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If it only happens when no one is around it may be related to power management. You could try making sure the system is set to be always on and not power down the hard drive or anything else.

I never really liked the fedora core distro, things never seemed to work just how they should for me. Besides that once I'd gotten used to debian the package management in FC just seemed clunky...

I've been living in backpackers hostels since the start of September so it's been a while since I've really thought of cooking. Mostly it's slightly modified pizzas from the fridge section or pasta and a basic pre-packed sauce. Generally I eat whatever comes in packets that I can finish in one...

I'm with ddrueding on the value of marriage. It's essentially an arrangement between two people that can mean whatever they want it to with some legal paperwork attached. There is a lot of social preconceptions attached to the idea because for so long it's been religiously and socially/morally...

I did enjoy raven-shield, although I didn't like any of the rainbow six games prior to it and haven't played any after it. I couldn't play it for more than an hour or two at a LAN though. Eventually the slowness just started to get to people and inevitably someone would either start...

Interestingly for much the same price here in the UK I can buy a spare globe for that TV...

Game playing is more a bonus at this stage, mostly I'm playing games from a first person perspective so extra resolution doesn't give you any extra space anyway, just more detail with games designed to be playable at 800x600 a TV should be tolerable. If I get a full gaming PC with a good video...

That Westinghouse does look nice but unfortunately it extends a little above my budget (UK prices seem to be generally much higher than the US, I can't find that TV for under £800). I think I'll just go with the Samsung, the resolution isn't great but the picture quality is pretty good. I'm...

To move vaguely back on topic (but only vaguely) does anyone here have any, potentially helpful, opinions for someone looking at buying an LCD TV? I'm after something to plug my Wii (when I get it) into and would also like to play downloaded videos and probably some games on it. I'm mostly...

If I have the time I tend to try to convert any evangelists to Atheism, they never convert, but they never come back either...

My x1400 laptop plays most current games tolerably well (BF2142, Dark Messiah). I can't play at native resolutions because my laptop is wide screen and most games either don't support 16:9 or actually crash quite a bit, apparently due to poor drivers or DirectX support for 16:9 (The nvidia might...

Have they not thought of taking deposits where you are? I just walked in to Game and put £20 on one last month, so I can pick mine up (with Zelda, I had to pre-order that too) at whatever time I like on Dec 8 (European launch) although I'll probably grab it the morning to make sure I can get the...

Thanks ddruedling, that's what I tried, and basically failed, to coherently suggest in my first post.

Last time I almost felt crazy enough to buy an MP3 player (crazy 'cause I don't listen to music) I looked at some gear from Cowon. They seem to have a really good reputation for audio quality and support flac and ogg out of the box as well as working with macOS and Linux (I'm guessing via mass...

So let me get this straight, the upshot of this thread seems to be the discovery that Microsoft doesn't stop you pirating music, it just makes sure you can't use Firefox as your default browser. Is it just me or does that make perfect sense...?

I found getting ATI drivers doing what I wanted (Running on a TV as the primary monitor) was far easier in KDE than in Gnome (or the .conf file) you might find that playing around with the various GUI config tools allows you to get setup much uicker and then you can just switch to whatever you...

I rip my music to flac and play it in foobar2000, but for people with more music than me ogg/vorbis or MP3 are good ways to go too. WMP is just too bloated for playing, well anything that it's actually capable of playing and DRM on ripped CDs is just wrong on so many levels... I suspect you...

It is now but we've yet to see any real enforcement. The thing that worries me about HDMI and HDCP is that they have DRM options that can be switched on later (I.E the enforcement of lower resolutions for some devices). The encryption couldn't help the difficulty with splitting the audio and...

I guess it just seems to me that HDMI is there to limit your options as much as it is to reduce the number of cables you need. I don't really want to have a heap of separate cables going all over the place but I'd rather have more control of how my system was set up than have a single cable...

Hmm O.K I knew HDMI wasn't really here to help, I didn't think it was quite that inflexible...

If you have the money to splash around ATI's X1900 video cards are capable of doing video encoding/re-encoding without using the CPU and a lot faster (based on the marketing you might want to find an independent review). That could save you some time if your doing a lot of video work where you...

When I lived in country South Australia the local pub (where I lived at the time) played country and western Christmas albums for a couple of months around Christmas... It was everything I would have expected from the bastard child of two of my least favorite genres. Here in the UK I haven't...

I think a separate HDMI for your sound card would work just as well and be easier to implement than passing the audio to the video card. I guess it wouldn't help if you wanted the convenience of a single cable and were happy to use the TVs speakers, but it's not that much more convenient...

It's always fun to hear bout the Americans who managed to blow up or set fire to random devices by plugging them in in Australia or Europe with nothing to drop the voltage. It's a story you get to hear fairly often living in backpackers hostels...

VMWare player and some prefab VMs produced either by formatting a virtual appliance or just using the VMWare workstation trial version would also work fine and be both simple and free... To be honest knowing that IE6 and IE7 were not entirely compatible I kind of assumed that installing them...

Where would the audio go from the HDMI cable anyway? I've yet to see a TV with speakers that I think you'd be able to tell the difference between analog and uncompressed digital audio on, or one with a really nice built in 8 channel amp. If it's going to a separate amplifier I would have thought...

Mercutio, if you liked the unit building system in Alpha Centauri have you checked out Earth 2160? It has a very similar system in a real time strategy format. With 3 or 4 (can't remember which) very different teams it actually has a fair bit of flexibility and fun in it. It can be insanely hard...

So do you have some ultimate form of communication that makes SMS obsolete Mercutio or do you just not communicate? I mean I prefer not to use SMS... It's pretty much the only form of communication I use that costs money to use (rather than costing money to have like the internet). But it's...

I'm pretty sure Cisco just use SIP with some QOS handling stuff which is presumably just the same QOS you could apply to any UDP traffic through a Cisco router. For Cisco specific stuff I can't help much but for SIP (probably more important) you can check : wikipedia for an overview, the SIP...

I often get texts from my sister when she wants to call me on skype (normally she'd just call but since I'm living in a hostel my computer is in a locker when I'm not using it). I used to often text friends to see if they wanted to come around and watch TV shows when they were released (Not so...

I'm enjoying Dark Messiah of Might and Magic at the moment, it's a fairly linear action RPG, plenty of decapitations and severed limbs... My biggest problem with it is that it doesn't like my wide screen laptop monitor and continually crashes at it's native resolution (and only slightly less so...

Guys it's New Zealand, of course they're allowed to use txt instead of text, that's exactly how they pronounce the word...

without a GUI it should run even modern distro's without any problems, ubuntu server or something is probably the simplest solution. I would expect a lot of large file transfers to bog it down fairly easily, but then I wouldn't expect you to be doing a lot of large file transfers in a small...

Another product that absolutely no one should need...

All of the AM2 Semperon descriptions I've seen on AMD's site and elsewhere notably lack any mention of Pacifica so, like Mercutio I've always assumed they didn't have it.

128 bit encryption was left out of the original windows2000, at least the non US version, to comply with export regulations at the time. Later it was included in one of the service packs when the regulations were relaxed (or changed or clarified or something). Perhaps it just wants to install...

Can you assign the entire network card as a PCI device to one of the VMs and then use it to route traffic to the other one? That way uninstalling it in the host OS should have no negative affects. I know this can be done with Xen but I'm unsure otherwise...

I think health care in the UK is pretty good... Public pays for the GP and my employer pays for private if I need a specialist... The last time I went to the doctor was a couple of years ago... I had wax in my ears... Dentists here, are apparently crap unfortunately...

I could find a use for 12 sata ports but I'd rather have them in a box with a 35watt single core athlon64... It's just much cheaper to download with a low power box and only turn on the power sucking toy when you want to play...

I would have assumed that digital cable would be predominantly in 16:9 anyway, DVDs obviously depend on age and what you buy but anything new would typically be 16:9... I guess if your sure your going to be watching a lot of 4:3 stuff then it's worth it but I haven't watched more than a couple...

Walmart have this which seems like what you want... I'd probably rather ddrueding's suggestion though... I'm pretty suer 19" HD is 19" diagonal... I don't know what else they'd be measuring but if it was actually 19" wide as the link suggests then it would be more than 19" diagonal...

you might be able to get around some of your sound issues by getting the open source AC3 filter. It fits in as a direct show filter and is far more configurable than most programs that deal with AC3 by themselves. It also allows for various up mixing/down mixing options which may make it helpful...

I don't know if there is a standard for the colours but I do know that if there is it is often not adhered to.

A cheap, older machine running any flavor of Linux, probably just at the command line and sharing the files with samba is the option I prefer for this sort of job. It's contingent on you having someone with the Linux skills to set it up but really that's not all that difficult and there are...

Well that's good to know, the retailers, even online ones in the UK appear to be pretty clueless. Everyone over here pretty much buys HPs or Dells and enthusiasts don't seem to have a lot of choices so I've yet to see a single after market option for AM2, if thermalright have 3 out though I'm...

Starforce caused my computer to blue screen whenever I tried to load an infected game when I had an ext3 driver installed. Prior to that I was only really against it in principal... It's better to let 10 pirates get away than screw one innocent customer, and I can't imagine how anyone can not...

It seems like it's the same as with the 3500+ 35Watt model, no one has them. Try doing a google search on the model number for the standard CPUs (ADA3500BOX or ADA3800BOX) and you get a stack of hit for sites selling them, do the same with the ADD3500BOX or ADD3800BOX and you get absolutely no...

I guess all the political/emotional issues towards the end of season 2 bored me. The politics and emotional factors are part of what made the series worth watching in the first place but when it got so there was nothing else for a few episodes it was like watching a soap opera in space and I...

Since it's a video card and your replacing it anyway couldn't you just try to flash it from within windows? Most flash utilities suggest you don't but few will actually try to stop you as far as I'm aware...

That's what that is... I always wondered what language that was when I was watching BSG... Then it got kinda boring and I stopped, but it did always have pretty cool music...