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The thing is, you aren't a graphics professional. Why are you intentionally inflicting Adobe on yourself? I mean, I don't wake up in the morning and say "Man, I really need a good case of herpes!"

It's still an Adobe product. Professional tool or not, that means it's a piece of shit.

I saw that article too. It's interesting to think that there may simply be non-luminous matter out in space somewhere (which would make the "attractor" gravity), or that there may be an unknown force that's acting on whole galaxies with only our ability to indirectly measure it as a clue to its...

Yeah, jtr, what you did right there was literally post sone Republican's talking points for why we should all blame Democrats for the current financial crisis. You might want to adjust the settings on your bullshit meter.

Intel's stuff will be there when everyone else's is long gone. It's just that it's really hard to pick which exact boards are going to be the ones that stick around forever. The 945GC-whatever is ancient and probably won't go away for a while.

Transparency = Whether or not an outside party is able to tell what's going on. Accountability = Whether or not anyone will do anything about what's going on. It's entirely possible to have one without the other. And christian bashing is ENTIRELY relevant here, because there are a whole...

I assure you that other drives fit just fine in that chassis. As for the motherboard: Intel drives me nuts. I've standardized on the 946GZ for my classroom PCs, but they have been in and out of production three times since I started buying them. Intel will do a production run of them, then...

I assure you that other drives fit just fine in that chassis. As for the motherboard: Intel drives me nuts. I've standardized on the 946GZ for my classroom PCs, but they have been in and out of production three times since I started buying them. Intel will do a production run of them, then...

I know it's my own bias, but the only Windows development work I ever did was Foxpro and Visual Foxpro and to this day I will say that it's a great, solid product. Miles and miles faster than VB/Access. .DBF is certainly a legacy format these days but I really think and I always have thought...

Wintec is not a brand I think of when someone says the word "quality", Will.

You made a huge mistake on those LiteOn drives, but you'll find that out soon. LiteOn's current product is loud and not very good at actually reading discs. The motherboard is a bit of a stretch as well. Seems like you are overspending on that part for no real benefit.

Console games apparently don't meet my idea of satisfying entertainment. I generally dislike the control schemes and the types of gaming available. I'd categorize most Wii titles as annoying at best. I don't even particularly like gaming on the couch. I prefer to by at a desk. I've owned a Wii...

I've got a nice dual band Linksys router at my office. I've got it set up to deliver 802.11g service on the 2.4GHz band and 802.11n on the 5.8GHz band. I'm using dd-wrt with it. Since I'm the only person in my office who has an 802.11n NIC, this is all just fine. I don't notice the difference...

And why was lending loose? Why did EVERYONE in the industry ignore fundamental rules of money management? Because a bunch of depression-era regulations that were put in place to keep people from doing stupid things with money were relaxed or removed entirely. Because new financial instruments...

Now, all I really want is for Stereodude to pop in and tell us how this could've been avoided if we had just regulated financial institutions even less.

... where you'll get negative ROI on it due to dilution of the value of a dollar due to the actions of the Fed that CityK is ranting about.

You know, I can't remember which giant insurance company Fushigi works for. I think it's Aon. Maybe AIG. something that started with an A.

Health care and retirement savings are worth a lot more than 20% and you know it.

True story: There's a woman I met through another forum who is the Windows system admin for a business with about 150 users. She sends me E-mails and IMs and stuff and basically I tell her exactly how to do her job. Today her boss, who really knows even less than she does asked her "Who is...

I think I be paid maybe around half what I'm worth too, but that part bothers me not so much. Yarr.

Yarr!

The company I work for provides no benefits other than my very flexible schedule, and my employment isn't all that secure. Given the choice of going back to contracting full time and moving, I'd probably look longingly at my wrists, then a razor blade, then my wrists again, and then I would...

Just remember that when I'm looking for a job, Mr. CIO guy.

Ahem.

OK so I'm slightly wrong and was misremembering the Parallel port. The board I'm thinking of was a DG33TL.

My gaming PC sits inside my network with access to all the cool stuff I've collected and have access to. It's also connected to a nice 40" Samsung 650A TV and an awesome home theater, so I kind of want to be able to trust that computer to remain uncompromised. PC Game manufacturers have finally...

Intel has made several of those. I built one a few weeks ago that had a VGA + DVI setup, which apparently worked well enough for my user's needs. I can't remember what model it was but I distinctly recall that it also had parallel and an IDE port but no PS/2. Anyway, it could and did run two...

The problem with a cracked game is that you really don't know what the crackers did to the game besides remove the copy protection. How do you really know that you didn't install some remote registry hack, or a turn your PC into a spam relay?

Ars Technica tried it and said they were just given more keys. The "no daemon tools" shit is a far bigger concern. Just like using Steam, it's punishing people who want to just play a fucking game. Between the utter lack of fun that is console gaming (I have rented 57 Wii titles at $3.50 a...

Well, if you go by my ex's favorite T-shirt, that just means that they have an alternate lifestyle. :D

Where the hell is this money coming from? There are congressional debates that can last hours or days over paltry half-billion dollar sums of money, but we're able to dole out tens of billions to banks and insurance companies with no approval from Congress?

During the brief period when I had some hiring responsibilities, I asked specifically what experiences my prospects had with IT "emergency" situations and how those situations were resolved, what tasks related to past jobs they were most apprehensive about doing and their worst experience with a...

Personally, I'm not about to install a game that won't operate if I have an ISO mounting tool installed. Holy crap that's dumb.

I certainly feel some amount of schadenfreude.

I think this is more like 10 - 12 hours from someone who knows Visual Basic, though I might be underestimating how difficult it is to break the existing data out of the Act database.

There is a tool called "Hiren's BootCD" that can be found all over the place. It is an amazing tool for computer techs and it includes several programs that can strip passwords from Windows. It's not legitimate from a legal standpoint; it includes DOS versions of several commercial programs...

I have no idea if Outlook would come close. I know that Outlook does not allow Notes to be shared between clients, even in an Exchange environment, and a lot of what the other people in the office are doing is making Notes on the contact information (ordered stuff 9/14/2008 etc) No, I don't...

Yes, and performance continues to suck even if you filter the data you're looking at to something like "current week."

Nope, they're the same thing. The Activities (tasks) are a list view and the calendar is a calendar view of the same stuff.

The way I understand the whole Sage Software operation is that the company more or less runs on fee based support rather than software licensing, and one of the big reasons Symantec ditched Act was that its support was a cost center. I did suggest a full blown SQL Server install when I was...

I've done Linux/MySQL and Server2003/SQL2005 on VMware and found that it's acceptable for small datasets and classroom use.

His current server is a four CPU, 8GB Xeon rig with a pair of RAID1 SAS X15s in it. While I'm sure that the SSDs would work better I'm equally sure that he already has the next best thing. And which his office uses to access a 350MB (SQL Server Express) Act Database and his ancient, DOS based...

Inside the battery back plate? I pretty much just want network integrated phones to die. Blackberry people are the whiniest people on the surface of the Earth.

Something I'm kind of stumped on today. This dick that I do work for, hereafter known as "dick", has an Act 2008 setup. He has apparently been using Act for his very limited CRM needs for about 15 years. I'm talking Windows 3.1-era, here. So he has an accumulation of Act data. Maybe 20000...

I wouldn't even let people HAVE wireless keyboards and mice. Anyway, I'm low tech about that stuff. I've been on projects where full bar coding schemes tied in to MS-SMS with custom asset tracking databases and all kinds of other crap. I tag the box. I tag the monitor. In a few cases I might...

There's an issue with Google's EULA that's really nasty from a legal standpoint. Basically they claim some kind of IP rights (to index and datamine) on whatever you do through Chrome. It's a webkit browser, so it should be on par with Safari or Konq as far as security goes.

25 millibits per second is indeed pretty slow. m = milli (thousandths) u (well, μ, if that character shows up) = micro (millionths) M = mega (millions) b = bits, the standard unit for data transmissions B = Bytes Just feeling a little pedantic.

My folks have had a serious run of bad luck with fairly high end laundry equipment. They lost three ~$2000 washing machines in three years (all of them in the "it's cheaper to get a new one than get the old one fixed" category), and they also had a gargantuan $3500 25 cubic foot fridge that...

AMD announced some price cuts today that undercut Intel dual core CPUs with three core Phenom chips. The Phenom 8750 (3x2.4GHz) is supposedly going to retail for $135 now, which is in line or a bit less than the current low-end Core 2s. I realize most people don't have tons of need for that...

Ahem. $99 slow ass OCZ 32GB SSD Don't all click at once.