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I have a BSCS and a set of skills that I try very hard to forget about. I always like the IT (service) side of computer work, and I find real-life programming highly unsatisfying And yes, I worked as a programmer, in an office I shared with threee other people, above a...

Invitations were made at the first, almost entirely to SR regulars who had visible email addresses. If you didn't get one, that's probably why. Sorry. The whole matter caused a great deal of frustration on our part. I think it's still a sore point. I don't think the traffic level is so high...

Hmph. Like a PM:POP3 or PM:IMAP interface would be that tough.

Y'know, we never did get that picture, Tannin... Not that I'd be able to see it anyway.

Is there any mechanism available to batch-save PMs?

I'm sure the way I speak is very different from the way you or Tannin or jtr or NRG or Gary H. or PeeWee speak (er, English). Probably that's an interesting project for someone here. And I'm not much for phones. I don't really like them, particularly talking to someone I haven't met before. I...

Am I missing something? I just noticed that there isn't a link to their AAM software on their web site. Is it something you have to get through support? Reminds me why I haven't bought a Seagate Drive since the Barracuda ATA II.

What, and lose the 250 days of uptime on most of my linux machines? Just so you can find that the vseek graph for a Maxtor 536X spells "Slug"? Or that my collection of (SCSI) Barracudas is slower than every 7200rpm IDE drive I own at this point?

I hate to think we're elitists, personally.

Thanks all.

Best wishes for your new boy, Jake.

Eh. Don't drink to begin with, although at the moment I wish I did. Just don't have anyone to talk to about what's going on. In fact, if I understood what was going on, I'd probably not be complaining. Here isn't the place to talk either. But since this is what passes in my life for social...

Just to break in for a second: DAMN why can't we have a thread like this on SR? I'm sure some of the new guys like cas and Sivar would have some cool things to say as well (but not me. I'm not an engineer and don't pretend to be), if they could see this... OK, please resume arguing about cache...

If I seem grumpy, mean or absent over the next few weeks, not that anyone will necessarily miss my almost jehh-like omnipresence... I'm living in something not unlike a particularly stereotypical "Jerry Springer" (that's the trashiest show on TV, period, for all outside the US) episode at the...

Since I'm on broadband for the day and forced to use IE I went and took a look anyway (thanks for the warning, though). I particularly like the last one. It's fairly obvious to me that those images are cropped to that white border, but I really like the color balance in the last group. I can...

Wow. That seems pretty bad. Do we have a (supposedly fast-seeking) 740X yet? Or a Quantum AS? Those are the ones I can run Vseek on most easily, although I can't post pretty pictures like y'all. I think I can probably do a WD600AB and maybe a 800AB as well. Everything else I have in a Windows...

I liked putting (free) StarOffice on the machines I sold. I thought it was a great value for the sort of work most people need to do. Then I started getting people bitching about the fact that they had "Office" but not "MS Word". Ingrates. I guess the branding wasn't obtrusive enough...

I don't know if this is true for other SCSI controllers, since all I buy is Adaptec (it's a name thing, the same reason I stick with RedHat for Linux installations), but on Adaptec cards, any controller with the same chipset will share the same IRQ. I've seen machines with a pair of 2940s and a...

When I was in Cub Scouts, a looooonnnnggg time ago, one of the things we did was make root beer. It was pretty cool. I don't remember much, but we did have to harvest saspirilla (leaves, I think) to do it.

My grandmother has your dad beat, GMac. Her oldest today is 67, her youngest only 29 (or maybe 30. Either way it's pretty bad). It's weird that I have cousins with kids older than my youngest aunt.

There's an email address I know Jason actually reads upwards in this thread. It's something like jehh@vzavenue.net. Or something like that. I think it's his personal, ISP-provided address.

James, I'd still like to know what you did that I didn't. I tried precompiled. I tried rolling my own. I used a default smb.conf and one I made by hand. I tried three different versions of samba even. I never got so much as a connection.

Given that the problem you're having seems to go away with a change in resolution or refresh rate, perhaps you're stressing the RAMDAC a wee bit too much?

I asked. They said no. I'm not going to pursue it, even though I see students using those machines for a lot of dumber things (most of the machines have winmx, kazaa and some of the other programs that install adware on them, and run those programs on startup. I want to fix it but the hardware...

Bartender, please inform Mr. Wilson we're no longer speaking.

That's all the quality, being transferred into RAM. :) Tea might be off my xmas card list, except for the little fact that I don't celebrate xmas.

Hurry up and get started or I will, Cliptin. I'm bored today. Waiting on FedEx idiot. Can't leave the apartment, 'cause that exactly when he'll come.

$30 USD to get a 10x burner seems reasonable to me. How much would shipping be? I know. Don't ask. But humor me.

Don't you have an old component preamp sitting around somewhere? Or a sound app that's capable of boosting your audio recording levels?

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > "Enable Quick Launch". Moz starts up with your PC, just like IE (er, on a Windows box). Opera the web browser just doesn't have anything on any version of Mozilla since the preview releases (about 18 months ago).

<thwip> *CRASH* Whoops. I slipped.

I don't see why not. I suppose the game won't be much fun if the story isn't posted at the end. Hopefully it'll be something readable. :)

That's another one of those things I don't have a sense of humor about. That last bit, I mean. Sorry NRG. I've always had quite a temper. Believe me. I used to get mad enough to actually see red (which I understand now means that I get so worked up I'm nearly ready to pass out). It caused me a...

LinuxPPC is pretty nice. Or Open/NetBSD. For look and feel, MacOS is really nice. I wouldn't complain about it. For myself I'd probably install Linux, just because I'm used to it. But I'd say that you should give OS9 a try first. It's a pretty nice environment. I will warn you that it's not...

Well, it's my idea. Of course I'm in. I thought it might be an interesting alternative to a slow weekend of minimal numbers of posts.

Your order will be based on your reply here, then. You can start, and I can go second, or the other way around.

At the height of the surrealist movement in art, there was a parlour game played by young participants in the movement called "Exquisite Corpse". The idea was that each partygoer contributed a few lines to a story after reading only the previous contirubtor's entry, then, at the end of the...

Dual something-or-other, I'm sure.

It'll probably be longer than that before mainstream computing needs 128-bits. 64bits represents an awful lot of data (18446744073709551616 is the largest number you can represent. Obviously that's quite a large number.). 128 bits gets you 3.4x10^38. There you're getting in to "as many particles...

I forgot one on my list of careers. I think I could be a decent writer. Fiction or non. I've written things before that one might find online but most of what I write goes into notebooks (the paper kind). Anyway, I like to write, too.

I'd prefer not to hit anyone at all, actually. Women especially. My father wasn't the nicest guy in the world when I was growing up (holding me a foot off the floor by my neck, punching my head so hard I couldn't put it on a pillow two days later, nice things like that) and there are still times...

I disagree somewhat. Matrox has been at the limit of 2D quality for quite some time. The other players are just starting to get there (ATI's new cards look good, supposedly nvidia's do too, and 3dfx was just a notch behind when it was devoured). But since quality is there in the hardware, I...

There are any number of careers I would choose before pimping. For one thing, I couldn't hit a woman, and that's part of the job description (they use coathangers wrapped in towels. Leave fewer marks). Architect, some kind of low-responsibility physician (sports medicine, plastic surgery...

I'm partial to "Spatula" myself. I just think it's a fun word.

Yeah, but readers aren't standard equipment yet, and I still see floppy interfaces on motherboards.

I'm surprised there isn't at least a barebones DOS client out there. Someone being hardcore about things would no doubt get better performance in DOS than anything else, anyway.

Serial ATA. Particularly if, as SAN_guy eluded on SR, bridged U320 SCSI to SATA enclosures become available. Floppy replacements, if anyone is listening to me (CF, dammit!) Anything that improves PC I/O (PCI X, HyperTransport, whatever). A sound card with native support for DPLII. Smallish...

That looks like a variant on the Nimbda virus that went around last year.

Tannin and Tea can't have a nice discussion if one hand is holding the mobile and the other is holding the landline! How about a nice, relaxing call to your local time and temperature service? Or call the power company and complain about something; they're always up for that sort of thing.

How about "Tony's sometimes ex-girlfriend's daughter". That's a good one, right? "Spatula" "Zoltan" "Handle" (not that we want to give Tannin any ideas!) "T-bone" Anything good so far?