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Yet another reason I wish I could get out of this country.

The book industry is pretty down on Amazon for that idea, too, especially in the EU.

Sure I am. You search. You find relevant references. Ta-Da! You have taken something - arguably something covered by fair use - that ordinarily would've required a physical copy of a book and therefore a sale of that book.

Dynamic volumes are bootable, sechs. The Windows installer does not create dynamic disks at install time, and diskpart.exe/Disk Management doesn't allow the change of the system volume once Windows is running. But if you partition and format a dynamic volume on another machine, Windows can...

It's very hard to make money as a writer, especially if you write for a living. Google Print is, in effect disassociating or anonymizing authorship from the written word (do you look at the copyright on anything else you get off the web?). In that kind of environment, it's hard to maintain...

President Shrub tells The Onion to stop making fun of him..

Tannin, you could get away with a Shuttle box. That's in your weight range. At that point, you aren't even talking about a notebook any more.

PowerDVD is pretty much give away software. Almost no one needs the full version. Most people just want to be able to watch DVDs in their computer. The other stuff basically replicates what Nero does (version 7 just came out), but again, most people don't need most of those tools. I'd pass...

... also a huge and very nice Thermalright Heatsink that somehow didn't make my list before. ;)

The waste tray on the Phaser is part of a maintenence kit you're supposed to buy every 50k pages. There's a new tray and a couple sets of replacement rollers in the kit. The kits aren't cheap, but the kits are worthwhile for the new rollers regardless. Your printer has a page counter that says...

On the other hand, I'm still stunned at how well and how easily this all came together. A month ago, I sent out PMs and Emails to everyone I could track down. The generosity and the leap of faith everyone took to get cash or donated hardware so that this project could move forward was simply...

Start the recovery console from your Windows install CD and run fixboot and fixmbr.

Episode IV as an animated .GIF

I don't like talking or even thinking about it, Vlad. In that situation, I was literally powerless to help, since I did not know any where to take them and I did not know my pets' lives were in danger until after the fact. I don't know what was said to the vet who euthanised my cats; I can only...

We must've been watching two different shows. They've got the self-important O'Reilley/Hannity/Savage talking head thing down pat. The "Gravitas Face-Off" with the DateLine anchor was a riot. Here's links to this week's episodes.

Over 15?!? I've only counted 7. Man, I guess those level 2 guys really know their stuff.

Has anyone managed to catch "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central? Why is the only decent news on TV coming from the comedy channel?

OK, a more serious response. Laptops are absolutely not one-size-fits-all, and my needs and Tannin's are vastly different. But here's my list of features. 1. Mass. As little of it as is possible for full functionality. I can't understand people who buy six or eight pound notebooks at all. Buy...

Perfect women are luggable?!?

I browse Slashdot at -1. I've picked up I don't know how much weird tech knowledge in STRANGE places there, so I try to look at everything when I read a thread. Some of the Slashdot trolls are really creative and funny, too.

Nonetheless, that is the case. I'm sure there are parts that overlap, but the laptops are indeed made by different companies. Inspirons are made by the same company that makes most Gateway and HP vomitbooks.

Asus notebooks look like a pretty good deal. They can be customized in much the same way as a desktop and have nicer chassis than your typical vomit-book. I have no idea how durable they are, how hot they get or whether their service is worth a handfull of spit.

They aren't even close, and a cursory examination of even the chassis is quite enlightening in that regard. Latitudes are manufactured to MUCH higher standards and have Latitude-standard parts across the product line. Inspiron = Vomit box. Lunar, have you looked at IBM X-series models?

A lexicon of words coined by the writers of "The Simpsons".. Some of these really have entered common usage. I've heard non-geeks say "anyhoo" and "cromulent", for instance.

IBM T-series, but they are kinda expensive.

Latitudes are better than many other options (Compaq, HP, S*ny, Toshiba), not as good as others (IBM). Inspirons are a reason to slide headfirst down a razor blade into a bucket of iodine.

It'd be different if there were another option. There isn't. All the printer companies are in on this. Sadly, the world still runs on paper.

They're about $250 in the US. No savings to be had there!

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I need to make changes to my company's DNS records like NOW and Dotster's been down all day for me. Can anyone get to it or is it just my problem?

I'm not familiar with the R-series, but IIRC the Ultrabay drives are a slightly different shape from a standard slimline drive.

I think we can forgive you, as the pontificating performed in your previous post seems particularly perceptive. Personally, I didn't go to a party to meet anyone. I went to a party because my friends impressed on me that my company and my help would be appreciated. Fortunately, my chosen role...

Printers and scanners pretty much all do this sort of thing for anti-counterfeiting measures. I'm not too happy about the idea, but I doubt any company is out there saying "no, we won't help out the FBI/US Treasury Dept./whatever." either. I guess if you could find on the RGB values of whatever...

I can't think of a good way to make auto-logon work without rebooting the PC.

In my family, being seen without a watch is indication that you don't have one. So someone gives you another one...

Pepsi with Lime is really good, but I don't like the diet version. Actually, I don't like most diet sodas, but caffeine-free diets I don't usually mind.

Someday, I will get to try Indian food. Someday. (singing) Make of our chai, one chai... Make of our curry, one curry... Make of our Kuhlfi one last Kulhi... Even the County Health inspector won't stop me now... Does anyone but me get that? Oh well.

For sure. When you're in the group in question, I don't think it's a big deal at all. And sometimes the jokes REALLY ARE funny. It's no fun to tell a joke like "Did you hear about (insert country)'s space program? The (insert ethnic plurality) plan to put a man on the Sun. Yup, the (insert...

Sadly, it looks like I might be working for an all-Dell shop in the near future. <heavy, heavy sarcasm> I am aquiver with delight. </end sarcasm>

It's kinda nice to watch the crap you've downloaded from the internet on your substantially larger TV screen.

I'm not a big fan of the Klipsch sound, either. Kef has some really nice full-range, retractable in-wall speakers. I'd avoid getting a sub. Hell, for whole-home audio you might do just as well with mono, as speaker placement for stereo is a bit of a pain, particularly if the room has other...

Pbbt. Actually, what ended up happening was that those of us who are introverts formed a group distinct from the main party. Personally, I did a lot of cleaning, food prep and general running around in between showing off the AV gear and MAME system. The distractions made things a lot easier to...

Anyone have a favorite tea? I've been drinking a peppermint tea with a little bit of milk and a couple drops of honey lately.

I'm sure I accomplished something, since I didn't get home until 4:00... Unfortunately, most of what I accomplished consisted of impressing on a large number of drunken gay women that I'd make a good girlfriend for someone if only there wasn't the obvious problem of my gender. It was a highly...

Funny you should mention that, Groltz... I had three cats growing up. I was the "cat person" in my family - two of them were strays I brought home, the other was willed to me by my great aunt (purebred Scottish Fold), who knew I love cats. Anyway, these cats were 6 to 8 years old when my family...

My favorite watch is a Boccia titanium model. It has a very elegant face is super-light. I own several fancy watches. I never wear any of them (I get them as gifts, usually), as wrist watches seem designed to punish typists. I'm not even sure where most of them ARE. But I like the Boccia.

Well, I'm about to be off to the first party I've been to in... well, if you don't count things that were entirely made up of relatives, my first party ever. I've met many of Amy and Kim's friends individually at one time or other, but there will be a lot of people I do not know. It has been...

I would have a serious rage issue if a vet did anything that caused any of my cats to suffer. I'm really sorry to hear about about your loss, CityK.

I buy lots of cables from cableconn.com. Don't know if they do rounded cables (never looked) but they've been wonderful for me over the last eight years. Plus they're in Ohio, and everything they ship me is next-day. :)

I use LiteOn. LiteOn drives have been very, very good to me. I see no reason to switch away.