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Don't I know it. All we can really do is hope the next one will be better. I'm not exactly optimistic either.

Because they bought a package that already works?

1. Time Warner donor body rejects AOL transplant. 2. Deeply amusing letter in Purdue's student newspaper. Just thought I'd share a little bit.

Once I got to a flash-enabled PC and figured out how it worked. You are a cock-heavy virgin who loves to gulp beavers. Yes, that was my first and only try. Oddly true, in my case. :|

The next version of Windows will almost certainly have antivirus software anyway.

I know the 8500 is theoretically a little faster than the 9100 and 9200 but both of the latter are a little cheaper and by-and-large you'd need to do benchmarking to notice the difference. That's why I don't have a problem with recommending the 9x00s over the 8500. I can't say I've had any...

The Gigabyte KT600 (7VT600L) is essentially the same board as the 7VAX-series that I've been exceedingly happy with for well over a year now. The upgraded sound is quite a bit better than the old KT400, and my only complaint about the new model is that it uses a nonstandard backplate. It's a...

I ended up doing something like that. I couldn't answer all the questions they asked in such a way that I could really be... helped, but after I posted that and talked to someone on the phone for a good long while I at least got calmed down enough to relax a little bit. I basically had a manic...

The above post can be deleted. Probably should be. I'm not OK but no one should have to read that.

I'm having a raelly rough time tonight. I read something - accidently - that absolutely magnified all the depression and isolation I feel. No one has to read this or anything but it's the best thing I can think of doing right now. I don't know how to explain it but I literally read like 3...

Multizilla can do that.

WTF is a URL group?

No one seems to be doing 4 platter drives any more. :(

I'd suggest going the "almost all new" route. $400 will, by xmastime, buy a pretty decent XP2500 machine. I'm building KT600-based XP2200s/256MB/80GB systems for $425 right now (no OS). I can give specific configuration advice but I'd probably be overruled by some of the other builders. :)

This thread needs a [Flash] warning for those of us not so equipped.

I haven't had any errors today, but the site has been exceptionally slow most of the day as well.

I've got a couple of 3ware 7500s now. I know the feeling, but I wouldn't give up the space, either.

One word of advice: Use software RAID in Linux. Don't bother with anything that the "hardware" (actually largely driver functions) of Promise and Highpoint cards can supposedly do.

RedHat 8 and 9 should both work with the slightly less-nice UltraTX and highpoint controllers. RedHat *IS* a nice environment. There's a lot less cruft in a redhat install than in, say, a Mandrake set up.

Looks like the only way to get programs off a Tivo is to use a series 1 (legacy, no longer sold) unit. Looks like the only way to get support for digital audio is with a series 2 unit. Not an appealing compromise there. :(

As one of my engineer friends says, the problems USB has on Windows are largely the fault of Microsoft, not the USB spec. I'm inclined to believe him: neither Macs nor BSD machines seem to have any problems with USB devices.

And I'll point and laugh, 'cause I know better than to buy a Western Digital product.

I like Pineapple juice a lot. Not in the least alcoholic and it has a nice fringe benefit for your "athletic sleeping" partner (*) On the rare occasions I'm forced into a lounge or bar - usually by a client who wants to meet there - I almost always drink cranberry juice or juice and soda water...

Is there a way to transfer the individual files off the tivo (direct or otherwise) and watch them elsewhere, without another encoding step?

Has anyone used Canto Cumulus before?

Yes. Some of us like stuff that's good. :) The 2nd season of "Angel" just came out on DVD. I'm working through that, and when I'm done, I have the 3rd season of "Family Guy". And then a long wait before anything else that's good comes out (Shield season 2 maybe, or Sopranos season 4) I have a...

Modern music production is such that any schmuck can be made to sound reasonably good. This is why Britanny Spears has a musical career. Otherwise she'd just be selling her body on the internet like thousands of other reasonably attractive 18 year olds. Anyway, I found the music to be genuinely...

1. I've graduated to 56k, which is hopefully temporary. 2. I still browse with most images filtered out.

I'm not much for horror films any more. I used to like them a lot, but that's before I looked old enough to rent pr0n (horror movies being the easy road to T&A). :) I plan to see Cabin Fever when it comes out on DVD though. Also, I'd really like to see "Lost in Translation", which is something...

I realize that it could work both ways.. A lot of database engines that do support BLOBs have (or had, the last time I looked) file size limits that made databases of that sort less than desireable.

Perhaps Eric will show up with a bright idea or two. I recall him as someone else who had outrageous image-storage needs.

How about the letter "i" in a nice font? How about a monocle?

I worked on a "Zeus" today. It was a dual Xeon 550 with 1GB RAM. I'm sure at one time it was a pretty nice machine but I was decommisioning it for a 2.8GHz dualie that I named "Cronus". Greek gods are passe. Every once in awhile I run across the germanic pantheon or (more likely) Apostles or...

Yeah, thumbsplus isn't gonna cut it. I sicced it on a directory that only had 80,000 images in it, let it run over night, and had to kill the process when I woke up this morning. It looked to me like it barfed before it even did anything. I'd like to be able to use the filesystem rather than a...

Outlook 2003 - now with less suck.

Maybe Great Britain or Japan.

My favorite change story: I stopped in a 7-11 to get a drink one hot summer day on my way home from work. While I was in there deliberating between their fine selection of tasty cold beverages, a positively stunning young woman walked in: short blond hair, daisy duke-style cutoffs and something...

That was tried. We ended up with Aussies. A group of people with an international reputations for being simultaneously as loud and obnoxious as Americans and also so laid back that the whole country is practically comatose. Hm. Know of any other big islands?

It's those damn Kiwis. I knew there was a reason I couldn't get broadband! It's their fault! Off wi' their heads! Now that I've got that out of my system... the truth is, telco networks are so outrageously overbuilt right now that there's really no reason why they can't do this. I don't know...

procmail on *nix can do that. I imagine you'd find a number of similar projects on freshmeat.net. Some of them might even work with Windows. Exchange has some conditional filtering builtin as well (I don't pay much attention to my Exchange server, so I can't be much more specific).

Arrr! I be plannin' to make the lives of me hearties a great deal more surreal on September 19th, Talk Like a Pirate Day. I'm tired of boring, somber religious festivals Talk Like a Pirate Day is the kind of holiday I think everyone should partake in.

I need to get organized. I don't know how many images I have. Between digital cameras and collecting fine art images and yes, porn, I have a LOT of images. Very possibily more than a million (the computer I'm sitting at has ~123,000 .JPG files on it, and it's not one of my file servers). I've...

In 1970, Pierre Trudeau declared martial law in Quebec. So why not name Montreal's airport after him? Yes, I am posting this just to get a rise out of Coug. Retaliation for the Gabe Newell thing. ;D For those who dont get the DC reference... In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired a whole lot of...

I don't think Hannibal Lecter would want to share new blood. I think he'd enjoy it with fava beans and a nice chianti.

The Carthaginian General who marched elephants across the Alps only to have his ass handed to him at Zama?

Do you remember his name?

Dammit Coug, you made me start IE. 1. I don't have a neck. 2. I have fewer chins 3. My glasses are WAY thicker 4. If I left the house with that hairstyle, it would only because I was already clinically brain dead yet retained enough motor function to operate a doorknob. Other than that, yeah...

I've heard that the largest collection of porn in the world belongs to the Vatican. I'll settle for second place. SteveC, I think there're nightly builds of .6 that'll probably work. I generally use Moz though, so I downloaded the version that works with my browser (it's about halfway down the...

The "pink underwear sheriff" has made national news for being tougher on inmates than anyone else. He's actually famous for it.

I won't buy any drive that only has a one year warranty. I have a lot of 160GB Samsungs now and the odd 200GB Maxtor with a valid 3-year warranty.