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...and SB cards in general...don't forget that...

What I ended up doing in my living room was put in 12 50w halogen bulbs on a track. Even this was too bright, so now they are set to wash the walls. It provides a very nice diffused effect, but because of the loss in the walls I need even more lighting. Another 600w should do ;)

That sounds like it would be right up Merc's street. It might even be a page he already, erm, archives ;)

Samsung HM120J (2.5" 120GB 5400RPM PATA drive) Seek - 2.1W Low power Idle - 0.65 Seagate Momentus ST910021A (2.5" 100GB 7200RPM PATA drive) Seek - 2.6W Low power Idle - 0.95 Worth some extra speed? I think so.

IIRC, in a previous discussion on this elsewhere, it was mentioned that PS writes some stuff to the scratch disk no matter how much RAM you have. Therefore it would make sense to make sure this was fast (ie. RAMDrive). If PS' memory management was logical, than this wouldn't be necessary.

We were both on foot, so that would have been difficult ;)

I stand corrected ;)

Had another couple over for dinner last night. 4 people, 7 bottles of wine, everyone has a huge hangover, and the women can't remember anything after the steak.

Interesting thoughts. I was actually looking at changing the final drive, but just changing 5th is a nice idea. In a perfect world, I would take the 6-speed out of a GTI and stick it in, but I suspect that is out of my price range. Getting better mileage is a nice idea, but I was primarily...

At one point I had my license revoked, I'm aware of the consequences ;) But the benefits are too tempting; I'm saving nearly an hour a day vs. 70mph. This discussion has been had somewhere around here; but I do feel that it is safe to do what I do. I know I don't need any more power than I...

Lunar, you can have all the breaks you want. I'm a pretty strict capitalist. So long as you can afford to fuel your 7-series when gas exceeds $10/gal, you have my blessing. Me? At 1000+/week, most of it over 100mph, car selection has many more variables.

I don't understand this perspective. My car is much smaller than any of these, and it's plenty big enough. People who "need" bigger cars without any justification are one of the reasons Americans and the butt of jokes everywhere else.

As an update; I just threw in an Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft CD and it booted fine, detecting everything but the touch screen and wifi card without me touching it. SWEET!

Yep Merc, I agree with e_dawg. Our first assumptions that you (like so many) simply hadn't tried seems to have been an underestimation of you; sorry about that. And while encouraging you to date may also be out of reach; I still feel obliged to encourage you to find some activity that you find...

The USB enclosures are typically designed for the older ATA drives...

Considering Windows 2000 is still a viable desktop OS, XP should be good for at least another 3-5 years.

So there is such a thing as a Vista-incompatible keyboard after all (thanks to Logitech).

Just installed 2007 Ultimate onto Vista. Slower than whale snot, and the only work I can use to describe the UI this late at night is "gross". I'll come up with better words later. Oh, and a full install of the "ultimate" edition is 2GB.

Yes, All SATA drives have the same plugs.,

OK, FC6 seems very slow for a desktop OS; especially when compared to ubuntu. I was even able to get the VMWare Tools installed, but it seems that I need to run it every time? Is there a startup folder somewhere?

Vista Ultimate + All current updates = 17.44GB I wonder how big Office 2007 will be?

From what I've heard 2007 is a major change from 2003. Notice I didn't say improvement. I've heard that OO looks more familiar to 2003 users than 2007 does. That is a tempting change...thoughts?

Merc, Have you tested Vista with the X-Plosion card? Now that I'm using the fancy digital out I'm concerned.

FC6 installed in 30 minutes, and has been updating for 4 hours...WTF?

Perfect. Thanks CityK!

I got my Vista Ultimate VM up and running for support purposes as well.

Merc, My MSDN includes Ultimate.

Got it. Bastards.

Are there any tricks to installing the VMWare Tools on Ubuntu and FC6? There must be, as I can't figure it out...

I suspect that Vista is not computer-ready, though many computers are Vista-ready.

Nope, no pirate versions for me. I make each of my clients (~20) maintain an MSDN subscription for testing/dev purposes and licensing wiggle-room. This means I have keys to spare.

So you're putting up a double standard. Someone needs to make themselves visible to be seen by others, and you refuse to do it, putting the burden solely on them. Don't you think that people you are interested in (and would be interested in you) are also not willing to put themselves out there...

I did it from the ISO, downloaded from MS' website, mounted using the VMWare client configuration. It should think that it is a physical disk.

The one I got from my MSDN subscription, it says that it will install the appropriate version based on the CD_Key I give it, but I didn't get to enter a key yet. So....all of them?

Did anyone else have problems installing Vista Final into a VMWare Server? After clicking "install now", it says something about "A required CD/DVD device driver is missing" and to insert a driver disk. Anyone?

You're missing an important part. You don't have to select them, they select you, too. It makes no difference that 90% of the women there aren't interested, it wouldn't work with them anyway. But by putting yourself out there and being visible, people have the opportunity to select you.

What I did was decrease the minimum size of the tabs, that lets more tabs fit before it scrolls.

Women tend to gather at places where money is spent; Malls, Bars, etc. Also any place that seems excessively healthy; Spas, Gyms*, health clubs, etc. As a matter of fact, if you set yourself up to get healthier through any of the group-based methods (weight watchers, yoga, gym, whatever), I'm...

My complaints with it stem from where it is located and how little it says about what it does before doing it. On a number of occasions I've had users in medium-sized companies attempt to bring in a laptop from home and think that "Share my internet connection" is exactly what they need to make...

I haven't used ICS in a long time, but IIRC it screws up everything; DHCP, NAT, IPs, DNS...everything. I wouldn't be too surprised if that was the culprit of your screwy system.

Merc, When I worked that much, I always ended up with co-workers. I figure I probably booked at least 20 hours in bars actively pursuing conversations with women for every phone number I got. 50% of those phone calls got returned, 75% of those return calls got dates, 50% of those dates got me...

I've been thinking of getting into the DSLR game for years now. My general consensus has been to buy the best body and single lens I can at the time, knowing full well that I'll want to sink more money into the hobby later.

I ran into (almost literally) Jobs a month or so ago. Just crossing paths...

How open is the fan grille? I've found that cutting them out and (optionally) replacing them with a wire grille gives a tremendous improvement.

Not worthwhile is a subjective thing. There are at least 2 completely unsecured APs around me, if I have any security at all than no-one will bother. If I was the only AP around, I'd be more worried.

....but it would be easy to support. Tech: "Do you see a line of white text on a black background? Is the cursor blinking? Good. Your hardware is working, call someone else."

Great. Phone Tech: "The first thing you need to do is insert the disk and reboot. This will format your drive and restore it to it's original state." Who on earth is going to do that?

I'll second Chewy on the crappiness of V-Day. It, and my other holidays, are designed by corporations to cause more consumerism. Women, who seem blind to consumerism, still feel some degree of authenticity however and therefore apply pressure to guys to cave to the desires of the corporation...

Just do MAC filtering. It's pretty tricky to bypass and keeps the easy ones out. Mainly it let's you use any OS or other device without hassle.

But I think the price difference between the 24" and 22" wide screens has more to do with the resolution than the actual size.