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The machines in my classroom are K6-3 500s (on crappy PC Chips boards) with LS-120s installed. Today I learned that Win98SE won't make a "normal" (Add/Remove Programs > Boot Disk) boot floppy if A: is an LS-120 installed. I've not done much of anything with an LS-120 but it appears to be the...

I still want someone to answer the Duron 1.2GHz v. Athlon 1.2GHz question (vs. Celeron 1.2GHz, although that one is probably obvious). But that is a cool picture.

Bladerunner is in all likelihood the best science fiction movie of all time (2001: A Space Odessey is probably second by most accounts). The amazing thing about Blade Runner is that it is a movie that defines a highly plausible future, then proceeds to ignore it completely to focus on what boils...

This guy has a 3Com PCMCIA Lan Manager client boot disk. You'll need to read and follow his instructions, though.

It'd be interesting to know if F@H is memory-bandwidth intensive. I don't think it is but it might also be an interesting comparison. AFAIK there is no difference between the Duron and the Athlon save the artificial limitation to 200MHz bus and the amount/quality of cache on the Duron.

Prof, I think you meant the opposite of what you just said. I hope you did, anyway.

Like Mark, I probably drink more milk than most adults, too, although I'm partial to the Strawberry-flavored Nestle powder in mine. :) Tea is good too, particularly the peppermint or citrus kind. Or sun-brewed iced tea with some lime in it. That's always good.

It could also be that the drive is larger than 2GB (e.g. a replacement drive) and that it's been formatted FAT16.

I like Minute Maid Citrus Punch. Or pretty much any fruit juice. Particularly pineapple. :)

I actually know someone facing an arranged marriage right now. She's Indian, but her parents are Southern Baptist and trying to keep within their homeland's tradition. There are exactly six people in the US they'll allow her to marry (nationality/income level/religion etc) Understand, this is a...

Yeah, 'cause you know about all those entry-level router/switch configuration jobs there are out there... One thing I'll say about CompTIA: their exams aren't that tough when you have experience, but for someone without, they're absolutely daunting.

OTOH, I know of a guy who goes to kiddie sporting events with a reasonably high-quality Olympus Digital Camera, takes fabulous shots of whatever their in-game heroics are, and makes a living selling the results, output on a midrange Epson printer, to parents. That says a lot to me right there...

Yeah. I was going to put up something on cheaphosting.com but the idiots there don't have ".us" on their dropdown for domain selection... there's a note to email sales if you want to host something other than .org, .net, .com... and their salesdroid mailed back "use the form", which of course...

I thought we were switching from Burst anyway. Hey, I never have picked up a hosting service. Still want a little reseller income?

MBA or something technical, Cliptin? Part of me would just love to go off and spend a couple years getting some kind of fine arts degree right now, just because it'd be literally the least practical and probably the most fun thing I could spend a couple years doing. I'd really like to take a...

Best thing I can tell you is to make a LAN Manager boot disk with drivers for your NIC, if possible. Bootdisk.com has one set up for a 3COM PCMCIA nic, but I can help you if you need something different than that. DOS drivers + LAN Manager client is a major PITA to set up.

When I came home tonight around 8:00 the site was so slow I didn't even manage to load an entire page. I tried again at quarter to ten (all times CDT) and everything was OK.

In a situation like mine - where my partner came to me and said "I need to find out if I'm gay", I could hardly fault her for finding what she needed to know. A case, surely, where an affair is forgivable (to me, anyway). Marriage is a very special bond, surely, but it is a bond that can be...

My teaching job really stabilized my working life. It took a lot of pressure off me to find something once I knew I could cover rent and food. I still get my other jobs, too, fortunately, but I honestly haven't had a new client in about six months; mostly it's been maintenence on things I did in...

I'm the last person who is capable of "picking up" a girl. I'd be really happy, though, if I could prove to myself that I can hold down a conversation with someone I don't know very well, outside a business setting. From what I saw last night, I don't know that I'd want to have much of anything...

Chimp is easier to spell than oraguatang. Hence, Tea is a chimp. :P

I think in a strong marriage an affair is absolutely unforgivable, given the notion of fidelity that is typically included in marriage. However, I can also see circumstances where an affair might be forgivable, or unavoidable. I think the greater crime than the sexual aspect of an affair is the...

I will keep you advice - once I figure out what "MC" is - close at hand. But what is an under-10 chimp doing advising me on drinks? I'm sure I'll try again. soon.

Well, I tried at least. I managed to stay for about twenty minutes, until I got completely overwhelmed, then I walked home. Tea was right about noise. I had forgotten all about it.

It gets worse. I will remember 'til the day I die working with an advertising saleswoman named Cynthia Litt. More specifically, I was working with a bunch of other IT people and someone happened to see her login name in the list of home directories and started saying some insensitive things...

Depends on the disc, tim. Given the choice of listening to an SACD on a $500 player or a record on a $500 turntable, I sure as hell know which I'd choose.

Seems like that machine has results every damn time I look at it. What's it doing while it's waiting to turn in results? 19th place with 17 pathetic work units. Tannin will be passed next.

That doesn't prove that PeeWee isn't a sock puppet, you know.

I'd have no problem telling SACD from vinyl, timwhit. Vinyl would be the scratchy, two-channel only sound while SACD would be the warm, dynamic five-channel.

Wow. I'm stunned by the profound ignorance involved in writing that article. Most especially, I can't believe how dismissive they are of 15krpm SCSI drives, but more than that, the overwhelming message they have seems to be "Buy whatever is cheapest", which I don't think is the right message to...

Not beer. Beer smells awful. As for the rest, I don't want to get drunk, no.

James, there are worse gifts than soap. Soap can be nice. Soap can be expensive. Now, deodorant or mouthwash... those are gifts that are worse than clothes or soap.

Any suggestions for a first drink?

I've never been on a plane, so it couldn't've been me at Sydney's airport. The truth is, I don't really want to go to a bar. I want a reason to go home at night. I don't even like the idea of going to a bar. Still, the alternative is another night at home and I don't know how many more of those...

Amy offered to take me to a bar tomorrow night, so I might do that. I don't know if I can drink anything or not, though. She tells me it's part of the experience, though.

Let's not knock being overweight just yet. Just because we're built for love and not for speed... We aren't? Oh. OK. Anyway, I'd just like to point out that the correct spelling, after years of typing it at login prompts, is slaker, not slacker.

I was a recluse a long time before I started looking at dirty pictures, adriel. Social anxiety is a very real thing for me. It can make me physically ill at times. THAT made me a recluse.

You've all got it wrong. Solution = Tyan.

Forgot about that one. Apologies to both of you. There's quite a number of us concentrated in the Midwestern US, as I think about it. Of course there are probably many concentrated even more on the West Coast of the US. Perhaps there could be a meeting someday...

ACLs are built into a different tier of the Windows NT architecture (I don't feel like reaching over to look up the exact name). Jounaling is part of the filesystem. I'd like to know how they implement user-level security given the different ways in which users interact with each system.

I just might go, Fushigi. Near as I can recall it'll only be the second time SR/SF members who don't know each other will have met each other (Wasn't there an Ian/Pradeep meeting?). I don't know if I'm up to a wedding reception filled with people I don't know, but then, that's just like every...

Is there some kind of Greek holiday on November 10th? :D Happy b-day to both of you!

Hi Kristi! I knew you'd make it sooner or later. Or that Tannin was making you up. One way or the other. Try hitting http://www.slyck.com for details on "clean" versions of the various filesharing packages.

Heterosexuality is really high on my list of priorities. :) I like the same basic things everybody else likes: I like smart, funny, compassionate and honest people. I'd really like to find someone who is different in a lot of ways from me. It's easy for me to get stuck in a rut otherwise...

That's the idea, Prof. I figure if I wanted to be lied to in probably every imaginable way, a good old fashioned chat site or IRC would be fine. This way I at least have some hope that the information I'm being provided is correct. Besides, a personals service worked for Amy the first time she...

Sorry Rocco, I'm just not into the rough stuff. Prof, if you really want to know what I have, airmail me a 160GB drive. I'll fill it up for you. :)

Joined match.com. Found someone (out of the four matches) who sounds like a person I could have a really good time meeting. Found out it'll cost me $25 to e-mail her. Argh. Pets in parks, you say? Bookstores?

What? The machines? Or the number of drives?

Tea did say she wanted a quiet printer. HP LaserJet 4s are a lot of good things, but I wouldn't call 'em quiet. My personal opinion is that no printer is any good unless it's shaped like and built like a photocopier or an early-model LaserJet, but that's hardly anything to put on a desktop...

Prof, I don't have any superfast machines. My nicest box at the moment is an XP1800+. My "average" machine is probably a 1GHz athlon or Duron. The only common thread with my desktop machines is that they all have at least two 40GB or larger hard disks (a couple have six IDE drives, one has 13...