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The other day I stumbled across some guys site which contains a few interesting rants. Among them, is this one. A brief quote: Windows has significantly set back and held back the IT industry, and continues to do so. Windows encourages, rewards, and practically demands stupidity on the part...

This afternoon I compressed a few other things that I rarely use and wasn't mostly jpgs or other files that were already compressed. For most of those they compressed to ~60% of their original size with WinZip (into .zip) on standard settings.

I'm going through a bunch of my old files on my mass storage drive, and thinking about comrpessing a good number of them (the important ones are burned to CD and/or backed up on another HD anyway). I stumbled across 7-Zip and thought I'd compare it to WinZip and WinRAR. What is 7-Zip...

Credit scores confuse me. As far as I can tell, the actual formula used is proprietary and a huge secret. Since my wife and I are likely to buy a new house and car in the next 1.5-3 years, we'd like to keep our credit rating pristine. My wife lost a few cards today, so we've been...

Anyone remember BeOS? I installed it, loved it, but found very little to do with it back in the day (1998-2000-ish). Looks like it's back...sortof. BeOS rises from the grave, takes the name ZETA

Oh, another issue: - networking. A few years ago Mandrake set up networking without a hitch out of the box; SuSE 10 has not, even after I tried to set it up a little.

I'm a linux newbie and I'm running SuSE 10.0 OSS x64 along with Windows. Depending on what I'm doing, I use either for most things. Issues I've had/fixed: - Dual monitors were not detected out the gate, but the ATi drivers gave me a nice dual-screen without problem - mouting, reading...

The later, but a basic webpage management tool that's easy to use (WYSIWYG).

Nvu - sweet, thanks. I'll give it a shot.

4 kids, single family apt, and they need to get a large TV with surround sound? Geez, I can think of a few better things to spend the money on.

My wife and I went to Vegas for our 1 year anniversary. We had a good time, but I totally agree about the city being rather disgusting. Glad I went, but I don't particularly ever want to go back. Didn't like New Orleans, either. Seattle was great. San Francisco was good. Washington DC...

Sorry, bad type. Mozilla Editor

Just wondering if any of you guys have strong preferences for an HTML editor. For the past few years I've used Macromedia's Dreamweaver, which I like but think is overkill for what I do. I just need basic functionality, and am looking for a simpler alternative. Has anybody used the...

eMule and Azureus are what I use right now

Thanks JKKJ. On my system Foobar 2000 uses 6-7 MB while running, vs 25 for Winamp. I still prefer Winamp, but when I'm just streaming music it's not worth the extra RAM that I'm too cheap to upgrade.

What do people use/like for playing MP3 streams in Windows. In my recent SuSE install I am using Amarok, which does a great job of simply playing streams. In Windows I've used Winamp since the 1.x days, but I fear its getting a bit bloated these days. Thoughts?

A review of Flock

I was wrong - Dynamic Disks can be read just fine, at least with my SuSE install. Now the problem is getting a mass storage drive (hdc2) on that Dynamic Disk automagically mounted at boot time, and with permissions to allow everybody (or at least my single user) to read/write/execute everything...

maybe I'll just step up and install linux as my primary OS. It's about damn time.

I installed a second copy of Windows on a new HD, then converted the first HD (containing the original Windows) to a Dynamic Disk. Now I can't boot off that old drive through my BIOS like I like to do. I think this happened to me once before, and there was some simple command I could run to...

:eekers: Hey Buck - do you have a medical background, or are you just quick with Google and BS?

Just enjoyed a cigar along with some Fonseca Bin 27 port and good conversation with my buddy from college. The port was great (as usual), the cigar kindof sucked, the conversation was good. I generally shy away from brands that use a Cuban name on a non-Cuban cigar (Bolivar, in this case)...

I used to think along the lines of Tannin: a notebook should be fast, powerful, and weight is secondary. Who cares if it's 6 pounds or 8. I'm a big guy, I lug around tons of stuff anyway. Well, then I realized what a difference even a pound makes. For me, small is beautiful. I don't use a...

it's too early for me to tell. I never got into del.icio.us to begin with, and I don't read any blogs, and my blog doesn't seem to integrate with Flock. I think I'm too asocial for Flock. But I'll give it a try. Here are thier 13 cool things flock does...

Yup. My CV is not for recruiter use.

Very cool. I always liked the PDF functionality. When emailing my CV I've appreciated that relative inability of others alter it (as opposed to MS Word documents). Last think I want is for some secretary to do something accidently to my CV before printing it out and handing it to the person...

Anybody try Flock lately? http://www.flock.com/developer/download/preview/ I'm not yet sure what to think of it. So far it doesn't seem to like my school's blogging system, it thinks by "mail" I mean Thunderbird (I now prefer Gmail), and it relies heavily on del.icio.us, which I haven't gotten...

Wow, I'm a moron. My school-provided laptop was a D600, not a 600M. I turned it in months ago, so I've kindof forgotten such details.

I've had an Inspiron 8200 for 3+ years now, and used a 600M for the first two years of med school, provided by my employer. The 8200 is so-so quality wise, but I was impressed with the 600M. I beat the daylights out of it for 2-years and it never flinched. Except the powercord did die on it...

If I can't be bothered to whip out my Palm when it's already strapped to my hip (yes, I'm geeky like that), or frequently on the table already for calculating ins and outs, how can we expect anybody to pack it around and use it when flying?

Doctors, at least in academic medicine, tend to be very conservative and appreciate conformity. As such a lowly creature on the totem pole, it is wise for me to try not to be noticed as somebody who stands out from the crowd in how I dress. Thus, while a pocket watch would be a great solution...

heck, the standard Palm middle button displays time and date in 3 cities

Yeah, and by just hitting the center button it does pop up the date and time. And yes, I always have my palm with me on the wards. But it's just a tad easier to glance at my wrist, and a major force of habit as I've been wearing a watch since I was in elementary school.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Good thought. But as long as I'm not on a surgical rotation it's rare that I'd be doing something that requires me to de-jewelery-ize. After March I'll be totally done with stuff in the OR (unless I fall back in love with anesthesiology) and will only have to worry about the sporadic sterile...

Skagen makes some nice watches. Minimialist, clean. I like. Perhaps if I get off my bling kick (large, bulky watches) I'll add a Skagen to my wish list. My current non-digital watch is a Seiko much like this this one, but with a rotating bezel, round hour markers, a plastic strap, and the...

Strange that without realizing it, I made my post right after my ritual of taking off my watch and ring and securing the two together (watch band through the ring, the fasten the strap). Seems I find my hands work a little better without anything keeping them down. On the (hospital) wards I...

Why? Just don't like it? Gotta admit that it's a bit annoying having to take off my wedding band and watch (and then tie them to my scrub pants and look a bit geeky) if I need to put on sterile gloves, but these days it's usually not a problem.

Just wondering if anybody here has strong opinions about their wrist watches. I'm kind of into chronometers, and have always liked Seiko. And Christmas is coming. Would love a Rolex or Omega, but I honestly could probably never justify spending that much money on a watch. And I have no...

I think my CD-RW drive just crapped out on me. I was thinking about getting a DVD burner soon anyway. Any recommendations? From looking around it looks like 16X DVD drives are prett common and only about $40. Thanks! Adcadet

Here's my list: 1. PBS Frontline (see link above) 2. Scrubs (earlier seasons were better, and yes, this is lame given my choice of a profession) 3. Law & Order (original > Criminal Intent > trial by jury >SVU) 4. Sopranos (for now, just watching season 1) 5. ER (it's really gone downhill...

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Yes, many people take a small dose of aspirin daily for prevention of coronary heart disease (although the risk/benefit ratio is questionable for low- and moderate-risk patients). But even a small dose can be very nasty for some people. Imagine someone with Von Willebrand Disease, the most...

To me your symptoms as presented seem entirely consistent with a bacterial or viral infection, or something else entirely. Best to see a doctor, and sooner rather than later.

Got official word today that I'll be part of a 20-day deployment from my university to Lafayette, Louisiana. We've sent 2 teams down already, a third is on it's way, and I'll be part of #4. My team's goal will be to transition our work from more of a primary care mission to one focused on...

Actually just a single dose of aspirin can screw up clotting for 3-5 days since it irreversibly acetylates cyclo-oxygenase in platelets. Functional restoration requires new platelets, hence 3-5 days (the life of a platelet is about 10 days in most people).

Perhaps I'm the aspiring MD you're referring to. I am in fact a third year med student. If you're getting over a cold and you have a sore throat hanging on, you can try some simple things recommended by the AAO. If this is not a simple nuisance, or an isolated problem, go see a doctor...

Yeah, Tran Micro has always had a crappy web page. But they install stuff there in the shop, seem to have OK prices, and generally seem to know what they're doing. And from what I remember from a few years ago, their standard boxes used decent, standard parts, and wouldn't do crap like put in...

so, if it's time to get my parents-in-law a new computer, is there anybody left? I used to like Gateway, but then realized they kind of bit. Then I liked Dell, but they seem to be crapping out. Should I just start recommending the little mom-and-pop shop in town?

I only need barrier protection (doesn't matter if they can stop a bullet). But my regular glasses are the smaller-frame style, and so don't provide good side protection or much protection over the top looking down if I'm, say, intubating somebody. In surgery I also need a pair that I can cinch...