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Anyone remember Mega-Maid from Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs"? Mega-Maid does not have enough suck to describe the Linksys BEFSX41. OK, granted, it's a little Linksys black-box Internet Access device. I'll bet 80% of the folks who visit here either have something similar or have at least configured...

Greg, what application do you have that requires 180MB/sec STR?

Two things in its favor: One of the two systems I'm putting together will have the full 3GB of RAM the board will support. I'm hoping that 64XP will handle that RAM better than plain old 2000/XP (workstations versions don't handle > 2GB very well). If it doesn't help, I'll have 1 machine with...

I'll let y'all know how it is in a couple of days when my motherboard arrives. I'm not expecting any earth-shattering differences, though.

I know not everyone is interested in the editorial viewpoint of salon.com, and the ads are a PITA if you are not a member, but this is yet another in a long line of heartbreaking articles describing what's happened to IT workers and to American professionals in general.

Switch to Firebird.

Not nearly violent enough.

I was thinking more the Greg Louganis type of acrobatic high-diving... into a solid sheet of ice. Or maybe a partially frozen swimming pool. That'd be more interesting for the hockey players.

Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) made a movie at last year's San Diego Comic Con last year. Appropriately, it's titled "Comic Book: The Movie", and it's goddamn funny on about 10 different levels. It's a no-budget movie that was shot live at the convention, and it really captures the experience of...

Two groups of men in love. I'm telling you. The whole thing is a backrub away from gay porn. I'd put smilies, but I'm not kidding.

"Hey everybody! Watch this!" -- Death Cry of the Wild Hillbilly, Walmartis customeris Someone needs to write a thank-you letter for all the Darwin-award winners who have met their fate on Yamaha small-engine products.

My father's employees (engineers) use Dell Precision machines, which are basically 2-processor Xeons with a graphics card that cost more than five or six normal PCs. Very typically these PCs end up in the $10,000 range.

In my experience quick repair does something worthwhile maybe 1 in every 3 or 4 times I try it. Having the ERD helps a lot (maybe 1 in every 2 or 3 goes), and ASR, if you take the time to do it, has been foolproof for me, literally the only positive I've found with 2003 Server so far.

Coug, why do you keep buying those things?

I believe it is possible to attain enlightenment by watching the movie "Ghost World". Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Enid (Thora Birch) are modern-day prophets.

I always did like buying Clocker's stuff. Half the fun is undoing the 3/4 of a roll of packing tape he always uses for the package. Right now it's a hair over $50. I put in a bid. $25 for an enclosure + $25 for a 40GB drive seems like a pretty damn good deal to me.

It's not a right for everyone. Criminals aren't supposed to be able to buy them. I'm merely proposing a second case for disqualification. How about: If you lose a handgun, you shouldn't be allowed to have kids. Would that be too much? :| Seriously: Where do you live/work that you feel the need...

Would it be unfair of me to say that someone who loses a handgun probably shouldn't be allowed to have another?

The hardest thing in the world is to live in it.

I think the whole damn "sport" is about one and a half innuendoes away from being "the heartbreaking story of two large groups of men in love". "Pile-up" "Fullback" "Tackle" "Tight End" That weird thing they do to give the throwing-guy the ball. The uniform: skin-tight leggings and armor that...

Santilli, following the logic "We need to be as well armed as the criminals", will lead to unceasing escalation from law enforcement, gangs AND citizens. You get a full-auto Mac-10. The local cop gets an M16. What're the gangs gonna do? Give up? Or find something crew-served? Who needs a new...

I can count the number of programs I haven't been able to install on NTish Server machines on one hand. Heavy SMP users nowadays - guys with 4 CPU workstations - are stuck with it. It's not like you run into programs that don't run on server. You have to work at it. Also: "Erroding the...

There's a primary debate going on right now. I'm listening to it on the radio, live. I get, um, all the TV channels, and I can't find it on TV. It's not even on CSPAN. The previous primary debate was radio-only. Why even bother with debates if the only people who know anything about them are...

Nearest one for me is 17 miles of city driving away.

According to salon.com, Dean has spent all $40 million that he raised last year, and he won't have money to pay his staff in February.

I watched "Impacto" last night. Good flick in approximately the same vein as "Unbreakable".

SCO withdrew four or five months ago. I think TurboLinux folded English-language operations (they were basically "Japanese Linux" AFAIK). Don't know what's going on with Connectiva. Novell probably wants to further distinguish SuSE from RHEL and Debian.

I've never used what you guys are calling IM software. Mostly because all existing IM clients are nonstandard. IMO, the commercialization of the internet has killed standardization, and now we have AOL, Yahoo and MSN engaged in a corporate dick-measuring contest over whose "passes through port...

Apparently Lieberman spent some time last week giving a speech about why "Grand Theft Auto" should be banned. So, um, I know media censorship is part of his schtick, but 1.) Censorship is wrong in pretty much any form and 2.) It's a video game with an "M" rating. Isn't there something more...

It's not that big a deal, actually. Any webmonkey good enough to screw around with long, complicated URLs can unmangle the username out of it. It's probably more interesting as a power play to get coders to switch to one of Microsoft's authentication techniques (NTLM or digest authentication or...

I have a large book called "Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Operating System" that goes into far FAR more detail about process management than anyone but a system developer would ever need. If you're that guy, it's a great thing to read. Me? I pretty much kill -9 or kill -HUP and don't...

Newegg told me the gigabyte board I'd selected is in stock again, but after some review, now I think I'd rather have an Albatron K8X800 Pro II (gigabit, SPIDF in and outputs for a Via Envoy sound chip, SATA etc). ...which is now out of stock not available anyplace else I'd trust to buy it...

I think I'd prefer my warm NyQuil cocktail, actually.

Just wait Pradeep. It's coming your way. I had to scrape 8" of snow off my car this morning, another 3" when I went to lunch and then 4" more when it was time to go home. I hate snow.

Kerry, as I've said earlier, does not inspire me. Dean doesn't, either. I'm pulling for one of the moderates (Clark or Edwards), who will play better to centrists in the general election. Anyway, I don't think you can call the primary season yet. Clinton came out of nowwhere in '92. The press...

Yeah. I had a lab of Sparc 5s that literally no one used unless the engineering and compsci labs were full. In those days almost everything "internet" was done at a terminal session on a Unix Mini (Sequent, IBM or HP). Try to explain "CLI" to a comparative lit major...

In college I managed very large computer lab, usually by myself, in the Liberal Arts and Education Building on Purdue's Main campus. Literally, the least technical people to attend Purdue West Lafayette walked through those doors. I'm talking 1994 here, so if these things seem a little dated...

Don't feel bad Blake, my fastest CPU is still sitting in its box and it'll continue to sit there for at least another week. Most of the rest of my processors are XP2500s anyway. My little Appliance PCs #1: Mobile XP1700 + low-profile Speeze cooler on a GA7VAXP Gateway E4200 chassis (it's a...

Understand that I work at a company that trains others to use computers: They: "How come I keep getting these messages that're returned "user unknown" with "Unicode binary.exe" attached?" Me: "Because you have the MyDoom virus that I sent out a warning about on Friday, and because you insist...

I like Nero + DVD Shrink for my movie-stealing needs. Newer versions of DVD Shrink even burn directly. For capped video to DVD I use DVD MovieFactory most of the time.

Came into work this morning. My server was down. Bluescreened with different errors on every reboot. Opened it up to pull its main drive, noticed some bulging caps. So I pulled it off its shelf, and took a look in the light. Two caps had leaked brownish capacitor gunk over themselves, and 11...

AC97 is nothing more than an I/O specification for a sound chip (e.g. RealTek, Via Envoy, Crystal Audio...). You can use any chip you want, as long as, for example, pin #30 - 46 on that chip output a 16-bit 48kHz PCM stream. The upsample to downsample deal is a lot like trying to add quality...

Bad thing about AC97 audio: Part of the spec is an internal resample to 48kHz, even for samples which are already 48kHz, then a downsample to 44.1kHz for standard analog output. I know AC97 is good enough for a lot of people, but working in the same school of thought as "don't recompress MPEG2...

Ah yes, the pasttime of the IT worker: "My users so stupid..." White collar equivalent to "Yo' mamma so fat", but at times far more amusing. My users so stupid, I had a helpdesk call for a broken PC during a blackout. I've had worse, but frankly if I think about it too much I have to repress...

No offense intended, DB, for someone of south-Asian genotype and an Aussie upbringing, you're probably the biggest redneck here. :D

Received chip. Haven't gotten board yet. If you'd like I'll review the box it came in. :D

A start in the right direction. Better than a sharp blow to the head.

You forgot a few, jtr: One is an issue of climate. When I was in college I knew a guy from Florida who swore up and down that midwesterners eat to entertain themselves because they can't go outside all winter. Ever since I've observed that, and there seems to be some truth to it. One of the...

While we're discussing writers: No one has brought up fool's poetry, which is something else here that I greatly appreciate. Sad there aren't many outlets for poets in today's world.

Tannin, I'd be more than happy to be your host for a visit to my living room. We can listen to a disc that was recorded and mastered on an audiophile label, say Telarc or Chesky, for CD and SACD pressings. The audio equipment in my living room cost as much as a decent mid-size Sedan, so it's not...