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Would you be interested in repeating those modifications on another unit? I've got one of Sony's low-end 5-disc SACD changers (the $150 one) sitting around. If it makes you feel better, my non-audiophile brother says that his three year old DVD player (back when they were kind of expensive)...

Lest anyone think Oz and Florida are the only places with water problems... Lake Michigan, the largest inland body of water in the USA, is down something like four feet from its normal crest. And several states in the US were on draught water provisioning throughout the winter (ie, the time in...

I believe Tom is in fact a medical doctor. When I first started reading his site in '95 or '96, he used to mention that fact in his articles. ... as if being trained to treat the ailments of the human body makes one qualified to discuss the ramifications of PC performance.

Yes, good luck to your grandma. Mine is in as well, right now. They thought she had a stroke, because she was behaving so oddly, and treated her for that for two weeks before someone realized that she had actually broken her back and maybe needed a little pain medication... Hospitals frighten me.

My inventory right now: 1. The Loft. Six feet of oak and pine. There is twin-size bed above, a desk with room for two 19" monitors (or a 21" and a 15"), an entire component stereo and all the speakers to go with it, plus two printer carts (for more computer stuff, obviously), below. It is...

No. I'm not moving very fair away, and in the same apartment complex. I just can't find anyplace else to live that's as affordable. I'm stuck on a modem anyway. The county I live in has some bizarre laws that make broadband internet installation highly unappealing to landlords, so there's no...

I'm finally moving over next weekend. It's a holiday next week - labor day - so I won't be able to have my phone lines activated until at least September 3rd. Needless to say, there probably won't be much posting here until I get something that resembles order in my new place. But... since I'm...

I dunno. This guy at least has a purpose for his facial tatoos and other bizarre body modifications. There's some kind of weird tribal symbolism there, and I can respect that. When I was in college there was a girl who came into the computer labs I worked in who had, among other things, tatoos...

I don't see anything wrong with the Mozilla mail client, except that from time to time on Windows machines it overlaps the start bar like it's not supposed to. OTOH, I'm not exactly a demanding mail user, as long as it'll load my 200MB mail spool without difficulty. I don't bother with an...

All the MVP3-based boards I have laying around stopped at 32GB, although I wasn't dilligent at upgrading their BIOSes. I have similar boards from Soyo, FIC and Tekram.

There are compelling reasons to use Moz. My favorite is image permissions, but I can go ahead and mention tabbed browsing (and a better implementation of that than opera!), better cookie-handling, control over certain annoying javascript behaviors, a virus-execution-environment-free mail client...

Yes, Cougtek, but you CAN still build a more-thancompetitive system based on an AthlonXP that WILL beat Dell's price (barely). Last I looked, P4 1.8s were running around $150 on the low end. I can get a retail Athlon 1800 for around $80. There's no shortage of decent, inexpensive socket A...

What's in a name? Fossil fuels are, to oversimplify, dinosaur bones. Now, since we seem to have rather a shortage of dinosaurs at the moment, I'd have to say that we're talking about a resource that will be very scarce in the near future. :) Since I just heard this on the radio today... It's...

No one makes "free" themes? With those it looks like you have to install a 3rd party application. That's actually kind of surprising. Personally, I'll be happy when someone makes Windows look like Windowmaker.

Since someone was just bugging ME about it... anyone know a good site to get themes for Windows XP?

I have a four-digit slashdot user ID... that I can no longer access 'cause it was linked to an email account I don't have any more and I forgot the password. But still, I've read /. for a really long time. My second account is #40000-something. Lately I've been finding everything2.com...

Two things cross my mind: 1.) Anyone played a good DX8 game yet? Then why worry about DX9 right now? 2.) Notice they have to use the fastest CPUs known to man to even differentiate between ATI and nvidia offerings. Is there any compelling reason for this hardware right now?

Many years ago, my father had an employee who was caught trying to remove a small amount of highly radioactive waste material from the Clinton Nuclear plant in downstate Illinois. Turned out he had a number of "hot" sealed containers in his basement. He never gave any particular reason for...

Should've started awhile ago for that one. Although I've heard that electricians with the training to do fiber-optic installations make unbelievable amounts of money. Plumbing is an even better racket.

I'm pretty sure the most evil movie reviews on the internet come from Mr. Cranky. I mean, when one of his ratings is called "Proof that Jesus died in vain", you really do have a hard time topping that.

I'm horribly depressed. Tannin's busy. Cougtek has connectivity issues. Flagreen seems to have disappeared for some reason. timwhit's about to go back to school. Cliptin is working again. A number of folks who normally contribute a great deal to the post count here seem to be bothered by that...

Hey everybody! Tannin wants y'all to give him an email. His email address is in his profile, so be sure to send him a note over the next few days.

There's a little bit of a myth in US government security classifications. NT was widely trumpeted to have "C2" security. The thing is, that security rating depends on 1.) Using a particular variety of Compaq server that hasn't been made since 1995 (the rating is for a particuar computer system...

Groltz, I'll fight you on browser of choice for modem connections any day of the week. Opera is reasonably fast with images turned off, yes (ANY browser is fast with images turned off), but with Moz, I at least have the option of leaving on SOME of the images. Add to that the "Scripts and...

I don't think that's possible, Bartender.

Is this, by chance, a "cracked" copy of Autocad we're talking about? IIRC, lots of similar programs like to hang dongles off the printer ports as a hardware copy protection.

Sad that I know this but... Using that little 500k .EXE, there is an option - and it's buried - to download the IE install files to disk instead of installing them. The full set, for 9x, NT4 and 2000, is something like 50MB. ...or, you might look and see what's being thrown in with the modems...

At the moment I'm fairly confident that life was never and never will be good. Or, not only is the glass empty, it never had anything in it.

I'm not a guru but I have a whole book about sed and awk I probably haven't looked at in five years or so. Maybe I can point you in the right direction.

Groltz - polonium is an alpha particle emitter. When I took chemistry in high school, one of the things my instructor imprinted on me is that, as long as you don't eat them, alpha particles aren't terribly harmful. They're stopped by things like skin and clothing. Except, guess what smokers...

Polonium is a distinct element from plutonium. #84 on the periodic table, atomic weight of 209. It's commonly used as a low-grade nuclear battery, since its radioactive emissions are of the sort that aren't generally harmful to, well, much of anything. And yup, do we need any more reason to...

The puppet and the, uh, hand have been planning this for quite some time, I think. Nonetheless, doubling our collection of "Wannabe storage freaks" in one day is a momentous event. Congratulations to er, both of you. :) Look at it this way, time, you've got the socks beat off CNN Sport.

Yes, as nearly as I can tell. The form factor resembled microATX but unless I'm seriously mistaken, it was too long (tall) to fit in a standard mATX case. That, along with the fact that the power supply connector on the board was in an odd place make me think that it was probably still a...

Huh-uh. 1842. Alexander Bain. I accept apologies in the form of leftover wedding cake. http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/Origins/telecom.html

It's not my business and there was no profit motive. The woman with the HP now thinks that installing RAM is something that requires an engineering degree and a pair of able-bodied assistants, but IMO that's HP's fault.

I also spent a little better than an hour today trying to install RAM in a Pavilion 8750. *None* of the "how to open our whack-ass cases" documents on HP's site accurately depicted that particular procedure. Previous to that, I think it'd been six months or so since the last time I played in a...

Not true, Tea, not true at all. Fax technology has been with us since the mid 19th century. It was formally standardized in the 1980s at 2400bps, and indeed, a great many fax machines only talk that speed. Later a specification for 9600bps was added, then finally 14.4. I believe these speeds...

The 7599 is one of those cases that has the entire moreboard obscured by powersupply and/or drive cages. I couldn't see chips on that board with an xray machine. I told the woman who owns the machine to live with no sound or buy a decent computer.

You haven't seen the piercings my ex is sporting lately, .Nut.

I think this is our other really funny thread. Feel free to continue spreading the joy, IMFU.

... and if you think PeeWee cares about, say, industrial computing or optical switching applications, you have more faith in him than I do.

Screw it. After three hours of trying to get an AWE64, then a CMI cheapie, to work under 98SE or 2000, I've decided that it's not my problem. All things sound hang that PC. Who the hell builds integrated boards without an option to turn off the integrated bits? OK. Don't answer that.

FreeBSD???

No ISA. Four PCI slots. At this point I think my options are to swap PCI slots to see if any work better for that AWE64, or install Win2000 and hope it works better. No sound is, of course, completely out of the question.

A joke you must've missed. Autoupdate is kind of scary, especially with the now-standard practice of rolling all the critical updates into one big ball. What am I downloading, again?

A truly secure machine isn't connected to a network and is sunk in two feet of concrete (along with all its cables). Oh. And it isn't turned on, either. The other side of this is that I would've assumed Windows would do some kind of checking to determine the source of the messages being...

If I'm using a non-Windows OS, I buy a USR Courier. Nothing else will do. But for everyone else, the Winmodem is the only justifiable choice.

Logitech is good kit if you don't mind losing some of the craptastic "features" their drivers provide, like the automatic "snap-to" messageboxes. You basically lose nothing (I can scroll in VB.NET with a logitech trackball), so I'm not sure what the point is.

I have a presario 7599 (p3-700) sitting in my car right now. Its onboard sound is dead, but not dead enough that Windows can't still detect it via plug and play. Compaq, in its wisdom, provides no way to disable onboard sound either through the BIOS (I can change it to IRQ 5 or IRQ 9, that's...

Having to boot off a 5.25" floppy? Automatically granting billg and co. admin rights on your machine (which is something that SP3 does, BTW)? Multics translation layer? All-encompassing DRM? Product activation? TCP/IP support provided exclusively via AOL? Read-Once installation media? I can...