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Maybe Great Britain or Japan.

My favorite change story: I stopped in a 7-11 to get a drink one hot summer day on my way home from work. While I was in there deliberating between their fine selection of tasty cold beverages, a positively stunning young woman walked in: short blond hair, daisy duke-style cutoffs and something...

That was tried. We ended up with Aussies. A group of people with an international reputations for being simultaneously as loud and obnoxious as Americans and also so laid back that the whole country is practically comatose. Hm. Know of any other big islands?

It's those damn Kiwis. I knew there was a reason I couldn't get broadband! It's their fault! Off wi' their heads! Now that I've got that out of my system... the truth is, telco networks are so outrageously overbuilt right now that there's really no reason why they can't do this. I don't know...

procmail on *nix can do that. I imagine you'd find a number of similar projects on freshmeat.net. Some of them might even work with Windows. Exchange has some conditional filtering builtin as well (I don't pay much attention to my Exchange server, so I can't be much more specific).

Arrr! I be plannin' to make the lives of me hearties a great deal more surreal on September 19th, Talk Like a Pirate Day. I'm tired of boring, somber religious festivals Talk Like a Pirate Day is the kind of holiday I think everyone should partake in.

I need to get organized. I don't know how many images I have. Between digital cameras and collecting fine art images and yes, porn, I have a LOT of images. Very possibily more than a million (the computer I'm sitting at has ~123,000 .JPG files on it, and it's not one of my file servers). I've...

In 1970, Pierre Trudeau declared martial law in Quebec. So why not name Montreal's airport after him? Yes, I am posting this just to get a rise out of Coug. Retaliation for the Gabe Newell thing. ;D For those who dont get the DC reference... In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired a whole lot of...

I don't think Hannibal Lecter would want to share new blood. I think he'd enjoy it with fava beans and a nice chianti.

The Carthaginian General who marched elephants across the Alps only to have his ass handed to him at Zama?

Do you remember his name?

Dammit Coug, you made me start IE. 1. I don't have a neck. 2. I have fewer chins 3. My glasses are WAY thicker 4. If I left the house with that hairstyle, it would only because I was already clinically brain dead yet retained enough motor function to operate a doorknob. Other than that, yeah...

I've heard that the largest collection of porn in the world belongs to the Vatican. I'll settle for second place. SteveC, I think there're nightly builds of .6 that'll probably work. I generally use Moz though, so I downloaded the version that works with my browser (it's about halfway down the...

The "pink underwear sheriff" has made national news for being tougher on inmates than anyone else. He's actually famous for it.

I won't buy any drive that only has a one year warranty. I have a lot of 160GB Samsungs now and the odd 200GB Maxtor with a valid 3-year warranty.

Attack of the paleolithic threads! I just found this which is quite possibly the greatest tool man has developed since the printing press, no, make that the Wheel. Install it, restart Moz or Firebird, and then when you hit CTRL-SHIFT-S, everything in all tabs thereafter is instantly saved to a...

People buy Seagate ATA drives? Like, of their own free will? When was the last time Seagate did right by its customers in the consumer market, anyway?

I thought I was having a positive day once. Turned out I was on a morphine drip. Congratulations!

The place where I work does TONS of Microsoft Office training. Yet the other trainers would only get maybe 3 or 4 of those jokes. :( Besides, you can't say whether or not you're too geeky until you've found the "Top X Signs that you are a geek" thread.

It's a button! You press it! Lots of computers ONLY have a power button nowadays. How hard can it be? Sometimes it's labelled. I'll admit, the standard 1 / 0 label is a little obtuse (lots of my students aren't aware of the standard layout or symbols for tape recorder and VCR buttons...

You might be able to get away with an 18" LCD at that price point, if you dropped the hard requirement for 1600x1200. You could also do a flatscreen 21" CRT if you were willing to accept a lease returned display. In fact, I'd say that's you best bet.

<Insert MP3 of cackling laughter> The article on HL2 performance is, uh, interesting. I'm an incredibly pessimistic guy, but reading that, I honestly wonder if there wasn't a problem with their testing methodology. 33% - 50% differences in performance? The best "optimization" for the...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/32742.html

When I left work at 7:30PM CDT on 9/10 this fix was not being distributed by Windows Update. I found out about this patch from the newswire blurbs on salon.com at about noon today, and I checked all day long. The -036 patch wasn't there. That's some marvelous frickin' work they're doing...

CD to CD works fine, even if they're both in USB2 enclosures.

You can't afford the $.15 a blank 700MB CD costs?

I should amend my comment: I am disgusted on a whole new level. The US had no right to invade Iraq. We were the aggressor and the conqueror. But, we rationalized that Saddam was lying about his weapons and he was a cretin to his people. Except, he (apparently) wasn't lying. So he was a...

If that is the case, then I am disgusted beyond words.

IBM isn't the company of the monopoly any more. They haven't been for a long time. I've worked with/for IBM's service division, and the truth is, that group will work with whatever you put in front of it, as long as you pay your bill. On the hardware side, IBM's PC servers traditionally ran...

Title says it all. Two of the Walgreens in my area (both the ones I've been in today) have 15-packs of 4x DVD+R discs for $32. You can get 4x discs cheaper in bulk, but they usually cost $2 apiece in small quantities, without shipping charges, so this is a pretty good deal.

Most distributions have shell scripts to change your window manager.

Well, after the ether binging and all the mescaline, we usually go looking for hookers. Once we're good and drunk, we fight over whose turn it is to give The Giver a bath. We pal around with our celebrity hangers-on and the hookers, snort record cleaner, make threatening, vaguely-coherent phone...

Whoops. That was directed at Howell. i's post wasn't there when I started. :(

Dear you, You suck. Thank you for your attention in this matter, Mercutio :)

Just today I managed to clear a space in my garage large enough to park a car. The more of this I do the less comfortable I am at the whole "owning a home" thing.

i's eye icon is freaking mubs out. I don't blame him. Eye-things creep me out, too. Someone even talking about contacts is enough to make my eyes water.

It's one thing to do it on an end-point network. There' blocking ping can enhance the security of your LAN. It's another thing completely if you're acting as the service provider for anyone else. I'd hate to have to troubleshoot a connectivity problem without access to basic tools like...

From anecdotal posts on /. from people who usually know what they're talking about, ReiserFS has a couple of scenarios where it will absolutely sh!t itself and kill your filesystem, and that the developers acknowledge those problems with no immediate plans for fixing them. I can also say that...

...as if anyone would want to listen to the president.

The bond between people and their animals is a sacred one. They trust us to care for them, to feed them and keep them safe. In return they give us the reward of their companionship. We learn, without any words, to communicate with our friends, to be sensitive to their body language and the...

I was sort-of hoping somone who isn't me would do the poll. Thanks Jake.

Not for SFC. It just asks for a CD and tells you to reboot when its done. I don't even think it puts anything in the event logs.

You seem to be mistaking marketing and WD's strong Sales Force for decent products. WD has pretty much always won Computer Shopper magazine's consumer choice awards, again because it's the only one of the HDD companies that really does marketing work. I could get people to demand more herpes if...

This from a man who, two years ago, swore up and down that hard disks were ridiculously large. It only takes one data-consuming hobby to make 80GB into "a good days' work". Is this 72GB drive just due to extra platter count or did WD up areal density significantly? And why isn't a decent...

I'd put my money on dead burner. SCSI resets were among the symptoms my 8x Yamaha burners exhibited before they died.

Terms are 18 months. Mine in effect started in March of 2002 and ended at the end of August. At present there is one mod in the US and one in Oz, so time shouldn't be much of a consideration. James hasn't been by in quite some time. Standard practice will be to have a poll.

I have a nice mix of everything. Some USB2, some Firewire, some both. If you were in the US, I'd suggest looking at the ones that compgeeks.com carries, 'cause they're cheap and nicer than the "brand name" ADS kits I have. It's frequently faster for me to move an entire hard disk than it is to...

Not too long ago I ran into a site that was basically a repository of x86 Operating System installers. Stuff like Windows 1.0, DOS 2.1, CP/M and quite a few things that were obscure enough that I couldn't immediately place them. I read this thead and immediately thought of that site, but alas...

Reinstalling TCP/IP didn't fix it, but doing an SFC seems to have done it. I really despise the fact that I have no idea what happened or how it was fixed.

Event Viewer brings up that same error message and there's a bunch of crap its printer (lexmark POS) threw in there (in the system log, go figure) but everything else looks normal.