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Well, I booted to the cd and it seems I have indeed broken something. I can access the network fine from here, but still can't mount a network share locally. Other than that and finding a god media player, I think I'm pretty happy. Based on what I read in the thread linked to earlier, it might...

Cute. But what happens when the computer is off and the drive cools down? Or when it is in an enterprise/industrial environment and the abient gets a tad warm?

New error message is: Could not mount device. The reported error was: Yes, that is it. Helpful, no?

OK, sometime during this process, something else broke. Now any time I try to connect to my server, it times out. Help?

After trying to follow these directions and significant googling, here's where I think I am: A username and password that has permissions to the windows share? Check. Check. I've been all over this config and can't find a firewall. But I was able to browse to the share, so check, I think. I...

I got VLC added even though it isn't a kubuntu app (learned how to manage repositories, and create shortcuts to apps, and where the apps are located in the first place). But it still can't connect directly to a Samba share! WTF? Help please?

No, just tear a laptop drive in half with your bare hands ;)

Progess: 1. Done 2. Done 3. Done 4. Minor googling- looks like it would be easiest to export from inside outlook into something standardized, then import. Put off til tomorrow. 5. New highest priority - It seems that the players included can't play media that's on a Samba share AND don't know...

Considering it's been a year and a half since my last attempt, I've decided to have another go. Earlier this evening I accidently tore my workstation hard drive in half (I'd make Coug proud, don't ask). When I was considering re-installing windows the same night I was furious with them over...

In case you're curious, this is a video done at my main hangout in SF. Luciana Valle is one of the best in the world, and Homer is one of the local hotshots.

I'm a bit assymetrical. I do considerable "excessive" shaving on my right side, and only the typical shaving on the left (My dance partner's right ear is against my right cheek - hence the additional attention). I find the irritation on my left side gone after a few seconds under the very hot...

PATA Yick.

Count yourself lucky. Here's the lifespan on mine: Day 1: Use it Day 2: Use it Day 3: Realize my GF has used it on her legs and it's completely destroyed, throw it away, get a new one.

Ahem. Need I point out that I signed up 9 months before honold and only 14 days after you?

The thing that I find makes the most difference is the steaming hot towel they lay on your face before and after. After getting a great straight-razor shave in Nepal, I looked into all the possible options. These days I use a telescoping convex mirror and shave in the shower. It's the most...

Plenty.

Savings in gas is a minor point, keeping the mileage down on my current car is another factor. It already has well over 100k miles on it, and I'm currently doing about 1,000mi/week. It suits my needs for hauling/towing/passengers quite well. The point of the bike would be to fill the nitche of...

[minor musings] 2AM, just got home from SF. Many people think I'm crazy driving ~600mi/week for dancing, but I think I've figured it out. The feeling I get while getting ready and driving to a milonga is the same as a first date; nervous, anxious, but still very interested in what is going to...

You hit it on the head, I think. When it comes down to it, people want money more than they want representation. Most people these days think representation is a way for them to look out for their interests, so they can make money. If someone offers them a "shortcut", many are shortsighted...

I have played golf. For a while it was a business neccesity, and I played quite regularly. Really long drives and a 150+yd lob wedge compensated well for my lack of putting, allowing me to brag of a 6 handicap. But I don't play anymore, it's not that interesting to me. It, like most ball-based...

I feel it's important for there to be an element of danger in my hobbies. If you are playing a safe type of sport, you never know the caliber of the others playing with you. When we're racing in the open ocean; just the fact that someone has done it before, lived, and choose to do it again...

I've never really been attracted to sports where balls are involved; I guess I've been happy with the pair I have. *ducks* Sailing, Auto Racing, Rock Climbing. Still no fun to watch, but at least you can die doing it. That tends to keep the excitement up while competing.

1024x768? Try 1400x1080 in HL2 , 1920x1400 in LOTR-BFME2, and 1600x1200 in BF2; all with maximum eye-candy.

The hostname of their server is: [Reached Destination]hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org.

When producing a large volume of one of a kind pieces, outsourcing can be very expensive.

Well, I ordered said Antec P150 and it shipped with an Antec NEO(high efficency) 430W power supply wherre the fan doesn't spin. Great. Just thought I'd add my experience.

That would be Tea. Tell her to keep her hands to herself.

At the gamecenter I'm using X1600s @ 2048x1536 on a Sony GDM-500 (or something) 24" widescreen CRT. The 2D seems pretty good to me.

On their way, should be good. Thanks guys.

Specs as follows: Shuttle SK21-G1-SV-V1 AMD Socket 754 VIA K8M800 AMD Sempron 3100+ Palermo 1600MHz HT Socket 754 Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Travelstar 5K100 40GB 5400 RPM Serial ATA150 Notebook Drive BenQ 16x DVD+R DVD Burner Model DW1625

This would be the one? And heat output is sufficiently low?

I'm quite alright with the CPU util being high, I just don't want it to affect the quality of the playback. It's currently at the point where it's noticeable to non-geeks, and that's pretty bad.

Yes, I was thinking about those. I used to have the Sapphire "ultimate edition" of the card which was fanless. However, I'm concerned that it produces too much heat for this case. This is a SFF chassis with a large PCI sound card between the graphics card and the only fan. I don't think there...

Great. It has an AGP port and very limited airflow, and I won't put more fans in. What video card should I look at to give it some more punch?

My first performance beef with the cheap systems: Playing an XviD video stream is showing average of 80% CPU useage and dropped frames. Is this because of the crappy onboard video? I'd think a Semperon 3100+ should handle some multimedia?

Yes. Flashing the BIOS will remove it's contents and then copy new contents on. Unless the virus was written to specifically take advandage of Dual-BIOS features.

The closest I've come to peeing myself in a long time. traceroute thepiratebay.org ;)

I would feel a lot worse if the price drops had hit already, but Newegg hasn't dropped their prices yet; and I got that 4000+ up to 3.2Ghz :o .

These actually don't. The only USB-related switch (that doesn't disable the plugs) is for whether USB drives should be treated as a floppy or a hard drive. Reseting BIOS does nothing, flashing to latest does nothing.

Not yet. I still have the stock PSU in there, which should be fine for a 3100+, 2.5" HDD, and 512MB.

None of my new Shuttle XPS systems will boot if there is a USB keyboard/mouse attached. PS/2 works fine, none at all (plugging in USB after boot) works fine. If the USB is connected to any port, either the progress bar halts permanently (normal mode) or safe mode halts at agp30xk.dll or...

Doesn't OpenOffice have something that does that?

I just build 2 servers and keep a manual copy on each. That protects from all possible failure points. 1. Drive/array failure 2. System Failure 3. Housefire (other system is in another building) 4. Accidental deletion (when I bother to maintain my backups.

I heby officially promote you to "IT guy in charge of drive testing". Now go get your drive and tell us about how cool it is.

Yep, I've been doing JBOD arrays for this reason. Add drives as you need them, they don't need to be the same size, and you get one big (and growing) volume.

A boat like Merlin in our conditions down here will race with perhaps two dozen people aboard. While going to windward all but 2 or 3 will be sitting side by side on the high side of the boat trying to keep it level. My 24-footer is best raced with 4 people on board. 20 knots isn't that unusual...

I actually had a pretty wild night last night. Worked until 3PM, raced my boat until 8PM in Monterey, then drove to SF to dance until about 2AM, then drove home. I'm kinda tired at the moment.

Yep, my boat was designed for a single-handed race from SF-Hawaii. It competes regularly in transpac with 2 people. I just don't know anyone I could tolerate for 11 days. It's design is acutally based on my other keelboat (Cal 20), but has been lengthened considerably and widened moderatly...

2.5" drives are the noisiest thing in my computers, and I don't consider the write count an issue. The number of cycles is pretty high these days and I never keep a system around for more than a year or so.

*shrug* I haven't been in a hospital or doctors office in nearly a decade, don't keep track of that stuff ;)