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How often are the feeds updated? Either the list ordering for the "All Forums" feed is way off or it's way behind the current state of things. Looks like most of the posts listed as new were made about 12 hours ago.

Awesome. Thank you. I <3 RSS feeds. Everyone else should, too.

Anyone seen Buck lately?

Found this while I was browsing a minute ago. I thought it was rather funny -------------------------------------- This morning there was a knock at my door. When I answered the door I found a well groomed, nicely dressed couple. The man spoke first: "Hi! I'm John, and this is Mary." Mary...

You forgot the important part: One digital standard and no DRM or copy protection.

As a general rule, XP runs about 85% of the entertainment software that has been made for Windows. Games are usually not the problem, especially since almost no games worth playing were made for Windows prior to the release of DirectX, and XP supports DirectX just fine. 16-bit games are the only...

I strongly prefer the Verbatim discs I get at Sam's Club. Usually $40 (but sometimes $30) for 50 16x +Rs. Some of the Walgreens drug stores in my area sell Vibrators - marketed as "back massagers". No, I'm not kidding. And yes, they have more than one model, as small as fingertip models up to...

We'll see. Of course, there are huge *'s next to all of this, since there's literally no way to have a control for any of this. I can't control what anyone else is doing with a torrent or what anyone else might be doing on my cable segment.

The dslreports thing says I've done the Speakeasy test too many times today. :(

In a way, that's not as offensive as some other places to put ads - a Pepsi machine in City of Heroes (CoH does have advertisements, for fictional companies like "Mighty Mart" and "City of Gyros", which are fun enough that when I first started playing I ran around looking for all of them) might...

OK, I just did a little bit of testing regarding BitComet the Bandwidth pig. I ifdown'd or disconnected all of the computers but the one I'm sitting in front of. I turned off all network activity on this machine as well. I ran a bandwidth test from Speakeasy's Seattle, WA servers using the...

Another funny thing about how google works: the responses that you get depend on how many servers responded to your search and what their responses were. Do a search for something pathetically common like the letter "e" a few different times and note the vastly different number of responses...

Sob. I remember the earliest days of the web, when even corporate web sites (e.g. sgi.com) had cool stuff on them, and even early portal sites like Netscape's cool site of the day and yahoo.com were utterly devoid of ads. Web sites were about content, and not presentation, and it was marvelous...

I made a post about Filterset G a few months ago in the Toolbox section, but I will repeat it here, for it is a godly and righteous thing. Step 1. Install Adblock. Step 2. Visit http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/filtersetg/ (I always hit the Coral cache instead of the regular page, which...

How do you guys who don't have adblock live without it???

It's OK for me. Tried 1.07, 1.06 and the beta 1.51. I have lots and lots of extensions installed.

I really like BitComet's download manager. Love it, in fact. But I have noticed, as the obnoxious bandwidth whore at my day job, that only maybe a single 50k down/50k up hoses our 6/1Mbit internet connection to the point that the clerical types in my office start complaining that their Internet...

BitComet is a bandwidth pig like no other. Try running your torrents through BitTornado and see if your life becomes better.

This really has nothing much to do with XML but... I have need to access around 11TB of data (actually about 6.5TB, but you know, gotta build in some redundant storage and expansion capability). At present I use a variety of proprietary tools (Escient for CD/DVD catalog, homebrew LAMP for video...

Google gets its results by ranking not only the number of links to a given page, but also the number of visitors the linking pages are thought to have. Links off sites like msn.com or slashdot.org are given a high pagerank value and will therefore be closer to the top of an appropriate google...

I didn't. I thought you were talking about a girl. Or maybe a horse. I knew a horse named Lightning once. :P

Just exactly does CloneDVD2 measure temperature?!?

One of our rivals seems to like init as well.

I dunno. I guess it depends on whether or not she's cute.

I prefer 9300K as well, mubs. It's not just you.

The easiest thing to do is probably make a little script that you can place in the appropriate place under /etc/init.d somewhere.

Like getting OSX to run on a PC, having OS/2 stuff running on a Win2000 machine is great just for the novelty value.

I also enjoy the face of a digital timekeeping device, which indicates that it is 7:43:18 as I type this. :P

Light may very well be the issue. At least, color temp is the first thing I think of. Lunar or GaryH or Buck probably have more helpful things to say on the subject.

If you take an NT3.5 machine, you can format its drive with HPFS and run some OS/2 programs on it (command line ones). You can then upgrade to NT4, where those capabilities still work, and then to Windows 2000, where they will continue to work (although, if you START with Windows 2000, neither...

Been a while since we've seen flagreen here...

Bitch all you want about fluid ounces and NTSC, but I'll take the sensitivity of Fahrenheit degrees over the Celsius any day!

I'm afraid my habits are similar. Dozens of open tabs in each of three to five windows across 12 to 15 PCs. One Windows for SF, another for the porno, a third for Slashdot...

Well, if we don't hear from you in a while, good luck out there, Gary.

I'm not absolutely sure how legal it is, but the Kazaa Lite Mega codec pack (which is free of spyware and other crap - I've checked repeatedly) that's part of my standard install offers six or eight possible MPEG2 decoders. Elecard might be another option. I think their decoder is distributed...

Master File Table. The NTFS version of your File Allocation Table. It can be fragmented. Fragmented MFTs are bad because they create lots of extra seeks to get to the files or parts of files that you actually want.

Yes, it is. The thing you should be most worried about, from a performance standpoint, is fragmentation of your MFT. When an NTFS volume gets to be about 85% full, I've noticed that performance seems to drop like a stone.

Eurolander-types have a different broadcast standard for their TVs, which has a few more scan lines but refreshes a little less often. Not to worry, MOST dvd players seem to be able to handle that conversion without any hassle.

As I understand it, the X800GT is a bit faster than the 6600GT, but the nVidia card is a little cheaper. From personal experience I can say that an X800GT is fast enough stutter-free video in Doom3, Farcry and Riddick when any of the above are being displayed @ 1280x1024 at 4xAA and max detail...

I can attest that the builtin Windows 2000 defragger can defrag hardware RAID arrays. Also, never defrag a large RAID5 that you need to use anytime in the next month. I'll let someone else do the RAID0-is-usually-a-bad-idea lecture, but I will say that unless you're doing something REALLY...

The AMD64s I bought from newegg on Monday came with something called "Bet On Soldier". It looks kinda cool, like UT but with more of a military edge. The screenshots have battlemechs. That's a good sign. :)

Doug, I just checked what I have in stock, and there are a couple Soyo SY-KT600s and a couple Asus A7N8XE Deluxe motherboards that I would *dearly* love to get rid of. The Soyo boards are refurb KT600s but they seemed to work when I tested them. The Asus nforce2 boards are new and never even...

50C is pretty normal for a Tbred, I think. Just checked a Tbred 2000 and I see it's running 48C on a retail HSF.

Dust reduces the efficiency of your HSF, but generally doesn't present any other problems AFAIK. Your CPU temps are good, right? The VT600RZ is a marvelous motherboard, but I don't think it's a wise expenditure at this point. Also, your current system is an nforce2; sticking with nvidia will at...

Yup. Looks better now. The person who really needs to do cap inspection, however, is jtr. Also, just because a caps aren't bulging doesn't mean the motherboard is in the clear. :(

It may just be the angle on the picture, but the second cap from the bottom on the right side in this picture doesn't look quite right to me.

One of my students used to swear by the Logitech MX700 and later the MX900.

Storage server for Lunar Goals 1. Must be quiet (for a storage server) and reliable 2. Lunar must be able to manage the machine appropriately on his own 3. Data storage should ideally be redundant and flexible 4. Data storage should be largely internal, to avoid the 16 dozen 1394/USB2...

... I was just about to say the same thing. Especially since that's an Abit board. Weren't they bad cap central from 1999 to 2002? Maybe it's time to hook Doug up again...

Handy, do you REALLY think I'd use a browser that couldn't look at the moving picture forms of pr0n? ;) Actually, I habitually remove or change the MIME types for things like AVI, WMV and MOV from the firefox config (there's an extension called "Launchy" that can set this stuff up for you). I...