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I think you'd be alright with a modern distro like SuSE or Ubuntu... but if you had anything less than 256MB, you'd probably want to use a cut-down distribution.

The computer operators I know from the local steel mills are pretty much tape-switchers. Hopefully your job will be a little more challenging, Pradeep.

It's a blue & purple mix to me. That makes it indigo.

It doesn't appear to be possible, from my efforts. Vista has to be loaded on a clean disk, and other versions of Windows overwrite its system files. I guess if I really wanted to I could back up ntldr and the like and restore them after OS#2 is loaded, but frankly that's more work that its...

I handled a motherboard that ended up with Doug, that had IIRC a socket 7 Heat Sink on it. I think it was Groltz's. That's certainly one way to do it. :)

I found out today that my ex-, who is 29 years old, very probably has breast cancer. :( She had two aunts who died of breast cancer, one at 34 and the other at 37. :( :( :( And I'm going to say something here: I'm an atheist. I don't believe in any kind of higher power. It is really awful...

If you look in ~/, there should be a wine subdirectory that has a premade links to all the various wine apps you have. You can create a shortcut on your desktop or whatever.

Latest Vista Annoyances: 1. Being told that I don't "have permission to copy this folder" on a network share... which is a FAT32 volume on a network appliance that really doesn't even understand the concept of secured access. Is the problem local? If so, what is it? I don't have NTFS...

dxdiag, and tech supports everywhere say their stuff doesn't work on server versions of windows when it actually does.

PowerDVD 6 works and so does PowerDVD 4. You may need to install a graphics driver and turn on graphics acceleration, which is off by default.

Thanks to everyone. I really am grateful for this place and the community we have made.

I am glad that you continue to contribute here, mubs. Congratulations!

Aw, he's an american. That's how we make each other feel welcome. :)

I think I see Norton products on the list already, Bozo... ...Which is why the security model on Vista makes me do things like agree to yes/no prompts when I want to do something as simple as copy a file from one drive to another or run the various tools in control panel.

That's an overly simplistic economic model. You aren't the only dairy farmer; you have to compete with all the other dairy farmers, and one of you is going to value milk least and money most. That guy will satisfy as much of the demand for milk as he can, moreso than other milk-producers. If you...

... and why are we stopping at Quicktime?

Don't you know anything about werewolves?!?

Nobody here from Missouri. Blakerwry is from Kansas, which has had horrible weather as well. honold at Storagereview.com lives in St. Louis, if I recall correctly. Tornadoes are also no big deal, on the weather related disaster scale. Stuff gets knocked over and needs to be re-built, but they...

http://news.com.com/McAfee%20update%20exterminates%20Excel/2100-1002_3-6048709.html?tag=newsmap

I think Azalia = matrixed 5.1 from PCM stereo sources. ProLogic II-encoding, in other words.

There is a short, 3-issue comic series that takes place between the TV Shows and the movies. It explains what happens to the guys with the blue gloves and how Book got on that planet, among other things. There is no other Serenity-based material anywhere. Serenity the movie is in the black due...

Behold: The wisdom of the ages! Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man. Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time? Lawrence: Damn straight. I...

Oh look, it gets worse.

Coug, I'm exceptionally glad to hear you got that job. Relieved, even.

Nope, just DVD Decrypter for that.

Wasn't that the question? I am a torrent whore. I admit it. But one of my students gave me the OSX 10.4.4 DVD, so it might've come from ed2k or gnutella or IRC, and I can't say which for sure. :)

I don't, but a couple of my students got it up and running to play World of Warcraft. I'm under the impression that there's not much to it once you get the binary-only drivers from ATI or nvidia that support 3D.

I like 7 better than 6, actually. I love how well NeroVision and Nero Recode work. NeroVision is at this point my favoritest windows app, just because it properly and automatically handles aspect ratio and will stretch DVD bitrates as far as you tell it - most DVD authoring tools puke after 2...

Something random: a scientific comparison of apples and oranges. For the ultimate in online sarcasm.

OSX runs just fine on a PC, once you get the right set of patches. :D

Yes, but the label is still rather misleading.

Er... since when does DVD Decrypter make AVI files?

WineTools tends to make life much more pleasant for the novice Wine user. It's a menu for getting the important stuff in place. I think it does a better job of configuring windows apps on Linux than the defaults that SuSE ships with. DVDshrink is one of the apps it'll install for you, but in a...

The instructions might've been adapted from other instructions that were from some older version of SuSE. Doesn't matter, when one follows the steps, one ends up with the ability to play back almost any media file. I really, really think that SuSE is a ready-for-prime-time desktop at this...

Sites that claim to deal with "music" and yet can't handle classical music or jazz - aren't really sites about music. It's like claiming to have a porn site but only having pictures of feet.

No problem. That one link inspired a couple days worth of lecture for my Linux class. Gilbo, you've been on fire with the informative posts here, but you really do have to give SuSE credit for newbie user experience, dvd support or not. If gentoo builds in libdecss, it's gotta be the only major...

http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/

Do you think they'll make them for proper CPUs instead of just Intel ones?

It is a gateway product that may lead the weak-willed to use of other Macromedia software.

1. Go into Admin Tools - Services and turn the Sound Service on (Automatic and Started, actually) 2. Go into Display Properties and Settings and Advanced and Troubleshooting and turn the Display Acceleration slider up all the way. 3. Set your pagefile to a large, static size (same minimum and...

... and are evil.

I think I've said this before: .NET 2.0 is not entirely compatible with 1.1. In most cases, code written for 1.1 will compile and run fine under 2.0, but that is not 100% sure thing. My understanding, from talking to developers, is that it's pretty much an 80/20 rule kind of thing.

Er... aren't the newest Treos PocketPC-based anyway? Personally, I don't think I could stand carrying around a Cell phone that big and chunky. Hell, I can barely stand to carry around a cell phone as it is, but those things aren't that comfortable to hold up and talk on, and I don't think...

Anyone who wants a free Buddy Code for Dungeons and Dragons Online, let me know.

Well, I was all set and ready to spend another day using Vista and to write about it it, but I had something funny happen when I turned on my Vista machine just now. All the way through boot-up, my display was completely normal. Normal colors, normal aspect ratio, normal everything. When I...

DEC + Compaq + HP = suck My recent experience with 3Com network equipment (APs and some managed switches) certainly haven't been bad. I've been thinking that 3Com has been getting better.

Too bad. I really liked Eccleston in "Cracker". I don't know that I could watch Dr. Who again. My association with the show is essentially based on one person I knew in college who personified every last one of the worst stereotypes one might have for a Science Fiction fan-type. The guy had a...

I will help you by taking one of the X1900s off your hands. :D

I'd have to split the files I want to transfer into 1.4MB chunks. I'd have to do that on floppy disks because the hard disk of that machine is almost full. I have to make the assumption that the floppy drive still works. Mac floppies do not use FAT. Newer versions of MacOS can read and write to...

Somehow, I don't think I can find CD Burning software that will work with OS 6 or whatever it has...