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Hey, you and Doug would be co-workers. :)

Lessee... I can download a core. It'll do about 10 or 12 of whatever it's doing, and then it'll say something about a bad frame and the box will die in some spastic fashion (hard lock or immediate reboot). These are stable machines. At this point, I'm wondering what a userland app is doing...

The image that got to me was a photo-realistic portrait by a gentleman named Alex Ross (I think his website is alexrossart.com), of Superman, probably the most iconic figure in all of comics, gazing up at a picture of policemen, firemen and EMTs against the background of the fallen towers, with...

Prof, go back and look again. I *didn't* start the geek thread. I just wrote 85% of the replies.

Folding's console client continues to lock these machines. I tried a couple of my personal machines as well and it does not seem to do well. This machine is just sitting here not being used, and I hear y'all can use the boost anyway. Any advice for actually getting it going?

Bill, I think I'm just about as far away from a typical guy as I could be on this one. I think I actually stunned the therapist I've been seeing when I explained it all to her. Anyway, agape and eros and phileo are all words that describe love itself, not a way of describing a human...

Wow. I was working under the impression that Fushigi was actually Asian. There goes THAT idea...

9/11 created an explosion in all art forms. One of the most profound moments I've had in ages occurred when I walked into a comic shop and found a number of 9/11 Tribute Comics. As I understand things pop music has undertaken a turn toward serious/inspirational music, and soon there will be...

I'm aware of the greek (and I'm not talking about PW or NRG) terms. None of them describes the right of things for me. Agape is probably closest, but still not right. At any rate, I *like* Handruin's word.

Hmpf. I know I registered. Maybe I got disconnected or something during the process.

I wish there was a word in English to describe someone whose relationship is not romantic nor a matter of heritage but nonetheless indicative of familial closeness.

The only time those priorities really matter is when you're slamming the CPU at something over 80% utilization on a more or less continual basis. I suppose if you pushed things all the way up to "realtime" you might get a slight improvement but otherwise I don't think you'd save yourself more...

Just hit your "back" button and resubmit. Majcher.com generates New York Times logins automatically, to avoid the hassle of not being able to link straight to NYT stories. The crux of the story is, despite billions in R&D and technical and cost improvements that outstrip Moore's law by better...

So since March, total hit/day has roughly tripled, but our bandwidth use has actually gone down since then? Or am I reading something the wrong way?

Front page news, probably, but since I seem to have lost my login... This is a discussion of the business end of platter manufacturing technology. It's just a different point of view from our usual discussions on the forums.

Thank you for kind and thoughtful words. Particularly Tannin's last sentiment, and Dozer, a person whose name is not familiar to me. I wish I knew what more I could say. Probably nothing. There has been precious little joy in my life these last few months, and I am glad for the distraction I've...

Enhanced = proprietary, usually. Probably best avioded. There are a whole lot of businesses in the world that would pay top dollar for reliable campus- and metropolitan-area non-LOS wireless. I think that was the direction I was trying to go with my earlier comments. Anyway, WorldCom got...

Well, Cliptin says the 1700+ works just fine. I don't have any reason to doubt him. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Compaq occasionally lets some decent hardware ship with their PCs, and maybe ECS can sometimes build a motherboard that works. Anyway, I see classic hallmarks of bad CPU...

I think perhaps market conditions in Finland might be different enough in .fi that our comments are less relevant to The JoJo. Linus is, after all, a local boy. Since my resume has far more Linux/BSD experience than it does Sun, I get a lot of "Why are you applying for this Unix admin job"...

Is the 1800 fully supported by your board? I'd look into a BIOS update and then I'd say a few words for the dearly departed.

I've worked with Cisco Aironet products and with cheapie little DLink 802.11b stuff a few times. The DLink offered faster connections out to about 30 feet away from the base, then dropped off to nothing. With the Cisco, once I tweaked its position (in the rafters), gave consistently "good"...

She has told me. Now she knows, and I know. On June 30th, 1997, we became a couple. On June 30th, 2002, she told me that none of it mattered any more.

113. You hang on to drives that you own no media for, or media for drives you do not own "just in case". 114. You read #113, and can't think of any drives or media that you DON'T own. 115. You've had to explain to a neophyte techie that his desire for IDE RAID0 is misguided and unnecessary, and...

Honestly, you might be interested to know that Rent is adapted from a Puccini opera, one widely considered one of the greatest of all time - "La Boheme". La Boheme's first act is an absolute triumph. Really. Lovely, lovely stuff.

IIRC, the opening scene in Reservoir Dogs is the gang having a discussion about tipping waitresses. Of course, it's been ages since I've seen that. I might be wrong. Anyway, Pulp Fiction is something I don't think Tarrentino will ever accomplish again. Really, what has the man done in the last...

Hadn't realized that Replacement Killers was a John Woo film. It plays like just about everything he does. It's well-choreographed and well-photographed but it seemed utterly dispassionate through the whole movie. Mostly, I was just bored. The opening is alright. Blade does the shootout in a...

The idea has some merit, I think, but after looking at lindows.org, what I see is a plain ol' Linux distro with WINE already installed. It looks like the only value they add is the "click and run warehouse", a means of distributing both Windows applications that will run under WINE and linux...

I've seen a lot of environments with Notes and Exchange running side-by-side, actually. What ends up happening is that so much useful stuff ends up in the Notes databases that it becomes far too costly to get rid of it. CCDA doesn't seem to be a diluted certification. A Network+ might be a good...

I'm not sure there is suffient value in the RedHat exam at this point to consider it. It is expensive, and as I understand it, fairly rigorous, but there also seems to be next-to-zero demand for it, at least in the US. I've studied for the RedHat exam. I'm sure I could pass it, even the hands-on...

I had forgotten about Blade's opening. That WAS pretty intense. I've not seen "The Replacement Killers". Maybe I'll go rent it. Anyone remember the opening to "Heat"?

No, but everyone's least favorite male porn star, Ron Jeremy was pitching a, um, enlarging cream for an hour or so last night on my local fox affiliate at around 2:00AM.

54Mbit on an 802.11a Wireless net would be great, and I know I can buy APs for it, but so far as I know, NICs aren't available yet. :( As often as I'm asked about it I think there's a lot of demand for wireless applications. 802.11-anything doesn't seem good enough in the times I've dealt with...

I think I beat them both in terms of volume. :) Plus I think I was nice to everybody, and *still* snuck in a good burn on Jason. Anyway, the whole thing just reminded me of something funny, so...

I've got a perfectly good Abit LX6 sitting here, sans CPU, to supplant Clocker's offering, if that's the case. Of course, you won't do much overclocking with it, but for an Abit board it was above average.

S'OK. Bill and I were having a rational argument until Jason came along and finished off the thread. It might yet be fun. Wasn't CNN Sport invented to chronical the China thread in the first place?

Let's be careful in our definition of "action" here. Remember who you're dealing with! Er, actually, I love the way the opening and credits sequence of "Blade Runner" plays out. From Leon blowing away the first 'runner to finding Deckard on the future-street to the skycar traffic... The whole...

I'm thinking that there might be a business advantage - it'd amount to speculation, but y'all have the money to do it - to get some advantageous mid-term R&D squarely in your pocket. Particularly for the "Wireless" side of things. Owning enough fiber to circle the globe will matter less and...

Please note that at the time I wrote my previous comment, he HADN'T gone into "five posts to reply to one post by The Giver" mode yet.

Redundant OC-192s to an apartment in Griffith, Indiana? Well, that's what *I'd* spend it on. Seriously? I'd probably go shopping for starving startups in silicon valley. I might be a little more generous with wage/benefit increases for my workers . And I'd see what I could pick off of MCI's...

James, when you go to work for KPMG, will you be moving back to a proper hemisphere, or staying down in "So Sunny there's a Hole in the Ozone Layer" Oz?

I was actually was thinking along Flagreen's line. $5B in the bank just seems like too much to have on-hand.

As far as things go, I answer in the affirmative on 86 of the first 108 questions. And no, I didn't have anything better to do this afternoon.

68. You've gone to Comdex just to heckle Bill Gates, but you really want a shot at Ballmer. 69. You know the "other" benefit of attending the Las Vegas Comdex. 70. Your computer has more than one remote control. 71. You've listened to a computer game soundtrack on your home stereo. 72. You get...

57. You need more than one surge protector to power a single computer. 58. You don't turn on the furnace, all winter long. 59. You've used blank CD-Rs or electrical tape in foreplay. 60. This (v3.0) GIT/GMU/GH, s:++, !y**, DI++++, UH/UU++ UV+, P, C+++ !E---, V-, W, w+++, !M---, O--...

47. It is not possible to use a cordless or cellular phone inside your home. 48. You have a 3NF Oracle 9i Personal Edition database running on a java client attached to the terminal in your kitchen, 'cause that's easier than keeping a recipe file. 49. #48 sounds like a good idea, if you haven't...

That sort-of actually happened to me. My apartment complex had a scheduled 12-hour blackout and, shortly after I had shut down all my machines, I got a phone call from my power company asking if I was satisfied with my service. Here's a few more: 26. There are so many UPSes in your home...

11. You walk into your local computer shop/call your local distrubutor, and the first thing they say is: "So it'll be the usual again today?" 12. You have 1.6TB of disk space scattered around the house, it's 90% full, and you're thinking "Where are those damned 200BG drives we've been talking...

Just a historical footnote: The Tannin/Tea image I posted just happens to be the very first thing that comes up when you search for "sock puppet" through google's image search feature. I kid you not.

Since my apartment doesn't allow cable internet or DSL, I'll be needing a T1 pulled. I've already got the CSU/DSU and everything. Just get the line to my window and that'll be fine.

I've found that disconnecting the PC Speaker really clears up those BIOS beep code problems. :P