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Even more, I wonder what kind of revolution the X15s in Tannin's desktop PCs are planning. ;)

Fushigi, A poll of my friends and relatives who visit strip clubs suggests the following: The clubs are better in Chicago. You already knew that. The "best" place to go if you're going for just the stripping is the Deja Vu just off Cline (you can see it from 80-94). It doesn't have a liquor...

Cliptin, My fiance suggests that you head to the head over to the nearest big pet-supply store and find yourself a "mat-comb". She says they're metal combs with scissors attached, made specifically for working on matted fur.

I'd like to say, The Giver, that your and Armen's poetry skills, however misplaced, are a perfect reason why no one should want you to go. Last August, adriel posted a thread on SR General called "Storage Prose". You probably could have made a wonderful contribution. However, Armen's use of the...

I take back my complaint about that shortcut after actually using the command. CTRL (and) + zooms in and CTRL (and) - zooms out. I was throw by the shortcut nomenclature - using + ito join the two keys - for a moment. CTRL++ makes sense. Photoshop uses the same key sequence to zoom images.

The proper enticement would probably be your recommendation along with a "discount" for a trade-in on his current drive. That could take the form of free labor for the ghosting or an offer of the drive at cost, whatever, but nothing shows sincerity at retail like offering a discount. ;)

My game machine runs on a Tbird 1.33GHz running @ 1.5GHz, on an Epox 8KHA (no RAID, same board). I've pushed it up another half-step without difficulty, BIOS reports fine. I'll try it again, just to make sure, though.

Since you're undoubtledly the only person here with Mozilla + ECS, I don't know how much help you're going to get but... How high did you wind up setting the font size in Moz? Try something outrageious, like 32-points or so. See if that does anything. Also try, under the View menu, the "Text...

Yes. And a proprietary disk format, too. Yuck.

I have to think that the Xbox hard disks are remaindered drives, anyway. 8.4GB disks? How many years since those have been made? The 10GB disk is a little better, but I have to think that either way, those disks have probably been sitting around a warehouse somewhere for 18 months or so...

Odd. The DIMMs on the couple I've opened up are Micron PC-133 modules (more odd, I thought Toshiba made its own RAM). The hard disk is also Toshiba-branded. My "stopwatch" test put the transfer rate on the formatted hard disk (between 1200 and 1400MB in on the disk) at 17.1MB/sec, which seems...

$10 fee + $100 CSU/DSU = small price to pay to get away from the $12 - $15/month equipment rental fee.

C is older than Pascal. C++ is actually fairly "new". Pascal is an interesting language; like the newer lanugage Python, it's designed as a "learning" language - a perfect introduction for students. Personally, I find Pascal syntax to be something of a pain in the @$$, but Delphi is otherwise a...

The RAM is PC 133. I suppose the CPU is, too, but none of the packaging indicates one way or the other.

Anthropomorphic Hard disk humor is so rare, for some reason.

Haven't we had this discussion before? Just as a general note... I can't believe how slow these things are. No faster than my IBM 540 (Celeron 466). The ones running 2000/XP are even worse. Gah. It's got to be the slow hard disk. I haven't opened one up to check what brand it is. I'll be doing...

I have never had a drink of alcohol, but I posted this poll with memories of Clocker's occasional admissions of posting on SR while less-than-sober, and SuperC's expression of regret that he said some things that he regretted after a night of inebriated posting. ... and that got me wondering...

I happen to have in my possession at the moment, 10 P3 1GHz/256MB/20GB Toshiba 4600 notebooks. Some of them have Win2000 Pro or WinXP Pro loaded on them, but they're all destined to have Win98SE. I'm only going to have them for a few days. Anyone interested in impressions of the hardware, or...

Seems to me that with just over 2000 message (gads, a quarter of them mine and Tannin's), we're about due for another status update here. Any words, Doug?

This forum or SR's? We're working fine. SR is working fine. There's a lot of activity in the Administrators forum that, unfortunately, you can't see. Lots of long posts bringing Kevin up to speed and dealing with some personal issues among the admins. There's plenty happening. Honest.

Nope. Just someone who had WAY too many music lessons when I was growing up. But if I (I'm a baritone) could hit the high Ds in the aria I mentioned above, I'd be famous as a sideshow freak if nothing else. :) How about some real olympic events? I've got one, and all I'd need is an official...

The super-easy way to defrag a > 4k cluster drive is to ghost and restore the drive. Of course, you need another drive big enough to hold your image file....

Make an attempt at Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody and tell me about a peak in dexterity when typing. Hit the high notes in full voice in "Celeste Aida" and tell me that's not athletic. There is a lot of athleticism in just about any physical pursuit. Why glorify those whose hobby (Olympians aren't...

Just use a normal hairbrush. Slickers (the flat brushes with the slanted handles) encourage hair growth. Normal hairbrushes do a better job of simple hair removal. Shaving a cat is probably, well, maybe cruel isn't a good word. Let's just say it would be hard on the cat. While you're doing...

Drunk posting: A serious issue. Some SR regulars have admitted it openly. Some have confessed after the fact. Some make their inebriated state part of their username. Tonight on StorageForum, a shocking exposé: Do our readers post while under the influence?

Does anyone think Bowling is a sport? At least bowling has a decent potential for injury. Even if it's more likely a career-ending hernia or groin-pull (no, not that kind!) than a torn ACL or rotary cuff. Tiger Woods had to sit out a few golf tournaments last year because why? Because a fan...

There are a number of password managers out in the world. Even some web sites that offer to remember passwords (yeah, like I'd trust THAT). I don't trust anything, actually, but I've also never heard of a way to totally circumvent Netscape/Mozilla's encrypted password store - you type a single...

I developed my philosophy in college, after having a roommate for a semester who watched EVERY SHOWING of ESPN Sportcenter - a show that's on about 8 times a day with at least two showings after midnight. He also got in at least two fistfights over NASCAR racing. It wasn't pleasant. Basically...

Honestly, I don't care about sports. None. Not a whit. Nude Beach volleyball? OK, maybe that one. I'm the type who feels that all sport would be better with the addition of landmines, or at the very least, edged weapons. Olympics: The sports no one cares about three years, eleven months out of...

Just don't ask where the reset switch is!

I'm not a computer shop-owner. I sell maybe 45 systems a year, which isn't that bad for something I do as a hobby. An awful lot of my sales come from people who either have never owned a computer, or bought a computer so long ago there's no reason to attempt an upgrade. Can't say how many times...

Good lord does Titan have an ugly web page! I found dealers in Germany, Lithuania and Poland. I think you're out of luck if you want one and you live in the US.

Cat Support Longhair/shorthair? Do you ever brush it? Is it just really, really lazy? Why is this starting to sound like the tech support call from heck?

Yes, I've seen corrupted volumes, but I haven't used the latest version, either.

Myth 2 was pretty darn cool. I played it on my friend's Mac a few times. But I liked Icewind Dale better. And Planescape: Torment better yet (now appearing in the cheapie bin). Blizzard games are, I don't know... very empty. The phrase "click-fest" was basically invented to describe Diablo...

Does your cat have a collar?

My fiance would like Tannin to know that Tampons are probably great for nosebleeds, too. :P

When I was very, very young a stray kitten followed me home from school after I stopped to pet it. It was August, and the kitten was probably only a couple months old. Of course my parents wouldn't let me keep her or feed her, and in fact I think my father tried to catch her and drive her out...

Pepsi | Nose >> Keyboard! Slightly more seriously, I also noticed that several people have more posts here than on the "new" SR, which is pretty remarkable.

I don't think you should be hurling around insulting words like "republican" to label our good friend Tannin. Besides, sock puppets can't vote, except in Florida. Not that explains why Tea has access to the Admin forum. OK. I'll quit with the puppet references. Why are there so many... songs...

STOP POKING ME! Burp! Oh. Uh. OK. Actually I'm not a fan of Blizzard's games, but I like the funny things the various creatures say when you click on them a few down times.

For those who don't have access to the admin forum, "sock puppet", it's a bit of an inside joke. Tannin and Tea started having conversations, and the first thing I thought of as I read them was that there must've been a sock puppet involved.

Well, The Giver and Santilli, you'll both be happy to know that the admins have finally come to an agreement on the rules of conduct for members. You'll be happy to know that there's no mention of member intelligence or race in those rules. I'm sure both of you will be commenting on the fruits...

Sounds like very simple DB work. Just a handfull of tables. No complex relationships. Exactly the sort of thing MySQL is made for.

We all know I couldn't possibly beat them both. I'm thinking that my triumph is over his primary, dominant personality only. Although, we could get back to Punch and Judy speculation...

When working on PCs that might be "sharp", I learned a long time ago to wear painter's gloves (used in auto plants by the people who handle newly-painted parts) and to keep neosporin nearby. My worst injury: While modding a standard case with a powerdrill to accept a proprietary V-Tech (yes...

Just noticed that I have more posts than Tannin. It'll probably never happen again, so I'm going to celebrate while I can. ;) Me: 234 (er, 235 when I hit submit) Tannin: 232 A momentous day in the history of logorrhea!

It can reasonably be said that I don't want exactly the same kind of forum that Tannin wants. In fact, I take the decidedly minority positions that the actions of moderators here should be subject to some mechanism of review by the forum participants as a group (insurance, in effect, for...

MS SQL Server is a fairly heavyweight product. It doesn't sound like what you're doing will require the truly advanced features of MSSQL. That, and the cost of licenses for 300 users would be pretty large. On the other hand, the times I've worked with MySQL I've missed some things that I...

Latter = the first statement in the last paragraph of The Giver's previous post. No one is sitting around asking if you're "worthy". We discussed that already.