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The sub-56k crowd is not happy.

You can take it out completely with msconfig, and de-install it (sorta) by killing the appropriate registry key. I'll check which key when I get to work and to an XP machine.

Weird. The new and otherwise decent 624 (G router/AP) doesn't do it, and I can remember it not being there on at least one model of B router/AP as well.

I know what you mean. The biggest curse of all, come moving day, is the book collection. Since I read a lot, I know this one all too well. Books are heavy, but you feel like a pansy if you can't carry big ol' boxes of them. After all, they're just books, right? Computer parts are very nearly...

The kernel would be the least of your worries. Really a very simple deal. Upgrading gcc is where the fun is. In general you can get to the same place. You'll orphaned files sitting around that you aren't using any more. No big deal. You may also have to re-write the odd config file. All in all...

It's all original footage. The costumes (even the aliens) were made by hand, by the director. The whole thing was shot for a budget of $30,000(!!!). Everything was done live, no CG, no models, no nothin'. Like I said, cool beyond words. Can somebody summarize Groltz's link for me now that I'm...

It's Quicktime, which is of course one of the pillars of evil in the universe, but DAMN is this cool. I love comic books. It's amazing to see Batman portrayed so faithfully.

I note that absolutely none of the multi-band or A stuff is on sale. Too bad. As an aside, the Linksys routers have some features that Dlink doesn't, like support for DHCP client reservations and firmware ZoneAlarm. I'm still not a big advocate of the home router thing, but when I use them I'd...

Tab behavior is a little different than you're used to. CTRL-TAB moves among the tabs (or CTRL-SHIFT-TAB to go the other way). There is a preference that makes the tab area always visible, even with only one tab. There's a rightclick close-all-tabs option. The controls on the upper part of the...

This is why I can't understand why people in the USA who are making $6/hour who use economic incentives to justify voting republican. Somebody says "I don't believe in abortion, I want school prayer, and so do republicans." That I can believe. But a lot of republicans I've met are nowhere near...

You're an engineer and you bought a calculator that isn't an HP? Are you sure you're an engineer? :)

If it makes you feel better, C, for as long as there's been manufacturing there have been moving factories to lower labor costs and factory workers complaining about lower quality in country X. Eventually all the manufacturing in the world will devolve to the poorest town in Ethiopia or...

Ack! Huge .sig. It's nothing but short-sightedness. Contract employees show up differently on a balance sheet. Contractors from the US are hugely expensive, but contract workers from outside the US are cheap AND don't show up on the balance sheet as employees. Problem solved. Honestly, there's...

Don't knock the newegg.com CD-R brand of choice. They're really not bad discs. I probably have three or four hundred of them. Didn't have a problem on a single one. My failure rate for zip media was about 1 in 3, though.

I am very angry about the whole affair. Of course, I've been angry about it since before it started, but it really pisses me off that Colin Powell held up pictures of moving trucks - and that was the best evidence presented - and whole swathes of my countrymen fell for it. It disgusts me. All...

WD Hard disk + Iomega ZIP + 75GXP = hilarity ensues.

Howell, is there a reason I'm getting a login prompt for Cayman-DSL at www.whstrain.us whenever I view a thread you've posted in? Did you just change your avatar or something?

Well, I don't pay much attention to Windows product pages at microsoft.com, but I did notice this. By-and-large looks like a drop-in replacement for *nix in NAS devices, but I do notice some interesting stuff about iSCSI support and data recovery by restore points (like XP's restore point stuff).

Browsing Liteon's site for no good reason. Ran across [rul=http://www.liteonit.com/liteweb/lvd_2001.htm]this[/url]. Reading the blurb it indicates video upsampling and support for Hardware MPEG-4 (doesn't say which codec. One assumes MS MPEG-4 and/or Divx).

I just buy enough UPSes to make the outages less noticeable. I really don't notice outages shorter than 15 minutes or so. My apartment complex seems to be having a lot of them recently. Woke up this morning to no power, mostly (a couple of PCs made it, but beepbeepbeep bloody murder. Surprised...

Ah yes, Purdue University. Where the weekend starts at 1:17PM on Tuesday afternoon. I saw the same thing when I was there. Most especially my fourth year there. The first three years I lived with the same people. It wasn't that we were friends per se but we recognized that we were highly...

Sigh. Parody on amihotornot. Something I thought everyone had seen.

After much debate with my invisible sock puppet, I place this in the P&B. Gentlemen and Apes, I give you amibiosornot. Bonus points for actually being able to ID 'em.

I believe it's a smallish presentation display. A TV without a tuner and with some more-interesting-than-usual connectors on the back.

The world's bestest pr0n distribution system.

10 whole minutes I spend writing about the Giver's bathing habits and this is the thanks I get. :(

Oh yeah. Download Links: Office 2000 (9MB) Office XP. (11.5MB)

This really scratched an itch for me. Basically, with a profile in place, users don't get asked for an office install CD, which is one of my personal pet peeves as a support-type person.

Should I keep going?

It took my cats about a year or year and a half. Now they're just mildly inquisitive, but no longer feel the need to chew on cables, play with reset buttons or knock things off of shelves (e.g. speakers, printers) in the search for more "lay out in the sun" room.

Really, you're going to have to break down and JPG2TXT your posts. I can't enjoy them, otherwise. :(

Unfortunately not. It's built on a concrete slab.

T'would appear that The JoJo has inspired you, fool. Marvelously done.

I’m only given an instant to “myself” before I’m shunted back to lower-body neuromuscular control. I haven’t actually felt my human leg in almost three years. Threat control drops all organic control as CPUs redline. The result gives me the doubly unpleasant sensations of shitting myself and...

EMP is a bitch. No one’s listening to KMSN any more. Ever. The consequence of a nuclear near miss is a gift that keeps on giving. Well, that and the backrush of air rushing to fill a vacuum. The men on the other side of the former fence learn that as air pressure stabilizes itself in a wall of...

I'm have terrible insomnia. Reading old college textbooks or certification manuals helps sometimes. Or Chamomille Tea.

Hobart. Newly constructed subdivision (no trees). The house is 1300 square feet with three bedrooms. It's pretty and new, but much less than ideal for computer stuff or audio (rooms are funny shapes, and there are lots of ledges, balconies and other annoyances). I'm nonplussed.

I'm about to buy a house. I'm going to look at it today, in fact. One year old, 1300 square feet, and only $115,000. Of course, the owner is my brother. I think I can talk him down a bit. Stilll, for the part that I can't pay out of pocket, I have to get a loan. After walking through the...

Actually, Mercutio is slain by Tybalt in act three, scene 1. Tybalt is killed by Romeo. Romeo poisons himself, thinking Juliet dead. Juliet wakes up, finds Romeo dead, and stabs herself, ending the Jerry Springer episode that was the Montague-Capulet feud. Also, just to correct The Giver...

I've gotten similar errors from burners with serious hardware issues. I think one of my 8x Yamaha units produced that error while it was in the process of dying. Sometimes it would work for a while after a reboot, though. Like everyone else, though, I'm almost positive that in this case we...

Sadly, I think I've had portions of the above conversation several times in my life. :) Nice to see you again, MangyDOG.

Happy 21st. I celebrated mine by buying $460 worth of booze for all the 18-year-olds in my dorm and remaining a virgin. Seems like you're doing better than I have.

Oh man, the Giver's bath. Well, it's given twice annually. It's really not so bad, as long as you remember the muzzle first. Don't worry, he's all talk. The Giver's never even SEEN a fava bean. Normally we draw straws. Let me tell you all, now you know the REAL reason Tannin quit. You really...

It's just not worth it. 3MBit is best-case. Best case in this case means "downloads initiated between 2:07 and 4:13AM, and only until oversubscription forces us to take some of the bandwidth we set aside for gulli-^H^H^H^Hloyal premium customers to deal with the masses of folks who aren't".

I admit it. I am really a hunka' hunka' burnin' love. Howell, if you want to be co-opted by the Monkeys, feel free to take my slot. Soon you too will be part of the vast conspiracy. You'll be fluoridating drinking water, inciting war between the US and the vile Spanish and bathing in the blood...

C, you are the king of overpacking. Thanks man.

Tannin has recused himself from the group of monkeys. If anyone would care to look back at PW's posting history, you'll see he's always been outspoken about not being part of this site's management (where? Try the moderator selection threads in "Feedback" - my connection is exceptionally slow...

The documentation/tutorials that come with Visual Interdev are a great place to start. Those can be accessed through technet as well. Assuming you're targetting a fairly modern platform and have some working knowledge of programming, I'd suggest O'Reilly's book (Current edition is Learning...

Beg, borrow or steal one, or a docking station with one. I'm positive that they run Win2000 pretty well on the basic-issue BIOS. Also, I'm pretty sure this machine uses a firmware-based config program, not the communist hidden weirdo evil DOS thing that some Compaqs use.

A couple of my students did a water cooling project not too long ago. They worked from a Swifttech 8500 kit. The rig was IIRC Barton 2500 and a Radeon 9500 on an FIC nforce2. Both were water cooled and overclocked to all hell. I don't know the final outcome of their work, speed-wise but I do...