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Let's not talk about ego-crushing right now, OK? Someone mentioned a portion of the Beautitudes (Blessed are the meek...) above. Personally the sentiment from that particular work (and I say this as an unbeliever) I find most beautifully expressed is "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall...

Let's do this right, a bit. The history of this site can be found elsewhere but it boils down to the simple notion that a dozen or so of soon-to-be SR expatriots needed a better way to talk than CCing emails. Handruin started Storageforum. The rest of us followed. At the moment, Tannin is in...

I might consider that a compliment.

You'll have to get a licensed copy of Mac OS for your Performa. I imagine they probably go pretty cheaply on Ebay. Probably OS 8.6 is a good choce. Seems to me that's about the right vintage for that hardware and I know 8.6 is considered the best of its version number. OS9 is probably too new to...

If you don't understand, Prof, what I mean is that there is a ritual to dealing with people in a business or professional setting. Things are polite and there is a ritual standard of behavior. Most other social interactions don't have that and I find I'm overwhelmed.

This is probably a good start.. Stay around Arne. We can always use more people to talk to. :)

The last of those happens to me from time to time. I also had to duct tape my ups-es to the wall. My boy cat found out recently that I like to "play" after he puts his paws between the oddly shaped UPS plug and the wall, then rolls away from the wall. *beep beep beep* "damn cat I'm gonna..."...

Groltz, were you the anti-Trinton? I do not have an alias (except this one). I never have. I don't much care for my real first name and I've always gone by nicknames anyway. At any rate, there is a justification for this thread. A lot of what is shared by the folks here is history is...

Amy and I have an odd relationship. Amy has said she treasures me for being the person I was in high school when we met, and for being the person I am now, who literally makes sure that she doesn't have anything to worry about except her schooling (she's second in her class, so that's working...

My belief was that three would be sufficient as well. The counter argument to that was that, with five mods there would be "more coverage"; the "Many Hands Make Short Work" philosophy. I think 'round the clock coverage is a rough goal. In any case our next moderator should probably be someone...

Thanks for advice, all. I'm really sorry to bring this here but under the circumstances I've been asked to keep this to myself in "real life" and some things, one just can't keep a lid on forever. In case there's any confusion, my self-destructive urges are more along the lines of "picking...

My hope was that the Giver was a distinct entity, Bill. That is something I had been convinced of up to the point I actually looked. For those who do not know, one of the powers moderators have is to check IP addresses. I obviously didn't widely distribute what I learned from that particularl...

The Giver said some things to various people here such that if Bill wanted to continue to say, I felt he should at least be honest enough to live one life or the other. Given my real-world situation, it was something I just didn't want to let stand.

Tell me it ended well.

Mozilla 1.0 = Very stable. Awesome, configurable email client, amazing privacy handler and yes, the popup killer and image blocking. Very fast for me. I think it's faster than IE, anyway. I don't care for tabs, though. I'd just ratheer not browse in tabs. I'd rather have the space on-screen...

For those who really, really want to know why I haven't been coming around much in the last few weeks: Don't read if you're offended or don't want to know something about my personal life Amy, my fiance, the woman I have devoted my whole life to, in every possible way, told me a few weeks...

FTP doesn't have a complex enough command interpreter for that. You'll need an actual shell (csh, ksh whatever) to get some real intelligence.

If you have permissions sufficient to change a filename, you can delete that file. The two "classical" solutions to "undeletable files" on Unix systems are to either delete through the use of well-chose wildcards, or to reference the full path to the file starting from the root directory. Both...

That's why screws should be used for everything, Tannin.

TweakUI for XP - available from annoyances.org if you can't find it on the MS site - has a "Rebuild Icons" function. There are other ways to do it but that's by far the easiest.

Tea - setting up NAT (network address translation; ICS done right) on a Linux box is as easy as editing a couple of files. Setting up routing isn't hard, either. When you get around to playing with Linux on your gateway machine. Either way, there's tons of stuff on google about doing it.

The really evil words in all this are "Per Seat License". That doesn't sound like any Linux I'd want to use. I'll be sticking to RedHat (the major distro not involved in all this).

No idea why I'm reading this thread but, yes, Tea, you can have multiple NICs in a single machine. Several of my PCs have two already. Anyway, you're going to have to set up routing on your dual-NIC machine to get the xBaseT to talk to the 10Base2 (coax) that everything else you're going to...

I love living in a place where less than $100 buys me 80GB of disk space. :)

Well, Clocker was OT:Police. And he was well known for restraint. I believe this is the rare form of humor known as sarcasm.

I did, didn't I? I could've said "German", although at the time my ancestors left Bavaria it was still its own country. My family had some kind of titular ranking (Graf?) in Bavaria. I don't know much about it.

<smack> And yes, with an aunt as interested in Geneology as mine, I can find out who was banging my many-times great grandmother. The simple answer is my many-times great-grandfather. :) But seriously, if you're into that sort of thing, there are more geneological resources online that one can...

You have your jokes, and I have mine. :P And I'd just like to say that Flagreen should be sentenced to two weeks running NT4 on a 386 with 12MB RAM for that last comment.

Just to correct PeeWee (again), NRG is a guy with greek ancestry living in the UK (I think). The only I-talian I can remember on SR/SF are PeeWee (who is also greek) himself and Christiano Salvadori.

You actually made it through an entire episode of Seinfeld without losing your lunch? I have newfound respect for you, Sol.

Maybe we could take up a collection and do a month or two of google adwords or something. I'm proud of this place and I wish more people knew about it.

From dictionary.com: jock2 Pronunciation Key (jk) n. An athletic supporter. Sports. An athlete, especially in college. Slang. One characterized by excessive concern for machismo. [Short for jockstrap.] -- I meant it in the last sense. Personally I'm not too fond of that type of individual.

You either need a dediccated uplink port or a crossover cable for that.

You'd have to try it and see. A good switch will just use 10Mbit to the node that requires 10Mbit.

Gads I can't believe I posted that. If you're doing the Linux thing, make sure you stick in a decent NIC. You'll do IP configuration during OS install, and it'll work, dammit. Make sure you turn off any daemons you aren't planning to use.

All the more reason that the Radeon 8500LE is a bargain, too.

You can use the same cables for 10 and 100mbit. Most NICs will auto-sense which to use. Depending on the network equipment, you may be force to 10Mbit if you attach a 10Mbit device. Since your sharing a modem connection, it isn't like you need a 100Mbit connection for that, anyway.

127.0.0.1 is a loopback address. If your TCP/IP software is working properly, a ping to the loopback should return a minimum-time response. On my linux boxes it's down around 200 mircro-seconds. Windows doesn't show anything below 10ms. Assuming IP is configured properly on your host, the next...

It isn't me. I know who it is, of course, but I knew the minute I saw the nick, and without using my fantastic moderator powers. *I'm* not the one who talks about his stuff all the time. Rocco's work is a bit much for my tastes. Although his accent is hilarious. Anyone else notice that Tea is...

I guess we 'mericans wouldn't be able to get away with anything like that, were we to make the trip. Oz is a place I would visit, if for no other reason than to prove to myself that it isn't really like all those damn "Crocodile Dundee" movies. On SR a few days ago, Tannin mentioned that, when...

We just need to work on getting the people who visit the tech support forum for a post or two to hang around. :) And Tannin needs to get his tech in here so our boys club becomes a slightly more civil place. Maybe we could even get the bartender to hang some curtains or something.

Radeon 8500 is neck and neck with the higher-end GF3, IIRC. Clocker, if you end up not liking that card, I'll buy it off you. For only a slight loss on your part. ;)

You know vi has a startup file? And that you can configure additional keyboard mappings if you don't want to use the "vi way" of doing things. Besides, the default mappings on a Linux box include all those keys - and their correct function - by default. As for first-week productivity, this is...

TCP/IP Troubleshooting 1. Start by verifying that IP is in Network Control Panel, that it's configured appropriately for your network (you're using ICS, so I think you should leave a dynamic assignement on, but 192.168.1.x is pretty reasonable otherwise), that you have a DNS server and a...

Unless I miss my guess, another of our esteemed members (oh, that's an awful pun in this case!) has taken another personality.

While I don't specifically remember Packard Bell motherboards or anything else about their limitations - I used to tell people to throw them away when they got old, an entirely defensible policy in my experience - I do recall the enclosure in your pictures being one of the worst sons-of-bitches...

Of course! That's the Unix way. I have a program that parses and orders a plaintext file in a specific format (the "mailbox" format common to all Unix systems and to some other stuff like Eudora), and another to edit text. It works beautifully. There's very little I can't do in elm, and what...

Pbbbbt. Some of us don't have a copy of Counterstrike or Half-life to play with.

elm + vi. Nothing more is needed. Everything else is fluff. Sometimes I use mozilla mail when idiots send me mime'd attachments or excessively long HTML mail message. elm does the right thing with both, and ignores them completely.

Unless you're willing to count the Mechwarrior games, never. Er, OK... "GATO". It ran on XT-class machines and featured exciting CGA graphics. Or maybe "Jet", which was wireframe CGA game that ran on PCjr. systems. I'd like to see screenshots of purported differences between highres and highres+AA.