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The best legal version you'll find will be a downloadable, bootable ISO that doesn't include an installer... you can try out SuSE on a CD, but if you want it on your hard drive, you have to buy it or steal it.

It's a "multinational" thing. India has a decent education system and they're awake when most of the US is asleep, so they get hired for 24hr call center operations in the US. Somehow it's cheaper to pay an Indian in India to take your call than it is to pay for the international phone calls...

In my experience, Lexmark printers break if you even so much as look at them funny. Lexmark is the Kia of printer companies. I can't even imagine Dell doing well with their printers.

Nope. It's billg6969@msn.com. Or maybe whgates666@microsoft.com. I'm pretty sure it's one of those two.

I've never been on a plane, myself. Everywhere I've wanted to go, I've gotten in a car. My father, however, complains about air quality nonstop any time he has to go to Houston. He's got a set of pictures he took from one flight demonstrating the green air phenomenon.

Mark, if you can actually identify a new, quality inkjet printer, I know that all the rest of us would love to know about it.

Gary, look out the window of an airplane next time you land in Houston. You'll see, as you descend, the air gradually change color.

RedHat upgrades are fairly notorious for doing that, in fact. And redhat's x.0 releases are usually a bit buggy, too. .2s and .3s are much better places to be if you can't handle all the package management on your own.

Premium for a new product. The GA7VAXP has only been on the market for around a month. My only negative from using one is that the damn thing has a fan on the northbridge. Granted, it's a nice-looking fan, but I'd rather have the heatsink the GA7VRXx used. :(

The guy I buy cases from swears up and down that Shuttle AK31s are a solid product. At $56 a pop, they certainly qualify for "budget" status. Asus makes a cheap board?

What I really want is DoomI/II remade. From what I understand, DoomIII is more of a Thief/System Shock-type game, with only one or two bad guys on the screen at a time. That, frankly, leaves me limp. I want the occasional roomful of badguys. The "psychogical" hook will work for a little while...

Yup. It has different buttons. It loads a bit faster. UI speed is a bit better. It's zippy like mozilla in all mozilla's usual ways. Still, for my light mozilla-based browsing needs, I like Kmeleon. I *DO* like the default browser action for non keywords in the location bar (Search Google for...)

Things are probably slow because you don't have DMA enabled on your hard disks. hdparm is your friend. I think you need to type "Windows" to start windows, and I still haven't gotten your email.

No punch-down stuff? Punching strands is all the fun! Seriously, it's a fun way to deal with aggressive tendencies.

I think our house was networked in 1990... My father is such a technophile that, growing up, I didn't even realize how much I knew about computers. I mean, I *really* didn't know how much I knew about them. I mean, I was fixing PCs in high school, since grown-ups paid me usually $20/hour to...

Oops. I think you're right. Lindows is Lindows, a different distro. I can't remember what Corel turned into now. :( tim, send me an email.

Home Depot works really well for quick purchases but I can ususally find thnigs cheaper online. Except for Cat5. Home Depot is absolutely the place to buy Cat5. Menards (but not HD) also sells a $100, wall-mount 4U rack in their telco wiring section. Never bought one, but it's still cool to see. :)

Lycoris is what was once known as Corel Linux. It's based on Debian, has an exceedingly nice-looking desktop (including all the standard Windows-ish icons), and has a decent buzz from the Linux community. I expect it'll be a niche player for at least a while as a good choice for resellers...

I only bought one drive, but since I haven't been able to get their page to load, I'm basically ready to write this whole thing off. Too bad. :(

My philosophy is basically that, when I'm trying to get work done, it's usually less of a hassle on my linux boxes than on Windows. I get less weirdo errors, and once everything is configured the way I want it, I don't have to do any of the "fighting" I sometimes wind up doing on a Windows...

Try www.cableconn.com. Since you're fairly new to networking, I'd also recommend that you head over to blackbox.com and request a catalog. I wouldn't buy anything from them - their stuff isn't cheap, but their catalog is a good enough instrument that my applied datacomm class used it for a...

See? Communist plot. Just like I said. I love it when I'm right. ;)

ReplayTV doesn't require a service contract to use most of its features, unlike the Tivo. I know the subscription charges for Tivo can be bypassed somehow, but I don't know whether that works in the US or not. I'd buy whatever offered the most recording time, myself.

I just saw that these people are offering a 160GB 540X for $61. No word on who these people are, whether the drives are refurbished or stolen or what, but for $61, it might be worth a shot. ;)

I've noticed that the cases my distributor sells (Compucase, Foxconn and something so generic he doesn't even know the manufacturer), all the cases with front USB have that same seperated connector layout as your Antec. Must be some kind of communist plot. :)

Mine spits the paper almost all the way out, then pulls it back in. So I guess that's the second option. No curl, anyway.

Really? I just bought mine because it had a NIC, supports postscript and has duplex printing. Duplex printing rules!

Best thing you'll probably be able to do is order (pay for) a service manual. Sony, bastards that they are, doesn't even keep user manuals online.

The LaserJet5 is also approximately 2.5 feet (say, .70m) in any dimension and weighs about 100lbs. I think they drive cars Europe that are smaller than that. :)

Yes, and I got a fantastic deal on the crayons, too. Photo output is very, very nice, but frankly, Epson photo printers on Epson photo paper is better still. Of course, my Phaser doesn't even pause when I tell it to print a photo, unlike that inkjet.

My Phaser 850DP cost about $400 to fill with, uh, crayons. The color is utterly unreal on plain paper, but not much better on photo paper. Inkjets rule on DPI anyway. There was an article on /. a couple months ago on continuous ink systems for inkjets. I guess it makes their ink actually...

From direct observation I can tell you that most clueless-types will click the retard-o-search button on IE, even if you stand there and TELL them to type "www.google.com" in the location bar.

XP + samba = evil. There is a registry patch included with the samba distribution files that turns off encrypted passwords. It looks like this: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Paramete rs] "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001 Copy that into a .reg...

... and so, three entire weeks after I moved my belongings to a different apartment, I finally solved the final barrier to my enjoyment of my new dwelling by flagging down an Ameritech repair truck with a $20 bill in my hand (previous episodes in the "getting a phone installed" saga included...

Both the GA 7RXP and 7AXP are really, really nice boards, Buck. I've been using the 7RXP since it came out and I have to say it's been a good choice so far. Also, with Asus, I notice they use a nonstandard backplate on otherwise vanilla boards. What the hell is up with that?

Microsoft might be bad but comparing it to one of the top three or four evils (remember that we have Stalin, Tse Tung, and Pol Pot, too) of the 20th century is taking things just a wee bit too far.

That is so not cool.

Best wishes for the new guy!

Tolkein might not have been the xtian apologist that CS Lewis was, but they were trying to hit the same mark. I'm not surprised at those simlarities at all. And yes, Tannin, yours was not the only generation to enjoy Heinlein. Although I really have a bit of a hard time with some of his...

... and in Houston, when your airplane lands, you're literally descending into a green fog. I kid you not. I've seen pictures.

The one that stuns me are my wholesale prices for, well, pretty much everything, versus Newegg's prices. I can get cases, CPUs and RAM cheaper, yes, but absolutely nothing else. And usually, it's not even close.

That smacks of a hard limit to me. I'm honestly surprised that it recognizes that much.

I have all kinds of junk if you're interested in AT power supplies, Socket 7 and slot1 motherboards. I'll sell ISA cards by weight. I've got some real oddballs in my collection. When I moved, my old computer parts were moved out in four 20 gallon tubs. Mostly now I'm looking through the parts...

I've always pronounced "Asus" as aye-suss. Lately I've run into a number of people who pronounce it "ah-sue-zz" or "ah-suess". Bonus points to anyone who can find a definitive pronunciation, but failing that, I'm starting a poll to see how y'all are saying it.

Don't forget cost per page Last I checked, the cost-per-page of inkjet photo printers + premium photo paper + fade-resistant ink was something like double the cost of taking a CF card to a photoprocessor (here in the US, drug stores like Walgreens) and letting them do the work.

Digging through my parts bins last night I found an unused Radeon PCI 32MB and an unused ATI Rage PCI. Both have naught but standard VGA connectors. I have no idea how long I've had them or where they came from, but I'll bet they work just fine. I can't see installing a PCI video card in a new...

I drove over to the one on US30 in... whereever the heck it is. Illinois someplace. Um... Matteson, I think. That's a hell of a long haul for you. I don't know HOW many times I've worked within a couple of blocks of that Best Buy in Westmont. I'll bet I've worked in your building, Fushigi.

And here are some decent experiences... Slashdot Article 1 Slashdot Article 2

I've never used a KVM that was actually as usable at 1024x768 as having the cable plugged into the PC. My KVM says Raritan on it, but mostly I just use VNC for everything and don't bother with the switch, which just changes between a couple of console displays on linux boxes and one 800x600...

Hey, here's a weirdo bit... I'm downloading the IE6 service pack from a friend, using plain old Mozilla, and it just told me the transfer completed even though I've only downloaded something like 2MB. Here's the weird part: My modem lights are flashing like mad, like I'm still downloading...