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As you'll note, I haven't exactly been complaining that my name isn't showing up in proper green type.

Back when P2-300s were the best you could buy, I had a DFI board that did that. I killed three CPUs before I learned. There wasn't an error message or anything.

On SR I don't mind so much, since I know every refresh brings a different ad and maybe a little more money to SR.

Also, I've seen vast numbers of MII-366s. They certainly were a shipping part. A horrible pox on technicians and heatsink/fans everywhere, but they absolutely were a shipping part.

I just looked at your CPU pages Tannin. I hadn't actually read all the way through before. A few things I can say (besides my usual snide comments about anything Cyrix): Yes, the C6 worked flawlessly without a fan. Acer made a low-profile, legacy-free machine around the C6 that was roughly the...

I would've liked a V5 for comparison's sake. They threw in the TNT2. I'm more than impressed with the showing my $60something Radeon 7500s made, though. It's bumping up against the fastest GF2s and not more than a couple percent slower than the low-end GF3 for most things.

While Fox has, at times, bordered on the permanently lurid, the truth is, I'm too cheap to pay $40/month for cable.

Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed! Dancing banana-man (are you trying to tell us something, Bill? - and yes I finally loaded IE to see what the heck you were talking about last night) just couldn't wait to use all those vast moderator powers and now...

As you can see I was highly sleep deprived when I wrote this. I must retract the bit of bolded text, above. Forget you ever saw it. All of you. :) Tannin, how come Kristi isn't at least registered to make fu... post here?

I've found the back button to be entirely useless both here and on SR, across all browsers and platforms. Usually I get a "page is expired" error.

The radio remote control/mouse makes it worthwhile. :) With my ATI VIVO and as much storage as I have (1.3TB online at the moment), I can record whatever the heck I want (of course, I'd have to have a lot more interest in the one TV channel I get before I'd want to record 1300GB of video, too)...

Yes, it was http://users.erols.com/chare/sockets.htm (or one of the pages on that site). I made my A+ class spend some time there. And on Tannin's site, I might add. Both are very educational.

The same thing as all the other commands. Why?

Did you try shift-printscreen?

IFSMGR is associated with some of the low-level IDE disk driver functions. You might be able to fix that problem most easily by copying a more recent version of the file (it lives in c:\windows\system\vmm32, and probably wasn't replaced during a Windows reinstall) from a Win98 system. The...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I typed that.

Must be a picture I'm not seeing. Hmph.

The ATI 7x00 and 8500 All-in-Wonder cards can take programming info from ATI's web site. That's free. 500GB of storage and a 7500 AIW is only $700 or so... TiVo doesn't *HAVE* to be connected to a phone line, AFAIK. You don't get the program guide or TiVo programming picks. That might have...

Did I miss something?

I don't enjoy any sports. My suggestions are based only on observations of sports fanatics.

Probably it was supposed to compete with the Pentium-II. It does surprisingly well, but ended up being more of a competitor to the Celeron, simply because there was more parity in pricing.

Is there such a thing as third-party clipboard software? Printscreen by itself seems to work pretty well, if you're OK with capping your whole screen.

Simple: no matter what I do, it takes too long. That's why I have so many computers; I can go look at the other stuff that loaded on machines I was using earlier in the day. :)

I think it's hideous. And I'm not saying that just because it's not green on black. It reminds me of the failed "modern design" building my Mom worked in during the very early part of the 80s... all red and rounded edges. Simply awful.

I know that, of course. But seeing that he's in Italy, he probably doesn't get much use for his native language. My posts aren't long enough to complain about? I'm hurt.

So what was the nature of the dispute with his teammate on the North Melbourne Kanagroos? And given the phrase under consiideration here, I think perhaps we should phrase things delicately.

No. But I've heard of Wayne Newton and Drew Carey. Are they close?

I think Ars Technica already has the market cornered on that one. I have a friend who can translate into Gaelic, Welsh, Basque, Portugese, Spanish, Hebrew and (ancient) Greek. PeeWee can probably handle Italian, too. Not that I think that's helpful.

Sol, while "no holes barred" is a really interesting expression, and the title of a series of movies I'll admit to having enjoyed, I think the phrase you wanted was "No HOLDS barred", a throwback from professional wresting.

I'd think there woud be more of a space limitation in adding a Hippo or something. Track and field events: Running = rename it "being chased". Runners get a five second head start from, say, a cement truck, which then follows them around the track at whatever speed is most appropriate. Races...

Your English probably sounds like my German. :) You might be amused by the essays of David Sedaris on the subject of become an expatriot in Paris, particularly his digressions on the French-language gender of objects in his life. The literal translations of his attempts at French are bad enough...

I think it's about right, actually. I don't want you to work too hard at it, but I liked that you got something up about the 800JB DAYS before SR managed it. :)

Yes. And if we win, I'll be available to take local delivery. :) Really, though, this machine is a Sequent-based 2x 4CPU @ 700MHz each. Only 1GB RAM per node (that's NUMA - each quad of CPUs has its own pool of memory. Compare to UMA, what PCs use... memory I/O is probably through the roof)...

Any sport related to swimming: Just add pirrahna.

Ballroom dancing: Instead of a nice wood or marble floor, how about either loose gravel or suspended netting? "Travis and Wang are going for the pirouette and... Oh no! Oh the humanity!"

IBM's enterprise storage is agnostic. Sometimes their bigger equipment (disclaimer: I only work on PC Servers. Ask Fushigi about their i-Series hardware) will have Seagate or Fujitsu drives and sometimes IBM.

FIC VA-503+. Marvelous board. I had serious compatibility problems with the Trinity 1598 and normally trouble-free AWE64. Given that was the only board I ever had a problem with the AWE64, I think it's probably Tyan's fault on that one.

It's there. It's also been in most of their SDKs since the late 90s. I remember seeing it in their "software agent" kit (for making your own talking paper clip) in '98.

No. I haven't. I really do believe that the only reason people watch sports, on the deepest level, is to watch for injury or injury-substitute activity. Therefore the right thing to do is to return sport to its most pure state, two guys with pointed sticks beating the crap out of each other...

I've found that keeping generic Ghost images + specifying app installs in the batch .INF cuts my fresh install time down to just a half-hour or so.

The only real sport is women's beach volleyball. Or gymnastics if they'd actually let actual adult women compete instead of little girls. 8) Failing that, the only real sport is actual, gladiatoral combat. Everything else is just some pansy substitute. Baseball would be a lot more interesting...

The reality of all this is that Microsoft has realized that they just can't compete with Linux without the force of law. Rather than producing better technology than the free-software people can deliver - and with billions of dollars in the bank, I'm making a large and perhaps specious...

I haven't owned a non-adaptec SCSI card in, well, ever, but in the olden days, when hard disks were swapped between brands of cards (SCSI chipsets, nowaday), standard practice was to low-level format the drives from the BIOS of the new card. I don't know whether or not that's still the case.

Well, I've been buying 7500s, mostly. Maybe that's why I wasn't clear. A couple of 7000s and a couple of 7200s, but mostly 7500s. Looking at a 2D display side-by-side, I can't tell a difference between a 7000 and a 7500 @ 1024x768 on a 17" display. Matrox is still the tops as far as 2D, though...

Suddenly, it's easier to understand why an hour of my time costs $85 - $150 under good circumstances...

time, I'd suggest giving a Radeon 7500 a try. It's a good blanace between a gaming card and a good 2D card. Rather like the 3dfx Voodoo3s back in their day (it's an apt comparison. Rad. 7000 = V3 2000, 7200 = V3 3000, 7500 = V3 3500). The fact that the 7x00-series doesn't need active cooling is...

I'd guess you'll do better for your money with a Radeon 7x00 of some form. The lowest-priced versions come in at around $35 (32MB SDR) and easily manage better 2D than any GF2 I've seen and VERY fast 3D as well. Doug, are you sure that the 85Hz you set in your tool is "really" 85Hz? Can you set...

Damn, that's cold. The last bit, I mean. I've got to go along with Fushigi, though. I've watched professional movers do in hours what it takes me days to do. When I move out of this rat-hole where I live (soon, soon), movers are gonna do all the work.

Er, that's what I meant. 48% - 53% of my income goes out in taxes. I have pay double for some of the taxes that are normally split between employer and employee. I pay both halves. That's a big part of it right there. I suppose the proper thing to do would be to incorporate and pay myself a salary.

Taxes, bane of the self-employed. Last year was a really awful year for me, and only 48% of my income wound up being taxed. Most years it's more like 53 or 54%, depending on how sneaky my accountant feels like being and how nice people are about paying me in cash (saints, every one)...