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In the US, it's possible to get AOL-branded keyboards, mice, surge protectors, AOL-approved telephone cables, and AOL "travel cables" which come in a retractable-case, like a measuring tape. Does that qualify?

Lately Compaq's server equipment hasn't even been very good, either, and most of their re-branded non-PC equipment (RAID controllers, displays, KVMs, network hardware) is pathetic, too. A bit of research on the SuperMicro bit reveals that PC Chips did not buy it but instead took over the...

the NET commands have been part of 32-bit Windows for as long as it has existed. And yes, given that any version of OS/2 can connect to a domain controller and XP Home can't, I don't think Tea's statement is wholly unreasonable.

I am doing the dance of capitalist superiority even as we speak.

Personally, I'd hate to lose Compaq or HP, just because there has been such a history of great stuff from both, even if neither is the innovator of years' past. Given the choice, though, I'm glad that its HP that's buying Compaq. Better stuff (HP makes fantastic enterprise switches and...

Just noticed that newegg.com has started carrying Soltek boards, for those of us in the US who haven't been able to get their stuff until now.

What I'd rather see is the results of Tannin's search for '*' on a 'JB and on one of the new 10k Atlases... 'cause if it takes twice the spindle speed on an x15 to make it ~ 20% faster, and nothing else compares (as SR's benchmarks suggest), well, that kind of changes my opinion about SCSI...

Well, I would've voted "Other", since AOL somehow didn't make the cut, but then I saw my other least-favorite company on the list, and I knew what I had to do... And like it or not, there are some things to appreciate about microsoft, however crappy their OSes are. A great deal of...

Well, I just got an offer from the training place... pending completion of Network+ certification, to be completed immediately. I told them I need to wait on the other firms and, uh, to actually find out what the heck the Network+ cert is, so hopefully by Tuesday or Wednesday I'll know whether...

Easiest fix is probably to turn off plug-and-play on the motherboard, manually assign IRQs and use whatever DOS utility came with the modem to make it stick to the IRQ you assigned to it in the motherboard BIOS. I've seen boards that use the same IRQ for the second-to-last PCI slot, USB, and...

Oh, yeah. Thanks everybody!

Really liked my last interview. One on one, with a techie (one who had at least heard of SR, even <G>) and no HR reps at all. Got a full hour's time. We spent about three minutes talking about the job and the rest of the time just talking shop. I'd be working independently, suppporting remote...

Amazing what you can do with yacc. :)

Interviewed for the trainer job today. Small company. They were impressed that I (a techie) bothered to pick up a MOUS cert, but hung up on the fact that I don't have Network+ or Certified Internet Webmaster (although I do have a CCNA and MCP+Sitebuilding)... and I'll have some really nasty...

I've used I-don't-know how many different cards wuth a realtek chip. They're perfectly acceptable for your average workstation, just as Conexant's Winmodem chip or generations of S3 chips make acceptable hardware. However, I far, far, far prefer to buy brand name NICs (Intel, 3Com, Linksys...

Find a company that buys lots of IBM equipment; IBM gives away a copy of smartsuite with just about everything they sell. Almost no "real business" uses smartsuite, so those licenses are usually up for grabs. I've gotten new copies of smartsuite for free, and I don't think I've paid more than...

I've found it's pathetically easy to get SmartSuite licenses for Windows boxes for next to nothing. Too bad. I have installed Star Office on cutomer's machines in the past. To be honest, it wasn't a very popular choice.

No. I got a bunch of interviews. But that's something. A reason to iron clothing, if nothing else. :)

Unbelievable. Last year I had a total of five interviews for full-time jobs. Since last Friday I've had four calls requesting interviews. Not all for jobs I'd particularly like... all cold-calls, in fact. Really disgusting - I didn't send anyone my resume or anything, these people all just...

Sweetshon on SR works for Seagate. My guess is that Mickey works for WD - he's commented on differences between WD drives sold in retail and to OEMs... not the sort of distinctions someone who DOESN'T work for WD would be party to. I also had a correspondence with a Maxtor engineer a few...

OK, I've recently come into posession of a whole bunch of .mov files that won't play in anything but Quicktime4, which has to be the crappiest movie player ever made. Certainly the worst interface. Anyone aware of software that'll convert quicktime to any other movie format?

Reader old and crappy. Anything faster than about 8x should be able to read a CD-R.

Linux is just a kernel. Drivers for hardware are written by interested third parties or by different software groups than the main product development people. Often, because of commercial interests, the people writing the linux drivers are given incomplete or even incorrect (based on an old...

How is a Voodoo5 or a Matrox G450 not "current generation" hardware? The V5500 is at least equivalent to 7x00-series Radeons or low-end Geforce2s, and as far as I know there are no games out there for linux that stress those cards.

Prof, last I checked there were Live! drivers on the asian and european sites. Also try manually browsing their FTP site (you'd have to get the address from a download link on their web site. I don't know it offhand). And yes, Creative doesn't really support Creative. Their Linux driver people...

I have a few commercial titles for my linux boxes. Quake 2,3, UT, Alpha Centauri. Those were mostly pretty easy to install and set up. Your best bet for Linux gaming is probably a 3dfx or Matrox card - which is probably not what you have - for whatever reason, the people who work on mesa (the 3d...

Not completely RMA-related, but this thread reminds me of a bad experience I once had: When I was 15 - 18, early 90s timeframe, I hired myself out for PC repair housecalls, and did pretty well for myself. I got a call to fix a "broken PC". Went to the nice lady's house, found a genuine AT&T...

Well, sean wasn't kidding when he said internet.com buyouts don't lead to anything positive. What a huge pile of crap.

It was Moreau. That's who it was.

Bingo!

Anyone know the story? Resellerratings.com isn't there any more. How royally crappy.

TriOcular? Or Occupant? Man, I should know, too.

WD 1.2GB IDE - four tries in a single year (1995 - 96). I hated that drive. It was new when I bought it and at the time 1.2GB was a good-sized drive, but along with a number of other failed WDs, I finally got tired of it. I set it out on a fence post and shot it with a BB gun until I blew the...

Pre-step 1.) Make sure that your hardware is reasonably well-supported (check your NIC, video card, SCSI controller, and modem). I strongly suggest installing on a second PC if you're someone who gets frustrated Step 1.) Pick a distro Step 2.) Spend a goodly amount of time on google/google...

I've been whining about finding a (permanent) job on SR way longer than anyone else. First dibs!

Lots of Linux machines in the world are set up with a single disk for all the system partitions and no quotas on anything. Heck, lots of Unix boxes are set up that way. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Burst is, too. From days adminning the student workstations at university, my best guess as...

Better dead trout than live catfish. Or a sack of full-height Micropolis drives.

I have the sudden desire to smack Tannin with a dead trout.

Wouldn't know, Cougtek. I know Flash doesn't come with Mozilla, and that it's not worth the time to download it. And Prof, I do hate pop music (rap, country, trash metal whatever the heck pop music is calling itself). But it's also very easy for me to avoid contact with it if I choose (if for...

The green reminds me a bit of some of the early visual interdev sample materials; how the web looked in 1998 or so. Maybe with a darker foreground color? How about green or amber on black as just an option?

I would, if I had hours to kill while I downloaded it, or if I had flash installed on any of my machines. In short, no way. PW, the web should be a universal experience. The INTERNET should be a universal experience. Now I get 100-line-long e-mail messages with one line of text and...

How 'bout opening up our FAQ with some wider computer questions? A few off the top of my head: Why is my modem connection faster/slower than its rated speed? How do I get a faster connection from my modem? Why are there cracks and hisses in sound from my sound card? Why does sound card stutter...

Flash is malignant because 1.) Flash isn't available for every browser, even on Windows (it's not available for Mozilla, but works with Netscape 6), nor for many non-Windows OSes (Flash for OS/2 browsers? Flash for Linux browsers? Flash for webTV?). Sites using Flash are therefore making a...

tim, you forgot your :) ...grumble damn aussie judge grumble grumble.

Allow me to correct that: Private consultants used to make good money. Now we post on web forums and whine a lot. Heat: Two of the 75GB monsters are sitting in one of my cases, one on top of the other (and a floppy on top of that)... in a RAID0 array, with minimal additional cooling (there's an...

Pbbbbbt. :P Some of us had the good sense to not post during the "down" period. Whose fault is that?

Check out epinions.com for reviews by actual product owners. Taken with a grain of salt. And as an aside... a friend of mine works at one of the local giant electronics stores as a PC tech, which is right next to the service/returns desk. He said Sony has had some of the worst product return...

The usual suspects: mysimon.com, dealtime.com, crutchfield, vanns, j&r... Even ebay might be worth a look, if for no other reason than, if you e-mail the people selling TVs, you'll probably hit a couple of small shops willing to cut you a deal. I wouldn't buy a TV sight-unseen, however. Plus...

Well that'll teach me to post at 1:00AM without preview. Second URL http://www.vulnerabilities.org

Here[/ur] is a rather complete rebuttal to pretty much everything Steve Gibson has had to say. IMO Gibson makes valid point but also takes the "big scary evil" security problems with windows a step or two too far. There's a slightly better security scanner [url=http://www.vulnerabilities.org]here.