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The way I live my life is based on regimentation. It's the only way I really have to deal with things. I can describe every day of my week in exacting detail. No drugs or alcohol - If I started with those things I don't think I could ever stop. What's the alternative to that?

I don't know what I can change to make even that small difference. Everything in my life seems to be part of a house of cards. I think if I move a piece, and it's wrong, I'll be in a far worse place. I don't want to feel the way I feel. But with close to two years and absolutely zero - and...

Meh. You two just shouldn't talk politics any more. Now I happen to think flagreen is deeply misguided, but I'm not going to say he's less of a man for not listening to the same talking heads I do. Sometimes I even think that the Republican's sky is the same blue as mine. So, um, what the F*ck...

I'm not terribly satisfied with it, and that little bit of text took more than two hours to hit a page. :( It's easier when I write for an audience of "me".

Sheet lightning rages across clear skies, followed instantly with thunder, snapping at least the organic parts of me to instinctual attention. The clouds and rain will come soon enough. RADAR and IR senses show the result of my exchange as a literal hole in atmosphere. AI calls it a 73.2%...

In the beginning, there was Mosaic. Mosaic ran on everything, and worked the same way on every OS (as nearly as I can remember, anyway). Then came Netscape, a newer browser that initially didn't work on every platform (Macintosh first, then Windows, then *nix), but featured a performance...

That's what I meant. Sorry.

I had a couple of PMs lately in which someone asked about my current state of mind. It hasn't changed. I don't know what's going to make the difference in my life. I've been thinking about that a lot, trying to come up with a combination of events that might give me some kind of relief. I...

I'm trying to write something but words aren't coming. I actually set aside time and... nothing. Poof. Argh.

80 - 110MB/s isn't all that much when you've got a 2 drive RAID0 and 1000BaseT. 32/33 PCI really is a bottleneck in higher-end performance.

Perhaps we'll end up with a good, working system like Canada's. IMO that should probably be our national model, since our elderly are already getting on buses and taking daytrips to pharmacies anyway. 20% of Americans have no healthcare. 40something million people. You don't think that's a big...

If it's a theater PC, it positively needs an nforce2 board anyway.

Dean's plan would repeal the Bush tax cuts, and most of the other candidates would either repeal them completely or at least reduce them. Clark's plan involves tax credits to defray premium costs for families, and full coverage for high school and college-age students. The coverage offered...

So exactly which rich prick would you vote for who is *not* supported by special interests? Clark's campaign is largely financed and managed by FOBs (friends of Bill). Kerry is independently wealthy by marriage. Dean isn't taking matching funds. His money can come from anywhere. We only...

Tell that to the couple million people who lost their jobs during the Bush appointment. Kinda neat how that coincides with rising corporate profits.

Ted's Mozilla Page - Home of Flash Click to View and Mouse Rocker Navigation.

That pre-supposes he was elected in the first place.

I've given money to the Dean campaign, because he elected not to take federal matching funds, but I think I like John Edwards in the national run. He seems more charismatic and holds populist positions very well. Edwards has a little baggage in a Senate Investigation of certain campaign...

Forum is unusually quiet for a weekday. How am I supposed to fill my workday anything to read on SF?

Newegg doesn't seem to sell any SiS 651-based boards... and I just got an email from them that says the board I'd ordered Friday isn't in stock right now. Oddly enough it looks in stock when I go to their page. I can either wait or pick another. <grumble grumble>

Nothing to do with the weather, just some interesting comments from that speech on a very important day for the national political process.

If you're using an onboard DAC of any kind (ie, an analog output), you're subjecting your output to the predations of gobs and gobs of EMI. Hence, crappiness. Digital output to an external decoder - a receiver, basically, makes everything better. PC speakers, even fairly high-end ones like...

It *is* a big deal, because it WILL lead to wider proliferation of multichannel audio setups. Just... really crappy ones. Still, as multichannel hardware becomes more common, more and more people will be interested in true multichannel content, like the SACDs I like so much, or perhaps more...

I think I like the 3.5 Beta better than the 3.1 series. The new ones don't do selectable compression the same way as the older ones. :(

Not really. Mostly it's a convienence factor. I guess you might manage to improve performance by mounting an important directory on a different, faster drive or something...

You may have a bad antenna. I've had that problem before. Also, try moving to channel 11 if possible. It doesn't overlap with cordless phones.

No.

GNU's fdisk isn't bad, nor Disk Druid (another OSS tool). diskpart.exe accesses the same APIs as Windows' Disk Management, and can be made to do a few things the graphical tool can't, like extend partitions on basic disks.

Gods yes. You could move dozens of those little bitty MP3 streams around before you'd notice any difference.

... and thereafter begins to render them in an initially incorrect fashion, causing those same page objects to jump around the page like hyperactive epileptics, before coming to a stop in the correct locations that Moz and IE would already have determined. Could be, although I only used...

There's a 6:00AM on Sunday?

Large, but oddly apropos cartoon on this subject

I have a few 7VT600s in service and 52 7S748s (the motherboards my boss purchased for our labs). The boards are functionally identical and the experience of using them from a technician's perspective was more-or-less identical, as it is with every other gigabyte board. I am not a SiS fan by any...

Stop button: It's enabled for me in Firebird if there are any animations playing on a page. When the animations stop, it's disabled. That's fine. I'm also quite happy that it has a consistent location; with Opera, if I ever had a CHANCE to click it, I'd have to remember which button it was...

Ebay does have an arbitration system but sellers and buyers are strongly encouraged not to use it. I've complained to ebay several dozen times for fraudulent auctions and shill bidding. I've never seen any action taken. I doubt they'll do much for you either.

Day 1, hour 8: Every once in awhile the cursor goes off in the weeks and I have to TAB it back to where I wanted. Not sure why. Scroll wheel: In firebird I go into about: config and set it to move 1 screen at a time. Opera doesn't seem to do this. Lots of wheel movement, just like IE, to scroll...

Day 1, Hour 7: The squamous close tab "x" is WAY too close to the regular Windows Close button. I have now closed Opera twice when I meant to close a tab. Good thing Opera has all those recovery features. Apparently the "Stop" button on the main toolbar flashes for about 1/2 second when I click...

There have been at least two stories on /. on that very topic, and one on an individual selling capacitor replacement kits as well as offering resoldering service. This *is* an epedemic, and it'll probably take some time to resolve itself. A couple years ago I actually had a cap explode off an...

Day 1, minute 5: I have installed Opera 7.23. The default skin looks like blue-on-gray plastic. Quickly switched to "text only" buttons, to save eyesight, sanity. Day 1, minute 11: Still can't find a "stop" button. Day 1, minute 14: Elements on page keep moving around as page is rendered. This...

In my experience, SiS has made a lot of chips that would've done better in a landfill than a motherboard. My memory stretches back to 386 and 486 machines, but even so its rise from the muck is a VERY recent event, and I am not yet inclined to trust that current SiS chipsets aren't just a case...

Please don't joke about that, David. I make acerbic and witty comments from time to time but for that one matter the jokes cut a little too close. I can't really write about it, but I was with someone for 12 years, and even now there is nothing I would like to do but make her happy. Only, I...

I like Gigabyte. No SiS in Gigabyte's 754 lineup. Which is OK. I'm wary of SiS-based boards anyway. I'm disappointed that Soundstorm isn't available for nforce3, which would've broken a tie between a Via and an nForce3 board (they're functionally indentical) but as it was I flipped a coin. If...

I won't have the parts for a week. :(

Done. Bought a GAK8N nforce3 board and a retail 64/3000. I'm downloading XP 64-bit for Extended Editions from MSDN right now.

That's only two sentences. Hint: count the periods.

Dude, I slept in the same bed with a woman for four years and never technically got to do that. What makes you think I'm going to get it now? No, I'm not kidding.

To continue this debate, I am the process of pirating Opera 7.23. I will use it for the next couple days and, after washing the heathen code from the sacrificial DM9+ and properly annointing it with pr0n, will report on how much I continue to hate it.

Novell didn't *have* to indemnify SuSE customers at all, but it did. It got a lot of positive press for doing so. So to re-phrase, was this a positive PR move, or was there a serious need to reassure SuSE/Novell customers?

I know the first exam looks dead simple. I have study materials I can email you. Are you still at the same address?

I used my large gym contraption for about a month, then the central tension cable that attaches to the weights snapped, knocking me on my ass. It's apparently not repairable without a great deal more mechanical skill than I have, so now I use it to hang my coat and various computer parts. I...