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Batteries on T-series are hot swappable, if you have an Ultrabay battery in addition to the standard one. Heck, you can go one further and slap on an Ultrabase, in the 12 hours or so total battery life you get, you can charge both your other batteries without shutting down. My first reading of...

Steve Reich writes minimalist music. He works mostly with percussion and tape loops of "found" sounds. I've been listening to this stuff all day. It's hypnotic - just slowly shifting beats from a chorus of different drums. It's worth a listen IMO.

Paugie, someone pays me to write that stuff anyway. But you're certainly welcome. :)

I'm perfectly willing to make that statement, Coug. You do write better than many native English speakers. So does JoJo.

Music majors still have to take Math classes, too. Someone going to a university - for whatever reason - is going to be made an educated person. Someone going to vocational school is going to be taught just enough to do a job. An engineer who sat through a few University-level history or lit...

Wiki is something to think about, particularly for documents beyond a certain length. PDF worked pretty well too. The PDF version of the Word source file is about 60% smaller than .DOC, and layout obviously isn't an issue. PDFs can be indexed and searched by search engines - probably a good...

T-series Thinkpads have 4:3 screens, swappable batteries and two USB ports. :D

SF was unreachable to me for about two hours. Was that our server move?

http://s-laker.org/RepairSpyware.php I've been working on this stupid thing for about six hours now. It looks terrible. It's all one way. It's a huge file. Nothing will take away all the stains that MSWord left. Some of the images are screwed up, which I'm pretty sure is a table definition...

I maintain some fairly new laptops for a client that have Geforce something-or-others in them. Every once in a while someone brings me a Dell-something-or-other that's broken somehow, and about 1/4 of my classroom machines have whatever-the-hell5200s in them, due to the tragic error of letting a...

As in all things Laptop, there is the creep of "proprietary". Most laptops with ATI chips - and I've run into enough mobile nvidia chips that are the same way - only work correctly with manufacturer-supplied drivers. ATI has a very short list of notebook brands that work correctly with its...

Writer still does a crappy job with textboxes. :(

I've linked it here several times before. Ahem.

I've thought about it, and I think wiki is even one of those things I can one-click install out of Dreamhost's control panel - but in theory, the design I have should be just about perfect for my needs. I'm really not trying to build a community or a dynamic document with any of these things...

The larger issue, Sol, is that I don't want to muck around with Images in the first place. They're useful and probably necessary, but seeing as I find making HTML documents slightly less exciting than a second viewing of the pre-recorded version of "Watching Paint Dry", I'd rather not deal with...

Wait. You guys live in places with taxpayer funded preschool? We certainly don't have that here! Man, I'm all for controlled breeding. China isn't harsh enough, if you ask me. There should be an exam that makes you eligible for a weekly lottery, or something. Mercutio rules! Abortions for...

Did you hear President Bush had an asshole transplant? The Asshole rejected him.

I find it ironic when Tannin mentions "crapola ATI" when he's talking about a pure 2D display. Just so we're all clear: Matrox 2D > ATI 2D >>> nVidia 2D = S3 2D nvidia 2D quality is ass. And Tannin knows it.

Actually, I know your pain, mubs. The AGP slot on my work computer died some months ago (remember how I said that I have an AGP card that kills AGP slots? Now you know how I figured that out). I don't particularly feel like RMAing the motherboard to Albatron when I really don't NEED a...

Macs do WYSIWYG right. PCs don't. DisplayPDF is a beautiful thing. Mac security issues are dramatically less obnoxious. Heck, most Mac users don't have Virus scanners. There's a narrow range of geometry calculations (altivec) that Macs can do better than PCs, but anyone who is sane will be doing...

That's completely opposite to the philosophy of the developers. There are premade "Thumb Drive Friendly" versions of Firefox which can include extensions at the whim of the user. The one on my thumb drive has everything *I* need. You could do it too, if you wanted.

Two things: 1. mubs has stated his interest in the mutlimedia-cleanup and co-processing of ATI's avivo tools, which are only present in X1x00-series hardware. 2. Just reaching, but maybe mubs will be one of those funny people who will run Vista. Vista needs a pretty powerful graphics card, and...

I make stuff for my classes in Word, yes (requirement of the job). Extracting all the text from word is easy enough, but Word's save-as-HTML does awful things with images (and we all know about the stupidity of Microsoft's generated HTML), and re-creating screenshots and the like is annoying to...

Microcenter is like Disneyworld, but the employees can have facial hair!

Newegg's search has behaved oddly since last major site redesign. Right now, you're almost always better off searching for manufacturer than a product ID or specific set of features. Yup, that's what I'm objecting to. Their standard of packaging doesn't do a whole lot to protect the front and...

Oh my, how that helped. I made this in about five minutes, which is much better than the 40 minutes I probably would've spent screwing around with image placement.

There's nothing wrong with the Samsung 250GB drives, but if you're thinking of buying hard disks from Newegg, be advised that sometimes their packing for drives isn't the best in the word. It's better when you buy five or ten drives at a time, because then tend to pack them better (usually in...

I know of no useful function for SMS texting, but Google will send one for you for free. I guess that's kind of cool. And also, Handbrake, a pretty neat-looking DVD Shrinking and Recoding App (supports H.264) has been ported from its Mac-y original to Windows. It doesn't support deCSSing, so...

Works great! Thanks, Will.

Wow. The second-ever useful .NET app!

My life would be much easier if I could find a tool that de-suckifies Word-created HTML pages. I know such tools exist, and I don't particularly care what OS those tools need, but my searches so far have just turned up tools that remove private information from .doc files. Anyone know what I'm...

That is in my opinion a very twisted view of reality. Public schoolteachers aren't just teachers any more. They also have to be babysitters. They are sometimes put in the position of having to teach manners and behavioral lessons that should've been learned at home or in a pre-school. They have...

Because some of the extensions do great and worthwhile things. Some of them fall into the category of "Why doesn't everyone use that?" Perfect example: Linky Linky lets you select a whole bunch of links at once, right click and open them all in tabs. So simple it blows my mind, but amazingly...

The first tool that springs to mind is the Wayback Machine at archive.org.

Coug, I completely, utterly don't care how fast those drives are. They're fast enough. If I wanted fast, I'd buy x15s. I don't. I want capacity from a brand I trust. I don't trust WD. I don't trust Maxtor. I don't trust Seagate. I only access those drives through a network connection anyway. The...

DDR400 in the game machine. I'm not sure about the HTserver. I haven't rebooted it since I put it in. The x2s are sub-optimal because neither model I own is really in the "best bang for the buck" category. I wasn't really planning to spend as much as I did to get a 4400, but I wanted an x2 so...

Just to update a little. 'Cause Coug reminded me to do it. Also, "Pokey" now has a GA-7S748L instead of an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe. I have another x2/4200 sitting here. I'm trying to decide if I want to order some kind of nforce4, since I no longer have an nforce2 (for maintaining disk images), or...

Each file server has two arrays, a "live" RAID5 array, and an array that stores the daily backup for one of the others (which is soft-RAID0, which I realize is a risk, but no moreso than making a JBOD, which was my other choice for 2-disk high capacity RAID...). Those machines each have a...

How does it feel to be part of the problem?

I thought the congressional pay issue was widely known. Get elected to the US House for a couple years and you never have to work again, even if you're too lazy to be a lobbyist. Anyway, the way I feel about George can't be summed up in an online forum without me getting a visit from the Secret...

Thanks for picking up on those things, everyone. I'm starting to HTMLize it now as well.

They can get warm, but not dangerously so. I don't keep much else in my closets. Some boxes of comic books and the small amount of stuff that goes on hangers. My "computer room" is air conditioned year round, but that's more to keep ensure that it gets no hotter than room temperature in there.

Aw, I'm not really arguing about the cost. More the fact that some awful retailer wrangled you into buying WD.

Some of my cases are eight or nine years old. I COULD buy shoeboxes, but I kind of like being able to upgrade whenever I feel like it. I might feel differently if I were forced into a BTX upgrade the day after tomorrow or something, but we all know that's not going to happen. I'm also not too...

The woman will be too busy with all the nonstop orgasms I will give her to notice my crappy old cars or state of housekeeping.

Owning more than one pair of sheets is a sure sign that one is no longer a bachelor.

It's Mozilla with some extra letters. Maybe Tea just likes seeing more Monkeys in software.

I'll settle for the woman.

I used to hang my Tshirts, but the closets in my apartment are kind of small, and I put computers in them, so I don't have as much hanging space as I used to. My ex- bought me a couple hanging organizers to keep my shirts in. So for the last few months I've been trying to learn to properly fold...

It will when you finish translating it. :D