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I'd say that's a question for the ages.

Yes, but as with all things fibre, you won't even get a kiss before you bend over and pay for the cabling.

grok - Innate understanding. Coined by Heinlein in [i]Stranger in a Strange Land[/i.

In my case, those are typos. In your case, the complete abscence of punctuation can only be seen as ignorance or a campaign of deliberately poor use of language. I believe it's the latter but I'll be perfectly happy to proceed under the former assumption.

Fortunately for its., my alma mater has a pretty comprehensive web site for those unschooled in the ways of the English language.

I don't know if anyone saw my post about Slimserver, but this is a remarkably cool program for anyone who has any kind of decent internet connection, effectively letting you (or whomever connects to your server) browse and play anything you've got in your collection. It requires port 9000 to be...

Uh. Yeah. I'll be here growing old while that gets implemented on mainstream system boards. Was that sarcastic enough?

I think perhaps he's naming his own personal steak house. I think perhaps I wouldn't want to eat a steak from a FUBAR'd steak house. Listen its., I know you aren't a native speaker, but JoJo, CougTek, zx, simonstre and ihsan manage alright.

All this and nothing from the Grammar Police.

Could you possibly re-phrase that with a proper sentence structure? You've got the "double quote" down pretty well. Now you just need to work on the , <---comma ; <---semi-colon . <---period Commas are used to seperate lists of nouns and/or adjectives. Semi-colons are used in place of...

So mubs, how do you get the job where you get to do those things?

I have an enormous fear that if I ever stopped working, I wouldn't be able to start again (in part because jobs are hard to come by and in part because of my mental state). I don't take sick time. I don't take vacations. I find something where I get paid and I work. Vacations are for people who...

My typical answer to "How are you today?" is "Dead inside." Now, how happy do you think I am? This has the immediate advantage of causing anyone who tries to stop talking to me, but I'm no less serious for saying it. I've said before that it seems like there really aren't many choices in life...

Gotta say GH has one of the ugliest home pages I've ever seen. Wow. Shield your eyes prior to viewing. So, that's on purpose, right?

Maybe some kind of design work might be challenging. Or security analysis. I don't know. Day-to-day work involving desktops and servers certainly isn't.

Where are these forks supposed to be?

But if it makes anyone feel better, Handy, I run into the same thing all the time. There are a whole bunch of little tiny things I could do to automate or improve my home network and I never got around to actually doing any of them.

The other side to that is that I've been overqualified for every job I've ever had. It's not a big deal, and I like the work that I do, but I've never been someplace where my work has actually been challenging.

My lack of mental health is taking an unfortunately large chunk out of my day. Sorry Tea.

Anyone else ever felt like life is lived on rails?

I believe I am in fact in the running for whitest guy on earth.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower...

60GB of Samsung 5400rpm goodness.

WTF is "bling-bling"?

S*ny's low-end 400 DVD jukebox is only $280 if you wanted to buy it online. It obviously doesn't grok data discs, but with a keyboard input, you CAN just stick a bunch of discs in and label them.

If you login as a non-administrator on that PC, can you add the printer? Have you tried connecting to it with net print? Since these are roaming profiles, have you tried deleting the cached copies from User Profiles in System Properties? Have you run SFC (that comes up a lot from me. It fixes...

Neither Bluetooth nor Wireless USB (it's coming) would be worthwhile, unfortunately, since they're both shared media. I was thinking something more like custom internal cabling + internal SATA or Firewire or SCSI or whatever. Surely there will be multi-drive external SATA enclosures, just as...

A slightly more accessible CD of art songs is probably Long Time Ago, collecting some great American Folk Songs ("I Bought Me a Cat" and the lullaby "All the Little Horses") and Hymns ("At the River" and "Simple Gifts") and Copland's settings of Eight Poems by Emily Dickinson, along with his...

Toad the Wet Sprocket was the name of a band that kept changing its name in a Monty Python routine. It isn't like I made some kind of conscious effort to be different on the matter of music. My brothers have musical tastes that run to mainstream (80s stuff, techno and depresso-alterna-whatever...

At least you didn't say "A Night on Disco Mountain". I was asking a serious question. Try to tell someone that you don't know who xyz top-40 flavor of the month is because you only listen to classical music, and you get a look like you have 3 heads. Try to explain the appeal of, say, a...

Why don't people like classical music?

I managed to find a retail store that had a 10D in stock, but no Canon lenses. I used it with a Sigma 105/f2.8 lens It was a little hefty by itself, but lighter than every camcorder I've ever handled. I was trying to be deliberate in taking shots, but it seemed to be on a hair trigger. It...

[b]Ballmer[/url]: Developers! Developers! Developers!

My Albatron K8T800 had 3GB of RAM in it. I was running 32-bit 2000 Server on it; I didn't like XP for 64-bit - didn't see a performance difference, and, well, XP has the power to find new ways to piss me off. Of course, that was the PC where my 9700AIW decided to die, and a few weeks later the...

Last spring we gave Handruin a PC (er, most of one, anyway, and a pretty cool shirt). If sechs got a job out of SF, I'd say that counts as the collective good deed for the year. :)

Yet another reason ME is retarded.

Are you talking about SFC?

In a million dollar house, he ought to. ;)

Have you met my good friend blaster? Or maybe Nachi?

My favorite tactic, and the one that's worked best, is a gift subscription to Penthouse, mailed to their place of business. It's cheap, easy and effective.

Hope I don't offend overmuch if I say that I think that case is bug-ugly. I see several cases among Compucase's lineup that look like they could fit one's needs.

I don't have friends or the means to get any, so SF gets all my social energy. You want real world interaction. I really find it draining, and in a lot of circumstances it makes me physically ill. I'd hazard that Tannin knew the Ballarat delegation before coming to SR. I've met Fushigi, spoken...

Has there been an update to Ulead's package? Last version I looked at couldn't even save files in MPEG2. Newer P4s (Northwood+) are supposed to be faster for video encoding works. So say the benchmarks. Software MPEG2 encoding is something that, in best of times, a CPU torture best appreciated...

David once again proving he's my opposite. I'd guess that most of our members are either in Ballarat (not counting puppets: Tannin, Soup Nazi, sol, Kristi) or Houston (counting GaryH's puppets). There are quite a few of us around Lake Michigan, too. Cheer up. Once your store opens your life...

Passages. Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Very exotic and atmospheric. While I'm thinking about it, has anyone else noticed a huge increase in middle-eastern and Indian themes in movie/TV soundtracks lately? A couple of examples off the top of my head are the scoring to "the Hulk" and HBO's...

Prescott. OK. Well, I think it's funny.

Are you using your Gbit interface? Is it turned on? Does it need to be? Disabled Smart Burn yet?

Now that I think about it, it should be possible to put four 2.5" drives in a 5.25" HH bay... that would solve my problem rather nicely. When's that changeover to 2.5" desktop drives happen, again?

Oh, and thanks for offering.

I'm almost out of 3.5" drive bays anyway. :( Either I'm going to have to go back to using giant SuperMicro tower cases or drives are going to have to start getting bigger again. Too bad they don't stock the SATA version. I keep changing my mind over whether I want to go that road or not.