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Wow. That would be a singularity of mediocrity unlike anything the world has seen before.

I had a cyst at the base of my spine, also. It was surgically removed, but the scar left my ass crack about 3 inches longer than it should be. It's really quite embarassing.

I can top that... My ex-'s mother was a SERIOUS hairspray user. She'd had, for as long as she could remember, what she called a "fatty lump" on the top of her head about 2" in diameter and about an inch tall. For about 40 years. One day she got a mosquito bite there. And she scratched it...

The reason you just gave is the reason I install and support Spamihilator on client machines. It works with a minimum of fuss, is easily tunable to your needs and is simple enough that non-technical users can handle it. It's a minor annoyance to have to check the spambox every so often for...

The Belarc Advisor usually works well enough. Times when it can't pin down the exact manufacturer it will at least tell you a proper north and south bridge combination.

I hadn't been by Tony's site in a while. redhill.com.au is looking really good (as usual), but I thought it might be inspirational for the rest of us to read Tony's descriptions of the systems he sells, and in particular the justification for the way his systems are build, his price, and the...

I lose this link all the time. It's on redhill.com.au, which is how I always find it, but for those who don't know about it, this is a really handy site.

Yes. No problems to report with either. They're just, you know, Gigabyte.

Hee. About a month ago I had the great fortune to find some... not very shy at all young ladies while I was walking around the Lakefront with my camera. I was trying to get a picture of the Chicago skyline from the Indiana side and these three girls were out tanning. They asked me about my...

I have NEVER heard anyone claim that a gigabyte board was a mistake. I'd really like to know your basis for that valuation.

Circuit City carries them. They look really nice.

I did indeed say "Arr" a lot on the 19th. My customer didn't really get it, even after I explained and showed him the web site, but I tried...

They're moving out of residential long distance completely. They'll preserve the service but will no longer market it or actively seek new customers. Like with dialup ISPs, there's no money in home service. I had the surreal experience of being at BP/Amoco's Naperville Research Center as a...

Right now I'd suggest Knoppix for demonstration needs or SuSE for a smartly-packaged commercial distribution. But then, my boxes use boring old RHEL, still. I can't even convince myself to jump to Fedora. Mandrake might as well be called "Toy Linux". I see machines pretty much weekly where...

Not arguing that. White communities in my area de-facto do the same thing. The just aren't as open about it.

Who are, let's face it, ~80% of the population of Detroit.

Yay Handruin!

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How about this one: . Let's face facts: Iraq didn't have WMD. They WANTED WMD, but then, if your national interests aren't pretty much identical to the West's, you're going to want them anyway, if for no other reason than to assert your right to self-determination. Craft your own simile on the...

Tube made by Thompson?

... and I've never had a problem I could attribute to a Via chipset, even though that's part of the overwhelming majority of the boards I use. My Asus A7N8X and A7N266 both have weirdo sound problems which I believe are nforce-driver-related. My A7N8X rejected three Mushkin DIMMs before I found...

The first thing I did when I got mine was fdisk it. Mine didn't come with disks, either, but I don't give a damn. 2000 installs fine. 2000 works fine, and all those stupid discs would've just been the clutter of things I'd never use. I can't even believe you're bothering.

I'm sure it will be comedy gold.

Or I could just send you an appropriate sysprep'd ghost image, since I solved that problem some time ago. :)

It can't. What you COULD do is slipstream the drivers you need into an XP install directory, and work from that.

I bought 16 G450 dualheads for $30 apiece today. :P Honestly, I don't believe that any manufacturer in consumer space is making nvidia-based cards with an emphasis on visual quality. Yes, I'm biased as all hell. I'm also right. :P Really, you want an nvidia card with decent output quality, I...

Still waiting for a justification of this statement.

Just to follow up... After some investigation, I discovered that the problem on both of the DFI boards I bought was caused by extra-long bits of "flash" from the soldered traces on the back of the board. These little spikes were just touching the motherboard tray on the chassis. Since I...

By the time that happens, HDDVD will be available and... BooST bought some kind of Falcon Northwest boutique fancypants laptop. The hard disk, at least in the T-series notebook, is easily replaceable. Since the R is a hefty beast in comparison - more room to work, I'm sure you'll be OK. The...

I installed it on about 20 PCs today, then found that I couldn't hit texturizer or mozdev for updates. Guess they were too busy? I notice that both it and IE6.xp2 seem to use the same system of putting program information in windows right below the address bar now. I like that. I also like the...

I'll even buy the board and chip if you'll sell at that price.

The NT Server and the router, maybe?

Part of the license agreement for MP9 was to give microsoft the right to inspect the contents of your hard drive. Offline content or no, I'd call that a security concern.

Tannin, will you do yourself a favor and at least LOOK at the IBM stuff? And the clam chowder I had for dinner tonight didn't taste very good the second time.

Very sensible and utterly unable to boot windows, no matter what I try. Wow. What a great product. Knoppix starts OK at least. :)

I'd say the S3 Unichrome graphics product looks at least as good as a low-end nvidia-based card. To me they are acceptable, even at 1280x1024.

I've seen bad NICs take down whole segments. But that's generally not something that's intermittant. Browser election problems wouldn't cause ping to stop working. Mark's DHCP server scenario sounds really good though. Maybe someone has an 802.11 AP plugged in someplace that had to be reset...

Shuttle gave me a real hassle about not returning a board to the vendor during the first year of warranty. I had to argue that I had no idea where the board came from (pulled it out of someone's home PC), and I was asking for warrranty service based on dates I found on the PCB. IIRC the board I...

Bought a couple DFI K8M800-MLVF boards last week (u-ATX integrated everything). We'll see how these are. DFI boards aren't terribly exciting, but this one has a comfortable number of big caps and a VERY sensible layout.

There's no compelling reason to switch. If nothing else, after 6.4, the new versions just get uglier and uglier, on top of the DRM functionality and the native support for ripping only to crappy .WMA format.

That's about 5 degrees warmer than any Samsung drive I have, and a lot of mine are sandwiched five in a row in cases with no active drive cooling.

Blah blah blah nvidia crap blah blah Solid Linux support? Awesome 2D? You want a Matrox card. Find yourself a G450 and bask in the warmth of its greatness.

I think on the scale we're dealing with, the dynamics might as well be fluid. Air currents to something that weighs thousandths of a gram are anything but insubstantial.

David's picture reminds me of something I saw linked through slashdot.

When you think about what a hard drive actually does, it's positively mind-boggling that they work as well as they do. You've got read-write heads travelling microns above a surface spinning at buzz-saw speeds for hours, days, weeks or months at a time, without so much as a single, disasterous...

I was pointing out that the ATI card is pretty much a bargain in comparison. That's all.

Grounding problem. Ha! Knew it. :)

Pretty much all our early rockets blew up on the pad, too. Engineers get to make very expensive mistakes, don't they?

If you look at those benchmarks, some of the 9550-series cards actually perform better than 9800SEs in some tests.

An IT manage at one of the area's casinos came to my office to take some Cisco exams late last year. We were talking about SANs, since I had a book on my desk on the subject, and he told me about *his* experience trying to use Raptors instead of SCSI drives in a cost-saving effort for his SAN...