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It's better than my words for S*ny and Western Digital product lines. Also, I think time might have some historical data worthy of examination. Don't forget time.

No Sony Rootkit. No evidence of Sony Rootkit. I've removed it before, but not under a completely different set of symptoms, which is why I did not think of it as the problem. But I really thought that was it. I can't even tell where the stupid thing comes from. It's not Nero. The PC I was...

Channeling the wisdom of every "Boobies" thread on Fark.com... I'd hit it. :)

I think there's a strong correlation, myself. I've heard rumblings that the bigger and newer Samsungs aren't as wonderful as the old ones, but my experience remains excellent overall; I might see a Samsung fail once in every six months. Considering the number I have deployed in the last four or...

Renaming the file did not work - Windows seems to BSOD on boot without it. Fortunately, one of the students in a class today brought an Inspiron notebook. It also had the file in question (is it a Dell thing?), but its copy was 693 bytes larger than the one on my cursed PC. I copied the...

No Sony rootkit. I've run several tools that promise to remove the Sony rootkit, and none of them detect it as being present. Google, Google Groups and Microsoft's various support venues cannot tell me what sonypvl3.sys is, either.

I find it A LOT easier to use Fedora for server-y things than anything else. There's nothing in the basic config that actually PREVENTS you from enabling unusual server functions, for instance, which is a point of annoyance I have with SuSE.

woot is wooting off today. If anyone sees more of those Logitech powerline ethernet adaptors, please buy some. Every time they have some, I buy three. Usually they're all spoken for before I even actually get them.

I do not know yet, but it's certainly possible.

Paugie, could you tell us more about this saute that you make? Philippino cuisine is something I'm curious about.

I see your unhealthy food and I raise your bet.

I completely forgot about that fucking thing. Thanks Chewy!

I have before me a great mystery. It is a Dell XPS 600. 3GHz P4, 2GB RAM. nVidia-based motherboard, GF6800. It has XP Media Center on it. It also has well over 30GB of installed PROGRAMS. I mean a 27GB program files directory. Only about 4GB of user data, but every fucking program known to...

Samsung drives aren't "bleeding edge" units. I suspect that they cost Samsung less to manufacture because Samsung isn't competing in the state of the art space that Hitachi and Seagate typically occupy.

I'm pretty happy with the 400GB models that I have. They are not as loud or hot as my bigger Hitachi drives.

Usually a Ribeye or DelMonico.

I do not know where to get curry- anything, except the yellow powder that I have been assured is nothing like actual curry. I have one of these and I really like it. Indoor Steak, No Grill - I learned this one from, of all places, Slashdot Preheat Oven to 500 degrees Wait 15 minutes for it to...

My ex started the process of moving in with her first girlfriend while we were still living together. :(

Great. Another place to find out that straight chicks won't have anything to do with me. :(

Bachelor Chow is accomplished with as little work as possible and ingredients I might actually have on hand. With that in mind: Lasagna. 1 Package of fresh, cheese filled ravioli from freezer part of the grocery store. 1 package frozen spinach. 1 jar of Pasta sauce (I use Prego Garden...

The other frustration I have at the moment with looking at that personals site is that that 80%+ of the bi-girls are only looking for women, which doesn't do the common stereotype of that sexual preference any favors. :(

Naw, the biggest issue is removing the latest and greatest. A static test doesn't tell you much, unless the product sucks to begin with.

Actually, the thing that's interesting about the command line tool is that the updates are downloaded to the selfsame folder. Put the damned thing on a thumb drive, update (a2cmd /u) and you're never any more out of date than the last time you updated. Very Thumb Drive friendly. Which is rather...

Chatting with another tech about Anti-Spyware stuff. He mentioned programs from this company.

Leprechauns, Unicorns and Geek Girls. I'm telling you. You're as likely to meet any of the things on that list. Actually, I do know Geek Girls. They all also like girls.

There are still no geek girls. No other ones. None that I know, anyway. They are like leprechauns or something.

I still think editing is unnecessary.

I asked the young woman I mentioned in this post to help me make a better profile for the personal site I belong to. She wrote many pages of comments about things I had written. She said lots of kind and confidence-inspiring things about me. Plus, I communicated with a girl for more than the...

I had to dig up a patch for Magic: the Gathering (the card-game one, not the other one) when I wanted to play it yesterday, only to find out that if your screen res is higher than 1024x768, it runs in a non-windowed 1024x768 portion of your screen. And that's a 32-bit Windows game. Not like...

Microsoft has a downloadable VM for VirtualPC 2004 that includes a full XP Pro install and IE7.

Computer industry executive finally realizes his place in life. Details at Cnn.com. We are not worthy!

... which would be great, except that if we didn't do it, one of our students probably would.

Car threads make my eyes glaze over. But I think this is cool.

I have tons of them, if you need one.

Has anyone seen anything about how Vista will function with disk images and restores? I *think* get 50 Vista installs/activations off my company's VLK (though I don't have a VA 2.0 Key yet), but since SOP for our systems is to Image and Restore weekly on our classroom PCs, the new activation...

Model H C S ---------------------------------------------------------------- Maxtor 7120A 16 936 17 124,3 J14 closed, J13 closed Maxtor 7120A 14 1024 17 119,0 j14 open, J13 open Maxtor 7120A 8 762 39 116,0 J14 closed, J13 open Maxtor 7120A...

I've only been in a couple showrooms where I could see both in the same lighting conditions. Didn't look different enough for me to notice any difference.

I suspect that the dot pitch on that Westinghouse is a little bit too high for normal computer use. :( I finally did give in and buy a Dell 24" widescreen. It does not make me completely happy but with the combination of discounts I got, at least the price was kinda-sorta reasonable, and it...

My general impression of LCOS is that it is visually nearly identical to DLP, which means it's not as bright/vibrant as a Plasma or LCD, though the level of clarity is the same. Now that large LCDs are available and less expensive than Plasma, that would be my choice, but LCOS and DLP are...

How to be Cooler. Apparently it is advice for shy, geeky types. From what little I have read, I do believe that I am in fact doomed.

Seinfeld creations have no place in my reality.

Also, Merc doesn't actually celebrate Xmas... And if you want to get me something for my upcoming Birfday, y'all can go in on shipping ddrueding's bed full of women from California to Indiana. ;)

So would I. I'd also like to see a 16-port SATA controller that costs around $250 and goes in one of those worthless 1xPCIe slots that seem to be taking up space on my motherboards these days. It can just be a RAID1, 0, 10 or JBOD controller. That's fine. And while I'm living in fantasyland...

I would consider not buying anything made by S*ny. Samsung, JVC and Mitsubishi all have 1080p LCD displays more worthy of your consideration.

When I lived in Purdue's dormitories, I frequently had to deal with Evangelical Assholes. I made it a habit to do the most offensive things I possibly could to them - something that usually involved removing my pants. Sometimes I'd also try giving competing organizations other literature, e.g...

The Core2 will be faster and better battery life... I suspect the ATI will be better, but only modestly. The better direct match for a FireGL5250/x1700 is almost certainly a 7600. In any case, graphics will be good enough for last year's DX9 stuff.

Eventually my ex's partner came and found them for me. They were behind my home theater setup. Which means they went from my bedroom, down a hallway, into my dining room and then into my living room. The whole time, I was just searching my bedroom, but since I had no glasses at all, I was...

Shuttleworth has probably done more for Linux than anyone else in the last two years. While I'm not personally fond of Ubuntu, that organization has pushed Debian forward and brought it to something nearly mainstream. SuSE made a deal with the devil. An incestuous one, given the dealings...

I've set up those Hawking antennas several times. I think they work well enough to increase range. My solution for crowded 2.4GHz is to go to 802.11a. Failing that, you could get Pre-N equipment and blow away whomever is interfering with you.