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AOL was a "bigger company" in terms of market cap than Time Warner, too. Remember those days? Sad thing is, I own some shares of Intel and I still appreciate the irony.

That doesn't make me wrong, time. :P I'd rather wait 3 extra seconds to get a page that's 50% loaded and completely accurate than get the first 10% of a page 3 seconds early with none of its elements in a fixed position.

In the past I've combed through HTML and used something like wget to snag the individual file. Heck, even typing the URI for the .swf file in your location bar works for getting the "save" option.

There's still the whole laundry list of things Firefox does better than Opera, from our last go-round on the topic. I seriously doubt if any of the things that bugged me about it last time I tried it have gotten any better. Opera no-doubt would still have me chasing screen elements as it changed...

Yes, that's the same model I have on my PCs. I have one 3C2000 as well.

Speaking of good deals on 19" LCDs... I found this on Newegg today. Never heard of the brand but the specs look AWFULLY nice for a desktop monitor (700:1 contrast, 170 degree viewing angle, DVI support), and the price is nothing to complain about, either.

It's sitting on my nightstand but I haven't read it yet. I'm alternating between Stephenson's Quicksilver books (which I'm not enjoying but feel compelled to finish for some reason possibly related to curing my insomnia) and Ian Banks' "Culture" series (which I am enjoying and hence trying to...

I've never heard a Arbor Day Carol, either.

Spybot "immunization" is nothing more than adding a bunch of sites to a hosts file. I've seen spyware that directly overwrites the hosts file, so I think immunizing is the wrong word to use.

It's a HAI6SIP. He has better luck with it than I did.

My opinion on the GigE issue: Most of *US* (let alone an average person) don't have the kind of pristine network environment that would let GigE shine. I did my own cabling in my house, used cat6 cables, minimum-distance runs etc. ... and GBoC is still kind of a let-down even with the Intel PCI...

There WAS supposed to be a "shopping walk-out" protest on Nov. 26th but it got almost no media coverage - maybe because media companies depend so heavily on pushing DVD and book sales in their news organizations. I'll bet this the first anyone here heard of it.

Gaaaaahhh! I heard "Christmas Wrapping" today, in the Supermarket. It's not even December yet! What's wrong with people!

That site can be obnoxious at times, so it probably isn't you. I think maybe last time I needed it I got it directly from Simtel...

Cleansweep DOES work but I haven't used it since Symaneviltec took it over. There's probably a freeware program somewhere that does the same thing. A tool I really like for Identifying troublespots is Spacemonger Which tells you at a directory level where the hell all your space went.

Women become gigolos? Well, OK, I guess with enough hormone therapy...

Pradeep, I have been where you are, and it is not a pretty or a fun thing to do.

Meh. I swapped everything - EVERYTHING but the motherboard and CPU, that impacts DVD burning. Different PSU, different burner, different cable, retail copy of Nero from original disc, clean Windows install, even a stack of nice Verbatim DatalifePlus +R discs... If nothing fixes it... I dunno...

The Netgear 634U I have access to does not refresh after I make a setting change and restart, when I use Firefox. Seems to work with IE. This is the reason for my previous statement.

I think the Ringo books hit me hardest. I picked up the first book as an "I'll take a chance on this, it's only $6" purchase... And ended up driving back to the bookstore to pick up the next two volumes the same evening. And finishing all three - around 1800 pages all told - by 9AM the next...

Inspirational reading: Try The Baen Free Library. I recommend 1632 (the author's wife is actually someone I've taught in a class) or On Basilisk Station or A Hymn Before Battle

Cardiac arrest isn't just fun and games. Sure, some people are engineered to survive it. Evsai was not one of them. We had barely 5.31 seconds to get to know one another, but even at that the combination of pulse change and eye dilation told me that he didn't know. Even without billions of...

Every current-generation MMO needs 1GB RAM to be genuinely tolerable. UT2004, Farcry, Doom3 and HL2 are all VASTLY better if experienced on 1GB RAM. A lot of new games are listing 256MB as a minimum supported configuration. I'd say anyone who describes himself as a gamer is going to want the...

General observations: Linksys equipment consistently offers marvelous range and good signal strength. THey are easy to modify with new antennae or hacked firmware. Their hardware, however, isn't highly reliable, as the stack of broken WRT54Gs (usually, the WAN port dies or wireless stops...

Case - clone of the Antec Performance case... at $35, even without a PSU, they're far, far better than the $100 Antec version. CPU + HSF Motherboard - there is no reason, NONE to go with the nforce3. 1GB RAM is an absolute minimum for game play. Anything less just sucks. This is a paired...

LiteOn for the most part have been very good for me. I've bought about 50 of them (8 and 16x Dual Layer models, mostly) in the last 3 months, so that's a decent sample size. I've also had good luck with NEC 8x units, but I've only purchased maybe a dozen of those.

I saw this on Slashdot Yesterday.. Spybot Search and Destroy did VERY poorly in these tests, confirming something I suspected before I ever read the article. The "winner" was Giant Anti-Spyware, a product I have not heard of before. The testing methodology does not appear to consider the use...

Microwaved it. :) But, OK, I have Roxio. It is lame and won't make video DVDs but I guess I can try making a data DVD or something.

I've been contemplating stepping down to 5.5, actually.

I build PCs like her's more or less weekly that don't have these problems.

Memory has been swapped. Went from Crucial to Mushkin IIRC (upgraded from 512MB to 1GB, about 6 weeks ago). Uninstalled Nero OEM before installing Nero Retail. She went back to Nero OEM when I ghosted her PC (at that time I suspected RAM). PSU? One would think that would manifest in other ways...

That is highly disappointing. I can go from a K6 or Pentium all the way to an Athlon 64 or P4 on a single system image with Via. I haven't had nearly as much luck getting nforce-anything to work that way.

Seems like I'm having a harder time finding KT600 boards. I can still get Gigabyte VT600s right now, but has anyone else noticed a marked decline in the availability of Via-based boards lately?

Read it already. Nothing helpful. :( Hard disk is a Samsung 120GB. I would not sully anyone's PC with a WD drive at this point. Two different copies of Nero 6 have been tried. XP's builtin burning for CDs works OK. Nero can also burn a CD just fine. The ease of use in DVDShrink + Nero...

Dotster.com is handing out domains in .info for free. You can register up to 25 of 'em.

One of my customers seems to be having weird issues with Nero 6.3.something... I've been dealing with this for about 6 months on and off. She is burning DVDs that seem to always error out at around 65% with High Focus Tracking Errors" when burning DVDs, either with DVD Shrink or with Nero...

I am not a religious person, Will. As such there are very few holidays that I celebrate. Thanksgiving is pretty much my "big" holiday. Usually I spend a bit of time contemplating my navel on the equinoxes and perhaps new years' day, but other than that I don't put a lot of value on special days...

It's beautiful as far as the graphics go. I haven't played it at all except to see the graphics. I'm amazed at how beautiful human faces are. Whatever techniques were used to make heads were obviously the right ones. They are REAL looking, but they are a vastly better simulation than before.

Been spending a great deal of time with both of them lately. A couple nights a week, a whole day on a weekend. We meet and shop for groceries or books, or watch movies. Whatever. It adds up to me being on SF less than usual but at the same time it makes me feel much, much better about life. A...

Anyone want a men's XL Tshirt with a Lambda on it? I bought the DVD edition Sunday, because it came with HL1 source. I installed it and played it for a bit... maybe 10 minutes of just wandering around the game world (I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing). If your eyes blur even a...

Good to see two more who have had so much to say here - mubs protestations to the contrary aside, reach that vaunted point. A tip of the hat to both of you.

When I switched to mostly athlon 64s my electric bill actually went down about 20%.

OK, I was looking at docs for a Linksys NSLU2 when I wrote that. Now that I am awake (for once), I recognize that. :P The NSLU2 uses ext3, by the way.

jtr, seriously, buy a lease-returned 19" or 21". I bought a couple 2-year-old Viewsonic P-series (high-end) 19" CRTs for $60 apiece last week. They're gorgeous and other than the fact that one obviously had some stickers on it, perfect. I don't know where they're sold in your area, but locally...

Athlon MPs are a deprecated solution. Anything you can get at this point would be "kinda slow" to begin with. Dual Opterons, on the other hand... Sun makes a very nice dual opteron system that sells for shockingly small sums of money on ebay - $1500 - $2000 for dual FX53s with 2GB of RAM.

If you don't plan to use IE at all, find iexplore.exe and change its NTFS execute permission to "deny" for the Everyone group. That will kill it, but system-level things that still need to use it, like MMCs and Automatic Systemp Update will still function.

P4s are purposefully crippled in that respect. Intel wants people with MP needs to purchase Xeons. There was something of a big deal made of this when the P4 was announced since at the time AMD was planning an MP processor line.

Yay! I shall purchase the DVD so that I can play through Halflife and then HL2.

Can someone tell me if this method actually works?

Just to clarify, Fushigi, USB disks on those netgear routers do have to be formatted with whatever format Netgear needs. I don't know what format that is (maybe FAT32 for all I know), but there's stuff in the documentation about needing to format the disk.