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Not quite. Different VMs work with different specifications of the language, and some leverage proprietary extensions (coughMScough). In theory, given the same language spec, the VMs should work the same, albeit more slowly or quickly depending on implementation. Microsoft lost a lawsuit to Sun...

Well, it's xmas time already, and at my training company that means breaking out fun classes in consumer electronics. This year, because of lab upgrades and student interest, I've been asked to do a short class in video editing. On short notice. And a stipulation that the software I teach be...

Microsoft's VM is serviceable but old. It doesn't match up to date specs, and some new apps made for actual cross platform compatibility won't work with it (most java apps are made to work with the Microsoft's VM). Sun's is completely up to date. It's not well optimized for Windows, probably for...

ZIP codes weren't made mandatory until 1967. The post office does still make an effort to deliver mail without them, though. There's all kinds of stories about oddly-addressed or lost mail that manages to get delivered to the right person. FM really wasn't interesting until it could do stereo...

Yet President Asstard has no problems sending our troops to foreign lands so they can engage in "low-intensity conflicts" that result in "high intensity body bags", and then has the nerve to address all his made-up terrorist hobgoblins and actual rogue nations with the words "Bring it on." Oh...

You'll be a Hairy Aussie in no time!

Sadly, the US is full of people who will vote for him, based on rhetoric about his made-up "war on terror" and his status as a "friend of bidness" and an anti-intellectual good-ol'-boy. Speaking of Vietnam, the situation in Iraq seems to be heading more-and-more that way all the time. We'll...

SnapStream PVS is awesome beyond words. Screw Tivo, the $65 I spent getting Snapstream justified every penny I have in my HTPC. Besides, how many Tivos can hold 800GB? Also, Punch Drunk Love remains the best movie I've seen in the last two years. Fushigi - Sorry, no other Lem fiction. I've...

I saw Gracie get up and walk just now. Man does that make me feel better.

Fushigi, have you ever eaten at McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook? They have (or had. I haven't been there in years) table service, which is fun for the sheer incongruity of it.

Mmmm. Firebird Image Permissions....

I think the term is "kaput", Coug. This discussion is a good argument for trackballs. I've had reason to take mine apart a few times, but they work when I put 'em back together.

I'm obviously missing something in Buck's posts for not knowing my Indian food. For the record, Chinese food from the local hole-in-the-wall places is usually the cheapest and best meal I can get on a given day. I eat a lot of Lo Mein and Hot and Sour Soup.

I'd say what kind of "pirate" Bush supports talking like, but then there would be need for moderator action, and I really don't want to offend Bill's delicate sensibilities. It does, however, bring to mind "Mercutio's first law of things that are funny": Everything is funny when preceding or...

Oddly, there aren't any SATA drives up over the 50th percentile in SR's reliability survey.(1) (1) That I noticed, anyway.(2) (2) And I still can't get over those raptor results, either.

Anyone here live near a Jimmy John's? $3 for a really excellent sub. I've never had Indian food. I like Thai, but both the Thai places I've been to are out of business. Burger King's fries are a crime against humanity. They're proof that BK hates us. They taste a lot like fried packing...

MMMmmmm... Big Montana (that's 250g of roast beef and a couple of pieces of bread, if you don't have Arby's in your country). I'm pretty regularly disgusted by Burger King myself. And Wendy's - home of the burgers so greasy their buns turn liquid.

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SuSE has some proprietary elements, like its installer (YaST), and a very large installed base, especially in Europe. Novell might well be buying customers. IMO RedHat might've been a better choice, although I'm sure it would've been more expensive. I'm not a big fan of Novell. It's always...

Their stock is up something like 40%, too. The interesting thing to me is that Novell also owns Ximian. Ximian = GNOME desktop software (Sun's annointed replacement for CDE, among other things), while SuSE is essentially based on a KDE desktop. Mixed message, that. SuSE is a good choice. I...

Good excuse to keep using all my SCSI optical drives. :) Given the reportedly fantastic IDE performance, I'd really like to at least have the option to try them, especially if all that's broken is ATAPI.

Act fast, before they yank them again...

May I ask about the attribution on your quasi-profound .sig, Bill? "Oven Mitt" sounds like one of the hipsters Andy Warhol was hanging out with in the 70s.

Speaking of, visiting the MS site today with IE6.1, I noticed that their left-hand menu system seems to have real problems rendering. The boxes seem to overlay each other, size incorrectly and generally behave poorly. At least, in their training and certification area (I was looking at the...

I got mine from one Yahoo store or other. I found these. They're close.

Speaking of, does anyone out there have a recommendation for a 3.5" internal reader? Preferably something with a couple front USB ports? And no moronic "route the cable from one of the ports on the back, through the interior of the case and then to the reader" cabling?

I'll go out on a limb and say it's probably about 100 sleeves per 3-inch binder, but I've never done an exact count. I have seven computer CD binders and the initial organization was a pain, but I don't add many pages, except to the D binder any more(drivers and downloads, those I just number...

Huh-uh. You have one USB root hub per controller. Each root supports additional nested hubs up to six layers deep (giving a final distance limit of 39 meters) and a maximum of 127 addresses per root. Motherboards with both USB 1.1 and 2.0 have two roots, and therefore can support 254 USB...

If the iPod unit is the one from Belkin, in tops out at 400kb/sec over firewire. There was something about it on Slashdot last week. One of my students had a digital rebel. He took exchanged it for the 10D. I think he was annoyed that the Rebel didn't support (?)external light sources(?). I...

I use shelving very similar (but homebuilt from pine) to this. Obviously I have a collection of CDs and DVDs that's substantial enough to warrant such a thing. For my computer stuff, I've tried just about everything. Stick with binders. I use paper-type binders instead of caselogic or...

Probably some kind of digital signature that you can compare to something on their web site. That would make sense for an application related to security.

Friends don't let friends buy drives from companies with Retarded Warranty Policies (TM). I'd suggest a Samsung SP1203N. 3 year warranty. Acceptable in all other aspects. SATA - PATA sounds like a lot of hassle and a decent chunk of the price of a new drive at $20. Does your wife actually...

Eh. Oh well. Just looking for a bargain.

I forgot to reply to this. Dammit.

Personally I'm highly disgusted that I had to download 500MB of crap just to play CS. The only part of the boxed copy of Half-Life I bought three weeks ago that I actually used was the CD key. Isn't that disgusting. If I had wanted to play CS on my former connection I would've had to download...

mubs, if you're doing Email, Exchange is probably more of a headache than it's worth. SBS is a good value for the money, if you're using all the products, but IMO exchange is a pain in the ass with a fairly high learning curve. I'd strongly suggest looking into something else, like Mercury Mail...

Actually, the information about media support is read from the media's ATIP. If the drive recognizes the ATIP, it will set itself appropriately. If it doesn't it normally makes the assumption that the disc is newer than it is, and will burn at full speed. This is why Nero sometimes gives you a...

I like Canon and Nikon, personally. Canon most of all. The little digital Elphs are great point and shoot cameras and the G series are, well, the cameras I've chosen to purchase for myself. I place compactflash support very high on my list of requirements as well as support for a Lithium Ion...

... and while I'm making gaming posts, I watched a couple of the movies from Red vs.Blue after seeing that they won a bunch of awards for Machinima ("movies" made using computer game engines). They're pretty damn funny.

We need to just arrange a regular meeting time and that's all there is to it. Has anyone else played "Kohan: Immortal Sovereign"? I found it at my local supermarket with a $5 price tag on it. I'm not into Blizzard games, and it looked like a Warcraft clone, but it's pretty fun.

Anyone seen Lian Li's design for an Aquarium case yet?

Could be worse. Could be new.net (which is of course vile beyond human comprehension). Also, I purposefully installed Bonzi Buddy not too long ago (demonstrating "parasites" for the students in one of my classes). I was STUNNED by how much crap is involved in getting that thing - probably...

I'll take the $60 SCSI drive if you'll throw in the DVD. :)

Thanks for well-wishes folks. I appreciate it. I haven't been around much because of all this. Hopefully now that she's (fingers-crossed) on the road to recovery I'll be getting back to normal here as well.

Gracie is home now. She's alert but she's too weak to walk. The vets presented four different theories on what's wrong with her, most centering on autoimmune disorders of one kind or another. No evidence of cancer or a root infection that would lead to her present condition. She's much better...

Doesn't seem to make a difference to me. At least, not with the default plug-ins. I did my listening through Soundstorm-encoded output to a home theater though, and who knows what tricks nvidia pulls to massage stereo sound into Dolby Digital 5.1 (it sounds good though. Better than DPL2 or...

74GB is at least a reasonable, if small, size. 40db is impressive for a 10k drive. Still, has anyone looked at SR's reliability rating for the Raptor 360GD? It's in the 2nd percentile. Now, I know that SR's survey is self-limiting and self-selecting and several kinds of inaccurate but... 2nd...

I think I'm confusing it with Catalina.

Purdue is one of only 11 vet schools in the US, and one that specializes in small animal care (unlike the school at the University of Illinois, which does cows and horses and stuff). When I was there I met people who had come from Poland(!) to have their dog cared for. I don't think I can do...

Pacman, implemented in VBA It doesn't seem to work in Excel 2003, but it plays fine in Excel 2000.