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They're better-than-average for Compaqs. More durable casing. They are fairly heavy, have an obnoxious docking station and short-ish battery life under good circumstances. You're getting one that handles speedstep, which is good for the battery and less good if you're planning to use it while...

Didn't you get the memo? We're the "Benevolence-Challenged Gang of 12" now.

Do you already know some kind of scripting language? Javascript or Perl or PHP or something?

12 people were here at the start of the site. Some are more active than others in administrative issues. There really aren't very many administrative issues involved in maintaining the site at this point, and there haven't been since the site went public. This is the way things were intended...

Browser development will continue through the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit presently funded by AOL and by Mitch Kapor. Mozilla, the product underlying Netscape, will continue development, and some of the programmers affected by these layoffs will probably be hired by the foundation. But...

There has not, at any point, been a decision along the lines of "don't grow the site". No. No. [/i]No. No.[/i] There has been discussion along the lines of "We'd like to grow the site by doing..." Writing Reviews Writing Tech articles Reviewing other tech sites and methodologies Limited...

The fact that the attitudes in the link above exist at all - even if they are being mocked (Landover Baptist is pretty regularly mistaken for a "real" web site) - fills me with ichorous digust.

Tannin has been working on various nodes there.

The only answer to give is "it depends". You'll need some spare parts and a lot of patience to find out. You may be lucky and find yourself only needing a $48 XP1700.

I use the set from the Lucent/Agere web site. I thought 2000 had the driver for that modem built in, but I might be wrong. Anyway, I set up the modem by using "update driver" in Device manager, and if it doesn't work, I'll grab another modem. I have better things to do than futz around with...

Odd thing, that. I think the fact that there's no advertising on this site is a great positive. Why it is that you don't feel like a member of this community is a matter of some interest to me. Nothing has been done to exclude you from participating on whatever level you feel comfortable. If...

Actually I thought I'd do a write-up on HTPCs next.

I've found ghost operation to be problematic on drives > 80GB. It's not just you. I'm using 2003 Enterprise, if that helps.

Eugene and Davin do not have anything to offer that would get me to abandon this site. The changes at SR IMO need to be cultural. They can't be requested or dictated or anything else. Every time I visit and see a couple of AOL-using 16-year olds asking "RAID0 or solid-state for my 733t...

$40 - $50 a month is common in the US. Sometimes substantially more.

Maybe he's getting better compression on the stuff that's coming through media player? I can't really believe that's the case, but that's sure what it looks like. Ping only measures latency, not throughput. I'm not sure the results of a ping would be helpful.

I have a couple of XP3000s here at the moment. The HSF is smaller and has more fins underneath the fan. It is also a great deal heavier than I expected it would be.

I pronounce it Raid-E-on.

It's *not* a conventional movie. It's a movie about a man who has been swallowed up by the circumstances of his life, and about the person he becomes when he finally rises above it. The real story is told in subtext. A surface-level viewing of Punch Drunk Love is like a surface level reading of...

Ah, but it does. SR depends on the kindness of advertisers to exist. When SR doesn't get its ads, it ceases to be. That was the case in the winter of '02 and in large large the impetus for creating this site. I am not "anti" SR. But I don't feel compelled, upon visiting, to post anything to its...

SR is not under our control. There have been steps taken to ensure data integrity of our database. We are not beholden to commerce as SR is. From a social aspect, I think that the vast amount of crap that gets posted to SR would continue tdrown out the community, as it has done already.

I ended up buying a nintendo. I liked the controller a little better, and it was the only system whose games my cousin mentioned by name.

Continuity of our community. We took the name anticipating that SR would close, soon. Davin and Eugene had in short order, announced that it would close and lost the database that contained 3+ years of discussion. The SR forums were home to deep friendships and interesting discussions. We...

The 3000/3200 issue is the only one that really bothers me per se.

One thing to point to - I made my opinion on the matter clear - is that S/N ratio is extremely high here. I read literally everything that gets posted here. It's interesting or funny or revealing or... something. Other forum sites I've been to seem to have an overabundance of people who just...

These are the same critics who say Matrix Reloaded is something like good, right? I had fairly low expectations for League, thinking it'd be screwed up in a major way, and I came away thinking it earned my $7. It's the first of the summer movies at which I can say that. Hulk was a letdown...

League of Extraordinary Gentleman was great fun. The comic series is a genre-bending masterpiece to start with, an English major's wet dream of tiny in-jokes with utterly distinct artwork (particularly fun for me: noting the detail - Portraiture by R. Pickman, an utterly obscure character HP...

Sigh. For me it's as much an academic interest as anything else. My personal interests actually run away from hardcore material and more to arty nudes and the like. Nearly everyone I meet is interested on some level. Very few adult males have never viewed dirty pictures or movies, and most...

No, I hadn't. How much does the service cost?

Gotta vote "Independence Day". Good lord was that bad. That was also the movie where I realize that Jeff Glodblum plays the same character in every movie. Or maybe "Nine Months". Hugh Grant should be hunted and killed, not starring in movies.

So? May of '88. I know that she was trained as a ballet dancer and a flautist, married the photographer who photographed her centerfold and that she was an unusual Playboy subject for being the first asian centerfold since April 1967 (interestingly, there were three in the early 90s - the last...

Well, I gave it a shot. The weather app was broken for anything near my apartment. Considering that there's a small airport (= weather station) maybe a mile from my apartment, and another in nearby Gary, that's fairly unforgivable. The Pictures, and movies subsections worked OK, but pictures in...

I'll write when I have the time. It's a bit of a commodity for me. These forums are a gathering place for interesting people and exchange of information. You guys want who want more: follow my example, find a topic and write about it. Compare hardware and software RAID. Write an unattended...

Like, gag me with an Ericsson

The US is the troglodyte of the cell phone world. SMS messaging hasn't even been around for more than a few years. Do *try* to keep that in mind. We even have several incompatible networks. I say that Nokias are crap because I've used several of them for one reason or another. Again, this is...

Nokias blow. They use ultra-cheap batteries and trade decent reception for a bunch of stupid customization features (changeable faceplates etc). While I'm at it, Nextel is Satan's plaything. The two-way feature was designed entirely for Sadistic control freaks. I've been carrying an Audiovox...

There's an odd thing about Southerners. Germans pick on Bavarians. Americans pick on everyone who lost the civil war (and why is it that the people in those police ride-along shows who stand on their lawns in stained T-shirts, brandishing shotguns all have thick southern accents, even when...

Microsoft bought an antivirus company a few months ago.

time - I was confusing the 9200 (updated 9000 core) for the 9100 (updated 8500 core). These things happen. Altough I don't know how Tannin can claim wacky, crappy cheapo nvidia cards are better than generally-very-nice ATIs.

You could always give it to me. I'll even pay the shipping. ;) It's pretty close to your Ti4200 (my logic: the 8500 performs on-par to just a bit better than a GF3. The 9200 is an updated 8500). A reasonable shop would probably price it in the $85 to $100 range.

It looks really nice but it'll be a cold day in hell before I install WMP9.

Texas and Florida really don't deserve to be states. Florida for obvious, election related reasons. Texas for, well, if you've spent time around a Texan you'll understand. On the other hand, the US has a couple of lovely tropical islands that are protectorates. Samoa. Puerto Rico. Pleasant...

Texas: Where people are proud to kill other people.

I do, for my personal stuff, from time to time. However, I'm almost always going Via-based to Via-based. It's a painless process anyway.

If they have duron-like prices (ie, if current XP 2400s get a hair cheaper) it sounds like a good deal to me.

BX will recognize it. You may need a BIOS flash, but it's nothing painful.

Its future was simply uncertain until I got an Audigy 2 to play with. I just finished a side-by side between an Audigy2 Platinum and the Soundstorm. I tried each with analog 5.1 and with SPDIF to a receiver and a full set of speakers. Listened to a couple of MP3s, a couple tracks off an audio...

I can't normally see images in your posts, Prof, and in the most recent case, you posted something while I was replying to something else. I didn't realize there was an image in your PM, and I thought you were joking or something.

I have a 24-hours-a-week salaried teaching/tech/network admin job that I mostly do in the evening. I teach certification classes (Comptia and MS) and the occasional newbie tech class (computer building, troubleshooting). I live on what I make from that job (which is more than enough for me to...

... and I just got done with a long argument over whether I should be using Outlook at work. Glad I won.