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Amy offered to take me to a bar tomorrow night, so I might do that. I don't know if I can drink anything or not, though. She tells me it's part of the experience, though.

Let's not knock being overweight just yet. Just because we're built for love and not for speed... We aren't? Oh. OK. Anyway, I'd just like to point out that the correct spelling, after years of typing it at login prompts, is slaker, not slacker.

I was a recluse a long time before I started looking at dirty pictures, adriel. Social anxiety is a very real thing for me. It can make me physically ill at times. THAT made me a recluse.

You've all got it wrong. Solution = Tyan.

Forgot about that one. Apologies to both of you. There's quite a number of us concentrated in the Midwestern US, as I think about it. Of course there are probably many concentrated even more on the West Coast of the US. Perhaps there could be a meeting someday...

ACLs are built into a different tier of the Windows NT architecture (I don't feel like reaching over to look up the exact name). Jounaling is part of the filesystem. I'd like to know how they implement user-level security given the different ways in which users interact with each system.

I just might go, Fushigi. Near as I can recall it'll only be the second time SR/SF members who don't know each other will have met each other (Wasn't there an Ian/Pradeep meeting?). I don't know if I'm up to a wedding reception filled with people I don't know, but then, that's just like every...

Is there some kind of Greek holiday on November 10th? :D Happy b-day to both of you!

Hi Kristi! I knew you'd make it sooner or later. Or that Tannin was making you up. One way or the other. Try hitting http://www.slyck.com for details on "clean" versions of the various filesharing packages.

Heterosexuality is really high on my list of priorities. :) I like the same basic things everybody else likes: I like smart, funny, compassionate and honest people. I'd really like to find someone who is different in a lot of ways from me. It's easy for me to get stuck in a rut otherwise...

That's the idea, Prof. I figure if I wanted to be lied to in probably every imaginable way, a good old fashioned chat site or IRC would be fine. This way I at least have some hope that the information I'm being provided is correct. Besides, a personals service worked for Amy the first time she...

Sorry Rocco, I'm just not into the rough stuff. Prof, if you really want to know what I have, airmail me a 160GB drive. I'll fill it up for you. :)

Joined match.com. Found someone (out of the four matches) who sounds like a person I could have a really good time meeting. Found out it'll cost me $25 to e-mail her. Argh. Pets in parks, you say? Bookstores?

What? The machines? Or the number of drives?

Tea did say she wanted a quiet printer. HP LaserJet 4s are a lot of good things, but I wouldn't call 'em quiet. My personal opinion is that no printer is any good unless it's shaped like and built like a photocopier or an early-model LaserJet, but that's hardly anything to put on a desktop...

Prof, I don't have any superfast machines. My nicest box at the moment is an XP1800+. My "average" machine is probably a 1GHz athlon or Duron. The only common thread with my desktop machines is that they all have at least two 40GB or larger hard disks (a couple have six IDE drives, one has 13...

I used the 3.1beta graphical client. No other changes, but it doesn't lock up my machines, either.

Nothing at all. As in, the only applications even loaded on this machine besides what comes with Windows were the various divx codecs, ghost, Mozilla, Nero, Winamp and Winzip. I tried stock builds of 2000 Pro and XP on a couple of machines I set up for quicky testing. The console client was...

What big talk? I'm not using any hardware that actually belongs to me to do any crunching. All you're getting is a measly little XP1700+. That's it.

One result. *One*. The console client is broken. The useless graphical one works OK. Maybe if y'all are good I'll turn in a couple more.

Ah yes, but it is James who is in charge of that now, since his assumption of the mighty sceptre of Storageforum Chairmanship. Thinking back, I think Tannin's project was actually just the FAQ about the forum itself. Maybe he'll pop in and clarify that sometime soon.

Tea is a sock puppet that Mr. Tony "Schizoid" Wilson aka Tannin wears around his shop in Ballarat. Tea gets to talk about funny, non-serious sorts of things, while Tannin talks about history and technical stuff. Sometimes they get bored or confused and trade off. Tea is also a chimpanzee...

BTW Alpha, I was a master at handling relationship stuff most guys aren't good at. Very romantic, very sensitive, remember important dates, handwritten notes of affection, gifts for no reason, that sort of thing. Hilariously, even though I can't really dress myself, Amy used to take me on...

I've honestly never used F*** in that context, Koggit. Along with a very few other words, it strikes me as vulgar when said that way. As far as moving goes, let me say it again: I can't see moving without a job. I've looked for jobs all over the country for five years, and never gotten one...

Like I want some hacker playing around with my (limited) bandwidth. Really, it's just practice for a "real" setup.

Have you tried the recovery process (it's on the bootable WinXP install CD)? Do you have an ERD to use in the Recovery process? The ERD includes some parts of your registry. If you make an ERD on a piece of non-floppy-disk media, it includes the entire registry. If it's a new installation (and...

I believe the group has been around for 20 years or more. I remember listening to their specials on NPR when I was a tot (I was an odd little kid). Yes, they are all former congressional interns. Amazing.

Moving? I'd want a job first. And that's not something that's gone well for me. I am getting out of this particular apartment soon, if only to go to another one somewhere in the same complex...

De-Militarized Zone. An area between two secured perimeters. The most famous I'm aware of is between North and South Korea. In computer security, a DMZ is the network between two firewalls.

The northwest Indiana version of "the New Yorker"? Man, does that conjure up some disturbing images.

Geez C, I've never done any of those movies. :P

See, there's that problem. No seed group as such.

Let's just say my personal habits to date aren't exactly condusive to meeting people outside of a business setting. And a contractor in a business setting looking for a date... well, that just wouldn't go over very well in today's climate. Anyway, classical music is what I like, but, uh, unless...

That's kind of a PITA, since the machines are wired by a crossover connection. I'll see what I can do.

My guess is the Intel offers a much steeper discount to the big boys than AMD does. Bigger discounts = higher margin. Even more, my guess is that the reason everyone dropped AMD - at one point IBM, HP and Compaq all had AMD solutions - has very little to do with technical issues at all. I'll...

This is the sound of me going "Huh?" Can't say I've seen that one. Or heard of it. But I guess I can imagine.

Two firewalls + a DMZ is a pretty common practice, actually. Which is why I do it.

So, um, I do something besides sit around the house? Sitting around the house when there's no one to wait up for just gets a little bit old. That, and since I was with Amy for my whole adult life, I think I missed out on some socialization I was supposed to do. Or something.

My network: External box for dialup access, mail filter and preliminary firewalling. Dialup is by multilink 14.4kpbs internet connection (and before you ask, that's on external USR Courier 56k modems and$40 gold-plated serial cables, connected to an 8-port serial router with custom-length cat5e...

I dedicate this topic the "Bill 'I've been divorced twice' Green Memorial Topic". Now that my ex is wearing rainbow shoelaces and looking at my back-issues of "Playboy" for the pictures, anyone have any advice on where grown-ups (especially socially maladjusted ones) are supposed to go to meet...

Pretty much, yeah. I did buy all the stuff to camp not long ago, for the ACS relay for life. 12x17 tent, several Coleman laterns, cellular adaptor for laptop modem (yes, I posted on SF while camping), tons of goodies to eat, goodly amounts of bug spray. Inside my tent was actually really...

James is responsible for reviews of optical drives.

If folding didn't make my PCs crash I might give y'all a couple. But it does. My best guess is that F@H doesn't like something related to my funny networking configuration. That is a sweet setup you have there, though.

I've got an unlocked Duron 700 that I can get to 1.1GHz on clock changes alone. It's stable enough that it'll run all the way through a Windows 98 installation, too. I was never quite sure what to do with the silly thing, so it's just sitting in a box of parts. Nowadays even 1.1GHz seems a...

From P5's link, above (Distribution of types): ENFJ = 7.43 ENFP = 8.59 INFJ = 7.31 INFP = 6.81 = 30.14% You'd have to look at the per-type descriptions for an exact figure.

] Thank you Mr. Smartass. :P Not right now. I'm a mess. Besides, I don't want to break my camera.

Amy told me yesterday that she was going out with her new friend, staying at least overnight, and that there were no plans to leave her friend's house at any time. I told her to "give her one for me." :| True to word, it's 8:15AM, and she hasn't been home.

Just trust me. Everyone says so. Same nose, same cheeks, same chin(s). And there just aren't any pictures of me, either. I hold the camera. I don't stand in front of it.

A clearly misguided soul. The best option, of course, is to include a bootable CD-ROM with new systems. Customers are less likely to lose it, expose it to magnets, or worst of all, throw it out with the packing. People think CDs are important, after all. Floppies REALLY need to join QIC-80s and...

Don't feel bad, Bartender. The hair at my temples is gray (I SWEAR I'm going to color it) and a couple days ago someone guessed I'm 20 or so, from the sound of my voice. Argh. Nearly 27 years old and the impression I give is that I'm not old enough to drink?!?