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I haven't done anything to deserve that.

The list of new features doesn't look very interesting. Not to me, anyway. :(

There is a reason that I live well beneath my means, actually.

So, apparently, the guy who shot up that mall in Kansas today? One of the guys he killed was a cop. Someone who almost certainly had a gun. Concealed carry does what, again?

Basically, there is no job in the entire universe that is as torturous as a sales job. Go watch Glengarry Glen Ross and be glad you have that whole medicine thing to fall back on. Coffee is for closers.

There would be issues with accountability in that case which I don't really know how to address.

There's like eighty-hundred-kaspillion blogs about doing the switch to Ubuntu from Windows. They can't all suck. Find some and read them. There's probably something worthwhile on lifehacker.com or something.

I can't handle this not having work to do. I don't have any contracting work scheduled until June, and my teaching schedule is more-or-less clear as well. I slept 34 of the last 48 hours. No idea how I'm going to make it through next week. :(

ATI is being stupid and retarded about launch dates some more.

Man outsources his dating efforts.

It would've flashed by in the config.sys stuff.

More than likely, the drive wasn't an MFM drive, nor RLL encoded. It was probably formatted with Stacker or Doublespace on it. Ages ago, ,we used to basically compress our whole hard disk and selectively uncompress just the parts that were needed. Turned computers into slugs, most of the time...

Try phpGroupWare.

If it's the same kind of controller it should work. I've replaced controllers a few times without difficulty (eg Promise Fasttrack to Promise Fasttrack), though never from one chip to another.

Hardware or software RAID?

The newest versions have a sucky Vista theme I don't like and use more RAM than rev4. It *is* really nice, though.

She does not know any other women either. :(

From the PC Gaming thread... Actually I am taking a friend to a concert in a little over a week. It is not a date (she is a taken woman) but she is a real woman. Last time I took someone to a concert she turned gay a few months later. But that was Melissa Etheridge and this one will be Norah...

Meh. The places I have lived since I moved out of my parents house, gunfire is generally something I expect to hear a few times a week. Hell, I lived in a place for several years where I could expect to see muzzle flash a few times a week. I suspect these facts might have some bearing on my...

LM, I think you know full well how likely THAT is for me. :(

I have a PC that, if I lowered myself to install the 8800GTX I have, literally could not be made faster with any commodity part. It is as top of the line as things get. 4GB RAM, 3.6GHz+ CPUs etc. And there's not a damned thing I actually want to play. Nothing. Again. I have a whole month of...

Assuming you are using the precompiled kernel, you will boot a non-smp kernel (no harm there!) and you'll probably have to configure the new NIC with YaST. It's never a bad idea to make a backup but it should be straightforward to make the switch you need.

I will have five total when I get these. Some will be given away, though. I was actually waiting for a BoC. Usually when they do the woot-off on a Thursday, the BoC hits between 4PM and 6PM on Friday. No BoC, but since I had the page reloading every 3 seconds I was well-poised to snag my monkeys.

I got three of them. Again!

No, but with mudslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and typhoons and radical islamic separatists, your roof probably needs to be replaced every few decades too, paugie.

Some .wmv files are problematic under linux. WMV is a common format on for-pay porn sites (e.g danni.com) since it can be copy protected. There are ways around the copy protection on Windows, such as fraps. Adult torrent sites generally offer the same content with protection stripped, and those...

Thunderbird can import OE stuff. Installing apps is the thing that Ubuntu is super good at. You use Synaptic or just click to open a .rpm or a .deb or a .tgz and your package manager should handle it.

"...as is the ultra-light membrane and the over-sized leather muffs, which strongly remind one of the older Kate Bush." I think the woot guys are making a very naughty joke, there.

The Ubuntu 7 liveCD loses since it does not have Frozen Bubble. That is the suck. :P

Article about the basics of Antivirus software from consumerist.com. The Consumerist is not a tech web site. It's a pretty interesting place for consumer rights information, and it's good to see some of the things we've largely been saying repeated there. I don't agree with the author's...

Left handed golf things and whatever the hell sake is are pissing me off.

You have your hobbies and I have mine. Either that our you are remembering that one thread about Asia Carrera.

Auzentech, my good man. Auzentech. Nine letters. Much better than four.

Man, I don't know. I've heard that those new ATI cards were going to be released at the end of February, the end of March, the end of April and now "sometime in May." Who knows?

You should be able to get something with AM2 and Nforce4. 6100/6150-series boards are basically nforce 4s and they're basically fine in Linux. For what it's worth, Linux isn't likely to puke or kernel panic from a hardware change. There's a decent chance you could just pop in whatever and the...

ddrueding, the 8800s, if you haven't played with one, are REALLY quiet. The only time you can hear the fan at all is when you're playing a game, and even at that, you might not notice because you've probably got speakers or headphones turned up a bit. I think a smart man would be waiting to see...

Just to clarify something: I was comparing the GS to the more expensive sorts of GT. ...all the cheap X1650 Pro I can buy come with noisy cheapo fans. The Sapphire and genuine ATI X1650s I've purchased have quiet fans on them. I'd expect "real" ATI stuff to be common and cheap up in...

I think those guys mostly don't know what the hell they're talking about. But then, I'm basing that on the god-awful signature graphics they're using. Well, that and thinking that a 500W power supply isn't enough to handle a fairly vanilla computer like yours.

Another woot off today.

Just watch it. It's cool.

Also, Duke Nukem Forever was announced 10 years ago today.

Pure awesome

There's not too much wrong with onboard video these days. GMA3000 and nv6100 can both do DX9 well enough to make UT2004 or WoW playable. R200's probably pretty good, too. Via's still shipping basically a Savage4, which was sucky the day it came out in 1999, let alone today, but even that's good...

Live View is so insanely useful that I weep tears of joy for having found it.

He's probably been over 5k for a couple weeks and we did not notice. :( Welcome to the Hair Club, Handy!

The 7900GS does seem to be a bargain in terms of graphics power, for the money. It's still an nVidia product and therefore not worthy of my money, but seeing one side-by-side with a much more expensive -GT, the smaller one seems like a better deal. I don't know why you don't have inexpensive...

Tour of Woot's new HQ. I like the bit about "Soviet Post-Brutalist Architecture".

Those machines don't get any. Since we re-image them every couple days, I don't bother to update them unless I'm making a new image. I have no idea how long the PCs in question haven't been able to burn, either.

No clue, but I'll bet the ones I got are a lot cheaper than that Zalman thing. I think Bluegears rails are $11 or $12 for a set of two.

Turns out my heat sink rail thingies were made by BlueGears.