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That's a very well designed case. It's been good to see the innovation in the case market the last year or so. It really ties a lot of good practices together eh? 1. The power supply and hard drive cage duct is good stuff. 2. The positioning of the duct's fan in the middle of the case is...

By the way guys, I found the coverage at ArsTechnica by Jade on the Mac mini and on the keynote quite entertaining. As the disclaimer at the top of the first link notes: "If you are... resistant to Space Balls you may want to skip this article." I couldn't say it better myself. Resistant to...

In the home theatre department, Linux and a USB soundcard (many of which are top, top notch quality) would still work, and the thing has DVI out. I have no idea about using a USB soundcard with OS X though.

I just realized these things can come with bluetooth wireless. The cool way to do the mouse and keyboard thing would be to spring for the bluetooth option and the appropriate gear. Mmm. I forget about that. It is indeed much faster, at least for CompactFlash readers and digital cameras in my...

Ya. You'd definitely have to pick up one of those keyboards that comes with a couple extra ports, or a monitor with a hub. The former are very common these days though. It does make you think though. I suppose the idea is that a lot of people with iPods are going to be thinking about these...

I was shockingly impressed when I first checked the thing out. IMO it's absolutely awesome. First of all it's gorgeous, and it's ridiculously compact. Second of all, I can think of so many uses for it. I suppose I might be going to hell for even thinking of installing Linux on it though...

Your new cat looks exactly like a cat that I recently witnessed being moved into my father's house, while I was visiting over the Holidays. His name's Buddy. He was even more timid at first, but he had a less gradual introduction. He was just dumped into the house. The poor thing was owned...

16.6MP, 16-bit RAW images will do that to you :). They're 91.5MB aren't they? Consider yourself lucky. I'm going to be enjoying my S2 Pro for several more years in all likelihood. I'm beginning to think I should have stuck with my trusty Nikon F-401s until development on these digis slows...

Speaking of lighting for growing plants, does anyone have advice on what would be the most efficient type of lighting to use? I have a bunch of plants which could use a little boost, particularly in the dark Halifax winter, but have no experience with hydroponics. Considering how much some of...

I suppose for an antenna, you just strap it to the existing antenna eh? So asking if a router supports an additional antenna may have been kind of stupid eh? Sorry guys I'm clueless about RF electronics/physics.

I recently posted in the techsupport forum here about some issues I've had with a Linksys BEFW11S4 rev 4 wireless B router. The thing has totally died. Even wired connections don't work. I may as well be plugging ethernet cables into a piece of pizza... I did however, enjoy several months of...

Some Intel dual boards actually don't need registered RAM. The ones that use the i875P Intel chipset, in particular, are good value for the money. The Asus PC-DL, NCCH-DL and the IWill DH800 will all allow you to build a dual Intel system quite inexpensively. The latter two will also support...

That's hilarious. I'm always impressed when people put that little, extra effort into their pranks. I'd love to meet the characters that pulled this off.

I do not know how your fall has been ending, but just about everyone I know has no electricity. Apparently there are about 100 000 people in Nova Scotia without power right now, and many will not see electricity until next week. Firestations are setting up shelters... and it's only November...

I was pretty shocked to see 8 SATA connectors on that Gigabyte board. That's a lot of drives.

I fixed it guys. What a mission. There's nothing like wasting a whole sunday afternoon fixing problems that just pop out of mid-air... Did I ever mention that I hate: 1. Windows. (Linux users don't have to have SSID broadcast enabled on WPA-PSK networks.) 2. Proprietary configuration tools...

I posted this here at SR, but I know many of you, 1) have experience with wireless (particularly Mercutio :)), and, 2) also have accounts at SR, but don't check out the forum regularly. I actually would have posted it here, but I couldn't resolve Storageforum. It was one of the sites affected...

What I meant by this was that the error rate if all the process did was copy, would be in the stated range based on the thermodynamics (I should have said thermodynamics over kinetics in my previous post) of the reaction. This emphasizes the amount of additional effort the cell puts in to make...

It's worth mentioning that pre-med cell biology classes are grossly over-simplified. I took a class called "Advanced Medical Cell Biology" that was ostensibly very advanced (4th year level). It was a joke compared to the introductory Cell Biology class in the biochemistry faculty (2nd year...

I can certainly give a brief (I guess it depends on how you define brief) outline. I've actually studied this stuff for several years now, so I can go on for a long time. Luckily I enjoy it immensely. The big thing to appreciate is that the system is astoundingly complex. The face of Cell...

Fred Hoyle's inordinately quoted statistics regarding the mathematical probability of evolution are tremendously misleading. His numbers, if they're even remotely correct (critical literature appears to be limited to serious scientific journals, which are expensive) represent the probability of...

In the vein of less serious musings, I'm happy to contribute some of my less serious and dangerous thoughts: I agree. In Dante's Divine Comedy that theory is certainly born out. Hell is actually by far the most interesting book. You know, if you're a virtuous 'pagan' you don't actually get...

1. Wow, my post was even longer than I thought it was. Necessary though. 2. Thank you Mercutio for making the post on abortion. I was beginning to feel obligated, but you hit most of the important points. I'll commend your post if no one else will. For what it's worth, I think you're a...

It's necessary that I expand on some things I said earlier. The following posts demonstrate ignorance (I mean that in a naive sense, not as an attack) of some very important aspects of Western history. Interestingly the aspects that are apparently unknown are exactly the fundamental evolutions...

I typically try and avoid political debate because it's generally useless, but at this point I have to say something. Don't hate me, I'm just a messenger of practical reason. If you don't want to read a medium-length illustration, just read this: I don't think reasonable, educated men and...

I make chili regularly and I also usually use some habaneros to give it some zing. That's rather dangerous advice though Buck. Habanero's are not to be given to the unprepared. The first time I used them in my chili I almost blew my face off. I'd been using jalapenos before, and thought I...

Personally, I think drinking alone is just fine --as long as it isn't regularly interfering with other things that are important to you. I've never really believed that the stigma, that drinking suddenly develops if it's done solitarily, has any real merit. Personally, I enjoy many alcoholic...

Oh, I almost forgot, it does offer all the features you're looking for, even the firewire.

The new DFI board has been causing quite a stir in the overclocking community. I think systems using it currently hold just about every record overclockers compete in, and by a significant margin (don't ask me what exactly they're competing in though). Anandtech's got a review. They took it...

I certainly agree, but I'm curious whether anyone has experience with any companies that they would trust regarding 2d quality (other than Matrox)? PNY maybe? They also target the workstation market. ASUS? I've never used anything but Matrox cards. I'm tempted to do as Merc and Will...

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The random tidbit above is probably a consequence of the fact that one only runs one X server with one config even if you run multiple X Server sessions... :oops:

That is a good suggestion and one that I've looked into. I have several concerns. My concern with ATI cards specifically is that their driver support for Linux is not nearly the priority that NVidia makes it. X is taking advantage of more and more 2D hardware acceleration these days to...

There's a plethora of 5200s with solid RAMDACs. In fact I don't think video cards come with anything that tops out below 2048x1536@75Hz these days. I easily found these: MSI's (400Mhz RAMDACs), PNY's (350Mhz RAMDACs), Chaintech's (350Mhz RAMDACs), ASUS' (350Mhz RAMDACs), and Gainward's (400...

The Best GPU for $100 thread that Clocker started reminded me that I have a budget (ideally) video card purchase coming up. The decision has become surprisingly difficult, so I am hoping to leverage some of SF's experience. Just about the only work I do that is demanding on hardware is Photo...

I did have to resort to failsafe mode to get it to boot on my system. I don't know enough to be able to diagnose why it failed to mount the Knoppix filesystem (the specific error I got) using the 2.4 and 2.6 versions. I was getting quite worried for a little bit but failsafe pulled through...

LOL. Hello Tea, and Tannin.

Thank you for the kind introduction E_dawg. I'm grateful. Ah yes, good old Gilbolt, as many of as you are, no doubt, aware, one should never try and slip anything past CityK :). I did indeed forget the Gilbolt password. I swear, when I tried to register initially, Gilbo was already in use (I...

I got certified several years ago, almost a decade ago actually. I went on several dives then, in Jamaica. I did some diving in the Caymans two years after that, and then, another two years later in Belize. The Caymans were gorgeous and Belize was spectacular. While every diver has heard of...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. Howell, I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm originally from Ontario and have lived out here for several years now, and I still love the accent. You should hear Cape Bretoners talk, if the Nova Scotians you heard weren't from there anyway...

I've always loved Dan's Data too. It's the most caustic, most awesome, geeky humour on the net these days IMO --not to mention that the guy is genuinely intelligent and can use google like no man I have ever seen. Combine that with his intolerance for idiocy and you've got an author that...