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The question is, with C&W having, oh, USD$5 billion in the bank (why do they have that much cash on hand, again?), and it can't afford Worldcom, who can? AT&T is hurting right now. None of the Regional carriers in the US are big enough to swallow all that... and beyond that I don't know enough...

When I was in college I used to email random people, found through the "finger" service on Unix systems, love notes. That was 1993 or so. I write really weird, funny things. Since I went to school in Indiana, I'd pick people going to school in New York or California. Sometimes people would...

I can see rates going up due to lobby pressure by the remains of the telecomm companies. I can also see a "divide worldcom into pieces" offer from a number of sources. In the end, whoever ends up with a piece of "worldcom-from-the-bankruptcy-auction" will have found a way to enhance their...

Some, yes. I wish I could hop on a train someplace close to my apartment and arrive in Oak Brook or Naperville. When I work over there, if I don't leave at 5:00AM, it takes me close to two hours to drive maybe 35 miles. If I *do* leave at 5:00AM, I'm there at a quarter to six, waiting for...

Well, if the tech/telecomm recession wasn't bad enough, it's about to get many times worse. Here's what will happen: Worldcom bites it. Someone else comes in and buys their assets for pennies on the dollar. Suddenly the cost for the new organization is NOTHING like it is for everybody else...

At the moment I'm not staying in any kind of shape. I used to lift weights. More recently I was in the habit of a morning walk with a companion. Right now I'm not doing anything at all except gaining weight. I couldn't run a mile, let alone 5 (running, even at the height of my fitness, was not...

The right thing to do for that money is to either step up to a low-grade 19" display or a really nice, nonflat 17". Something in a Mag or a Viewsonic, maybe. Flat is kinda nice but it's not that high on my list of monitor priorities.

Or better, the Philips. :)

The SGIs I worked with in college, many years ago, had limited support for stereoscopic glasses. Some neat animations were made, but the glasses were clunky and hard on your eyes. Maybe things are better nowadays, though.

Well, if you want to be a smartass, I think I still have all the floppies to Visual Basic for DOS somewhere...

Cliptin, everyone funds things with their tax money that they don't use and don't like. I happen to strongly dislike social security. Why should I have to pay in such a huge chunk of my gross income when it's highly unlikely I'll ever get anything back? I also have to pay for silly things like...

What, am I posting so little now that you think there need to be re-runs?

There are five plants in Illinois. Four of them are owned by ComEd (usually only two or three are running at any one time). The fifth is down state in Clinton, IL. AFAIK, no surrounding states have nuclear plants. If you wanted to worry about a local plant, it'd probably be the Dresden...

I've not done console apps with VB, but I know in Delphi (where I have), there's a syntax for working with console apps that way. IIRC, once the app was declared a console application, writing a line of output was as simple as doing a 'writeln "some text here"' I'd be shocked if VB didn't have...

I'm a little confused, too. Is this drive SATA only or is there an ATA133 offering? So... Seagate announces the first SATA drive. WD fires back with "first to 200GB" at 7200rpm. Yup. I'm gonna have to agree with jtr that Maxtor will announce a 240GB drive.

3 x 60 = 180GB 4 x 60 = 240GB What's wrong with the 4th platter in this new drive that you only get to use 20GBs of it? Or is it more a matter of waiting for the *JB version?

I did. I sold the 800ABs (in complete systems) I'd bought maybe two weeks before to pay for them.

Most Yahoo stores will hit you with a 10% "handling" charge on top of normal shipping, too. Ouch. Sometimes if you call you can browbeat them into standard shipping charges, though.

$200 - $225? I'm thinking the drive is probably worth most of the $200 a new one would cost. The card is just the gravy that gets the price up around retail for the bare drive.

time, let's just say my subjective impression of the 740X is that it's a faster drive. I've yet to use a *JB, so maybe I'm a bit biased there. Or maybe seek time (where the Maxtor is faster than the Seagate) plays a big part in my subjective impression. The *AB-series drives are remarkable...

Electronics are tougher to call. The best luck I've had was through dealers I found through Ebay. There are still lots of small shops in the world looking to cut a deal. I've also gone through dealtime.com and found some good bargains.

Sony A/V stuff isn't, that's for sure.

I'd sooner believe Connor could rise from the dead again with a magical talking pony and palletloads of drives with that quoted spec than Seagate actually deliver an IDE drive with decent performance. My personal bet is that the WD1200AB will be within 2% of the thing in every one of SR's...

I have a low-end JVC SVHS deck that I like a bunch. Don't remember the model number, but I've had it for over a year now. I ran through a couple of Sony VCRs in 15 months. I'd stay away from anything they have, but my Panasonic has been good to me as well.

Fushigi, I typically capture at around 2GB/hour in MPEG-1. Video capture makes a very good argument for NTFS.

Yes, Coug, I did. Rough weekend for hardware. This weekend, in my apartment, and in seperate computers, I lost an Epox 8KHA, a FireBall AS 40GB (trying Maxtor advance replacement. Hoping it's a good experience), my old SB64 Gold, and a 300W power supply. Not to mention whatever the heck else is...

No fiction? I can't seem to keep my mind on reading (you wouldn't either, given the things sitting on my nightstand) - part of the reason I haven't been a frequent visitor these past few days. Still, Tannin, it strikes me as horribly unbalanced that there's absolutely nothing of whole cloth in...

As it happens I managed to get my greedy little hands on an old ESS Solo today. Tried it. Same insta-hang after a few minutes of capture, but this time I get a bluescreen! Not that it's much help. The error I'm getting is "Exception Not Handled" in module KS.SYS. A bit of research shows that...

I've worked in both coal and (older) nuclear plants. I felt far, far safer in the nuclear plants, and they weren't even plants with very good safety records (lots of shutdowns, *not* lots of, um, oopses), so far as those things go. Honestly, other than the matter of waste disposal, I don't have...

Nearly as I can tell, the only way to get those settings back is to restore them from the registry. For things like Group Policies, it looks like you can export your settings. I don't see a way to re-import, though. Of course, I'm not particularly keen on firing up a recovery console session...

OK. This is mostly just going to be me grousing for a minute, but maybe someone will suggest something... I'm in the midst of setting up a second vidcap machine. It's just a little guy - Tbird 1GHz + 768MB PC133 (a 512 and a 256MB module, both Crucial) on an Abit KT7-RAID. Used my "old" ATI...

I can honestly say that was something I didn't need to read.

One of Amtrak's main problems is that the per-passenger cost for a lot of rail lines they offer is on the order of five times the ticket price. Sure, that shortfall is made up eastern-corridor travel between the largest cities in the US (Boston to Washington DC), but FIVE TIMES?!? Much as I...

Where I'm sitting it's 6:54 and I've been up for an hour already. It's past your bedtime, Tea.

Sorry, Coug. My gut says the P3s will do the job. Your stuff can be best-of-breed all day long, but we all have parts fail from time to time. If the P3s have made it this long, they've probably got a nice productive couple of years left in them.

From a reliability standpoint, I'd look at the Dell system. Light-use servers don't tend to be CPU-limited anyway. Athlons really need a lot more attention than workhorses like that old P3. For a "server" system, I'd rather not be worrying constantly that the CPU fan is working, for example...

There are far better symphonies #1 out there than Mozart's. Brahms had a great first go. So did Mahler. IIRC, Mozart wrote his first symphony a six or eight. I guess that's amazing on its own.

I used to build dual machines for my workstations. I went from a dual 486/33 (now THAT'S history) to a dual P5/133 to a dual PPro/200 (horribly, horribly expensive, that one) and finally to a dual P3/600. At that point, the returns diminished to nil, IMO. BP6s made cheap celeron dualies a...

If we're talking opera, I'd have tough time between "La Boheme" and "Tosca". The heroine dies in both, of course (heck the heroine in La Traviata even dies the same WAY as the heroine in La Boheme), so maybe opera just isn't a good choice for desert island-ing. "West Side Story" would be good...

How about just letting us know if that power supply is a decent model? The quietest mainstream PS I've found is made by a company called AGI. But no one else has ever heard of them, either.

According to his cult of personality on SR, he's changed residence three times in the last year. I'm pretty sure he's in or around Houston, now.

Pbbbbt. Tannin's rules are clearly biased against the tasteful.

My bad! I knew better, too. Her Web Page has some pretty interesting things to say about surround sound and speaker placement, by the way.

Right now, I'd probably choose Beethoven's 7th Symphony or Tchaikovksy's 6th. I've been listening to those a lot. Explaining the connection: Beethoven wrote his 7th symhpony in the midst of his fierce depression at the loss of his hearing. His sublime 9th is the creation of a totally deaf and...

Personally, I'm looking forward to the premier of Galileo Galilei - the new Philip Glass opera - in Chicago. Next week, actually. My ticket (geez I'm a loser) is for the 25th, the day after the opening.

So you've not heard the William/Wendy Carlos (don't ask) recordings of the Well-tempered Klavier on a Moog, then? It's pretty remarkable. I mean, an organ is hard enough to play on its own, but have you ever seen a Moog?

IMHO, the Bar & Grille needs more help than anything, and I try to contribute there. I don't want it abandoned as "Jason's Playground". For the rest I certainly try to hit tech-support type questions. The rest I only look at if I'm not too frustrated.

Prof, even if none of the rest of us are making sense, I think you need to go back and read everything P5 has said. Tannin, I don't feel at this point so personally involved (AFAIK I'm not being personally attacked, here) that I don't think I could make a decision in moderation. I also don't...

Tannin is not a moderator. Tannin has the ability to edit posts *specifically* to edit the forum FAQ. That's it. Flagreen and I are moderators. There will be a third very shortly. I'm not suggesting that every moderator has a perfect record. Shortly after I got mod power I corrected a...

Note that I posted again instead of editing an existing post. Does that tell you anything?