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What channel is that one on? I confess that I find DirectTV #595 entirely too entertaining to have tried watching anything else. I only just hooked the satellite doohickey up last evening. I watched the evening news. Which is how I heard about "Secondhand Lions". Which was an entertaining way...

My voice is probably a bit higher than it probably sounded. We're always gravelly when we wake up and I've been having a wonderful time with sinuses lately anyway. I also tend to deepen it while I teach. Helps with projection. I am however, neither frenetic nor squeaky. Tannin sounds nothing...

Hard to explain. Part would be that I'd think I'm imposing. This is as much a product of the mores of the region where I live as anything else. Another part would be that I'm not sure I'd know how to behave or interact with Fushigi or his wife. I tend to make myself physically ill in situations...

That's alright now. I'm just not ready to go back to bed yet. Hence the posting. Mostly on-topic stuff, too. And speaking of unfair advantages, Tea could be typing with feet, too. As far as cell dropouts, I can only apologize and assure you that Verizon offers uniformly poor service to...

Also, WRT Raptors, I have run across them perhaps half-a-dozen times now, and more than any other drive I can remember, they have been as non-uniform as can be. I think I mentioned before about the noise: Some of them are as quiet as any modern 7k drive. Others have had the (SCSI) Barracuda...

Egads, I hope you aren't pushing 22" displays on ALL your customers. :) Or 17" LCDs for that matter? For new displays I am deeply fond of the KDS XF-7T. I buy them new for a smidge over $100. They're 12x10 but .25dp and do 10x7 @ 100Hz+ and seem to have uniformly nice, bright screen image...

6:35PM Eastern Oz Standard Time = 3:35AM Central US Daylight Time. Just a helpful reminder for any future trans-pacific calls. :D That was, to be honest, a great deal of fun. Except for the part where I still don't know how to call back. I'll have to figure that out. It's quite enjoyable to...

802.11e is apparently the forthcoming standard for streaming video. I guess that's a start.

Irony: Going to see a PG-rated movie because of on an interview with its 13-year-old star, that was conducted on the Playboy channel. "Secondhand Lions" was quite entertaining. Duvall and Caine did a fair impression of a couple of my eccentric uncles.

Does your video cable have a little Ferrite donut on it?

For those single-frame jobs, as long are things are bolted to the floor or a properly-weighted base, they're pretty nice. If you don't know what you're doing when you're putting one together they're #$%-ing scary (yes, I've had the entire contents of a rack fall on me. Mechanically inclined I am...

$1200?!?

Also, find a better place to steal your copy of XP or go back to 2000. Not being able to install SP1a is a deal-breaker.

I have an APC sealed rack with its own cooling. It lives in my laundry room now. They come apart you know. If you want cheap, musicians are usually selling them. :) I'd really like to get a better rack for audio. Something oak that matches my furniture.

That IS what I'm thinking of. The only other interesting aspect would be finding a nicer carrier for video than a big, thick VGA cable. I'm working on wiring my house now. Cat6 for ethernet. Cat6 for svideo. Cat6 for stereo.

Dammit Tea! I was just cooking dinner. You probably called while I was out messing around with my grill. My cell phone number, for anyone who might actually care, is 219-PH1-UKSC. Sometimes I even answer it.

Pttp. Upgradability is important in all this too.

Where DOES my day go? I thought it was still mid-afternoon here.

Nope. That's just a big antenna. I'm good for that. What I'd love to see is a consumer devices with some RCA or maybe SPDIF connections for audio, and svideo connections for video, a Tivo-like MPEG encoder chip, shoutcast-like server support and 802.11A/G awareness. On the client end, a...

I work with NT and Embedded 2000-based POS (not vomit boxes) systems from time to time. ATMs aren't that different from those. Some of my Bank's ATMs (BankOne) in Northwest Indiana are Windows based, too, albeit different-looking from the one in the picture above.

Plus Redhill is only open to customers for 5 hours a day. I guess the rest of the day is service time? I have Tannin's home number too. Except I'll bet he's still asleep. Lazy so-and-so. Sleeping in the middle of the night like that. It's downright inconsiderate.

Why doesn't anyone make a keyboard with a smallish LCD (12 or 14 inch) attached? I can think of at least five or six applications for that in as many seconds, even more if someone can make the video signal run over CAT5. Why doesn't anyone make a remote control that can be programmed or...

Wow. That actually borders on useful. Too bad I'd never willingly turn off a computer. ;)

Tannin says it does. Howell said couldn't get it to work either. BTW, if someone wants to test this theory and bother Tannin by phone, I know that the flat rate for calls to Oz by 10-10-629 is $.09 a minute (no fee or subscription charge), which is EXTREMELY cheap.

I tried that one. It didn't work.

I know of no other way to explain it. I thought I might, just to do something different, ring RedHill in the middle of its business day, which happens at about 11PM according to the clock on my wall. So I dialed the number using the instructions I found on dataandtime.com. Didn't work. "Your...

I'm not a goth. I wear khaki trousers, black sneakers and solid-color tshirts (yes, one of them is pink) every day of my life. Sometimes I wear a sport coat, when I have to look dressed up. Google Image Search for Goths. I couldn't possibly be bothered to spend that much time dressing to go out.

I have a small collection of Cthulhu items - including three different plush ones, sitting on my desk at work. I do this because several people I work with have stacks of way-too-cute beany babies on their monitors and I just kind of wanted a different take on that decor (anyone ever seen a goth...

Are you using XP SP1 or SP1A? 'Cause if you're not, support for large disks with onboard controllers doesn't work very well.

You're booting off SCSI and have a Promise controller. This can be a recipe for trouble. Can you see the disks individually? If you just attach them and start Windows does do you have a bunch of drives or just your SCSI stuff without making an array in the Promise BIOS? FYI, I've done 1TB with...

I usually make tarballs and then back those up. Much easier. :) Seriously, have you played around on freshmeat.net?

Current boards: I imagine the Gigabyte 7VAX (P) deserves a mention. Probably also one of the nforce2 mainstays, like the Epox 8RDA or the Abit NF7. Others? Tannin like Albatron. P4s? No idea. Current drives: Samsung Spin40s and 80s (120s and 160s, too, but probably not for Tannin's customers)...

Anyone who invokes He Who Sits Dreaming Beneath the Waves in the name of humor is a doing the world a favor.

The machine in question is an XP2500 with 512MB RAM running 2000 Server. Perhaps because I'm not a regular IE user, it takes longer to start up the first time. Firebird loads more or less instantly (maybe 1 second delay). IE definitely does not, requiring about 8 seconds before the window is...

Most of my complaints have at least a partial solution in the Advanced Prefs tab. It's just... just very organized. Haven't found a setting to turn off autocomplete, either. Firebird starts faster than IE on the computer I'm using right now, by probably 3 - 5 seconds.

Tannin's web site is undoubtedly a fantastically useful place. I visit there fairly regularly and send others there even more regularly. Still, it's been a year since the last update (Sept. 7, 2002). Since summer is coming in Ballarat, we know no one is going to update it until, oh, March or...

If I could keep milk - which I can't, it always gets sour too quickly for my tastes, I'd eat granola or possibly "Peanut Butter Crunch". How do you make pancakes, anyway?

It's better now @ 1k Did you remember to post the original where the othe mods could see it?

I'm trying to contain my annoyance with Firebird right now, too. I have similar problems with Moz 1.4. (What's wrong with firebird? Simple stuff. With Moz I can specify the number of times an animation happens, if at all. I can also change the default cache directory - I usually move it up to a...

Doubtful. What I've been told is that you're kept in a ward with security that prevents you from leaving. Not a cell or anything, just a combination of alarms and burly guys who really don't want you to go anywhere until someone says it's OK. You're held in "observation", probably medicated...

Lots of schools do that, then limit the number of classes you can take to the point that it REALLY isn't worth it.

Bill, I've tried to do the "professional help" thing. It doesn't. I don't feel any better today than I did 15 months ago. Truthfully, I feel worse. I want things to be better but I believe I have exhausted normal treatment options.

The Pioneeer drive rips DVDs faster, and is faster for audio extraction. The Sony drive is twice as fast when used for burning CDs. Either is good, but since I burn CDs a lot more often than extract audio, I'm glad I have Sony drives.

If it makes you feel better, Coug, I can read German but I can't speak or write it. What you and The JoJo do to be here absolutely stuns me. Mental health care is something that is absolutely deplorable. At least, it seems to be. It's incredibly expensive, time consuming and in my experience...

Cheerio is a british colloquialism (i.e. slang). It's used as a salutation. Similar to "aloha", I've heard it used in place of both "Hello" and "Goodbye". It's also a tasty oat-based breakfast cereal in the US. So when fool or one of the other Brits says "Cheerio", you know he's saying "Bye"...

I've had Housecall pick up stuff that other scanners have missed. Plus, it actually cleans, for free. Last I looked, McAfee and Symantec's wouldn't do that. Another weird thing I noticed is this: The machines that I manage for the training company all run Symantec AV Corporate. I have three...

My coworker says that DotPhoto and Shutterfly are also both very good. $.29 is the standard price, but all three run specials from time to time. She said she normally uses dotphoto because she usually gets the pictures a little faster.

No benchmarks yet, but the L3 cache would presumably improve operations that rely on memory bandwidth (video encoding and computer games, basically). flagreen will be pleased to hear that this processor is apparently a high-end Xeon in a misbegotten not-Socket 603-package. Since it's a "P4"...

My point was that the instant on thing has been "real soon now" since at least the release of the first edition of win98. Shoot. A lot of BIOSes ignore the CMOS setting for powerbutton functionality (soft-off or hard off) anyway.

ofoto does really nice work. One of my coworkers chases photo-printing deals constantly. I'll drop her an email and get opinions on some of the others.