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I just enjoyed the hell out of typing "Giant sock-puppet eating predators". There's a hilarious mental image there, somewhere.

It isn't like I have a whole lot else to do. Work is good. I get paid for doing something I enjoy. Not a lot of down sides to that one. Man, I don't see anything but roadblocks. Part of me says that I'd be best off if I cut myself off completely for a good long while. Another part says I should...

"Normal" is being able to have enough of a shared experience in life to have a common point for conversation. I work 90+ hours a week. I spend the rest reading about computer stuff or playing around here. Or sleeping. Not a lot to go on, is there?

You people are all a lot more... normal? Socially functional? Than I am. As a rule, I'm not a person one introduces others to. My coworkers mostly don't even attempt to have conversations with me (nor I them. Not a whole lot in common with them. Or anyone else).

Reason for question: I visited eharmony.com at the suggestion of a coworker who, to put it diplomatically, thinks I need a girlfriend (not the phrase she used). I went through a LONG questionaire, only to be told "One in five people isn't compatible with anyone, according to our methodology."...

Simple question. Any answers?

Finally, voices of reason! Huzzah! I am not alone in not wanting to know about the bowel movements of others.

Why is this thing a big deal? I can hook up anything to the analog or mic inputs on my sound card and get to more or less the same place.

Actually, that's in the movie, too. The bit about need a substantial deposit and a background check. Again, this isn't someone who takes an anti-gun stance.

I prefer the more cerebral left-wing talking head humorist-type (e.g. Al Franken). Moore makes a lot of emotional appeals and doesn't get too wrapped up in details. As I said above, I agree with a lot of what Moore says. He *is* shrill. Purposefully so. He jokes about it in the movie (When he...

I think you've got an attentuation issue Blake. Try using a higher gauge cable or move some equipment so you can do a "troubleshooting" set up just to check. You might also try to make sure there are as few kinks and bends as possible in the cable. TV out is lousy as long as there's a TV...

Yeah, blocking ICMP packets is one of those big no-nos that just isn't supposed to be done.

Apparently, he was a state marksmanship champion while he was in high school. To me it didn't sound like he was saying "take away guns" at any point, but the central theme to the movie is "Why are Americans so violent?". The question doesn't get answered. Yes, he pushes his political agenda...

nslookup is a standard program for translating host names into IP addresses. If you're using 2000 or XP or any kind of *nix, drop to a shell prompt and do "nslookup [ip address]" and it should tell you the hostname for that IP, if it's known.

Bowling for Columbine just came out on DVD, at least in the US. 1. I thought it was a fantastic documentary. 2. It's about guns, and it's admittedly by a "shrill voice" of the left, Michael Moore. 3. ... who happens to be a member of the NRA, an organization not known for its leftist politics...

They're pings. More than likely a script kiddie or some kind of worm is scanning ports on your machine, and everyone else's on your subnet, for some kind of vulnerability. If you've got an up-to-date firewall package and all your OS patches in place, and you aren't doing something silly with...

I've got a Toshiba e750 (pocketPC) that gives a numeric indication of signal strength on its integrated 802.11. That's almost entirely the reason I own it; when I bought it I expensed it as a "signal meter". ;)

Wish I'd had google during my second semester of diff. eq.

Try opening the .DAT file on the VCD in Vdub Mod. It may just be a matter of a few bad bytes at the beginning of the file.

802.11 is incredibly frustrating. My first 802.11A router couldn't maintain at 30% signal at 10 feet with a clear line of sight. My second works just fine at up to about 75 feet in any direction as far as I can tell. You WILL find dead zones in any 802.11 service area or places where signal...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod ... is the open-source full featured Vdub with support for MPEG2. A very happy thing. There is no 90 minute limit for compressing in vdub. If stuff isn't working right at the 90 minute point, the first question is... how? Are your movies coming...

Absolutely. 802.11anything is shared bandwidth, like USB. Real-life, you'll get about 1MB/sec from a dedicated 802.11B and about 4MB/sec from A or G. Thing is, if nobody will notice, is it really worth the extra, say, $30 a node to go G?

You didn't. I was just trying to save you some money. The thing is that they probably won't use the capabilities of "G" and I'm fairly certain that "G" equipment is generally more expensive than "B".

Things that start, phonically speaking, with a vowel, are singularly referred to as "An". Things that start with a phonic consonant start with "A". In this case, we're pronouncing the sound "E" as the first phoneme in the word LCD - ell-see-dee. So it gets an "An".

"What we're finding now is that through a combination of the availability of broadband..." What color is the sky in their world?

They did something like that to me, too. I cancelled a Citibank Mastercard that was paid in full and they opened it back up to apply an $8 fee for something or other, then kept calling to harrass me for not paying the $8 fee.

Dammit Bill I just spurted tea out my nose (yes, I am fully aware of the irony of that remark).

Only if he doesn't wash his hands before posting..

Why is Bill's post OK when Greg's post wasn't? I've tried to be obtuse about things, to avoid offense, but Greg's post linked straight to a site with many images of the event in question. It's conceivable that someone might go there on accident, and be upset about it (of course, with one of...

It's on its way. 2.25MB zipped. I can email it to anyone else who wants it, too, as long as your mailbox can handle an attachment that big.

Why isn't it there yet? :)

Newegg.com has Highpoint Rocket 133S controllers for $26.

This will scan whole subnets for unpatched systems that could be affected by blaster. What a happy little program.

Giant sock-puppet eating predators once thought to be extinct ravage the forests of Victoria! OK. Not really, but that was fun to type. And what's up with "Tasmanian" tigers being found in Victoria? Shouldn't they be "Victorian Tigers?" Between this story and the possible discovery of a new...

I've got a "best of" from my camera that're nicely re-sized and cropped. It's 2.28MB for the whole set. I need webspace from someone. At this point I don't care who. My internet connection at home is incredibly flakey so I have to do whatever I'm going to do at work.

I reserve bile for Lexmark all-in-ones. I fully expect that all of those have "666" somewhere in their serial numbers. But, OK, all in ones have drivers as bad as scanners. Very possibly worse. Of course, the law of crappy scanner-ness + Mercutio's Inkjet Trashheap Axiom = a singularity of...

Tea takes pictures of birds and wallabys and dingos and whatever else they have down there in Kangaroo-land. I take pictures of strippers. 8D I've found a few places to host my pictures. Some on a commercial site which has lots of pics, not all of them mine, from the event. I think Clocker...

... and an example of a well written scanner driver would be??? In my experience, scanner drivers suck universally in ways that nothing else does.

I'd be frightened to move that card out to another machine but if it's ISA and you've got ISA slots on your 400MHz PC, it should in theory work with only the the change of some jumpers. I've had lousy, LOUSY luck trying to put MFM/RLL drives in anything faster than a 486 (granted, it's only come...

I'd be frightened to move that card out to another machine but if it's ISA and you've got ISA slots on your 400MHz PC, it should in theory work with only the the change of some jumpers. I've had lousy, LOUSY luck trying to put MFM/RLL drives in anything faster than a 486 (granted, it's only come...

While I had mine up, I had it stuck in a deep shadowbox/picture frame thing I found at "Hobby Lobby". I cut the top edge off so the antenna and cat5 cable would be unobstructed but I stuck a photograph on the front. If you were really paying attention you might notice the antenna sticking out of...

It's not as likely to come up as it was two years ago, but they'll either want all Cell phones or a 5GHz cordless. 900MHz-anything is worthless in high-density living areas.

The property is tax-abated until 2005. In 2006 I'll pay 33% of full value, in 2007 I'll pay 66%. Believe me I already thought of that one.

It's been FAR too long, mubs. Good to see you back here again. Which are the interior walls (since you'll have to make at least one drop to the AP)? Since these are laptops that'll probably be used elsewhere beside this dwelling, I think in this case 802.11a is out. "A" is IMO the technically...

Turns out that Ghost was fudging partition sizes. I looked at the four drives in the same system and noticed that the two partitons on each disk varied in size by up to 2MB. I don't know why or how that could happen. I might've spectulated drive geometry but these are identical drives.

I've seen fairly new no-name scanners that only have 16-bit TWAIN drivers. I think you're on to something Handruin.

If you've got an open ISA slot and a studly understanding of DOS, you can probably slap in a 3C509 and make yourself a LAN Manager client boot disk. Also, if you have DOS 6 on your old guy, I think the protocol for Win98's Direct Cable Connection" is the same as the one used by the DOS...

What you want is a null-modem cable, and some kind of terminal program, like Telix (if it'll fit on a floppy. If not, there's always Kermit). You have Hyperterminal on the other side, and both programs IIRC offer something that'll allow for serial-line file transfers. The only other thing...

Google "Roselawn Indiana Ponderosa" if you have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about. Direct Linking would get me in trouble. :D

My brothers hijacked me for a trip to Roselawn, Indiana today. I didn't have my camera - they didn't tell me where we were going - but I've got like 200MB of pictures using their (less nice than mine) cameras of... things that happen on the third Sunday in August in Roselawn Indiana. These are...