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I agree with you that many events have to be dealt with afterwards, rather than prepared for in advance, but I disagree that this is one of those "cut and dry" cases (forgive the pun). 1. Much of the city is below sea-level. 2. It's in a hurricane-prone area. 3. It's protected by aging levees...

I disagree wholeheartedly. A vague, handwaving reliance on technology in situations like this is a symptom, not the root cause. It's not even about money. That's just another symptom (although one that is nearly synonymous with the true cause). It's about effort. My estimation of an average...

CNN article, posted Sunday Sept 4th, 5:36PM EDT, titled "Katrina medical help held up by red tape" Why is no one being held responsible for the leadership disaster that this continues to be?

You could always buy some snap or clamp-on style chokes. Here's one link (to a PDF), but a search for "RF choke" on Google shows they're cheap and easily available. Just an idea.

Whoops, I quoted the wrong question. To enable consistent portability across a maximum number of platforms? Surely part of what Gecko handles is font rendering?

To enable consistent portability across a maximum number of platforms? Surely part of what Gecko handles is font rendering?

You're right mubs. I'm already at the 'move on' stage. I'll live with this service for now -- unless things take a turn for the worse again. Basically this is the best option I have for the moment, at least in terms of what I can afford. Hopefully by this time next year, A) I'll be able to...

Personal conclusion: I will never recommend Speakeasy to anyone. Last week I got a full refund for the month of August, based on Speakeasy's SLA and the fact that my service was down for 41 hours. Then, as a result of that original failure, this past Wednesday a Covad tech came out and gave...

Sung to the tune of the 1812 Overture (a.k.a. Lone Ranger theme) I've got a head like a ping-pong ball. I've got a head like a ping-pong ball. I've got a head like a ping-pong ball. Ping! ...like a ping-pong ball!

Not that I'm an electronics expert (where is jtr?), but it looks like it's a surface-mount resistor - not a chip - that's missing. Obviously the other RAM module could be an equivalent model, but slightly differently wired (and hey, it is working for you). I know that 0 ohm surface-mount...

I read a book once. It was blue.

Wow. I have no idea what's been happening to my English skills lately. My last few posts here and elsewhere have been much worse than usual for me.

Thanks guys. You prompted me to go look at exactly what their terms of service stipulate in a situation like this. Ironically, while this was 2 or 3 days before then end of my first month of service, that also meant it happened 3 days after my 25 day trial period. During that trial period I...

I had my service up and running less than one month when my service went down this past Wednesday during the afternoon. It came back up today, mid-morning. That's nearly 2 days of down time. This is a "business class" SDSL package. Is this something a business would normally expect? I don't...

Bathe them?

Go, smilies! :pirate: :cat: :elephant:

I read somewhere that if you use the "at" command to start a shell in an interactive mode, the resulting shell will have "system" level priviledges or some such thing, and you'll be more able to kill things at will from within that command line shell. I have no idea if that's true. I don't...

RE: Tea's multiple, "then it can't hurt me," quotes I came across one spyware package that acted as a shim, of sorts. I can't remember many details now because it was a one-time thing and more than a year ago. Using a randomly generated string, it renamed a critical system file that's...

I was going to ask if someone could give this discussion a more informative title, but then I realized the linked website is not going to be around for long. If they've actually sought permission to be displaying and re-distributing all those manuals, they don't make note of it on their site...

Is Harold Budd's "Pavilion of Dreams" any good?

Forgive me for pointing this out but the USA is part of the continent known as North America. And Australia is part of ... well, it's its own continent. So, umm, what do we have here ... one plus one, carry the zero ... umm ... two. Yes, that's right. Two continents. Two different...

I thought you and Tannin were a package deal. That's certainly the case for me, myself, and I.

Thanks for the laugh, mubs -- seriously, I laughed out loud. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but your tactful use of the line, "would have given you something to think about," right after my quote from The Shining was perfect timing. :lol: But seriously though, sometime we should...

Bored. Bored. Bored. So very bored. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack...

From the same article: "The designers said the keyboard will be operating system independent and use organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology to give it a soft glow." So are they using single color OLEDs as a backlight for LCDs??

Sorry mubs! But I still wanna know about the smileys!!

This hijacking's not over just yet, mubs. :wink: Handy, you once posted stats on how much each particular smiley had been used. Is it still possible to do so?

I didn't realize even the Sam's Club website required a membership. I also just realized that the ones they have on their website are only 8x. So that's definitely not as good a deal as at the store (or at least the store Mercutio can make it to ... they say prices can vary depending on the...

(And no, I'm not criticizing anyone. And yes, I often do worry that someone will take some random comment of mine in a negative fashion when it's not meant to be. And yes, this statement probably would have been better off in a different discussion, but I would like to state here once and for...

(Sorry, those quotes just popped into my head.)

Spock: "Your use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall we say, more colorful metaphors. 'Double dumb-ass on you,' and so forth." Kirk: "Oh, you mean the profanity?" Spock: "Yes." Kirk: "Well that's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any...

Those also happen to be available on their website. Unfortunately it's an extra $8.78 (and $6.51 for shipping, for me). I'm not sure it's such a good deal these days. What's the average price on a DVD-/+R these days?

Thanks ddrueding. As I'm not going to need anything fancy in the way of web services, I'm planning on running this from an OpenBSD box. Most of the OS will go on an old U160 Seagate Cheetah I have lying around. Beyond that, I'm planning on picking up 3 Samsung SATA drives and enabling...

First question (multiple parts): Am I crazy to have both web services and mail services on the same physical machine? Does anyone else do this?

"Final installation is this Wednesday." Hah. Hah. Haaaah. Fourth thing I've learned about Speakeasy: don't consider any installation date "final" until they actually bill you. My order was officially completed on July 21st, just a few days shy of 2 months since placing the order. The...

Well, it turns out it really is a lot like how Adaptec deals with their cards' internal settings. Similar to how you can configure an Adaptec SCSI card to display or not display its "Press CTRL + A to access setup" message, PXE-capable Intel network cards can also be configured to display or...

Well, in case it's helpful to someone else someday, I found the answer. CTRL+S You need to press CTRL+S while the "Initializing Intel (R) Boot Agent Version X.X.XX" message is displayed. Additional information about utilities that can modify PXE and RPL settings on Intel cards is available...

Congratulations. :)

I bought a few used Intel Pro/100 network cards of some subtype. After installing in a system, shortly after the usual IDE device detection routine, one of the cards prompts this to come up: Initializing Intel (R) Boot Agent Version 3.0.05 PXE 2.0 Build 078 (WfM 2.0), RPL V2.73 And then...

Have you found the version 7 series to be any better? One thing I am hating about Acrobat V7 so far is that, if you turn off JavaScript, it pops up a moronically worded message every time you close the application: WTF? A) You'll even get this message if you turn off JavaScript within...

All the 4U cases I have include both ATX and AT motherboard mounting holes (and these are cases purchased within the last year), along with a variety of marked holes for boards I can't identify. I guess they are for various types of passive backplanes. Dunno for sure. If it's a real...

I don't think it's even relevant to the new stuff. I don't think the limited number of writes has ever been a documented real-world problem with flash memory. I used to be on a few mailing lists for tiny systems like the ones from Soekris. They were mostly populated by people running remote...

This is Microsoft, so there's one correction: "We're going to be very disruptive to the data."

No, I don't think the combo is necessarily to blame either. That discussion time posted a link to seemed to be between a large number of people who couldn't read instructions and/or had no ability to troubleshoot in a thoughtful manner. All the same I'm holding off on the motherboard/CPU/RAM...

For $89.95, you won't have to estimate again.

Oooh ... thanks guys! Fushigi, I will go with both of those. I appreciate passively-cooled video cards, and you're right, that does seem like a good motherboard/CPU/RAM deal.

How about a recommendations forum? Then you could have a separate discussion for each specific item or service, such as video cards, ATX motherboards, micro ATX motherboards, keyboards, laptops, digital cameras, ISP, etc. That way if someone wanted advice about finding a good piece of...

Funny you should mention PC-Chips, Tannin. I've got one of their motherboards on a shelf here somewhere. It came free with an AMD Duron processor I bought last year (and it really was free -- the price was almost the same as at any other place) . I actually gave it a try to see if it could...

Any recommendations for something I can find at Newegg and/or ZZF (ZipZoomFly)? I'm hoping to find something that will work well for under $125. Performance doesn't matter too much, and upgradability doesn't matter at all. Basically I'm looking for something that's as cheap as I can get...

I'll wager a PII 233 that many places in North America will be in for unusually heavy snowfalls this winter. (Not that I have a clue what I'm talking about ... mostly I'm just trying to think cold thoughts.)