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Listening to this guy talk about how the Internet works is like asking a four-year-old to explain thunderstorms. Really, the two things are almost identical. This worthless piece of crap is one of the most powerful men in the US Senate, which basically makes him one of the most powerful people...

And while I'm venting... I either have to hit "Post Reply" at the tippy-top of the thread to make a new post, or hit "Quick Reply" and then "Advanced View" to type my reply; the Quick Reply Window, being the size of a postage stamp, is good for exactly naught.

Possible reason for Conroe delays?

Seriously, ddrueding, drop your desktop res to 1024x768 or 800x600 and tell me how happy you are then.

I don't think so. I think Seagate is just trying to find buyers for high-margin products which don't have a tremendous demand in the marketplace yet. At the same time, Seagate is also pushing ahead with improvements to their disk products; they announced a patent for nanotube-lubricant based...

Has anyone tried to use the new SF on an 800x600 screen? I know exactly what Will is talking about. There's all kinds of extra weird buttons and wasted space. The default theme seems to use a much bigger font, which makes for lots of scrolling even on a high-res screen. I'm at 1280x1024 right...

Literally, a Browser-related exploit for every day during the month of July, 2006. I am supremely amused by this.

Maybe I'm dense, but what's the point of these tools? ID3 tags are wrong sometimes. So what? Is there some element of organization that I don't understand?

They're probably trying to clear inventory before they release a new generation of product.

The Core Solo and Core Duo are both clock-for-clock faster than the other choices, and better for battery life as well. The Duo is the most expensive choice and, being dual core, might be a little bit exotic for an "average" user. There's not much practical difference between a Turion and a...

I'm not sure I'm happy about the new board software, or at least the look and feel of it. I'm having a really hard time distinguishing new topics and new posts from old. What does the new software actually do that the old software didn't?

AT&T's CEO is the pretty much the principle backer of eliminating Net Neutrality, too. He started making noise about it around 18 months ago.

It's plastic, it seems like cloth. It seems to breathe about as well as cloth does. Water: I've tried it once now (jug of milk sprung a leak in my back seat). It just sits. You get a towel and wipe it up.

Let me take a moment to echo other sentiments: All in Ones end up being either very expensive printers, or very expensive fax machines. Maybe the scanner/copier function works, but most likely one or more of the four functions won't. They are not worth the money and they are not worth the time...

You need to have a passwords assigned to the user account that you're using to connect to the share (on the windows side). You may want to add entries in your hosts file to make the connections happen faster. You need to disable the Firewall on the Linux side, or make holes for the relevant...

I can buy Powerpoint separately. I've never done so but I have had to buy Outlook and Access that way. Individual MS Office components are usually around $200. In the USA, I tell people to just run over to the nearest office supply superstore to buy the Teachers and Students edition of Office...

Paugie, are you saying that you've been using the same razor blade for months? That is really awful. Tannin, not everyone can grow a beard. I have exactly the same problem as mubs. You know, you'd think someone would figure out a way to make hair removal easier...

At the moment I'm limping along with three 400 disc CD changers and three 400 disc DVD changers. :) Indexing those is kind of a pain, though.

I haven't noticed any particular problem with bigger Samsung drives. I have lots of 250GB units. Generally the "least reliable" Samsung units I'm aware of have been 80GB 2MB cache models, but even those I think I've RMA'd four out of about 350 over a three year period. The Hitachi 7k250 and...

I probably would've jumped if the drives had been Hitachi or Samsung. As it stands, the 400GB Samsung drive is a very reasonable $145 or so. That's still a lot of money when you want to replace 24 drives. Personally I don't see a problem with PATA. I just want capacity.

Either way it's a scam. My barber did it with hot towels, a brush and shaving soap, not hot lather. I'm thinking that, even if the man is a professional shaver, I've had years of practice to get good at shaving and so far, here is what I know: If I shave the way you're supposed to, I have a 5...

Runtime Software's Get Data Back has a 30 day trial. It's by far the best recovery software I've found. "Free" programs for Windows tend to either not be worth the bits they're written with or else only show you want you could recover if only you gave the developer $99.95.

Anyone here shave with a straight razor or old-fashioned safety razor? Couple days ago I got a haircut and my barber offered to shave my face, too. My face didn't get irritated at all from his razor and today it was almost painful to go back to the Gillette disposable. I've looked into it and...

Total for all drives is probably 14TB or so, but a lot of it is mirrored data. I'd like to replace my 250GB drives en masse, but that would be kind of expensive.

I'm not knocking sports as a tool for social interaction. I'm sure plenty of people become friendly with teammates who play, or who meet as fans in a bar or at a game. I just don't think sport in and of itself is worthy of the pedestal on which it seems to have been placed. The Olympics seem an...

Dredging up a thread from SF's antedeluvian period, one so old that JamesW, honold and PeeWee all posted in it (ddrueding says "Who?"), I give you the awesome and hilarious story of a 419 scammer scammed back. How scammed was he? If you scroll through the exchange, you'll see that the scam/spam...

Beginnings of a Firefox document. Had nothing better to do, so I spent most of the day writing it and putting together screenshots. It concentrates for the moment on Firefox features not available in crappier web browsers, and it assumes the user is running Windows. Comments?

Absolutely. I've never seen the point of competitive sports. Some sports I find particularly irksome, like golf (for the huge space needed to "play"), football and baseball (for the large space needed to play, lack of action, strict/obscure rules and large amount of equipment needed). I...

Amateur. ;)

Microsoft bought essentially everything they sell. Microsoft bought Word, Outlook, Exchange, Visual Basic, Internet Explorer, MS Antispyware, Defender, Frontpage, DOS and Foxpro. The list of tools developed in-house is a lot smaller: Excel, about half of Windows (the parts that didn't come from...

Software? We don't need no stinkin' software!

Why do you hate your pr0n, timwhit? Of course, when that drive dies, let me know. I can donate 250GB of replacement pictures and movies to replace the loss. :) I will admit that I have a WD 250GB SATA drive at the moment. One of my students bought it not realizing that his PC didn't have any...

It's possible. One of my uncles lives in a place where the only thing for five miles in any direction is cornfield or pastureland, and he's got a 768k DSL connection. Another of my customers is in Manhattan, Illinois. The only reason the whole town (population of about 4000) has cable internet...

Western Digital offers class-action settlement for people who mistakenly bought shitty hard drives. The ironic part is Western Digital is offering backup software (Retrospect) to the poor bastards who already have WD drives, something that should come in the box with all WD products anyway...

Rumored new tech in AM2 chips to compete with Conroe.

I have a client who used Hughes service for about three months in 2005. He lives in BFE Northern Indiana and his connection sucked kinds of ass that have not even been invented yet. Could've been an installation problem, but he'd lose his signal pretty regularly in poor weather (rain, mind you...

Sports are for people of insufficient good character to enjoy a good book.

Someone just asked me this, and I don't know the answer, nor care to soil myself with anything Blizzard makes: Is it possible to run two instances of World of Warcrap on the same PC?

Just a couple of quick tests I ran with a "blank" Windows XP Pro image under VMware (hosted on an Athlon64/3200 with 2GB RAM): I started with an 8GB virtual drive, all space pre-allocated. I split the drive into two 4GB partitions and installed XP Pro + Updates on one, along with Ghost 2003 and...

Since that was posted on digg.com about five hours ago, it's safe to say they're sold out by now. :( I agree that's a fantastic price for a drive of that capacity. Hopefully we'll see 400GB drives in the $100 range in another few months.

I note that Opera 9 has a content blocking feature similar to the adblock extension in Firefox. Good to see the Opera people doing something right.

Does anyone out in SFland understand the point of Joomla? Someone just called my office asking about a class in it, and like everything else that no one has heard of, it was passed to me. As far as I can tell it's just a way to populate data in a specific web page template. Surely there must...

If you've tried the Vista beta, you might not think that comment so ironic.

WinFS is actually something that I very much cared about; having file metadata contained as part of the file system instead of hack-ish addons would make my life a lot better. There hasn't been a fundamental improvement in file systems on Windows since NTFS brought journaling and long file...

Foxconn case A64/3800 2GB RAM nvidia 6150 or ATI R200-based motherboard 250GB Samsung HDD 16x NEC DVD Burner $550, shipped from Newegg. That's pretty much insane.

I still use CRTs in preference to LCDs. I have *two* LCD monitors out of all the PCs I have. Every LCD monitor large enough for main-monitor use (I'm thinking this means 24" or so) is unfortunately saddled with 16:9 orientation. LCDs have color accuracy issues, refresh issues and viewing angle...

Universal USB Hard Disk Adaptor doohickey. One device that can handle 2.5" or 3.5" PATA or SATA-to USB2.0 conversion? Seems like a good deal to me.

Cruel <> interesting!

On the other hand, I didn't have to teach anyone how to do anything with VMware. It's just there and it just works.

To be on the safe side, a 9250 is probably better for its thermal characteristics. The Gigabyte 9550s I'm familiar with can get warm from mild 3D use (e.g. someone playing Counterstrike) but are normally cool to the touch. The 9250 is a much simpler chip. You won't be TEMPTED to mild 3D use...