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A co-worker whom I had previously held in high esteem has a "W" sticker on her truck now. I can't decide whether I should immediately lose all respect for her or if I should just commence ignoring her like I do everyone else at work.

"We are the party of the open door." -- Haley Barbor, Missouri Governor, member of the Social Issues plank commitee for the Republican National Convention, which mere hours later adopted a position on a constutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Just, you know, not an open closet door. How...

How about loose gravel, broken glass and cleats? Man, that would be fun for all ages!

I'd say that's a rule that defies common sense and makes the game less interesting, then.

Maybe a quick burn fuse instead of a string.

Why not? It's still in the air, isn't it? Am I missing something fundamental in the definition of the word "catch"? 120 degrees isn't really very hot, Buck. 500 degrees, now THAT's a hot ball. Even better, why not just use a live grenade? I'd even be so charitable as to leave the pin in.

Er... what's wrong with that? He bumbled a bit with the ball and then he caught it. I'm not seeing a problem there. If he bumbled the ball a bit and then it touched the ground and THEN bounced into his glove, that would be something to complain about. Seriously, I think I'd be more proud of a...

Must... resist... temptation... to... make... porn... joke...

Please stand quietly while I hunt you down for to beat you down with a nice beige case panel.

Sounds good. Can you ship it today?

I've found "Super" equipment to not be very reliable in proprietary operating modes. I went through something similar to what Doug is describing with Netgear and DLink "SuperB" hardware.

Yeah. What Mark said. I've done it using Sysinternals' ERD Commander, but the results are not pretty or functional.

Wait, it gets better! In Canada it's 14 plus or minus two years, or 18 for consentual sodomy or sex with an authority figure. Hungary doesn't have an age of consent for lesbian intercourse, but hetro and gay males have to wait until they're 18. Ireland allows lesbians and oral sex at 15 but...

And then there's Georgia, where the age of consent is or was until recently 12, but only if the child in question wasn't a virgin. Ewwww. Is this thread derailed enough yet?

Personally I think the female gymnasts need to be a wee bit older. It's grossly unfair to watch some lithe little person do the things they do and then remember "Oh yeah, she's only 14. Bad Merc!"

It's a good idea to get A service plan on a laptop. But I personally don't think it's a good idea to buy a laptop from the likes of Circuit City or Best Buy. I tell people not to do it, in fact. No offense to Bookmage. My problem with the laptops sold at retail is that they tend to - what's...

Athlon I'm hoping to get something for around $30. That's a little cheap for an 1800 chip, but I wasn't expecting anyone to have an 1800 just laying around, either. I'm not trying to lowball you; I have a customer with what I think is a heat-damaged chip and I just need something to slap in...

On an NT-ish version of Windows, you can change drive letters with Disk Mangement (control panel, admin tools, disk management). But you REALLY don't want to do that to your boot drive. REALLY really. I mean it. If it's a problem for you, then you need to reinstall.

I'm not much interested in theater sound for film, skeet, although I do enjoy it when present Glass breaking and stuff blowing up only needs to be convincing up to a point. I love my classical music, though, and there's no comparison between seven channels of audio being used to recreate an...

If you REALLY want it, and have an assload of online disk space somewhere, I have it.

Er, Itanium uses its own, vastly different 64-bit instruction set. As I understand things, even current Intel samples with x86-64 support don't fully implement AMD's spec. And of course there's going to be some "big iron" snobbery from HP that will probably serve to keep OpenVMS off commodity...

I suspect part of the reason skeet doesn't like doing multi-channel mixes is that for most types of music, he's used to stereo. The overamplified wail of live rock performances isn't about the melding harmonics of the instruments, it's about the melding harmonics of the stacks of speakers on...

Ahem. I shall now read from the book of Simpsons, season 4F, episode 14: At the construction site for the dam, Cecil is paying Bob a visit. "Hello, brother. All's well I trust?" "It most certainly is not!" Sideshow Bob replies, "The workmen you've given me don't know their asses from the hole...

At the moment, Linksys is unique in offering a Wireless repeater product; I believe it is the only company with FCC clearance in the US to manufacture and sell such a device. So last week when I purchased several of them, at $80 apiece. I was very interested in seeing how they work. And I'm...

No great loss on the Sony models. Sony's come in dead last in PC Magazine's customer satisfaction three years running. Regardless of my opinion that's not a very good track record. I have a hard time understanding why someone would want a no-name laptop. But I've seen Averratec notebooks around...

Walmart and ECS - the two deserve each other? Two fine purveyors of Crap have teamed up with a very special offer. Walmart, home to NASCAR-brand thong underware for toddlers, and ECS, home to surface-mount semiconductors that flake off like a week-old sunburn (I'm not making that up. It really...

Serious question: given the regular rounds of Seagate bashing engaged in on SF and SR (er, last time I was there, anyway), would you have purchased one absent the recent change to Seagate's warranty policy?

Athlon64s can run OpenVMS?

Anyone have an older model Athlon, Thunderbird, XP or Duron they aren't using right now? I'm willing to negotiate on price but I don't really want to buy a new one.

Let me be abundantly clear: I believe Western Digital makes a genuinely inferior product to that offered by any other drive maker. I know some of the people here only buy one or two drives a year. I buy about 70. Tannin probably buys ten times that many for his shop. I've shared my ongoing...

That's the best suggestion yet.

Are you talking about the foam-like padding?

My experience with the 634 is that its range is lousy. I bought one for a customer and another for myself (I'm using it only as a NAS device), and found them to have only about 2/3 the range of a WRT54G. If I get time today I'll write up my thoughts on WRE54G range extenders, too.

So, I did the LAN event last night. It was not as well-attended as I had hoped, but it seemed to go over well with the people who did come. I really didn't have to do much of anything. The games we ended up playing were Doom3, the Clone Bandits mod for UT2004 and Armagedtron (700kB Windows...

Belated Hello to Gilbo then.

Looks good to me.

Anything is better than a Western digital hard drive. Creamed corn. Child molesters. Islamic terrorists. It's all good in comparison.

Do you really think that consumer awareness of Raptors is that high?

The I/O shield included with cases is the one that matches the PC99 specification. Unfortunately, technology has outgrown the PC99 spec, especially with regard to the number of USB and audio connectors on the I/O panel of the motherboard. Personally, though, I find it annoying when a...

I have XP on exactly ONE computer. I am supremely pissed that it keeps fucking telling me to install antivirus software. Hi, Microsoft, last time I checked, AV software was OPTIONAL.

Exactly.

skeet once again proves my point. Compare this quote from the first page of Ulysses with one from our own indecipherable Englishman: With this one from skeet: And, just for purposes of comparison, very possibily the greatest literary challenge in the English Language, here's a snippet from...

Best place to ask is probably schools. Lots of teachers have them.

Well, OK, I got my September issue of Playboy today. With olympic jumping-person Amy Acuff on the cover. Yowza. (link is completely work safe and in no way has anything to do with Playboy). Now, what time is she gonna be on TV again?

Of course, there's always ZTree. Which is like Xtree, but understands modern filesystems, which is something that should make everyone happy. Unless your clients like all the "~1"s, that is.

This dude has cable internet to his house, but he's never used it. He apparently still dials out on a regular phone line. I've *seen* the cable modem. With a thick layer of dust on it! He thought it was supposed to make his dial up work faster. OK, so, anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one...

Original Macs shouldn't be THAT hard to find.

"How can you call yourself a computer expert if you don't know AOL?!?" -- former professional baseball player, current professional idiot I just thought I'd share that with you guys. Feel free to discuss.

Are you somehow suggesting that my hobbies are less than wholesome, Tannin? I'd like to suggest to Tea that, unlike other popular fiction, there is a rich legacy of strong and well-chracterized simians in comic forms. Postive role models are just what every growing oranguatang needs!

Supposedly they aren't. They have the same amount of cache memory and operate at he same set of mulitipliers and frequencies. The difference is that the newer mobile chips are made with a smaller fabrication process, I think.