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Hmpf. Took me longer than I thought it would - I was looking at the date problem the wrong way, but the script itself is pretty easy to write.

Well, I wouldn't moan about that 17" optiquest display. Curved screen or no, that's a fine budget monitor (better a curved Optiquest than a flat KDS or Shamrock)... Surprises: No IDE in the "god box". That 73LP is way, way out of place given the capacity and performance of the "special edition"...

Prof, SR just isn't where "home" is online right now. Not to me, anyway. Hopefully someday soon this site will be able to stand on its own two feet and you'll see a visit here no differently from a visit to any number of other techie forums (only better). In my mind SR's future is still...

DrunkenBastard should take the time to sample a few of our finer, cheaper alcoholic products... You might see MadDog (MD) 20/20 in the wine section of your local supermarket. They're lying. It's bright green or hot pink, and perfectly suited for hand to hand combat. Mogen David - $5 for a...

My batty Great Aunt had a Scottish Fold (that's a cat breed) that she set a place at the table for. When she passed away, my parents inherited her... and quickly found that the only way to get her to eat was to set her food on a plate, at the table. Same cat used to sit on the piano bench with...

Where are you in our fine nation, Pradeep? I'll ship you some Tequila or something. ;)

I'll bet Pradeep's 233 + a goodly amount of RAM (256MB or so) + an X15 is as usable a workstation as you'll find. Probably wouldn't feel any different from the GHz-range desktops most of the rest of us have. The real question is what the hell an otherwise respectable person like Pradeep is...

PW, take your stand as part of the "new guard", and lead by example. That's what fixtures do.

Service businesses should have the right to add a PITA charge. I know I do. One gentleman whose business I have worked for in the past, I've flat-out told that I won't work for anything less than double my normal rates, double expenses etc. He still calls me from time to time... and stands over...

Amber or Green on black. A nice, monospace font... Gee that would feel like home. :)

The quick answer is, it's being talked about. Personally, I try to at least remain aware of what's being talked about on SR, but I come here first... and with good reasons. Look at SR's Bar and Grille right now and tell me it doesn't hurt to see things how things are right now. At the same...

Where's the "none of the above" option?

I'll write up what you want this afternoon, after I get home from work. Easy stuff.

Not into case modding, myself, so no. Tools other than screwdrivers and I don't get along very well. I try to avoid contact with them.

Those CMedia chips are the basis of the low-end Philips card, which retails for around $30 here... I can get the same card with the addition of a TOSlink out (audiophiles take note) for $7US. Big step up from onboard audio, too.

The first question for anyone thinking about going to get banned in their forums is, how the heck can you stand to look at their front page. It's awful. And I'll bet their girlfriends are ugly, too.

There is *no* excuse for a commercial organization to spam (unless that organization is Hormel, the people who make the pink stuff in the can). None. Period. They can talk all day about whatever good intentions they might have had in sending us a link to their review. Too bad! If I want to read...

Must've missed that one. Here's my list: Sears Craftsman 3.6V cordless screwdriver - Long philips bit - Short philips bit - Stripped screw removing bit - small flathead bit - drill bit for making new holes in things and for boredom relief I've never damaged anything with my cordless. I...

Might as well automate! $ crontab -e 0 12 * 2 * echo "You guys suck donkeys" | elm -s "Die spam-gargling moron" webmaster@harddiskinfo.com

Well, so far I haven't heard anyone use the phrase "some guy from the middle east"...

Eh. Either way. I do good work and I've never been fired or ended a job early; whether or not people like me or not doesn't mean as much to me as that fact. I'm not exactly an extroverted person. ... point of fact, I don't mind being a prick, either, so long as I'm a big prick.

http://www.storageforum.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=40 Or, if you don't want to click... Tannin mailed a small group of people when it looked like SR was closing. This small group, plus Handruin, eventually made this site. We have our own little forum on this site where we mostly argue about...

That's the whole deal with the "admins" section. Tannin got elected "person to blame if you don't like something" a couple days ago. :)

Yes, from slashdot. I was making gurgling noises as I read the responses... Small world. I did some GIS work in the late nineties for the City of Chicago. Mostly my job was... weird; I was doing a small amount of custom development work for their high-end Oracle-based system, while supporting...

There are two threads on SR about it, one in the admins forum here, and now this. In short, pretty much everyone got a copy.

A depressing news story. Reading things like this is what makes me want to get out of the computer business.

Really? Historically I've preferred laptop LCDs to desktop. Maybe that's because I'm usually closer to the laptop display. Desktop LCDs still seem like a gimmick to me, anyway.

Not yet. Quake3 doesn't look very good on the 15" LCD of the brand-new 1GHz Toshiba laptops that are sitting on my living room floor right now. Even with all the graphics options turned off there's a lot of artifacts on the screen that I think come from the screen updating slower than the video...

I got a real kick out of reading about this programming language...

I believe that the difference is that "Master" slots can have a unique IRQ assigned to them, and a slave or slaves have to share one with a master... masters have some other abilities. I'm not an electrical engineer. the least technical info I can find is the followingL a "master" controls...

Excel 5 was the version included with Office 4.3, which pre-dated full VBA adoption in Office by two releases and probably 5 years. Hard to explain what the app does, except to say that it provides a number of documents that US Steel requires its vendors fill out EXACTLY but will not itself...

Helldriver, I have personally seen a 50,000-line app written in whatever the hell Excel v5's language was. I was written by an acquaintance of mine for use by vendors doing business with one of one of the local Steel Mills. It's really a pretty amazing thing.

The typical warranty for drives in OEM products is equal to the OEM vendor's, and serviced by the OEM... which in the case of th xbox means a 1-year warranty serviced by microsoft, regardless of who made the drive.

The IDE (Integrated development environment) looks pretty nice. And newer versions of VB tend to be much better than those that precede it. VB is very good for certain types of small projects. VB still has a lot of room to grow to be comparable with other languages, unfortunately.

Even more, I wonder what kind of revolution the X15s in Tannin's desktop PCs are planning. ;)

Fushigi, A poll of my friends and relatives who visit strip clubs suggests the following: The clubs are better in Chicago. You already knew that. The "best" place to go if you're going for just the stripping is the Deja Vu just off Cline (you can see it from 80-94). It doesn't have a liquor...

Cliptin, My fiance suggests that you head to the head over to the nearest big pet-supply store and find yourself a "mat-comb". She says they're metal combs with scissors attached, made specifically for working on matted fur.

I'd like to say, The Giver, that your and Armen's poetry skills, however misplaced, are a perfect reason why no one should want you to go. Last August, adriel posted a thread on SR General called "Storage Prose". You probably could have made a wonderful contribution. However, Armen's use of the...

I take back my complaint about that shortcut after actually using the command. CTRL (and) + zooms in and CTRL (and) - zooms out. I was throw by the shortcut nomenclature - using + ito join the two keys - for a moment. CTRL++ makes sense. Photoshop uses the same key sequence to zoom images.

The proper enticement would probably be your recommendation along with a "discount" for a trade-in on his current drive. That could take the form of free labor for the ghosting or an offer of the drive at cost, whatever, but nothing shows sincerity at retail like offering a discount. ;)

My game machine runs on a Tbird 1.33GHz running @ 1.5GHz, on an Epox 8KHA (no RAID, same board). I've pushed it up another half-step without difficulty, BIOS reports fine. I'll try it again, just to make sure, though.

Since you're undoubtledly the only person here with Mozilla + ECS, I don't know how much help you're going to get but... How high did you wind up setting the font size in Moz? Try something outrageious, like 32-points or so. See if that does anything. Also try, under the View menu, the "Text...

Yes. And a proprietary disk format, too. Yuck.

I have to think that the Xbox hard disks are remaindered drives, anyway. 8.4GB disks? How many years since those have been made? The 10GB disk is a little better, but I have to think that either way, those disks have probably been sitting around a warehouse somewhere for 18 months or so...

Odd. The DIMMs on the couple I've opened up are Micron PC-133 modules (more odd, I thought Toshiba made its own RAM). The hard disk is also Toshiba-branded. My "stopwatch" test put the transfer rate on the formatted hard disk (between 1200 and 1400MB in on the disk) at 17.1MB/sec, which seems...

$10 fee + $100 CSU/DSU = small price to pay to get away from the $12 - $15/month equipment rental fee.

C is older than Pascal. C++ is actually fairly "new". Pascal is an interesting language; like the newer lanugage Python, it's designed as a "learning" language - a perfect introduction for students. Personally, I find Pascal syntax to be something of a pain in the @$$, but Delphi is otherwise a...

The RAM is PC 133. I suppose the CPU is, too, but none of the packaging indicates one way or the other.

Anthropomorphic Hard disk humor is so rare, for some reason.

Haven't we had this discussion before? Just as a general note... I can't believe how slow these things are. No faster than my IBM 540 (Celeron 466). The ones running 2000/XP are even worse. Gah. It's got to be the slow hard disk. I haven't opened one up to check what brand it is. I'll be doing...