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I got a boatload of Ritek 2x discs (-R/+R) from allmediaoutlet.com for something like $.80 each. I use those at home. Bad experience: Imation +Rs. 50% coasters. Blech. They were the first things I bought, and when I got them, I thought my burner was broken at first. I found some 12-packs of...

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I'm an ordained minister. D'ya think I could get a job with WD? :D

Spamihilator appears to work marvelously. I just set it up for some of my lab machines and from the default settings it caught about 85% of the crap in each machine's mail queue (average of 70 mails). Setup was painless and best of all the program is free.

1. Uninstall mouseware. It's evil and buggy. 2. inspire a heartfelt "Eh, whatever" from me, too. 3. are really pretty nice. Fewer buttons for less confusion, although I have to admit I miss the middle button for happy use of Xfree (actually all but one of mine have the cord but it's still the...

IIRC 3 operational battalions with SOP to place 1 additional battalion in reserve and one which serves for HQ/Logistics/rear echelon types (the HQ battalion is usually the biggest one, too). ... and that makes a division. Three divisions make a brigade. 3 brigades make a corps, which, all...

You guys who for upgrade for "faster" IDE drives are frickin' insane. OK, *I* can tell a difference between IDE drives in a generation. Sometimes. In particular situations. And that may be familiarity with idle & seek noises as much as performance characteristics. I doubt there are many others...

... which explains the technical event of the spring, WinHEC. Yup. Intel runs the show alright.

First thing that comes to mind. Not saying it's good or anything, is ezboard.com.

That's how it should be, blake. You should backup /home anyway. It's like backing up \documents and settings on a Windows machine. Everything user-created should be there (including mail folders).

That's pretty typical if you're using WU IMAPd. Or you could be lazy and leave everything in /var/spool like I do at home. Makes backups a bit easier. :)

Axis of Evil Wannabees by John Cleese Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil", Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of...

I bought a bunch of newish, dead drives off ebay a few weeks ago. $30 + shipping got me a little over 300GB of disks. All but one had a usable warranty (the one was a 30GB compaq OEM drive). I had to send them all in as RMAs, but for maybe $70 all told, I'm more than happy with "bulk storage".

To summarize: 5400rpm drives are going away, SATA drives are beginning to be adopted, enterprise SCSI is moving to 15,000rpm, and, to give away the ending, drive manufactures are gonna ship more drives this year than last. That took cold, hard look at the industry, didn't it? ;)

Manuals and BIOSes can be found here. PC Partner made WAY too many VX motherboards for me to guess as to a single procedure. PC Partner's site is slow beyond rational comprehension, BTW.

Ayatollah Bush does sound kind of like a religious loony, doesn't he? He talks of crusades in the middle east (he did, literally, use the word "crusade"... and I'd take a bet that's a word that'd get Arabs a little riled up) and mentions the fact that he "prays for guidance" and that "god...

IIRC, your major backup vendors have modules for backing up exchange now. Legato Networker does, at least. I have an exchange server at work that I maintain by the simple expedient of not backing up at all. Works fine for me!

I don't think of hard disks as reliable media for long term storage. Even mid-term (1 year-ish). I have drives that are approaching their 16th birthday that still work. I also have drives that didn't live two months and I see the trend heading more toward the latter. Drives are GENERALLY not...

Why the hang-up on DaO? Why CD-RW? ntbackup can write to a CD-Rw, only files with a changed archive bit. That'd work. right? You can write the backup job as a batch file that runs when you double-click it. If there's no worry about filling up the disc, only replacing changed files and adding...

Er, doesn't Nero make its hard disk backups in Disc at Once mode? Are you needing more selectivity than Nero? And then there's ghost, which requires some quality time in DOS..

1. Saving business email is a bad idea unless someone is making you. 2. I'd shoot anyone who sent me 5MB emails regularly. Really. Shoot. That's completely abusive if that traffic is going out to the wider internet. 3. So... they need to refine their practices. Email a link to a web site. Don't...

Mickey refuses to comment whenever I accuse him of that. But then, he also knows more about WD drives than even Buck, and occasionally mentions designing drives for a living, so I think we can draw our own conclusions.

Spoken like someone who has never been awakened by the dreaded 3:00AM pager.

Requires Acrobat. It's worth it.

Here. I tested it. It works, enabling you to play DVDs with WMP8 (whichever one comes with XP). Kind of a neat thing for fellow system builders here.

Not interested. Not enough space. Plus not enough Maxtor or Samsung.

You do know that you don't have to do that any more, right?

Crap I'm behind the times... most of my PCs have only 256MB of PC2100. Sigh. Only two with PC2700.

Nope. In fact I had a fairly long internal debate about what, exactly, it should suck hard. In the end, I decided to leave it to our various imaginations.

mubs, the last person to call me "gallant" dropped out of medical school and now lives with a 300lb. lesbian. Are you sure you want to use that word?

What's with this sudden fascination for logging out? What are you people, communists? I've got my eye on you now, you... you... people who don't want to be logged in!

Trackman Wheel cordless. They work OK, but I'd rather have cords than change batteries. Trackman Marble Wheel units are my rodent of choice. I buy refurbed units so I don't have to pay $50 apiece for them, but I'd pay that if I had to. They're superb little pointers. I can't even get the things...

What kind of RAM are you using?

I'm pretty sure the the now two-year-old+ palestinian uprising started basically the same day Sharon paid a visit to the Temple Mount. IIRC Netanyahu <sp?> was still in office then. Of course, putting hardliners in office after Shamir and Rabin was more or less the regional equivalent of...

Delete your sf.net cookie and try again?

jtr, you're right that your comments sound extremely anti-semitic.

I came to a similar decision some time ago. Basically, I see a combination of factors playing into each other, including the currently ascendant right-wing government, general religious loonieness on the part of orthodox jews (the kind with the most rights in Israel), general loonieness on the...

You're far from the only one.

Got your attention, didn't I? Read all about it here. Story has been on /. since last night but other sites don't seem to be pick it up, so here you go.

Step away from the crack pipe, Tea.

There's a 200MHz setting for mine, and the default DIP switch setting is in fact 100MHz/Other. You need to install the EasyTune app to do any real playing.

Probably NFS then. There are a couple of USENIX whitepapers on dual NFS domain security. You can point your IT people to them, but they may very well have a technical reason for not being able to do what you want.

Are we talking about NFS administrative domains or Windows security domains?

If you were using Mozilla, Netscape or even Mosaic, you could've right-clicked to "copy link location". Just one more way IE is keeping you down.

It was a Barrracuda II with THOUSANDS of bad sectors. I was extracting my revenge with an insulated flathead screwdriver. :D See, I'm not prone to random acts of computer violence like CougTek. I'm cold-blooded and methodical. Kind of a Vlad Tepes for bad computer parts. ;)

iGary's comment reminds me of a funny story involving my very determined ex and a Hitachi MagicWand...

I'll paypal $5 to the person who can tell me how Seagate SATA drives and "leading entertainment technology" retailers have anything to do with each other. The last time I saw a seagate IDE drive do something entertaining, I was prying off the various chips under the SeaBra while the drive was...

For the life of me I have no idea whether or not you're kidding. Fortunately, there are 24,300 other sites that also match the search terms +anal +golf +dick. We appear to have lots of competition. There were 60 hits for "anal golf" as a phrase, by the way. I shudder to think what unholy...

CougTek is correct. In fact, I remember my Intel Sales rep telling me BEFORE I EVEN SAW A SLOT 1 package that they'd be moving back to Socketed CPU at the first possible opportunity (of course, at the time I was told both would be options for the future, too), once the technical aspects of...

Here. Some motherboards will boot off these, even if they aren't explicitly bootable.