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L-shaped enter key, small backspace key... shudder. I haven't been able to type on one of those since the eighties. I count the last couple times I had to use such a beast amongst the more frustrating moments of my life.

Are the Abit and ECS variants available to you yet Buck? I haven't seen them around up north yet, but we are a little behind the times generally...

I've grown to like the keyboard of my T42 so much, and become so used to it, that I picked one of these up. They're not cheap (that's a Canadian price though --which is more than just exchange rate), but they're damn nice to type on, and excellently built --not to mention pretty stylish. I'm...

I think you're restricted to DFI, Chaintech, Gigabyte, Asus, and MSI right now. So you're right, the selection isn't huge, but there are enough quality boards out there that you shouldn't have difficulty finding anything you need. From what I've read it appears that these new PCIe boards are...

My root filesystem is on an 8GB partition on this computer and all the disk space is already assigned to one filesystem or another, so I went with the /home/music route. I just chgrped /home/music to be owned by my account, and then chmoded it to appropriate permissions so that other users have...

LOL. Mounting it to /mnt/music might make more sense eh? I think using /home/music on the server will work alright if I'm not running NIS on the network. Does this make any sense? The thing is, I'm thinking about running NIS too...

Oh and by /joe/music and /jane/music in my first post, I actually meant /home/joe/music and /home/jane/music.

Wait a second... would /home/music even be possible? I mean, wouldn't that mean that the only normal user with access to that directory would the owner, music? Oh lordy... the simplest things...

I have a rather simple question regarding the standard way to organize shared directories on a Linux fileserver. It's really nothing more than a question of good form. I've got a pair of home fileservers that store my music, DVDs, and my photographs. So far, everything is in subdirectories of...

It turns out I just managed to dig up an ATI Mach64 GT from an old computer in my basement, which simplifies things quite nicely. I'm not going to bother with anything else. Oddly enough, I have two of these identical boxes, but only one still had its video card. For the life of me I can't...

There's a small army of ATI Mach64 cards on ebay that no one wants. That might be a good route Blakewry. Now that I think about it, were there any AGP ATI Xpression cards made? I think I have a pair of those in the basement somewhere. Hopefully they're PCI. That would be convenient :). The...

I need a PCI video card. I'm setting up a pair of headless servers in my house, but the boards' BIOSes are configured out of the box to halt without a graphics card. I can't change this BIOS setting without being able to see the BIOS menu, so, unfortunately, I can't do a headless install over...

ddrueding, you might be interested in the this thread over at SR. It has some information regarding the availability of Areca's controllers.

One thing I do with my Firefox to minimize the screen space it uses is move the buttons I use, the address bar, and the search bar up onto the menu bar. I then disable the navigation toolbar (all the stuff is now in the menu bar), along with the bookmarks toolbars, and set the button size to...

Hmm. Better to go to the site and bring them up in their own windows. Placing them side by side like that doesn't isolate them properly enough. They distract from each other. Anyway, you get the point. Check Suarez out.

This month's Nikon Legend's behind the lens photographer has some absolutely terrific photos. I find this one especially attractive: The composition is superbly chosen. It's absolutely incredibly well done in my opinion. Not to mention that he has captured a strongly evocative moment. The...

ATX12V 2.01 looks like what I need according to page 34 of this document. Sechs, you brought out some useful distinctions. For example I hadn't realized that ATX12V x.y was different than ATX x.y. I am beginning to understand what is going on now thanks to your post. Thank you for making the...

Sechs, in doing some recent power supply research of my own I came across some supplies that might be exactly what you're looking for. Forton and Sparkle are one and the same and are known for producing quality, reasonably priced power supplies that are conservatively rated. Froogle of their...

According to page 27 this document the ATX12V 1.1 standard specifies a 20-pin connector. So I assume the manual contains a typo. Looking up the ATX 2.0 Power supply spec on the same site indicates that ATX 2.0 Power supplies do indeed retain the 4-pin connector, despite what I read in an...

I just looked at the manual for the board, a DFI NF4 Ultra-D, that should be arriving in the next couple days and it definitely says that the 24-pin and 4-pin connectors should both be used. Oddly enough, however, it specifies that power supplies that feature such connectors are "ATX12V Power...

Okay, I think I might be able to answer my own question. I keep seeing ATX 2.0 around, and I looked up the specification and it specifies a 24-pin ATX connector. Strangely, it seems the specification does away with the 4-pin AUX connector, which I still see on many new motherboards with 24-pin...

Oh, I also think I know that you can plug a 20-pin ATX power supply into a 24-pin ATX connector motherboard and nothing will explode, but the opposite is not a good idea. However, I figure, if I'm buying a new power supply, I may as well buy the right kind.

What I think I know: 1. A lot of higher end non-server motherboards these days require a 24-pin ATX connector. EPS 12V power supplies have these connectors. 2. These motherboards also require a 4-pin 12V connector. EPS 12V power supplies have an 8-pin, not a 4-pin 12V power connector, which...

From my limited understanding, the ACCU book review page is supposed to be a good source of information. Hopefully it can point you in some useful directions.

You could mortgage the house and buy one of these. In fact, I suppose you could get away with selling the car if it was relatively new ;).

Thanks for the reference Buck. It was very useful. It led me to an interesting discovery. LinuxCanada just open sourced Quasar Accounting on Jan 13th. I'm certainly going to check this program out. It seems to be quite mature and full featured. However, it may be unnecessarily powerful for...

I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with this type of software on the Linux platform. Over the next week or two I'm probably going to try all the following applicatoins and see what I like and what I don't. The big boy is, apparently, GNUCash, but it is a rather gigantic piece of...

This works just fine. As a matter of fact, I just did it yesterday for a family member who had lost/thrown out their original OEM CD.

Oops. I forgot about the EATX requirement when I mentioned the SLK3700AMB and the LX-6A19. They're both ATX. I've yet to find an EATX case for less than ~US$150, and I was looking for some time.

The Silverstone TJ-05 is a very nice case at a relatively good price. In fact, it's what I would have recommended to you myself. A little touch that I like is the placement of the USB, firewire and audio ports on the side of the front of the case. The fact that there's a firewire port at all...

Just to update myself a little I dropped by CDRInfo and saw that they have reviewed the latest iterations from LG and NEC. CDRInfo does quite thorough optical drive reviews. Their conclusion regarding the the latest LG, the GSA-4163B, is quite complimentary. The NEC does quite well as well...

Thank you. That was fast :) .

Oh, okay, the 1633 is a burner. The 163/166/167's that I was mentioning are all DVD-ROMs --readers only, with no burning capability whatsoever. They are much older than anything like the 1633. I think the 166/167's are actually as much as two or even three years old. There are still plenty...

Because the K8 has two, independent memory controllers you theoretically don't have to add DIMMs in pairs if you don't want to. Now, I know with certainty that Opterons allow this, and you can activate/inactivate memory channels in the BIOS, but I haven't been able to confirm whether 939 A64s...

It seems to me that the 1633 series is a recent LiteOn DVD-Recorder line. If the extra 3 was a typo and you meant the 163, a reader like the 166/167's, then yes the latter are newer, but I don't believe there are any differences of note. It's hard to tell though because the LiteOn DVD-Rom...

I had no idea battery life was so good. In fact, I have little doubt I'm behind the times with respect to Cell phones. I'm not really a big cell phone person at all as a matter of fact. It's probably my one big condescension to the neophyte point of view. Is there an independent site that...

I think the Lite-On 166/167s are the fastest at DVD ripping, as well as CD ripping. That was the story floating around the CDFreaks, CDR-Labs, and CDR-Info forums when I was doing research into the same question about six months ago. They were regarded head and shoulders above other readers...

The issue with this is simply a confusion of the term "Dual Link" which is mostly due to graphics card vendors' inappropriate use of it. A real dual link connector uses a single DVI cable and the normal DVI form-factor. Monitors that require two seperate DVI cables to drive aren't actually...

I need battery life in a cell phone and extraneous activities like playing music off it seem to cause that to suffer dramatically, so even if they had better storage, I don't think I'd ever find that route practical. I also like getting a well-tuned tool for a purpose, and the...

ArsTechnica has news that updates will remain free (last line of the article). This is good news for Windows users. Personally, I decided to leave the whole debacle behind.

Personally, I'd stick with the 512MB. It's plenty for the type of usage the Shuffle is great for. If you get bored you can always change up the playlists. I can't really see any need for the 1GB.

Both Slimserver and kplaylist are intriguing. I've never come across either in my wanderings. This is such a short, yet useful thread.

MPD, which works on all the *nixy OSes has web clients. I've yet to try it, but I've been looking into it, and it looks interestiing. General *nix music player thoughts: At the moment I've been using Rhythmbox via remote desktop (just on my LAN), because ReplayGain support is pretty crucial...

I have to agree with Merc, although I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is moving in the direction of selling movies through iTunes. If they are though, the current Mini falls far too short for most people right now. In contrast, the more I think about it, the better it looks for individuals like...

This is for the latest versions available: Firefox: US$45 Konqueror: US$25 Mozilla: US$10 IE: US$0 I haven't used Opera in --it might actually be-- five years, so I'm not reallly equipped to comment. Given my ancient, fond memories I'd probably rate it somewhere near Konqueror. I honestly...

What converter are you using Lunarmist? ACR, C1, Bibble? I can't recall if I've heard you mention it in any of your other posts. It's the interpolation that is the most CPU intensive part of the conversion. ACR's converter is very fast, so if speed is a big concern you may want to use it, but...

All I can say is that I hope that these holographic media are a lot more scratch-resistant than existing optical storage media. Or that scratches won't be an issue at all. I can't deal with another generation of media that are little more than data traps. I was tremendously excited when the...

That would be great. Unfortunately, they're still playing on that tiny American rules field. Bah. When will Americans realize that football is meant to be played on a real-sized Canadian field with 12 people on each side... The NFL with Canadian rules would be a wonder to behold. I think...

Ya, it's been an interesting winter so far e_dawg. We got three storms in a week that were, individually, big by anyone's standards. Together they almost reached white juan level. The biggest problem we have with winter storms, in Nova Scotia anyway, is actually the wind. Most storms come...

This story is just hilarious. I could really get to enjoy this kind of marketing. ATI anonymously sent out PDF pamphlets to attendees of an NVidia PR conference. Instead of being full of the typical marketing bullshit, they offer prizes to attendees who can spot NVidia's more 'optimistic'...