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Is the 1800 fully supported by your board? I'd look into a BIOS update and then I'd say a few words for the dearly departed.

I've worked with Cisco Aironet products and with cheapie little DLink 802.11b stuff a few times. The DLink offered faster connections out to about 30 feet away from the base, then dropped off to nothing. With the Cisco, once I tweaked its position (in the rafters), gave consistently "good"...

She has told me. Now she knows, and I know. On June 30th, 1997, we became a couple. On June 30th, 2002, she told me that none of it mattered any more.

113. You hang on to drives that you own no media for, or media for drives you do not own "just in case". 114. You read #113, and can't think of any drives or media that you DON'T own. 115. You've had to explain to a neophyte techie that his desire for IDE RAID0 is misguided and unnecessary, and...

Honestly, you might be interested to know that Rent is adapted from a Puccini opera, one widely considered one of the greatest of all time - "La Boheme". La Boheme's first act is an absolute triumph. Really. Lovely, lovely stuff.

IIRC, the opening scene in Reservoir Dogs is the gang having a discussion about tipping waitresses. Of course, it's been ages since I've seen that. I might be wrong. Anyway, Pulp Fiction is something I don't think Tarrentino will ever accomplish again. Really, what has the man done in the last...

Hadn't realized that Replacement Killers was a John Woo film. It plays like just about everything he does. It's well-choreographed and well-photographed but it seemed utterly dispassionate through the whole movie. Mostly, I was just bored. The opening is alright. Blade does the shootout in a...

The idea has some merit, I think, but after looking at lindows.org, what I see is a plain ol' Linux distro with WINE already installed. It looks like the only value they add is the "click and run warehouse", a means of distributing both Windows applications that will run under WINE and linux...

I've seen a lot of environments with Notes and Exchange running side-by-side, actually. What ends up happening is that so much useful stuff ends up in the Notes databases that it becomes far too costly to get rid of it. CCDA doesn't seem to be a diluted certification. A Network+ might be a good...

I'm not sure there is suffient value in the RedHat exam at this point to consider it. It is expensive, and as I understand it, fairly rigorous, but there also seems to be next-to-zero demand for it, at least in the US. I've studied for the RedHat exam. I'm sure I could pass it, even the hands-on...

I had forgotten about Blade's opening. That WAS pretty intense. I've not seen "The Replacement Killers". Maybe I'll go rent it. Anyone remember the opening to "Heat"?

No, but everyone's least favorite male porn star, Ron Jeremy was pitching a, um, enlarging cream for an hour or so last night on my local fox affiliate at around 2:00AM.

54Mbit on an 802.11a Wireless net would be great, and I know I can buy APs for it, but so far as I know, NICs aren't available yet. :( As often as I'm asked about it I think there's a lot of demand for wireless applications. 802.11-anything doesn't seem good enough in the times I've dealt with...

I think I beat them both in terms of volume. :) Plus I think I was nice to everybody, and *still* snuck in a good burn on Jason. Anyway, the whole thing just reminded me of something funny, so...

I've got a perfectly good Abit LX6 sitting here, sans CPU, to supplant Clocker's offering, if that's the case. Of course, you won't do much overclocking with it, but for an Abit board it was above average.

S'OK. Bill and I were having a rational argument until Jason came along and finished off the thread. It might yet be fun. Wasn't CNN Sport invented to chronical the China thread in the first place?

Let's be careful in our definition of "action" here. Remember who you're dealing with! Er, actually, I love the way the opening and credits sequence of "Blade Runner" plays out. From Leon blowing away the first 'runner to finding Deckard on the future-street to the skycar traffic... The whole...

I'm thinking that there might be a business advantage - it'd amount to speculation, but y'all have the money to do it - to get some advantageous mid-term R&D squarely in your pocket. Particularly for the "Wireless" side of things. Owning enough fiber to circle the globe will matter less and...

Please note that at the time I wrote my previous comment, he HADN'T gone into "five posts to reply to one post by The Giver" mode yet.

Redundant OC-192s to an apartment in Griffith, Indiana? Well, that's what *I'd* spend it on. Seriously? I'd probably go shopping for starving startups in silicon valley. I might be a little more generous with wage/benefit increases for my workers . And I'd see what I could pick off of MCI's...

James, when you go to work for KPMG, will you be moving back to a proper hemisphere, or staying down in "So Sunny there's a Hole in the Ozone Layer" Oz?

I was actually was thinking along Flagreen's line. $5B in the bank just seems like too much to have on-hand.

As far as things go, I answer in the affirmative on 86 of the first 108 questions. And no, I didn't have anything better to do this afternoon.

68. You've gone to Comdex just to heckle Bill Gates, but you really want a shot at Ballmer. 69. You know the "other" benefit of attending the Las Vegas Comdex. 70. Your computer has more than one remote control. 71. You've listened to a computer game soundtrack on your home stereo. 72. You get...

57. You need more than one surge protector to power a single computer. 58. You don't turn on the furnace, all winter long. 59. You've used blank CD-Rs or electrical tape in foreplay. 60. This (v3.0) GIT/GMU/GH, s:++, !y**, DI++++, UH/UU++ UV+, P, C+++ !E---, V-, W, w+++, !M---, O--...

47. It is not possible to use a cordless or cellular phone inside your home. 48. You have a 3NF Oracle 9i Personal Edition database running on a java client attached to the terminal in your kitchen, 'cause that's easier than keeping a recipe file. 49. #48 sounds like a good idea, if you haven't...

That sort-of actually happened to me. My apartment complex had a scheduled 12-hour blackout and, shortly after I had shut down all my machines, I got a phone call from my power company asking if I was satisfied with my service. Here's a few more: 26. There are so many UPSes in your home...

11. You walk into your local computer shop/call your local distrubutor, and the first thing they say is: "So it'll be the usual again today?" 12. You have 1.6TB of disk space scattered around the house, it's 90% full, and you're thinking "Where are those damned 200BG drives we've been talking...

Just a historical footnote: The Tannin/Tea image I posted just happens to be the very first thing that comes up when you search for "sock puppet" through google's image search feature. I kid you not.

Since my apartment doesn't allow cable internet or DSL, I'll be needing a T1 pulled. I've already got the CSU/DSU and everything. Just get the line to my window and that'll be fine.

I've found that disconnecting the PC Speaker really clears up those BIOS beep code problems. :P

I seem to have fixated on adriel for some reason. Let's chalk that one up to poor proofreading skills.

Just rest assured that a picture of Wayne Knight is really, really close. To put it another way, if there was anyone else famous that I strongly resembled, I wouldn't be talking about the white guy from "Space Jam" who isn't Bill Murray. Lessee... we also don't have pictures from Pradeep, Doc...

Somehow I figured Stereodude would be tall and really skinny. I have no idea why. Still waiting on pictures from Cliptin and James, our men of the hour, Flagreen, Buck, CougTek (scan your drivers license, Coug), Fushigi, timwhit, Adcadet, Groltz, Clocker (although we've seen his before), time...

... and AOL already announced a, what? $50 BILLION loss due to accounting iiregularities. So that's probably not going to get any worse. How about another energy company? Exxon-Mobil, say? Or thinking really big, General Electric? Or, and this is a personal favorite: Disney. Probably not any...

Hey, I got a 740X on Advance Replacement RMA from Maxtor for my Fireball AS. How cool is that?

A rare picture of Tannin, sans beard, and Tea.

I don't think so, Tea. I couldn't grow a beard if I wanted one, for one thing. :P

Fun with nested quotes! Nope. I never liked Seinfeld's standup routine and I've never watched more than about 10 seconds of his TV show. I was thinking something more like a "Helllloo Nurse" sort of thing when I read your comment. Mostly people tell me I look like the hacker-guy from Jurassic...

Damn this thread for making me use IE... I am extremely envious of Mark's collection of books (I have a few thousand myself, and some thousands of CDs, but not 20,000 of anything), and wondering, upon an additional examination of Mark's picture, whether or not he has eyebrows. PeeWee looks...

I don't see a problem with anything there. What "family" is here besides Flagreen and Koggit? Koggit probably hears worse every day when he turns on his CD player anyway, or if not him, the people he goes to school with. By the way, when's Kristi going to show up?!? SF needs the tempering...

Aren't PS2 discs DVDs? Did you try Smartripper?

Bill, please tell me that's not some kind of weird statement of attraction.

Like the Yankees on the east coast have much to complain about. I mean, I've been to Buffalo in January and that's bad, but I'm sure any one of myself, Clocker or Adcadet has been through worse most winters. I get sick of the "Oh. It snowed a foot and a half in Boston and the whole city stopped...

P5 is clearly a man with a great need of more horizontal surface area. ;) Where does one get an SR shirt?

Wow. Tannin looks almost exactly like I expected.

Jason has shown restraint. He's only posted twice in the thread. *I've* posted five or six times in that thread, and our very own Mr. Green has taken the contrarian stance that has bumped his post count a good deal, too. It'd be a fine place for a visit by CNN Sport, actually. Of course...

Yup. I left the door wide open on that one. Although I'd argue that, rather than going "bump", they actually make a more squishy sound.

Verbal description for those of us without hosting services to post (and no decent pictures besides). I've been told I look a lot like Wayne Knight. . My hair is shorter - always combed straight back, gray at the temples - and from the neck (what neck I have, which isn't much) down I'm...

I did my time at Purdue. Unfortunately.