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Books, unless you have lots of 21" monitors.

Is it really hard for beginners to get started?

I think describing intelligence as the ability to reason misses the mark, substantially; it discounts the other factors that make up the mind, to say the least. Everyone knows what I mean when I talk about "Rain Man"-type individuals. Idiot-Savants. Are those people truly intelligent, or is...

Automobile emissions are a source of many things that don't mix very well with lungs, and then there's the whole issue in most of the Western World of dependence on the Middle East for oil. And also presidents named Bush would have fewer excuses for starting wars. The problem with Fuel Cells...

Development on it is ending. :( IMAP is absolutely a marvelous thing. The easy to use and maintain servers are insecure as all hell (firewall 'em), but besides containing email on a server, IMAP can also be used for file services in a home directory and the mail spool files for at least the...

I like Moz Mail better than thunderbird - I really miss having the direct browser integration (no open in new tab function), but I'm trying really hard to move to tbird, because I know I'll have to get over the change eventually.

And a link, just in case.

I have three MaxLine IIs already. I don't see why I would stop buying big drives.

Like maybe the test is too easy? It's also possible that the reason is that the folks here are mostly a couple of standard deviations away from the mean to begin with. Tannin would probably have some interesting things to say about this stuff, with the statistical nature of IQ scoring. IQ is...

timwhit, I don't want to say. It's not something I wear on my sleeve or that's particularly useful information. If I'm the guy with an IQ of X, then I'll be known forever as "the guy with an IQ of X, who couldn't figure out or failed at Y" with my every screwup.

Visionary Philosopher according to that test. No comment on my score. I actually know my IQ, and I question the value of using a 40-question exam to assess it, but I can accept that it's at least as good as a lot of other "Know your IQ" self-administered tests. I'll just say that there was a...

I was refering to the 3.5 to 5.25 adaptors that a lot of cases would have to use to fit in a HH hard disk. I can do without a floppy, but since a lot of cases only have 2 3.5" bays, I think a lot of other people might have a problem with that.

Half-height and larger drives are kind of a PITA in desktop cases. Besides, how many of those half-height 180GB SCSI monsters has Seagate sold?

In the plants I worked in the towers had pumps. The area around the towers was louder than the plant floor.

No. It's ONLY 350GB. 30GB larger than the biggest MaxLine now. 700GB... now that would be sexy. Especially @ 7200rpm+. I believe that falls into the "dream on" category but maybe we'll get lucky.

32x LiteOn OK?

That's pretty much how I do things. Sort of. Usually there's a lot of people complaining with major_package_X isn't working with RedHat. A lot of time, I work with the tar.gz's rather than RPMs. The instructions tend to work better and are more adaptable; there's not much of a chance that...

Do they have enchiladas in Finland?

MMMmmm 525GB of Maxliney goodness.

The Belarc Advisor is usually pretty good at identifying motherboards.

IIRC, Maxtor is the only company to actually adopt the ATA/133 designation. Everybody else calls their drives ATA100. This is semantics. If it's bigger than 128GB, it needs LBA48 support. Large numbers of Firewire and USB2 enclosures do seem to have a 120GB limit. Some newer models advertise...

My only nforce2 machine is in an equipment rack from whence it shall not be moved, but if you've got an i875, KT266a, 333, 400 or 600, SiS 735 or 748, I can probably manage something.

Try Spamihilator. It works by setting itself up as a POP3 gateway for your mail. You could also try a non-sucking e-mail client like Thunderbird, which has builtin spam filtering. If you've got a real mail server Procmail is your best friend in the whole world.

... and this is his castle More shots here.

You do know that you normally have to unmount the CD-ROM drive to eject a CD, right? Would it be easier if I just shipped you a preconfigured hard disk?

Use "rpmbuild --rebuild" instead. I stand by my assessment that the only thing that makes nforce2 worthwhile is soundstorm.

Yeah. Tee-Hee. It's fucking hilarious when the president-by-proclamation jokes about dictatorship. Almost as funny as all those slave labor jokes the Khmer Rouge used to tell.

Ian, since I know you're at least somewhat familiar with *nix, you might also want to look at Samba version 3 to replace NT4 servers.

Outlook XP sucks a little less than Outlook 2000 (I don't use either, but I do manage an Exchange server). Personally, I don't think we've gained anything since Office 95 (spellcheck on the fly, LFN support, no crappy Outlook). I know some people use the Internet integration stuff, but to be...

In general, no, I don't think there should. That whole "Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness" thing. In the context of parody web sites, certainly not. Unless GWB was somehow slandered or threatened - in which case he would have legal recourse, there's no reason to deny someone else his right...

I'm a little hesistant to purchase Bay Networks anything, and Netgear = Bay Networks. I've never been a fan of their high-end equipment. Just from cursory examination, it appears the WRT is still disconnecting. This is a desktop PC with a USB adaptor, and I'm only maybe 15 feet from the silly...

If you've got 200x Servers and Active Directory, it's probably a lot easier to just assign machines the service packs. I also make use of Software Update Services to keep my clients in line.

See? Herr Dipshit thinks it's funny. [/url] --George W Bush ... and one from daddy, just because it further illustrates the family's attitudes: [/url]

You really want our head of state saying things like "There ought to be limits to freedom"?

Freshmeat.net. Mostly *nix stuff, but some Windows, too. I've found more little tiny gems on that site than just about anyplace else.

Turkey is a truly secular Islamic state and has been for a little over 80 years. I'd like to put forth that if they can manage it than so can any other Islamic nation. But as long as we're questioning the place of Islamic fundamentalists, why aren't we also questioning Jewish and Christian...

At one point, the same thing was said about Catholics. The bible and the talmud similarly teach that god's law supercede's man's. Depending on how strict you want to be that could mean everything up to believers not eating shellfish.

I'll be happy to provide context for any of the quotes above.

Well, I visited the site in question and yes, it's the router that's disconnecting. I replaced it with a similar but less capable model from DLink. I'm hoping the problem doesn't re-exhibit, but everything was working better when I left. I'm going to set up the Linksys unit in my house and...

''If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier -- so long as I'm the dictator.'' --George W. Bush "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to...

Yeah, I'm sure it would've been much better if we'd backed the guys committing systematic rapes and acts of genocide. The US has a history of intervention in Haiti. Every time we do, we screw up. Things just get worse and worse. Those people that fled Haiti are at least in part our...

I had 12 or 13 years of classical piano myself. I think that media companies will do anything they possibly can to make sure the barriers to getting music distribution remain as high or higher than they are now. Lots of folks using MP3.com to freely distribute their music found out all about it...

emusic.com is a legal music download service with its catalog on line. So I went browsing (looking for both artist names and track names). First I searched for "Arvo" (Part, but his surname has an a-umlaut and isn't always represented properly), a living composer best known for extremely...

Reminds me of another profound discovery that Google made. (Yes, I know it doesn't quite work any more. You'll be able to tell anyway.)

One more: I'm sure Madonna will be able to get cheese on her next whopper thanks to Clocker's legal download of "Material Girl".

I *do* make good money. Good enough, anyway. I also buy CDs. Lots and lots and lots of them. Usually 20 or 30 a month (lately more like 15, but SACDs cost substantially more and there are fewer issues every month anyway.) Except that no one gets rich from classical music sales anyway. To begin...

3.94 million people are using FastTrack right now. D'you think these for-pay services will attract even a tenth of that? IIRC, BMG's last attempt to market for-pay Napster ended up with something less than 20,000 subscribers. I'll take my (in theory, since I'm not sharing any music from RIAA...

IIRC the Windows license agreement absolves Microsoft of damages or responsibility in the event of negative consequences from the use of its software.

I think as long as there's a reasonably common source for free downloads, none of the for-pay services will really be widely adopted. The only issue is how spectacular the failure will be. As I type this, Kazaa Lite tells me there are 3,824,002 people logged on.

Honestly, I'm not writing fiction, and I didn't write that to entertain others. I'm not realy worried about what anyone thinks of the prose. It's very real, and representative of my unique experience. Possibly illustrative of the dichotomy of my personality and of relationships with others. Amy...