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And of course I misremember which Camera SD actually recommended. Oh well. It's still really nice. ... and off I go to use up a lot of color ink. Weeeeee!

Spent some money today. On StereoDude's advice I picked up a Canon Powershot G2. $600. And a new (well, lease-return) 21" Sony display. The display is mine and mine alone. I'm splitting the cost of the camera with my girlfriend's parents; they wanted to buy a crappy little HP digicam and I...

Richter? Reger? I can't think of any other German composers who died in that era. Don't you keep program notes? And yes, that story is true. Hayden's life, since he worked in the royal courts of Europe his whole life, is well-documented. Now you're going to drive me nuts until I figure out who...

That's not terribly different from Oligarchy, in which powerful business leaders (in the US, powerful businesses, since our laws treat corporations as people) control the functions of government. The problem with that system is, those who fall outside the sphere of interest to the oligarchs...

The quality of recorded video on nvidia cards, and I say this after an objective evaluation of it, doesn't look as good as what comes off an ATI. It's certainly comparable with most of the Brooktree-based cards I've seen, but I think ATI and Matrox have the better solutions for inexpensive...

While I won't argue that there are some elements of facism in the US government, I'd like to put forth that the better term to describe our modern government is "Oligarchy". Although it was decidedly less so under our previous chief executive. My gay, herbalist, druid friend has also suggested...

In real browsers, the Esc key will stop animation. Then it's only annoying for how it looks, not how it moves. :)

I tend toward the other extreme of the day, Wagner. Tchaikovsky once said that Wagner "has great moment but bad quarters of an hour". Still, those moments... I bought a complete "Ring" cycle on DVD last weekend (Deutsche Grammaphon, of course). I'm still working through it. But, oh, what...

I've worked with them throughout time. The biggest beef I've had with Cyrix chips is unquestionably heat. Cyrix chips are the reason I started carrying around spare HSF combos. When the first 6x86s were released, NOTHING could properly cool them. You'd throw them in a case and eventually they'd...

The MII-366s I saw were mostly on the various PC Chips boards at 100MHz. Given how limited support was for 83MHz bus was, even on the generic boards that were practically made for the dreadful things, I'd hazard to say that was probably the more common part. Even if it wasn't, knowing the...

Pretty neat for CG. I know exactly how I'd make a trackball to go with it. ;)

As you'll note, I haven't exactly been complaining that my name isn't showing up in proper green type.

Back when P2-300s were the best you could buy, I had a DFI board that did that. I killed three CPUs before I learned. There wasn't an error message or anything.

On SR I don't mind so much, since I know every refresh brings a different ad and maybe a little more money to SR.

Also, I've seen vast numbers of MII-366s. They certainly were a shipping part. A horrible pox on technicians and heatsink/fans everywhere, but they absolutely were a shipping part.

I just looked at your CPU pages Tannin. I hadn't actually read all the way through before. A few things I can say (besides my usual snide comments about anything Cyrix): Yes, the C6 worked flawlessly without a fan. Acer made a low-profile, legacy-free machine around the C6 that was roughly the...

I would've liked a V5 for comparison's sake. They threw in the TNT2. I'm more than impressed with the showing my $60something Radeon 7500s made, though. It's bumping up against the fastest GF2s and not more than a couple percent slower than the low-end GF3 for most things.

While Fox has, at times, bordered on the permanently lurid, the truth is, I'm too cheap to pay $40/month for cable.

Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed! Dancing banana-man (are you trying to tell us something, Bill? - and yes I finally loaded IE to see what the heck you were talking about last night) just couldn't wait to use all those vast moderator powers and now...

As you can see I was highly sleep deprived when I wrote this. I must retract the bit of bolded text, above. Forget you ever saw it. All of you. :) Tannin, how come Kristi isn't at least registered to make fu... post here?

I've found the back button to be entirely useless both here and on SR, across all browsers and platforms. Usually I get a "page is expired" error.

The radio remote control/mouse makes it worthwhile. :) With my ATI VIVO and as much storage as I have (1.3TB online at the moment), I can record whatever the heck I want (of course, I'd have to have a lot more interest in the one TV channel I get before I'd want to record 1300GB of video, too)...

Yes, it was http://users.erols.com/chare/sockets.htm (or one of the pages on that site). I made my A+ class spend some time there. And on Tannin's site, I might add. Both are very educational.

The same thing as all the other commands. Why?

Did you try shift-printscreen?

IFSMGR is associated with some of the low-level IDE disk driver functions. You might be able to fix that problem most easily by copying a more recent version of the file (it lives in c:\windows\system\vmm32, and probably wasn't replaced during a Windows reinstall) from a Win98 system. The...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I typed that.

Must be a picture I'm not seeing. Hmph.

The ATI 7x00 and 8500 All-in-Wonder cards can take programming info from ATI's web site. That's free. 500GB of storage and a 7500 AIW is only $700 or so... TiVo doesn't *HAVE* to be connected to a phone line, AFAIK. You don't get the program guide or TiVo programming picks. That might have...

Did I miss something?

I don't enjoy any sports. My suggestions are based only on observations of sports fanatics.

Probably it was supposed to compete with the Pentium-II. It does surprisingly well, but ended up being more of a competitor to the Celeron, simply because there was more parity in pricing.

Is there such a thing as third-party clipboard software? Printscreen by itself seems to work pretty well, if you're OK with capping your whole screen.

Simple: no matter what I do, it takes too long. That's why I have so many computers; I can go look at the other stuff that loaded on machines I was using earlier in the day. :)

I think it's hideous. And I'm not saying that just because it's not green on black. It reminds me of the failed "modern design" building my Mom worked in during the very early part of the 80s... all red and rounded edges. Simply awful.

I know that, of course. But seeing that he's in Italy, he probably doesn't get much use for his native language. My posts aren't long enough to complain about? I'm hurt.

So what was the nature of the dispute with his teammate on the North Melbourne Kanagroos? And given the phrase under consiideration here, I think perhaps we should phrase things delicately.

No. But I've heard of Wayne Newton and Drew Carey. Are they close?

I think Ars Technica already has the market cornered on that one. I have a friend who can translate into Gaelic, Welsh, Basque, Portugese, Spanish, Hebrew and (ancient) Greek. PeeWee can probably handle Italian, too. Not that I think that's helpful.

Sol, while "no holes barred" is a really interesting expression, and the title of a series of movies I'll admit to having enjoyed, I think the phrase you wanted was "No HOLDS barred", a throwback from professional wresting.

I'd think there woud be more of a space limitation in adding a Hippo or something. Track and field events: Running = rename it "being chased". Runners get a five second head start from, say, a cement truck, which then follows them around the track at whatever speed is most appropriate. Races...

Your English probably sounds like my German. :) You might be amused by the essays of David Sedaris on the subject of become an expatriot in Paris, particularly his digressions on the French-language gender of objects in his life. The literal translations of his attempts at French are bad enough...

I think it's about right, actually. I don't want you to work too hard at it, but I liked that you got something up about the 800JB DAYS before SR managed it. :)

Yes. And if we win, I'll be available to take local delivery. :) Really, though, this machine is a Sequent-based 2x 4CPU @ 700MHz each. Only 1GB RAM per node (that's NUMA - each quad of CPUs has its own pool of memory. Compare to UMA, what PCs use... memory I/O is probably through the roof)...

Any sport related to swimming: Just add pirrahna.

Ballroom dancing: Instead of a nice wood or marble floor, how about either loose gravel or suspended netting? "Travis and Wang are going for the pirouette and... Oh no! Oh the humanity!"

IBM's enterprise storage is agnostic. Sometimes their bigger equipment (disclaimer: I only work on PC Servers. Ask Fushigi about their i-Series hardware) will have Seagate or Fujitsu drives and sometimes IBM.

FIC VA-503+. Marvelous board. I had serious compatibility problems with the Trinity 1598 and normally trouble-free AWE64. Given that was the only board I ever had a problem with the AWE64, I think it's probably Tyan's fault on that one.

It's there. It's also been in most of their SDKs since the late 90s. I remember seeing it in their "software agent" kit (for making your own talking paper clip) in '98.

No. I haven't. I really do believe that the only reason people watch sports, on the deepest level, is to watch for injury or injury-substitute activity. Therefore the right thing to do is to return sport to its most pure state, two guys with pointed sticks beating the crap out of each other...