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Bork, bork, bork.

I'd still put my money on a ThinkPad.

Maybe that's because you could pick them up for free from the parking lot.

We can stick one of the feng shui motherboards in it. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/07/feng_shui_motherboard.html

Microsoft has people snowed again!

The 89x models are "improved" versions of the 79x. I haven't heard any problems concerning construction on the newer models.

I don't think that you're reading what I'm writing, as it seems like you're talking about some other subject.

I disagree. DVD burners haven't been around for "ages," and Lite-on started behind the curve in design. The vast majority of people have prefered other companies for their designs and quality.

The Windows XP command-line (and later versions of DOS) also have tab completion. *nix, has, of course, had it much longer.

I'm looking to buy a new portable digital audio player for a friend of mine. She currently uses a fairly ancient Rio with 16 or 32MB of flash, which is starting to get a bit wonky. She mostly needs it for working out, so flash is probably the better choice. As I've convinced her that it's a...

more ls rm man (or rtfm, if you have it) su

Lite-on just doesn't seem to have DVD burner design and production perfected yet. They seem to get better with every model, but they're not where other manufacturers already are.

Unless it's leaving you with something to desire, then you desire nothing more. I have to admit, the only reason that I've never switched from Eudora is that it does what I want. If Thunderbird works for you, then there's not a lot of reason, in my opinion, to switch.

I don't use a cell phone, but I thought that the Bluetooth connectivity was to run hands-free in cars. What else can you do?

I finally got the drive into my machine today. It works. I spent about two hours trying to flash the firmware. Turned out to be a bug in the Microsoft foundation classes library (thanks Microsoft!) that I was eventually able to work around. It burns my Ritek 8x discs at ~16x, which is pretty...

I have a bridge in California that I can sell. You can trust me on this. You have made no statement that refutes my assertion (although, I will grant that I have made no serious statement in support of it). There's obviously no point in attempting to reason with someone who starts off by...

I usually sell on Amazon or Half.com. If you have a local classified listing a la craigslist, that might be a good choice for a start.

I went with the Benq drive. Should arrive next week.

You can't fight the truth, buddy. While I won't argue with you with over fly-by-wire versus pilots, Airbus planes have crashed or had near-misses due to the fly-by-wire software.

No mention of Airbus's fly-by-wire mistakes.... http://www.wired.com/news/technology/bugs/0,2924,69355,00.html

I previously ran my R9800 in a 4x, 1.5v AGP slot. No problems.

If this were true, we would have moved past qwerty keyboards a long time ago. The layout of the letters is designed to *slow down* typing!

For future reference, I've found the information at http://www.videohelp.com to be very helpful. Since I already of stacks of media, it's useful to know if it works well with a drive that I'm planning to get.

Actually... looking at "reviews" at Newegg, it seems like there are a number of these going bad fairly quickly. Maybe it's just a bad batch, but it doesn't make me feel good. Based on Groltz's recommendation, I looked more closedly at the BenQ drive. For the ~$4 difference in price, it may be...

This is to say, what people don't know is often irrelevant.

Nothing... just no solid conclusion.

Isn't the MacOS now just a flavor of BSD? It has a very pretty interface that can gloss over the inner workings, but, in the end, I can open up a term window and muck around as root.

My Plextor drive has developed the dreaded "two blinks" issue. It did a great job, but I ran it pretty hard in the last six months, and it no longer does it's key function -- burning DVDs. I'm looking for cheap (<$50), burns CD-R at least 40x, CD-RW at least 12x, and DVD+/-R at least 8x; and...

Look at "Jurassic Park." Unix is accessible.

Who's in a hurry to compress files anyway?

Doug brings up a great point. Why *are* we actually trusting all of these people to drive in a reasonable manner? They're certainly not taking that trust seriously; most people feel that the ability to drive is a right, not a privilege.

Actually, closing credit cards can be a bad thing, as you're cutting the average account age. It's also not good to have a bunch of new accounts. Keep in mind, however, that, usually, when you must change account numbers due to theft or loss, you don't actually get a new account.

Let's start with things that are obviously problems and easy to fix, and work our way down.

Tannin, that makes you Cinemax, early in the evening.

I never made such an assertion. AMD, in general, makes it's own chips; it's a chip company. AMD has used IBM for technology. You brought up the issue of nVidia and its contract manufacturer. I simply explained why it didn't prove your point. If you agree then why argue against it?

Definitely. Unfortunately.

That's what a special master is for!

LiamC, you haven't refuted what I said.

People who are walking and chewing gum at the same time rarely have the opportunity to accidently kill a number of people. If you make a mistake while walking, generally, you fall over and look foolish. You might take a few people with you and scrape some elbows. If you make a minor mistake...

"I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at." — George W. Bush, October 4, 2005

PCL sucks.

Merc, you have your numbers switched up. Ghost 9 is based upon Drive Image. Ghost 8 is the last version actually based on Ghost. Having used Drive Image previously, I think that it's a piece of crap. Ghost 9 looks the same. The older versions of Ghost are much better, in my opinion.

You use RPN calculators, dont you? They say the exact same thing about them....

If IBM is so bad, why does AMD use them so well? It seems to prove my point. And as to why IBM lost the business with nVidia... TSMC said that they could do it cheaper and in the desired volume. They couldn't meet both of those. IBM was simply honest about its abilities. I would also like...

Unless you need some Western Digital door stops....

I use Adobe GoLive for that. Also, not basic. Netscape used to come with a reasonably useful tool for composing and maintaining webpages. Xemacs does tag highlighting. Very handy. vi does.... how do you exit vi?

In a number of places you have to look older than 45. Basically, you have to obviously be a senior citizen.

Apparently they were evicted because the third adult wasn't on the lease. If she had been, they would have had a considerably larger rent.

Folks need to keep in mind that Bluegene is designed from the chip on up to do the same work that a large number of general purpose computers are doing individually over a widely dispersed network. Bluegene has efficiency and optimization advantages that Folding@home simply cannot meet.

Are we talking about actually editing HTML, or webpage management? I generally use a text editor like emacs or Notepad for the former....