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(WoT fans will get the joke.) I prefer a command line to the "real" Start bar.

An email the author posted in the comments forum: From Richard Berkley: "I live in Round Rock, Texas, in a busy residential corner house. Often the kids blast through the stop sign on their bikes, not looking for cars. A few months ago I yelled at one of them to stop and watch for traffic. I di...

Apparently, the problem is a new version of the ARCCOS system, which relies on deliberately corrupted sectors. If your player doesn't understand and follow the instructions to skip them, the DVD won't work.

Hamel, your picture wants an FTP login before it will display.

IC, as a recovered Catholic, you have my condolences.

It would appear that this argument simply attempts to define God into existance. According to the Iron Chariots counter-apologetics wiki: In this argument, existence is given as one of God's attributes as part of the definition: if X is God, then X has the property of existence. This is logically eq...

Well, as far as arable land goes, the CIA Factbook has the following:

US: 1,650,000 sq. km.
UK: 56,000 sq. km.
Can: 415,000 sq. km.

AV, I think the sketch you were speaking of is from Idiocracy. From what I've been reading, if PO happens and goes unchecked, we're severely fucked. All of what you said, plus the added bonus of pushing climate change into overdrive as we burn whatever we have left with little to no interest in losi...

Trackball here. I've got a Logitech Something-Or-Other. I find it has nicer control, you don't need extra desk space (great for messy-deskers like me), and you can leave it in a comfortable position. Mine's thumb-driven, and it's great for gaming. Perfect for fine control in RTS and sniping in FPS, ...

So, all things being equal, my odds of survival are 4000:1. However, my odds are significantly less than that, given a) I have no combat or weapons training, while many members do; and b) if I don't score kills often enough, I die anyway. Fuck it, I'm a dead man anyway; why bother killing anyone? I ...

Make Canada provide it U.S. urges 'fivefold expansion' in Alberta oilsands production Last Updated: Thursday, January 18, 2007 | 6:31 AM ET CBC News The U.S. wants Canada to dramatically expand its oil exports from the Alberta oilsands, a move that could have major implications on the environment. ...

A whole freaking shelf worth of hardcover nonfiction. Whee!

5-10C above seasonal here. Where the hell is my snow?

I've had similar experiences before; both times I lost a video card due to bad caps. That's just correlation, no idea about causation; just throwing it out there.

And this, boys and girls, is what you get when your school system insists on passing unqualified kids. Fuck, that was depressing.

If he's that bad, why the fuck was he getting a Game Boy?

For that mater shouldn't "real Christians" complain about it being calld X-Mas? You'd think that "real Christians" would know that X is the closest Roman letter to the Greek Chi, which has always been an accepted abbreviation for Christ, used frequently by the early Church. You'...

Update: This morning, it crapped out at 100Mb/s, and dropping to 10/FULL picked it back up. Going back to 100 (half and full) re-dropped it, so it's sitting at 10 right now.

So does this sound like a hardware problem with my NIC, with the network, or still not enough info?

No idea what the switch is configured like. The helldesk just asks "is it working NOW?" and if I say yes, they close the ticket. If I say no, they call back the next day. Repeat until ticket is closed.

Try setting your NIC to 10Mb/s half-duplex and test that. You can run 10 meg on just about anything, so it should rule out the cable. Now, that was interesting. I had it on Auto-Detect before. I dropped it to 10Mb/s half-duplex, and that TRIGGERED the drop. Without disconnecting, I bumped it up to ...

Arg, sorry, forgot to mention I'd done that. The problem behaved the same way in Puppy Linux as in WinXP. It worked if I switched network drops, and not if I didn't. So I think it's either a hardware problem on my end (would that remain after a cold restart?) or a hardware problem on the LAN end.

Hi all. I'm having intermittent issues with my connection, and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. I'm running WinXP Pro. When I'm on the university LAN, occasionally the computer will lose the connection, and report that the cable has been disconnected. The indicator LEDs...

I lost most of my links on the subject, but math departments have been playing with Life for the past 30+ years, and most of the things you guys are discussing have been done to death. ETA: Here are some good links: Golly: Uber-engine Life Lexicon: bestiary/encyclopedia Fucktons of interesting patte...

Let's take it another step. I now advocate the teaching of abstinence-only safety education for drinking. The only way to be 100% sure that some drunken lunatic won't go home and beat his wife or kids is to abstain from drinking! :mrgreen: Wait a minute, didn't they already try-- *is dragged off by...

Dude, RTFM. Seriously. It tells you how to tweak all the input settings right in the man page. Either get the info for the proper parameters from one of the sites you found, or use trial and error.

Jeez, how do you think I set up those DVD scripts?