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StorageForum should be able to stand on its own. That's the idea, anyway. At the moment I'm a bit giddy that SR is here to stay but a hesitant participant in the discussions of the moment. Signal to noise seems very high here, and this is where I've been spending time. Tannin has made some...

C# shares very little of its heritage with C and C++. Microsoft is forcing it on developers by doing little things like publishing huge amounts of sample code in C# and dropping even mention of the word 'java' from anything microsoft-related. C# is only penetrating because a pin-head in Redmond...

Yay Rah! Welcome back Clocker. Your presence has been missed here and at SR. Hope it was a good trip.

Did the new version of FoxPro come with VS.NET?

Try Matlab. It is absolutely tuned to the tasks you're describing.

I always liked the Celeron. Unlike the K6-2/3, there were plenty of very good, inexpensive motherboards out there for them (did Socket7 ever get a fully functional AGP implementation?), they were easy to cool, and they provided more than adequate performance for the money. they also forced an...

Not a problem. The second half of the training is conducted at teaching hospitals in the US. Students at Ross, at least, do pretty well on their boards, too.

All those three letter acronyms HD listed above are the precise reason I never got into programming on Windows.

Mercutio: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Over men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The...

... and that's different from my previous college experience... how? Greg, I'm probably more bitter about my time in school than you are about yours.

Minor correction: I'm pretty sure the FoxPro codebase pre-dates C++. FoxPro is a Clipper derivative, much like the ancient package dBase, which was practically synonymous with PC database software in the earliest days of DOS ('81 or '82), while C++ wasn't implemented at all until '83 or '84. Of...

Mayhap t'wouldst thee ere be a 'bit' or 'nibble'?

I've actually already done the four years of training for a job I don't really want. In my case it's a BS in Computer Science. The only reason my diploma is hanging up is because it covers a dark spot on the wall. Getting an MD is at least something halfway interesting to talk about. Tuition is...

Yes, I'm looking for reasons not to. It's a pretty extreme decision. I'd really like to get some stability in my life. I don't really have any. Doctors have a future regardless of anything that happens in life. I'm sure I could be a good doctor. Maybe not something I have a passion for, but I...

A year of internship + at least one year of residency (for GP/family practice). Neurosurgery is 10+ years in residency. I don't know what I'd do. Something that isn't life-threatening (pathology, dermatology, sports medicine etc) on a daily basis, I suppose.

Well, my professional life just keeps getting worse. I made only 38% last year of what I made the year before, and no prospects for things getting better. Going back to school doesn't seem terribly interesting but... My fiance made the most interesting offer. My college GPA was something like a...

Visual Foxpro is the only Microsoft language I've spent any significant amount of time with and is the only MS language I see with any interesting advantages over standard languages (Delphi, for example, which is really nice) - Foxpro has a REALLY high-quality database engine integrated into it...

Is AGP @ 2x really a problem that needs solving? Most people don't play games or run modeling apps on Linux machines, as AFAIK those are the things that actually make use of AGP's enhanced speed. Anyway, I just started reading what I could on slashdot. Maybe I'll see something else. AD, you...

Telecom is one of those services that it is in the interests of the government to regulate very carefully. It's also very nearly a license to print money, so arguments about fostering competition and innovation are very compelling, but it just doesn't happen that way. The US de-regulated...

10 December 1975. You do the math.

So? Business Computer. If Word runs fast and Outlook runs fast... A Celeron 400 will run Word and Outlook fast. Particularly paired with a decent amount of RAM.

Well, SR has at least one female member - someone named "Christina" has been posting recently. AD's fiance posted to SR in the past. So it's possible, at least.

I guess we aren't the only forum with people who like to cook

Ugh. That's terrible. Where's Maxtor? bit : 10 nibble: 100 byte : 500 kilobyte: 1000 megabyte : 2500 gigabyte: 5000 terabyte: 7500 exabyte: 10000 Fair in that it doesn't indicate rank, at least.

I think the problem on Abit's site is one of three things: Either they have javascript or Flash doing a whole bunch of work (there's no flash available for Mozilla) or else there's a problem related to fonts and character display (unlikely). Javascript seems a good candidate. For the other...

There are three joints along an access road just off the 80-94 exit on Cline in Griffith, another two (one a Deja Vu) right next to each other, south on the rt. 53 exit in Lake Station. There are also a couple in Lansing and Cal City. As far as I know, there are no strip clubs in Gary. AMAZING...

Yes, I probably could plug it in to something, if I had the faintest idea where the power cord might be (note to self: get another set of NiCad AAs), but they aren't being terribly cute anymore. 50,000 freakin' cat toys on the floor, not to mention the whole of my computer room (their...

Wish the batteries for my camera weren't charging. I have two cats. At this very moment they are laying on three different keyboards. One of them the one I'm trying to actually use. Animals are amazingly smart some times.

From what I've seen, the best bet for no active cooling would probably be a Via Samuel chip. I think they top out at 700MHz, but they work just fine in BX motherboards and they run so cool my distributor says they don't really even need heatsinks.

I can say with authority that Asus boards aren't used in any tier-1 or -2 named brand PCs. I remember seeing them in Zeos machines ages ago, and in ComTrade machines many times (ComTrade makes everything, EVERYTHING look good in comparison), but that's about it. Maybe Asus gets all its size...

I don't remember the evil bastard's name, but Aussies have been complaining about him for as long as I've been on the internet - 1993 - which was long enough ago that .com wasn't even the second most common TLD on the internet. I actually think it would be pretty cool to run .com.au as my own...

But I never liked Time-Warner, either. TW owns DC Comics, which sets the bar for worst treatment of employees at a comic book company in the US. Famous example: Read up on what happened to the people responsible for the creation of Superman. They aren't much better today, either. That AOL owns...

Oz does seem to have it bad for internet stuffs. Not only the evil phone company, a villian that's almost an operatic in stature, but a government that has tried very hard to make sure y'all can't look at naughty pictures online, and a single, grouchy person in charge of .com.au domain...

I'm under the impression that PC Chips (is that ECS?) is biggest. Maybe because you can't go to a computer shop without stepping on one. And I got some literature from FIC a few years ago indicating they were the largest motherboard vendor. Where are these figures coming from?

To anyone thinking of complaining, I'd like to point out that no one else here seems to have a problem connecting to the internet via modem @ 28.8kpbs.

Doesn't mean a thing to me if I've never seen one. It's one of those mystery brands, like Soltek. People on SR talk about them. That's all I know. As far as size of companies - I'm guessing PC Chips and FIC are bigger?

I never even heard of MSI until last year. Still never seen an MSI board. AOpen, on the other hand, makes stuff that I know is universally first rate. Personally, I'm not fond of integrated parts, either. Screwdriver shops that push all-in-one boards are just not to be trusted.

Gotta love those per-megabyte charges on broadband!

I'd suggest a Celeron 900 on an Aopen AX3S + 256MB high-grade SDRAM + a 40GB Maxtor 740X + Dlink or Linksys NIC + Matrox Gx00 + Aopen 52X CD-ROM + Compucase mid-tower Total without a Windows license should be around $350. $400 if you want building it to be someone else's problem.

I keep VNC windows to my non-Windows machines open all the time so there's not much to do with webmin. I use Mozilla for windows to do things with webmin from time to time, mostly quickie changes like stopping samba or something. I don't even have a java VM installed on most of my machines, so a...

No problem here. We each offered a different solution to his Tannin's difficulty. I've found Opera to be unstable, too. The only time since the .9 release that Moz has crashed was the day my cats unplugged the fileserver containing my Netscape profile from the rest of my network.

Installing IE6 would probably fix your setup nicely, as well. I really don't like the Opera web browser for reasons I've discussed at length in the past.

Sorry to be so much the browser zealot, but have you tried mozilla? For the rest: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Internet Explorer > Change/Remove (wish we could stop here!) > Repair Internet Explorer You really should be running 5.5 w/ bugfixes, though.

You mean you can sell overpriced TFT displays but you can't manage SCSI hard disks? j/k Not that I have any room to talk or anything. Here, the only reasonably priced 15" TFT display I can get says KDS on it (US $329), and doesn't look impressive in the least. Give me a CRT any day. I like...

Slashdot.org had a couple of 500-reply articles on that very subject. I haven't gone back and read them yet, but I'll bet if you take the time, you'll see something useful. kuro5shin is another place to look. Usually there are more technical comments there.

Arguing with people on SR over the value of writable DVDs, of course! Don't ask me. I can't keep intel chipsets straight anymore, either.

This is too interesting a thread to just watch it die... I'm asked all the time about upgrading PCs, rather than buying new ones I've developed a sort of philosophy about it. Basically, for a non-technophile, upgrades make just about no sense at all. I'm sure just about everyone has heard "I...

Ahem. http://www.penguinppc.org/articles/tgall/pop.shtml Yes, I want one too.

Well, the first thing I thought when I read this was "Tulatain", but Pradeep has already found something that's absolutely perfect, so I guess the only thing left for you to do is to get your customer to change his mind about the modem.

Does the soon-to-be-MrsCadet know what you're hoping for? Hm. Guess I'm not a bachelor party kind of guy.