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Why is this such a big deal? The people of New Orleans mostly live so far below sea level that they have problems with coffins floating out of the ground when it rains. These people live below sea level, right on an ocean, and they had plenty of warning to get someplace that doesn't have...

I'm pretty sure the land of the free is Canada. I mean, there's a country where people can buy guns but don't regularly kill each other, get no-cost healthcare, have an abortion, marry another guy, watch "the Sopranos" on regular TV and get broadband no matter where in the country you live. A...

Well, the good news is, the Hurricane will be pushing some of the fertilizer-encrusted topsoil that normally drains down the Mississippi and into the Gulf Coast Dead Zone back inland.

I think the Wikipedia Entry is a bit better organized. Particularly the parts about benefits of conversion. Stripper Volcanos for everyone! Also, Creationist Morons might be interested in noting that ALL science can be refuted with drivel, as the Onion so beautifully illustrates. For those...

The metal structure may be a pain in the ass. But yeah. Get an AP - one that supports WPA, please, and a NIC - I haven't found the USB ones to work better, but they're supposed to according to some people - and you're in business. You might need a signal booster or amplifier to make your signal...

Oddly enough, one of the things I learned from my ex's partner (who was an enforcement officer of Chicago Department of Children and Family Services for several years) is that if women are aggressive enough, they can make it happen regardless of how the male feels about the subject. I don't want...

Does it actually need to be a separate process? Or do you just want to set up a second site?

Arizona is a Red State. I'll take the hurricanes.

Who said anything about "buy"? I need to check to make sure, but I'll bet I can set you up with something decent. Not sure about 4 DIMM slots. That's the main thing. What I know I have spare and working in Socket A land are an Abit KT7, a Soyo KT600-based something (which has the distinct...

Right now, I'm supposedly connected to a torrent with 22 seeders, 16 leechers - and I can see 30ish clients on my personal connection list. Total speed is listed as 206kb/sec. I'm downloading a massive 1 kb/sec. It's run all day (about 7 hours) like that. I've downloaded nearly an entire megabyte.

Oh. HDMI. For the uninitiated: HDMI is the "next generation" display connector, to supplant analog VGA or Component cables, and DVI. It is, in fact, an extension of DVI. The carrot for HDMI adoption is a single cable that can carry audio and video data... not that it would for anyone using a...

1000 lumens looks like ass unless you can black out the room. 2000 lumens is bright enough to work with with normal lights on. 1024x768 is worth the extra money. Below 1000:1 contrast, IMO the projected image looks washed out, like on a projection TV. Blah. 2000:1, much happier and more...

I can't say I've tried recently. And I can't think of any speed enhancements that Azureus has that BitTornado doesn't. I've been messing around with the UPnP settings on my router here at home and within BitTornado instead of manually forwarding ports to my annointed bittorrent machine. That...

I'd say those numbers are just fine. Guess that theory is blown. Thanks to everyone who did a test, regardless!

Gilbo's bad. I'm bad. David is not. Groltz is not. Handruin is in "maybe" land. Argh.

... which gets you exactly dick the day they decide to sue the tracker you like into giving up server logs, like they did to lokitorrents and suprnova users. Still I'd say the odds are 5 million to one or so that any particular user would get sued. I can live with that.

jtr, I'll set you up with a 1.2GHz Athlon and a Gigabyte board that'll take your RAM if you'd like. I might even have an XP1600 or 1700 someplace.

Can I get a couple more samples from you, Doug? 10k/sec could be OK with a torrent like that and it could be really slow, too. Basically, David's are running the way they should be. Gilbo's saying he had the same problems with the same site. Gilbo is certainly someone I'd trust to know what's...

Just so we're clear. Everything I'm trying to download right now has more seeders than leechers. I'm getting jack from anyone I've connected to through torrentspy. I ssh'd into my home machine (same cable, different segment) and launched some torrents there. Same deal. Demonoid is fine...

Download a client. I like BitComet, myself, but BitTornado is supposed to be the fastest. The client takes the association for .torrent files. Visit a site that hosts trackers, like TorrentSpy or the Pirate Bay or Demonoid.com or... Click on a link to a .torrent file.

She's on 6/1Mbit cable, same as me. She is using maybe 5k/sec of that with her open torrents (or she was last time I looked) + whatever she's doing with Firefox, which probably isn't much. She's spyware and virus free - we've already been through THAT mess. I verified with Trend's housecall scan...

Yup, but right now I'm on the same cable segment she is, and neither of us are having problems with torrent sites. If there was a port assignment issue I think it would affect any tracker we tried to connect to, not just one in particular. The way bittorrent works is that there's a central...

A couple years ago I bought a bunch of cheapie $5 generic cards with Via chipsets from DVcentury.com for some of our classroom computers. They have been completely fine. I think you'd be wasting money on Adaptec/Orange Micro/Belkin.

OK, I'm fairly certain I'm not the only person who uses bittorrent, here. Maybe I am. Whatever. Anyway, one of my customers keeps telling me bittorrent on her machine is broken. I RDP into her machine, and sure enough, torrents I can see that're well-seeded are downloading at like 1kb/sec. I...

Well those Laptops certainly are available. IBM's X-series, for instance. Personally I'd like to see better cheap laptops. I wish I could get a $750 laptop at something like the level of quality I put in a $400 desktop machine I build myself.

SATA drives in laptops? That need an even smaller connector? SATA data + SATA power are already about the same size as laptop PATA. I wouldn't think that to be a problem. Hey, I did see something about Intel offering native SATA RAID on laptop chipsets. I guess that could be interesting to...

How did we get from new members to costs for feeding cattle? That is a magnificent derailment. Bravo!

The vanilla GA-7S748 is actually that rarest of creatures, a board with neither sound nor network. There's an "S" variant that has sound and an "-SL" variant that has sound and network. Anyway... With the substantial upgrade that is the SiS disk controller, my trials became dramatically...

The "Lone Ranger Theme" is actually the middle bit of the William Tell Overture.

/Mercutio foams at mouth and makes gagging noises. /but is still trying to get a job in Canada. /Two interviews. Zero jobs. :(

I have a decent excuse to buy one for a customer.

Wish you had asked that about a week ago, when I still had my full collection of 7k400s...

Well, there's the little matter of your posts about nvidia graphics cards... But the Amber books just didn't grab me. I think I might've waded through two of them before I gave up, but as I recall, I got to about page 10 of the third one and found that I just didn't CARE what happened...

I like strawberry-flavored milk. And I drink things I find under the sink!

Don't feel too bad. I was in a stable relationship for seven years and, coming up on my 30th birthday, The 40 Year Old Virgin is only 10 years away from being autobiographical in my case. Yes, it's a funny, funny, funny movie that everyone should see. It's also more than a little depressing for...

Very interesting that Ted - an infrequent visitor, had I to guess - has continued the trend of positive comments regarding Samsung. These days the ONLY Sony products that I own or use are those that have no corresponding replacement anywhere in the marketplace: 400-disc CD and DVD carousels...

Jerry Pournelle lost all appeal for me as an author the first time I read his column in the old version of Byte magazine. I was maybe 14 years old, but I knew enough to fix a broken computer. I figured, if I can fix a computer at 14, and this dickwad can't even manage to work his word...

Funny but true story. I call it "Just how awesome IS a GA-7S748S?" I've only sold maybe six nforce2 systems in my life. Last weekend one of them died. Turned out to be a bad Asus board (there's a shock!), but as it happens, I have one sitting in the machine on my tech bench... the one that's...

David, how the FUCK do you get involved with two different human beings in so short a span of time? Seriously. Impart your wisdom.

I'm personally fond of the last book Zelazny worked on (with a number of other SF authors) before he passed away, an insubstantial little thing called "Forever After". And oh, those Niven "Known Space" Books. Great science fiction. Never cared much for the Amber books. Only made it through...

I have a T-shirt that says "Jesus hates you and so do I." I wore it grocery shopping once. The cashier had a "Smile, God Loves You" pin on her uniform. She turned white when I walked up to the checkout. I think we balanced each other out.

I'm about the same way I always am. I was out last weekend with my ex and her partner. Someone had a little too much to drink and was kind of clinging (clinging in this case is a euphemism for any number of barely-appropriate-in-public behaviors) to whichever of us happened to be closer. Seeing...

I think that the cars are not selling well.

Yup. There was an article in Purdue's school paper about that guy every single year I was there.

Groltz, we really do miss you when you aren't here. Congratulations on 1000.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I...

Speaking of "Busted"... (maybe not safe for work if hot geek Everquest-playin' chicks in purple bikinis are not safe for work. But it's probably OK to read the article, which is what I linked to)

Lack of performance, but astonishing battery life. I've heard of OS9 Macs getting 10 hours out of a single charge when they run everything out of a RAMdrive. Sometimes the trade-off is worth it.

Wrapping a .JPG inside a Word document would be soooo funny. But really, all it would do is shift your name to the bottom of whatever pile they have. I hate to say it, but in the current job market, not going along with their petty, bullshit rules is just going to make everything harder for you.

I'm personally fond of the 12 year old boy who realized he could make real-life money by being a (female) Simwhore in the Sims Online. Enterprising little tyke. Of course, a lot of these stories came to attention of the general public because of a site that IIRC was called "The Alphaville...