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It wasn't a store. It was a card processor. A place stores send card numbers to complete transactions. This is what we call a "major boo-boo".

In *MY* day we had to write a lexx script to do this crap.

The problem James is referring to is something called "jitter", which is essentially related to the fact that any two AC electrical devices are on very slightly different electrical phases, creating VERY tiny errors in data transmitted on a digital cable. The anal-retentive dislike of digital...

I beg to differ. Looking back through my problem logs (I am a diarist by habit. Makes billing easier), I can see 41 times over a three year period where I replaced an nvidia card to solve lockup/ heat related issues or graphics anomalies, usually only after spending some period of time...

Only if your definition of "working" includes things like overheating or hard-locking a PC. Thanks, I'll take a video card that doesn't do that.

Sort of... USB is WAY too much of a load on a system CPU, and the only products I know of (Yamaha's, HK, Creative) are all USB, and don't have the functionality I'd like to see - eg video switching (especially switching to a VGA connector). If we're going to go outside the PC, those would be...

Real speaker connectors would be cool, and the "card" in question could be a low-EMI firewire device...

What driver weirdness? With recent cards?

Tannin, do you just not like your customers? ATI is the solution, not the problem. The Radeon 7000 in particular is just about the most fuss-free card I've worked with in recent memory, with 2D quality that's far, far better than anything else I can buy for US$29.

That's odd. I'm pretty sure the Xpert lineup was plain ol' Rage 128s.

The Xpert's 2D quality isn't very good. A Rage Pro is much better if you're going that low-end.

ATI 7000 would get my vote as well. It's a nice general purpose card. If I'm on a true budget mission, I'll look for S3 Savage4s, SiS730s or system pull Gx00 cards.

Why is snow on the east coast national news? Every time y'all get a foot or two of white stuff it gets to be front page headlines. The people who actually live on the East coast KNOW it's snowing. The people in the midwest and northern states have it just as bad or worse, and the people in the...

Mighta been. Have to admit that I don't particularly care. The capture software locked up XP every time I tried to install it (yes, I had the XP version of the software) - had to do comparison testing in 98, and of course the thing had the usual GF2 2D blurriness.

Unlike Storagereview, this site has established practices and guidelines for moderation, and a number of persons with moderation authority. If you choose to behave in the same manner as its fubar, Vagpaare or Monica Lewinski from the SR forums, your posts will be heavily edited and you will...

I would *love* to see a PC-based component that could handle most of the functions of a HT receiver. A digital in and out, plus some banana plugs for real speakers... it'd be sweet.

Newegg still has Speeze coolers! If anyone is still interested, doing a "search" for Speeze on newegg.com got me to the full list. Makes me wonder what else they carry that isn't linked on their catalog. I had two of the big guys shipped out today.

I bought a half-dozen Sapphire Radeon 9000 VIVOs for one of my classrooms. Some high points: $75 for composite video in and out, and Svideo in and out, and a passively cooled Radeon 9000. This card uses the newer MMC 7.7 capture software, with "One Touch Record" and a skinnable interface. Visual...

Here. Seems like a pretty damn good deal for a 68-pin drive.

It always bugged me that Galeon needs Mozilla in order to function. You'd think they could strip the Gecko bits out of Moz and work from there...

You misspelled "idiots", zx.

Nope. I'm contemplating the Epson, though.

It's not on by default. Local security policy on every 2000 or XP machine I can find has it set to "disabled". Again, the bigger issue is the ungodly number of 2000/XP Pro machines with blank passwords for the admin account.

Let's not get into that "Zero is a number" debate.

My love life is something of a sore subject (indescribably painful, truth be told, and I mean that in a "curse each new day as I awaken yet again" sort of way), but yes, I do have a fond memory along those lines.

... but only for a couple days. <eewwwwww>

And in other news, Anand's content still sucks.

Tannin didn't spell it properly, but somnolence means "slumber". We can remember this the next time someone complains about American English vs. the British or Aussie kind.

Ancient windows-fu: If you want stuff to show up in non-alphabetical order, precede its name with a shifted character or a number, and it'll move to the top of the list.

I think it's stupid to steal Microsoft's UIs. Microsoft's interfaces tend to be flawed (the classic example being "Click on Start to Shut Down") and certainly non-intuitive to an inexperienced user. I believe an ideal interface is adaptive. An experienced user should have more options or faster...

Yes. The recovery console works the same way from XP Home as Pro. In fact, I've used 2000's RC on XP, and XP's on 2000. The commands are all the same.

SteveC: A [url=http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068468]Lovelace[/ur] (L) is the SI unit for Suckage, particularly as it relates to software.

I want to find a low-cost flatbed scanner that doesn't suck. Several reasons, the first being that my office-mate needs one and can't afford it. The second is that the asstastic HP 5100s I've got at work have a Lovelace reading that's right off the scale. Seriously, the drivers I can find for...

TweakUI should be part of the default intstall. It also has a "repair" feature that can be used to rebuild icon lists and stuff. I was going to suggest playing with that a bit.

Yes, but have you put folders into folders?

I believe this adequately captures my sentiments.

Dood, All you need to do is make folders in your %homepath%\favorites folder. I think the favorites file system is stupid and wasteful myself, compared to bookmark.html, but at least in this one case there's a simple answer.

Only if, by "secure" you mean "already compromised". I didn't start getting regular contact with XP until early this year, but all the machines I'm seeing have user accounts with no passwords set. Most user accounts on XP seem to have been created at install time - all users created at that...

:) I think I win the "most pathetic loser in the romance department" contest. After all, *I* sent a Valentine to a woman who decided she need a new answering machine 'cause the old one had a male-sounding voice. On the other hand, I still haven't killed myself yet. Fuck, I wish I was joking.

Almost every XP machine I've run into already logs into an administrator account without a password. Complaining about security problems in Windows is like complaining about holes in nets.

I think it'll be a bit longer than that. DVD-ROM adoption hasn't been particularly fast or successful, and the companies that are attempting to make products for the most obvious application of a DVD burner are being sued out of existance. Many people I meet have had a burner for a couple of...

Filename conversion is a fairly simple procedure. You can do it yourself with maybe 5 lines worth of shell script, or - if you look on freshmeat.net, someone has probably done it for you.

My father bought Yamaha's one of 1st consumer-grade CD-R drive in the mid-90s. The thing still works. That speaks volumes for Yamaha IMO. There are a LOT of crappy CD-RW drives on the market. I guess it just got too hard to justify a top-class product and a top-class price when CD-RWs are...

I'll check with the MOUS masters I work with. They've got to be good for something besides knowing how to do pivot tables and mail merges. :)

What's your point old man? I'm a very crotchety 27. Ask anyone. Actually the worst is finding out that most of my students have been working longer than I've been alive. Especially when I start referring to something that happened five years ago as "...in the old days". Dog years and...

Does he have any macros set up? Any at all?

I actually know where to buy candy cigarettes and wax "sodas". Those things are still around. The $1 second-run theater in the town where I live appends a short-subject to every feature it shows. The old man who runs the place collects them. Go to the late night showing and it'll be something...

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Either of the above, Groltz. I have three WhisperRocks and one FalconRock. They're all more than adequate for my needs. Quiet CPU fans are really a good thing. I'm keen to buy more next time I happen to get a chance. I know I'm not an overclocker, but really, these guys do the job, much like...

I still have the motherboard from my dual 486 machine. IIRC the date on it is 1990.