Posted 11/09/2009 at 05:39:22pm

You got me there!  Whatever shall I do now that you've pegged it? 

Posted 11/09/2009 at 03:44:23pm

Leaving aside the fact that, by their own admission, they don't do news at all but commentary, and that the average viewer of Fox Commentary Channel is an idiot only slightly dumber and less useful to society than a conservatard, I have no problem at all with them denying themselves the google-driven traffic.

They could, of course, simply update their robots.txt file, but instead they're trying this stupid public relations ploy.  Just like a right-winger--don't do anything substantive, just sit around and whine about how unfair it all is.

Posted 07/04/2009 at 09:03:13am

the Microsoft homepage, fwiw.

Has anyone at MPC or anywhere else gotten word on this from MS?  I would only call this a rumor at this point, if not a practical joke.

Posted 05/06/2009 at 05:56:03pm

But I had also used the WDSynch software on the WD 320GB USB drive I recently bought.  Belt and suspenders kind of thing.  Restoring from the WDSynch backup was fast and flawless.  I still had to manually re-enter my email server settings, but cest la vie and all that crap.

Posted 02/17/2009 at 10:30:47pm

IE 7 takes longer than IE 6 because the rendering engine in IE 7 is more complex, and therefore slower.  The pages serve at the same speed.

I use IE 7 at work because that's the DOD standard, and I use IE 8 beta and firefox at home.

Posted 01/22/2009 at 04:40:43pm

Nothing is idiot-proof.  If I've learned anything as a soldier or an IT manager, it's that if you make something idiot-proof, somebody will make a better idiot.

Posted 01/22/2009 at 08:31:48am

My four year old AMD 3400+ laptop with two GB of DDR2 400 and ATI 9700 graphics now performs better than it did under even a clean install of XPsp2 or XPsp3.  There are some minor issues, but this is a beta OS so I wasn't expecting everything to be perfect.

My ripping and encoding times for video and audio are better, my downloading, with or without the getright download manager are faster, and my games mostly perform a little better.  I never did vista on this machine, so it was a full clean install of win7 onto a partition for me.  I'd get rid of the winxp partiion completely, but smart-card middleware for the Army doesn't work right under win7, so I'm keeping xp for now, but that's all I've used it for in the last week.  When the middleware issue is sorted, I'm going to put win7 on my desktop computer as well.  That's the only thing holding me back.

Posted 01/18/2009 at 10:51:51am

http://tinyurl.com/8rm8zl

I'm sure there's other vendors out there that sell it, but I shop there 99% of the time.

Posted 12/23/2008 at 09:20:16am

10 int i=0

20 print i

30 for i=i+1

40 goto 20

run

 If memory serves from my old TRS-80 Color Computer.