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Bush given stern lecture at Town Hall forum. This guy is my new hero.

Bought it. Haven't read it yet.

We tried that in the 70s. Everyone ignored it. I know of at least one sign on I-74 just outside the little town where I grew up that says "Peoria: 100 kilometers" (not km, mind you, kilometers).

If you check Tea's IP, you'll find that she's posting from sub-Saharan Latvia.

I have a Logitech Ultra X-2 Keyboard that I've become quite fond of. This is a keyboard that uses a laptop-like key mechanism with plastic buckles beneath the keys. The other night, my 13lb. male cat decided to dive-bomb this poor keyboard, landing squarely on a couple of the keys (b and n)...

Anyone have any thoughts on these budget PCIe cards? The choices I see are: GF6200 ($35), X300SE ($45), GF6500 ($45), X550 ($50), GF7300GS ($70), and x1300 ($75). $75 being my limit for a low-end card. I'm not doing the building here, so I included the nvidia "options". ;)

Er... just so I know: were the wires on the USB connector weird colors or was there any indication on the board itself? I've found off-brand boards that used an odd USB connector before and stopped from attaching "standard" front USB to them because the +5V (normally red) wire didn't match the...

We stopped measuring stock prices in eighths about five years ago. :P

What's the equivalent GPU to the onboard video on an nvidia 6150-based board?

It may have already passed for some folk, but sometime very soon it will be 1:02.03AM on April 5th of '06. Unless you're in Europe, where the neatness of that date won't happen until May 4th.

Of course, Coug is still talking about a Via-based platform. "Cheaper" they may be, both ATI and nvidia chipsets are both out of the realm of the truly low-end machine.

On the other hand, he's posting on topic.

Doesn't do much good when the only PC available is in pieces in front of you.

Vista seems to take steps along those lines. I have no idea whether it actually works or not.

Just what we wanted to read on this subject.

I'm not the person who started the work. I'm the person who finished it.

Humor me, o new guy. The first few things I see suggest that top-end Celerons might be a reasonable alternative to top-end Semprons, but that's not what we're talking about here. Are you suggesting that there's some critical difference in the mainboard chipset for the Celeron over the Sempron...

Care to back up that well reasoned and insightful opinion?

I just spent an hour and a half replacing the system fan in an Inspiron 8200. Every single other component in the system had to come out to replace a part that probably cost $2.00. The sad thing is, I had the old fan completely off and out of the system in about 10 minutes. I spent the rest of...

There's no question in my mind that the Sempron is the way to go. Tannin's already covered the "why" pretty well, but as I believe I've said before, the $300 AMD machine you're talking about really isn't a bad computer anyway. What can you complain about, besides not having some massive amount...

OK, topic #2: Keyboard/Mouse Schmutz. I'm far from blameless on this one. If I'm gaming my hands sweat a little and grey funk builds up on my trackball. However, I clean mine at least once a week. However... Does anyone know how to prevent that stuff from building up in the first place...

I don't know. I think it's pretty damned funny. At least you got them to send you something. I had no idea that you need to be a Dell Certified so-and-so to flip a rocker on the back of a PSU.

You're only just finding that out? The best you can really hope for is to find that certain computers suck less. :D

It's something we've discussed before. :) The 18 year old officially has a crush on me. :cry:

Actually I'll bet e_dawg is an outgoing guy. Probably none of the rest of you, though. ;)

CLERKS 2 TRAILER

DriverPacks look kinda interesting.

http://www.google.com/romance/

Man, there's not an extrovert among us here at SF, but dd seems to seek chemical comfort quite often. He's got all the same massive numbers of entertainment options as many of the rest of us (more, since he has actual friends, apparently). Seems like he wouldn't need the company of a bottle when...

It is. You need to enable large disk support in the registry or work from a Windows install disc that has XPSP2 or 2000SP4 already integrated.

"...if the state starts paying for contraceptives we will have more babies than if we just teach people to not expect free prostitution from poor people. " -- Missouri State Congresscritter Cynthia Davis

Sol, standard vacuum cleaners have brushes that spin and contact with each other. In other words, they generate static as part of normal operation. As a background to my previous comment, I'd like to add that I have a rather extreme allergy to common dust. I've worked in manufacturing...

Samsung's got a pretty nice phone in the same space. It has built in 802.11 and a fairly impressive camera builtin, but the battery life is crappy. The more interesting issue is, how would you really use it in a car? Aren't front-seat mounts for those things illegal?

Off topic to anything but holy crap is the April Fools version of Slashdot.org hilarious. Go for what? She's still in high school. I don't see anything wrong with talking to her about depression and anxiety or how crappy antidepressants are, or computers - she wants to grow up to be a geek...

I thought you had a girlfriend. Did something change recently? I worked up the courage to send someone an email on that personals site I joined. We've been messaging back and forth for a couple days on the subject of... depression and social phobias, 'cause we both have them. Today I found out...

I stand by my preference. :P Anyway, some nice person has scanned one issue (#8) of Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, which I insist is seven different kinds of brilliant and well worth your time to read. PM more for more details and/or information.

<threadjack> Sam is THE name in my family. I have four male cousins named Sam, two female cousins named Samantha, two uncles Sam, a nephew Sam and any number of more distant relations. We refer to each other by number. Sam isn't a particularly common name, but I almost can't escape it. There...

I seem to have gotten Liam confused with Will Rickards. :( We have too damned many people named Bill around here. I'm going to start calling everyone else "Bruce" instead.

Today I made somene who brought me their 4-month-old computer buy a new chassis, CPU fan, DVD burner, floppy and card reader. Why? Cause it was filthy. I wasn't going to touch it. The real problem was that their video card fan had failed and killed the card (Does anyone want a burned up...

That does look good. The only problem is that it's made by LG, a company whose hardware I've had consistently poor experiences with. :( The Samsung SCH-a970 looks a little better in terms of features, but it's a full ounce heavier than the vx8100. That's a PITA, since I carry my phone in my...

Cheapy Toshiba/Compaq/HP notebooks can be found for $400 if you manage to hit Walmart or Best Buy on Sunday morning just as they open. They don't get very good battery life and they're very heavy (7lbs or so, basically triple what the portables weigh), which in my mind means they barely qualify...

I've seen younger people do it, but that's the same group of people who use cell phones for things besides making phone calls and might actually carry around one of those little Nintendo handhelds that aren't Gameboys. You kids get off my lawn! Someone gave me an ipod a few years ago. I used...

The touch of Western Digital is filled with a viscous, hateful humour. To feel the incomprehensible rape of its slightest caress is akin the emptiness of shouting profound enlightenment into the night sky, and to realizing that universe is unmoved, for you are not but an insignificant mote in...

You won't hear this very often but: I agree with Stereodude. I think the first thing that needs to happen with solid-state players is that everyone needs to stop copying Apple or trying to copy Apple. At this point, no one is going to buy an Apple-like player when they can buy the real thing...

My first thought was "There's still Hitachi." Tannin, if you want to blaze a trail with WDamnsung, feel free, but I'm guessing that if Samsung eats WD it's because they like the WD product better, and that will pollute future Samsung drives, just like Quantum polluted Maxtor.

Groltz, I despise having my picture taken. I have no idea whether that's the same boat as you, but that's my problem. For as many pictures as there are of some others, here I figure there can be one of me to share as well. Besides, I can take it down if I want to. You'll all forget. :P And none...

Apparently the problem with that is that Tannin wants to be able to right-click to get to system properties, which that shortcut won't do. Tannin either doesn't know about [Windows Key]-Break or isn't using a keyboard with a Windows Key (like his laptop, probably). I kind of remember doing...

I usually have a bit of grey hair at my temples but I just had a haircut a couple hours ago, so there's probably not enough to see.

Picture was taken Monday night while I was hanging out at my ex's place. It's probably the first picture of me that's been taken in the last six or seven years. The dog is a lab/greyhound mix named Penny (the, er, inappropriately-shaped thing in the background is her favorite toy) who generally...

Asterix comics/media are very hard to come by in the States, Coug.