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I'm trying to get internet access up and running on a Windows 98 laptop that belongs to a friend. Networking works. The computer can ping the LAN's router, but it can't see the internet. Stupid Windows :x. I found this Microsoft support article and I did everything suggested and edited the...

I actually had similar problems with TorrentSpy in the past. I could never sort them out, so, unfortunately, I can't really help except by providing legitimate sympathy. I favour mininova these days.

Ugh. Can we please work on making laptops thinner and lighter. RAID on a laptop.. :roll: I'm going to lose my temper.

Well, the theoretical write-through speed to a 4 disk RAID 5 is higher than a 4 disk RAID 10 for writes >=stripe size (3x disk bandwidth vs 2x disk bandwidth). I can only assume that the parity processing is fast enough on the Areca that it is no longer the bottleneck it typically is on most...

The nVidia firewall is apparently hardware accelerated. Considering how little CPU a firewall uses that isn't at all consequential I suppose. However, one advantage of the nVidia firewall is that it is active throughout nearly the entire startup. I don't know if that adds any meaningful...

I've been using Evolution, which is quite nice. My biggest nitpick is that e-mail rule filtering is shockingly slow, and won't work with Contact List groups (does anyone know of an e-mail client that has filtering like that?). The lethargy of the filtering is very irritating. And this on a...

Lite On CD Burners and readers were great, but their DVD burners are picky about media and produce higher error rates than most of the competition. NEC was up at the top of pack in terms of quality so this is definitely disappointing. LG has won my business for the last year or so with their...

Damn you LiamC for beating me to bringing up Dan's thermal goop comparison! At least you didn't provide a link, as far as I can see, so I'll still get a little of the glory. Dan's Goop Groundup compares the advantages of, among others, Arctic Silver vs Vegemite vs toothpaste in a rambling...

I enjoyed March of the Penguins as well. Emperor Penguins are actually my favourite animal, which many people used to think was strange. Now they understand :mrgrn:. There's even a Penguin (not a real one don't worry) living in my fridge freeszer. My enjoyment of the movie was pretty much...

LOL the power issue is indeed a little out of control. The Athlon XP's boot very speedily with customized, minimalistic kernels and the lack of a gui so they're off most of the time and take only a moment to boot up when I need tunes. I could probably hibernate them, but, as with a seeming...

My main computer is an IBM 42. I bought the least expensive model I could find that had a high resolution 14.1" screen (the 15" T42's are heavier and thicker than I like), and upgraded it to 1.5GB of RAM, and added in a 7K60. Other than that I have 2 939-pin 3200+ A64's, 3 Athlon XP systems...

I doubt we'll see PCIe SAS controllers until there are motherboards to support them. To my knowledge the first PCIe Server chipset is Intel's Blackford chipset which will support 3, 8x lanes. It's due to arrive with/slightly-after the dual-core Xeons Dempsey and Paxville, sometime in the...

Under the heavy resistive load that a camera generates NiMH will be just fine with respect to voltage. This is because their voltage doesn't sag under load as much as other batteries (certainly the alkalines). A 1.5V alkaline is not delivering 1.5V in a camera, even when its 100% fresh. If...

XDR is really ideally suited for the K8 chips. The bandwidth/pin equation only gets more and more appealing as more cores are added onto the die. I don't think it's going to happen though. The market will resist Rambus as much as possible. All the memory manufacturers hate the company, and...

I'm sure that if this rumour is true, OS X will still never boot on non-Apple hardware. The OS will perform some sort of hardware check at boot, and refuse to boot on non-Apple hardware. It seems likely to me that Trusted Computing technology can be used to implement this. Intel's latest...

:o I hope that's just a mock up for a real product Zalman introduced at Computex.

<rant> I am unable to watch the end of the Giro D'Italia, and damn cranky about it. 'Top Dogs' is on. What kind of idiotic trash is this? Oh, Police Dogs biting people... If that gets better ratings than the Giro D'Italia, one of the greatest road races in the world with many of the most...

Ted, could you be more specific about which boards are having issues? I would also like to know the specific nature of the issues. As far as I know any 8x card, including RAID cards, should work in those ports, and I haven't heard anything specific to the contrary. Everyone who actually has...

Ahhh, Master of Magic. That was a great game. There was nothing quite as fun as slaughtering end game enemy units with ridiculously magically suped-up elite spearmen (forget what race I used --they still had eight guys per spearmen unit but they also got extra hits or toughness or something).

Good sound is actually pretty easy to add Mercutio: Chaintech AV710

Knowing the markup on cables, if I were you, I wouldn't want to know. Oh, and Mercutio that does look like a solid sound card. Sadly, I doubt Linux support for the Dolby Digital encoding feature will ever exist. One day we will be first class citizens...

It's worth noting that Christians are now known more for their intolerance than their tolerance, but that's not the genuine Christian way.

I'm about as anti-religion as they come, but Schopenhauer's solution to the "life sucks" problem is quite rational and shares some characteristics with both Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity does provide some good advice. The problem with religion in general is that the method used to...

1. If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world : for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining...

You probably just think it loads slower because filter actions are enabled. Privoxy has to load the whole page before it applies such filters. Since most browsers start rendering a page as soon as information is recieved, it normally begins appearing immediately. With Privoxy running the page...

Dan has a little article on next generation display technologies. SED looks pretty interesting to me. I decided a year or two ago that I'm not spending any money on new screens until things settle down. Right now that looks like it might be some time away.

P.S. I'm probably going to post this at SR as well. Please excuse the double post :).

I know that there a couple of us here that have an interest in photography. I don't know how many of you shoot RAW, but many of us need an open and ideally universal RAW format. There are a variety of reasons why this would be A Good Thing. Nikon's encryption of its white balance information...

This is terrific. It should improve Blu-Ray's competitiveness in the cost department a great deal. I'm a Blu-Ray fan by the way. I have backups to make and HD-DVD's 15GB per layer is at too great a disadvantage. 25GB per single-layer disk all the way.

With newer cores, I believe the only hit you take is a 2T instead of 1T command rate. Most good motherboards should let you manually specify the 1T setting to regain your performance, and, if you have quality RAM, then you're unlikely to see any issues.

There is actually an open source module included in the kernel source that works with NVidia NICs. It is the 'forcedeth' module and can be found in kernel configuration as "Device Drivers"/"Networking Support"/"Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)"/"Reverse Engineered nForce Ethernet Support...

while the majority seem to suffer from IIS and IPD...

There are still good posters at SR, although I'll be the first to admit that the forum has degenerated terribly, which is actually the entire reason I registered and then started posting, occasionally, here. I don't think it would take much effort at all to make things dramatically better. My...

I've mostly just noticed the conservative party's change with respect to religion recently, surounding the gay marriage issue. They aren't nearly as bad as the Republicans though, and it's not like they aren't split on the issue. Even the liberals are split on it a little. What bothers me...

Well, I tossed in a protest vote for the Green Party. My constituency, Alexa McDonough's, is as hardcore NDP as it gets. No one's shifting that woman out of her seat, so my opinion is rather moot these days. Proportional representation would be nice. First past the post just means that the...

I think you just need an ATI graphics card. The drivers offload the DVD decoding to the video card.

Ya, it doomed them with a huge percentage of the population --like me for example.

If an election comes soon, there might be a bit of a problem, but honestly, I doubt it. Many Canadians have been desperate for an alternative to the liberals for some time, but have kept voting liberal because they feel that they have no reasonable alternative. No matter how bad this scandal...

I came across that about a week ago. I think it appeared on Slashdot (which I hate, but still visit if I'm really bored). What a great story eh? It's kind of sad to find out at the end that they never really got an opportunity to use their potental. I think providing free or inexpensive...

I did that, and now all the computers in my house run Linux ;). It just kind of happened, although it did take a lot of patience in the beginning. The key for me, was to not need to get it running. When something wasn't working I could wait till the weekend and put a couple lazy hours into...

I'd forgotten how beautiful a blue sky is. I can see the sun! :mrgrn: The sun I say! Months of darkness I have endured... :eekers: An eternity of toil underground... But no more I say, no more Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, --could I wreak My thoughts upon...

Yes, I believe it should be possible through the recovery console.

Interestingly, the NTFS write support in the latest kernels appears to only be accompanied by a 'NEW' warning --not the 'EXPERIMENTAL' warning it used to have. I would still be very careful with it though --use the Windows installation media if you can. *A word of warning if you are used to...

Just a warning, NTFS write support is experimental. It would be better to try and fix this problem with the Windows install media. NTFS write support requires that a seperate kernel option be enabled. You may not have enabled it initially. Check, in menuconfig: File Systems -- DOS/FAT/NT...

The nice thing, from their perspective, is that it gives them a place to throw lower density-capable heads. They've got a 500GB capacity with 100GB platters. Lunarmist, are you sure Seagate's drive is 500GB and not 400GB? I thought Seagate's line topped out with a three platter...

It's a five platter design.

I purchased a pair of the ATA versions of that drive, and I have no complaints. I'm quite pleased with them, and I'm surprised at how quiet they are. Seeks are noticeable, but then I like to be able to hear a disk seek.

ATI's R520, Fudo, is a monster of a chip. Don't count them out yet time. Worthwhile features: 32(!!) pipes (whether all will be enabled remains a mystery) Unlimited multi-chip rendering

You could always just use a PCI video card. Every Nforce4 board has at least two PCI slots still. In fact, that's what I did to get the two NForce4 mobos I just bought up and running as servers.

I just found an old, clicky, IBM keyboard. I haven't plugged it into anything, but boy does pressing those keys feel good. Ahh, the sound of quality. I hope it still works.