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I've been whining about finding a (permanent) job on SR way longer than anyone else. First dibs!

Lots of Linux machines in the world are set up with a single disk for all the system partitions and no quotas on anything. Heck, lots of Unix boxes are set up that way. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Burst is, too. From days adminning the student workstations at university, my best guess as...

Better dead trout than live catfish. Or a sack of full-height Micropolis drives.

I have the sudden desire to smack Tannin with a dead trout.

Wouldn't know, Cougtek. I know Flash doesn't come with Mozilla, and that it's not worth the time to download it. And Prof, I do hate pop music (rap, country, trash metal whatever the heck pop music is calling itself). But it's also very easy for me to avoid contact with it if I choose (if for...

The green reminds me a bit of some of the early visual interdev sample materials; how the web looked in 1998 or so. Maybe with a darker foreground color? How about green or amber on black as just an option?

I would, if I had hours to kill while I downloaded it, or if I had flash installed on any of my machines. In short, no way. PW, the web should be a universal experience. The INTERNET should be a universal experience. Now I get 100-line-long e-mail messages with one line of text and...

How 'bout opening up our FAQ with some wider computer questions? A few off the top of my head: Why is my modem connection faster/slower than its rated speed? How do I get a faster connection from my modem? Why are there cracks and hisses in sound from my sound card? Why does sound card stutter...

Flash is malignant because 1.) Flash isn't available for every browser, even on Windows (it's not available for Mozilla, but works with Netscape 6), nor for many non-Windows OSes (Flash for OS/2 browsers? Flash for Linux browsers? Flash for webTV?). Sites using Flash are therefore making a...

tim, you forgot your :) ...grumble damn aussie judge grumble grumble.

Allow me to correct that: Private consultants used to make good money. Now we post on web forums and whine a lot. Heat: Two of the 75GB monsters are sitting in one of my cases, one on top of the other (and a floppy on top of that)... in a RAID0 array, with minimal additional cooling (there's an...

Pbbbbbt. :P Some of us had the good sense to not post during the "down" period. Whose fault is that?

Check out epinions.com for reviews by actual product owners. Taken with a grain of salt. And as an aside... a friend of mine works at one of the local giant electronics stores as a PC tech, which is right next to the service/returns desk. He said Sony has had some of the worst product return...

The usual suspects: mysimon.com, dealtime.com, crutchfield, vanns, j&r... Even ebay might be worth a look, if for no other reason than, if you e-mail the people selling TVs, you'll probably hit a couple of small shops willing to cut you a deal. I wouldn't buy a TV sight-unseen, however. Plus...

Well that'll teach me to post at 1:00AM without preview. Second URL http://www.vulnerabilities.org

Here[/ur] is a rather complete rebuttal to pretty much everything Steve Gibson has had to say. IMO Gibson makes valid point but also takes the "big scary evil" security problems with windows a step or two too far. There's a slightly better security scanner [url=http://www.vulnerabilities.org]here.

Hmpf. Took me longer than I thought it would - I was looking at the date problem the wrong way, but the script itself is pretty easy to write.

Well, I wouldn't moan about that 17" optiquest display. Curved screen or no, that's a fine budget monitor (better a curved Optiquest than a flat KDS or Shamrock)... Surprises: No IDE in the "god box". That 73LP is way, way out of place given the capacity and performance of the "special edition"...

Prof, SR just isn't where "home" is online right now. Not to me, anyway. Hopefully someday soon this site will be able to stand on its own two feet and you'll see a visit here no differently from a visit to any number of other techie forums (only better). In my mind SR's future is still...

DrunkenBastard should take the time to sample a few of our finer, cheaper alcoholic products... You might see MadDog (MD) 20/20 in the wine section of your local supermarket. They're lying. It's bright green or hot pink, and perfectly suited for hand to hand combat. Mogen David - $5 for a...

My batty Great Aunt had a Scottish Fold (that's a cat breed) that she set a place at the table for. When she passed away, my parents inherited her... and quickly found that the only way to get her to eat was to set her food on a plate, at the table. Same cat used to sit on the piano bench with...

Where are you in our fine nation, Pradeep? I'll ship you some Tequila or something. ;)

I'll bet Pradeep's 233 + a goodly amount of RAM (256MB or so) + an X15 is as usable a workstation as you'll find. Probably wouldn't feel any different from the GHz-range desktops most of the rest of us have. The real question is what the hell an otherwise respectable person like Pradeep is...

PW, take your stand as part of the "new guard", and lead by example. That's what fixtures do.

Service businesses should have the right to add a PITA charge. I know I do. One gentleman whose business I have worked for in the past, I've flat-out told that I won't work for anything less than double my normal rates, double expenses etc. He still calls me from time to time... and stands over...

Amber or Green on black. A nice, monospace font... Gee that would feel like home. :)

The quick answer is, it's being talked about. Personally, I try to at least remain aware of what's being talked about on SR, but I come here first... and with good reasons. Look at SR's Bar and Grille right now and tell me it doesn't hurt to see things how things are right now. At the same...

Where's the "none of the above" option?

I'll write up what you want this afternoon, after I get home from work. Easy stuff.

Not into case modding, myself, so no. Tools other than screwdrivers and I don't get along very well. I try to avoid contact with them.

Those CMedia chips are the basis of the low-end Philips card, which retails for around $30 here... I can get the same card with the addition of a TOSlink out (audiophiles take note) for $7US. Big step up from onboard audio, too.

The first question for anyone thinking about going to get banned in their forums is, how the heck can you stand to look at their front page. It's awful. And I'll bet their girlfriends are ugly, too.

There is *no* excuse for a commercial organization to spam (unless that organization is Hormel, the people who make the pink stuff in the can). None. Period. They can talk all day about whatever good intentions they might have had in sending us a link to their review. Too bad! If I want to read...

Must've missed that one. Here's my list: Sears Craftsman 3.6V cordless screwdriver - Long philips bit - Short philips bit - Stripped screw removing bit - small flathead bit - drill bit for making new holes in things and for boredom relief I've never damaged anything with my cordless. I...

Might as well automate! $ crontab -e 0 12 * 2 * echo "You guys suck donkeys" | elm -s "Die spam-gargling moron" webmaster@harddiskinfo.com

Well, so far I haven't heard anyone use the phrase "some guy from the middle east"...

Eh. Either way. I do good work and I've never been fired or ended a job early; whether or not people like me or not doesn't mean as much to me as that fact. I'm not exactly an extroverted person. ... point of fact, I don't mind being a prick, either, so long as I'm a big prick.

http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=40 Or, if you don't want to click... Tannin mailed a small group of people when it looked like SR was closing. This small group, plus Handruin, eventually made this site. We have our own little forum on this site where we mostly argue about...

That's the whole deal with the "admins" section. Tannin got elected "person to blame if you don't like something" a couple days ago. :)

Yes, from slashdot. I was making gurgling noises as I read the responses... Small world. I did some GIS work in the late nineties for the City of Chicago. Mostly my job was... weird; I was doing a small amount of custom development work for their high-end Oracle-based system, while supporting...

There are two threads on SR about it, one in the admins forum here, and now this. In short, pretty much everyone got a copy.

A depressing news story. Reading things like this is what makes me want to get out of the computer business.

Really? Historically I've preferred laptop LCDs to desktop. Maybe that's because I'm usually closer to the laptop display. Desktop LCDs still seem like a gimmick to me, anyway.

Not yet. Quake3 doesn't look very good on the 15" LCD of the brand-new 1GHz Toshiba laptops that are sitting on my living room floor right now. Even with all the graphics options turned off there's a lot of artifacts on the screen that I think come from the screen updating slower than the video...

I got a real kick out of reading about this programming language...

I believe that the difference is that "Master" slots can have a unique IRQ assigned to them, and a slave or slaves have to share one with a master... masters have some other abilities. I'm not an electrical engineer. the least technical info I can find is the followingL a "master" controls...

Excel 5 was the version included with Office 4.3, which pre-dated full VBA adoption in Office by two releases and probably 5 years. Hard to explain what the app does, except to say that it provides a number of documents that US Steel requires its vendors fill out EXACTLY but will not itself...

Helldriver, I have personally seen a 50,000-line app written in whatever the hell Excel v5's language was. I was written by an acquaintance of mine for use by vendors doing business with one of one of the local Steel Mills. It's really a pretty amazing thing.

The typical warranty for drives in OEM products is equal to the OEM vendor's, and serviced by the OEM... which in the case of th xbox means a 1-year warranty serviced by microsoft, regardless of who made the drive.

The IDE (Integrated development environment) looks pretty nice. And newer versions of VB tend to be much better than those that precede it. VB is very good for certain types of small projects. VB still has a lot of room to grow to be comparable with other languages, unfortunately.