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Probably my fault then... Everything works fine now that neither of them are more than 1 hub away from the actual computer.

I remember losing awesome units to computer-controlled, enchanted Halfling Slingers occasionally. I used to dread encountering them because of that occasional one-shot. In terms of variety of tactics on the little battlefields and variety of strategy on how approach the overall game, I'm not...

I am strongly against manufacturers doing any software noise reduction to the RAW file before they present it to me. I have RAW so I can choose what trade-offs I'm willing to make if I have to push something to the point where those trade-offs are noticeable. NR in the analog pathway I...

Hmmm. Maybe I could play Master of Magic again. I remember I used to love using ridiculously enchanted/buffed Elite Spearmen on the battlefield (there was one race that had a hit-point bonus, but still had 8-man spearmen units, with buffs & Elite experience they were unbeatable --the most hit...

I agree with Merc about the Transcend drives. Their thumb drives always kick ass in tests as well. Pretty much any of their flash products. I've bought a couple OCZ & Patriot SD cards lately though (my K10D & LX1 both use those) because they were on ridiculous rebates. On the topic of an SD...

Have either of you ever worked with Drupal? The architecture is very well thought out and the code is clean. If you're willing to mess with a CMS Drupal is the most pleasant CMS I've ever seen in this respect --by far the easiest to hack.

So Merc, you'd recommend AnyDVD as the best DVD ripping solution. I've been using DVDFab HD Decrypter, but its been puking on some discs lately. Namely my copy of War Photographer & School of Rock. AnyDVD is the solution I should try? __On Topic:__ I use CD Paranoia on Linux through a...

Olympus has got some new lense announcements. The ones I think are neat are the 14-35mm f/2 (28-70mm 35mm equivalent)! And the 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 which would be a phenomenal, fast, extended-range standard zoom.

The Sandisk players show up as mounted disks. I don't use Windows Media Player with them at all. Just dump your music in the music folder, drag your recordings out of the recordings folder.

Oh ya, the Sansa Express also has physical controls for everything you regularly need. I like physical buttons & switches so that was important to me. A lot of compact players have problems in this respect IMO. With this one I didn't need to look at the screen to make it do what I wanted.

I spent quite a while looking around and researching; I ended up getting a Sansa Express. It's the size of a large USB thumb-drive and it can plug right into a USB port without a cord or a dock which I have found is much more useful than one might initially think. It also allowed me to get rid...

I'd actually really like to handle an E-410. I'm not sure how it'd feel, but lighter is great, and for casual situations smaller is less intimidating to people. I think it would be a good travel camera. The big turn-off for me is the price of the glass, although, by all accounts it's all...

Incidentally, it's hard to appreciate how thin those lenses are unless you can see them on the camera, so here's a link for the curious. For candid photography you can't beat them. People are much less intimidated when they don't have a massive zoom being shoved in their faces. Also, there's...

Actually, Pentax has quite a variety of digital-only primes. And they've updated all their prime designs from the 35mm film days with new coatings to account for light reflecting back off the sensor. Although "Digital-only" is a bit of a misnomer, since like all Pentax lens since the screw...

I agree about the RAM Bozo, but they're replacing the machine in 6-8 months anyway. Maybe I can dig up a random stick somewhere though. It's an Intel 1.5Ghz P4; haven't had a chance to figure out what mobo. Might be RDRAM though...

Cougtek like Avira, but Stereodude noticed the false positives. I think I'll probably throw NOD32 on there barring anyone mentioning some new miracle product (or that NOD32 turned into bloatware overnight).

Symantec Antivirus' Realtime Virus Scan is making two PCs in my office unusably slow. Both PCs run Windows XP and have 256MB of RAM. Does anyone have any recommendations for a lightweight alternative that will run well on these computers? Email scanning is obviously a must in this type of...

Spamihilator looks interesting. I know SpamBayes goes beyond the original bayesian methods developed by Paul Graham, but I'm not sure what else it does. I'll have to do some research. Do you use any of the plugins Merc? The following are a few I picked out as most likely to be useful...

Oops. I guess it's polite to link to the thing one is talking about. SpamBayes.

I have to deal with a couple Windows computers for the future year or so. Is SpamBayes still the way to go with Outlook for spam filtering? These guys are getting so much Spam it's disgusting. Any other recommendations?

I think I hallucinated the plugin. I can't find anything that syncs plugins. Oh well.

LOL. That's probably where I found it. It's lived in my 'Gems' bookmarks folder for some time now.

I vaguely remember someone bringing up a a Firefox plugin that could synchronize not just bookmarks, but also plugins between Firefox installs. Anyone remember what it was called or where we talked about it. I tried to find it here but couldn't.

Did someone say jiggle-factor simulator? JFS...(probably NSFW).

I don't know if any of you have seen ArsTechnica's guide to hacking the vote, but if you haven't, you should check it out. I wonder if Canada is as fucked as you guys are? I can't believe this shit is happening. How to Steal an Election by Hacking the Vote.

I wonder if anyone will use the full 12 SATA ports, or four GbE ports...

"pricing [on 4x4] has been "re-constructed" severely downwards, with the fastest CPU pack now matching the price of Intel's Kentsfield." --At the Inquirer. If that is true. 'Quadfather' --what a dumb name-- could be extremely interesting to me. They will be upgradeable to the Barcelona...

Ya, I'm using OpenVZ at the moment. Letting the kernel scheduler balance CPU time and memory usage depending on current need is just such a huge advantage. Most of my VM's don't need to do anything at all most of the time and can be entirely paged out in preference of more pressing concerns...

The internal Blu-Ray burner is busted. It can't read Blu-Ray movies. You can only use it for data work. Phlahh.

I don't need to do masonry, so I'm avoiding the hammer drills. I've also decided I'm going to go corded. For my use the cord will be fine. The Li-Ion battery drills I've looked at are really expensive. The others are all NiCd or NiMH which is an annoying chemistry to deal with for my use...

1. I'm willing to spend money to get a good one. 2. I've heard Makita is excellent, but that's the limit of my knowledge. 3. I realize this is kind of a random but what the hell.

I actually ended up installing it no less than 10 minutes after that post. It messed up a bunch of Javascript/sound/flash functionality. Yech :(.

That 300 file limit is a bit annoying...

Bleh... Just had a very nice dinner with my girlfriend and polished off a bottle of wine in 30 minutes. I think she only had one glass. (Most true... jesus...) How about, Battlestar is science-fiction in the true tradition of the best works of the genre.

I was camping in Cape Breton this weekend. Literally, the first thing I did when I got back was download the torrent for this last weekend's Battlestar Galactica episode. Boring? I haven't watched TV in two years! After watching Season 1 on DVD & Season 2 off torrents, I'm turning on the old...

LOL. I'm going to be happy all day now. Thanks Mercutio :).

I heard they got nearly a foot in Ontario a couple of days ago. Wierd.

That's absurd. Those restrictions are absolutely ridiculous. Compared to the competition they may as well be on a whole different planet. It just reminds me how much less trouble I've had with my computers since moving them all to Linux. Windows screws up in the most absurd ways. I was...

I use Genpass for a number of web passwords (not my banking password). You give it a master password, which it hashes and mixes with a hash of the domain, so it creates strong, different passwords for every website that you visit. It works as java bookmarklet, and is very convenient. For ssh...

Oh ya, I have a bunch of virtualized servers running on one of my home servers. Virtualization stuff is great to see. It looks to me that this will only improve host-level virtualization as opposed to the OS-level virtualization I've decided to use. OS-level virtualization never incurred...

I'm very interested in the effect of the 32 byte instruction fetch. The Core 2 Duo, despite its 4-issue design and wide execution core is limited to only 2-3 instructions per cycle in situations involving a substantial presence of 64-bit and/or SSE instructions because of its 16 byte...

Exactly. And those examples really are pretty cool eh.

You're actually observing the effect of two things: 1) the perceptual distortion of a larger than normal field of vision 2) barrel distortion The latter you can correct in software. It is a characteristic of the specific lens you're using. And it is definitely distortion. The former...

I think some faster processors can be disk-limited on MP3 encoding from *.wav now --the encoders have gotten so efficient and the CPUs have gotten faster. I don't know if that's the case for you.

Hell, a lot of newer motherboards have speakers right on them. The first time it happened to me I thought I was going crazy.

Just for the record, an open source tool that is excellent and that I have experience using from Linux is Photorec. Despite it's name it recovers much more than photos --pretty much anything on the disk (including stuff that was deleted ages ago). It's certainly not as full-featured as Get...

Slightly off-topic. I had a brief question for DFI tech support. They e-mailed me back in 13 minutes. Colour me impressed! Back on-topic. The Gentoo Wiki guide is very well written and informative. The pick of the bunch I'd say. I have to recompile kernel though because I didn't include...

Wow, my first half hour of googling was way off. I came up with some better searches and now have some promising leads. For future reference: Gentoo Wiki Entry on creating bootable DOS floppies and CD-ROMs Random other guide that looks useful. Think Wiki Guide. (Wiki on Thinkpad-related...

I'd like to flash the BIOSes in a couple motherboards. All the systems lack floppy drves. There's a Winflash utility for flashing systems without floppies, but it only works in Windows. These systems are all Linux boxes. Is it possible to shoehorn these BIOS updaters onto CDs? If not, does...

Ideally, you will want to give them an image that size. But that doesn't mean the camera sensor needs to be capable of capturing that much data. You should interpolate it up to that size yourself. Depending on how much effort you're willing to put in, you should do a RAW conversion to that...