Search results

If you unplugged the drive with a floppy or cassette from its data interface, it'd keep doing whatever you told it, until its read/write buffers were empty. Which, it turned out, could take a while.

Yeah, but you could pull the external floppy off a Commodore 64 and it would continue its I/O operations. How cool is THAT?

I think we're probably better off letting recession happen than trying to forestall the inevitable. We - the citizens of the US as well as our law- and policymakers have been collectively moronic about money. We spend what we don't have. We exaggerate to keep the good times going and we really...

Well, if you have Windows Server you can implement SUS and at least decide what updates you want.

No. Wrong. Again. We elect people who represent us and who - if they take their dicks out of lobbyists' mouths long enough - can change the rules to suit the will of the people. A government that does not serve its citizens is not going to be in power very long. A corporation that does not...

As I recall, one of your former complaints was that you were having to regularly download the updates and that it generally took too long. Apparently a Real Internet Connection has fixed that problem nicely.

Thank you for that brilliant analysis. How do you then explain functional social welfare programs in places like Sweden or France?

Absolutely. Corporations are amoral beings that have all the rights of an actual human being in our legal system yet serve no other purpose to enrich the tiny number of people who own enough shares to see meaningful profit in corporate activities. Corporations can act outside the best interests...

No. Wrong. Completely. We practice medicine for profit. Medicine. The necessary practice of preventing or curing physical and mental ailments. A necessity for human well-being. In terms of its social role, availability of heath care occupies roughly the same place as having functional law...

One of the things that's been pissing me off lately is the way my local grocery stores are packaging meat. Traditionally, I got meat shrinkwrapped on a small styrofoam plate. I was OK with that. Styrofoam lasts a trillion years in a landfill, but on the other hand, it's light and most...

So I just watched the teaser trailer for the new Star Trek movie. I'm not a trekkie, but it looks pretty cool. To me, though, the coolest thing about it was the little soundbites from John Kennedy and Neil Armstrong, from back in the days when we knew all about our spacemen. We've had some...

Sob. One of the things I really wish I could have is integrated Sprint EVDO. Dell has it but Lenovo doesn't. :( I hafta plug my phone into a USB cable like a chump. Also, does anyone say "lappy" out loud, where other people can hear you? How do you deal with the pointing and laughing?

Most of the stuff that I buy is essentially either media (CDs, Comic books, books) that I'll probably never get rid of. When I shop for groceries I buy things in minimal or at least justifiable packaging. I bring my own bags when I shop, thick plastic ones I got at Costco. I know from...

I suspect they've been working on it for a while, so I doubt it's a clone. Lenovo generally doesn't have much of that sexy industrial design, but a lot of executive-types like to look for something distinct and different from what their peons have, and I suspect that's the main market for the...

I know the feeling. I have a set of Kef reference speakers and I put an amplifier and real speakers everyplace I might possibly listen to music, but a decent pair of computer speakers is an amazing step up from the crappy ones that are built into laptops and LCD monitors, or the $10 Cyber...

Setting up a complex boot loading system.

Better computer speakers already have SPDIF and/or TOSLINK inputs. Buy a $200 pair of Logitechs and you'll be all set. :)

That is entirely too much work when two instances of the same Windows will happily share a drive.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Proper laptops say Thinkpad on them.

Nearest one is about 20 miles from where I live, though in the western suburbs of Chicago I think zoning laws require one every three blocks.

I really think that for the most part both I and the world are better off if each of us has as little contact with each other as possible. Fundamentally, I do not believe that a change in environment would result in a change in behavior on my part. I believe that my control over the...

Well, properly speaking the purpose of government - any government - is to provide a framework for behavior and interactions among its citizens. A government does this through force of law - which primarily exists as a set of rules and regulations for what individuals cannot do. Laws and...

I could suggest that the outcome might've been different had the Soviet Union not been trying to compete in an arms race with the US. The USSR also never really recovered from World War II; they sent a whole generation of men into a meat grinder against Hitler's troops, wasted another generation...

I doubt my life would change from moving.

Mac laptops really aren't anything special.

That may very well be true, but there's no reason to conflate this discussion with the possibility of attaching religious values. Since I've had the faithful tell me many times that unless my behavior is governed by their holy book I am by definition amoral, morality is a word I'd sooner avoid...

BullshitFEADarchive.exe -nos_ne -nos_o"C:\FEADBullshit" (note the lack of a space between the o and the ") Will extract the archive. That did not fix my problem, though. I sat and installed a 7150 several times on different PCs. It turns out that the installation is layered. The HP printer...

If there were classes where we could send Uda so he would write posts more like yours, sechs, I would pay to send him to them.

I do not like the beach. I like bikinis and women in bikinis but I do not like being outside. Also, it's 14F on the beach right now.

Apple wants you to buy a Mighty Mouse!

He needs to install in parallel to get his stuff back... Piyono, you can put both installs on your "C:" partition. That's fine. The problem is when two different versions of Windows are trying to share non-\Windows Windows folders like Program Files or the swap file. Just install the second XP...

I think there's a decent minority of Apple users who buy the hardware because of Apple's industrial design. There are PC users who see S*ny PCs the same way (I couldn't believe it either). Apple is successful as a hardware company, though, so I don't think we're in any danger of seeing an...

You really do not understand how rarely I see women, let alone jiggling ones. I do not go out except to work. I work with some women, yes, but they are my mother's age and do not jiggle, as it were. I do not eat out by myself. I see my ex maybe six times a year. She has small, fake boobs that...

1. That's hilarious 2. My understanding is that romance novelists are paid to write stories of a certain length - 40,000 words for $1500 or somesuch. The writer in question probably finished up her story and realized she had some padding to do. 3. What the hell is up with having one whole...

I didn't know I needed to do anything but select "show hidden devices" from the options menu, myself.

No one would buy it. I understand it's pretty easy to get involved with that industry if you work in the San Fernando valley, but mostly I think people are far more interested in the fantasy than the reality.

I learned a wonderful new word today: Mammaquatia - The bobbing or jiggling of a woman's breasts when she walks, dances, or exercises. It is a word that I am going to strive to work into my daily vocabulary. Which would be much easier if I ever got to see women walking, dancing or exercising...

Most of what I put on tape was VHS rips. Not just porn (that was about 4TB) but also miscellaneous movie and TV shows, most of which has since been released on DVD. For what it's worth, about 10,000 porn titles are released every year, plus countless thousands of web-only video clips. The...

So I have some printers. They are shitty printers. HP 7150s. They are filled with suck and also with lose, but I have several of them and I thought it'd be nice to attach them to a nice, lpr-based print server. Maybe I'll even run out of ink for them before they all die. These printers, instead...

ddrueding is using a much newer card with a much newer processor and firmware than anyone else.

I have a DAT player. I transferred everything I had on DAT (studio tapes from one of Chicago's classical stations) to CD. By the time I got a recorder, I also owned a CD burner. Most of the appeal for me was getting copies of stuff that was otherwise unobtainable. Regarding LaserDisc sound...

Spybot has always been useless until the first time you do updates. I think the default for the previous version was a database size that was about 5% of what the DB with updates was... Winsockfix has the Mercutio seal of approval for taking care of that lost connectivity. Also, Tannin... I...

Latest news on the eSATA spec is that it'll offer power integrated in the existing data connector. While I don't see any mention that the connector will be compatible with existing products, I know I'd be glad to see it in either case.

I thought this was common knowledge but... The order of operations for multibooting is to start with the least complex system and work to the most complex. If you're dealing with more than one version of Windows, you do the older before the newer, and you do your *nix last, because it's always...

Step 1. Install whatever version of Linux you want There is no step 2.

About 6TB. Most of that is porn. :)

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35641/118/

I could believe that back in the days of Windows 98, but I'm seeing partitions marked as FAT12 (the filesystem used on floppy disks) and an "unknown" type that was up in the 60s someplace. I think it's a purposeful attempt to reduce interoperability.

I'm rather fond of the Logitech Trackman Optical myself. Actually Logitech generally seems like a winner; my labs with basic, $6 Logitech opticals haven't needed any replaced over the last four years.

You can, and that's what I've been doing, but 1. Why are they deviating from standard? and 2. It breaks some really common techie tools; if you don't know any better you just say "Oh, my tool doesn't work with Vista."