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When I was about eleven, my parents and I were once stuck in traffic on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago during the air and water show held annually there. Flights of F16s were literally buzzing the Hancock building, which was as dramatic a sight as I can remember. Still, the best part was that...

The gross oversimplification of my problems stem from the fact that Amy just finished her 1st year of med school, her only time off she gets until she finishes her internship, and she's realized that she's never lived alone and, uh (and this is non-personal and non-specific as I can get), wants...

I have to admit that I never paid much attention to Macintosh printers (the Applewriters were really Deskjet 500-series models, probably the finest general-use inkjets ever made), but I think the connector you're describing as PS/2 like is actually an ADB connector, similar to the one used for...

I'm pretty sure that the root of all evil in television advertising is the communist plot that keeps commercials for soaps and shampoos from being the best things on TV. Think about it. Hey, think about this: Microsoft spent a BILLION dollars advertising Windows XP. That's "Billion with a B"...

Join the club, Coug. It is pretty boring, though. Network tech work is a pigeonhole just like everything else. Unless you're in a job that gives you some free reign (an office, some purchase authority, preferably steering authority on platform/vendor standards, and enough latitude to play with...

Whoops. Seems newer revs of the card support ATA100. Not that helps the UW SCSI "bottleneck". Search on google for "Acard SCSI bridge" and you'll get all the info you can possibly handle.

I have (several, actually, but I'm just using the one) an Acard 50pin SCSI to Ultra/33 bridge card. AFAIK, the best you're going to be able to do with such a bridge is Ultra/33 to UW SCSI (there may be a Ultra/66 to UW or maybe even U2W SCSI, but not from the place I bought mine), which would...

64bit on the desktop is probably going to have to wait to find an application. I think I wrote something earlier in the thread about it. I'm sure Tannin remembers this clearly: When OS/2, NT and Windows95 were released, it was with great fanfare and a promise of a "faster" computing; imagine...

Well, yeah. I will. And in a year, when IE is on its EIGHTH major security update, and Microsoft is still saying they're committed to security, it'll be even funnier. The truth is, anything that's as bad as IE, Outlook, IIS or OE (as I sit here finding 350 copies of W32.klez on the PC I'm...

What're you going to do with your life, Mr. Tek?

Those printers look like Epsons to me. I don't know where you're getting HP. HP inkjets load paper properly, from below the print mechanism. :) Of course they're all horrid anyway. Which is a good argument for buying $10 inkjet printers when one can find them (usually a couple times a year at...

The article seems to indicate that the backup/restore practice they used fragmented the files in a predictable manner. So at least for the purpose of their test, there was repeatability.

The rest of us will be pointing and laughing at the IE users while y'all are busy downloading. That's at least the third time this year IE's needed a major patch. That's pretty bad for a company that's supposedly re-focussed on security.

The amazing SF tech support strikes again. :)

John Lasseter? Didn't one of the founders of Pixar just pass away? I think I saw that somewhere a couple weeks ago.

Out of all the versions of IE, the Mac version is supposedly the best. No matter. Install Moz anyway. It works the same on everything (incidently, Tannin, since you'll probably read this, try K-meleon for Windows and see if that's better for you. It starts in seconds like IE/Opera/Moz...

Defragging seems to me to be a very good real world test of driver performance. I wonder why I haven't seen it done before.

Don't let the bastards get you down?

Went out this afternoon and purchased a complete set of Schumann symphonies, the von Dohnanyi recording on London. I've listened to the first symphony (appropriately for most of us, the "Spring" symphony) so far and I find it very enjoyable. A bit up-tempo for my mood today but as captivating a...

Er, it's not like I'm accusing anyone of being evil. But nobody ever says "The Glowing Red-Eyed Skull of Hugs and Baby Ducks", either.

Talking about "Springtime for Hitler" reminds me of The Boys from Brazil. Let me tell you, I got some interesting results when I typed that into Google. And of course, talking about Brazil at all reminds me of a favorite dystopian vision and a really overlooked film. And we're on to movies...

Cat6 isn't a standard yet. Like PC2700 three months ago. Buy good-quality Cat5e and be happy your vendor doesn't need to soak you with a name their product isn't entitled to. On ordinary jobs I buy Cat5e from the local Home Depot. $47.50 a spool. Whatever it is, it isn't quite good enough for...

The outside-ness isn't voluntary. I'm stucl out here because the other member of my household has asked for the apartment to herself until she goes off to teach. :(

It'll be interesting to hear what Coug and Buck might say, of course. Matrox used to use lower-quality RAMDACs in OEM cards vs. their retail stuff. At the time it was a HUGE difference - 200MHz vs. 250MHz, IIRC for the Millenium II. The thing is, how many cards are you going to sell that will...

Operating from memory since I don't normally see most of them... My Bill Gates' Pie-encrusted face (clearly the best choice, I might add) Handruin's Matrix homage Flagreen's dancing something or other CougTek's Terminator Buck's Walt Whitman portrait/Wild-west saloon-keep Clocker's Homer...

I thought that one had some brains to it. Oh well. It's the one I was thinking of. It'd be perfect for all the SR/SF members with a half-dozen PCs in their homes. It'd justify your X15, at least. :) And I was trying to be realistic when I suggested 4x improvement over 100baseT for gigabit...

Tannin, wouldn't a simple move to the northern coast of Oz (Ballarat is in the southeastern portion, correct?) solve your weather complaints? Personally I like three of the seasons, and to get a real spring and autumn, you have to have a winter in there somewhere. Unfortunately. And like you...

Since my supply of cheap G4x0s dried up I've been using ATI Rage128s at the low end. I didn't see those on your sheet, but I find the green on light grey hard to read... Anyway, the Rage128 is a good enough card for most people. I don't know how drivers were historically (it's an old card...

Kristi should be here posting that for herself.

I should say, since I saw it a couple days ago, that Dell is selling 8-port managed 1000baseT switch for under $500. Which is really sweet. I'll see if I can dig up a link.

I'm not the person you need to be asking. It's all slow to me. But the other siite seemed marginally less slow. Which is just about as ringing an endorsement as I can make.

Do all those people really have avatars?

My favorite lullaby, for no particular reason. I suppose it's odd that a grown man have a favorite lullaby, especially one who doesn't like kids, but I sing it for my girlfriend's nieces and they like it. "Hush you by, don't you cry Go to sleepy little baby When you wake you shall have all the...

I have a BSCS and a set of skills that I try very hard to forget about. I always like the IT (service) side of computer work, and I find real-life programming highly unsatisfying And yes, I worked as a programmer, in an office I shared with threee other people, above a...

Invitations were made at the first, almost entirely to SR regulars who had visible email addresses. If you didn't get one, that's probably why. Sorry. The whole matter caused a great deal of frustration on our part. I think it's still a sore point. I don't think the traffic level is so high...

Hmph. Like a PM:POP3 or PM:IMAP interface would be that tough.

Y'know, we never did get that picture, Tannin... Not that I'd be able to see it anyway.

Is there any mechanism available to batch-save PMs?

I'm sure the way I speak is very different from the way you or Tannin or jtr or NRG or Gary H. or PeeWee speak (er, English). Probably that's an interesting project for someone here. And I'm not much for phones. I don't really like them, particularly talking to someone I haven't met before. I...

Am I missing something? I just noticed that there isn't a link to their AAM software on their web site. Is it something you have to get through support? Reminds me why I haven't bought a Seagate Drive since the Barracuda ATA II.

What, and lose the 250 days of uptime on most of my linux machines? Just so you can find that the vseek graph for a Maxtor 536X spells "Slug"? Or that my collection of (SCSI) Barracudas is slower than every 7200rpm IDE drive I own at this point?

I hate to think we're elitists, personally.

Thanks all.

Best wishes for your new boy, Jake.

Eh. Don't drink to begin with, although at the moment I wish I did. Just don't have anyone to talk to about what's going on. In fact, if I understood what was going on, I'd probably not be complaining. Here isn't the place to talk either. But since this is what passes in my life for social...

Just to break in for a second: DAMN why can't we have a thread like this on SR? I'm sure some of the new guys like cas and Sivar would have some cool things to say as well (but not me. I'm not an engineer and don't pretend to be), if they could see this... OK, please resume arguing about cache...

If I seem grumpy, mean or absent over the next few weeks, not that anyone will necessarily miss my almost jehh-like omnipresence... I'm living in something not unlike a particularly stereotypical "Jerry Springer" (that's the trashiest show on TV, period, for all outside the US) episode at the...

Since I'm on broadband for the day and forced to use IE I went and took a look anyway (thanks for the warning, though). I particularly like the last one. It's fairly obvious to me that those images are cropped to that white border, but I really like the color balance in the last group. I can...

Wow. That seems pretty bad. Do we have a (supposedly fast-seeking) 740X yet? Or a Quantum AS? Those are the ones I can run Vseek on most easily, although I can't post pretty pictures like y'all. I think I can probably do a WD600AB and maybe a 800AB as well. Everything else I have in a Windows...

I liked putting (free) StarOffice on the machines I sold. I thought it was a great value for the sort of work most people need to do. Then I started getting people bitching about the fact that they had "Office" but not "MS Word". Ingrates. I guess the branding wasn't obtrusive enough...