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  1. Re:Hooray for Zoidberg! on Reanimated Lobsters? · · Score: 1

    Just finished disc 1, and it was great! I had DL'ed and watched a few of the episodes already, but the others were hilarious.

    I don't want to burn through it too quick though, so I'm going to wait on the other 3 discs.

    OnTopic: oddly enough, that DIDN'T occur to me, even though I started reading this thread while taking a break from watching S3D1.

  2. Re:The domain is registered to someone in Virginia on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 1

    I recognize all situations are different. That said, are you taking issue with Hotmail specifically, or with a typically free email provider?

  3. Re:Where's the beef? on Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs · · Score: 1

    Neither was I, but then I found the page. N-Series

  4. Re:No on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1

    heh...nice.

  5. Re:We don't need no stinkin badges! on Officials secretly RFID'd at Internet Summit · · Score: 1

    It's possible they might be referring to the Blazing Saddles reference.

  6. Re:I learned a similar lesson on Panther Eats FireWire 800 Drives · · Score: 1

    Hence the reason why, when reinstalling OS'es on my computer, I unplug the power and/or IDE cables from my storage HDD's. This also prevents me from accidentally deleting the partitions from the wrong disk.

  7. Not by Apple's account on Is Bluetooth Dead? · · Score: 1
    dead? nah, Powerbooks have it!

    first post? w00!

  8. Re:"Smart" Fridge on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup · · Score: 1

    Well, thay way you don't miss anything important. You don't have to wait for a commercial break to make that popcorn anymore.

  9. Re:Use Firewire on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1
    DOH! Took my last sentence out of context, and now it doesn't make sense.

    400 is a lot more than 100, though not as big a difference as if Firewire ran at 3200Mb/s (3.2Gb/s), which it doesn't.

  10. Re:Use Firewire on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1
    IIRC, I have my numbers right here, though I have been proven wrong before...

    USB 1.1 - 12Mbits/s - ~1.5MBytes/s
    USB 2.0 - 480Mbits/s - ~60MBytes/s
    Firewire - 400Mbits/s - ~50MBytes/s
    Firewire 800 - 800MBits/s - ~100MBytes/s

    10Mb or 100Mb Ethernet is 10 MBits/second or 100 MBits/second, so...

    10Mb - 10Mbits/s - ~1.25MBytes/s
    100Mb - 100Mbits/s - ~12.5MBytes/s
    1000Mb (gigabit) - 1000Mbits/s - 125MBytes/s

    Yes, firewire IS faster than 100Mb Ethernet, but not that much faster.

  11. Re:I wouldn't on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    massive Douglas Adams reference. I give thee props.

  12. Re:You insensitive Clod!! on CDRW Drives Hit 52X Speeds · · Score: 1

    isn't it called the Replicator?

  13. Re:just use pico on Text-Console Based Word Processing? · · Score: 1

    whenever Corel WP 6.1 came out. in one of my classes where we're learning NetWare 3.12, we do a network install of WP and set it up for the DOS workstations to use. You can switch it to a GUI mode, and have a WYSIWYG editor...although if you mean text console as in like a WYSE terminal console...nevermind.

  14. Re:What about Apple LCDs? on LCD Round-up · · Score: 1

    what about people who want to use two Apple Cinema displays? i may be ignorant of a fact (cinema display with DVI?), but it seems like they'd be up a creek...

  15. Re:wash repeat... on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1

    wow...channel 1. i forgot that existed... i was in band all 4 years, and that met 1st hour. to give us more practice time, every time that came on we'd just turn off (or unplug) the TV and keep playing. :)

  16. Re:Read BSOD on Gnarly Error Messages · · Score: 1

    I used to work at a Gateway Country store, and in the small office corner of the store they had a server on display running Win2K server something. You could, and we frequently did, easily pop out the hot-swap SCSI drive from it, without it crashing.

  17. Re:dry ice is easy to get! on Fun with Fog Generators · · Score: 1

    >How poisonous is antifreeze?

    LOL...sorry, couldn't control it.

    ok, sorry again..knee jerk reaction. apparently you're ignorant of this fact. Antifreeze, aka ethelyne glycol (I think) is VERY toxic. Unfortunatly, it tastes very sweet, so dogs, cats, and other wildlife like to drink it. This is unfortunate, because it kills them, or at least can make them quite sick.

  18. Re:Really? on Fun with Fog Generators · · Score: 1

    I live in Cedar Rapids, IA, and we only have 1 supplier that I know of. The one time i bought some, it was 1 guy in an old building, sitting next to a cooler (not a freezer, basically a big foam cooler), with a scale and a stack of paper bags.

    Now, in my ex gf's hometown (Indianola, IA), they have a Penguin Dry Ice cooler in the Hy-Vee. That suprised me, because Indianola is a lot smaller than CR.

  19. Re:Cheaper broadband will kill AOL on The Sinking Ship that is AOL · · Score: 1

    That may be true for some sites...I remember back in the day accessing the PMZone.com (Popular Mechanics) website, and seeing the warning about needing a fast connection and fast computer. However, I more than occasionally use my cell and laptop to dialip at 9.6K, and don't have as many problems as one might expect.