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Maybe because it was 1:30-something GMT over there, which is a perfectly reasonable time to throw a funeral. The more interesting question is, why would a self respecting quebecois (sorry I don't know what all the right special characters are) watch the Queen mother's funeral? I know she was a...

Are you intimating that the sight of Bill Gates' face, covered with pie, does not bring even the tiniest bit of joy to your life?

Monospace block green text on black. The one true color scheme.

... Or just accept that sideband exists primarily as a marketing buzzword and not real performance-enhancing feature of a 3D video card, and be happy that you don't need it. I know which I'd do.

Don't feel bad, Tannin, I never learned grammar, either. Since I was slotted in with the "gifted" kids in school my whole life, no one ever bothered to teach it to me. I write and speak passably well without knowing and my instructors through all my years of schooling rightly figured it'd be...

The slowest windows machine in my apartment is 950MHz/512MB/Voodoo3 (and steps up to 1.2GHz, and whatever an XP1700+ actually is). I'll probably be moving the V3s in to ATI 7500s, or 8500s if the price ever drops to around $100/card, over the next 6 months. So system requirements probably aren't...

I don't know why, but I thought "Serious Sam" was a half-joke/benchmark tool. Maybe 'cause the only place I saw a review was Old Man Murray? "The Serbian computer game" or somesuch. Y'all are telling me there's really a "Serious Sam" game out there I can buy? (a quick look at google show that...

You forgot the "oversize" images in BMP format, blink tags, "honesty counter", poorly written javascript, and misinformed opinions about the Argentinian economic crisis. What are you trying to do, sell a hard disk?

Well, timwhit and Bikeman are both Wisconsin residents. Maybe it was one of them. ;)

Short rant to follow - Spent part of the day playing Unreal Tournament with my fiance. It was a fun time. Two things I noticed: 1.) I really miss co-op play in these games. As fun as it is to yell "Ha!" every time I blew up my girlfriend, what I really wanted was a game where we could work...

Most of Indiana doesn't do DST. I'm fortunate enough to be in the small, sensible part that takes time changes with Chicago, but there are actually places in Indiana (e.g. State Line City) where one side of a town is in a different time zone from the other.

Yup, no badge here. I don't mind. Bill is obviously doing a swell job as our moderator. ;) (and, since everyone who has participated in this thread thusfar is also privvy to the mods forum... didn't I basically say we wouldn't need mods much at the start?) As far the Support part of this site...

Bah. Motorola 6800s are the place for assembly. ...And Tannin, if you think C or Java is bad, go find the language specification for Intercal. It really exists, and it really does work like that.

IIRC side-band is a method for AGP cards to access main memory for additional texture storage etc. Again, IIRC, this was mostly a "feature on the box". 3dfx cards never had it, nvidia's did, ATI's did. I seem to recall the 3dfx response about why it wasn't implemented (back in the TNT2/V3000...

Has anyone here ever used an AGI power supply? They're the AMD approved PS in the cases I buy for my customers (CompuCase). They're amazingly quiet compared to the Sparkle units most of my machines have.

Fortunately, although I certainly consider myself a tech, I don't see as much awfulness as Tannin because I usually have the good luck to be working with business machines rather than home machines. Here's my view: Your CPU is utterly irrelevant these days. Those of with DVD-Ripping habits...

How is James's site different from some of the great AOL morasses, like mirabilis or CNN? Yup, it's ugly. But CNN's designers make theirs that way on purpose. I'm of the opinion that the whole internet should move to porn banners. Two reasons for this. 1.) Porn banners actually pay out. Porn...

WinXP, IE6, RAIDs of U-series drives, nvidia graphics cards... Prof, do you ever tire of being wrong? :P

Can someone with a decent internet connection and no moral shame at visiting the nvidia pages try a couple non-nvidia cards on that? I'm interested in seeing what their tools says about Matrox, 3dfx and ATI cards in particular.

As a C programmer - although I like to pretend that I'm not, but it's basically what my college degree is in - I'd just like to say that I do, in fact, have a mother. She's a dingbat, and at times I wonder if I was adopted, but a mother nonetheless. And java and javascript really don't have...

Well, I kicked one of my samba machines down to "workgroup-mode" for a little test. ... and it turns out that XP won't connect to that either. Note that none of the other machines have a problem connecting to it, even on the workgroup, just XP. So I kicked the XP machine out of my domain, too...

Funny thing about that... there are a lot of NAS units out in the world that use non-upgradable samba servers for client access. It's not just breaking the latest version of samba, it's limiting the utility of all that (fairly expensive) hardware, too.

Re: Mercutio: Isn't the trash can looking better all the tim XP has been out long enough that problems like the ones I've having just shouldn't be. I'm sure the Samba team is P.O.'d about whatever changes XP brought to the fileshare/authentication code, too. It's really not their fault...

If I have to alter the state of any domain controler to allow XP to connect to samba-served shares, then XP has sucessfully broken either netlogon or SMB and is therefore unusable.

Did you need a new nick already, Gary? I could always promote a 2000 server to be PDC on my domain. Honestly I don't think it would help.

That should be "The only reg. patch for XP distributed with samba", rather than whatever I wrote. I need sleep.

James, believe me, if I'm digging in source code, I've looked at all the docs already. This is the only registry key distributed w/ XP: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netlogon\parameters "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000000 I've also tried entering the Win2000 plaintext...

It's looking like it. Windows 2000 might not allow digital out on my live!, though, so that's really no better. This box is set up for my gaming and entertainment needs. XP isn't doing anything positive for either.

Funny that I don't care to be crucified this morning... Basically my guess is that XP isn't sending passwords out in a format samba recognizes. A PITA since, looking at the appropriate registry settings, there isn't any control over that. What's frustrating is, sometimes, if I apply the .reg...

Yup. I operate an NT4-style domain that 10 of my twleve machines log in to. Works just fine, and the linux boxes all participate as DCs as well as the 2000 servers. XP can connect to the 2000 machines, but not the linux boxes. When I try to connect the linux shares, I get a password prompt (and...

FAT32 has a nasty tendency to screw itself when your system loses power or locks up. Usually you just lose some data in whatever files you had open, whoops, but every once in awhile you'll get a truly awful loss. In my case, my Win98 machine locked up, and when it came back online, scandisk...

I ache for the touch of your lips, Dear, But much more for the touch of your whips, Dear. You can raise welts like nobody else, As we dance to the Masochism Tango. Let our love be a flame, not an ember, Say it's me that you want to dismember. Blacken my eye...

Wasn't Cliff Richard the statistical deviant who managed to get a #1 single in Britain in every decade since the 50s? Not a common name to we who reside in the US. I only know 'cause I'm a trivia buff. Me? I would've loved to see Copland or Bernstein or Horowitz while they were alive. Or...

My list: Maxim Vengaroff, Christopher Parkening, Pavarotii, Samuel Raimey, Thomas Hampson, YoYo Ma, Cheryl Struder, George Solti. Others, no doubt. My single rock-concert experience: Last year as a present I got Amy tickets to see Melissa Etheridge's only Chicago concert on her most recent...

For all the money you're spending on fans and cooling kit, it'd probably be cheaper to just buy another PC and stick it in a closet for your Genoming (?) and ripping needs. Leave your PC on at night. It's nice, white noise. Pretty soon you won't know how you slept without it.

Yes, but does Clocker have the binaries to run terminal server? I don't think he does.

Not much. Host more network and RAS connections. That's probably a "Yawn" for you. Install software that only runs on "Server" NT (SMS etc). Again, yawn. Install gobs of RAM. Maybe this is useful. Probably it isn't. The MP-tuned HAL is something you DON'T have, so despite having "server", you...

I'm just as willing to dismiss a $10US price difference between boards in my area. $10 is the difference between brands, not the difference between major features like RAID or USB2.

Did you enable LFE in the Creative Speaker Control?

$25CDN is barely a difference at all. For me the difference is something less than $10US between Gigabyte's KT266A and KT333 boards. Sure, that adds to the final cost of the product, but I'm looking at USB2.0 as a considerable increase in the value of what I'm delivering (The RAID version of the...

Putting on my paper hat that says "MCSE" command is a 16-bit application that runs in a 16-bit virtual machine. Just like good old DOS, it doesn't grok long file names or support advanced programming structures. cmd is a 32-bit shell that understands all about LFNs, handles real shell...

Looks like the price difference between the Duron 1.3GHz, T-bird 1.33GHz and an XP1500 (1.33GHz) is something less than $25. In the name of delivering value, I'm wondering which is the best choice. The Duron is theoretically slower, right? Still limited to a 200MHz bus? But probably the...

Yeah, cmd.exe actually can do some other good stuff that almost make it as nice a shell as some of the more primative Unix options. Yes, cmd can keep a history. With a very slight hack that I don't remember at the moment it can also auto-complete file and directory names, something that makes...

DVD - after trying WinDVD4 and then PowerDVD XP again, can conclude that the problem I'm having is actually due to setting up the software players to use the SPDIF-out on my sound card. When I have the software do the decoding, everything works. Sadly, with LiveSurround set up, the best sound...

Canadian National (railroad) still uses VINES. ABC's radio division still had remote sites running LANtastic until 1999. I'm not sure which is more pathetic. VINES is easily the most retarded NOS I've ever dealt with. That I am sure of. I'm pretty sure all the administrative abilities available...

Ask how many other people do your job. Is work given to "teams" or is responsibility placed on individuals? Or both? How much self-direction is (someone in your job) allowed? Or less specifically, how management deals with people at your job rank. Ask about the frequency of aspirn, antacid, and...

I'm fairly certain Pick is still being used and developed (of course, so is Banyan VINES, it's just that the rest of the world doesn't care), although at this point I don't know what hardware it's running on. Dell did indeed have a Unix system. I somehow doubt it's still sold or maintained but...

There are actually good arguments against having a .sex namespace. 1.) Some things that probably don't belong there might end up in it, anyway. An ISP might force a site with even remotely sexual content into .sex, for example (e.g. the gag site www.technicalvirgin.com, or sites like...

So I suppose it'd be unethical for you to suggest that Sol try water-cooling his Power supply? ;)

My first PC was a Honeywell XT clone running Xenix. It had a black and white display, an acoustic-coupled modem (I don't remember how fast, probably 300bps though), and an attached serial terminal. There was a lineprinter, too. I hated that thing. Dad taught me to type papers for school using...