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To anyone thinking of complaining, I'd like to point out that no one else here seems to have a problem connecting to the internet via modem @ 28.8kpbs.

Doesn't mean a thing to me if I've never seen one. It's one of those mystery brands, like Soltek. People on SR talk about them. That's all I know. As far as size of companies - I'm guessing PC Chips and FIC are bigger?

I never even heard of MSI until last year. Still never seen an MSI board. AOpen, on the other hand, makes stuff that I know is universally first rate. Personally, I'm not fond of integrated parts, either. Screwdriver shops that push all-in-one boards are just not to be trusted.

Gotta love those per-megabyte charges on broadband!

I'd suggest a Celeron 900 on an Aopen AX3S + 256MB high-grade SDRAM + a 40GB Maxtor 740X + Dlink or Linksys NIC + Matrox Gx00 + Aopen 52X CD-ROM + Compucase mid-tower Total without a Windows license should be around $350. $400 if you want building it to be someone else's problem.

I keep VNC windows to my non-Windows machines open all the time so there's not much to do with webmin. I use Mozilla for windows to do things with webmin from time to time, mostly quickie changes like stopping samba or something. I don't even have a java VM installed on most of my machines, so a...

No problem here. We each offered a different solution to his Tannin's difficulty. I've found Opera to be unstable, too. The only time since the .9 release that Moz has crashed was the day my cats unplugged the fileserver containing my Netscape profile from the rest of my network.

Installing IE6 would probably fix your setup nicely, as well. I really don't like the Opera web browser for reasons I've discussed at length in the past.

Sorry to be so much the browser zealot, but have you tried mozilla? For the rest: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Internet Explorer > Change/Remove (wish we could stop here!) > Repair Internet Explorer You really should be running 5.5 w/ bugfixes, though.

You mean you can sell overpriced TFT displays but you can't manage SCSI hard disks? j/k Not that I have any room to talk or anything. Here, the only reasonably priced 15" TFT display I can get says KDS on it (US $329), and doesn't look impressive in the least. Give me a CRT any day. I like...

Slashdot.org had a couple of 500-reply articles on that very subject. I haven't gone back and read them yet, but I'll bet if you take the time, you'll see something useful. kuro5shin is another place to look. Usually there are more technical comments there.

Arguing with people on SR over the value of writable DVDs, of course! Don't ask me. I can't keep intel chipsets straight anymore, either.

This is too interesting a thread to just watch it die... I'm asked all the time about upgrading PCs, rather than buying new ones I've developed a sort of philosophy about it. Basically, for a non-technophile, upgrades make just about no sense at all. I'm sure just about everyone has heard "I...

Ahem. http://www.penguinppc.org/articles/tgall/pop.shtml Yes, I want one too.

Well, the first thing I thought when I read this was "Tulatain", but Pradeep has already found something that's absolutely perfect, so I guess the only thing left for you to do is to get your customer to change his mind about the modem.

Does the soon-to-be-MrsCadet know what you're hoping for? Hm. Guess I'm not a bachelor party kind of guy.

Yes, I would. It's been at least a half-hour and no confirmation message, either. Have you bugged your hosting provider about SMTP config yet?

Hoax. Apparently, Yahoo posts stories from the Weekly World News (a supermarket tabloid noted for some hilariously fake news stories, which the truly ignorant sometimes think is real) in its entertainment section. If you go up one level from that story, you get this...

You'd be placing an awful lot of faith in the practices of our (hopefully) round-robin moderators. Of course, given that the group is Handruin, Tannin, Clocker, P5_133XL, Groltz, CougTek, Time, (energy), Pradeep, and Flagreen (did I forget anyone?) at the moment, maybe there's good reason for...

She either has the strongest back on earth or else she doesn't move around a whole lot offstage. When I worked in a strip club[1], I knew one girl who was working so she could pay to get her (natural) DD-cup reduced to a B or C. The other thing is, 72-DD does not exist. That's not really a bra...

My very own recipie for Marinara (which I made tonight). I'm very proud of it. You can put it on anything and it keeps very well in the freezer. 1 large can diced tomatos 1 can tomato puree - in the US, only Contadina makes this 3 fresh basil leaves 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 Yellow onion a...

Well, y'all probably all know my proclivities from SR; I just think it's hysterical. :)

If the Golden Rule could be the only law in the world, would the world still be a good place to live? There's a question for philosophers and theologians. Truth is, there are breakdowns. It don't think it's disrepectful of anyone here that I provide a link to direct download of the full...

Some interesting points, The Giver. There is a fierce deadlock on how to handle forum scofflaws and how to properly phrase our rules at the moment, among the admins. Yes, one issue at stake in our debates is precisely who gets to decide what material is inappropriate for StorageForum. However...

We have a message from a real user on Handruin's host (webmaster@storageforum), being delivered to a valid user on Handruin's personal ISP (dcahill@townisp). There are no other recipients, the mail has not been set to priority "bulk" or "Urgent" (two things that frequently tag mail as spam)...

Are you certain you're using the right mail gateway for your box? What happens if you shell in to your box (via ssh or telnet or whatever) and use elm or pine to send yourself a message? Same delay?

Well, things don't really work that way. Your 5400rpm drives, assuming they were of a type that works well in RAID0, would probably have a roughly 2x transfer rate. However, there aren't very many things an ordinary user does that are terribly transfer intensive. For 95% of what a typical...

I make an effort - at present - to read everything here. I've noticed that often, I'll continue to see the new posts notification in forums I've completely read, and that have no additional new posts. Is anyone else seeing this or is it a byproduct of using mozilla?

Could anyone share the complete headers of a user verification email? It might be helpful to see what's going on. Also, Doug, there exists on your system a /var/log/maillog file. I don't know whether you have access to it or not, but it'll certainly tell you what SMTP is doing and when.

JTS mainly sold drives to Compaq for use in Presario machines. The phrase "largely supplanted by the Quantum Bigfoot" springs to my mind when I think of them. Draw your own conclusion.

Salty? (I don't know how that space got there. It's supposed to be KimChee) Erm, KimChee is a sort of combination of fermented cabbages, peppers and radishes, spiked with various hot spices and bits of fish. Koreans like to make the stuff, then bury it in the ground for a few months while it...

You're not going to start waxing poetic about JTS or Micropolis, are you? :P

Professional gamblers stay away from roulette, craps and keno. All have odds overwhelmingly in the favor of the house. Blackjack is OK if you know how to play - real strategy, the only game where a good player can actually get better odds than the house, or poker if you're a longtime, serious...

Hm. I started doing dishes when I was five. Now I think it's relaxing. Mindless activity. Turn up the stereo in the kitchen and just do it. Tannin, vegemite is the most horrible thing I've ever eaten, and I've had Kim Chee.

I like making Italian food. People act like it's something special but most of it is really, really easy to make. Basic stuff like Chili is always good, too. Anyone can make chili. I'm trying to teach myself to make a few Chinese dishes but nothing ever turns out the way I want it. I even...

Tannin's probably referring to the mess associated with xfree86's fonts. You can run a truetype font engine, but not every program is TTF aware, which can make the look and feel of the GUI uneven in places. That, and the included fonts aren't as nice as those in Windows. At least under Redhat...

I curse the floppy drive! I will dance, then spit on its thrice-curst grave. I will do 'The Hustle". And then there shall be peace across the land.

Mostly just playing with the poll-posting options. Anyone else here like to cook?

A bit of both, really. You'd think making the out-of-the-box desktop as nice as possible would be a high priority, but that just hasn't been the case thusfar. You really *can* get a nice setup. It can take a lot of tweaking to get things right, and there's about a dozen places where things can...

Probably until whatever DNS is authoritative drops handruin.com from its cache.

Ladies (that would be you, Tea) and Gents (the rest of us), storageforum.net is now up and running. Huzzah!

I mostly use Linux for work-sorts of things, so even though I'm very much an A/V enthusiast, I have to say I don't know. A little research tells me that there are tools that do ac3 out through SPDIF on various sound cards (everyone seems to have a Live!), and that there are patches in CVS for...

Don't bookmark yet. I think our URL is going to change in a few days.

Is SR still having "issues" or is it me? I've tried to post a couple of times in the last half-hour or so and gotten "You can't post so soon after your last post" messages in response.

Wow. That was fast. I only sent that message to you maybe 10 minutes ago.

Actually, I suggested the idea in the first place. I hate them, too. In fact, no one is actually in favor of the idea as such. However, it's also not fair that Handruin is bearing the burden of paying for our new watering hole, and doing most of the admin work. Income from banner ads might...

Funny how well that last post goes along with the "systems that sell" thread. Of course, another way of looking at it is that the faster disk is a slight step closer to SCSI-like speed. When I run into a situation when I need to sell a higher-priced component but I've already quoted a price...

Tiger's had those for under $100 (probably refurbs), and just like all the other internet appliances, it can be hacked. Most of them use StrongARM chips, though, which is probably a bit limiting. The internet appliances are very, very cute. They should sell and they don't. Pretty much everyone...

I don't have a personal interest in Railroading but I do have a funny story that a Railroad nut will probably like: In the spring of 2000 I worked for Canadian National doing all kinds of things, one of which was walking around and installing software on all the PCs in their swanky...

Welcome. Banner ads are kind-of half-heartedly being tossed around, actually. And the 25-posts to a page problem seems to have just come up in the last day or so, since there haven't been threads with 25 posts until yesterday.