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Blakerwry and jtr1962, tell me how an "ignore" function would impact you.

Yes, everyone deserves a chance to be heard. And everyone also deserves the chance to be free from seeing the same blithering, non-sensical statements, over and over again. You want to hear all of it? That's certainly your choice. Grant me the benefit of the doubt here. If such a function...

I'd really like an option to allow me to ignore specific users. That is, if me (hah, you thought I was talking about myself, didn't you!) read through a discussion that has a post by a specific user, the whole post regardless of length would be reduced to a single line saying something like...

Ugh. Sorry. Wasn't meant as a flame (hah). When I was younger, my parents knew a family with a son who somehow developed mouth cancer. I don't know whether it started that way, or if he had cancer initially somewhere else that later spread to the mouth. I don't think you can say that one...

Well hey, no problems then! Smoke away!

Hah. Reminded me of this page.

Current firewall too bloated? Not secure enough? Sounds like you need ... ... dah dah daaaaaaahh ... ...an OpenBSD box configured as a bridge, with an integrated firewall!

Great idea! That'd let me see what I'm dealing with, plus I could start my own home based business and earn some extra income on the side... Or not. :wink:

You're lucky. I wish I had more information about the construction here. The walls are easy - between apartments and between an apartment and the hallway, it's doubled-up 1/2" drywall sheeting, plus insulation. The studs are the standard flimsy steel variety. I'm not really certain about the...

How common a scenario is that? Or, put another way, where the heck do you live? The reason I ask is because I'm wondering if I'm in roughly the same position. I'm considering my options for putting together a small home theater system. In order to get the speaker cables to the rear speakers...

Thanks for the links Buck. I will see what options are out there.

Wish I had one of those. They make such perfect sense, as most people aren't home all day - or at least not awake all day. I've said before here somewhere that I wish home thermostats had USB connectors of them ... that way I could get my computer to do the work. I would think that'd be a...

Hmm. Having read through the log file, the work unit I completed this morning was originally downloaded on November 11th. That's November 11th ... 2002.

In an effort to warm up my kitchen a little, I started up the folding@home client on one of my processors. After running all night, it just got to this point: ... [15:18:56] Iterations: 6000 of 6000 [15:18:57] Finished [15:18:57] [SPA] Design complete [15:18:57] [SPA] completed...

I guess my first question should be, what temperature do other people keep their dwellings at during winter? What's your thermostat set to right now? And, is it possible to keep a computer system too cold? I'm bored and running short on challenges, so this winter I've decided to try and keep...

Neat! It's a Thanksgiving Day special! Two posts for the price of one! Ugh. I'm going to bed. Someone kill one of those posts for me, mmmkay?

*sigh* I just ate a whole large pizza. Looks like I'll be up for a while, so... Thanks Coug. If I suddenly become rich at some point in the future I'll make an investment in your company. Either way, I hope it works out for you. I had considered starting a company at one point, but aside...

*sigh* I just ate a whole large pizza. Looks like I'll be up for a while, so... Thanks Coug. If I suddenly become rich at some point in the future I'll make an investment in your company. Either way, I hope it works out for you. I had considered starting a company at one point, but aside...

Thanks for all the comments/advice/offers earlier ... I would have posted sooner with specific replies, but I'm dead tired. The problem with trying to find meaning in your life is that work offers a cheap quick-fix...and the next thing you know, you're there for 14 hours a day. This stunned...

I received a token, "Don't call us, we'll call you," postcard once. The few places I actually had any form of person-to-person contact were pretty decent. They were just doing their best to deal with a flood of applicants for one or two positions. You're right though, the vast majority of...

In retrospect I guess I could have included more silly double entendres. Ah well. It kept me busy and amused for a while.

Smart cricket balls, restaurant preferences ... seeing as how this discussion has touched on a variety of distantly related things already: I wrote the following today as a sort of thought-provoking joke (or maybe I was just really bored) and posted it to Slashdot. Officials at one of...

Well, I found it interesting. I thought I was the only one with older hardware around here. The difference is, in my case, the older hardware is my primary system. ASUS P2-BD motherboard Dual Intel Pentium II 400 MHz CPUs 512 MB PC100 RAM Adaptec 29160 U160 SCSI card (64 bit PCI card in a 32...

I guessed they were all serial killers. I got 5/10. P.S. The code on the paper in the background looks like BASIC. Hmm...

Hah. Can you read my mind, Cougtek? - No 15K rpm SCSI drive, but I have a 10K rpm. - I'm ordering a 40U rack (complete with casters!) for my kitchen on Monday. - I'm using a dual PII 400MHz system right now. - No way I'll be touching Windows "Server" anything at home, though. I may have to...

Is it worth it in a home environment yet? If so, what are your thoughts on good network cards, and switches?

I know nothing about PHP, but enough about Unicode to have found that an informative link. Thank's Coug.

Ditto. :)

Ok, you're using passive ftp on your server, but are your clients setting WS-FTP to use passive transfers? I forget where the setting is in WS-FTP, but there's a box you have to check under one of the tabs you see when you're initially looking to connect somewhere.

Last week I finally ordered a SCSI drive for my Sparc 5. I ordered an 80 pin, 9.1GB ST19171WC from HyperMicro's surplus section. I placed the order on Saturday along with a couple of trivial other items, and paid for 2 day FedEx shipping. It turns out they sent the wrong drive: I received an...

If you have a load of cash burning a hole in your pocket, there's always Color Kinetics. I'd be more enthusiastic about them if they weren't so patent crazy.

Sizzler! Wow...I'd totally forgotten about them. They were one of my favorite restaurants back when I lived in California. Too bad they don't exist here on the east coast.

Oh hey, I forgot to mention the pickles! Burger King's pickle profile is truly weird. You know how there are a bazillion different types of pickles? Well, in Canada, I discovered that Burger King actually uses good tasting pickles. I'm not sure what kind, but trust me, they are a thousand...

I used to love Burger King's fries. Then in 1999 or so they changed them radically. The marketing people wanted to claim that they were "hotter and crispier" than their old fries. In order to achieve this, they completely changed the fry and thus the taste (for the worse, in my opinion)...

I probably don't qualify, but... DFI P2XLX motherboard (brand new): circa $15 Intel PII SECC2 350MHz CPU (like new): $4 InWin desktop case with Fortron PSU (brand new): circa $25 Conner 1.2GB hard disk (used): free 32MB PC66 DIMM (brand new): been lying in a drawer for years It's...

Ahh, but is there a GUI when running on a Linux system?

If it's just changing one (or more) URLs inside an otherwise static page, any scripting language could do this for you - you'd just need to upload a new index page along with the images. I do this sort of thing all the time with Ruby, but you could do it just as easily with Perl, Python, or...

TCO = ??? I can't remember what TCO stands for, other than Total Cost of Ownership. But in this context I'd guess "Total Cancer Output". Am I close?

Yes, but their salads are good. Way better than those sad things McDonald's throws together.

Mmm...Arby's.

Less than 2 hours. It might have taken even less time if I'd sent my message later in the day. (My email appeared to go to California - I'm 3 hours ahead of them, and I sent my message early in the day here in Virginia.) The parent company that makes the Century unit (or at least brands them)...

Just to following up, I sent a message to the makers of that Century product. The VP of Marketing sent me a response: Wow. I'm actually really impressed. This means that you can "merge" up to ten units into a single ... errr ... pod. That's a 1000 CDs/DVDs per pod, and with only one USB...

About that Century unit: By stacking multiple units, CCD can manage up to 127,000 CD's from the USB interface on your Windows or Mac PC. Hmmm... Century CD (CCD) is the industry's first affordable, intelligent CD / DVD media storage solution, with 100 disc capacity per unit. So, let's see...

Perhaps this is something to look at if you need another option.

Ok, that is strange, because from the link to the original page: "The 2001FP displays powerful, bright images because of its 1600x1200 native resolution and 400:1 contrast ratio." I wonder which is correct?

$1099?? As a standalone product, or as part of one of their Dimension XPS systems?

This software may be able to recover your photographs: http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ I've never used it, but I'm sure many people have since October, 2001. It was used by a photographer who had his digital camera's storage erased by a an unsympathetic police officer at ground...

(just a wild guess)

In other words, he lost his job during the tech-collapse, he's since been working at a local grocery store bagging groceries, and would really like to return to something approximating his old lifestyle.

"And that has led to the discovery that the only fix for this cunning consumables plan is to either set systems to dates in the past or, you guessed it, go change the cartridge or buy a new one." If this is true, someone please tell me how a printer is keeping track of time. Or are they...