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Via 4in1 1.46 - 1.4MB DirectX 9 redist - 33.6MB []DirectX 8a redist 11.2MB (for 9x machines) Total is 46.2MB so far.

Simple question: You've got one CD - 700MB - and you need to fit onto that CD hardware drivers of highest utility. We'll limit ourselves to drivers for 98, 2000 and XP, to make things easier, and no vomitbox hardware or printers. I'm just curious what y'all think should be there.

I know perl. I also know that debugging someone else's perl program is next to "sliding down a razor blade into a bucket of iodine" on my list of favorite things to do. What's wrong?

Try nice -10 gzip -c /dev/random >> /dev/null Assuming you have the right to set nice numbers, and that HPUX has a /dev/random (sometimes it's called different things). That should increase your load average somewhat.

Took me 2 weeks but I finally got the file transfer manager to download something. Before, it would do SOMETHING... at .1k/s or something similarly ridiculous. 15 minutes ago I made another hopeless stab at downloading the thing from MSDN... and I finally got a good transfer rate. My place of...

Er, unless I miss my count, that's also substantially more than four wheel drive, Howell. Do Aussies actually tolerate Paul Hogan? I should think they would've deported him to, oh, Burma by now. Of course Yahoo Serious is apparently some sort of celebrity over there, rather than the ironically...

There's no brain-dead way to strip attachments. Perl, maybe. The format of netscape mail (and lots of other sensible mail programs, including just about everything on UNIX systems) is called mbox. This is a plain-text file that is portable without alteration to dozens of mail clients. Except...

I dunno. Sometimes Carlos cuts the stuff in tha dime bags with Drano. You can never really be sure...

Hittin' tha rock in no way impacts my sobriety!

Hm. I might've thought they'd do more checking than that. I know I had to go through hell to get the MSDN password for my company changed. I actually just give my taxes to my father's accountants. I know how to do them myself, they're just better at it in a blood-from-a-turnip sort of way.

Odd concordance: SR, right now, has 95695 posts (probably 15% of them from the 10 or so most prolific posters) 12948 users SF has 31716 posts 206 users They have 3 times as many posts, almost exactly, and 63x more users. SF really is a community, folks. For a little over a year, we have...

Loud for a CPU fan. But amazingly quiet for a small jet engine. ;) Speaking of fans, Doug, how do you like your Microflow?

The only requirement is that you file paperwork at the county clerk's office. They'll advise you what you need to give your state dept. of revenue. You'll have to pay taxes several extra times a year on estimated earnings, which well and truly sucks, but if you don't make any money, you can...

After examining the machine I was reading from this morning, I think perhaps the reason I didn't notice the wrapping issue might've been the 1600x1200 screen resolution I was using. Just a guess, but little things are a lot less noticeable when that's your window size. It was that, or all the...

Beats the heck out of "Assweasel", I suppose.

Same topic, different names. I really don't feel this country is the "land of the free" any more. That's a very difficult thing to say. Certainly not what I was raised to think. Everything that I read and hear about, related to my rights as a citizen of the US in, oh, probably the last 10...

An action pack subscription is ~ $300. Considering that you get a full, legal copy of everything Microsoft makes (er, except games and the odd consumer package like Plus!), I'd call that a frickin' bargain. ... or there are the 120 day trial versions of more-or-less everything that you can get...

Hm. I've not been able to get the ISO from MSDN, either. Been trying for about two weeks. This is bloody annoying.

I got my happy-pack from MSDN this morning. Office 2003 beta 2, Exchange 2003 and... 2003 Server RC2 (only this time a "360 day trial version")? WTF? Didn't 2003 server go gold like a month ago? Anyone else have an action pack sub or MSDN? Didja get 2003 server yet?

Weird. When I get home I'll look at what version I was using on that machine.

Update to 1.4. Yes, it's still beta. Too bad. It works beautifully and it didn't do that on my linux box this morning when I first saw Pradeep's location.

I've got a few spare 8 and 16 port port switches. Linksys and Dlink. The linkys I still have are the old ones with the steel cases and... they really don't get hot. Are we talking about the old metal ones or the only sorta old plastic ones? SMC's low-end managed switches get pretty warm.

My router has two high rpm fans in it. One for each power supply. ;) A bog-standard linksys switch should be no warmer than room temp, and my wireless AP isn't particularly hot either.

MMMMMmmmmmmm... pie. obyugogHug.

Why should it? Given linksys's market, there really isn't much need to daisy chain equipment. When I do home network installations I typically wire 8 ports, usually four rooms with two ports each. Very few people need more connectivity than that in home/SOHO settings.

"Butt kicking" depends largely on point of view, blake. Radeon 9000s are in the low $60 range and seem plenty fast to me. If all you're looking at is 3D fill rates, the fact that you can get a GF4MX (approximately the same power as an Xbox, right?) for $45 or so has got to be pretty impressive.

I have customer who INSISTS on having meetings at hooters. Frankly, their food isn't that impressive and I don't think I'd choose to go there on my own, but the local establishment is a series of decks and recessed areas, such that there are short flights of stairs EVERYWHERE. The g-forces...

I can't stand wearing headphones, myself. My glasses are extraordinarily heavy, and anything that presses against my ears makes that worse. My one concession to my neighbors' enjoyment of my music was to put a much smaller/lower powered set of speakers in my living room. I use an Acoustic...

... nah, too easy. OK. Maybe just one. Lately the actions and decisions of nvidia have reminded me of latter-day 3dfx. I'd call that poetic justice.

I've decided that the TOSLink connector on those boards must be a digital input, 'cause coax works beautifully for both. Weird.

Pointless but funny war link of the day here.

Or weirdness from Opera. Whichever. Since I'm presently in a mood to tolerate software I don't like very well (eg, booting XP on a couple of machines), I'll give this latest version a go. Maybe it'll be less crashy than the last four times I tried it (last attempt was, I think, v5.5)

Yay! $50 AMD2000s!

One of my cousins has a ~1978 Volvo 240 with 580,000 miles on it. He commutes from Fithian, Illinois (the small town where I grew up) to Decatur, Illinois. I don't know exactly how far that is. Far enough. The thing is, that car is in perfect mechanical condition. I think the most work he had...

Cable isn't kinked. Connector is in securely. Cable works with a CD Changer connected to the same receiver, but I did try another PC with the same motherboard and sound setup, to no avail. No room to install a soundcard in this particular machine.

If you have both DHCP and a static address on the same interface, there's a very good chance for the sort of settings conflict that would make one or the other unworkable eg - You have an assigned DNS address from DHCP and a static one you've configured. Which one gets precedence? Does one...

Stupid Windows XP trick: If you've got ieee1394 on both machines, you can use that as your local network. Works very well. If you can find the right %$$ing cable. Otherwise, yeah, you should probably do the 2 NICs + ICS thing. It'd work better for your setup.

Check permissions on the "all users" folder under \d&s

I've been slowly but surely working my way through FreeSpace2 for the last 18 months or so. I must've gotten with a video or sound card. I found the CD and I'm certain I didn't buy it. FreeSpace 2 is also a lot like Wing Commander, in particular given the scale of the capital ships. I was...

My 9700AIW is a beautiful, perfect thing. It makes all the old DOS games I play look real real purty. :D Wish I could get excited about a game that's less than 2 years old....

720p or 1080i vs, say 1024x768NI? (or whatever the widescreen equivalent is. I don't know). Not to mention the fact that a computer display refreshes twice as often on its lowest display setting. I'd take my projector or my old presentation display over my brother's HDTV any day. Dad's 36"...

I'd exchange that card for another. ATI cards - video cards in general, even crappy nvidia or SiS ones - aren't supposed to do that, and I can't say I've seen it happen on any newer ATI card. In fact, the last card I can remember doing something like that, where I couldn't attribute it to EMI...

Anyone know why, despite the fact that I have SPDIF enabled and "digital output only" on my GA-7VAXP, I'm not getting sound from TOSLink to my receiver? OS can be either 2000 or XP Pro, and yes, the backplate is connected to the motherboard.

Yup. Tried it both ways, too. You can do a lot of testing in eight or nine hours. Never did get it working the "easy" way. Finally exported their OAB to a CSV file, imported that to Winfax's phone book and made my groups that way. ... but only after spending 90 minutes explaining to clients...

Don't make me drive up there. Besides, I invited you, too, and you're still here.

Initially we wanted to add users slowly, and we didn't want SR's admins to think we were competing or "cherry picking". I contacted a group of maybe 15 or 20 people to visit our site initially. There's a long list of folks I remember from "the old SR" whom I wish would drop by this site, if only...

Fully optimizes itself to your hardware, taking advantage of whatever unique improvements have been made with your CPU, motherboard chipset, memory controller... It's a half-step easier than doing a "roll your own" linux system and the results are supposed to be very impressive. I keep meaning...

Smaller crowd. High signal to noise. Some members (James, iGary) don't visit SR any more. Some (honold, Mickey) spend more time there than here. Some (Pradeep) seem to divide their time in half. I'm moving this thread to the Pub, BTW.

I went through a great deal of trouble to contact you. Friday, March 22 2002 I finally did. You visited, posted a couple of times and didn't come back. I don't know why either.

I've spent literally the last 6 hours trying to make faxing to a distribution list work. Should be simple, right? Make a list, make sure everyone in the list has a business fax number, pop into Winfax message center, select the group from the Outlook Address Book... Bang! "Some recipients were...