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Actually, the information about media support is read from the media's ATIP. If the drive recognizes the ATIP, it will set itself appropriately. If it doesn't it normally makes the assumption that the disc is newer than it is, and will burn at full speed. This is why Nero sometimes gives you a...

I like Canon and Nikon, personally. Canon most of all. The little digital Elphs are great point and shoot cameras and the G series are, well, the cameras I've chosen to purchase for myself. I place compactflash support very high on my list of requirements as well as support for a Lithium Ion...

... and while I'm making gaming posts, I watched a couple of the movies from Red vs.Blue after seeing that they won a bunch of awards for Machinima ("movies" made using computer game engines). They're pretty damn funny.

We need to just arrange a regular meeting time and that's all there is to it. Has anyone else played "Kohan: Immortal Sovereign"? I found it at my local supermarket with a $5 price tag on it. I'm not into Blizzard games, and it looked like a Warcraft clone, but it's pretty fun.

Anyone seen Lian Li's design for an Aquarium case yet?

Could be worse. Could be new.net (which is of course vile beyond human comprehension). Also, I purposefully installed Bonzi Buddy not too long ago (demonstrating "parasites" for the students in one of my classes). I was STUNNED by how much crap is involved in getting that thing - probably...

I'll take the $60 SCSI drive if you'll throw in the DVD. :)

Thanks for well-wishes folks. I appreciate it. I haven't been around much because of all this. Hopefully now that she's (fingers-crossed) on the road to recovery I'll be getting back to normal here as well.

Gracie is home now. She's alert but she's too weak to walk. The vets presented four different theories on what's wrong with her, most centering on autoimmune disorders of one kind or another. No evidence of cancer or a root infection that would lead to her present condition. She's much better...

Doesn't seem to make a difference to me. At least, not with the default plug-ins. I did my listening through Soundstorm-encoded output to a home theater though, and who knows what tricks nvidia pulls to massage stereo sound into Dolby Digital 5.1 (it sounds good though. Better than DPL2 or...

74GB is at least a reasonable, if small, size. 40db is impressive for a 10k drive. Still, has anyone looked at SR's reliability rating for the Raptor 360GD? It's in the 2nd percentile. Now, I know that SR's survey is self-limiting and self-selecting and several kinds of inaccurate but... 2nd...

I think I'm confusing it with Catalina.

Purdue is one of only 11 vet schools in the US, and one that specializes in small animal care (unlike the school at the University of Illinois, which does cows and horses and stuff). When I was there I met people who had come from Poland(!) to have their dog cared for. I don't think I can do...

Pacman, implemented in VBA It doesn't seem to work in Excel 2003, but it plays fine in Excel 2000.

I took her down to Purdue's vet clinic over the weekend, and they've been running tests and doing blood transfusions every few days and I've had a really hard time getting ahold of someone to talk to because of my work schedule. I might be able to take her home Saturday if her redcell count...

Do you actually live on San Juan Capistrano? Isn't that an island?

Well, AAC is a lossy, DRM-encumbered format that's not well supported by er... anything but iTunes, but the fact that it's based on WinAmp 2 warms my heart. Most of the cool WinAmp plugins are for v2 and were not ported to v3 (e.g. Milkdrop). WinAmp 3 was in my experience not terribly stable...

Nope. These tools are just so handy and QT and RP so in need of being called "Crimes Against Nature" that I didn't think anyone would mind. :)

Realplayer alternative. Quicktime alternative. Because RealPlayer and Quicktime are both crimes against nature. :)

Same as PCI, 133MB/s theoretical.

Of course, I have a printer with a Duplexer, too. :)

Just remember folks, 48% of HP's gross in 2002 was from the sale of ink. The expiration thing has been an issue for at least two years.

As expected, Clocker and Handruin are both much better than I am. :(

Solaris. I read Lem's novel when I was in college, in a "Literary Science Fiction" class. The movie basically covers the book's major plot points and not much else. But... 1. It is beyond gorgeous to look at. The DP and the art director both deserve real credit for their work. 2. The score...

I just bought a substantial number of Optorite (Sony) drives for $130 apiece. Newegg. ZIP disks are the antithesis of a long term storage option. Zip disks are for data you don't like. Seriously. For IDE, remember that you can get 3 80GB drives for the cost of a decent 36GB 10k SCSI unit...

Email me the doc and I'll put your problem in front of about five MOS Masters. :)

No consumer electronics are made to last. You know better than that. From examination, I can even say that Pioneer's inexpensive jukeboxes are identical to Onkyo's high-end megachangers (there might be some differences in internal components, but since the shipping weights are within a few...

Certain revisions of LG firmware have the microcode for the ATAPI "Query for Writable State" set to the same thing as "Firmware flash". So, during Mandrake's install, when it checks to see if you've got a burner, and even if you don't, it goes "poof". Updating to the new firmware on LG's site...

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You can create multiple DNS name entries for different IPs. 200x's DNS will send requests to alternate IPs.

Yes to both.

I found mine through froogle.com. A yahoo store. It was $380 including the shipping. Not bad when I think about how much I paid for my first DVD jukebox. Also, Sony jukeboxes, in one of their great redeeming qualities - I'm not a fan of Sony electronics but in this case no one else has a...

That's characteristic of DVD players that are dead or dying. I'm sure you've run into the same thing with CD players that don't read CDs any more and CD burners that lose their ability to burn. Fortunately, your new DVD player will cost a lot less than your old one. :) Since burners are also...

Is someone making a Mac-compatible SATA controller? A brand new X15 for a G3 is probably overkill, but knowing Greg's position on IDE disks, I think it's better that way than dealing with the inconsistencies of the Raptor (the whole "some are louder" and "some are faster" issues that have no...

So y'all know that google can do math, right? ... and that it can find addresses based on phone number (at least in the USA)? Well, the smart guys at Google have also added a "define" keyword, for picking up quicky word definitions.

I've seen Kill Bill four times now. The strange thing is, I was the only person in the theater at two of the showings, and every showing I've been to, there's been less than a dozen people. I don't think the residents of the Hoosier state get it. To be honest, it's not on the same level with...

Which has 20/20 players at the moment, and a tendency to kick me if I act as a spectator for more than 30 seconds... Blake's is free today. What's your Steam ID, anyway?

I downloaded and took a look. I hate to say "Self Fulfilling Prophesy" but the local stoner/headshop/used CD place has more classical stuff, and their collection fits in four shoeboxes.

Spent most of the day at the vet's. Bugging the crap out of the staff, no doubt. Gracie's had three blood transfusions since yesterday (two from the same donor, the third from a different cat - now we need MASSIVE steroid doses to keep her from having a reaction). Her red cell count was about 3%...

The tools at this site work well enough. I've been through what you're doing before. If you need more instructions let me know.

She's 3. Not nearly old enough to be sick like this.

I hate to appropriate CityK's thread but it's probably more appropriate than starting another. I got up at my usual 5:45ish this morning. My cat Gracie wasn't on my bed. Which is unusual, because Gracie is almost always on my bed. She's a snuggling cat who has her own side of my bed and a...

In the past - before Samba was the triumph of the free software world (1996ish) - I did some work with Intergraph Diskshare and PC-NFS. It worked, but Samba is about a billion times better, and is free.

OK. I'm glad neither of us are crazy. :)

I'm looking for a series-1 unit with upgraded AV outputs. I haven't found one yet. I've dagtag, if you've seen Mystic River and enoyed it, please to explain the %#%%$ing weirdo ending.

SmartMedia, I think.

I *know* that much. I'm thinking more about the old European flavor. For example: a lot of movies nowadays film in Prague to simulate Victorian London.

If you all are interested, I'd more more than willing to share some of my favorite music with anyone interested. I love classical music, and it's a real thrill to find someone else who enjoys the same music I do. It's a hackney'd choice, but there's a reason "La Boheme" is one of the few operas...

I don't drink alcohol at all. Frankly, I don't know how you guys stand it, from the way it smells. Is Estonia one of those European conutries that looks like nothing's changed since the late Renaissance? Or has it a more modern flavor?

Re: Mercutio... Coug, I've never had a social life to begin with. As I understand things, this is not a normal human condition. I don't believe I'm autistic, but I do think I probably have asperger's syndrome or some similar condition. Also: Hi dagtag. Welcome. It's a little weird that...