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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?!?

Pleading "not guilty". Actually, if Mr. Wilson would care to slum about with the ACTUAL moderators for a moment, he'd see that Mr. Green confessed to that particular crime. In the library. With the candlestick.

Actually, it looks like the percentage of online respondents is below the averages Keirsey is reporting in his blurb. INTPs ... are 5 - 7% of the population... INTP = 3.09% of respondents. Very odd.

Nope. I said broken drives and I meant it. I know there are lots of people getting rid of P2-400-class machines with floppy drives that were never used. It's not like it's every machine or anything. But every fifith or sixth box I try to fix, I run into "Whoops, I never use the floppy drive!"...

Given the number of machines I see with floppy drives no one knew were even broken, I think that day is closer than you all think. :)

Yeah. Probably half my computers don't have one. Why bother? USB Floppy drives are affordable since the advent of the iMac, though. I have one of those in my travel kit for the rare times I need one. They don't work in DOS (makes them somewhat less than useful), but in conjunction with a CD-R...

For the entirety of NTs, the breakdown from the online test is ENTJ = 3.17 ENTP = 2.23 INTJ = 5.24 INTP = 3.09 13.73% of test takers are NTs of some sort.

I don't think "why" is a question anyone ultimately will know the answer to. Amy fought her fight and asked "why" every day until she finally decided to accept who she is. Now I ask "why" she stayed in my bed as long as she did (because she loves me, and she was too scared to see the truth.)...

The test itself may or may not be powerful. The online version is actually slightly flawed. It used to give a numerical analysis of responses, including some data on the percentages of people with the same score as you. I know, from the test and from real life, that I am as introverted as the...

Please don't call me Sam, please. No one calls me Sam. Hit http://www.internettrafficreport.com for some more info. I heard about Euroland backbone problems on slashdot.org a couple days ago. Evidently it's worldcom-related.

I *do* know that there have been problems with one of the European backbones (Ebone) in the last few days. When backbones go down, routers lose static routes and it can take awhile for BGP (dynamically configured) routes to re-configure throughout the network. Maybe there just wasn't a way to...

iNtuitive/Thinking "RATIONAL NTs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and UTILITARIAN in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in STRATEGIC ANALYSIS. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations tend to be marshalling and planning (NTJ organizing), or inventing and...

For Vlad: Sleep, baby sleep, our cottage vale is deep, the little lamb is on the green, with snowy fleece so soft and clean, Sleep, baby sleep. Sleep, baby sleep, I would not would not weep, The little lamb he never cries, for bright and happy are his eyes, Sleep, baby sleep...

The Roadside Fire. I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night, I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests, and blue days at sea. I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room, Where white flows the river...

Jake, I don't want to live in the past. I would rather forget it all.

Amy and I are going to see the fireworks show put on locally. We've done that for more than 10 years. It will be dark in an hour and she'll be here. I think it will be the last time.

I'm sorry, Vlad. Loss is foremost in my mind right now, and it is a terrible thing.

Terminator without Jim Cameron would be like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" without Steven Speilberg.

Works just fine. What are "Jenkki"?

What the hell is that?

You get the full listing of your type from the email that they send you when you register, apparently. I did not know that. ... and Prof, if it makes you feel any better, Nancy Reagan used to consult an astrologer before Ronald Reagan did anything important while he was acting as president of...

Alpha followed the link PeeWee posted in this thread. Maybe some more people will come as well.

Good luck, Coug. Start your new job yet?

Just take the test, and read the information on the site. Keirsey's work is an extension of Jungian archetypes, and the characteristics so described *do* seem to fit a lot of people. There is an examination that can be administered by professional therapists which has considerably more than 70...

Hey, join the club. You'd be surprised what I've learned about myself in the last three months. Maybe some day we'll meet at a bar in, say, Cincinnati or Indianapolis or something and we can commiserate.

Who is twisting your perceptions, Cliptin? You aren't talking about the Pledge thread over on SR, are you?

I've gotten different scores a few different times, depending on other factors in my life, but from what I've read, your score should be essentially the same throughout your life. I first had the full sorter administered to me at age 12, and again at 20 and just a few days ago at age 26, and my...

Are there issues with F@H and VIA chipsets? I set up a couple of 800MHz duron machines on spare boards (8KHAL+ and an old AZ11E), and I run into the same problem every time.

It certainly does beat the alternative. I fancy going to work at the same place every day, and not having to worry about when someone is going to pay my bill. It's relative, I guess.

I think the difficulty is meant to invoke introspection. I do know - although not from this version of the test - that you can be an "X" in one or more dimensions, balanced between one side or the other. Anyway, all four characteristics are important, and for both P5 and Groltz, I have to...

Do you remember your "score"? I'm an INTP.

I *know* I've brought this up before, but it's something that's genuinely interesting to me. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a sort of brief test of personality characteristics. When I read its result from my own testing, I was amazed at how closely it matched my own attitudes. I'm curious...

Hey, you and Doug would be co-workers. :)

Lessee... I can download a core. It'll do about 10 or 12 of whatever it's doing, and then it'll say something about a bad frame and the box will die in some spastic fashion (hard lock or immediate reboot). These are stable machines. At this point, I'm wondering what a userland app is doing...

The image that got to me was a photo-realistic portrait by a gentleman named Alex Ross (I think his website is alexrossart.com), of Superman, probably the most iconic figure in all of comics, gazing up at a picture of policemen, firemen and EMTs against the background of the fallen towers, with...

Prof, go back and look again. I *didn't* start the geek thread. I just wrote 85% of the replies.

Folding's console client continues to lock these machines. I tried a couple of my personal machines as well and it does not seem to do well. This machine is just sitting here not being used, and I hear y'all can use the boost anyway. Any advice for actually getting it going?

Bill, I think I'm just about as far away from a typical guy as I could be on this one. I think I actually stunned the therapist I've been seeing when I explained it all to her. Anyway, agape and eros and phileo are all words that describe love itself, not a way of describing a human...

Wow. I was working under the impression that Fushigi was actually Asian. There goes THAT idea...

9/11 created an explosion in all art forms. One of the most profound moments I've had in ages occurred when I walked into a comic shop and found a number of 9/11 Tribute Comics. As I understand things pop music has undertaken a turn toward serious/inspirational music, and soon there will be...

I'm aware of the greek (and I'm not talking about PW or NRG) terms. None of them describes the right of things for me. Agape is probably closest, but still not right. At any rate, I *like* Handruin's word.

Hmpf. I know I registered. Maybe I got disconnected or something during the process.

I wish there was a word in English to describe someone whose relationship is not romantic nor a matter of heritage but nonetheless indicative of familial closeness.

The only time those priorities really matter is when you're slamming the CPU at something over 80% utilization on a more or less continual basis. I suppose if you pushed things all the way up to "realtime" you might get a slight improvement but otherwise I don't think you'd save yourself more...

Just hit your "back" button and resubmit. Majcher.com generates New York Times logins automatically, to avoid the hassle of not being able to link straight to NYT stories. The crux of the story is, despite billions in R&D and technical and cost improvements that outstrip Moore's law by better...

So since March, total hit/day has roughly tripled, but our bandwidth use has actually gone down since then? Or am I reading something the wrong way?

Front page news, probably, but since I seem to have lost my login... This is a discussion of the business end of platter manufacturing technology. It's just a different point of view from our usual discussions on the forums.

Thank you for kind and thoughtful words. Particularly Tannin's last sentiment, and Dozer, a person whose name is not familiar to me. I wish I knew what more I could say. Probably nothing. There has been precious little joy in my life these last few months, and I am glad for the distraction I've...

Enhanced = proprietary, usually. Probably best avioded. There are a whole lot of businesses in the world that would pay top dollar for reliable campus- and metropolitan-area non-LOS wireless. I think that was the direction I was trying to go with my earlier comments. Anyway, WorldCom got...

Well, Cliptin says the 1700+ works just fine. I don't have any reason to doubt him. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Compaq occasionally lets some decent hardware ship with their PCs, and maybe ECS can sometimes build a motherboard that works. Anyway, I see classic hallmarks of bad CPU...