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Women become gigolos? Well, OK, I guess with enough hormone therapy...

Pradeep, I have been where you are, and it is not a pretty or a fun thing to do.

Meh. I swapped everything - EVERYTHING but the motherboard and CPU, that impacts DVD burning. Different PSU, different burner, different cable, retail copy of Nero from original disc, clean Windows install, even a stack of nice Verbatim DatalifePlus +R discs... If nothing fixes it... I dunno...

The Netgear 634U I have access to does not refresh after I make a setting change and restart, when I use Firefox. Seems to work with IE. This is the reason for my previous statement.

I think the Ringo books hit me hardest. I picked up the first book as an "I'll take a chance on this, it's only $6" purchase... And ended up driving back to the bookstore to pick up the next two volumes the same evening. And finishing all three - around 1800 pages all told - by 9AM the next...

Inspirational reading: Try The Baen Free Library. I recommend 1632 (the author's wife is actually someone I've taught in a class) or On Basilisk Station or A Hymn Before Battle

Cardiac arrest isn't just fun and games. Sure, some people are engineered to survive it. Evsai was not one of them. We had barely 5.31 seconds to get to know one another, but even at that the combination of pulse change and eye dilation told me that he didn't know. Even without billions of...

Every current-generation MMO needs 1GB RAM to be genuinely tolerable. UT2004, Farcry, Doom3 and HL2 are all VASTLY better if experienced on 1GB RAM. A lot of new games are listing 256MB as a minimum supported configuration. I'd say anyone who describes himself as a gamer is going to want the...

General observations: Linksys equipment consistently offers marvelous range and good signal strength. THey are easy to modify with new antennae or hacked firmware. Their hardware, however, isn't highly reliable, as the stack of broken WRT54Gs (usually, the WAN port dies or wireless stops...

Case - clone of the Antec Performance case... at $35, even without a PSU, they're far, far better than the $100 Antec version. CPU + HSF Motherboard - there is no reason, NONE to go with the nforce3. 1GB RAM is an absolute minimum for game play. Anything less just sucks. This is a paired...

LiteOn for the most part have been very good for me. I've bought about 50 of them (8 and 16x Dual Layer models, mostly) in the last 3 months, so that's a decent sample size. I've also had good luck with NEC 8x units, but I've only purchased maybe a dozen of those.

I saw this on Slashdot Yesterday.. Spybot Search and Destroy did VERY poorly in these tests, confirming something I suspected before I ever read the article. The "winner" was Giant Anti-Spyware, a product I have not heard of before. The testing methodology does not appear to consider the use...

Microwaved it. :) But, OK, I have Roxio. It is lame and won't make video DVDs but I guess I can try making a data DVD or something.

I've been contemplating stepping down to 5.5, actually.

I build PCs like her's more or less weekly that don't have these problems.

Memory has been swapped. Went from Crucial to Mushkin IIRC (upgraded from 512MB to 1GB, about 6 weeks ago). Uninstalled Nero OEM before installing Nero Retail. She went back to Nero OEM when I ghosted her PC (at that time I suspected RAM). PSU? One would think that would manifest in other ways...

That is highly disappointing. I can go from a K6 or Pentium all the way to an Athlon 64 or P4 on a single system image with Via. I haven't had nearly as much luck getting nforce-anything to work that way.

Seems like I'm having a harder time finding KT600 boards. I can still get Gigabyte VT600s right now, but has anyone else noticed a marked decline in the availability of Via-based boards lately?

Read it already. Nothing helpful. :( Hard disk is a Samsung 120GB. I would not sully anyone's PC with a WD drive at this point. Two different copies of Nero 6 have been tried. XP's builtin burning for CDs works OK. Nero can also burn a CD just fine. The ease of use in DVDShrink + Nero...

Dotster.com is handing out domains in .info for free. You can register up to 25 of 'em.

One of my customers seems to be having weird issues with Nero 6.3.something... I've been dealing with this for about 6 months on and off. She is burning DVDs that seem to always error out at around 65% with High Focus Tracking Errors" when burning DVDs, either with DVD Shrink or with Nero...

I am not a religious person, Will. As such there are very few holidays that I celebrate. Thanksgiving is pretty much my "big" holiday. Usually I spend a bit of time contemplating my navel on the equinoxes and perhaps new years' day, but other than that I don't put a lot of value on special days...

It's beautiful as far as the graphics go. I haven't played it at all except to see the graphics. I'm amazed at how beautiful human faces are. Whatever techniques were used to make heads were obviously the right ones. They are REAL looking, but they are a vastly better simulation than before.

Been spending a great deal of time with both of them lately. A couple nights a week, a whole day on a weekend. We meet and shop for groceries or books, or watch movies. Whatever. It adds up to me being on SF less than usual but at the same time it makes me feel much, much better about life. A...

Anyone want a men's XL Tshirt with a Lambda on it? I bought the DVD edition Sunday, because it came with HL1 source. I installed it and played it for a bit... maybe 10 minutes of just wandering around the game world (I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing). If your eyes blur even a...

Good to see two more who have had so much to say here - mubs protestations to the contrary aside, reach that vaunted point. A tip of the hat to both of you.

When I switched to mostly athlon 64s my electric bill actually went down about 20%.

OK, I was looking at docs for a Linksys NSLU2 when I wrote that. Now that I am awake (for once), I recognize that. :P The NSLU2 uses ext3, by the way.

jtr, seriously, buy a lease-returned 19" or 21". I bought a couple 2-year-old Viewsonic P-series (high-end) 19" CRTs for $60 apiece last week. They're gorgeous and other than the fact that one obviously had some stickers on it, perfect. I don't know where they're sold in your area, but locally...

Athlon MPs are a deprecated solution. Anything you can get at this point would be "kinda slow" to begin with. Dual Opterons, on the other hand... Sun makes a very nice dual opteron system that sells for shockingly small sums of money on ebay - $1500 - $2000 for dual FX53s with 2GB of RAM.

If you don't plan to use IE at all, find iexplore.exe and change its NTFS execute permission to "deny" for the Everyone group. That will kill it, but system-level things that still need to use it, like MMCs and Automatic Systemp Update will still function.

P4s are purposefully crippled in that respect. Intel wants people with MP needs to purchase Xeons. There was something of a big deal made of this when the P4 was announced since at the time AMD was planning an MP processor line.

Yay! I shall purchase the DVD so that I can play through Halflife and then HL2.

Can someone tell me if this method actually works?

Just to clarify, Fushigi, USB disks on those netgear routers do have to be formatted with whatever format Netgear needs. I don't know what format that is (maybe FAT32 for all I know), but there's stuff in the documentation about needing to format the disk.

There's a hack to set up your own battle.net server, too. Which is a good thing - even if Blizzard doesn't like it (BTW, I hate Blizzard - their games are unfun and then there's the battle.net lawsuit thing). If Blizzard went away tomorrow - and I can only hope it does - people could still play...

Probably someone which a hacked copy of XP.

I would recommend Foxpro. MDB files are too easy to screw up.

Buying a Dell absolutely does not prevent you from having weirdo compatibility issues. You buy premium-grade low-latency solid-gold DIMMs that don't work in your Dell... if you call them and ask about it they'll say you should have purchased their 3x retail-cost Dell-brand RAM upgrades. And...

It's not a "the man" thing, Handy. I still play a commercial game - regularly - that was released in 1994. I load it on every PC I have. I adored the Half Life single player games with their cool locations, mysterious villain, awesome AI, and ever-increasing sense of dread. I finished all...

Briefly, I concur with Tannin regarding the XP2500 + VT600 combination. Buying an Intel-based solution right now, ESPECIALLY a massively overpriced Xeon, just seems silly to me. If I wanted or needed performance I'd look at any form of Athlon 64. Since about 95% of people in the computing world...

Might be worthwhile to get a paid Yahoo aacount. Then you can use theirs.

In the past I've chiselled away at that little pin and used a flathead screwdriver to remove those screws. I remember seeing those on old Macs as well.

I'd like to play Half Life Source and I'd like to play HL2, but there's no way that I will do it until it is divorced somehow from Steam. I want the single-player FUN and INTERESTING games, not the internet-broke-ass-reg-required-auto-updating BS that goes along with Valve's distribution software.

2 years and yet still no pictures of me. Ha!

I use paypal in the same way that Buck does, mostly because I am far, FAR too lazy to get a decent merchant account someplace. Personally, I think banks and other financial services organizations are highly under-regulated to begin with. Paypal lives in its own special little loophole, though...

At first I didn't see the big deal either. But then, I'm a little jaded about those sorts of things. IMO it's probably NOT a good thing to link directly to it, although I have to say I think it's funny as hell.

2000 posts? Tannin's been slacking! But still posting nonetheless. It's good to have you here, old man. 2000 more can't come soon enough.

I think I saw something like that in "Penthouse Letters volume 6"... As it happens "stump" leads me to a tool that might help you a great deal: http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html I don't suppose you're thinking of "My Side of the Mountain", by any chance? Kid runs away from home...

Tannin, my email resides exactly where I leave it, on my IMAP mail server. I have every piece of e-mail I've gotten since 1993 stored there, through any number of failed drives and computer disasters, I *have* all my email.