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Yeah. I had a lab of Sparc 5s that literally no one used unless the engineering and compsci labs were full. In those days almost everything "internet" was done at a terminal session on a Unix Mini (Sequent, IBM or HP). Try to explain "CLI" to a comparative lit major...

In college I managed very large computer lab, usually by myself, in the Liberal Arts and Education Building on Purdue's Main campus. Literally, the least technical people to attend Purdue West Lafayette walked through those doors. I'm talking 1994 here, so if these things seem a little dated...

Don't feel bad Blake, my fastest CPU is still sitting in its box and it'll continue to sit there for at least another week. Most of the rest of my processors are XP2500s anyway. My little Appliance PCs #1: Mobile XP1700 + low-profile Speeze cooler on a GA7VAXP Gateway E4200 chassis (it's a...

Understand that I work at a company that trains others to use computers: They: "How come I keep getting these messages that're returned "user unknown" with "Unicode binary.exe" attached?" Me: "Because you have the MyDoom virus that I sent out a warning about on Friday, and because you insist...

I like Nero + DVD Shrink for my movie-stealing needs. Newer versions of DVD Shrink even burn directly. For capped video to DVD I use DVD MovieFactory most of the time.

Came into work this morning. My server was down. Bluescreened with different errors on every reboot. Opened it up to pull its main drive, noticed some bulging caps. So I pulled it off its shelf, and took a look in the light. Two caps had leaked brownish capacitor gunk over themselves, and 11...

AC97 is nothing more than an I/O specification for a sound chip (e.g. RealTek, Via Envoy, Crystal Audio...). You can use any chip you want, as long as, for example, pin #30 - 46 on that chip output a 16-bit 48kHz PCM stream. The upsample to downsample deal is a lot like trying to add quality...

Bad thing about AC97 audio: Part of the spec is an internal resample to 48kHz, even for samples which are already 48kHz, then a downsample to 44.1kHz for standard analog output. I know AC97 is good enough for a lot of people, but working in the same school of thought as "don't recompress MPEG2...

Ah yes, the pasttime of the IT worker: "My users so stupid..." White collar equivalent to "Yo' mamma so fat", but at times far more amusing. My users so stupid, I had a helpdesk call for a broken PC during a blackout. I've had worse, but frankly if I think about it too much I have to repress...

No offense intended, DB, for someone of south-Asian genotype and an Aussie upbringing, you're probably the biggest redneck here. :D

Received chip. Haven't gotten board yet. If you'd like I'll review the box it came in. :D

A start in the right direction. Better than a sharp blow to the head.

You forgot a few, jtr: One is an issue of climate. When I was in college I knew a guy from Florida who swore up and down that midwesterners eat to entertain themselves because they can't go outside all winter. Ever since I've observed that, and there seems to be some truth to it. One of the...

While we're discussing writers: No one has brought up fool's poetry, which is something else here that I greatly appreciate. Sad there aren't many outlets for poets in today's world.

Tannin, I'd be more than happy to be your host for a visit to my living room. We can listen to a disc that was recorded and mastered on an audiophile label, say Telarc or Chesky, for CD and SACD pressings. The audio equipment in my living room cost as much as a decent mid-size Sedan, so it's not...

I'm not committed enough to write for a living in any case. It's really frustrating that I can sit down after a really pissy exeperience and write something like the thing in the S*ny thread in maybe 5 minutes, but I can't seem to free the words for the story JoJo likes so much despite months...

Anyone here ever heard an SACD or DVDAudio disc?

That's changing too. Multichannel formats are de facto standard for movies, and increasingly common for recorded music. Two channels can't do justice to a lot of material.

My tactic for audio and DVDs is to just buy more jukeboxes. $300 gets you a nice, indexed progressive-scan changer that'll do you for 400 discs. No? Assuming you aren't some kind of freak CD-hoarder like me (I've toned it down a lot, but I have thousands of discs): Buy some nice, big CD...

Kind of an interesting thing: The authority on making slaughter less stressful and more humane is an autistic woman named Temple Grandin, who is also known for making a machine for austistics who, seriously, need hugs.

Computer I'm sitting at, right now: AthlonXP 2500 + Speeze WhisperRock cooler 512MB PC2700 (Probably Crucial) GA7VAXP 4x Samsung 160GB drives 3x Samsung 120GB drives 1x LiteOn DVD-ROM ATI Radeon 9700AIW Compucase clone of Antec Tower case 400W HEC PSU Windows 2000 Server SB Live 5.1 + HoonTech...

I recommend flame and urine.

Uh, sorry? I don't know why I wrote it that way.

Apparently, Sony actually repairs the original drive, rather than immediately sending a replacement. Hence the 6-week wait. That plus the plastic-coated blackened metal scraps were kicked onto some nearby train tracks... I think I can now give Coug a run in the "getting mad at hardware"...

I have nothing bad to say about the Jewish people, but no matter what mainstream messianic cult you belong to, the Israelis and everyone else in that region need to work out their differences, and our meddling and our foreign need to stop until they do. I think anyone with strong religious...

Er, that's OK for something that doesn't cycle a whole lot, but aren't those cards thought to be limited to just a few thousand rewrites?

I wasn't kidding about any of it. I don't think I've ever been that mad about anything related to computers in my life as I am about that. Sony returned that drive to me "with the remainder of its manufacturer's warranty", which ended January 17th, one day after it was shipped from their repair...

Which input? You mean like from VCRs or something?

We shall begin the Reading at Mercutio 6: verses 4 - 9, 12 - 17 4. And so, six weeks after I shipped out my Sony DRU-500AX, a replacement was delivered unto me. 5. And verily, did I install it in my Windows 2000 Server Computer. And in my haste, I chafed as it "Found New Hardware", I yearned...

It's good to have to watch my step for sock puppet leavings again. :D Welcome home, Tea.

My father's side is good, but the fact that my maternal grandfather, who was a healthy, athletic man, died at 46 is highly bothersome. That and I can't claim I do anything to take care of myself.

Lieberman and Arlen Spector need to switch parties.

I live in the Midwestern US. Fresh fish for me is an oxymoron.

I dunno, but if I could shoehorn a baby grand into my living area, I'd probably have to build a couple PCs into it to make it fit.

Good boards, but they cost too much for what they are. They need to be in line with Epox, and they aren't.

No heat in my office today. Typing with gloves on is fun and not as hard as I expected. bg: I've asked several times if I should continue writing her. She always says that I should. If she said no I would certainly obey that wish as well. As for setting my feelings aside, I really don't know...

Amy is a very attractive woman. Very athletic with waist-length chestnut hair. She was smart enough to get into med school and to do well there (although, I understand that she quit to be closer to her girlfriend). She put up with my faults; she fought to overcome them. She'd drink whiskey and...

Congratulations to your mother, jtr. ... and this folds back neatly into the whole Dean thread thing. I'm 28 years old. I personally probably won't live until I'm in my 60s, but as a matter of principle, I don't have an problems with the fact that when (if) I reach that age, Social Security...

There's also a lot more exposition in the extended edition, and for me, the highest-end possible DTS-ES soundtracks are reason enough to put down the cash for the extended versions.

The shame of it is, this is not behind me. I don't feel any differently than I did three years ago. I don't know how she feels. We had a brief conversation a few days after my birthday, but my calls have been unwelcome for some time - I think at her GF's request (who is a militant-type), and I...

Dear jtr: Bite me. Thank you. That is all.

I feel your pain.

Sysinternals makes a utility to do that, and I think there are Linux-based tools to do the same thing. PM me if you need more info.

Bill, there is NO PERSON who is posting in this thread who can make the claim of objective evaluation of George W. AssMonkey. The fact is, that man has been as polarizing a character as has been presented on the world stage since - and I do not believe I'm engaging in my usual hyperbole - Adolph...

Every year there's are polls where high school graduates are asked to, say, find Canada on a map, and some percentage of them can't do it. I'm five years done with college where I had 6 semesters of math classes and six semesters of German. I don't remember THAT much from either. In 6th grade I...

Meh. On that front I'll freely admit to being lazy. And also risk-averse. flagreen, have you looked into Paul O'Neill's book yet? I haven't, but I understand it's highly unflattering to your guy.

Should be able to do it on the fly.

Packet size + overhead, probably. You can probably do some quick and dirty tests to see what's right for you. I suspect 9k = 9014 in this case, but setting things to 9k or 9014 vs. setting them to 4k or 4088, then running a timed test of a large file transfer is going to tell you for sure what's...

Because at some level we as a nation don't want to see the result of failure to take that responsibility. Can you imagine the sheer number of 70-year-olds who wouldn't have anything once their savings ran out. What would the impact of their poor decision making be? Would they go live with their...

It's a Windows 2000AS key. Yes, it's valid.