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Plaintronics is having a big clearance sale today, too.

There's a program I've used for that called WMI Asset Logger that can pretty easily give you that information.

It is, but it's still not the behavior I want.

I came to that link after looking through bunches of mainstream media sites for some kind of layman's description of the bailout package. As of Sunday night there just weren't any. It's moot at this point, but overall I was highly disappointed by the summary I read. What I really want to see...

You need to watch the interview.

There's a HUGE difference between "My Documents" and everything that belongs under your username folder in Windows. You can redirect everything there to a network location with trivial ease, but then part of your login process becomes copying it all back to the C: drive. There's a special...

The Samsung drives are shipped in a rigid plastic shell rather than just a static bag. I think they do better as one off drive shipments, too.

This is the best description of the bailout plan that I've found. From the BBC; apparently the US Media aren't interested enough in this particular story, or think it's too complicated or something.

Setting up multiple partitions for different needs is very much in line with the *nix way of doing things. Windows isn't fully equipped to allow it; you can't easily force \Documents and Settings or \Users off onto a partition by itself as you can mount /home. It's possible, but wizardry is...

If you just bought one they'll ship it in a box that's 8 inches on a side, filled with packing peanuts. Since it's a Seagate drive, it'll be in a static bag that's been wrapped on each axis with bubble wrap. I wouldn't buy a single drive like that either. Given how god-awful the AS-series...

Whomever the next US President is, there is essentially ZERO chance that they will have anything that could be so strongly phrased as a "mandate" to hold office. The US electorate is sharply divided between two partisan groups and a middle so apathetic that they can't even be bothered to vote. I...

Both the National Review and the New Republic have published articles in favor of ditching Palin. Both are hard-right (hard, hard, hard, HARD-right for our non-US memebers) publications serving the thin veneer of intellectualism on that exists on that side of the US political spectrum: basically...

I have to think that if it's that bad there's got to be a medical reason for it.

One of the things that I noticed in the debate was that every time Obama talked about money, but particularly in relation to current spending levels, the amounts he was talking about were an order of magnitude higher than McCain's. For example McCain: $18 billion in earmarks Obama: $300 billion...

So, last night I had a one on one class and all I knew about it was that the lady wanted to make a short DVD presentation. Turns out the person was seriously a big deal for what she does. She was a Wycliffe Bible Translator. I've HEARD of Wycliffe, but only in the context of it being a front...

So, last night I had a one on one class and all I knew about it was that the lady wanted to make a short DVD presentation. Turns out the person was seriously a big deal for what she does. She was a Wycliffe Bible Translator. I've HEARD of Wycliffe, but only in the context of it being a front...

The drive could very well be bad. You might want to try pulling the drive out of the USB enclosure and formatting from an internal connector.

The drive could very well be bad. You might want to try pulling the drive out of the USB enclosure and formatting from an internal connector.

The thing is, you aren't a graphics professional. Why are you intentionally inflicting Adobe on yourself? I mean, I don't wake up in the morning and say "Man, I really need a good case of herpes!"

It's still an Adobe product. Professional tool or not, that means it's a piece of shit.

I saw that article too. It's interesting to think that there may simply be non-luminous matter out in space somewhere (which would make the "attractor" gravity), or that there may be an unknown force that's acting on whole galaxies with only our ability to indirectly measure it as a clue to its...

Yeah, jtr, what you did right there was literally post sone Republican's talking points for why we should all blame Democrats for the current financial crisis. You might want to adjust the settings on your bullshit meter.

Intel's stuff will be there when everyone else's is long gone. It's just that it's really hard to pick which exact boards are going to be the ones that stick around forever. The 945GC-whatever is ancient and probably won't go away for a while.

Transparency = Whether or not an outside party is able to tell what's going on. Accountability = Whether or not anyone will do anything about what's going on. It's entirely possible to have one without the other. And christian bashing is ENTIRELY relevant here, because there are a whole...

I assure you that other drives fit just fine in that chassis. As for the motherboard: Intel drives me nuts. I've standardized on the 946GZ for my classroom PCs, but they have been in and out of production three times since I started buying them. Intel will do a production run of them, then...

I assure you that other drives fit just fine in that chassis. As for the motherboard: Intel drives me nuts. I've standardized on the 946GZ for my classroom PCs, but they have been in and out of production three times since I started buying them. Intel will do a production run of them, then...

I know it's my own bias, but the only Windows development work I ever did was Foxpro and Visual Foxpro and to this day I will say that it's a great, solid product. Miles and miles faster than VB/Access. .DBF is certainly a legacy format these days but I really think and I always have thought...

Wintec is not a brand I think of when someone says the word "quality", Will.

You made a huge mistake on those LiteOn drives, but you'll find that out soon. LiteOn's current product is loud and not very good at actually reading discs. The motherboard is a bit of a stretch as well. Seems like you are overspending on that part for no real benefit.

Console games apparently don't meet my idea of satisfying entertainment. I generally dislike the control schemes and the types of gaming available. I'd categorize most Wii titles as annoying at best. I don't even particularly like gaming on the couch. I prefer to by at a desk. I've owned a Wii...

I've got a nice dual band Linksys router at my office. I've got it set up to deliver 802.11g service on the 2.4GHz band and 802.11n on the 5.8GHz band. I'm using dd-wrt with it. Since I'm the only person in my office who has an 802.11n NIC, this is all just fine. I don't notice the difference...

And why was lending loose? Why did EVERYONE in the industry ignore fundamental rules of money management? Because a bunch of depression-era regulations that were put in place to keep people from doing stupid things with money were relaxed or removed entirely. Because new financial instruments...

Now, all I really want is for Stereodude to pop in and tell us how this could've been avoided if we had just regulated financial institutions even less.

... where you'll get negative ROI on it due to dilution of the value of a dollar due to the actions of the Fed that CityK is ranting about.

You know, I can't remember which giant insurance company Fushigi works for. I think it's Aon. Maybe AIG. something that started with an A.

Health care and retirement savings are worth a lot more than 20% and you know it.

True story: There's a woman I met through another forum who is the Windows system admin for a business with about 150 users. She sends me E-mails and IMs and stuff and basically I tell her exactly how to do her job. Today her boss, who really knows even less than she does asked her "Who is...

I think I be paid maybe around half what I'm worth too, but that part bothers me not so much. Yarr.

Yarr!

The company I work for provides no benefits other than my very flexible schedule, and my employment isn't all that secure. Given the choice of going back to contracting full time and moving, I'd probably look longingly at my wrists, then a razor blade, then my wrists again, and then I would...

Just remember that when I'm looking for a job, Mr. CIO guy.

Ahem.

OK so I'm slightly wrong and was misremembering the Parallel port. The board I'm thinking of was a DG33TL.

My gaming PC sits inside my network with access to all the cool stuff I've collected and have access to. It's also connected to a nice 40" Samsung 650A TV and an awesome home theater, so I kind of want to be able to trust that computer to remain uncompromised. PC Game manufacturers have finally...

Intel has made several of those. I built one a few weeks ago that had a VGA + DVI setup, which apparently worked well enough for my user's needs. I can't remember what model it was but I distinctly recall that it also had parallel and an IDE port but no PS/2. Anyway, it could and did run two...

The problem with a cracked game is that you really don't know what the crackers did to the game besides remove the copy protection. How do you really know that you didn't install some remote registry hack, or a turn your PC into a spam relay?

Ars Technica tried it and said they were just given more keys. The "no daemon tools" shit is a far bigger concern. Just like using Steam, it's punishing people who want to just play a fucking game. Between the utter lack of fun that is console gaming (I have rented 57 Wii titles at $3.50 a...

Well, if you go by my ex's favorite T-shirt, that just means that they have an alternate lifestyle. :D

Where the hell is this money coming from? There are congressional debates that can last hours or days over paltry half-billion dollar sums of money, but we're able to dole out tens of billions to banks and insurance companies with no approval from Congress?

During the brief period when I had some hiring responsibilities, I asked specifically what experiences my prospects had with IT "emergency" situations and how those situations were resolved, what tasks related to past jobs they were most apprehensive about doing and their worst experience with a...