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Nope, just every other PC doing SMB-type sharing.

Here's a fun little problem: Here at work I've got a fairly substantial number of home-type photo printers mixed in with normal inkjets (e.g. HP 932, 870Csi). As for why we don't have a networked laser printer instead, I don't know. But... my boss wants all our classroom PCs to be able to...

So which ones are socks and which ones are puppets?

RAM prices are up and only going higher. My understanding is that chip makers are concentrating on DDRII and solid state devices rather than making us the DIMMs we need NOW. I'm sitting on four assembled PCs right now because RAM prices are so high. It's really disappointing.

They're semi-proprietary. There are at least three different pinout for the bay-caddy connection, and if you use the wrong one, you toast your drive. I speak from experience here. Find a brand you like and stick with it. I use Kingwin trays.

The outbound transport for my home network is qmail. I'm perfectly willing to try it on mine. I'm actually more interested in the fact that I'll have a standard mail server on a standard mail port - verizon blocks port 25, which makes having my own mail server a lot more annoying and a lot less...

When you think about it, probably 90% of the drives in modern computers are way bigger than they need to be anyway. It isn't like most corporate desktops don't have the space for a program like that. Reading about it, it looks like a pretty good idea. Now, the fact they're sending mubs spam...

Before my co-workers started whining about the processor utilization graph in "task manager" , I ran a F@H on couple dozen machines in my classrooms with absolutely no ill effect (except my co-workers' eventual whining).

While I'm at it, who is Nelson?

What the heck do your customers play the most, David? I've been popping in periodically on your server and there's never anyone there but me and the bots. I've been looking at City of Heroes. It's an MMO - and as a general rule I think MMO players are one step up from pondscum, but I love...

Where're you moving, Kevin?

Well, that's certainly cause to break out the Bombay Sapphire tonight!

Pretty much. How is the Aphex "super proprietary wonder harmonics" in comparison to the DSP Listen modes on your average $250 receiver? 'Cause it sounds to me like they do the same things.

I lost my connection too. :( BTW, I suck tremendously.

I'll swap you then.

I could probably arrange a Radeon 9100 or something.

Any time now...

Shall we try again tonight?

It works on XP as long as the computer in question does not belong to a domain.

I sincerely doubt that there's anyone else here who listens to as much properly mastered classical music as I do. :) A couple of perfect examples of "showpiece" classical works are Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. In both pieces, the range goes from pianissimo to...

To quote Tannin: I can't believe you said that. It is exceptionally important that anyone in a support-type position have a good understanding of what can and cannot be done as a normal user. Even if you're the smartest IT guy in the world, you're eventually going to take for granted the fact...

My recommendation is to find a program and stick to it,, and to pretty much always leave normalizing on. The results sound better if you do.

The biggest problems IMO are people who use IE and click "yes" every time they're prompted to do something. That is absolutely the way that people have been conditioned in using a PC. Microsoft's Wizards almost always create a pattern of click "yes" or "next" and, let's be honest, most people...

1. Audiograbber uses a LOUSY MP3 codec. I'd suggest moving to CDex + LAME for ripping directly to MP3. Or I use CDex to do recording to .Ogg. I use EAC for ripping to .WAVs to make mix CDs. 2. If all the tracks are from the same disc, they presumably have been engineered to the same sound level...

The basic rule of thumb with EFS is don't mess with it. I'm not aware of a program that can easily break EFS-based file encryption, so if you encrypt something and lose the recovery keys, you're SOL. EFS is a feature of NTFS. A file can't be encrypted and compressed using NTFS builtin...

Encrypting File System. Short answer: You already have it, and you should mess with it until you understand exactly how it works. If I have to write a tutorial I will.

Probably. I'd love to do an autopsy, though.

ie6setup.exe = the setup downloader for IE, right? Why not download the IE6 admin kit and get a full IE6 installer? Anyway, you've got the basic list. It's a good idea to poke around in places like Program Files and the Common Files folders, and in the registry under the SOFTWARE keys for both...

Or I would have if I could. Screw it. After watching ut2004://216.228.25.250/index.ut2 for the last hour, I think I can come up with a better way to waste my time.

I don't appear to be able to re-connect at the moment. :(

Goddammit I told you to give up on that! Sell the Raptors you have - people on ebay are stupid and will pay more than they're worth - and buy 7k250s. BTW, I'm lousy at FPS games. But I'll show anyway. Also, I see that Tribes 1 and 2 will be released as freeware on the 4th of May. That's kinda...

I connected and played for a couple minutes. It was me and seven bots. Yee Haw.

Word of mouth isn't working. I talked to someone today whose job included maintaining ~40 PCs who had NO IDEA there was such a thing as adaware. Was the guy incompetent? Yes, probably. But the fact remains that NO ONE HAS HEARD OF THESE PRODUCTS. There is no retail distribution here and there's...

A fairly recent trend in Adware crap is to snag your DNS server entries for their own nefarious purposes. I've even run into programs that write entries in the hosts file, where almost no one would think to look for such things. I'm sure that's what happened to your customer. The thing I can't...

I used to work for Paul Harvey. For a couple months, anyway. There are linux programs for using high-speed GPUs as general purpose coprocessors already, by the way. Unfortunately, I can't remember any names. Otherwise I'd link.

Or not enough Ham Salad. I once had a guy threaten to sue me because I didn't include the pirated copy of Windows he assured me he'd gotten on the other two computers he'd bought on ebay. I told him to stop and think about what he said, but he didn't get it. I can only hope he actually went...

Ew. Screw the people. We can always make more, and I didn't like them anyway. :)

I'm pretty sure Sapphire makes ATI's cards for ATI. Not 100% positive, but pretty close.

Good question. I started to pursue the issue after someone here said he couldn't get a Sapphire VIVO to work with ATI's MMC. So I sent some email to Sapphire about it. Sapphire's tech said that I should pass all MMC issues to ATI. So I've tried three or four times over a three month period to...

Yeah. They're identical, except Sapphire tends to use better thermal solutions for its products. On the other hand, neither ATI nor Sapphire will support Sapphire's All-in-Wonder or VIVO products.

I've kind of shied away from these guys, just because Dell doesn't actually tell us anything about it. Nothing about the switch fabric. Nothing about jumbo frame support. Nothing about its fans... you have to dig pretty deep on Dell's site to even find the user guide (which is about 10 pages...

Interesting article about new cards. Remind me to drive my cars until the wheels fall off, OK?

Teaching is OK. I like to think of it as "curing ignorance". I don't know about IT though. I can't imagine doing anything else for a living, but I can see how hard it is for people to find work. It's scary right now. I guess if I had to get out I'd spend a couple years getting another degree...

Maybe. There's a $30 price difference for what I'd say is a questionable real-world performance gain.

128MB 9700 Pros are around $180. What more do you want?

Now that Iomega's abandoned the Peerless, it's last fail... I mean product, they're starting to become cheap as well. Kits with the 20GB drive are under $100 now. If they dip to below $70 at any point, they'll be a worthwhile purchase; 20GB notebook drives cost about that much. OTOH If Iomega...

Note that not using IE helps these sorts of problems a bunch, too.

On the matter of type, in this case, it's a little hard to determine from your posts. Protector (the SJ type) and Councilor are pretty simlar, after all. It boils down to whether or not one thinks you're compassionate/empathic vs being more detached. And that's a hard thing to see from here...

Friday through Sunday are normally the "work for me" days of my week. This weekend I've logged 38 hours. I'm actually looking forward to regular workdays and normal work hours. Man I'm tired of it.

You should be able to use EFS. You'll have to encrypt the files/folders first on an NTFS partition, but they don't lose their encrypted status for being put on other media. You'll want to export and store your Encryption certificate on some kind of removable media, and I suppose also carry it...