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Only when delivered by bikini-clad Aussie babes (the kind that aren't covered in orange fur, thank you), of dubious virtue and strong attraction to bookish computer-types. Reminds me of a Stephen Wright joke:

You misunderstand. The disks function perfectly, unless I'm trying to use the utility available in Windows 98 (the one in Add/Remove Programs) to create the "emergency disk" that includes goodies like SCSI and CD-ROM drivers and whatever the heck is in EBD.cab. I want to do this specifically...

You need an IMAP server. I don't know if ECS has one, but the WU-IMAPd that ships with most Linux distributions works really well. I get paid reasonably well to set these things up. Basically, you can use a program like fetchmail to grab everything you want from your various POP accounts. You...

No LS-120/CD-ROM/ATAPI setting in the BIOS. Historically, those are there just to make inexperienced techs feel better, AFAIK.

Wait, I'm confused. Is popping zits better or worse than being the creepy guy outside of underage discos? Clocker, that thing looks silly. On the one hand, yup, it's white and purple, and those aren't normal PCB colors. On the other, buying a 'board based on looks is a little nutty. Who is...

Congratulations, CougTek. I think we've all enjoyed your 1000 posts - Tannin pretty well covered that - but it deserves to be said again. Glad to see someone finally decided to join me @ 1000 posts. Now, if only the rest of you laggards would catch up. ;)

I'm not James but... It's possible to multiplex AC3 back into .AVI files. You need to use a program called graphedit to do it, and playback sync is a cold-hearted b*tch. That, plus the filesizes for .AC3 audio are sort-of high, so if you want to maintain video quality, you're looking at 2 - 3...

Nick, that's really, seriously not funny. I'd really like to tear into that but that fact is, you'll never know until you're where I am now.

http://www.freer-close.freeserve.co.uk/comedy/aolcd01.html

1. Scraping mud off your shoes 2. Ballast 3. Very small speed bump 4. Home for wayward mites 5. Bookend 6. Blinking light to amuse children/household pets 7. Combine with IDE cable to make a crude sling 8. Cover all sides with duct tape, use as hip flask 9. Grind into powder; test effectiveness...

Poking around Onstream's site, I see that Onstream offers support for both Linux and Macintosh. I've heard negative things about reliability for Onstream products, though.

I'm moving to a larger apartment in the same building, if it hasn't been rented yet. Amy may stay where she is, or she may move to Andersonville (I can't believe she's even considering that, since she'd have to drop out of Med school). My part time job is far enough into Indiana (Chesterton)...

Absolutely. The drives work just fine for me, except for that one familiar, handy function of Win98. BIOS on these machines looks normal as far as floppy-like things go, and, unbelievably, I'm using the last revision of the BIOS for these stupid %$%^-ing PC Chips boards (July of 2000).

Eh. Depending on how much the security deposit on my new apartment ends up being, maybe I'll pick up an assortment of upgrade chips next week.

timwhit, the idea is to have my students make the floppies. Even moreso, it now disturbs me that I don't know why this is happening. Mark, I'm using 1.44MB media in IDE-type LS-120s. There is no special software installed on the system for these drives. AFAIK, there's no special software even...

Or, more correctly: "Drive A: is not a floppy disk drive or is mapped to a network drive. Setup cannot create a startup disk." Amazingly, given that this is an error message given by Windows, google can't find that particular string of text anywhere on the internet, even on the MS site.

The machines in my classroom are K6-3 500s (on crappy PC Chips boards) with LS-120s installed. Today I learned that Win98SE won't make a "normal" (Add/Remove Programs > Boot Disk) boot floppy if A: is an LS-120 installed. I've not done much of anything with an LS-120 but it appears to be the...

I still want someone to answer the Duron 1.2GHz v. Athlon 1.2GHz question (vs. Celeron 1.2GHz, although that one is probably obvious). But that is a cool picture.

Bladerunner is in all likelihood the best science fiction movie of all time (2001: A Space Odessey is probably second by most accounts). The amazing thing about Blade Runner is that it is a movie that defines a highly plausible future, then proceeds to ignore it completely to focus on what boils...

This guy has a 3Com PCMCIA Lan Manager client boot disk. You'll need to read and follow his instructions, though.

It'd be interesting to know if F@H is memory-bandwidth intensive. I don't think it is but it might also be an interesting comparison. AFAIK there is no difference between the Duron and the Athlon save the artificial limitation to 200MHz bus and the amount/quality of cache on the Duron.

Prof, I think you meant the opposite of what you just said. I hope you did, anyway.

Like Mark, I probably drink more milk than most adults, too, although I'm partial to the Strawberry-flavored Nestle powder in mine. :) Tea is good too, particularly the peppermint or citrus kind. Or sun-brewed iced tea with some lime in it. That's always good.

It could also be that the drive is larger than 2GB (e.g. a replacement drive) and that it's been formatted FAT16.

I like Minute Maid Citrus Punch. Or pretty much any fruit juice. Particularly pineapple. :)

I actually know someone facing an arranged marriage right now. She's Indian, but her parents are Southern Baptist and trying to keep within their homeland's tradition. There are exactly six people in the US they'll allow her to marry (nationality/income level/religion etc) Understand, this is a...

Yeah, 'cause you know about all those entry-level router/switch configuration jobs there are out there... One thing I'll say about CompTIA: their exams aren't that tough when you have experience, but for someone without, they're absolutely daunting.

OTOH, I know of a guy who goes to kiddie sporting events with a reasonably high-quality Olympus Digital Camera, takes fabulous shots of whatever their in-game heroics are, and makes a living selling the results, output on a midrange Epson printer, to parents. That says a lot to me right there...

Yeah. I was going to put up something on cheaphosting.com but the idiots there don't have ".us" on their dropdown for domain selection... there's a note to email sales if you want to host something other than .org, .net, .com... and their salesdroid mailed back "use the form", which of course...

I thought we were switching from Burst anyway. Hey, I never have picked up a hosting service. Still want a little reseller income?

MBA or something technical, Cliptin? Part of me would just love to go off and spend a couple years getting some kind of fine arts degree right now, just because it'd be literally the least practical and probably the most fun thing I could spend a couple years doing. I'd really like to take a...

Best thing I can tell you is to make a LAN Manager boot disk with drivers for your NIC, if possible. Bootdisk.com has one set up for a 3COM PCMCIA nic, but I can help you if you need something different than that. DOS drivers + LAN Manager client is a major PITA to set up.

When I came home tonight around 8:00 the site was so slow I didn't even manage to load an entire page. I tried again at quarter to ten (all times CDT) and everything was OK.

In a situation like mine - where my partner came to me and said "I need to find out if I'm gay", I could hardly fault her for finding what she needed to know. A case, surely, where an affair is forgivable (to me, anyway). Marriage is a very special bond, surely, but it is a bond that can be...

My teaching job really stabilized my working life. It took a lot of pressure off me to find something once I knew I could cover rent and food. I still get my other jobs, too, fortunately, but I honestly haven't had a new client in about six months; mostly it's been maintenence on things I did in...

I'm the last person who is capable of "picking up" a girl. I'd be really happy, though, if I could prove to myself that I can hold down a conversation with someone I don't know very well, outside a business setting. From what I saw last night, I don't know that I'd want to have much of anything...

Chimp is easier to spell than oraguatang. Hence, Tea is a chimp. :P

I think in a strong marriage an affair is absolutely unforgivable, given the notion of fidelity that is typically included in marriage. However, I can also see circumstances where an affair might be forgivable, or unavoidable. I think the greater crime than the sexual aspect of an affair is the...

I will keep you advice - once I figure out what "MC" is - close at hand. But what is an under-10 chimp doing advising me on drinks? I'm sure I'll try again. soon.

Well, I tried at least. I managed to stay for about twenty minutes, until I got completely overwhelmed, then I walked home. Tea was right about noise. I had forgotten all about it.

It gets worse. I will remember 'til the day I die working with an advertising saleswoman named Cynthia Litt. More specifically, I was working with a bunch of other IT people and someone happened to see her login name in the list of home directories and started saying some insensitive things...

Depends on the disc, tim. Given the choice of listening to an SACD on a $500 player or a record on a $500 turntable, I sure as hell know which I'd choose.

Seems like that machine has results every damn time I look at it. What's it doing while it's waiting to turn in results? 19th place with 17 pathetic work units. Tannin will be passed next.

That doesn't prove that PeeWee isn't a sock puppet, you know.

I'd have no problem telling SACD from vinyl, timwhit. Vinyl would be the scratchy, two-channel only sound while SACD would be the warm, dynamic five-channel.

Wow. I'm stunned by the profound ignorance involved in writing that article. Most especially, I can't believe how dismissive they are of 15krpm SCSI drives, but more than that, the overwhelming message they have seems to be "Buy whatever is cheapest", which I don't think is the right message to...

Not beer. Beer smells awful. As for the rest, I don't want to get drunk, no.

James, there are worse gifts than soap. Soap can be nice. Soap can be expensive. Now, deodorant or mouthwash... those are gifts that are worse than clothes or soap.

Any suggestions for a first drink?

I've never been on a plane, so it couldn't've been me at Sydney's airport. The truth is, I don't really want to go to a bar. I want a reason to go home at night. I don't even like the idea of going to a bar. Still, the alternative is another night at home and I don't know how many more of those...