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Obviously there was "better" to be had. Slavery lasted another 100 years. African slaves were 3/5ths of a person. Women had no rights. And they weren't clear enough about the whole "well regulated militia" thing. There wasn't strong enough language WRT state's rights, so every time there's been...

This might sound silly, but can we divorce the idea of guns from the notion of self-defence? I don't think I can defend myself with a gun, especially given all thing things that might, in theory, kill me. Things I couldn't shoot. I certainly don't see guns as essential to protecting myself.

Is there anything wrong with disagreeing with them?

That is correct.

What are you using to benchmark? What kind of controller are you using? Do you have a Seagate drive or an OEM model? What else is on your cabling? What kind of cabling do you have? Uh, we need a little more info.

I'd be happy to give you $100 for it. :)

I would contend that there are very few legitimate reasons for ANYONE to have a gun (unlike, say, a joint. Or a hooker). Having a gun == criminal? Fine by me.

HEC makes a 385W PSU that's really, really nice for the money. I don't know how much they are in Finland, but they're $32 locally and $40 from newegg. It's nice and quiet, too.

If someone can convince me to do a home job I usually either bill $65/hr or $100 flat-rate. Sometimes I even let them pick. :)

I haven't yet. I'm going to take my camera to a store and try a few different ones out. Canon Lenses, at least, are really easy to find.

If it's got MyDoom, it has known security holes. Shouldn't be that hard to get it to remote execute a "shutdown" command. Or maybe you could write a .VBS to replace their IE start page with a friendly note to run housecall, then jam a pencil through their left eye socket. Is it illegal? Maybe...

Ordered a 10D. I absolutely can't find a D70 at retail. I looked for what, a month? Anyway, I hope to have it in a week or so.

I don't use AV software on my home machines. I check my machines with housecall about once a month. I don't use IE or Outlook. I keep all my PCs patched. I have a solid internal firewall in place. I sell Symantec AV to customers. Mostly 'cause I hate McAffee even more, hate dealing with the...

Where I live there's a coin show three times a year at the county fairgrounds. ... and for you nutcases, I think there's a gun show at least once a month. Same basic thing, except that sort of geekcraft doesn't lend itself to things like discussion panels. ;)

You really can't have a convention without the blatant commercialism. It kinda goes without saying, and in part it's also the profit center that'll bring the con back the next year. One nice thing about conventions is that the dealers are usually fans of <whatever>, too, and even moreso, they...

<Those with weak Sarcast-o-meters should turn them up now> NAV/McAffee didn't find all the viruses? Say it ain't so! <OK, I'm done now>

When I went to a comic convention last year I saw dozens of people dressed up. Y'know what? It was really cool. You can say "Oh, that guy must have an awful life that he put together a Klingon outfit to wear in public", but on the other hand, he's also making a public show of devotion, and he's...

Indeed Streambox is very available. I have it, if nothing else. I use it to save copies of This American Life.

Good of you to drop by, HD. Perhaps it's time for me to update my local copy of the Flashblock .xpi now...

I'm "making an effort". :P My favorite TV show is ending this week, and I got to see its star, to hear what he had to say about it. I thought that was worth the discomfort. Besides, there were only maybe 200 people there, and I didn't have to be near or speak to any of them. Fushigi was...

Left the house today. Went to Buffy convention. Lots of cute goth chicks, and I got see David Boreanaz and some other people from "Angel". Yes, I am huge, tremendous geek.

1. What's in Chicago? 2. There really isn't a happy medium. You're either the guy who wants to go too fast or the guy who needs to get out of the way. Add to that the construction nightmare that starts in March and ends in October or November, and frankly I'm amazed we haven't added turrets to...

Could be worse. Ever had a real System Operator job? It goes like this: Bored, Bored, Bored, SWITCH THE TAPES *NOW*, bored, bored, SWITCH THE TAPES *NOW* bored, time to go home.

OK. Here you go..

I saw it. Then I clicked the little "Adblock" button underneath the ad. And now all is right again with my browser.

Van Helsing is... not good. Underworld wasn't either. Both movies could be reduced to the heroine doing squat-thrusts in their leather outfits for two hours and been much, much improved. Serendipity is the kind of movie we now call a "chick flick". John Cusack is a favorite actor of mine...

I don't see any flash on newegg.com.

X800 v. Geforce 6800.

Not too long ago on one of my machines, thunderbird's adaptive spam filtering decided that mail from the people I work with should be considered spam. I had to completely reset the spam filters to make it stop trashing their mail.

Hate to spoil the suspense, but no Seagate drive wins a performance test. :) There is a shock, though, that the Samsung SP1213C (the SATA one) comes out in the top 3 in an awful lot of the tests, basically keeping company with the 7k250 through all the tests. Samsung drives just keep looking...

Do you actually think at this point that anything will bring a "prompt end" to the war in Iraq?

Hm. I don't ever tell browsers to remember passwords. I can't say I've noticed any problems in that regard. But the extensions, time, are godly things. "Adblock" - the ability to selectively, permanently strip page elements from page load - is manna from heaven, and the...

The only problem I *ever* have had with Firefox has been a screen redraw bug that only happens when I have hundreds (er, dozens, on crappy computers) of tabs open. That's it. But all the cool stuff more than makes up for it. My newest favorite extension is "Open in HTTrack". One thing I will...

... and yet it's hard to make Clippy go away. ;)

Can't I have both? (While I'm at it: Rumsfeld is scum. Like King George. But unlike our functionally illiterate Commander-in-Chief, Rumsfeld is a charismatic, likeable, intelligent guy. I've been vastly entertained by his press conferences, when I've heard them, and I'll at least say that out...

The actions Saddam took in torturing people were used as justification for our invasion. I don't think it's much of a stretch to ask that if we're going to seize the moral high ground on that particular issue, that we at least refrain from the act itself.

I'm far too partisan to even bother voting, but honestly, this wasn't something that a couple of enlisted men were doing for the laughs. Even ignoring the fact that there is no justification for the US to invade a sovereign nation that did not pose an immediate threat to us (and let's face it...

With 3GB RAM, with Windows 2000 Server, XP Pro or XP Pro/64, my Athlon64 still pages. I never even tried to turn it off.

WinTop. Very handy toy.

OK, so it doesn't compare with nails to the head or to the Croatian Shock God, but This has got to be the best speeding ticket defense I've ever seen.

I'm under no such delusions. I just want to do the right thing for someone I care very much about. She didn't have to ask me.

It's supremely important to me. Invoking her name should say that much. If it was ANYONE else, I'd just do a tiny amount of search and say "this one looks good", and away I'd go. But this is like building a computer for your mom (no freudian interpretation there, please). You don't want your...

My understanding of current WD RMA fulfillment is that the replacement drives carry a warranty of 30 days. Since I had A LOT of exposure to WD's RMA department in 2003, I'm certain this is true for PATA drives. If it doesn't apply to their SATA models, it's news to me.

Only until you RMA them. The replacements sure don't.

Can we get back on the important subject? It's just really important that I do this right. The dual gigabit etc is WAY overkill. She told me today they pay for multiple Comcast Cable internet installs because they don't know how to network their PCs, so I want to put something down that will...

Hard to mess up mirroring. I'd say go plain old IDE. Buy a couple Samsung drives in the 120GB range. Two for $150 or so. That's a pretty good deal and a ton of storage. Olny 3 year warranty, but the SATA drives don't really have it either (what's the warranty for the Raptor you get back after...

Because I want her to be happy.

To each his Dulcinea, whom he alone can name.

Oh, this is even worse. It's a present for Amy, and she's going to basically give it to her girlfriend (wife?). Stated purpose is to do video capture and editing with Premier. I'll be standing over here with Sancho. We're sizing up windmills this evening.