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"78% IE" -> Keep in mind that many folk visit SF during the day on PCs where they might not have control over the choice of browsers.

Eh. lynx was the first web client I used. Until I saw mosaic, I really did like gopher better, since its numbered links imposed more organization to the information being presented. Anyway, since my early internet access was all shell-based, it's the client I came to love. By the same token, I...

It's good to see new people here. Welcome everyone. It's good to have new members, and better to have new folks to talk to.

Disclaimer: I've never activated WinXP myself. I don't think you'd have a problem in either case of installing XP on the same PC. My students (a lot of A+ students like to have several OSes to play with) tell me that it's a fairly painless process, even for nightmare situations like "I had to...

Since no one is going to stand up for it, I'd also like to say that having lynx & wget are both incredibly handy utilities. I use wget to snag web pages via scripts fairly regularly (you figure out what I use *that* for), and lynx is excellent for annoyingly image-laden pages (e.g. most...

Supertrick is probably a better list than the one I made myself.

I use Moz very nearly exclusively. IE only for browsing on Microsoft's site while at work. When I had *nix boxes with KDE, I did a lot with Konq, because it was handy, but not that I'm purely WindowMaker, it's all Moz there are well.

Very rarely. Mostly they just don't happen. There are "Page cannot be displayed" messages where there would be banners and ads in IE, but once someone explains why, everyone thinks that's just fine. Moz user that I am, I really hadn't realized how bad the the web has gotten under IE.

If you're a dialup type, just don't ever disconnect from the internet, and don't bother to plug in a phone (I have one plugged in. I don't know what it sounds like when it rings). I have a cell phone for "important calls I can't miss", and telemarketers don't ever call my cell number.

At work, after watching a single page open 11 popups, I pushed a 1000-line-long hosts file out to all the machines. Now you have to work pretty hard to get a popup or banner ad. :)

It probably would've actually cost them less to ship you another M64. Assuming you'd want such a thing. Of course, I'm not going to sympathize over a broken nvidia card, since I think they're ALL broken, but at least you can buy something better now.

That sick feeling in the pit of your belly? That's why we call them vomit boxes. :)

DFI P2XBLs are the same way. 256MB modules have to be registered and the chips have to be in a 32x64 configuration. Also a BX board.

I wouldn't say that this test has a very high opinion of OS/2, given the answers I had to get it to come up...

Um... Star Trek 3? Maybe? Now that my day - or at least the last 45 minutes of it - has been made brighter by this glorious news of AOL's impending financial ruin, let's think about things for a second. WTF is wrong with this company?!? Time-Warner has a media library worth billions of dollars...

C'mon, A.D., A&P is actually a pretty interesting class. Along those lines, though, where's bluetooth support for, oh, anything on the PC side? 1Mbit is plenty fast for browsing and printing (I assume IP will run over it). A bluetooth printer that took jobs from any device within 30 feet? That...

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Yup. It was designed by Sid Meier (the Civilization guy) in the late 80s (87? 88?) after his famous "Pirates!" and before Civ.

Khan from Star Trek. Ming the Merciless is from Flash Gordon.

That guy will probably take 32MB EDO or FP SIMMs. 64s are actually iffy on many HX boards (the Tyan and Micronics HX boards I remember both had weird requirements for high-capacity RAM). I don't think I'd bother trying 128s, no matter what the book says.

You could use FIND to strip out the "/" from that string.

Sometimes I miss new posts, too, Groltz, but no. I was thinking of installing a tiny VGA monitor in the tower cases in my server closet, where space is at a premium and I don't need to interact with the machines THAT much.

There wasn't anything particularly exciting about AmigaOS, but the Amiga itself was so far ahead of its time it was scary. Considering that we're talking about, at most, the same 68040 processors found in late-model non-PowerMacs (basically in the 20 to 33MHz range), those machines had...

OK. I did it again. OS X again, even though I changed my mind on a couple of questions. James, you will live to regret that remark. :D

WTF did I do that I get OSX and everybody else gets cool stuff like HPUX and Linux?!?

Just to make a few things clear: I *currently* live in what would be called a low-income area. I support the idea of population control. I'm not hearing much from either jtr or Fushigi that I can say I agree with. Anyway, I guess this will be part one of Mercutio's contribution to the Storage...

OK. I've got to sit down and read all that's happened between jtr and Fushigi. Cripes you two were busy. Just keep in mind, jtr, that I *am* a teacher. OK, a trainer. Someone who teaches adults. Given some of my experiences, I've concluded there isn't much difference.

Welcome to our site, Cawood.

It's a joke. You missed a question. HURD is the GNU OS. "But isn't Linux the GNU OS?", you ask? Umm... no. Linus wrote the Linux kernel and used all of GNU's support tools with it. The reason it's a joke is, developers (er, a couple of them, anyway) have been working on it steadily for *20...

Current generation maxtor drives continue to carry 3-year warranty. OfficeDepot.com item number is 678133. 80GB Maxtor DM9 8MB cache. Enter coupon code 16006100. Shipping is pretty much always free. Office Depot also has a $30 rebate on the drive . OK. It's not a $69 120GB drive, but I just...

I'm OS X.

jtr - Bullshit. On many, many levels. I want to write a huge reply to some of your points, and I will, when I have more time. For now, though, remain assured that I am in firm disagreement with you.

Traffic is traffic, Prof. The internet was just as clogged from the billions of UDP packets SQL Slammer sent out as it would've been by the more traditional attacks that Code Red initiated. Distributed servers help allieviate traffic, of course, but all the supernodes in the world wouldn't help...

We're all throwing our money into the pot and saying "This is for public good", right? So we can look at things one of two ways 1. We can say that, by you "getting your money back to send your kid to a private school" that you've decided to withdraw from the public weal. In that case it...

Macromedia is in the business to make money. So is microsoft. You can bet that if microsoft had been the company that developed HTML, we'd be paying $99 for our license to use notepad to make web pages. (SGML, the basis for HTML, incidently, grew out of IBM's need for a standard documentation...

Maybe not, but in that case you'd have a de facto state endorsement of the private school, which is not a good thing. If we allocated $x to every student from age 3 - 18, that would be a different thing, of course. But to take things to a logical conclusion, if a non-public institution took...

Truth is, everyone DOES use the education that a public school provides, since everyone, in his or her daily life, relies on some people who were educated at a public school. Where's Flagreen? I'm sure he'd have an interestingly-divergent viewpoint in all this.

Really, a tank defends against RPGs by adding more armor. :) It's another arms race. Better armor will only lead to better AP or HE munitions. In the end, it's probably easier to build a thermonuclear hand grenade than it is to build a mobile box that can protect its occupants from a...

Bowling for Columbine didn't get wide theatrical release in the US, James. It played in art-house cinemas in campus-towns and in major cities. I don't even know if it will be available widely on video/DVD. Other than that, I can only offer a "Well said". Michael Moore deserves a hell of a...

Buy an LSI or a TekRAM? Seriously, the only way I've fixed a badly-flashed Adaptec card involved a FedEx truck... and the only reason they were willing to replace my card is 'cause Adaptec Support told me to apply the BIOS update. Somehow I doubt you'd be that lucky.

Companies that make devices that a molded to fit ergonomically in one's right hand shall also make an identical product that is designed to fit ergonomically in one's left hand. This shall be known for e'er more as the "Why the hell can't I get a left-handed joystick" Rule. Penalty for not...

Gotta say I think ATI won the battle for the current round of graphics cards. Ooh. There's another one. Graphics cards should not have PCI-slot-blocking, toad-shaped cooling devices that sound like a warhog rooting for food... unless the user installs one.

Nope. I was emotionally invested in my "Who Cares" response. Way I see it, I won no matter what. Although I really didn't know the game was yesterday. I spent my day fiddling around with someone else's misbehaving PC and reading Iain Banks novels. Maybe the scrotum-biting guy will make it next...

1.) You've been spelling my nick wrong. 2.) Here's Intel's AGP 3.0 PDF. You can find less dry reading on the subject through google.

How about an extra connector for the PC speaker, so every PC could get minimal sound support without external speakers? Some kind of easier HSF retention system. I don't care what, but remember how easy Slot 1 CPUs were to deal with? I'd love to have that again. AMD and Intel should adopt...

The super bowl was today?

Standard connector to add 3.5" drive cages. Like this would be so %$^-ing hard? Just to amplify another suggestion: PUT A STICKER over the RAID connectors, that says something like "Don't use me until you've got something on the other two channels or a valid reason to build a RAID" Er...

In addition to those things already mentioned... Better support for audio applications. There are a lot of motherboards and sound cards that give a choice between having a 5.1 set and having stereo + mic and line-in. Soundcard support for ProLogicII. Standard placement for an internal, standard...

Have you tried moving your drives to another disk controller?

I had never been to Antec's site before, but it looks to me like their "Value" line of cases are essentially identical to the Compucase branded models that I purchase, only $35 more expensive.