only offense is not giving java over to a standards organization. Well, that and admirably winning lawsuits against winning-vote-getter Microsoft. :)

Sigh. I suppose I'll have to install Delphi or something so I can play with things.

1993 (the first year I had a real internet connection, and also the year AOL came and screwed everything up) had gopher and USENET as primary means of internet communication. Netnews was particularly great back then, since most service providers had TOS that included prohibitions against ALL...

Found this while playing around some freeware sites. No idea how well it works, but since it seems to include options for killing flash and ani-GIFs, I figure it's probably something of an improvement for you misguided IE-using types. http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/

Don't know yet. That's why I'm still toying with the idea. :) I'm surprised there isn't a shareware app somewhere that'll tell you how long a certain program takes to run.

Subject says it all. Reason for the poll? The people I work for are convinced that I just hate software. But seriously, if these are the things you had to work with every day, wouldn't you be a little bitter? AOL gives us AOL, a bunch of different IM clients, Netscape/Mozilla and Winamp, and is...

Subject says it all. I'm trying to figure out what I'd need to create a database for divx encoding performance. Why? It seems to be the most stressful thing I can do on a PC, outside of gaming. I figure I'll need a "standard" video clip. Something that wouldn't take long to download or...

... only slightly more morbid, the investigation into the Challenger disaster revealed that several of the astronauts in that case SURVIVED and were still conscious up to the point where their cockpit hit the atlantic ocean. Like the 9/11 passengers, I have to think that those who know their...

Mozilla mail does that.

Yep. We have that situation now, in fact. There are IA64 versions of Windows 2000 and Linux, and software must be specially compiled for that chip, exactly like software for an entirely different architecture (e.g. Alpha, PPC, UltraSparc). x86-64 will run current software, but current chips...

I *do* hope the use of the appellation "great" was some form of sarcasm, Pradeep.

I learned about 9/11 from slashdot, and this from this thread, here. Slashdot had 600 posts about it, 20 minutes after they posted their headline about it. I turned on Telemundo, the channel I get with clearest reception, and of course I saw the video, over and over and over. It didn't matter...

Using outlook isn't stupid. Misguided, maybe. :) I don't think there's much justification to Outlook, unless you're someone who needs the Calendar aspect of the program. Other software can handle everything else, doesn't have the virus vulnerabilities, and won't use Word as an email editor...

Yes. That works. I've done that with customer machines that needed restored.

Ilan Ramon is a national hero in Israel. I just listened to a report about him on the radio last night. How totally tragic.

One of the local distributors here had a XP1400 - 1600 CPUs priced LESS than the Duron 1.3 for about two weeks, until they were sold out. Make no mistake, the Duron is still a good choice for easy upgrades. That's what I've been buying those AK32s for: a $50 board, $30 chip and $5 fan makes for...

Actually Blake, some time ago P5_133XL got a different answer on that question from Microsoft's Licensing people: You need to have one license of windows for every installation, whether it's on the same PC or different ones. Anecdotally, I know that you can activate many times on the same...

They've been running in and out of stock for about a week, but NewEgg is listing refurbished GA-7VAXPs for $49. I've bought a few refurbished boards from them in the past (an MSI K7T266 ARU and several Shuttle AK32x's). They've been just fine for me so far. Worst thing I can say is that the...

"78% IE" -> Keep in mind that many folk visit SF during the day on PCs where they might not have control over the choice of browsers.

Eh. lynx was the first web client I used. Until I saw mosaic, I really did like gopher better, since its numbered links imposed more organization to the information being presented. Anyway, since my early internet access was all shell-based, it's the client I came to love. By the same token, I...

It's good to see new people here. Welcome everyone. It's good to have new members, and better to have new folks to talk to.

Disclaimer: I've never activated WinXP myself. I don't think you'd have a problem in either case of installing XP on the same PC. My students (a lot of A+ students like to have several OSes to play with) tell me that it's a fairly painless process, even for nightmare situations like "I had to...

Since no one is going to stand up for it, I'd also like to say that having lynx & wget are both incredibly handy utilities. I use wget to snag web pages via scripts fairly regularly (you figure out what I use *that* for), and lynx is excellent for annoyingly image-laden pages (e.g. most...

Supertrick is probably a better list than the one I made myself.

I use Moz very nearly exclusively. IE only for browsing on Microsoft's site while at work. When I had *nix boxes with KDE, I did a lot with Konq, because it was handy, but not that I'm purely WindowMaker, it's all Moz there are well.

Very rarely. Mostly they just don't happen. There are "Page cannot be displayed" messages where there would be banners and ads in IE, but once someone explains why, everyone thinks that's just fine. Moz user that I am, I really hadn't realized how bad the the web has gotten under IE.

If you're a dialup type, just don't ever disconnect from the internet, and don't bother to plug in a phone (I have one plugged in. I don't know what it sounds like when it rings). I have a cell phone for "important calls I can't miss", and telemarketers don't ever call my cell number.

At work, after watching a single page open 11 popups, I pushed a 1000-line-long hosts file out to all the machines. Now you have to work pretty hard to get a popup or banner ad. :)

It probably would've actually cost them less to ship you another M64. Assuming you'd want such a thing. Of course, I'm not going to sympathize over a broken nvidia card, since I think they're ALL broken, but at least you can buy something better now.

That sick feeling in the pit of your belly? That's why we call them vomit boxes. :)

DFI P2XBLs are the same way. 256MB modules have to be registered and the chips have to be in a 32x64 configuration. Also a BX board.

I wouldn't say that this test has a very high opinion of OS/2, given the answers I had to get it to come up...

Um... Star Trek 3? Maybe? Now that my day - or at least the last 45 minutes of it - has been made brighter by this glorious news of AOL's impending financial ruin, let's think about things for a second. WTF is wrong with this company?!? Time-Warner has a media library worth billions of dollars...

C'mon, A.D., A&P is actually a pretty interesting class. Along those lines, though, where's bluetooth support for, oh, anything on the PC side? 1Mbit is plenty fast for browsing and printing (I assume IP will run over it). A bluetooth printer that took jobs from any device within 30 feet? That...