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Actually, 34 minutes is what the timer on the washing machine says. I do not have any control over that, substantial or not.

Salon.com's article on the subject.

Hey! There was very little porn on it! Only a couple dozen megabytes. And they were just pictures my ex took at some nude beach she went to...

As I said in "Something Random", I'd consider Jesus Camp a horror movie. The little kid who was talking about growing up to become an evangelical minister needs to be taken away from his parents and placed in protective custody.

My objection to it comes in several forms: 1. Even if you install HL2 from CD/DVD, they still make you do a long validation before the game will install. 2. You have to continuously re-validate the game in order to play it. Even if you're not playing online. You also have to run Steam -...

Steam is not worth it. Period.

It's a fashion choice that's actually become progressively more "extreme" since at least the middle 1970s. It is *not* a new development, and anyone with a stack of Playboys can see how it progressed. FWIW, Ancient Egyptians plucked all their pubes out for hygienic reasons; the pendulum of...

OK. I read the article. I have to say I don't buy into the author's conclusions, nor do I believe that she has any kind of sympathy at all for the men she's writing about. She certainly didn't make any attempt to give those guys who are viewing porn a voice in her piece.

I thought I'd mention that Newegg has Westinghouse 42" 720p sets fro $850 plus shipping. Which strikes me as a really good deal.

I washed my Transcend 8GB drive a couple days ago. 34 minutes in a commercial washing machine on the "warm" water setting. I let it dry out for a day. And it's fine. The 1GB Kingston drive that was in the same pair of pants? Not so lucky.

Looks like you're stuck with some weirdo RAID crap, but that's still a cheap way to support a hefty amount of storage.

I've had very good vegan food a time or two, but I really do wonder what is wrong with a person who doesn't partake of a good rare steak every now and then.

I don't think so. I'm talking about little things that are the size and shape of a home router. They have little ARM or MIPS processors in them, 32 or 64MB RAM and just enough smarts to talk to an X, RDP or Citrix server.

Dude, lay off the meth when you're posting. I managed to finish Finnegan's Wake but I have a really hard time following your posts, Uda. I have not yet commented on this topic because I haven't read the article yet.

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The monkeys are awesome. That is all. Also, there is wooting-off today.

Not news: Vista a teensy-tiny bit more secure than XP.

I've heard of Comcast pressing criminal charges on people doing that to rented modems, too. :(

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I'm under the impression that Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me was/is heavily biased, just from his initial disclosure that his girlfriend is a vegan chef.

Went to the video store just now. I got to hear some dumbass complaining about the fact that he showed Jesus is Magic (note those plot keywords) to his saved, christian family. I stood there and tried not to laugh. Mr. Evangelical told the 18-year-old behind the counter he was going to hell...

And "Control Room", which you can watch for free on Google Video. And "Jesus Camp", which you can find through alluc.org.

That's a REALLY good board. I still have a couple of them and I certainly built quite a few systems with that board as well. For what it's worth, I *have not* found them to be unstable, and that makes me think there might be something else going on with your config. Basically, there aren't many...

Congratulations Buck! 8.5 miles of what?

Foxconn makes several cases that I can get for between $22 and $31 if I feel like driving into Chicago to get them. Here's a Newegg link. I think Newegg's cost a little more because they use a little nicer PSU; they often come with Fotron (Sparkle) power supplies. Foxconn cases are very well...

Older winterms go for south of NOTHING on Ebay. You can get one for $25 with the power adapter if you look. If you've got a nice Windows or Linux server you can have a zero noise, zero heat internet rig for little more than the cost of a display.

Actually it does have a rear fan. I'd be comfortable with it.

I've seen that 805 for $50 in the retail package this week. Newegg might not have it, but they're around.

Since we've established that you don't like laptops, does that mean you're setting up Wyse or Compaq Windows terminals all over your apartment?

They are hot. They are slower per clock than an A64. There are still two of them.

The really neat combo that I'm looking at is the Pentium D 805 (2x2.66MHz). They're super-cheap and live on a modern platform. You can use them with the currently-available $30 1GBB DDR2 modules.

Walmart has stocked Linux machines in the past. Particularly, they had a long partnership with some vendor that used Linspire and if I reach back a bit more I remember seeing Corel Linux and Storm Linux machines from Walmart as well.

I found the soundtrack to "The Incredibles" at a used CD store today. I'm really digging on the jazz-classical James Bond-action-movie scoring. Perfect for City of Heroes and it really wants me to break out No One Lives Forever, too.

I mostly do SoftRAID, actually. Do you know how hard it is to peg even one modern CPU on a File/Email/Proxy server? Might as well use some of that processing power to handle parity calculations or whatever.

Hey! Don't laugh at those Foxconn cases. They're a really good value for the money. Loads better than all the other $25 cases I see inflicted on people. They have loud PSUs though.

Hey, did everybody see that Walmart is going to stock - as in keep in inventory - a few models of Dell PCs? Desperation move from Dell? Another nail in the coffin for mom and pop shops? Or is this the big opportunity for the Michelob and NASCAR set to realize what kind of crap Dell actually makes?

You have $200 and no stock of parts any additional parts. Build a worthwhile computer.

We've had this argument before. I would rather buy lots of moderately priced disks than one large one. As long as I have ports available, two 500GB drives are a better deal than one 750GB. I use RAID10 or RAID0 arrays and spread multiple copies of my data across multiple locations. I haven't...

You're certainly a little sadistic tonight, AD.

I had a long day and many, many people were trying to get me angry enough to break out the strangling gloves.

I've actually had to deal with people who do stupid things like use their laptops on high-pile carpet (laying on the floor) or on their laps, on top of their blankets in bed. If they buy particularly retarded bottom-venting laptops, just doing that is enough to kill the whole computer.

I think I'll be OK with what you're sending Coug. I will try to get more when do my second wave of students, maybe. Or maybe pick a motherboard that has two IDE connectors.

The NSK3300s are my standard classroom box. They're lovely, but they need another string of SATA power connectors. They are also very, very quiet. Arias do have thermal problems. One of the things that convinced me to dump the shoebox form factor was my inability to properly cool one.

Local disti. Sometimes I see lower prices from various shady internet dealers and sometimes I will actually buy from them, but Windows licenses are one of the few things that are consistently cheaper locally than on Newegg... And I still don't think Vista Premium adds anything to the Vista...

OK. Screw Shuttle. Antec NSK2400 Super-easy build. Takes normal parts. Well ventilated. Nearly silent. Has spiffy channels for all your cables instead of wadded-up shoebox mess. Looks like home audio equipment. PERFECT for an HTPC. I've done three of them now and the total build time is about...

I notice that the couple of place I normally buy software are listing Vista Home Premium at the price point where they used to offer XP Home. They aren't offering Vista Home Basic at all, which is too bad; I'd rather give the less expensive option. I don't think Premium adds anything to the...

Hm. Guess I'll be buying a lot ahead of time then.

Looks like I can buy OEM stickers for Vista for about $12 less than I can get XP. I wonder if that's because of demand for XP licenses or because Microsoft is cutting prices on Vista?

I haven't bought a Seagate PATA or SATA drive in a good many years. I filled a couple 750GB drives for ddrueding a while back and one of them died. That's not a good impression. But I've been buying TrueImage as part of the standard software load for PCs I sell. It'd save my customers money if...

So it breaks out like this: Samsung drives have low-ish capacity but are reliable and fairly quiet. Hitachi drives are high capacity but get kind of warm and make noise. Reliability is a question mark, since they seem more willing to use four-platter drives. On the plus side, Hitachi puts...