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A long time ago I had a customer buy a video card from me. I sold him an ISA card. At the time PCI was not something that anyone had and it wasn't safe to assume VLB, either. A few hours later I got a message from my parents (see? This WAS a long time ago) that the guy's computer was on fire...

I have a pair of Sony noise-cancelling headphones that work OK for the two times a year I want headphones for something. They aren't Sennheisers but noise cancellation works REALLY well for computers and fans and air conditioners.

The enterprise version is considerably more expensive than Visio or Visio technical.

We're on the top of the third page of results. I don't think it'd be a lot of work to get enough linkage to move up a page. Beyond that I don't know. Anyway, what can we do to get a little better linkage?

It's funny, though. As per the article on slashdot yesterday, the preponderence of copies out in the world are the lowest-tech forms (camera pointed at movie screen, microphone to speaker), and sold to people who just don't care about the distinction. Still, I agree that the whole notion is...

I'm almost positive there are better programs out there than goldwave - which likes to use a temp file VERY heavily - but I'll bet if you look there are a couple of packages designed to clean up analog recordings.

Tape deck to aux in on the soundcard. Use one of a hundred sound recorders. The scratchy noises from tapes can be cleaned in most audio editing tools. Some even have "wizard-based" auto-cleaners. I think the Live! MP3 has software to handle that. Personally I use Goldwave. I'm sure there are...

Yes, I read it. Probably every other visit (which still means several times a day for me). Comment? Just once in my case, I think. I will if there's something really compelling. Wish the forunpage forum was integrated with this one somehow, though. :|

Methinks Mr. A.D. has been partaking freely of his pig uteruses.

Did we ever actually start this? 'Cause I certainly haven't gotten a turn yet. :(

Why the *hell* doesn't anyone else make a work-alike app that does what Visio enterprise can? I need Visio to produce proper documentation. I can get by just fine with a different OS, a different office package, different development environment from what Microsoft makes, but there's nothing...

I used PageMaker and Quark in work for newspapers in highschool and college. I still see them both from time to time, depending on where I work. Still, what possible daily use for such programs is there, that can't be handled by any of the top-notch WP packages at this point?

Eh. Either way. It isn't his money. I would've held out for something really expensive, though. A fully-loaded, top of the line X-series from IBM, probably. Dell doesn't do lightweight notebooks very well. And yeah, that 60GB drive, too. Why settle for anything less. :)

Prof, do you *see* the results of the poll up there?

Well, it's certainly easier than "Acard SCSI to IDE bridge". Guess I learned a new word today.

Beware the wrath of IBM if you're installing anything in an AS/400 they don't approve of. Service contract? What service contract? $700 for 1GB of RAM in any kind of "big" machine doesn't sound unreasonable to me. Anyway, that machine is undoubtedly a sweetie. How much does it weigh? And is you...

When I was in college I had a roommate - and one of my better roommates - who had to keep a cockroach alive as part of an entymology class. That thing scared the hell out of me. It was probably two inches long and made noises all night long. About halfway through the semester I started killing...

When I was about eleven, my parents and I were once stuck in traffic on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago during the air and water show held annually there. Flights of F16s were literally buzzing the Hancock building, which was as dramatic a sight as I can remember. Still, the best part was that...

The gross oversimplification of my problems stem from the fact that Amy just finished her 1st year of med school, her only time off she gets until she finishes her internship, and she's realized that she's never lived alone and, uh (and this is non-personal and non-specific as I can get), wants...

I have to admit that I never paid much attention to Macintosh printers (the Applewriters were really Deskjet 500-series models, probably the finest general-use inkjets ever made), but I think the connector you're describing as PS/2 like is actually an ADB connector, similar to the one used for...

I'm pretty sure that the root of all evil in television advertising is the communist plot that keeps commercials for soaps and shampoos from being the best things on TV. Think about it. Hey, think about this: Microsoft spent a BILLION dollars advertising Windows XP. That's "Billion with a B"...

Join the club, Coug. It is pretty boring, though. Network tech work is a pigeonhole just like everything else. Unless you're in a job that gives you some free reign (an office, some purchase authority, preferably steering authority on platform/vendor standards, and enough latitude to play with...

Whoops. Seems newer revs of the card support ATA100. Not that helps the UW SCSI "bottleneck". Search on google for "Acard SCSI bridge" and you'll get all the info you can possibly handle.

I have (several, actually, but I'm just using the one) an Acard 50pin SCSI to Ultra/33 bridge card. AFAIK, the best you're going to be able to do with such a bridge is Ultra/33 to UW SCSI (there may be a Ultra/66 to UW or maybe even U2W SCSI, but not from the place I bought mine), which would...

64bit on the desktop is probably going to have to wait to find an application. I think I wrote something earlier in the thread about it. I'm sure Tannin remembers this clearly: When OS/2, NT and Windows95 were released, it was with great fanfare and a promise of a "faster" computing; imagine...

Well, yeah. I will. And in a year, when IE is on its EIGHTH major security update, and Microsoft is still saying they're committed to security, it'll be even funnier. The truth is, anything that's as bad as IE, Outlook, IIS or OE (as I sit here finding 350 copies of W32.klez on the PC I'm...

What're you going to do with your life, Mr. Tek?

Those printers look like Epsons to me. I don't know where you're getting HP. HP inkjets load paper properly, from below the print mechanism. :) Of course they're all horrid anyway. Which is a good argument for buying $10 inkjet printers when one can find them (usually a couple times a year at...

The article seems to indicate that the backup/restore practice they used fragmented the files in a predictable manner. So at least for the purpose of their test, there was repeatability.

The rest of us will be pointing and laughing at the IE users while y'all are busy downloading. That's at least the third time this year IE's needed a major patch. That's pretty bad for a company that's supposedly re-focussed on security.

The amazing SF tech support strikes again. :)

John Lasseter? Didn't one of the founders of Pixar just pass away? I think I saw that somewhere a couple weeks ago.

Out of all the versions of IE, the Mac version is supposedly the best. No matter. Install Moz anyway. It works the same on everything (incidently, Tannin, since you'll probably read this, try K-meleon for Windows and see if that's better for you. It starts in seconds like IE/Opera/Moz...

Defragging seems to me to be a very good real world test of driver performance. I wonder why I haven't seen it done before.

Don't let the bastards get you down?

Went out this afternoon and purchased a complete set of Schumann symphonies, the von Dohnanyi recording on London. I've listened to the first symphony (appropriately for most of us, the "Spring" symphony) so far and I find it very enjoyable. A bit up-tempo for my mood today but as captivating a...

Er, it's not like I'm accusing anyone of being evil. But nobody ever says "The Glowing Red-Eyed Skull of Hugs and Baby Ducks", either.

Talking about "Springtime for Hitler" reminds me of The Boys from Brazil. Let me tell you, I got some interesting results when I typed that into Google. And of course, talking about Brazil at all reminds me of a favorite dystopian vision and a really overlooked film. And we're on to movies...

Cat6 isn't a standard yet. Like PC2700 three months ago. Buy good-quality Cat5e and be happy your vendor doesn't need to soak you with a name their product isn't entitled to. On ordinary jobs I buy Cat5e from the local Home Depot. $47.50 a spool. Whatever it is, it isn't quite good enough for...

The outside-ness isn't voluntary. I'm stucl out here because the other member of my household has asked for the apartment to herself until she goes off to teach. :(

It'll be interesting to hear what Coug and Buck might say, of course. Matrox used to use lower-quality RAMDACs in OEM cards vs. their retail stuff. At the time it was a HUGE difference - 200MHz vs. 250MHz, IIRC for the Millenium II. The thing is, how many cards are you going to sell that will...

Operating from memory since I don't normally see most of them... My Bill Gates' Pie-encrusted face (clearly the best choice, I might add) Handruin's Matrix homage Flagreen's dancing something or other CougTek's Terminator Buck's Walt Whitman portrait/Wild-west saloon-keep Clocker's Homer...

I thought that one had some brains to it. Oh well. It's the one I was thinking of. It'd be perfect for all the SR/SF members with a half-dozen PCs in their homes. It'd justify your X15, at least. :) And I was trying to be realistic when I suggested 4x improvement over 100baseT for gigabit...

Tannin, wouldn't a simple move to the northern coast of Oz (Ballarat is in the southeastern portion, correct?) solve your weather complaints? Personally I like three of the seasons, and to get a real spring and autumn, you have to have a winter in there somewhere. Unfortunately. And like you...

Since my supply of cheap G4x0s dried up I've been using ATI Rage128s at the low end. I didn't see those on your sheet, but I find the green on light grey hard to read... Anyway, the Rage128 is a good enough card for most people. I don't know how drivers were historically (it's an old card...

Kristi should be here posting that for herself.

I should say, since I saw it a couple days ago, that Dell is selling 8-port managed 1000baseT switch for under $500. Which is really sweet. I'll see if I can dig up a link.

I'm not the person you need to be asking. It's all slow to me. But the other siite seemed marginally less slow. Which is just about as ringing an endorsement as I can make.

Do all those people really have avatars?

My favorite lullaby, for no particular reason. I suppose it's odd that a grown man have a favorite lullaby, especially one who doesn't like kids, but I sing it for my girlfriend's nieces and they like it. "Hush you by, don't you cry Go to sleepy little baby When you wake you shall have all the...