So…I just upgraded my PC (new mobo/cpu/mem). I have also recently read on /. that XP will soon not be supported. My question for you guys is: What are your experiences with Vista or Win7? I’ve just started noticing certain things not supported in XP, such as Hybrid CrossfireX, which sucks, as I like XP. Usually I am in the “if it aint broke don’t fix it” camp when it comes to operating systems, and as such tend to wait quite a while before adopting new ones (DOS->3.11->NT/Linux->XP are my previous switches).

So, what do you guys think? New OS, or keep rockin the XPsp3? Should I bother trying a Linux distro? I have limited experience with *nix, having run a dual boot (slackware, then later ubuntu) for a while back in college.

Very cool multicultural festival being held June 18-20. It started as a Russian folk music festival but is evolving into a multinational program (still somewhat Russian themed probably). Great camping location, great music, great people. Check it out if you’re interested. http://www.jetlag2010.com/

Peace,
Yakov

Hey Folks – was just wondering about this myself, curious what others think…. Sometimes I’ll reply to a thread with 6 other people, and in it I have questions embedded for specific people, e.g. Aaron can you please let me know if you have a velociraptor and take it for walks in the park.

To help people see their names and ensure a reply is expected, sometimes I’ll highlight their name in bold just to make it clear that there’s a question. Josh, I am curious if you have done this yourself, if so please etc etc etc.

What do you guys think  – is that a perfectly appropriate thing to do in a work environment according to general e-mail etiquette, or is it ‘annoying’ or is there a better way it should be done?

About 15 minutes ago the winds blew through a typical “corporate reply-all storm”…. I wasn’t on this myself but a buddy printed out one of the e-mails to document the exceptionally absurd number of people this guy sent mail to. His e-mail was regarding how corporate iPhones could not use some new service because AT&T said the numbers were not personal lines, or something like that.

Yes, these are all individual unique names in the To filed of the e-mail, a quick count of the semicolons shows there to be 1,943 people this was sent to.

Seven replies (yes with reply-all) went by with “Please remove me from this e-mail list”, one with the one-word reply “Thanks”, and another with “Shouldn’t we be focusing on end of quarter work instead of this” before someone put a stop to it.

Anyone interested? I’m psyched about this – some think of it as their Rothbury fix for this year. July 4 in Maine!

Bands: Furthur featuring Phil Lesh & Bob Weir, The Flaming Lips, moe., The Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, STS9, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Umphrey’s McGee, Zappa Plays Zappa, Keller Williams, Lotus, Max Creek, Moonalice, John Brown’s Body, The Felice Brothers, Ryan Montbleau Band, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, and Greensky Bluegrass, and their website says more are going to be added soon  [emphasis mine]

Yeah, so this is kind of a no-brainer…at least I would have thought so anyway.

Erika (my pregnant wife) and I got into bed last night and she put her Droid phone into the bedside docking station. For those unaware, it detects that it is in the docking station and turns into an alarm clock – shows a big-font clock, etc.

Well, E put it in last night, rolled over, and then 10 seconds later rolled back to change the alarm. Instead of the alarm clock mode, it looked exactly as it does in the picture above — the clock mode was gone, it was on the contacts tab, but no contacts showed up and it displayed the single word, “Pregnancy”. I swore to her that I didn’t do anything (I really didn’t) and I got up and took that picture. I then clicked on ‘Home’ and went into her contacts, it displayed her contacts as normal and we couldn’t get it to happen again.

Anyone have any ideas or theories? A 6-pack of Chris’s beer for anyone who can make sense of that.

It’s interesting to look way back 8 years ago and see who first played at Bonnaroo and then check out where the lineup is for 2010. You can sort of see this progression happening 4 years ago…. Any guesses who will be playing 4 years from now?

Dear McCrappiacs,
I am holding a contest, winner gets a 6-er (or a volumetric/cost/awesomeness equivalent) of local brew from CA. I will decide the winner(s) based on some sort of purely subjective, biased analysis. Below are several odd news stories/pics, your job is to either makeup an appropriate quote for the article, or an appropriate caption for a picture. Multiple submissions are allowed, winner will be announced on 2/17/10.

Article 1
Article 2
Pic:

So while perusing CNN during a long build, I found this article about bad tech based movies. Being a certified nerd, I have a good hardy chuckle at bad tech movies and was wondering if anyone could add to the list.

Now I know Transformers isn’t a tech movie but there was a line which sticks in my craw. When the way-too-hot-and-young-for-a-signal-intelligence-nerd Austrailian girl says,

“..we need to stop looking at Fourier transfers and start thinking about Quantum mechanics..”

ARRRRRRRH – it’s a Fourier transform not a transfer!

Possible scenarios here? Please do take physics and time into account….

http://upnextinsports.com/2009/11/17/sports-pictures-doug-warrent-chicago-fire-wtf-doing/

What confuses me is that fact that the keeper already has the ball and there is nobody else in the picture who this guy could be flipping over.

Could this actually happen?

Cool.

Anyone here successfully quit smoking cigarettes? I started taking Chantix and the stuff works like magic. So far a week has gone by since I quit smoking and I honestly don’t even think about or crave it at all. I’m a little worried about what will happen once I stop taking it, but I think I’ve got the willpower now that I see how possible it is to not smoke cigarettes.

It sure has been slow around here recently, so here’s something to think about:

I just read this.

Now why is this illegal? Do we not own our organs? Should we not be able to donate them to whom we want? If so, then why not sell them? Does it come down to protecting people from their own stupidity, or is it because the government/medical system wants to decide/get a piece of the action?

I’m curious as to what you guys think…