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It was sold to me as a Venice. I *ordered* a Venice. grumble grumble grumble

"The initial reaction of myself and most Democrats is the president missed a real opportunity. Nothing is on the table and nothing is off the table. Let's learn more about Judge Scalia." - Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), referring to the nomination of Boy from Brazil Samuel Alito.

Some pop and imap servers store it in odd places. Many mail programs move mail to your home directory.

Gene Siskel was the skinny, bald, non-geeky one who did not own famous movie memorabilia.

It's a little small for me. :P Roger Ebert owns John Travolta's white suit from Saturday Night Fever. I'll bet they ask him the same thing.

I'd suggest using sysprep + ghost 9, since you can install apps and still generate proper SIDs for your PCs. Ghost 10 is the same thing as whatever the last version of Drive Image Pro was. It still runs ghost 9 for dealing with Ghost Image files. The main reason I prefer Ghost 9 is cost. I buy...

It's $12 annually for the one year, or $500 for a lifetime sub. There are only about 600 people worldwide who have paid for the lifetime sub. I *DO* have a subscription, except that since I moved to my apartment, I haven't gotten an issue. I think it's a mailman problem but I can't exactly have...

By default, the SuSE firewall blocks the ports used by Windows SMB networking. I don't know if that's what anyone is complaining about when they say SuSE doesn't set up networking, but if you want to connect to Windows machines you can either turn off the firewall (you all have routers, right?)...

sechs, vi does in fact support syntax highlighting. Of course, you have to be using a terminal that can support color, which I usually don't, but the option does exist. There is no doubt in my mind that someone who has learned to edit with vi will be more productive than anyone using any other...

Samsung?

emacs? EMACS? What the hell is wrong with you?!? vi is the One True Text Editor! Fatwah on the infidel!

I have five o'clock shadow an hour after I shave and a some grey hair at my temples. I don't look like a kid.

I got carded twice today. Once for buying a Playboy. And that pissed me off, 'cause the bitch who sold it to me insisted it was store policy... and once for buying Serious Sam 2. And both times, I got pissed off about it. Both times, I refused to show ID, because, as far as I know and am...

I started playing with Nvu last night actually.

It was a rabid wombat what did it!

I have a WWW button! Thanks Buck!

Pradeep, are you talking about GBoC or actual fibre Gbit of some kind?

It's even better when you can plug in your stereo and give your illiterate, savage neighbors a good multi-hour taste of culture to make up for all the Wu-Tung bullshit they've played at 3:00AM.

Cache-crippled or not, there's nothing wrong with the Sempron 3400. They're a truly great deal, truth be told.

It supports FP. FP is installed and running. Magic does not ensue. I don't really care. I'm just tired of them bitching at me about it.

Coug, did you read the thread about Torrent clients and relative suckiness in the Tech Support forum? BitComet works OK, but only if you don't want to do anything else on the internet.

More of a rant than a question. The training company I work for has most of its content for its web site generated through an Access database by Frontpage and some magical ASP code. I just changed the hosting providers about a week ago Now the access crap doesn't work, and the moro... people...

I've heard that the copy protection on FEAR is about a dozen kinds of evil. It installs as a driver and can mess up all sorts of things. I don't really "get" the Grand Theft Auto games. I think it's a cultural issue, something I miss out because neither popular music nor cars are terribly...

I wrote this to the publisher of Image Comics in response to a Column at comicbookresources.com. Erik [Larson], I've read and respected your work for years. Your column this week seemed very aware of some of the realities of modern comic collecting, and I'm glad of that, because some of the...

Some exciting new releases in the last few weeks: Civilization 4. Quake 4. Serious Sam 2. And also City of Villains, which I'm in no way excited about even though I preordered it, because its developers have managed to suck all the fun out of City of Heroes.

I have pretty good luck finding things through isohunt.com and this Torrent Search service. However, the first place I usually look for anything is Demonoid.com, which is a members-only site.

I really appreciate the help I get from image stabilizing lenses.

Morpheus isn't part of the FastTrack network any more. It connects to Gnutella, primarily. Kazaa, Grokster and iMesh use FastTrack. eMule is good for ed2k stuff. I use Kazaa Lite Resurrection for FastTrack when I need that. I've never found the Gnutella network to be useful, helpful or even...

I use WinAmp 2 to play music. Does anyone know a way to permanently make Media Player Classic dominant over WMP? Seems like no matter how I fiddle with file associations, the world's most retarded media player always comes back.

Yes. I think it's great and it hasn't caused me any problems.

Actually, IBM branded machines have been able to boot USB devices for as long as they've had USB ports. ;) Ghost - about the only non-game DOS program I use - can see some Firewire and USB drives. Depending on the hardware in question, you might be able to configure your DOS machine as a LAN...

The ATA spec wasn't created with RAID in mind. You could only read data off one drive per channel at a time, for example. Gary has asserted that IBM/Hitachi engineers have been developing and testing PATA drives for much longer than other companies in the past. I don't know if it's true, but...

As hard as it is to properly cool, or to find expansion cards, why the hell are you recommending 1U chassis anyway, Gary?

With Syba, I don't know. I have a couple Syba 4-port SATA cards that work just fine for me, but since they were $30 apiece, I've always thought of them as too good to be true.

My first-ever programming job was done in a tiny, underventilated, uninsulated office above a heavy equipment garage. Carbon Monoxide and diesel fumes usually had me completely loopy by about 10:00AM. So I know of what you speak, i.

The place where I work is on this absolutely beautiful, natural forest campus with a southern exposure. It's fall and it's really pretty outside, but except at lunch time, or unless I go hang out in someone else's office, I don't get to see it. It's not uncommon for me to find out that there've...

I don't like Windows 98. Or Windows XP. Or Windows on computer cases. But I wish my office had a Window or two. Does that count?

Glad timwhit said it, so I didn't have to. ;)

I suggested that case to LunarMist a month or so ago. I've never seen a *bad* Lian Li case, but then, I've never wanted to pay for one, either. Have you looked at what SuperMicro has to offer? Something like an SC742 with an extra 5-in-3 bay?

Western Digital is also responsible for the failure of Democracy in Afghanistan. See how easy it is? Honestly, though, you got one bad card. I don't think that's a reason to indict the whole brand. It's not like my had-more-drives-fail-than-actually-owned-in-a-single-year experience with WD.

I'd blame Western Digital. But that's just me.

I think there are more bad things than that. But of course, that's Tea's list, and Sock Puppets presumably have a very limited idea of "bad", unless they've been spending too much time with DrunkenBastard.

Maxblast doesn't work with drives attached to RAID controllers. In fact, if you go read the thread in the Tools forum, there's a LOT of things that make Maxblast not work right. You'll have to move your drive to one of the native, motherboard-controlled IDE channels. As a general rule, you...

So, you want to write to an NTFS volume under Linux? That doesn't work. Well, OK, there are tricks you can do, but in general, it's discouraged because Linux doesn't grok NTFS security descriptors and therefore might be screwing something important up while it's writing to the drive. That would...

Eric's typing always goes to pot when he's stressed. We had a thread about that a long time ago.

I really liked my Canon G-series cameras as well. As far as CF, the main issues I see are that it is the best-supported flash format. Innovations and high capacities happen in the CF realm first, then funnel down to all the stupid formats, probably because the of the demands of the pros and...

Couple years ago I bought a Dell 2.4GHz, 533MHZ fsb P4 (it was $100, shipped, with a monitor). It was slow when I got it. So I added RAM. 512MB + the 256MB it started with. Then I switched up the hard disk to something 7200rpm (as I recall, there was a 5400rpm drive in it to start). Still slow...

I had the opportunity, yesterday, to work on a Dell XPS laptop. Two inches thick and 10lbs. if an ounce, unusually dim screen for a Dell, it was the hottest and loudest notebook I've ever seen. Oh, and no modular features, either. For the life of me I can't see the point in something like that...

Yet another reason I wish I could get out of this country.

The book industry is pretty down on Amazon for that idea, too, especially in the EU.