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I've got a Sparc 20 I'd be willing to sell, and its specs are better than the one honold quoted (SMP, 512MB, 9GB Cheetah). Oh. Wait, ihsan, you're in east Asia somewhere. Never mind me, too. All I can say is stay away from the little Sun Blade units. They're the cheapest thing to buy new...

Does the problem still happen if you've got your collection of drives and case fans plugged in? One of the students in my computer building class bought an 8RDA+. You certainly are right about that northbridge heat sink... it's way too small (his felt warm after just booting to BIOS to set his...

The, I'm more than aware on North Korea's essential blackmail attempts. They've been doing that for years. Heck, the whole reasons NK SAID it stopped work on a nuclear program is that the US offered it fuel oil and food in exchange for shutting it down. Here we have an identifiable "rogue...

This settles things rather nicely, I think.

So we'll deal with/Bully the potential North Korea that might, someday have nuclear weapons, instead of the actual North Korea, which basically issues a diplomatic statement every day that says "We're this much closer to having THE BOMB, what are you gonna do about it?" OK. I guess that makes...

I've used the word unctious to describe GWB, and after my father's time as an officer in the Navy, I'm aware that the being in harm's way is what soldiers and sailors do. This is very clear when I hear about soldiers described euphemistically as "military assets" (rather than, oh, "Human...

When the issue is "Iraq" and the president's name is "Bush", I can't do that. Shrub is too close to energy interests in the US, who want to exploit Iraq's oil reserves. He's also close to the evangelical xtian portion of the republican party, which seeks to protect Israel on the basis of the...

Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the "edit" button. - me, after Ash :P

Penalty, -5 points, for excessive AOLness.

Given the enormous costs of war, both in terms of gross economics and in human lives, I don't see how the cause could be given at anything less than "beyond all doubt". Moving trucks doesn't do it for me. How about some plutonium or a work on delivery system?

Actually, I'm incredibly impressed. The damn thing still works!

I don't do schedules. I keep everything in my head. I don't forget. I don't misremember. I just know. It frightens everyone I work with, but it's never even been an issue for me. My office runs Exchange/Outlook, except me, and everyone else carries around wince handhelds for all that crap. The...

My bias on nvidia is very easy to see, but you can't possibly tell me that the 2D quality of nvidia's pre-GF3s is ANYTHING like those of even a 6 year-old MilleniumII. If you think that, you need a new monitor. I won't argue the newer ones. I haven't seen enough of them to comment, but I'd...

If you've got a real firewall (e.g. not ZoneAlarm) you can do all KINDS of fun things to lock down your AP, but none of those things help for the guy who is sitting outside your home or office with a laptop with a 802.11 card running netstumbler, just watching the traffic that's being broadcast...

You guys are thinking of alpha(some bunch of numbers), who is also a young, Toronto native (Torantan? Torontoer? Torontoan? Torantier? Torontiquois?) with many hundreds of posts on SR, including some about the "shitbox" his odd fixation on Solaris x86.

Babies! The other other white meat! -- Fat Bastard Sorry. I'm in a weird mood this morning.

As seen on Slashdot. All I can say is... wow.

That is exactly what I'm thinking of.

If you're made out of money, the Parhelia. :) The Radeon 9000 is competitive with a GF3 (don't ask me which one, but it's about the same as an 8500, which is neck and neck with GF3s on most benchmarks). Dualhead 64MB OEM versions cost about $75 in the US, and have "pretty damn good" 2D output...

Yes, Mr. Houston, TX, but I can buy a Millenium II for $8. For awhile I could get AGP G400s for $20, but they've shot back into the stratosphere, pricewise. Not to question that the G4x0 is a better card; It is. But there's a lot of bang for the buck in those older cards, and it's a shame that...

Germany is currently head of the UN security council and therefore gets a vote in whatever issues come before the council. It's true that only the permanent members have veto power, but it DOES have input.

If all you want on the second display is high-quality 2D, I'll bet you can find a four or eight MB Matrox Millenium or Millenium II for next-to-nothing. Don't even try to do 3D on them, but 2D display on those cards is damn near perfect. I'd also second the idea of any recent-ish dualhead...

I'm strongly capacity-biased but IMO, someday you probably will want some of the 60GB worth of difference between the Maxtor and the WD. If performance is really the sole determining factor, I say hold off for the 15k.3. If you're going to to pay for "fast SCSI drive", then do yourself a favor...

The shuttles are the only reusable spacecraft on the planet. Soyuz is a one shot deal. I think it would be hard to do an apples-to-apple comparison between the two. The Challenger and the Columbia, though, were both part of the original batch of, um, ships. A second batch (Atlantis and IIRC...

There's a performance hit in using a VPN, which is subjectively unnoticable on a LAN, and may be noticeable on 802.11b - my seat-of-the-pants guess is it "costs" about 10% in overhead to do the VPN thing, but I don't have everyday access to an AP, so let's just say there *is* a perceptable...

Don't worry, I'm only laughing on the outside. Where you can see it. One has to wonder if diverting engineers to their nforce products might've had negative consequences for NV30, whether or not the product is cancelled or otherwise limited in production.

I'm going to do a cautious "Yay", while noting that WD has been historically my least reliable drive vendor, and one of the participants in the 1-year-warranty farce. It'll probably be priced into SCSI-stratosphere range, too, like 7.2k IDEs were, at first. Also I have a moment of feeling all...

I'm about to make a deliberately inflammatory statement: I feel that there is a sentiment in the international community right now that's not unlike the one that allowed Germany to occupy Poland in 1939. Some were vehemently against that idea, and look what happened. An inch was given. A mile...

Are you implying something, Coug?

I thought CityK had the Ralph Wiggum avatar...

I'll remember that comment the next time you say an IBM laptop is too expensive. Or a laptop at all. :P

Everything I've read indicates that that "-" means that the disc you make is far more likely to be readable in a console DVD player. I'll take the "-".

Naw, I'll get around to it sooner or later. I was just venting. Bad day. Don't ask. I actually build (MSI/MST) application install scripts pretty regularly. We have 'em for 3 different versions of office and quickbooks and photoshop and a couple of other things that get taught (and broken)...

Too bad for that unfortunate "+". One more week to my A500...

I work with a bunch of non-technical people, who teach others how to use computers, timwhit. Their students think those other trainers are gods among men, for being able to, say, correctly identify the CD-ROM drive, or forward a message in outlook. So their students ask questions about complex...

Ever noticed that the chassis of Gateway Solos, HP Omnibooks and Dell Inspirons look an awful lot alike. That's 'cause they're all actually made by the same OEM. Optus? Optus is the aussie telco, right? Opt-something. Korean firm. (scary thing: HP's high-end laptop is the same as Del''s...

The people who are bidding are worse than the seller. They're the asstards who are encouraging him!

Eh. Either way.

BUMP "This job would be great if it wasn't for the customers" - Randall Graves

I wasn't kidding about that. We've had some good threads in the Pub. We've had some good threads in Computers ("Types of Customers"). Rather than bury the good stuff, why not copy it to a forum so it's easy to find?

Is there a single .EXE anywhere to install F@H as a service out there yet? Merc is much, much too lazy to do it by hand 60-odd times...

It's been suggested for many, many years. Personally I think nature probably does a fine job on its own, but for the conspiracy minded it is a possibility.

Toshiba makes crap. You could by and large replace "Compaq" with "Toshiba" in most of the above comments and they would still hold. Toshiba's last GOOD notebooks probably had 386 CPUs in them. I believe my comments about 1-year-old Toshiba notebooks should carry some weight here. A.D. knocked...

I was born in 1975. :) 145. You've overclocked a palmpilot 146. You have a favorite version of LISP 147. You've described computers as fast as 1.5GHz as "old" 148. You've made your own SCSI cables 149. When you get together with another geek, you start comparing the scars you have from working...

Oh man. I hadn't read this in awhile. There's some good stuff here. We need a "Best of SF" forum or something. This and the pictures thread. Anyway... 109. You know what program someon is running by the pattern of their drive activity lights. 110. You can whistle at 110 baud 111. You feel a...

You guys should know better than to do anything in top-10 format when I'm around. You don't want a Compaq because (slightly seriously) 11. Low weight and decent battery life are important to you. 12. This a company that has yet to master the art of making either a decent touchpad OR a decent...

My gues is all that thick, soft plastic.

Geez time, if you'd wanted to insult him, you could've just gone for a crack about his mother. That "texan" stuff is hitting below the belt!

Tea, I'm going to give you a oranguatang spanking if you don't give Tannin his "s" key back *I'm* interested in 5400rpm drives. I've got one of the 120GB Samsungs... er, around here somewhere, anyway. They are still being released. They are still getting better. Low noise, low heat, presumably...

Bigger fans spin more slowly with the same impact as smaller fans spinning quickly. So why not control the airflow from a bigger fan? :) Since I spent a little while dealing with a FlexATX machine today... how about a small formfactor PC design that doesn't suck? Any PC that I need 45 minutes...