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So why build all the robot women? Guys, I think we should keep an eye on adcadet. I think he's building an army of lesbian robots in a psychotic attempt to rule the greater St. Paul metroplex.

It's my belief that health care should be considered a basic service. Does anyone think that a sick person shouldn't be cared for just because s/he doesn't have a Free Pass from BlueCross? Does anyone actually think people will go out and get sick on purpose? "Quick, breathe on me, Mr. SARS...

Hilariously, I just sent a drive back to newegg only to receive the same, still bad and certainly not repaired drive back. After dealing with a shipping mishap that's taken over a month to correct, I don't know if I'm willing to deal with them.

Apparently A.D. is building a robot woman that likes other women. I've been down that road and it's really not pretty. If anything, he must be building two robot women, although that leads to some confusion about what he's doing for his wife. Hopefully there's a little man for her already.

Since I missed this thread, too, I'll go one step better and suggest webmin, which has a very handy interface for working with samba, among other tricks. It is really very easy to get samba working for simple network file sharing. The only complexities are things like password synching and...

And just to add to the confusion, I've seen CPUs that have been damaged during installation (chipped), do similar things. Although that one is at least easy to verify.

So what are you doing for the Robot-Woman?

Gigabyte boards are really just about as nice as things get without moving into Tyan/SuperMicro workstation boards. Little touches like color coding all the connectors on the front I/O header, rounding the edges of the board and the aforemention plastic coating around the ZIF socket add up to...

AllStarMicro will sell you a 64MB Radeon 9200 VIVO for like $60. Even if you think "I'll never need Video In", it's very cool to have. The 9600 is a very respectable card though. If it fits your budget, I don't see a problem with buying one.

I listen to NPR every day. It's marvelous news.

Well Bill, the first thing we'd have to do is pick a model for coverage, then determine how much it cost, and then extrapolate a few decades. Is that what you're proposing?

Unlike Dell, IBM has an army of VARs and consultants, including its various service arms, to explain and promote its products. The challenge when dealing with IBM is getting to the actual experts, instead of the random know-nothings that float around most service firms. Dealing with IBM can be...

q: Why shoud we, as a nation of self-reliant individuals, pay for public education, even if we don't use it? a: Because doing so improves the quality of life for our communities and our nation(s). Employers that provide health insurance to you and your family aren't doing it out of the joy...

IIRC Mr. Happy Face is from Norway.

Both Dahmer and Bundy had a stronger sexual element to their predation. The Green River guy killed prostitutes because he didn't like them which, OK, that's slightly sexual, but it's not like the Dahmer fascination with sex zombies (he liked to pour acid into the skulls of his still-living...

I am aware of that. HOWEVER current economic policies in the US have been sold as "promoting job growth". This has not happened even though current economic indicators show that our economy *is* growing. So what are businesses doing with that money if they aren't expanding?

There are sick, sick people in the world. The remake of the Texas Chainsaw movie reminds me that the real-life story of Ed Gein has spawned three of the most memorable villians in movie history (Buffalo Bill from "Silence of the Lambs", Norman Bates from "Psycho" and the Texas Chainsaw guy...

I care, about both topics. "Jobless recovery" means that busineses are becoming more valuable (richer) without giving anything back. On one hand, part of the business where I work as a trainer is teaching the unemployed new skills, but since most of the guys I know who have finished high levels...

e_dawg, would you actually sell an overclocked config to a customer? Is anyone using the new 1.6 and 1.7GHz Durons?

They APPEAR to me to be OEM'd Sony burners. I'm not sure. I've installed a few dozen of them. Optorite is at the utter bottom of the barrel, down with Cyberdrive and MSI, in the CD-ROM department, but I'm pretty sure their DVD writers are OEM'd units by any other name. They come with a full year...

I prefer dark meat, so the not-all-white meat McNugget (which, incidently, is basted in beef broth repeatedly during preparation. That's probably enough to give a vegan nightmares) is superior to all those other places that have flavorless white-meat strips. I'm shocked to learn that ANYONE...

Nice new sig, by the way.

Gigabyte boards have a plastic coating in the areas around the CPU to keep that sort of damage from happening, EdwardK. One of the little touches that keeps 'em at the top of my "buy" list. Tannin and myself have both voiced negative opinions of Abit in the past (and we probably aren't the only...

My last few builds have been: Shuttle AN35N-Ultra XP2700 Crucial 512MB PC2700 Samsung SP1213N or SP1614N (8MB cache models) OptoRite DD0203 Dual Format DVD Burner -or- LiteOn LTC-48161H (DVD/CD-RW combo) 64MB Sapphire 7000 or 9200 VIVO (price difference is $25 for video-in) These are builds...

256MB or 512, adriel?

I'm thinking that it's the end of the year, and for the greatest portion of it, we haven't been through our usual, ongoing discussion about PC building and price points and best parts for the money. So... What's everyone who builds PCs from time to time putting in their systems right now?

Not quite. Different VMs work with different specifications of the language, and some leverage proprietary extensions (coughMScough). In theory, given the same language spec, the VMs should work the same, albeit more slowly or quickly depending on implementation. Microsoft lost a lawsuit to Sun...

Well, it's xmas time already, and at my training company that means breaking out fun classes in consumer electronics. This year, because of lab upgrades and student interest, I've been asked to do a short class in video editing. On short notice. And a stipulation that the software I teach be...

Microsoft's VM is serviceable but old. It doesn't match up to date specs, and some new apps made for actual cross platform compatibility won't work with it (most java apps are made to work with the Microsoft's VM). Sun's is completely up to date. It's not well optimized for Windows, probably for...

ZIP codes weren't made mandatory until 1967. The post office does still make an effort to deliver mail without them, though. There's all kinds of stories about oddly-addressed or lost mail that manages to get delivered to the right person. FM really wasn't interesting until it could do stereo...

Yet President Asstard has no problems sending our troops to foreign lands so they can engage in "low-intensity conflicts" that result in "high intensity body bags", and then has the nerve to address all his made-up terrorist hobgoblins and actual rogue nations with the words "Bring it on." Oh...

You'll be a Hairy Aussie in no time!

Sadly, the US is full of people who will vote for him, based on rhetoric about his made-up "war on terror" and his status as a "friend of bidness" and an anti-intellectual good-ol'-boy. Speaking of Vietnam, the situation in Iraq seems to be heading more-and-more that way all the time. We'll...

SnapStream PVS is awesome beyond words. Screw Tivo, the $65 I spent getting Snapstream justified every penny I have in my HTPC. Besides, how many Tivos can hold 800GB? Also, Punch Drunk Love remains the best movie I've seen in the last two years. Fushigi - Sorry, no other Lem fiction. I've...

I saw Gracie get up and walk just now. Man does that make me feel better.

Fushigi, have you ever eaten at McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook? They have (or had. I haven't been there in years) table service, which is fun for the sheer incongruity of it.

Mmmm. Firebird Image Permissions....

I think the term is "kaput", Coug. This discussion is a good argument for trackballs. I've had reason to take mine apart a few times, but they work when I put 'em back together.

I'm obviously missing something in Buck's posts for not knowing my Indian food. For the record, Chinese food from the local hole-in-the-wall places is usually the cheapest and best meal I can get on a given day. I eat a lot of Lo Mein and Hot and Sour Soup.

I'd say what kind of "pirate" Bush supports talking like, but then there would be need for moderator action, and I really don't want to offend Bill's delicate sensibilities. It does, however, bring to mind "Mercutio's first law of things that are funny": Everything is funny when preceding or...

Oddly, there aren't any SATA drives up over the 50th percentile in SR's reliability survey.(1) (1) That I noticed, anyway.(2) (2) And I still can't get over those raptor results, either.

Anyone here live near a Jimmy John's? $3 for a really excellent sub. I've never had Indian food. I like Thai, but both the Thai places I've been to are out of business. Burger King's fries are a crime against humanity. They're proof that BK hates us. They taste a lot like fried packing...

MMMmmmm... Big Montana (that's 250g of roast beef and a couple of pieces of bread, if you don't have Arby's in your country). I'm pretty regularly disgusted by Burger King myself. And Wendy's - home of the burgers so greasy their buns turn liquid.

http://fedora.redhat.com/

SuSE has some proprietary elements, like its installer (YaST), and a very large installed base, especially in Europe. Novell might well be buying customers. IMO RedHat might've been a better choice, although I'm sure it would've been more expensive. I'm not a big fan of Novell. It's always...

Their stock is up something like 40%, too. The interesting thing to me is that Novell also owns Ximian. Ximian = GNOME desktop software (Sun's annointed replacement for CDE, among other things), while SuSE is essentially based on a KDE desktop. Mixed message, that. SuSE is a good choice. I...

Good excuse to keep using all my SCSI optical drives. :) Given the reportedly fantastic IDE performance, I'd really like to at least have the option to try them, especially if all that's broken is ATAPI.

Act fast, before they yank them again...

May I ask about the attribution on your quasi-profound .sig, Bill? "Oven Mitt" sounds like one of the hipsters Andy Warhol was hanging out with in the 70s.

Speaking of, visiting the MS site today with IE6.1, I noticed that their left-hand menu system seems to have real problems rendering. The boxes seem to overlay each other, size incorrectly and generally behave poorly. At least, in their training and certification area (I was looking at the...