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Ubuntu is Debian run by pragmatic individuals. My main complaint with Debian is that the people who run it care more about ideology than building a working Linux distro. Since Debian is Linux-by-committee, updates come at a snail's pace. Debian has one great thing going for it: apt. Apt is...

As you are doing RAID in software, as long as the drives in each RAID0 set are the same make and model, I think you'll be fine. Sometimes I mix and match IDE and SATA (say, Samsung 160GB drives which have both PATA and SATA versions, or Hitachi 7k250s) drives on Windows or Linux software RAID...

In places, Oz doesn't look much different from Indiana. I guess farms and open fields look the same everywhere. That surprises me, as I was expecting everything to look more like wimmera-9 or wimmera-12, a kind of landscape I don't think I've seen anyplace I've been in the USA.

Why not just put in a video card with a decent video out (something by ATI that'll do component out, maybe?) in your living room file server? You could do Myth and have a pretty nice setup, especially since the computer is there already. The nicer KISS players cost almost as much as a PC. That...

I have a 3 or 4MP Elph that I use for point and shoot. It autofocusses for crap, leading to either much futzing about trying to get the focus I want, or really awful, blurry pictures. I carry it in my tech bag and really only use it to photograph hardware for customers (so that, if they need...

I use one socket - Socket 754. Works great!

I don't understand why they can't have two testbeds. I realize there are high-end tests where they need PCI-X controllers and the goodies on that Xeon board, but that machine doesn't represent the kind of hardware that 99% of people use from day-to-day. I'm interested in performance on a vanilla...

Oh, I really don't see the point in these... For one thing, I'm utterly confused about which product is the mainstream - 754 or 939. Last I heard, 754 was the mainstream product, 939 was for "enthusiasts", but 754 is to be abandoned sooner or later. That's a mixed message all on its own. So...

I've used these antennae from Hawking a few times. They work great with Linksys and Apple APs and not at all with Netgeat or Dlink. I sold one to one of my students, whose needs were greater than anything I have ever wanted to use one for. I think he told me he was getting about a city block...

After all this time... And the computers I build, and Tony and Buck and time and ddrueding and whoever else here builds systems regularly - are still a better deal than Dell. :P

"Weeds" on Showtime is pretty good.

PBS.org has streaming Nova for free!

Whereever you work, are you hiring, Gilbo?

Hey everybody, look at this! For those too lazy to click, this asshole republican (but I repeat myself...) wants to reclassify sex scenes in movies and TV shows to match the same criteria as actual, explicit adult films. In other words, movies and TV shows with love scenes - even ones where...

#1 - #3 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly #4 - Futurama #5 - Cracker (British version) #6 - Nova #7 - The Shield #8 - Carnivale #9 - The Sopranos #10 - Deadwood Honorable Mention: Millenium, Batman: the Animated Series, X-Files, The Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus Starting at...

Weren't the 200 and 250GB drives vapor for almost a year after their paper launch?

Inexpensive = $500. And for headphones. Ugh.

That is correct. There are only 13 (or 14. Whichever) episodes.

It helps if you've seen the TV show. I'll mail you a set of discs. :D

I've looked into social bookmarking. It bothered me for some reason. Wasn't something I felt comfortable doing. Which probably just proves that I'm anti-social. I make use of RSS feeds (I just use live bookmarks in Firefox) from slashdot.org, Google news, fark.com (always a good way to waste a...

I am under the impression that it's a driver one needs to load.

The Chenming case is nice. I have a few of them. They're fairly well insulated and they are easy to work on. With a supermicro SATA enclosure, I would only attach one set of rails - two sets made removing the enclosure REALLY hard. I do wish they had a few more 3.5" bays, and I'm not a big fan...

14 people looked at this? And no one else answered? OK... There's three sets of rules that govern file-level security on Window. Rule 1. Share-level security is additive unless there's a "Deny". A user's permissions for a file share are the Most Permissive possible. If the Everyone Group...

mubs, it's a very good movie, but you'll miss a lot if you don't watch the TV series first. When can I send you the DVDs?

I have TERRIBLE problems with getting my apartment's address verified. I don't know why. Standard procedure is for an order to my address to be denied, and to get a note asking that I call so-and-so in Customer Service, who will then verify my address again, have my card declined while I'm on...

Well, hey, if we're going there... Everyone remember the tender love scene from "Fight Club"? Neither do I. But Helena Bonham-Carter (Marla) had this to say after a roll in the hay with Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden): "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." Which is, to my way of...

Well, I know that I've gotten Acoustic Edges to play nice with 2000 before. Could there maybe be another issue? Something weird with DirectX, maybe?

My living room system is an Integra DTR-8.2. My bedroom system is an Onkyo TX-NR801. I bought my ex- a slightly less-capable model - I think it was a TX-SR503 - not too long ago. The receiver in my office at work is a Pioneer VSX-701. I've owned Sony ES receivers, and I've demo'd mid-range...

Why not just tell it that it has a non-plug and play Soundblaster installed?

No, I'm quite certain I have some old computer magazines - PC Magazine or Byte, maybe - that have PC's Limited advertisements. I remember thinking that the owner was an idiot for letting that typo go out in all his ads... until I saw an article that indicated that the name was, in fact, correct.

I've used Half.com for three or four years. Mostly to buy CDs (rarely) and DVDs (much more often). Half.com is a good way to get legit copies of DVD sets that cost way too much at MSRP ($99 for an X-files season? I'll wait and get it on half.com) And I can't say I've had a problem.

For $40, if it lets me connect a set of real, non-sucky speakers to a computer, I think I'm OK with whatever I get. Since I've been making proclaimations about things that I like and sincerely believe are worth time and money, I thought I'd point out a few comic book series. Comics, as a rule...

Just Firefox. Nothing special.

Lunar, I think I'd go with option #2, from the choices you list. I just don't have a high opinion of Maxtor drives these days. I don't have a terribly high opinion of Seagate, either, but in this case I think it's the lesser of the two evils.

Today is October 4th. When I went to lunch today, the bank clock/thermometer thing I drove by said that it was 91F. In Northwest Indiana. In October. Before noon. No global warming my ass.

The RSS feeds I use most often are slashdot and google news, both of which seem to update more reliably than SF's have been. Is anyone else using the feeds? Am I the only one having problems with this?

Yup. I have a few old issues of Computer Shopper with some of their ads.

Yeah, actually. Actual gay guys tend to like MEN. People with hair in places I don't care to think about, defined muscles and gruff voices. Those aren't exactly common traits in 12 or 14-year-olds. Whereas, a pedophile probably isn't worried about sexual characteristics of his/her victim -...

AD: My ex- likes to rant about the people who want to just go out and be cosmetic surgeons. Dunno how it is at the UofM but apparently that's the big goal of several people in her classes.

Well, I wouldn't call a USB vibrator useless. I'd say there are real-world applications for that one! At least, it's not as useless as a USB fish tank or a USB EZ-Bake oven. Or a thumb drive in the shape of fried prawn.

Ever since I subscribed to the RSS feeds, my little orange "new posts" icons have been all screwed up. I don't know if it's related, but there isn't even a subset of computers that I use where things look like they did this time last week.

I think the more disturbing issue is the automatic assumption that a gay priest - a gay anybody - is automatically assumed to be at fault or more likely to abuse little kids. That's just deeply ignorant thinking. Maybe even more ignorant that banning a certain kind of priest for having a subset...

Nope. I'm pretty sure it was Packard Bell. Tannin will probably say it's Osborn or something. My personal favorite Dell experience: Receiving 12 PCs and one of their baby servers, absolutely NONE of which had the power supply plugged into the motherboard. QA? What QA? Ironically, those with...

Article on Salon.com this morning. Posted in its entirety. I like the automatic assumption that priests who happen to be gay are the only ones who're boning altarboys. ----------------------------------------------- Rome's latest witch hunt won't stop with gays Under cover of the sex-abuse...

Old versions of Ghost don't support modern versions of NTFS. Fortunately, OEM copies of Ghost 2003 don't cost very much.

You missed an opportunity to see Serenity, though. That makes me a sad panda. :(

I think the last batch of LiteOns I bought were $11 apiece, shipped.

Some people get those, too.

Some of my business customers don't want writable optical drives in every PC. And sometimes people ask for CD-ROMs as a second drive, so they can listen to CDs and still use their burner.

Tannin, if you try to hotswap out of your Delkin, does the new card show up in disk management, just without a drive letter, or does it not show up at all?