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Well fuck. I've lived another year. How perfectly shitty.

Well Coug, you're still one step better than me. I don't have human contact OR religion. Also I noticed that the link I made to SR (This is funny as opposed to pathetic) is 404'd. Rather than link, since SR seems to change its BB system annually, here's the pathetic-ness (which I'm rather proud...

What language is that sentence in? :)

Hi IHateATI. I hate nvidia myself. Maybe we need to start a club. There's a small selection of games, including Call of Duty and Neverwinter Nights, that don't work very well with current ATI driver releases. There's a patch on ATI's web site that's supposed to fix things (search around their...

Short answer: properly regal and/or bitchy. She's more active than she's ever been. She has problems with balance and doesn't have full control of her tail, but after many weeks of thrice-daily antibiotics and force-feedings, she's been pronounced "well". Her personality has changed a lot. She...

I found something a few days ago in a fairly serious article that described the Iomega Clik as a 40GB disk. In the Washington Times, a publication that's normally highly respected. Since I can buy a factory case of those stupid things for about $50, if they were 40GB apiece I'd never have to...

Tannin's done a miscalculation. David's dollars are worth 1.33 Aussie ones, so David has really provided 559AUD. Tea can of course have $1000 of my imaginary dollars as well. To make the math easy. :)

That's a very expensive way to hunt, Pradeep. Everyone in my family except me has hit a deer. It's a fact of life. A few years ago I was driving to work at 4:30 in the morning. I'm doing 45 in a 25 that should really be a 40, completely straight except for a couple gentle hills and some...

Sounds like a job for ebay, man.

It's a damned shame. I had a close call with one of my cats a few months ago and I didn't want to talk to anyone while she was like that. I didn't really want to do anything. That really sucks man.

I can tell you that there's a difference between USB1.1 and USB2.0 cables. If I plug one of my USB2 portable drives in with the cable that goes to my HP932 it works at 1.1 speeds.

$3500. No, seriously. XPC + 3GHz CPU + 1GB RAM + 19" LCD still comes to maybe half as much.

In yet another example of the "What were those Vomit-box engineers thinking", I had the opportunity to play with an Alienware "Gaming Laptop" last week. It wasn't a very long play-session, however. The guy who owned it was proudly displaying SiSoft Sandra scores when I noticed his P4/3000 was...

I don't know why anyone would knock the Duron. Unlike the Celeron it offers very good price/performance. I try not to be an AMD fanboy but there's a lot of PCs in the world that don't need to be 3200MHz, 100W monsters with hyperthreading. Mercutio's first rule of CPU buying: If it's more than...

Nope. If you start with the OEM version the installer upgrades the OEM version only. If you start from that upgrade without ANY nero install you get a limit-limited 30-day copy. I wouldn't normally recommend piracy but in this case you've paid for two OEM copies...

BTW, you aren't getting 100% page coverage from ANY workgroup printer. It's probably a lot closer to 80%, what with the borders and all.

I own a Phaser 850D, which is an awesome, awesome machine. The training company I work for is in that program. They got a Phaser 860DN (I see they're using 8200s now. I don't know much about that printer). Blank ink comes free with the color kits, which are $150 each and last, um, a long time...

By FAR the easiest thing to do is to use a Promise or HPT controller for your big drives. If you have one laying around that is. Most of the boards I'm using have them integrated, which works well enough for the first 800GB or so. ;) WRT onboard sound, the SB64 was a premium card, and if all...

HEC power supplies are very quiet and inexpensive. That's what most of my PCs have. The 300W ones cost me like $25. Now that I think of it, I think I can give HEC a supreme testimonial: One of my PCs have 5 hard disks and two optical drives in it, besides the Athlon 2500 and 3 filled DIMM...

Ahem. Quality isn't inkjet, but nor is the cost of the supplies,

Sparkles are above average but very loud.

LVD2002. They are over $100. The 2001, which doesn't do divx, is the cheap one.

Santa doesn't visit. The magic of Craigslist, however, found me a good week's work.

Santilli has a history of doing that. Like his weird habit of typing something in the subject line. Speaking of holidays, here's my list: January 2nd (the day all the xtian winter holday crap is finally over), June 30th (don't ask), July 4th, Thanksgiving That's it.

Ebay for your speakers, man. You can probably get away with $200 for five mains. I'm not sure about the sub, but if you buy decent front speakers it isn't an issue anyway. If new is a requirement, Best Buy sells low-end ($150) speaker sets from Yamaha and KLH; a $100 center channel would...

I had suspected the drive in question was going bad for a long time, but I couldn't get it to fail S*ny's diagnostic (which consists of writing about 10MB of data to a CD-RW then reading it back). From a technical standpoint, I'd still rather have fast CD burning than fast audio extraction...

You might want to look at some of the things that have been done with knoppix. IIRC they have bootable CDs that start up America's Army and UT2003. No text editing. Auto-detecting all hardware. For the guy in your sig, I know there's no official support for 3D on R300 chips. I guess if you want...

OS X is in much the same place right now that NT4 was in up to about 1997. The hardware just hasn't quite caught up with the software yet. It'd help if Apple would do a little more of the Quartz stuff in hardware but I think another GHz or so from Motorola would make all the difference in the...

There were a lot of people who came out of the same program I did who struggled and fought with the Solaris, Irix and HP-UX machines we used, hard as that is to believe. There were guys who knew PC crap and that was it, or Mac crap only; a lot of comp sci grads from my program couldn't handle...

Textronics and HP only.

What the bloody hell is "PrintMe Internet Printing" and why does it keep showing up on my start menu? It's everywhere!

Middle of 2004, from what I've read.

Couple of things to keep in mind: 1. My education in computer science was conducted almost exclusively on Unix systems. This puts me in a very different place WRT to Linux than most people. 2. I've been using Linux for a long time. 10 years, now. It is very easy and very possible to get Linux...

The "pigs in the blanket" I'm familiar with are made with hamburger, rice and peppers stuffed into cabbage leaves and covered with a tomato-based sauce. I'm assuming that's not what you're talking about?

That is undoubtedly a postive, but here's to hoping the moron in question removes himself from the gene pool in a spectacular fashion just the same. "And now I'm gonna liquid cool my laptop with my bathwateBZZZZT." Common sense: Something that keeps us from doing more work than we have to...

That could also be Nero being more accurate. :) I don't have much of an opinion on 5.5 v. 6. But I don't like Sonic MyDVD and I REALLY don't like CD Creator (which has the slight problem of having a million different OEM versions that do different things depending on what the OEM paid for. e.g...

You know, I never get any spam for taking away the unwanted inches I already have... I was all set and ready to try these and now I can't find a wintel machine with a maxtor drive in it. :(

Not much call for awk, actually. Learn perl instead. I don't know what you're complaining about, e_dawg. I can make a linux box do anything a Windows machine can and vice versa. KDE works very well for Windows-types and the default apps that are available with Mandrake (which I've never used)...

LiteOn in this case means the evil S-word; LiteOn drives and indeed about 3/4 the dual-format units on the market appear to be OEM'd S*ny drives. I have gobs of Optorite (OEM'd evil) drives in service, a handfull of that which shall not be named, a LiteOn or two, and an I/O Magic drive that I...

No. One of the power toys for XP does Right-click resize to 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

I know what you look like, and I'm utterly certain we wouldn't look like twins.

ATI's drivers have, in the time I've been buying ATI hardware - about two years - been acceptable to very good. The Radeon family is also a unified driver and always has been, and besides, I'd rather have good hardware with crappy drivers than hardware that's bad to begin with.

Sorry, O Weilder of the Sock Puppets, my experience has shown me otherwise. They get too hot, have uniformly criminal 2D output and fail at a rate in excess of any rate I might find reasonable. That's neither perfectly serviceable nor fuss free. Quite a lot of fuss, actually.

It was subjectively identical to working with a KT400a or KT600, only without all the PCI slots. It didn't seem slower or worse for having integrated graphics, other than the objectionable use of system RAM for video. And people who live in glass houses shouldn't be Canadian. :P

XP better than 2000? Them's fightin' words! The only thing XP/2003 Server adds that I really, really appreciate is auto-population of Network Places with resources shared on other XP/2003 machines. It's not faster - or at least not enough that I can tell. I've seen more crashes and...

I've built a couple systems around the Biostar M7VIQ. They're not very exciting boards but they do the job well enough in lowest-end budget machines.

Hell no. I jumped through all their hoops and I *STILL* don't have one. Next time I have five seconds to bitch about it I'm going to be on them like ugly on Dick Cheney. I think I want a written apology suited for framing and/or wiping my ass with.

One more thing: The 80386 was the first 32-bit x86 chip. It was made available to the public in 1988. The first 32-bit DOS-compatible, protected mode games were released in 1994. I thnk it'll be a while before we see a 64bit game, other than (possibly) Doom3*. *Carmack's stuff is usually very...

You don't need to go there, David. No reason whatsoever. Yup, The Althon64s are fast but... they're fast. That's it. You're not going to do anything "64bit" until this spring at the earliest, unless you make a dramatic change in your opinion of Linux, and even at that you won't find out that...