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Some of my studens have been bitching about WGA problems on their PCs, but I haven't run into a problem with it yet on machines that I deal with personally. How big of a problem is it?

This software is a helper program that allows DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink to do their job even against up-to-date copy protection. I am thinking that I'm not the only person with a use for such a thing.

When I run across a disc that isn't in CDDB (happens often, as there aren't a lot of classical listeners among contributors to FreeDB or Gracenote), I add it myself. Takes five minutes. When I store files on a fileserver, I symlink it in ever relevant way I can think of so that I can access a...

Sol, to be a citizen of the Commonwealth... so easy to move around the world.

My WD boxes are filled with RAGE. And used kitty litter. Anyway, try asking at a computer shop. When I buy a case of drives, they come in a nice box with pre-cut foam, which is exactly what you need. You could also make something like that yourself, if you have a decent-sized piece of foam.

This crap is one of my biggest Windows pet peeves. If there's any confusion at all about which disc and which key go together, I just use my Volume Licensed disc. Screw it. As long as there's a sticker or something the user can point to that proves they have a copy of Windows, they can say...

The industry rags are pretty much Microsoft's bitches regardless; one of the reasons why sites like the Register and the Inquirer are so damned nice to have around is that they don't report on that kind of fluffy crap. Granted, sometimes they're completely wrong, but so are the trade magazines.

It's very probably easier to mount and copy over /home from the old machine to the new machine after you build it and install whatever. If the graphics hardware was roughly the same, I don't think you'd have a problem (I've done Intel to Via and SiS to Via and Via to SiS swaps without trouble...

The BBB is pretty much worthless. Newegg.com also has an F rating from the BBB[1]. Yet it's also one of the highest-rated sites on resellerratings.com. [1] As I recall, Newegg.com failed to respond to something like 5 or 10 different BBB inqueries, which qualifies it only for the lowest...

Nope. They've been saying that it wouldn't for quite some time, actually.

They seem pretty well informed on flag burning and on all the ways homosexuals are threatening the sacred institution of marriage.

Fatwa on the space-wasters!

TrueImage 9 is also the first version that will back up directly to DVD. It really is too bad it's not smart enough to write a backup to a DVD that already has the restore environment on it.

I don't imagine little kids would be very fun to take on tours of the great art, architecture and historical sites that no-doubt abound throughout Euroland. At least your kids get the chance to travel.

Also, is there a way to permanently close, remove, or re-locate space-wasters like the Posting Rules, Post Icons or Similar Threads? Could the Reply or Quick Reply Message textareas be made to flow with screen resolution? I'm looking at the fixed-width Message window right now and on the...

New Posts seem to be tracked via a cookie that's set per computer, not per user. I visit SF from maybe six or eight computers over an average day and, for example I checked SF before I left for work this morning and caught up on new posts, but when I came into work and sat down to the PC on my...

You might look for a power management driver or a BIOS update for your problem, mubs. Or, a quick install of Linux or XP might tell you that you have some kind of hardware fault.

TrueImage is probably a better choice than Retrospect. If nothing else, backups can be handled (and therefore scheduled) via the command line; that might open a CMD.EXE window on your dad's PC, but at least it won't take up the whole screen. TrueImage does have scheduling capabilities but I'll...

Listening to this guy talk about how the Internet works is like asking a four-year-old to explain thunderstorms. Really, the two things are almost identical. This worthless piece of crap is one of the most powerful men in the US Senate, which basically makes him one of the most powerful people...

And while I'm venting... I either have to hit "Post Reply" at the tippy-top of the thread to make a new post, or hit "Quick Reply" and then "Advanced View" to type my reply; the Quick Reply Window, being the size of a postage stamp, is good for exactly naught.

Possible reason for Conroe delays?

Seriously, ddrueding, drop your desktop res to 1024x768 or 800x600 and tell me how happy you are then.

I don't think so. I think Seagate is just trying to find buyers for high-margin products which don't have a tremendous demand in the marketplace yet. At the same time, Seagate is also pushing ahead with improvements to their disk products; they announced a patent for nanotube-lubricant based...

Has anyone tried to use the new SF on an 800x600 screen? I know exactly what Will is talking about. There's all kinds of extra weird buttons and wasted space. The default theme seems to use a much bigger font, which makes for lots of scrolling even on a high-res screen. I'm at 1280x1024 right...

Literally, a Browser-related exploit for every day during the month of July, 2006. I am supremely amused by this.

Maybe I'm dense, but what's the point of these tools? ID3 tags are wrong sometimes. So what? Is there some element of organization that I don't understand?

They're probably trying to clear inventory before they release a new generation of product.

The Core Solo and Core Duo are both clock-for-clock faster than the other choices, and better for battery life as well. The Duo is the most expensive choice and, being dual core, might be a little bit exotic for an "average" user. There's not much practical difference between a Turion and a...

I'm not sure I'm happy about the new board software, or at least the look and feel of it. I'm having a really hard time distinguishing new topics and new posts from old. What does the new software actually do that the old software didn't?

AT&T's CEO is the pretty much the principle backer of eliminating Net Neutrality, too. He started making noise about it around 18 months ago.

It's plastic, it seems like cloth. It seems to breathe about as well as cloth does. Water: I've tried it once now (jug of milk sprung a leak in my back seat). It just sits. You get a towel and wipe it up.

Let me take a moment to echo other sentiments: All in Ones end up being either very expensive printers, or very expensive fax machines. Maybe the scanner/copier function works, but most likely one or more of the four functions won't. They are not worth the money and they are not worth the time...

You need to have a passwords assigned to the user account that you're using to connect to the share (on the windows side). You may want to add entries in your hosts file to make the connections happen faster. You need to disable the Firewall on the Linux side, or make holes for the relevant...

I can buy Powerpoint separately. I've never done so but I have had to buy Outlook and Access that way. Individual MS Office components are usually around $200. In the USA, I tell people to just run over to the nearest office supply superstore to buy the Teachers and Students edition of Office...

Paugie, are you saying that you've been using the same razor blade for months? That is really awful. Tannin, not everyone can grow a beard. I have exactly the same problem as mubs. You know, you'd think someone would figure out a way to make hair removal easier...

At the moment I'm limping along with three 400 disc CD changers and three 400 disc DVD changers. :) Indexing those is kind of a pain, though.

I haven't noticed any particular problem with bigger Samsung drives. I have lots of 250GB units. Generally the "least reliable" Samsung units I'm aware of have been 80GB 2MB cache models, but even those I think I've RMA'd four out of about 350 over a three year period. The Hitachi 7k250 and...

I probably would've jumped if the drives had been Hitachi or Samsung. As it stands, the 400GB Samsung drive is a very reasonable $145 or so. That's still a lot of money when you want to replace 24 drives. Personally I don't see a problem with PATA. I just want capacity.

Either way it's a scam. My barber did it with hot towels, a brush and shaving soap, not hot lather. I'm thinking that, even if the man is a professional shaver, I've had years of practice to get good at shaving and so far, here is what I know: If I shave the way you're supposed to, I have a 5...

Runtime Software's Get Data Back has a 30 day trial. It's by far the best recovery software I've found. "Free" programs for Windows tend to either not be worth the bits they're written with or else only show you want you could recover if only you gave the developer $99.95.

Anyone here shave with a straight razor or old-fashioned safety razor? Couple days ago I got a haircut and my barber offered to shave my face, too. My face didn't get irritated at all from his razor and today it was almost painful to go back to the Gillette disposable. I've looked into it and...

Total for all drives is probably 14TB or so, but a lot of it is mirrored data. I'd like to replace my 250GB drives en masse, but that would be kind of expensive.

I'm not knocking sports as a tool for social interaction. I'm sure plenty of people become friendly with teammates who play, or who meet as fans in a bar or at a game. I just don't think sport in and of itself is worthy of the pedestal on which it seems to have been placed. The Olympics seem an...

Dredging up a thread from SF's antedeluvian period, one so old that JamesW, honold and PeeWee all posted in it (ddrueding says "Who?"), I give you the awesome and hilarious story of a 419 scammer scammed back. How scammed was he? If you scroll through the exchange, you'll see that the scam/spam...

Beginnings of a Firefox document. Had nothing better to do, so I spent most of the day writing it and putting together screenshots. It concentrates for the moment on Firefox features not available in crappier web browsers, and it assumes the user is running Windows. Comments?

Absolutely. I've never seen the point of competitive sports. Some sports I find particularly irksome, like golf (for the huge space needed to "play"), football and baseball (for the large space needed to play, lack of action, strict/obscure rules and large amount of equipment needed). I...

Amateur. ;)

Microsoft bought essentially everything they sell. Microsoft bought Word, Outlook, Exchange, Visual Basic, Internet Explorer, MS Antispyware, Defender, Frontpage, DOS and Foxpro. The list of tools developed in-house is a lot smaller: Excel, about half of Windows (the parts that didn't come from...

Software? We don't need no stinkin' software!

Why do you hate your pr0n, timwhit? Of course, when that drive dies, let me know. I can donate 250GB of replacement pictures and movies to replace the loss. :) I will admit that I have a WD 250GB SATA drive at the moment. One of my students bought it not realizing that his PC didn't have any...