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I reserve bile for Lexmark all-in-ones. I fully expect that all of those have "666" somewhere in their serial numbers. But, OK, all in ones have drivers as bad as scanners. Very possibly worse. Of course, the law of crappy scanner-ness + Mercutio's Inkjet Trashheap Axiom = a singularity of...

Tea takes pictures of birds and wallabys and dingos and whatever else they have down there in Kangaroo-land. I take pictures of strippers. 8D I've found a few places to host my pictures. Some on a commercial site which has lots of pics, not all of them mine, from the event. I think Clocker...

... and an example of a well written scanner driver would be??? In my experience, scanner drivers suck universally in ways that nothing else does.

I'd be frightened to move that card out to another machine but if it's ISA and you've got ISA slots on your 400MHz PC, it should in theory work with only the the change of some jumpers. I've had lousy, LOUSY luck trying to put MFM/RLL drives in anything faster than a 486 (granted, it's only come...

I'd be frightened to move that card out to another machine but if it's ISA and you've got ISA slots on your 400MHz PC, it should in theory work with only the the change of some jumpers. I've had lousy, LOUSY luck trying to put MFM/RLL drives in anything faster than a 486 (granted, it's only come...

While I had mine up, I had it stuck in a deep shadowbox/picture frame thing I found at "Hobby Lobby". I cut the top edge off so the antenna and cat5 cable would be unobstructed but I stuck a photograph on the front. If you were really paying attention you might notice the antenna sticking out of...

It's not as likely to come up as it was two years ago, but they'll either want all Cell phones or a 5GHz cordless. 900MHz-anything is worthless in high-density living areas.

The property is tax-abated until 2005. In 2006 I'll pay 33% of full value, in 2007 I'll pay 66%. Believe me I already thought of that one.

It's been FAR too long, mubs. Good to see you back here again. Which are the interior walls (since you'll have to make at least one drop to the AP)? Since these are laptops that'll probably be used elsewhere beside this dwelling, I think in this case 802.11a is out. "A" is IMO the technically...

Turns out that Ghost was fudging partition sizes. I looked at the four drives in the same system and noticed that the two partitons on each disk varied in size by up to 2MB. I don't know why or how that could happen. I might've spectulated drive geometry but these are identical drives.

I've seen fairly new no-name scanners that only have 16-bit TWAIN drivers. I think you're on to something Handruin.

If you've got an open ISA slot and a studly understanding of DOS, you can probably slap in a 3C509 and make yourself a LAN Manager client boot disk. Also, if you have DOS 6 on your old guy, I think the protocol for Win98's Direct Cable Connection" is the same as the one used by the DOS...

What you want is a null-modem cable, and some kind of terminal program, like Telix (if it'll fit on a floppy. If not, there's always Kermit). You have Hyperterminal on the other side, and both programs IIRC offer something that'll allow for serial-line file transfers. The only other thing...

Google "Roselawn Indiana Ponderosa" if you have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about. Direct Linking would get me in trouble. :D

My brothers hijacked me for a trip to Roselawn, Indiana today. I didn't have my camera - they didn't tell me where we were going - but I've got like 200MB of pictures using their (less nice than mine) cameras of... things that happen on the third Sunday in August in Roselawn Indiana. These are...

My first lesson as a homeowner: Liquid Skin (bandage replacement stuff) stains the crap out of linoleum. My second lesson as a homeowner: It is not intelligent to try to spend any amount of time in an insulated attic on a 95F 90% humidity August day. My third lesson as a homeowner: Fences...

OWA is "just OK". There are still several functions that the full-featured Outlook client can handle that OWA just can't (although I can't think of any good examples at the moment, 'cause I'm nowwhere near a PC with Outlook) - seems to me that it's at least lacking in things like rule creation...

... and just to start a new argument, an experienced user of that "primitive" DOS shell could do things that as recently as OS 9, Macs STILL couldn't handle, like use wildcards in filenames. 80x24 forever! Non-plug-and-play stuff isn't really so bad. The big deal is the learning curve to...

Tea, are you feeling well?

Not again... Oh well. My office has its own bathroom. :P

w00t! I managed to get a 7810 for $121 + shipping. Now I just need a 64bit PCI slot to put it in. ;)

I'm doing the same things right now. I just got home from a 16-hour day of msblast cleanups to find a "late rent" nastygram on my door... which is funny, 'cause I had to pay 1st and last months' rent to move in, and this is my last month. Idiots. I'm trying to get my apartment down to just...

Yes.

Two different source drives. Both do the same thing. Date on a corresponding file is Aug 12, 12003.

Symantec's Support The host 198.6.49.121 could not be contacted. If this persists, you should contact the administrator of the remote site. My hatred for these bastards is quickly exceeding that of even nvidia or Western Digital. GET A SITE THAT WORKS YOU MORONS.

The software is icky. Don't use it. Icky, I tell you. That's a technical term. You should be able to get a PCI IDE disk controller whereever you bought the hard disk. Promise is just a popular brand.

It hits dialup users, too, so it can't always be that simple. I've had about 20 calls on it now... Also, doing this via phone support, telling someone to pull a plug on the back of a computer is a recipe for immense amounts of pain. Deleting msblast.exe does seem to solve the immediate problem...

zx, if you've got a domain controller or netware login, there's no excuse for not having the patch install itself from a login script. Cripes. News about this security problem made CNN and stuff.

CC'd from what I sent my coworkers: The Blaster worm is the latest in a long line of obnoxious worms that attack basic services on Windows computers, specifically in this case the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service used to allow networked computers to execute programs remotely on Windows PCs...

Errr... There are NTFS partitions involved here. DOS is "7.1" (Win98). Ghost 7.5 sees NTFS 5.1 (XP NTFS) just fine, so that shouldn't be a problem.

The source drives are fine. All the drives check OK with powermax.

Ghost 7.5 Enterprise. 4 Maxtor 15GB drives: two source drive, two that are blank. These are identical disks. Contiguous serial numbers. Two partitions on the source disk, one with Win98, the other WinXP (not participating in a domain, but the end result will be) Default Disk to disk cloning...

As long as you're bringing it up, hfnetchk.exe is probably that package's most useful tool. It batch queries Windows machines for version numbers on most Microsoft software, so you can see what patches need to be installed where.

I've had four calls already today. In fact, I'm on the phone RIGHT NOW dealing with one. Talking on two phones (desk and cell) + typing is fun. XP: You boot up, get an error about NT Authority and RPC services and then 30 seconds later, your machine shuts down. 2000 isn't quite that so...

My Yamaha SCSI drives were really nice. I just got to a point where I couldn't justify the cost of four 32x ATAPI drives for one 16x SCSI.

You motherboard probably won't be able to boot off a drive that big. You may want to buy a Promise IDE controller at the same time. That'll probably add $25 to purchase price.

Pioneer has a 10x drive that doesn't suck. As much as I like SCSI optical drives, it's probably cheaper and easier to buy an IDE-to-SCSI converter or to run a drive through a USB or Firewire external bay.

Yes. Pinnacle InstantDVD will do that. PM me.

I had a morning appointment for a contracting job I'm planning to do in late September in Des Plaines, IL. On the way back to the interstate I saw someone dressed like a Stormtrooper. I stopped and gawked for a minute, noticed signs for the Chicago Comic Convention. Went in, wandered around...

On an utterly unrelated note, my ISP is having serious upstream connectivity problems, making it largely impossible to read SF at home. :( So I wasn't able to post this weekend about how cool it was to meet Kevin Smith (the guy behind "Clerks" and at least at one time, NRG's avatar), or perhaps...

Wow. cfrost's post was exactly the one I was going to make.

ISA = bad in this case. PIO mode or no, if there's lots of data passing from ISA to southbridge to northbridge to memory controller, it's generating many, many extra interrupts per second. Data rates off a DVD aren't THAT high to begin with. A 450MHz machine really isn't fast enough for...

Other than updated burner support, what would 5.5.10.42 need? It's damn near perfect.

My new place will evidently have "all the channels" DirectTV. Or, at least, I'll be able to steal (= pay for a receiver and stuff, not steal as in "theft of service") it from the guy leasing the other side of the duplex I'm moving into. To date, this is what I know I like on TV: The Sopranos...

Shortly after I moved into my original apartment (before Amy moved in with me to begin with), my apartment-provided AC caught fire the first time I switched it on (fortunately, while the apartment was mostly empty).

The students in my troubleshooting class learn that one about two seconds after "Check all the plugs".

honold pushed it quite a bit. I've used it a few times as well. Knoppix is a really slick product. SuSE 8.2 is fairly impressive as well.

In a similar situation I set up a group of three people up with a $50 100MB Yahoo mailbox. Only one of them had broadband, but all of them could understand making folders and attaching things and so on, so there wasn't much in the way of training costs.

The fact that there was a popular sitcom involving Jerry Seinfeld is a large contributing factor to my decision not to pursue gettting decent TV reception. I've never seen Friends.

Jerry Seinfeld is quite possibly the least funny person to ever live. I've had runny pustulanimous boils that have given me more boils that've been more amusing. Can you really say that sex acts that take place during the course of an adult movie are gratuitous? Really, I mean, sex in a porn...