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I have two cats, named Will and Grace. The local humane societies wouldn't let Amy and I adopt a cat because of an enormous risk of FIV and Feline Leukemia in the feral cats near my apartment, so we drove almost two hours to a vet that operates a non-kill animal rescue. When I got my kittens...

You have to remember the ":)" Some of my favorites: Most of these are available through either ucomics.com or comics.com. Dilbert Doonesbury Get Fuzzy Boondocks Zits Arlo & Janis Rose is Rose And of course the late, lamented Bloom County/Outland, Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side. I'd add to...

I think that's the point, Bartender.

I'm a big fan of sequential art (aka Comic strips and comic books). While I was looking at some books of comic strips I was thinking about buying, I ran across something that I find hysterical. A little background: Family Circus is an obnoxiously unfunny comic strip about raising young...

IIRC, phoenix was one of the early birds. Back with GaryH. I came to SR in late 1998 (November?). It took me an entire year to get 100 posts but I lurked quite a bit. I think I found a link to SR on a visit to anandtech.com, and the forum by the "active topics" link that used to be in top...

After hearing it on infinite repeat for about three hours today, I have concluded that "Yellow Submarine" is without question a leading candidate to replace "Being force-fed my own scrotum" in my recurring nightmares.

... or transition to 64bit Linux, which seems to be more in-line with HPaq's strategic posturing of late and would doubtless pose less difficulty in portability.

Now I'm going to have to break out my VCDs and look, 'cause I don't remember.

Gary has, IIRC, six personas on SF at the moment. Maybe more. Which is OK. Every time he goes away for a couple month, SF gets a couple new users when he comes back. :)

True story, by the way. And a great movie. I was blown away when I first understood that people actually lived through that. I'm sure Tannin will chime in here and we'll have a marvelous discussion about the practice of selling command ranks to aristocrats in Victorian-era Britain and the...

If you'd like, I can give you all the A+ material in the entire world. I teach it, after all. :)

I don't recall any 486-era system boards that used SIPPs actually. I think they pretty much died on early 386 systems. Internal modem + cheap ISA soundcard + an I/O board or two + SCSI controller = a fun couple of hours for a tech. Especially when two or more of the above don't have manuals.

Cripes. What does automatic update-downloading do to us poor modem people... or mid-size companies with marginal internet connections? If nothing else, there's always the DisableWindowsUpdate policy, as crappy as that would be...

Geez Mark, you forgot that she'll need to install her SIPPs one at a time. :) Personally I always enjoyed dealing with wide SCSI drives on SCSI-1 controllers (the adaptor is HOW much?)

I asked about a 512k fractional line last year (only $380 a month from SBC!) and the super told me "no". Also "no" on Primary and basic ISDN (ISDN is good here - we don't pay per-minute in Indiana). Didn't ask about Frame relay and I don't have the equipment for that anyway. :( The place where...

Of course that can cause it's own special problems...

You all suck. I just want you to know that. I started downloading it and PEAKED at 1.9k/s. :P Oh well. MS will send it to me on a CD in a couple weeks anyway.

Gray hair doesn't help either. :(

Some of us fuddy-duddies can't understand the lyrics to ANY pop music. Bleh. Everyone sings like they have marbles in their mouths. Heck, marbles would be an improvement for most them. :P

What ever happened to this?

Nope. Not much at all.

You went to Purdue, Cliptin? Great movie house? The Virginia Theater in Urbana, Illinois.

I see no problem with the above. You haven't seen anything until you've tried to read a couple pages of Goethe in German. In college it was a game I liked to call "Where's the verb". Besides, I've been known to do the same thing. :)

Scooby Doo, btw, sucked HARD. I wasn't a cartoon watcher when I was little but man did that thing reek.

I took Amy's nieces to "Lilo and Stitch". I laughed out loud a lot. What a fun movie. Minority Report was good, too. A good visualization of a plausible future if nothing else (plot hole to drive a tank through). I'll see Goldmember this weekend if I manage to get out of bed. I hear the first...

I gave SR $20 twice. Not so much, really. But I also pay for salon.com, $300/year to NPR, $50 a year to the classical music radio station, $100 to the local women's shelter... so $40 wasn't bad. I got a nice note the first time I donated, nothing the second time. I'm not in Eugene and Davin's...

It seems like a decent enough idea. I mean, it'd be nice to write introductions for everyone but some of the folks here probably wouldn't do it for themselves and the rest don't know what to say about 'em... Maybe a dreaded "sticky thread" would do well enough.

I'd love to get my hands on a Honeywell keyboard. More because it's one of the best companies I've worked for than the quality of the keyboard itself. time is right, though, that Honeywell's input device business was ultimately sold to Keytronic. This happened many moons ago - I remember it...

I dunno if "all over" is the right word, but I think I can find your little guy a good home.

My regular, crappy, nothing special PCs are hooked up to $50-on-sale-at-Circuit-City 500VA IBM OfficePro SPSes that I think are rebadged TrippLite units. They work fine. Since I only ever hook up the box itself to the UPS, I get maybe 15 minutes of life out of them for just a PC. Just for fun...

Wow. The 512k of memory in my first PC seems like a luxury by comparison. :)

I'll take it.

Well, for the sake of comparison, Atari 2600 cartridges were only 4k. I think. Amazing things were done with that.

IBM is kind of its own special little tragedy. There are probably more smart people working for IBM than any other business in the world, yet because of its bizarre business culture, for all those brains, nothing ever gets done right there. Matrix management is evil. There are a large number of...

My father did a great deal of work on DEC machines like the ones Mark is referring to. I don't remember having one around the house but I know we did have a VAX sitting in our garage at one point.

What I'm working on are many, many pages of notes with screenshots and digital photos and notes for my classes. The largest one I have - for my Network+ class - is 24MB, which takes a long minute or so to open on my big Windows box (XP1700+), and about a minute to save, but only small parts of...

Have you looked into so more the more modern quasi-*nix systems, cas? Hurd? AtheOS? In a way it's kind of a shame that ideas from Unix keep getting used over and over again as the basis for operating systems. On the other hand, those ideas - and the tools that implement them - work pretty damn...

Hey! That one's pretty cool.

Starbucks, in the US, does a very good hot chocolate. One of the cheapest things on their menu, too. I've been told more than once that no one in the store actually knows how to make one - I guess nobody orders them. Real hot chocolate is a vastly different thing from hot cocoa, which is the...

You have to get rid of the scripting host .EXEs and disable ActiveX and Javascript, too. THEN you're in good shape. And pour salt over the sectors on your hard disk where Outlook-ish software was installed. I have no problem with AV software on a business workstation. But it's disgusting that...

So, you don't have RealPlayer or Quicktime4 installed, then? I actually make PDF documents (with lots of embedded graphics) that exceed 20MB pretty regularly, and yes, it can "freeze" a machine for several seconds at times.

When I get a second $20,000 router, I'll let you know, timwhit.

You mean I'll finally have someone to dump my collection of sub-28.8 modems, Bernoulli drives and QIC-80 cartridges on?

Clearly, the "Simpsons" reference in what was meant to be a serious thread was a mistake. :D

Value for money? So if OSS delivers software with any value at all, does that make it infinitely better than Microsoft's? Proprietary? There goes all of MS-Office, except maybe Word (.doc files can be made with HTML editors, after all).

Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do! Who keeps Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do! We do! Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do! We do! Who robs the cave fish of their sight? Who rigs...

That's not the point. I really don't care about post counts (yes, I post a lot. I have lots of free time. Even when I'm working), except insofar as the fact that part of the culture of SR either vanished or stopped paying attention. At least most of the newbies remain fairly civil. In that...

The best thing to do is to wander over to look to see who is post and who is staying online. That and I always look for support questions to answer. Piyono and Bikeman always have interesting questions. :) I hit 1000 posts there two weeks ago. No one noticed, which said to me that not enough...

James, I bought a few Philips "Avenger" cards recently and they seem to do OK under 2000 and 98. No idea about XP though. No complaints, which makes it a damn sight better than the PCI512. I thought XP had a driver uninstall feature. Doesn't it? Another thought: Why is it so hard to make a...

Without exception I can't think of an operating system that handles multiple CPUs really well and really gracefully. They're all basically retarded when it comes to that. OK, since fushigi will probably come by and mention it, mainframes OSes do it pretty well (mainframes are lots of little CPUs).