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Yup. It was designed by Sid Meier (the Civilization guy) in the late 80s (87? 88?) after his famous "Pirates!" and before Civ.

Khan from Star Trek. Ming the Merciless is from Flash Gordon.

That guy will probably take 32MB EDO or FP SIMMs. 64s are actually iffy on many HX boards (the Tyan and Micronics HX boards I remember both had weird requirements for high-capacity RAM). I don't think I'd bother trying 128s, no matter what the book says.

You could use FIND to strip out the "/" from that string.

Sometimes I miss new posts, too, Groltz, but no. I was thinking of installing a tiny VGA monitor in the tower cases in my server closet, where space is at a premium and I don't need to interact with the machines THAT much.

There wasn't anything particularly exciting about AmigaOS, but the Amiga itself was so far ahead of its time it was scary. Considering that we're talking about, at most, the same 68040 processors found in late-model non-PowerMacs (basically in the 20 to 33MHz range), those machines had...

OK. I did it again. OS X again, even though I changed my mind on a couple of questions. James, you will live to regret that remark. :D

WTF did I do that I get OSX and everybody else gets cool stuff like HPUX and Linux?!?

Just to make a few things clear: I *currently* live in what would be called a low-income area. I support the idea of population control. I'm not hearing much from either jtr or Fushigi that I can say I agree with. Anyway, I guess this will be part one of Mercutio's contribution to the Storage...

OK. I've got to sit down and read all that's happened between jtr and Fushigi. Cripes you two were busy. Just keep in mind, jtr, that I *am* a teacher. OK, a trainer. Someone who teaches adults. Given some of my experiences, I've concluded there isn't much difference.

Welcome to our site, Cawood.

It's a joke. You missed a question. HURD is the GNU OS. "But isn't Linux the GNU OS?", you ask? Umm... no. Linus wrote the Linux kernel and used all of GNU's support tools with it. The reason it's a joke is, developers (er, a couple of them, anyway) have been working on it steadily for *20...

Current generation maxtor drives continue to carry 3-year warranty. OfficeDepot.com item number is 678133. 80GB Maxtor DM9 8MB cache. Enter coupon code 16006100. Shipping is pretty much always free. Office Depot also has a $30 rebate on the drive . OK. It's not a $69 120GB drive, but I just...

I'm OS X.

jtr - Bullshit. On many, many levels. I want to write a huge reply to some of your points, and I will, when I have more time. For now, though, remain assured that I am in firm disagreement with you.

Traffic is traffic, Prof. The internet was just as clogged from the billions of UDP packets SQL Slammer sent out as it would've been by the more traditional attacks that Code Red initiated. Distributed servers help allieviate traffic, of course, but all the supernodes in the world wouldn't help...

We're all throwing our money into the pot and saying "This is for public good", right? So we can look at things one of two ways 1. We can say that, by you "getting your money back to send your kid to a private school" that you've decided to withdraw from the public weal. In that case it...

Macromedia is in the business to make money. So is microsoft. You can bet that if microsoft had been the company that developed HTML, we'd be paying $99 for our license to use notepad to make web pages. (SGML, the basis for HTML, incidently, grew out of IBM's need for a standard documentation...

Maybe not, but in that case you'd have a de facto state endorsement of the private school, which is not a good thing. If we allocated $x to every student from age 3 - 18, that would be a different thing, of course. But to take things to a logical conclusion, if a non-public institution took...

Truth is, everyone DOES use the education that a public school provides, since everyone, in his or her daily life, relies on some people who were educated at a public school. Where's Flagreen? I'm sure he'd have an interestingly-divergent viewpoint in all this.

Really, a tank defends against RPGs by adding more armor. :) It's another arms race. Better armor will only lead to better AP or HE munitions. In the end, it's probably easier to build a thermonuclear hand grenade than it is to build a mobile box that can protect its occupants from a...

Bowling for Columbine didn't get wide theatrical release in the US, James. It played in art-house cinemas in campus-towns and in major cities. I don't even know if it will be available widely on video/DVD. Other than that, I can only offer a "Well said". Michael Moore deserves a hell of a...

Buy an LSI or a TekRAM? Seriously, the only way I've fixed a badly-flashed Adaptec card involved a FedEx truck... and the only reason they were willing to replace my card is 'cause Adaptec Support told me to apply the BIOS update. Somehow I doubt you'd be that lucky.

Companies that make devices that a molded to fit ergonomically in one's right hand shall also make an identical product that is designed to fit ergonomically in one's left hand. This shall be known for e'er more as the "Why the hell can't I get a left-handed joystick" Rule. Penalty for not...

Gotta say I think ATI won the battle for the current round of graphics cards. Ooh. There's another one. Graphics cards should not have PCI-slot-blocking, toad-shaped cooling devices that sound like a warhog rooting for food... unless the user installs one.

Nope. I was emotionally invested in my "Who Cares" response. Way I see it, I won no matter what. Although I really didn't know the game was yesterday. I spent my day fiddling around with someone else's misbehaving PC and reading Iain Banks novels. Maybe the scrotum-biting guy will make it next...

1.) You've been spelling my nick wrong. 2.) Here's Intel's AGP 3.0 PDF. You can find less dry reading on the subject through google.

How about an extra connector for the PC speaker, so every PC could get minimal sound support without external speakers? Some kind of easier HSF retention system. I don't care what, but remember how easy Slot 1 CPUs were to deal with? I'd love to have that again. AMD and Intel should adopt...

The super bowl was today?

Standard connector to add 3.5" drive cages. Like this would be so %$^-ing hard? Just to amplify another suggestion: PUT A STICKER over the RAID connectors, that says something like "Don't use me until you've got something on the other two channels or a valid reason to build a RAID" Er...

In addition to those things already mentioned... Better support for audio applications. There are a lot of motherboards and sound cards that give a choice between having a 5.1 set and having stereo + mic and line-in. Soundcard support for ProLogicII. Standard placement for an internal, standard...

Have you tried moving your drives to another disk controller?

I had never been to Antec's site before, but it looks to me like their "Value" line of cases are essentially identical to the Compucase branded models that I purchase, only $35 more expensive.

If you have an older pan with a worn teflon coating, I'm almost positive you'll find bits of the pan in pancakes.

Also, one of the odd side-effects of the worm is that it has taken much of South Korea offline, resulting in a decrease in spam for much of the rest of the internet.

There's a MAJOR internet worm at the moment. It's primarily attacking MSSQL, but apparently, the traffic increases have effectively killed UUNet and taken down several of the "." DNS servers. Speculation is that it is possibly cyberwarfare. I wouldn't think there's much interest in the script...

Futzed around for a couple more weekends with Divx 5.02, but I never got results that were appreciably better than before. Downloaded divx 5.03, noticed some minor UI changes in the control interface (no more minimum/maximum quantizers, and now there are usage profile which... do something, I...

I've heard that almost every onboard RAID controller has its own set of "issues". There is a VIA RAID patch out there somewhere, for those who have RAID + a VIA chipset. Some other things to try: Move your PCI cards around until your RAID isn't sharing an IRQ with anything. Pull your...

I know there's an enormous worm that's hitting MSSQL servers hard right now, so perhaps this is related. Still, has anyone been able to get to pricewatch in the last couple of days?

Tannin, of course, forgets the nasty little detail. If you're thinking about upgrading the CPU on a 486, understand that a lot of manufactuerers chose to solder the damn things to the motherboard, instead of providing a ZIF socket. That happened less often with the 486SX (where the "math...

Sure you can. I saw it on ebay for $29.95. :) Seriously, how many $1 billion dollar aircraft do we need?

Bah. Halogen is the way to go. Fluorescent lights play havok with LAN cables and monitors. "But Halogen bulbs get so hot, Merc!" So what? Don't touch them, or put a plastic shield between the bulb and the outside world, if you're worried about safety issues. LED isn't really here yet...

Considering that, about four months ago, I got an email from one of the distributors around here for $90 DVD-RAM drives, I don't think they did very well on that one, either.

Man, those *Orb fans are loud. One of the GA7VAXPs I have had its fan go into "nutso rattle" mode. I pulled the fan and installed one my gigantic Speeze HSF combos on the CPU. On that particular HSF, air is blown down at the CPU. Air happens to be ejected from the heat sink directly onto the...

A couple days ago, I found out that my apartment doesn't have heat. It's never been an issue before, with all the PCs I have, I put my thermostat at its lowest setting and left it there. Tuesday night I saw that it was going to hit -20F outside, so I bumped the thermostat up to to a toasty...

Conspicuous consumption? I live in an apartment with 12 computers. I make enough money to buy everything that is important or interesting to me. I've never wanted for anything in my whole life (well, one thing, but I somehow doubt I'll get that again). Of *course* I consume in a contemptuous...

I do both, actually. I don't prefer to give the government money. But I do believe that I have an obligation to pay my own way. I give away older computer all the time. I donate my services to the united way and the American Cancer Society. I build decent new computers, sometimes at a slight...

Put as much RAM as you can in that poor little guy. That's really the best advice I can give you. Don't spend any money on it, though. A 486 really isn't worth the effort. Storagewise, the newer and the bigger, the faster your PC will be. Most 486s hit a BIOS-enforced wall at 500MB or so. Unless...

Speculation on slashdot suggests that Sony stayed in the CRT market only until its patent on trinitron tubes expired. That makes sense to me, even if I think that decision is somewhat boneheaded and stupid.