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SCO withdrew four or five months ago. I think TurboLinux folded English-language operations (they were basically "Japanese Linux" AFAIK). Don't know what's going on with Connectiva. Novell probably wants to further distinguish SuSE from RHEL and Debian.

I've never used what you guys are calling IM software. Mostly because all existing IM clients are nonstandard. IMO, the commercialization of the internet has killed standardization, and now we have AOL, Yahoo and MSN engaged in a corporate dick-measuring contest over whose "passes through port...

Apparently Lieberman spent some time last week giving a speech about why "Grand Theft Auto" should be banned. So, um, I know media censorship is part of his schtick, but 1.) Censorship is wrong in pretty much any form and 2.) It's a video game with an "M" rating. Isn't there something more...

It's not that big a deal, actually. Any webmonkey good enough to screw around with long, complicated URLs can unmangle the username out of it. It's probably more interesting as a power play to get coders to switch to one of Microsoft's authentication techniques (NTLM or digest authentication or...

I have a large book called "Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Operating System" that goes into far FAR more detail about process management than anyone but a system developer would ever need. If you're that guy, it's a great thing to read. Me? I pretty much kill -9 or kill -HUP and don't...

Newegg told me the gigabyte board I'd selected is in stock again, but after some review, now I think I'd rather have an Albatron K8X800 Pro II (gigabit, SPIDF in and outputs for a Via Envoy sound chip, SATA etc). ...which is now out of stock not available anyplace else I'd trust to buy it...

I think I'd prefer my warm NyQuil cocktail, actually.

Just wait Pradeep. It's coming your way. I had to scrape 8" of snow off my car this morning, another 3" when I went to lunch and then 4" more when it was time to go home. I hate snow.

Kerry, as I've said earlier, does not inspire me. Dean doesn't, either. I'm pulling for one of the moderates (Clark or Edwards), who will play better to centrists in the general election. Anyway, I don't think you can call the primary season yet. Clinton came out of nowwhere in '92. The press...

Yeah. I had a lab of Sparc 5s that literally no one used unless the engineering and compsci labs were full. In those days almost everything "internet" was done at a terminal session on a Unix Mini (Sequent, IBM or HP). Try to explain "CLI" to a comparative lit major...

In college I managed very large computer lab, usually by myself, in the Liberal Arts and Education Building on Purdue's Main campus. Literally, the least technical people to attend Purdue West Lafayette walked through those doors. I'm talking 1994 here, so if these things seem a little dated...

Don't feel bad Blake, my fastest CPU is still sitting in its box and it'll continue to sit there for at least another week. Most of the rest of my processors are XP2500s anyway. My little Appliance PCs #1: Mobile XP1700 + low-profile Speeze cooler on a GA7VAXP Gateway E4200 chassis (it's a...

Understand that I work at a company that trains others to use computers: They: "How come I keep getting these messages that're returned "user unknown" with "Unicode binary.exe" attached?" Me: "Because you have the MyDoom virus that I sent out a warning about on Friday, and because you insist...

I like Nero + DVD Shrink for my movie-stealing needs. Newer versions of DVD Shrink even burn directly. For capped video to DVD I use DVD MovieFactory most of the time.

Came into work this morning. My server was down. Bluescreened with different errors on every reboot. Opened it up to pull its main drive, noticed some bulging caps. So I pulled it off its shelf, and took a look in the light. Two caps had leaked brownish capacitor gunk over themselves, and 11...

AC97 is nothing more than an I/O specification for a sound chip (e.g. RealTek, Via Envoy, Crystal Audio...). You can use any chip you want, as long as, for example, pin #30 - 46 on that chip output a 16-bit 48kHz PCM stream. The upsample to downsample deal is a lot like trying to add quality...

Bad thing about AC97 audio: Part of the spec is an internal resample to 48kHz, even for samples which are already 48kHz, then a downsample to 44.1kHz for standard analog output. I know AC97 is good enough for a lot of people, but working in the same school of thought as "don't recompress MPEG2...

Ah yes, the pasttime of the IT worker: "My users so stupid..." White collar equivalent to "Yo' mamma so fat", but at times far more amusing. My users so stupid, I had a helpdesk call for a broken PC during a blackout. I've had worse, but frankly if I think about it too much I have to repress...

No offense intended, DB, for someone of south-Asian genotype and an Aussie upbringing, you're probably the biggest redneck here. :D

Received chip. Haven't gotten board yet. If you'd like I'll review the box it came in. :D

A start in the right direction. Better than a sharp blow to the head.

You forgot a few, jtr: One is an issue of climate. When I was in college I knew a guy from Florida who swore up and down that midwesterners eat to entertain themselves because they can't go outside all winter. Ever since I've observed that, and there seems to be some truth to it. One of the...

While we're discussing writers: No one has brought up fool's poetry, which is something else here that I greatly appreciate. Sad there aren't many outlets for poets in today's world.

Tannin, I'd be more than happy to be your host for a visit to my living room. We can listen to a disc that was recorded and mastered on an audiophile label, say Telarc or Chesky, for CD and SACD pressings. The audio equipment in my living room cost as much as a decent mid-size Sedan, so it's not...

I'm not committed enough to write for a living in any case. It's really frustrating that I can sit down after a really pissy exeperience and write something like the thing in the S*ny thread in maybe 5 minutes, but I can't seem to free the words for the story JoJo likes so much despite months...

Anyone here ever heard an SACD or DVDAudio disc?

That's changing too. Multichannel formats are de facto standard for movies, and increasingly common for recorded music. Two channels can't do justice to a lot of material.

My tactic for audio and DVDs is to just buy more jukeboxes. $300 gets you a nice, indexed progressive-scan changer that'll do you for 400 discs. No? Assuming you aren't some kind of freak CD-hoarder like me (I've toned it down a lot, but I have thousands of discs): Buy some nice, big CD...

Kind of an interesting thing: The authority on making slaughter less stressful and more humane is an autistic woman named Temple Grandin, who is also known for making a machine for austistics who, seriously, need hugs.

Computer I'm sitting at, right now: AthlonXP 2500 + Speeze WhisperRock cooler 512MB PC2700 (Probably Crucial) GA7VAXP 4x Samsung 160GB drives 3x Samsung 120GB drives 1x LiteOn DVD-ROM ATI Radeon 9700AIW Compucase clone of Antec Tower case 400W HEC PSU Windows 2000 Server SB Live 5.1 + HoonTech...

I recommend flame and urine.

Uh, sorry? I don't know why I wrote it that way.

Apparently, Sony actually repairs the original drive, rather than immediately sending a replacement. Hence the 6-week wait. That plus the plastic-coated blackened metal scraps were kicked onto some nearby train tracks... I think I can now give Coug a run in the "getting mad at hardware"...

I have nothing bad to say about the Jewish people, but no matter what mainstream messianic cult you belong to, the Israelis and everyone else in that region need to work out their differences, and our meddling and our foreign need to stop until they do. I think anyone with strong religious...

Er, that's OK for something that doesn't cycle a whole lot, but aren't those cards thought to be limited to just a few thousand rewrites?

I wasn't kidding about any of it. I don't think I've ever been that mad about anything related to computers in my life as I am about that. Sony returned that drive to me "with the remainder of its manufacturer's warranty", which ended January 17th, one day after it was shipped from their repair...

Which input? You mean like from VCRs or something?

We shall begin the Reading at Mercutio 6: verses 4 - 9, 12 - 17 4. And so, six weeks after I shipped out my Sony DRU-500AX, a replacement was delivered unto me. 5. And verily, did I install it in my Windows 2000 Server Computer. And in my haste, I chafed as it "Found New Hardware", I yearned...

It's good to have to watch my step for sock puppet leavings again. :D Welcome home, Tea.

My father's side is good, but the fact that my maternal grandfather, who was a healthy, athletic man, died at 46 is highly bothersome. That and I can't claim I do anything to take care of myself.

Lieberman and Arlen Spector need to switch parties.

I live in the Midwestern US. Fresh fish for me is an oxymoron.

I dunno, but if I could shoehorn a baby grand into my living area, I'd probably have to build a couple PCs into it to make it fit.

Good boards, but they cost too much for what they are. They need to be in line with Epox, and they aren't.

No heat in my office today. Typing with gloves on is fun and not as hard as I expected. bg: I've asked several times if I should continue writing her. She always says that I should. If she said no I would certainly obey that wish as well. As for setting my feelings aside, I really don't know...

Amy is a very attractive woman. Very athletic with waist-length chestnut hair. She was smart enough to get into med school and to do well there (although, I understand that she quit to be closer to her girlfriend). She put up with my faults; she fought to overcome them. She'd drink whiskey and...

Congratulations to your mother, jtr. ... and this folds back neatly into the whole Dean thread thing. I'm 28 years old. I personally probably won't live until I'm in my 60s, but as a matter of principle, I don't have an problems with the fact that when (if) I reach that age, Social Security...

There's also a lot more exposition in the extended edition, and for me, the highest-end possible DTS-ES soundtracks are reason enough to put down the cash for the extended versions.

The shame of it is, this is not behind me. I don't feel any differently than I did three years ago. I don't know how she feels. We had a brief conversation a few days after my birthday, but my calls have been unwelcome for some time - I think at her GF's request (who is a militant-type), and I...

Dear jtr: Bite me. Thank you. That is all.