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Went out this afternoon and purchased a complete set of Schumann symphonies, the von Dohnanyi recording on London. I've listened to the first symphony (appropriately for most of us, the "Spring" symphony) so far and I find it very enjoyable. A bit up-tempo for my mood today but as captivating a...

Er, it's not like I'm accusing anyone of being evil. But nobody ever says "The Glowing Red-Eyed Skull of Hugs and Baby Ducks", either.

Talking about "Springtime for Hitler" reminds me of The Boys from Brazil. Let me tell you, I got some interesting results when I typed that into Google. And of course, talking about Brazil at all reminds me of a favorite dystopian vision and a really overlooked film. And we're on to movies...

Cat6 isn't a standard yet. Like PC2700 three months ago. Buy good-quality Cat5e and be happy your vendor doesn't need to soak you with a name their product isn't entitled to. On ordinary jobs I buy Cat5e from the local Home Depot. $47.50 a spool. Whatever it is, it isn't quite good enough for...

The outside-ness isn't voluntary. I'm stucl out here because the other member of my household has asked for the apartment to herself until she goes off to teach. :(

It'll be interesting to hear what Coug and Buck might say, of course. Matrox used to use lower-quality RAMDACs in OEM cards vs. their retail stuff. At the time it was a HUGE difference - 200MHz vs. 250MHz, IIRC for the Millenium II. The thing is, how many cards are you going to sell that will...

Operating from memory since I don't normally see most of them... My Bill Gates' Pie-encrusted face (clearly the best choice, I might add) Handruin's Matrix homage Flagreen's dancing something or other CougTek's Terminator Buck's Walt Whitman portrait/Wild-west saloon-keep Clocker's Homer...

I thought that one had some brains to it. Oh well. It's the one I was thinking of. It'd be perfect for all the SR/SF members with a half-dozen PCs in their homes. It'd justify your X15, at least. :) And I was trying to be realistic when I suggested 4x improvement over 100baseT for gigabit...

Tannin, wouldn't a simple move to the northern coast of Oz (Ballarat is in the southeastern portion, correct?) solve your weather complaints? Personally I like three of the seasons, and to get a real spring and autumn, you have to have a winter in there somewhere. Unfortunately. And like you...

Since my supply of cheap G4x0s dried up I've been using ATI Rage128s at the low end. I didn't see those on your sheet, but I find the green on light grey hard to read... Anyway, the Rage128 is a good enough card for most people. I don't know how drivers were historically (it's an old card...

Kristi should be here posting that for herself.

I should say, since I saw it a couple days ago, that Dell is selling 8-port managed 1000baseT switch for under $500. Which is really sweet. I'll see if I can dig up a link.

I'm not the person you need to be asking. It's all slow to me. But the other siite seemed marginally less slow. Which is just about as ringing an endorsement as I can make.

Do all those people really have avatars?

My favorite lullaby, for no particular reason. I suppose it's odd that a grown man have a favorite lullaby, especially one who doesn't like kids, but I sing it for my girlfriend's nieces and they like it. "Hush you by, don't you cry Go to sleepy little baby When you wake you shall have all the...

I have a BSCS and a set of skills that I try very hard to forget about. I always like the IT (service) side of computer work, and I find real-life programming highly unsatisfying And yes, I worked as a programmer, in an office I shared with threee other people, above a...

Invitations were made at the first, almost entirely to SR regulars who had visible email addresses. If you didn't get one, that's probably why. Sorry. The whole matter caused a great deal of frustration on our part. I think it's still a sore point. I don't think the traffic level is so high...

Hmph. Like a PM:POP3 or PM:IMAP interface would be that tough.

Y'know, we never did get that picture, Tannin... Not that I'd be able to see it anyway.

Is there any mechanism available to batch-save PMs?

I'm sure the way I speak is very different from the way you or Tannin or jtr or NRG or Gary H. or PeeWee speak (er, English). Probably that's an interesting project for someone here. And I'm not much for phones. I don't really like them, particularly talking to someone I haven't met before. I...

Am I missing something? I just noticed that there isn't a link to their AAM software on their web site. Is it something you have to get through support? Reminds me why I haven't bought a Seagate Drive since the Barracuda ATA II.

What, and lose the 250 days of uptime on most of my linux machines? Just so you can find that the vseek graph for a Maxtor 536X spells "Slug"? Or that my collection of (SCSI) Barracudas is slower than every 7200rpm IDE drive I own at this point?

I hate to think we're elitists, personally.

Thanks all.

Best wishes for your new boy, Jake.

Eh. Don't drink to begin with, although at the moment I wish I did. Just don't have anyone to talk to about what's going on. In fact, if I understood what was going on, I'd probably not be complaining. Here isn't the place to talk either. But since this is what passes in my life for social...

Just to break in for a second: DAMN why can't we have a thread like this on SR? I'm sure some of the new guys like cas and Sivar would have some cool things to say as well (but not me. I'm not an engineer and don't pretend to be), if they could see this... OK, please resume arguing about cache...

If I seem grumpy, mean or absent over the next few weeks, not that anyone will necessarily miss my almost jehh-like omnipresence... I'm living in something not unlike a particularly stereotypical "Jerry Springer" (that's the trashiest show on TV, period, for all outside the US) episode at the...

Since I'm on broadband for the day and forced to use IE I went and took a look anyway (thanks for the warning, though). I particularly like the last one. It's fairly obvious to me that those images are cropped to that white border, but I really like the color balance in the last group. I can...

Wow. That seems pretty bad. Do we have a (supposedly fast-seeking) 740X yet? Or a Quantum AS? Those are the ones I can run Vseek on most easily, although I can't post pretty pictures like y'all. I think I can probably do a WD600AB and maybe a 800AB as well. Everything else I have in a Windows...

I liked putting (free) StarOffice on the machines I sold. I thought it was a great value for the sort of work most people need to do. Then I started getting people bitching about the fact that they had "Office" but not "MS Word". Ingrates. I guess the branding wasn't obtrusive enough...

I don't know if this is true for other SCSI controllers, since all I buy is Adaptec (it's a name thing, the same reason I stick with RedHat for Linux installations), but on Adaptec cards, any controller with the same chipset will share the same IRQ. I've seen machines with a pair of 2940s and a...

When I was in Cub Scouts, a looooonnnnggg time ago, one of the things we did was make root beer. It was pretty cool. I don't remember much, but we did have to harvest saspirilla (leaves, I think) to do it.

My grandmother has your dad beat, GMac. Her oldest today is 67, her youngest only 29 (or maybe 30. Either way it's pretty bad). It's weird that I have cousins with kids older than my youngest aunt.

There's an email address I know Jason actually reads upwards in this thread. It's something like jehh@vzavenue.net. Or something like that. I think it's his personal, ISP-provided address.

James, I'd still like to know what you did that I didn't. I tried precompiled. I tried rolling my own. I used a default smb.conf and one I made by hand. I tried three different versions of samba even. I never got so much as a connection.

Given that the problem you're having seems to go away with a change in resolution or refresh rate, perhaps you're stressing the RAMDAC a wee bit too much?

I asked. They said no. I'm not going to pursue it, even though I see students using those machines for a lot of dumber things (most of the machines have winmx, kazaa and some of the other programs that install adware on them, and run those programs on startup. I want to fix it but the hardware...

Bartender, please inform Mr. Wilson we're no longer speaking.

That's all the quality, being transferred into RAM. :) Tea might be off my xmas card list, except for the little fact that I don't celebrate xmas.

Hurry up and get started or I will, Cliptin. I'm bored today. Waiting on FedEx idiot. Can't leave the apartment, 'cause that exactly when he'll come.

$30 USD to get a 10x burner seems reasonable to me. How much would shipping be? I know. Don't ask. But humor me.

Don't you have an old component preamp sitting around somewhere? Or a sound app that's capable of boosting your audio recording levels?

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > "Enable Quick Launch". Moz starts up with your PC, just like IE (er, on a Windows box). Opera the web browser just doesn't have anything on any version of Mozilla since the preview releases (about 18 months ago).

<thwip> *CRASH* Whoops. I slipped.

I don't see why not. I suppose the game won't be much fun if the story isn't posted at the end. Hopefully it'll be something readable. :)

That's another one of those things I don't have a sense of humor about. That last bit, I mean. Sorry NRG. I've always had quite a temper. Believe me. I used to get mad enough to actually see red (which I understand now means that I get so worked up I'm nearly ready to pass out). It caused me a...

LinuxPPC is pretty nice. Or Open/NetBSD. For look and feel, MacOS is really nice. I wouldn't complain about it. For myself I'd probably install Linux, just because I'm used to it. But I'd say that you should give OS9 a try first. It's a pretty nice environment. I will warn you that it's not...

Well, it's my idea. Of course I'm in. I thought it might be an interesting alternative to a slow weekend of minimal numbers of posts.