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I only have about 400 square feet that need vacuuming as it is!

Today I was asked if I would be willing to drive to a customer site to clean, as in scrub and dust, their servers. I thought they were maybe talking about fans and air filters, but, no, they just don't want to touch the computers in their rack and they are offended by the thin layer of dust on...

Sometimes folks get pissy about software licenses for one-off purchases if there isn't something physical to go along with it. Whenever possible I try to provide a nice, legal-looking installation disk, even if the disk never gets used for anything. Oddly enough, no one ever asks about Windows...

My first one lasted about two and a half years and then it stopped vacuuming. It still roamed around just fine, so I used it for a cat toy but eventually it quit working entirely. However, I just bought another one. Because there's at least five people I know who want woot to move on to a...

The guys who do trading in the pits - stocks, commodities, whatever - consume cocaine in staggering quantities. Not coincidently, commodities traders are pretty much the biggest assholes I've ever met, and I know a lot of lawyers.

When you buy a single OEM copy, you get a CD. Same with Kapersky and AVG.

There are people with whom one might disagree. And there are people who should be hunted for their waxy Republican pelt. I know better than to think anyone who is elected to national office in this country is anything other than a douchebag, but being a pro-torture, anti-gay, anti-environment...

Roombas are really cool, unless you have cats that have figured out how to flip one over.

US National Security Agency guidebooks to configuring security for a variety of desktop and server OSes. High quality and very comprehensive.

I am allergic to losing authenticated sessions as well, but I don't really see how one could do an in-place upgrade without a restart, either. This is why I go months without closing Firefox...

Normally I'd refer you to the top of the thread but... Woot sells one item per day, unless it is wooting off. If it is wooting, every time an item sells out, a new item goes up. My all time favorite woots are Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters and Harmony 659 remote controls.

Woot is wooting again. If Harmony remote controls come up again, they are absolutely worth $50.

Try installing and uninstalling the program?

Er... Did you do any of the usual sorts of SCSI troubleshooting? Check cabling? Termination? Isolate the drive on your SCSI bus?

In my experience, RAID5 arrays, whether hardware or software, wind up having issues when all the drives are not the same. Generally the RAID5s I've dealt with have been SCSI arrays on OEM controllers (IBM, Dell, HP), but mixed-drive arrays seem to be problematic generally. I've seen enough...

xkcd explains Physics. It's a favorite of mine as well. :)

I've run it on Core 2 Duos and Athlonx2/3800s (which is just a dual A64/3000).

Yes. You will be sad when one of the drives fails and the controller won't resync on the replacement drive.

I buy academic copies of Office when I have to buy single copies. The lazy stoners who work at staples never ask for credentials anyway.

It's a version 1.0 board, too. :) I think I just got really lucky with that chip.

I wouldn't go off calling Coug a Canadian. That is probably bad for your health. :)

E4300 with Sycthe Ninja HSF and a Pabst 120mm fan 2x1GB Geil DDR2/800 Gigabyte 865-DS3 motherboard with F6 BIOS 7k400 boot drive LiteOn 16x DVD-R A bunch of 500GB hard drives Radeon x1950 700W Seasonic PSU P180 enclosure

I am not sure why but accesses to the optical drive on my highly overclocked machine bring the whole machine to a grinding halt. I've never seen a dual core system do that before.

Took me all damned night but I got an E4300 to 3.825GHz @ 1.6V with a Scythe HSF to keep CPU temps in line. Seems stable. Played City of Heroes for about 90 minutes on it. RAM is 1.8V Geil DDR2/800 @ 2.1V. Machine won't boot with all banks filled, even if it's the same RAM.

Boot to the recovery console. Do fixboot and fixmbr.

Solid State Disk.

Drive there. Go fast. It'll be fun. Plus, consulting clients like to pay for travel. Honest. Anyway, it kind of doesn't matter what you set up. You are going to have to be on-site to tell them how to deal with it. There's tons of examples for how to set up backups with tar, and tons more for...

Anything that comes from a "Big Box" store at this point will have Vista on it. Screwdriver shops and little indy guys like me are mostly sticking with XP.

There's an entirely legit way to run some versions of Vista for over a year without activation.

I cannot wait for the day that we all have bluetooth-enabled e-paper displays attached to ~8GB of flash memory so that we never have to deal with a fucking printer again. On that day, we will have moved one step closer to achieving our Buddha nature.

3GB isn't a fantastic amount of RAM? To address your other statement, sechs: I've had XP64 and 32-bit Server 2003 side-by-side on the same hardware and they really do have the same snappy feel. No more from one than the other. But then, I don't do anything that needs the extra bits, either...

You guys do know about the /3GB switch in Windows' boot.ini so that an app can use fantastic amounts of RAM, right?

On the PC I'm using right now (Server 2003, about 75 open tabs, including 3 paused YouTube videos and 1 from Dailymotion) Firefox is using 302MB. The SuSE 10 machine by my bed has about 210 open tabs and is using about 1.4GB of RAM for Firefox. The biggest pig is on one my Linux fileservers...

For about the last 10 minutes, SF came up as a either a blank page, a 403 error or a "Database Error" for me.

"Done?" Since Nits stops by once in a while I won't mention the fact that probably 50% of those hundreds of tabs I keep open are pictures of one or more naked women... and who can ever say they are DONE looking at naked women? Oh, wait. I just did. Hm. Well, too late. I typed it. I'm not going...

I can distinctly recall an article, written in "PC Magazine" in about 1991, that suggested that the full computing ability of an 80486DX might never be fully utilized on a desktop PC. And a couple years before that, another article that suggested we'd never need 32-bit applications on desktop...

Open a terminal window and use tar and gzip + cron like a normal person?

I think the silliest Firefox extension was the "Abe Vigoda Status" extension that would, when clicked, tell you if Abe Vigoda is alive or dead. Sadly it does not appear to work with Firefox 2.

Canada, as I understand it, mandates availability of inexpensive (compared to the US) broadband services. I may be off base on that but I've talked to folks on Slashdot who run ISP services in the Yukon territories, where I wouldn't think population density would support an internet service. DSL...

Picked my Ex- and her wife up from the airport last night. They went to Vegas for a week. The whole time I was sitting in the cell phone lot I was thinking "Why the hell did I drive all the way over here to do this in the middle of the #$#%@ing night?" Two in the morning, at ORD, and it's still...

A.D. obviously deserves a round of applause from the membership. Congratulations!

Jas is the x86 version. I loaded it on a nice C2D machine a few weeks ago, just because I could. I like it better than Vista but it's sluggish compared to my standard Linux desktop or to Server 2003. In the end I put SuSE back on.

If you're talking about a real laser printer, not a crappy personal model, I'd stick with the manufacturer's toner, because having a valid warranty and/or service contract is a good thing. If it's out of warranty or a crappy printer to begin with, all I'm going to say is that all printer...

64-bit isn't any faster, but the kernel used by XP64 is the same as the one in Server 2003, and that kernel *is* faster than the one that shipped with XP 32-bit version. Subjectively, about 10% faster. For Vista, 64-bit appears to do exactly zilch over 32-bit. Ditto for 32 vs 64 bit Server 2003.

XP64 uses the same faster kernel as Server 2003. It really is subjectively faster than XP. Unfortunately it also has driver issues, no 16-bit support and the same resource hog crap that XP has

A portable device that isn't portable anymore probably isn't worth a whole lot. I have a hard time thinking of things to do with PDAs even when they have a full battery.

Hook up a bunch of cold cathodes to the header on the motherboard? <ducks> Actually Bozo, I'm somewhat ambivalent about the P180 at times, too. I love the quiet but I wish they'd done the drive cages differently. Cable routing in them is pretty awful too. If you have a full-size motherboard...

Not from anything inside Windows.

Yesterday I taught a class for my boss's rich friends (wife of a baseball player, wife of the guy who owns the biggest regional bank, wife of the dude who owns half the car dealerships in my part of Indiana... you get the idea) and for some of my co-workers. Not that it's terribly relevant but...

Be prepared, Nits. Your man shall wish to lie with you afterwards. ;) On the other hand, Spartans were so queer their wives had to dress like men and wait for their men in the night; after the deed those studly spartan dudes would go back to the dorms fulla other manly gay spartans. Apparently...