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  1. Mercutio

    Quick question: easiest imaging software for instanty backup

    That would certainly work. One of my early consulting jobs involving Win2000, I tried doing dfs to keep a couple of servers up-to-date for around 6GB worth of files. It... did not work the way I had hoped it would.
  2. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    I thought there might be something simple I've just missed somehow. These things that you all have suggested are not simple. I don't really have an analogy or anything, but things - join a club, take a trip whatever - might be simple to someone else but they are not things that I am capable of...
  3. Mercutio

    So, um, where is everyone?

    48kbit is already a huge improvement. I can download porno again! I will be getting broadband. DSL is a possibility, just not a very good one, since I'd have to pay for a phone line I wouldn't use (I can get DSL without a voice line in place... they'd just make up for it with extra fees that...
  4. Mercutio

    So, um, where is everyone?

    Congratulations are of course due to the JoJo, who has found a job more in line with his professional interests. Yes Tannin, I moved again. To a house that I purchased. One where I can theoretically get broadband service, even. I'm proud of myself, because today I found my kitchen table, which...
  5. Mercutio

    2004 Superbowl predicition!

    Yet another way sport could be made better: Have several of the more mutually exclusive ones happen in the same place at the same time. e.g. Basketball + Hockey Golf + Motocross + Blindfolded Skeet Shooting Track & Field + NASCAR Marathon + Monster Truck Rally Figure Skating + Olympic Diving...
  6. Mercutio

    Quick question: easiest imaging software for instanty backup

    dfs is awful for creating extra replication traffic, and requires 2000 Server machines to handle that replication. It works OK for a few hundred MB of data but even on a LAN you don't want to push into GBs of data.
  7. Mercutio

    LBA48 and linux file serving... how much trouble?

    With RedHat 7.x (I think I had 7.3) and RH8 I've had no problems with ext2/3 and 160GB drives. There's a patch - akin to drive overlay software - to allow LBA48 drives on hardware that doesn't natively support it. My understanding is that it can cause data corruption. But if your hardware is...
  8. Mercutio

    LBA48 and linux file serving... how much trouble?

    With RedHat 7.x (I think I had 7.3) and RH8 I've had no problems with ext2/3 and 160GB drives. There's a patch - akin to drive overlay software - to allow LBA48 drives on hardware that doesn't natively support it. My understanding is that it can cause data corruption. But if your hardware is...
  9. Mercutio

    2004 Superbowl predicition!

    Since he's the one in the 2,000lb. race car and the teams you named are just a bunch of pansies in 40lbs. of plastic armor, I'd say his chances are pretty good.
  10. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    I can't live my life on the internet. I'm really not functional anyplace else. I am otherwise convinced, after a lifetime of events, that almost nothing I do for myself has any impact on the outcome of my life. You can't will life to be different - you can't choose the path; it's chosen for...
  11. Mercutio

    2004 Superbowl predicition!

    Mario Andretti?
  12. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    I know myself well enough to say. This is the part where I say that I more-or-less know what's going to happen to me for the rest of my life, so why even bother? This is a very difficult thing to explain. I suppose I should just leave well enough alone.
  13. Mercutio

    2004 Superbowl predicition!

    Manchester United?
  14. Mercutio

    So, um, where is everyone?

    I'm back! Life of the party and all! No? Depressed mofo maybe? Hey, I'm only using one modem and my connection is 48k. w00t!
  15. Mercutio

    Sony DriveCheck

    One of my Sony Burners continually gives "Could Not Perform Fixation" errors in Nero, and seems to make a lot of noise. Sony offers a tool to determine if your drive needs to be RMA'd.
  16. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    I can't imagine doing anything like that. I mean that in a literal sense. Pretending for a moment that I tripped over a phone and dialled the exact, proper sequence of numbers that I ended up with tickets to some faraway place, I can't imagine how I would occupy myself for that period of time...
  17. Mercutio

    More than corn in Indiana

    Remember to vote!
  18. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    One place is basically as good as any other. At one time there were some roots related to schools and so forth. You're right that I could leave if I wanted, but there's no place I particularly want to go, either.
  19. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    In my adult life, never. Every once in awhile, before I started the training thing, I'd get a few weeks off between jobs. Those times drove me nuts because I needed to look for more work. To me, all a vacation would be is the opportunity to drive somewhere (or fly, I suppose, but seeing as...
  20. Mercutio

    More than corn in Indiana

    Are you a regular visitor there, Fushigi?
  21. Mercutio

    [news] - XBIT - Ten DVD-Burners Roundup

    MovieFactory is OK but it does weird things with native MPEG2 clips. e.g.: I have two movies in MPEG2 format, each around 80 minutes long, that occupy a total of just under 4GB of space. Ideally, I should just be able to add them to the project, make menus and write the disc. So I check the...
  22. Mercutio

    Call Center outsourcing: The fallout begins

    Wow. I guess their call centers aren't so different from ours. ;)
  23. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    I've not forgotten this thread. The truth is, I really don't have hobbies any more. I used to be a musician of sorts - a singer and a pianist - but my training and interest don't mesh well with doing those things in public - but I've had lots of souring experiences with doing that. Plus being...
  24. Mercutio

    Quick question: easiest imaging software for instanty backup

    Both drives would be bootable, but it was my understanding that Tea's backup drive wouldn't be living on the same machine that was being backed up....
  25. Mercutio

    Quick question: easiest imaging software for instanty backup

    There are two stumbling blocks here: One is that Ms. Hairy Aussie wants essentially RAID1 over a network. To the best of my ability to determine, that ain't gonna happen. Most backup or imaging software wants to back up to an image file format of some sort (stumble), and most network backup...
  26. Mercutio

    More than corn in Indiana

    That would be the "Freestyle" section (and the pay area if you're so inclined). Go there and vote for my entry (it's easy to recognize).
  27. Mercutio

    Sony U10A deal - $165

    I have one of those. It's utterly identical to the LiteOn-branded multiformat burner. The Sony drive and the Pioneer multiformat unit (a06?) are basically neck and neck, with the Sony being a better CD burner and the Pioneer being generally faster for ripping (CD/DVDs).
  28. Mercutio

    The SCO Debacle

    Well, I most assuredly suck.
  29. Mercutio

    The SCO Debacle

    [url=http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/25/if_you_were_sco_where_would_you_host_your_investor_relations_site.htmlWell this is mildly amusing.[/url].
  30. Mercutio

    Incredibly bad online shopping experience

    Googlegear pissed me off supremely. I got obnoxious error messages when trying to place an order. I decided their web site was broken. I called their customer service number. Got a bored-sounding woman who really made it seem like she resented the intrusion on her day. Her first response...
  31. Mercutio

    Sony U10A deal - $165

    Linkage.
  32. Mercutio

    Antique SCSI transfer modes

    Wide SCSI will work. My Sparc 20 flew with a FW 9GB Cheetah installed.
  33. Mercutio

    SODIMM's for the poor

    Seriously, if I find it, you can have it. I have 25 or 30 20-gallon tubs that're nothing but computer parts and cables and stuff. I just *sold* nine computers. You'd think I'd have *less* of that stuff.
  34. Mercutio

    [news] - XBIT - Ten DVD-Burners Roundup

    As a rule: DVD-R > DVD +R > DVD-RW > DVD+RW ...with ranges from 95% of current DVD-ROM mechanisms supporting DVD-R down to 80something% for DVD+RW. Historically (comparing DVD-writable media to all DVD readers that have ever been made), compatibility isn't quite so good as that (topping out...
  35. Mercutio

    Chevy Cavalier 2004 (or 2003) : good car?

    GM product. Case closed. :P
  36. Mercutio

    Moving (Sucks)

    1. Link 2. Didja hear about the australian woman who blew a .41 when she got pulled over last week? Set a world record. Most Drunk without being dead (female). I imagine y'all can probably find a link to that one on your own.
  37. Mercutio

    Buying a LCD in the next day and need advice

    The "normal" burn-in problem basically comes from continuous lighting of the phosphors in the screen elements of a CRT. Plasma displays (where plasma gases are locally excited to produce an image) DO have serious burn-in problems, as do CRT-based projection displays. LCDs can have a burn-in...
  38. Mercutio

    Quick question: best Gforce FX5900 card

    "Golden showers" are something that I'd normally associate with nvidia cards. Who knew that's what manufacturer's think, too?
  39. Mercutio

    Quick question: easiest imaging software for instanty backup

    You want Acronis TrueImage. Everything else, you have to boot to not-Windows to actually make the image. TrueImage works while you're using Windows and can do a complete backup, including locked files, apparently (I've never tried using it that way).
  40. Mercutio

    Moving (Sucks)

    grumble grumble. Laptop is out of power. Can't find AC cable. grumble grumble. Desktop computers mostly OK. Can't find modems. grumble grumble.
  41. Mercutio

    Moving (Sucks)

    First night in new home. I'll be sleeping on a bare mattress since my sheets got filthy from the move. Connected to MSN on some kind of trial disk that happened to be at the top of a box. My ISP isn't a local call. :( My cats are terrified. They've never had stairs before. Weather has been...
  42. Mercutio

    Writing something

    Methinks you'd have the beer regardless. Ah well. I hope it's cold and tasty.
  43. Mercutio

    SODIMM's for the poor

    I have one. Somewhere. Works in every IBM P3 laptop I've tried it in. Viking brand. Of course, everything I own is in a box in my garage right now.
  44. Mercutio

    Scsi DVD to Scsi Cd-writer program for copying DVD's?

    Pinnacle makes just such a program. It's basically the first thing you see on their website. I'm too lazy to link. Your other alternative is to rip your DVDs with DVD Decrypter or Smartripper and then run the VOB files through vdubmod to get nice divx backups (or to use a program like...
  45. Mercutio

    Dig it Daddy-o....

    I dunno, but I think you picked the wrong week to go off your medication. :)
  46. Mercutio

    Sobig.F

    My customers are behind the times. I'm still getting assloads of calls about LOVESAN. :(
  47. Mercutio

    people who;

    For someone writing a personals ad in the London Review of Books, he isn't much of an intellectual, is he?
  48. Mercutio

    Writing something

    I'm moving this weekend, LiamC. As in "I will be dwelling in my new house as of Monday night". I don't think I'll have much time to put into writing for at least a little while.
  49. Mercutio

    [news] 939 pin chip won't be compatible with 940 CPU

    I'll wait until AMD requires new motherboard/CPU technologies to support "Even Brand New-er Socket 754 chip, now with Enhanced OptiZone Petaband Extreme Technology, to the Maxx (TM, void where prohibited)" that doesn't work with all the non-Enchanced Optizone Petaband socket 754 CPUs, and then...
  50. Mercutio

    How do people meet people?

    Alone, with someone.
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