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They didn't work for the county of Los Angeles by any chance? (And wouldn't IDE 0 and IDE 1 be the IDE controllers rather than the drives?)

Vote? In an odd-year election?

You could port NetBSD/hpcmips. Looks like they just need the CF driver.

Did you reboot between clock updates? The real time clock ('hardware clock') and the time-of-day clock (the time you see in Windows) are semi-independent. While I'm not familiar with the details of the timers, I would expect that if the problem is with the RTC the clock should be accurate for short intervals (maybe an hour) and then drift quickly when the two clocks synchronize, while if it's the ToD clock it should drift constantly (or randomly) and correct itself periodically when it syncs with the RTC and when the system is rebooted. Is there any discrepancy between the Windows clock and

Apple does the same thing, they just to it with software instead. Need I mention Pink, Taligent, Copland, Dylan, even, in a way, Rhapsody (but not OS X)? The problem, I think, is that innovation is inherent a dirty, dangerous business. When you add the resources of a large corporation like Apple or Intel it just becomes that much more dangerous.

You would know if 64-bit support would do you any good. With XP x64 you would have a system that was almost indistinguishable from the normal XP Pro, except the driver support would be worse. So, I recommend that you wait. Odds are that you'd be waiting a very long time indeed if you held off until there was a real benefit, so I'll just say wait until you upgrade Windows. Hopefully by then the driver situation and the any lingering application compatibility issue will have been resolved and the 64-bit system will go from a net loss to break even.

Whatever the DE provides. Never did get into virtual desktops, though not for want of trying. AFAICR the only thing I've used them for in the last couple years is stashing browser windows I'm not using but will need in the future. Basically a clumsy, ephemeral bookmark manager. Tabs pretty much took care of that.

The only problem with Intel's products is that they're unstable. Not the products, Intel. Every few years the company tries to create the Platform of the Future and ends up blowing billions of dollars and years of development on some absolutely bonkers idea. NetBurst and Itanium are the most recent examples, but you can go back to the i860 and iAPX432. (i860 and Itanium were actually the same bonkers idea, that no matter how complicated you make the architecture, the compilers will make it Fast. Whoops.) The move to the Pentium M, if that is indeed what they're doing, is a fit of sanity, b

Hmm. If the second value in the parenthesis is 0xc000000e, it would appear that the status code is STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE. Not very encouraging. It looks like it usually indicates a hardware or firmware problem or the impending death of the HDD. (An earlier version of the MS page linked above supposedly claimed that it can be caused by running XP on a slave HDD with no master on the channel, but that seem improbable in this case.)

Just be careful. I looked at the GCC source a few years ago and woke up three days later in the hospital.

One of the security updates seems to have broken 64-bit support

Well, it can cause problems if one declaration masks another, and it can be confusing if it isn't clear which binding is being used, but if it's it not a problem for you I wouldn't worry. The important thing is to pick meaningful names.

Well I'm shocked that Wyntahchyld would say that. It's not like he's been a prick in every thread I've ever seen him post in. (Hey, flaming people from a safe distance is fun! Why haven't I done this before? )

Damn it. I said last night that it was possible that CFH would replace TS, but I deleted the post because it was off-topic in the thread. Why oh why do I keep all my accurate predictions to myself and make all my idiotic ones public? :-/ Oh well, since I'm the only person here who hasn't been banned by G4, I'll let you guys know how it works out ;-)

We're, uh, family-friendly? Yeah, that's it....

It's tempting to do the countdown thing again, but last time (you know, that time) I counted until something like -3 minutes before giving up. Apparently shutting down forums on time is harder than rocket science.

Hmm. My inclination would be to use map if 3 in map(lambda(t): t[0], lis): , but kind of thing is discouraged in Python these days, or a list comprehension if [i for i in lis if i[0] == 3]: but neither is very efficient.

It's a religious issue. Opinions about Python tend toward extremes: you either love it or hate it. There seem to be about equal numbers of people in both camps. There's nothing objectively wrong with it.

The problem is Python's scoping and declaration rules. That assignment statement is creating a new variable named query_info in the local scope. Python then interprets the query_info on the right-hand side as a reference to the local, as-yet-undefined, query_info. It works when the code in the global scope because the variable is already defined and so the assignment is just a simple assignment. Yet another reason why I don't use Python.

Current desktop: No, really.

They're just mad because there's no way to recompile the installer before you install. What's the point of using Gentoo if you can't set 47 flags to squeeze that last -11.8% out of the machine?

Odd. It looks like you're in good shape. Just being in the group works fine for me. ~ $ grep cdrom /etc/group cdrom:!:19:jcl ~ $ ll /dev/hdc brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Jul 30 21:06 /dev/hdc ~ $ dd if=/dev/hdc of=c count=512 512+0 records in 512+0 records out ~ $ file c c: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'Maemo Live ' (bootable)

No idea. The manpage says that's the password field. Google suggests that it's a legacy feature and not widely used. I have 'x' in the password field for every group. [Edit: Looks like it's used with newgrp and sg. Which is to say, not often.] Sounds right. It iterates over the entries in the disc's TOC and generates a checksum that's used to ID the disc.

Agreed. (Mostly.)

It needs to be able scan the CD's table of contents in order to identify the disc. Incidentally, Gentoo apparently gives read permissions for CD-ROM to everyone in the cdrom group. No need for root. Other distros may do the same.