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I have never had a drink of alcohol, but I posted this poll with memories of Clocker's occasional admissions of posting on SR while less-than-sober, and SuperC's expression of regret that he said some things that he regretted after a night of inebriated posting. ... and that got me wondering...

I happen to have in my possession at the moment, 10 P3 1GHz/256MB/20GB Toshiba 4600 notebooks. Some of them have Win2000 Pro or WinXP Pro loaded on them, but they're all destined to have Win98SE. I'm only going to have them for a few days. Anyone interested in impressions of the hardware, or...

Seems to me that with just over 2000 message (gads, a quarter of them mine and Tannin's), we're about due for another status update here. Any words, Doug?

This forum or SR's? We're working fine. SR is working fine. There's a lot of activity in the Administrators forum that, unfortunately, you can't see. Lots of long posts bringing Kevin up to speed and dealing with some personal issues among the admins. There's plenty happening. Honest.

Nope. Just someone who had WAY too many music lessons when I was growing up. But if I (I'm a baritone) could hit the high Ds in the aria I mentioned above, I'd be famous as a sideshow freak if nothing else. :) How about some real olympic events? I've got one, and all I'd need is an official...

The super-easy way to defrag a > 4k cluster drive is to ghost and restore the drive. Of course, you need another drive big enough to hold your image file....

Make an attempt at Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody and tell me about a peak in dexterity when typing. Hit the high notes in full voice in "Celeste Aida" and tell me that's not athletic. There is a lot of athleticism in just about any physical pursuit. Why glorify those whose hobby (Olympians aren't...

Just use a normal hairbrush. Slickers (the flat brushes with the slanted handles) encourage hair growth. Normal hairbrushes do a better job of simple hair removal. Shaving a cat is probably, well, maybe cruel isn't a good word. Let's just say it would be hard on the cat. While you're doing...

Drunk posting: A serious issue. Some SR regulars have admitted it openly. Some have confessed after the fact. Some make their inebriated state part of their username. Tonight on StorageForum, a shocking exposé: Do our readers post while under the influence?

Does anyone think Bowling is a sport? At least bowling has a decent potential for injury. Even if it's more likely a career-ending hernia or groin-pull (no, not that kind!) than a torn ACL or rotary cuff. Tiger Woods had to sit out a few golf tournaments last year because why? Because a fan...

There are a number of password managers out in the world. Even some web sites that offer to remember passwords (yeah, like I'd trust THAT). I don't trust anything, actually, but I've also never heard of a way to totally circumvent Netscape/Mozilla's encrypted password store - you type a single...

I developed my philosophy in college, after having a roommate for a semester who watched EVERY SHOWING of ESPN Sportcenter - a show that's on about 8 times a day with at least two showings after midnight. He also got in at least two fistfights over NASCAR racing. It wasn't pleasant. Basically...

Honestly, I don't care about sports. None. Not a whit. Nude Beach volleyball? OK, maybe that one. I'm the type who feels that all sport would be better with the addition of landmines, or at the very least, edged weapons. Olympics: The sports no one cares about three years, eleven months out of...

Just don't ask where the reset switch is!

I'm not a computer shop-owner. I sell maybe 45 systems a year, which isn't that bad for something I do as a hobby. An awful lot of my sales come from people who either have never owned a computer, or bought a computer so long ago there's no reason to attempt an upgrade. Can't say how many times...

Good lord does Titan have an ugly web page! I found dealers in Germany, Lithuania and Poland. I think you're out of luck if you want one and you live in the US.

Cat Support Longhair/shorthair? Do you ever brush it? Is it just really, really lazy? Why is this starting to sound like the tech support call from heck?

Yes, I've seen corrupted volumes, but I haven't used the latest version, either.

Myth 2 was pretty darn cool. I played it on my friend's Mac a few times. But I liked Icewind Dale better. And Planescape: Torment better yet (now appearing in the cheapie bin). Blizzard games are, I don't know... very empty. The phrase "click-fest" was basically invented to describe Diablo...

Does your cat have a collar?

My fiance would like Tannin to know that Tampons are probably great for nosebleeds, too. :P

When I was very, very young a stray kitten followed me home from school after I stopped to pet it. It was August, and the kitten was probably only a couple months old. Of course my parents wouldn't let me keep her or feed her, and in fact I think my father tried to catch her and drive her out...

Pepsi | Nose >> Keyboard! Slightly more seriously, I also noticed that several people have more posts here than on the "new" SR, which is pretty remarkable.

I don't think you should be hurling around insulting words like "republican" to label our good friend Tannin. Besides, sock puppets can't vote, except in Florida. Not that explains why Tea has access to the Admin forum. OK. I'll quit with the puppet references. Why are there so many... songs...

STOP POKING ME! Burp! Oh. Uh. OK. Actually I'm not a fan of Blizzard's games, but I like the funny things the various creatures say when you click on them a few down times.

For those who don't have access to the admin forum, "sock puppet", it's a bit of an inside joke. Tannin and Tea started having conversations, and the first thing I thought of as I read them was that there must've been a sock puppet involved.

Well, The Giver and Santilli, you'll both be happy to know that the admins have finally come to an agreement on the rules of conduct for members. You'll be happy to know that there's no mention of member intelligence or race in those rules. I'm sure both of you will be commenting on the fruits...

Sounds like very simple DB work. Just a handfull of tables. No complex relationships. Exactly the sort of thing MySQL is made for.

We all know I couldn't possibly beat them both. I'm thinking that my triumph is over his primary, dominant personality only. Although, we could get back to Punch and Judy speculation...

When working on PCs that might be "sharp", I learned a long time ago to wear painter's gloves (used in auto plants by the people who handle newly-painted parts) and to keep neosporin nearby. My worst injury: While modding a standard case with a powerdrill to accept a proprietary V-Tech (yes...

Just noticed that I have more posts than Tannin. It'll probably never happen again, so I'm going to celebrate while I can. ;) Me: 234 (er, 235 when I hit submit) Tannin: 232 A momentous day in the history of logorrhea!

It can reasonably be said that I don't want exactly the same kind of forum that Tannin wants. In fact, I take the decidedly minority positions that the actions of moderators here should be subject to some mechanism of review by the forum participants as a group (insurance, in effect, for...

MS SQL Server is a fairly heavyweight product. It doesn't sound like what you're doing will require the truly advanced features of MSSQL. That, and the cost of licenses for 300 users would be pretty large. On the other hand, the times I've worked with MySQL I've missed some things that I...

Latter = the first statement in the last paragraph of The Giver's previous post. No one is sitting around asking if you're "worthy". We discussed that already.

Your latter statement is essentially correct. To frame your statement a bit differently, in the US, any citizen can vote, except (IIRC) certain convicted felons. Being a citizen of the US isn't a terribly large burden to bear in exchange for voting rights. Being respectful of others isn't too...

I relate this story with an overwhelming sense of just how "wrong" it is: For the past three or four months, my fiance has been teaching Gracie, one of my cats, to play fetch. Specifically, Gracie will fetch toy mice, bring them back, and drop them close enough for you to grab them. A couple...

I've found that my perfectly good disks function HIGHLY irregularly while IBM's free SMART tool is loaded; this is particularly true with Quantum ASes and I've observed this behavior on more than one machine. I don't know whether to blame SMART or IBM's tool. Anyway, the obvious, simple thing...

Well, here's my list: Windows - vim WordPerfect PowerDVD4 VirtualDub Winamp DiskKeeper ACDSee Mozilla Excel (the only part of Office I use, although I install everything but outlook) Perl Nero CloneCD Backup Exec PQDI Pro VNC *nix vim Mozilla xmms pavuk wget ncftp Perl GNUCash WordPerfect A...

Did you format your drive with standard, 4k clusters? And we're talking single disk, simple volume, right? Does the built-in defragger work?

Simple question, vaguely related to the programming languages thread: What non-OS software do you find most useful? What software do you actually use?

Mayhap you should try running it from the Administrator account, rather than your personal user account. Hold down shift, right click, Run As... type the Admin password, and you should have rights.

My fiance is in her second year of med school now. She taught A&P to undergrads while she was attaining her masters, and I helped set up lesson plans and did dry runs through her labs. I'm good for Microbiology (helped Amy study all through her degree. Go on, ask me about gram-positive...

That should be "older versions of either won't work with XP's NTFS". Ghost 2001 does work with XP/FAT32.

According to everything I've read, Ghost 2002 and Drive Image 5.01 will work OK on XP, even with the NTFS 5.1 (updated from NTFS 5 in Win2000, whoops) filesystem. Older versions of either won't work. The requirements for downloading patches to PQDI are fairly annoying. You have to register with...

As long as you're willing to work with their prepackaged components, yes. If you find yourself wanting or needing to do something different, good luck.

Somewhat related subject: How well do USB/serial, USB/parallel and USB/SCSI converters work? I tried an all-in-one USB-to-legacy-ports adaptor (2 serial, 2 PS/2, 1 parallel, 1 100Mbit ethernet) recently on my laptop and it didn't work at all with my modem or palm cradle, but my laptop wasn't...

I don't think there's a moderator on SR to piss off, either. Look how much pissing vambat or Monica, or, more recently, dtvhack had to do to have punitive action taken. Moderation here: We're still working on it. Slowly. Very slowly. :) Yes, the quality of SR's forums probably would be much...

Was this really unexpected? Chipzilla has lost a lot of grass-roots support it once had, AMD is gaining in marketshare. Even the fact that its "windows-platform" dominance is something of a question at the moment, with microsoft working on a not-very-secret platform independent executable format.

Writing a passable web browser with VB is possible with maybe as little as a few dozen lines of code and two or three OCXes. Basically, you have to have IE installed to make it work, but it can be done very easily. Beginner stuff, really. Starting fresh might be a bit more difficult, but at its...

I have a copy of just about everything that's out for backup and imaging purposes, and I'm just working out which of my machines I plan to install XP on (most of them fail for some reason or other, mainly the fact that I don't like C: partitions bigger than 1GB). Anyway, once I figure out how...