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You all suck. I just want you to know that. I started downloading it and PEAKED at 1.9k/s. :P Oh well. MS will send it to me on a CD in a couple weeks anyway.

Gray hair doesn't help either. :(

Some of us fuddy-duddies can't understand the lyrics to ANY pop music. Bleh. Everyone sings like they have marbles in their mouths. Heck, marbles would be an improvement for most them. :P

What ever happened to this?

Nope. Not much at all.

You went to Purdue, Cliptin? Great movie house? The Virginia Theater in Urbana, Illinois.

I see no problem with the above. You haven't seen anything until you've tried to read a couple pages of Goethe in German. In college it was a game I liked to call "Where's the verb". Besides, I've been known to do the same thing. :)

Scooby Doo, btw, sucked HARD. I wasn't a cartoon watcher when I was little but man did that thing reek.

I took Amy's nieces to "Lilo and Stitch". I laughed out loud a lot. What a fun movie. Minority Report was good, too. A good visualization of a plausible future if nothing else (plot hole to drive a tank through). I'll see Goldmember this weekend if I manage to get out of bed. I hear the first...

I gave SR $20 twice. Not so much, really. But I also pay for salon.com, $300/year to NPR, $50 a year to the classical music radio station, $100 to the local women's shelter... so $40 wasn't bad. I got a nice note the first time I donated, nothing the second time. I'm not in Eugene and Davin's...

It seems like a decent enough idea. I mean, it'd be nice to write introductions for everyone but some of the folks here probably wouldn't do it for themselves and the rest don't know what to say about 'em... Maybe a dreaded "sticky thread" would do well enough.

I'd love to get my hands on a Honeywell keyboard. More because it's one of the best companies I've worked for than the quality of the keyboard itself. time is right, though, that Honeywell's input device business was ultimately sold to Keytronic. This happened many moons ago - I remember it...

I dunno if "all over" is the right word, but I think I can find your little guy a good home.

My regular, crappy, nothing special PCs are hooked up to $50-on-sale-at-Circuit-City 500VA IBM OfficePro SPSes that I think are rebadged TrippLite units. They work fine. Since I only ever hook up the box itself to the UPS, I get maybe 15 minutes of life out of them for just a PC. Just for fun...

Wow. The 512k of memory in my first PC seems like a luxury by comparison. :)

I'll take it.

Well, for the sake of comparison, Atari 2600 cartridges were only 4k. I think. Amazing things were done with that.

IBM is kind of its own special little tragedy. There are probably more smart people working for IBM than any other business in the world, yet because of its bizarre business culture, for all those brains, nothing ever gets done right there. Matrix management is evil. There are a large number of...

My father did a great deal of work on DEC machines like the ones Mark is referring to. I don't remember having one around the house but I know we did have a VAX sitting in our garage at one point.

What I'm working on are many, many pages of notes with screenshots and digital photos and notes for my classes. The largest one I have - for my Network+ class - is 24MB, which takes a long minute or so to open on my big Windows box (XP1700+), and about a minute to save, but only small parts of...

Have you looked into so more the more modern quasi-*nix systems, cas? Hurd? AtheOS? In a way it's kind of a shame that ideas from Unix keep getting used over and over again as the basis for operating systems. On the other hand, those ideas - and the tools that implement them - work pretty damn...

Hey! That one's pretty cool.

Starbucks, in the US, does a very good hot chocolate. One of the cheapest things on their menu, too. I've been told more than once that no one in the store actually knows how to make one - I guess nobody orders them. Real hot chocolate is a vastly different thing from hot cocoa, which is the...

You have to get rid of the scripting host .EXEs and disable ActiveX and Javascript, too. THEN you're in good shape. And pour salt over the sectors on your hard disk where Outlook-ish software was installed. I have no problem with AV software on a business workstation. But it's disgusting that...

So, you don't have RealPlayer or Quicktime4 installed, then? I actually make PDF documents (with lots of embedded graphics) that exceed 20MB pretty regularly, and yes, it can "freeze" a machine for several seconds at times.

When I get a second $20,000 router, I'll let you know, timwhit.

You mean I'll finally have someone to dump my collection of sub-28.8 modems, Bernoulli drives and QIC-80 cartridges on?

Clearly, the "Simpsons" reference in what was meant to be a serious thread was a mistake. :D

Value for money? So if OSS delivers software with any value at all, does that make it infinitely better than Microsoft's? Proprietary? There goes all of MS-Office, except maybe Word (.doc files can be made with HTML editors, after all).

Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do! Who keeps Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do! We do! Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We do! Who robs the cave fish of their sight? Who rigs...

That's not the point. I really don't care about post counts (yes, I post a lot. I have lots of free time. Even when I'm working), except insofar as the fact that part of the culture of SR either vanished or stopped paying attention. At least most of the newbies remain fairly civil. In that...

The best thing to do is to wander over to look to see who is post and who is staying online. That and I always look for support questions to answer. Piyono and Bikeman always have interesting questions. :) I hit 1000 posts there two weeks ago. No one noticed, which said to me that not enough...

James, I bought a few Philips "Avenger" cards recently and they seem to do OK under 2000 and 98. No idea about XP though. No complaints, which makes it a damn sight better than the PCI512. I thought XP had a driver uninstall feature. Doesn't it? Another thought: Why is it so hard to make a...

Without exception I can't think of an operating system that handles multiple CPUs really well and really gracefully. They're all basically retarded when it comes to that. OK, since fushigi will probably come by and mention it, mainframes OSes do it pretty well (mainframes are lots of little CPUs).

Nah. Doctor's headlamp. The *right* way to work. :) Speaking of things that won't look neat forever, does anyone else remember cases with CPU speed indicators. Aren't those just quaint now?

Microsoft made extensions to NTFS for NT4, for 2000 and for XP, Tannin. Essentially to drive the installed base of NT3-based machines from HPFS (where it was often the FS of choice, for performance reasons) to NTFS, but also to add some minor improvements in data integrity above and beyond...

Not completely true, Cliptin. If you start a machine with NT 3.5.1 with HPFS and upgrade it to NT4 and then to 2000, HPFS will still work. I mean, if you're some kind of sicko who wants HPFS instead of NTFS for some reason.

Thanks Mark!

convert /fs:ntfs /v Works better if you have some free disk space, but you don't lose anything.

Yeah, but in this case I have one license, one computer, and two OSes. To me, common sense says that I'm only using one of the two OSes at a time, and therefore should be OK. However, I know better than to think that common sense and Microsoft licensing belong in the sentence together.

Other browsers? None of the ones I use. Determining window width isn't a big deal. Nor is keeping several copies of an image around (wouldn't do that dynamically. Give your poor web server's CPU a break).

That's what I thought from my reading as well. In the past, "Server" licenses used to include a provision that if you used the new version's license for the old versions of "Server" (backoffice products, whatever), then LATER switched to the latest, you HAD to delete the old version. Basically...

Egads this stuff gives me a headache!

Anyone know of a human-readable resource regarding Windows licensing? The basic question: I'm looking at filling a lab with computers that have either/or Windows XP/Windows 2000. Which would be fine, except my customer wants to dual boot all 32 computers. In the past I thought dual licenses...

O day of days, you mean someone is actually slower than me right now?

Perhaps the market for that ultrium deck is simply a high-end professional user? I spent some quality time with my ex's cousin this weekend, who owns one of two major recording studios in Minnesota (the other is owned by "Mr. Unpronouncable" Prince). We spent awhile talking about some stuff of...

No no no. Real men sleep on jagged rocks. Or broken glass. Or beneath real women. :)

... and all of the above is why I get paid reasonably well to do this stuff.

Clocker, if Tannin does his thing from his business cable connection, he can do whatever the hell he wants, up to and including re-selling his bandwidth. And usually no one care unless either 1.) His ISP is doing portscans looking for AUP violations (I'd think hitting the kiddies using Kazaa...

Would every PC running Win98 have access to the Redhill batch files? I have my own set, too, but unfortunately part of the joy of teaching is that I'm limited to what more-or-less everyone has.