yeah, I'd be running Win7 now, except there isn't upgrade support from the RC to the final version. Quite looking forward to the perf boost though.

My Vista install takes absolutely forever to reboot. So I only reboot when I have critical system updates that are being enforced by IT (I'd run it naked as well, but IT again enforces restrictions...

Your collection has grown since your last post in the thread 2+ years ago...

I'm up to 5218 songs, which is putting me at around 34GB. A lot more of it was legally acquired than when I last...

Assuming this is directed at me, I wasn't referring to federal law, just Washington state. :)

IIRC, playing poker online is now a felony in Washington state. Sorry :P

I don't think the "record" will stand up very long (http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2008/06/23/mmpc-team-blog-ff-3-0-download-record.aspx)...

I use soda and pop interchangeably. Never coke unless referring to the product by that nickname.

Most of my shopping, for shirts at least, the last couple years has been at recruiting events or morale events. And grabbing free shirts out of the rare box in the hall at work.

For jeans, I go...

At least, drink responsibly when you code (http://xkcd.com/323/) :P

I usually have music playing, though sometimes just to provide background noise and a beat. If I'm trying to solve a problem, I'll usually pace, walk around the office or my apartment (my gf gets a...

I can't narrow it down to 3. But Hellsing was in there somewhere.

Same thing happened to me when I found QC. Here's a list of comics I regularly read:

http://questionablecontent.net/
http://xkcd.com/
http://drmcninja.com/...

I'd heard about Facebook, but not AOL. What is this company coming to? :(

From what they've been saying so far, Win7 will be drastically different from Win6 (Vista/2k8).

Because it wouldn't make sense for business. You've heard how fanatical everyone is about upgrading to Vista, so saying "here, here's a 'new' OS that's somewhere between Vista and 2008, now pay up...

I usually start on a whiteboard, and then save the good stuff on either paper or a text document. But the brainstorming, writing then erasing, all tends to happen on a whiteboard as much as I can.

I also have a hard time with some of the cheaper rye whiskeys, but I hear the expensive ones are quite good. I do appreciate a good whisk(e)y too though :)

I can give a more accurate answer. The famous person I look like is, quite simply, myself of course. And I am famous. Or infamous, I can't remember which...

While this may be true for someone starting a career, I'd argue that after a 20-year career in a specific field, the Bachelor's Degree should be a moot point, especially in a trade where one can...

It's easy to remember some passwords if you have a good way to remember them by. Mine is typically 10 to 18 characters, including letters, numbers, and symbols. I just have a couple rules I tend to...

I'm sure he's putting money a lot of places. You don't keep all your eggs in one basket, especially if you have that many eggs.

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I second jbennet. If you have it stored somewhere (and typing that all the time would be god-awful), it can be found.

I don't go to fairs/carnivals (or: I don't like to go)

True, at least at first. I tried that stuff on my laptop about a year, year and a half ago. It got really annoying, so I disabled almost all of the options. Looking back, I ended up quite similar...

Ah. The financial community must have missed last quarter's revenues up 90% over the previous year, with profit up like 40% (IIRC, it has been 3 months afterall). Funny, I thought they communicated...

I hear a lot of them left when the news came out...


Oh? Can you be specific about the lack of innovation? There's a lot of people who give Microsoft a lot of credit for being innovative about...

I've heard that Intel's Q series is still better but haven't compared myself. That said, I find it funny that the study compared Intel's first Q chip with AMD's not yet released 2nd round of chips...

Ick. The one song I sampled was not so pleasant as, say, オレンジレンジ, or L'arc~en~Ciel. Hell, I'd much rather listen to 宇多田ヒカル all day, but I like her music anyways... :icon_razz:

For me, the list would probably be something like:

surfing the 'net (not very IT, really)
watching anime
knitting (even while watching anime!)
my girlfriend :P

Then why am I not allowed ?:-/ [/quote]
LOL
I don't want to be mean, but I can't help it...
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Only really cool people are allowed in. But really, there's so few of us that meet the coolness bar that it's pretty dead. Except when someone new is inducted and goes around necromancing a bunch...

omg thread necromancy ftw...

But seriously, Happy B-day :) Hope you had a good one

Funny, I didn't think IE had anything to do with My Documents anymore...

If you're feeling adventurous, you might try IE8b1 out. Of course, it's still a beta, but I heard they put a lot more effort into performance. b1 performs much better than IE7, and it's still not...

Out of curiosity, have any of you tried out the new IE (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx) yet? Any thoughts on how it compares?

(disclaimer: I'm not using...

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Cocktails with gin or vodka are usually good. Huge fan of gin and tonic, and lately rum and coke has become rather nice (depending on the rum).

I like wine so long as it's a merlot. Don't really...

Back in my databases class, I worked with this one girl that was pretty hot and amazingly cute (there is a distinction). We also worked together in our operating systems class...

I had the same idea, though I wasn't particular about the caliber of the gun. Of course, whatever choke may have been used, the range would have to be long enough that the shot had mostly dispersed,...