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If that is the case, then I am disgusted beyond words.

IBM isn't the company of the monopoly any more. They haven't been for a long time. I've worked with/for IBM's service division, and the truth is, that group will work with whatever you put in front of it, as long as you pay your bill. On the hardware side, IBM's PC servers traditionally ran...

Title says it all. Two of the Walgreens in my area (both the ones I've been in today) have 15-packs of 4x DVD+R discs for $32. You can get 4x discs cheaper in bulk, but they usually cost $2 apiece in small quantities, without shipping charges, so this is a pretty good deal.

Most distributions have shell scripts to change your window manager.

Well, after the ether binging and all the mescaline, we usually go looking for hookers. Once we're good and drunk, we fight over whose turn it is to give The Giver a bath. We pal around with our celebrity hangers-on and the hookers, snort record cleaner, make threatening, vaguely-coherent phone...

Whoops. That was directed at Howell. i's post wasn't there when I started. :(

Dear you, You suck. Thank you for your attention in this matter, Mercutio :)

Just today I managed to clear a space in my garage large enough to park a car. The more of this I do the less comfortable I am at the whole "owning a home" thing.

i's eye icon is freaking mubs out. I don't blame him. Eye-things creep me out, too. Someone even talking about contacts is enough to make my eyes water.

It's one thing to do it on an end-point network. There' blocking ping can enhance the security of your LAN. It's another thing completely if you're acting as the service provider for anyone else. I'd hate to have to troubleshoot a connectivity problem without access to basic tools like...

From anecdotal posts on /. from people who usually know what they're talking about, ReiserFS has a couple of scenarios where it will absolutely sh!t itself and kill your filesystem, and that the developers acknowledge those problems with no immediate plans for fixing them. I can also say that...

...as if anyone would want to listen to the president.

The bond between people and their animals is a sacred one. They trust us to care for them, to feed them and keep them safe. In return they give us the reward of their companionship. We learn, without any words, to communicate with our friends, to be sensitive to their body language and the...

I was sort-of hoping somone who isn't me would do the poll. Thanks Jake.

Not for SFC. It just asks for a CD and tells you to reboot when its done. I don't even think it puts anything in the event logs.

You seem to be mistaking marketing and WD's strong Sales Force for decent products. WD has pretty much always won Computer Shopper magazine's consumer choice awards, again because it's the only one of the HDD companies that really does marketing work. I could get people to demand more herpes if...

This from a man who, two years ago, swore up and down that hard disks were ridiculously large. It only takes one data-consuming hobby to make 80GB into "a good days' work". Is this 72GB drive just due to extra platter count or did WD up areal density significantly? And why isn't a decent...

I'd put my money on dead burner. SCSI resets were among the symptoms my 8x Yamaha burners exhibited before they died.

Terms are 18 months. Mine in effect started in March of 2002 and ended at the end of August. At present there is one mod in the US and one in Oz, so time shouldn't be much of a consideration. James hasn't been by in quite some time. Standard practice will be to have a poll.

I have a nice mix of everything. Some USB2, some Firewire, some both. If you were in the US, I'd suggest looking at the ones that compgeeks.com carries, 'cause they're cheap and nicer than the "brand name" ADS kits I have. It's frequently faster for me to move an entire hard disk than it is to...

Not too long ago I ran into a site that was basically a repository of x86 Operating System installers. Stuff like Windows 1.0, DOS 2.1, CP/M and quite a few things that were obscure enough that I couldn't immediately place them. I read this thead and immediately thought of that site, but alas...

Reinstalling TCP/IP didn't fix it, but doing an SFC seems to have done it. I really despise the fact that I have no idea what happened or how it was fixed.

Event Viewer brings up that same error message and there's a bunch of crap its printer (lexmark POS) threw in there (in the system log, go figure) but everything else looks normal.

Yup.

This needs to move forward.

Pro. The bit about accounts being locked and enabled and stuff would be the tip in this case.

XP SP1a. Windows 2000 Server. This machine is just like every other XP computer in the building. Gets all info from the same DHCP server. It authenticates just fine. It's just that it throws this error when I try to access (or map) shared resources. I've done ipconfig /flushdns, release &...

Some people just shouldn't have money.

"perfect screen image" - the ability to display full 24-bit color (lots of blues and purples look black on an LCD), minus the screen refresh, minus decent brightness...

My DVD Burners are all in external enclosures. I burn lots of DVDs and I've used every burning program I can find with no problem. The one thing I will tell you is that every generic (not sealed) enclosure I've used has had a really crummy fan in it. The enclosures are frequently louder than...

If I had to guess, probably 90% of all the LCDs I've seen have used the analog VGA connector anyway. I don't think flat panels are common enough to warrant that their connector be included on, well, anything, really. I'll even go so far as to say I'm annoyed that there's a DVI connector on my...

I'm thinking ahead more than anything else. I don't want my customers to be hating me in 18 months when they upgrade the drive in their PCs because they had to pay $5 extra that you KNOW the local shops will charge for the stupid power converter thingy.

I prefer to sell my customers hardware that stands a good chance of having at least one birthday, Buck.

I have the very similar DJ932 (seems to be the same printing "engine", but uses different carts). I don't refill myself, but I have used refilled #45 cartridges without any problem. Inkjets are a scam. Period. Still, it costs me $600 to fill my Textronics 850DP with crayons, and I pay $400 a...

How about for the less-expensive cases I might actually sell to a customer interested in a $500 - $600 PC? PCP&C and SuperMicro are things I might buy for myself but I don't think I could squeeze them in to the cost of an average build.

Yes. That.

Does anyone know of a case that has builtin SATA power connectors?

While I'm at it, like a lot of "stupid user-ness", a broken workgroup printer is like a 3 alarm fire, while backups that aren't completing or being done at all don't even rate an alarm.

In point of fact, a $5000 server is almost always out of reach for a business with less than ~ 25 employees. There's a reason Dell sells $500 PowerEdge machines as well as $5000 ones.

Tapes are of course utterly impractical for home use. Affordability is getting to be a major concern for small business, too. A $1000 AIT setup is just this side of ridiculous for a small business with other pressing IT needs, like a color laser printer, up to date computers or user training needs.

Yes, there is. I moved one of my co-workers' PCs into an Antec case with a locking front (performance series IIRC) not too long ago.

Classical music. Something that, to the best of my knowledge, there are no clubs for. If there were, they would be populated with a greying audience. From the rare times I attended concerts, I can tell you that the average audience ages was well into its 60s. I don't perform any more because...

No link. The brand was Kogi. I saw a 17" NEC .26dp 400nits at Sam's Club for $289 on Sunday.

I think the situation is much like the one with 1.44MB floppy disks. My ancient ($4 apiece) 1.44MB floppies are still readable, but I can reasonably expect to throw away half of a new box within a month. By the same token, the oldest CD-Rs I have (1996-ish) are still readable, or were the last...

I note that Amazon has low-end 14" LCDs on special for $150 right now, and I'm seeing low-end 17"s at around $300. Looks like LCD displays are finally reaching mainstream price points. Hopefully the slightly higher-end models will hit those prices by the holiday season.

jtr, when was the last time that crime rates in NYC actually went up? One of the things that I wanted to get to in the "Bowling for Columbine" thread that I tried to start was the idea that a great deal of our fear comes from poor habits by those who create the news stories we hear. Remember...

The current mods are Howell/Cliptin and Jake the Dog. Santilli and P5_133XL also have access to moderator-type discussions. By the rules that are currently in place, I cannot continue as a mod.

Well, since JamesW isn't here to do anything about it, I thought I'd remind everyone that my time-limited term as a moderator has ended. This means that it's time for me to turn in my gun and badge. Nominations?

You talk about most stupid case ever, yet you do not mention the NEC "upside down" tower cases of the mid-90s, so you are clearly misguided. Nothing like having to take EVERY SINGLE PART out of a case to get to the screws on the CD-ROM drive...