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  1. Mercutio

    Terminator 3

    Terminator without Jim Cameron would be like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" without Steven Speilberg.
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    What do we all look like

    Works just fine. What are "Jenkki"?
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    What type are you?

    What the hell is that?
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    What type are you?

    You get the full listing of your type from the email that they send you when you register, apparently. I did not know that. ... and Prof, if it makes you feel any better, Nancy Reagan used to consult an astrologer before Ronald Reagan did anything important while he was acting as president of...
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    Top 10 Reasons You Know You're a Computer Geek

    Alpha followed the link PeeWee posted in this thread. Maybe some more people will come as well.
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    The front page updates will be slow for the next few days...

    Good luck, Coug. Start your new job yet?
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    What type are you?

    Just take the test, and read the information on the site. Keirsey's work is an extension of Jungian archetypes, and the characteristics so described *do* seem to fit a lot of people. There is an examination that can be administered by professional therapists which has considerably more than 70...
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    What type are you?

    Hey, join the club. You'd be surprised what I've learned about myself in the last three months. Maybe some day we'll meet at a bar in, say, Cincinnati or Indianapolis or something and we can commiserate.
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    What type are you?

    Who is twisting your perceptions, Cliptin? You aren't talking about the Pledge thread over on SR, are you?
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    What type are you?

    I've gotten different scores a few different times, depending on other factors in my life, but from what I've read, your score should be essentially the same throughout your life. I first had the full sorter administered to me at age 12, and again at 20 and just a few days ago at age 26, and my...
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    Folding@Home

    Are there issues with F@H and VIA chipsets? I set up a couple of 800MHz duron machines on spare boards (8KHAL+ and an old AZ11E), and I run into the same problem every time.
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    fancy working for a the largest storage company around?

    It certainly does beat the alternative. I fancy going to work at the same place every day, and not having to worry about when someone is going to pay my bill. It's relative, I guess.
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    What type are you?

    I think the difficulty is meant to invoke introspection. I do know - although not from this version of the test - that you can be an "X" in one or more dimensions, balanced between one side or the other. Anyway, all four characteristics are important, and for both P5 and Groltz, I have to...
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    What type are you?

    Do you remember your "score"? I'm an INTP.
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    What type are you?

    I *know* I've brought this up before, but it's something that's genuinely interesting to me. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a sort of brief test of personality characteristics. When I read its result from my own testing, I was amazed at how closely it matched my own attitudes. I'm curious...
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    fancy working for a the largest storage company around?

    Hey, you and Doug would be co-workers. :)
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    Folding@Home

    Lessee... I can download a core. It'll do about 10 or 12 of whatever it's doing, and then it'll say something about a bad frame and the box will die in some spastic fashion (hard lock or immediate reboot). These are stable machines. At this point, I'm wondering what a userland app is doing...
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    US Army to launch "America's Army" line of games!

    The image that got to me was a photo-realistic portrait by a gentleman named Alex Ross (I think his website is alexrossart.com), of Superman, probably the most iconic figure in all of comics, gazing up at a picture of policemen, firemen and EMTs against the background of the fallen towers, with...
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    What do we all look like

    Prof, go back and look again. I *didn't* start the geek thread. I just wrote 85% of the replies.
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    Folding@Home

    Folding's console client continues to lock these machines. I tried a couple of my personal machines as well and it does not seem to do well. This machine is just sitting here not being used, and I hear y'all can use the boost anyway. Any advice for actually getting it going?
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    I need a drink

    Bill, I think I'm just about as far away from a typical guy as I could be on this one. I think I actually stunned the therapist I've been seeing when I explained it all to her. Anyway, agape and eros and phileo are all words that describe love itself, not a way of describing a human...
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    What do we all look like

    Wow. I was working under the impression that Fushigi was actually Asian. There goes THAT idea...
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    US Army to launch "America's Army" line of games!

    9/11 created an explosion in all art forms. One of the most profound moments I've had in ages occurred when I walked into a comic shop and found a number of 9/11 Tribute Comics. As I understand things pop music has undertaken a turn toward serious/inspirational music, and soon there will be...
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    I need a drink

    I'm aware of the greek (and I'm not talking about PW or NRG) terms. None of them describes the right of things for me. Agape is probably closest, but still not right. At any rate, I *like* Handruin's word.
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    NY Times on Disk Platter Manufacturing

    Hmpf. I know I registered. Maybe I got disconnected or something during the process.
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    I need a drink

    I wish there was a word in English to describe someone whose relationship is not romantic nor a matter of heritage but nonetheless indicative of familial closeness.
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    Folding@Home

    The only time those priorities really matter is when you're slamming the CPU at something over 80% utilization on a more or less continual basis. I suppose if you pushed things all the way up to "realtime" you might get a slight improvement but otherwise I don't think you'd save yourself more...
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    NY Times on Disk Platter Manufacturing

    Just hit your "back" button and resubmit. Majcher.com generates New York Times logins automatically, to avoid the hassle of not being able to link straight to NYT stories. The crux of the story is, despite billions in R&D and technical and cost improvements that outstrip Moore's law by better...
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    June Stats

    So since March, total hit/day has roughly tripled, but our bandwidth use has actually gone down since then? Or am I reading something the wrong way?
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    NY Times on Disk Platter Manufacturing

    Front page news, probably, but since I seem to have lost my login... This is a discussion of the business end of platter manufacturing technology. It's just a different point of view from our usual discussions on the forums.
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    I need a drink

    Thank you for kind and thoughtful words. Particularly Tannin's last sentiment, and Dozer, a person whose name is not familiar to me. I wish I knew what more I could say. Probably nothing. There has been precious little joy in my life these last few months, and I am glad for the distraction I've...
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    WorldCom hits the dirt

    Enhanced = proprietary, usually. Probably best avioded. There are a whole lot of businesses in the world that would pay top dollar for reliable campus- and metropolitan-area non-LOS wireless. I think that was the direction I was trying to go with my earlier comments. Anyway, WorldCom got...
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    XP 1800+ makes MB produce a tone

    Well, Cliptin says the 1700+ works just fine. I don't have any reason to doubt him. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Compaq occasionally lets some decent hardware ship with their PCs, and maybe ECS can sometimes build a motherboard that works. Anyway, I see classic hallmarks of bad CPU...
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    RHCE Certification

    I think perhaps market conditions in Finland might be different enough in .fi that our comments are less relevant to The JoJo. Linus is, after all, a local boy. Since my resume has far more Linux/BSD experience than it does Sun, I get a lot of "Why are you applying for this Unix admin job"...
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    XP 1800+ makes MB produce a tone

    Is the 1800 fully supported by your board? I'd look into a BIOS update and then I'd say a few words for the dearly departed.
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    WorldCom hits the dirt

    I've worked with Cisco Aironet products and with cheapie little DLink 802.11b stuff a few times. The DLink offered faster connections out to about 30 feet away from the base, then dropped off to nothing. With the Cisco, once I tweaked its position (in the rafters), gave consistently "good"...
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    I need a drink

    She has told me. Now she knows, and I know. On June 30th, 1997, we became a couple. On June 30th, 2002, she told me that none of it mattered any more.
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    Top 10 Reasons You Know You're a Computer Geek

    113. You hang on to drives that you own no media for, or media for drives you do not own "just in case". 114. You read #113, and can't think of any drives or media that you DON'T own. 115. You've had to explain to a neophyte techie that his desire for IDE RAID0 is misguided and unnecessary, and...
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    Went to see the play RENT tonight

    Honestly, you might be interested to know that Rent is adapted from a Puccini opera, one widely considered one of the greatest of all time - "La Boheme". La Boheme's first act is an absolute triumph. Really. Lovely, lovely stuff.
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    Best opening scene for an action movie?

    IIRC, the opening scene in Reservoir Dogs is the gang having a discussion about tipping waitresses. Of course, it's been ages since I've seen that. I might be wrong. Anyway, Pulp Fiction is something I don't think Tarrentino will ever accomplish again. Really, what has the man done in the last...
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    Best opening scene for an action movie?

    Hadn't realized that Replacement Killers was a John Woo film. It plays like just about everything he does. It's well-choreographed and well-photographed but it seemed utterly dispassionate through the whole movie. Mostly, I was just bored. The opening is alright. Blade does the shootout in a...
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    Lindows

    The idea has some merit, I think, but after looking at lindows.org, what I see is a plain ol' Linux distro with WINE already installed. It looks like the only value they add is the "click and run warehouse", a means of distributing both Windows applications that will run under WINE and linux...
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    RHCE Certification

    I've seen a lot of environments with Notes and Exchange running side-by-side, actually. What ends up happening is that so much useful stuff ends up in the Notes databases that it becomes far too costly to get rid of it. CCDA doesn't seem to be a diluted certification. A Network+ might be a good...
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    RHCE Certification

    I'm not sure there is suffient value in the RedHat exam at this point to consider it. It is expensive, and as I understand it, fairly rigorous, but there also seems to be next-to-zero demand for it, at least in the US. I've studied for the RedHat exam. I'm sure I could pass it, even the hands-on...
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    Best opening scene for an action movie?

    I had forgotten about Blade's opening. That WAS pretty intense. I've not seen "The Replacement Killers". Maybe I'll go rent it. Anyone remember the opening to "Heat"?
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    Has anyone seen an info-mercial for this?

    No, but everyone's least favorite male porn star, Ron Jeremy was pitching a, um, enlarging cream for an hour or so last night on my local fox affiliate at around 2:00AM.
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    WorldCom hits the dirt

    54Mbit on an 802.11a Wireless net would be great, and I know I can buy APs for it, but so far as I know, NICs aren't available yet. :( As often as I'm asked about it I think there's a lot of demand for wireless applications. 802.11-anything doesn't seem good enough in the times I've dealt with...
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    Jason hasn't posted on SR for one week!

    I think I beat them both in terms of volume. :) Plus I think I was nice to everybody, and *still* snuck in a good burn on Jason. Anyway, the whole thing just reminded me of something funny, so...
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    Post Code: Long Slow Dontinuous Beeps

    I've got a perfectly good Abit LX6 sitting here, sans CPU, to supplant Clocker's offering, if that's the case. Of course, you won't do much overclocking with it, but for an Abit board it was above average.
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    Jason hasn't posted on SR for one week!

    S'OK. Bill and I were having a rational argument until Jason came along and finished off the thread. It might yet be fun. Wasn't CNN Sport invented to chronical the China thread in the first place?
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