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At the risk of over analysing I suspect a shot could be delivered at an anlge that took out both sets of cards. Using a hollow point or balistic tip projectile could also work as it would fragment on impact potentially causing much wider spread damage, a shotgun would probably also do the trick...

Wow... HP actually are in tune with what corporate tech support staff are thinking. Although would it have been too much to ask for them to show what sort of caliber, or how many shots we would need?

Gotta love how the start of the article makes it sound like it was 30% faster than the 15K.4... It's probably a little bit faster but a 300GB Cheetah is still a great improvment even if it's not any faster at all...

I'd have to guess that the original problem was that you were imaging onto an NTFS partition (Assuming of course that you actually were) and the dos NTFS driver wrote the files in a way that windows didn't like. NTFS doesn't seem to me to be the most well defined and stable file system in the...

.divx is actually very similar to AVI, the only difference as far as I know is that divx files can work without some header information (like the codec) because it will make some assumptions. So in the end for compatability your divx files would still have an avi header. This would suggest that...

For a short time Apples stand alone QT distro (The one without iTunes) was also called Quckitime alternative. It didn't seem to install any other crap along with itself, and indeed it behaved much like the original QTAlt, albeit without mediaplayer classic. I'm not sure what the current version...

I can see the point of the tool but I'm guessing the vast majority of Dell users will never find it, and the vast majority of those who see it can, and quite possibly would prefer to do the whole thing manually (I.e with a complete rebuild). Still probably this is easier than doing a remote...

When I first started with Linux I knew how to do a couple of basic things and I could use a couple of basic tools, but picking up new tools was a major pain in the arse. It took hours just to figure out which tool I would need for a particular job just so I could actually find the man page for...

I've seen the symantec provided tools clean the corporate SAV software off a couple of PCs with no trouble at all, but I've also seen a scheduled upgrade to a new version of SAV go so horribly wrong that not only could those tools not save the system but it took a struggle with a couple of live...

Well I'm cirtainly with you in that I'd much rather install OSX on my own, high quality, reasonably priced, hardware than actually purchase a shiny plastic thing from Apple...

I don't think it's all that amazing a change... Apple have gonefrom saying "We're not going to stop you running windows but we're not going to help you" to "Actually we will help you". In the end Apple still sell the Mac hardware and OSX so they make the same money if you run windows or not. The...

I can't stand the use of the term centigrade... Aparently it was the correct term prior to 1950 or so when it was ditched because it was unclear (Was also aparently a measurement of an angle). The thing I don't understand is that it seems like just about everyone used imperial measures prior to...

Yeah the backwards idea always seemed like a good idea to me as well but it seems that the one pin missing and one hole missing arangment caught on instead...

As I understand it if your willing to buy some new parts for compatability and don't mind being a patch level or two behind then it's not too complex, just a matter of grabbing some patches or a prepatched ISO and installing...

I think it's America more than Europe that uses the bizzare middle endian date system... In China I think, and some other parts of the world that would have passed on May the 4th two years ago... As well as in a lot of peoples file systems where big endian dates are much easier to sort...

I was pretty sure it has more to do with requiring some sort of certification before going poking arround in wall cavities which may have exposed or partially exposed 240V wireing... But you could be right... Regardless of the correctness of that interpretation it still does tend to be a pain at...

Actually even windows XP does something like this. It keeps a digitally signed copy of cirtain files and replaces the working copies if they ever get altered (Unless you turn the feature off). Of course that still doesn't stop other files pretending to be part of the OS but it wouldn't be too...

As much as I don't think that it was really a statement anymore by the time these particullar girls were involved it was still perfectly harmless... I don't see that you can punish a person for someone elses paranoid fears about what they might have been doing... O.K so they left suspicious...

I gave up on the Simpsons far too long ago to expect the movie to be anything but lame... I mean they're still somewhat funny but the Family Guy has always done the type of random comedy the Simpsons are now relying on better and the best they could do for a movie was essentially a movie length...

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn you have to be a certified electrician in Australia... You do to wire a CAT5 cable and that has almost nothing to do with electricity... Next they'll require a qualified plumber to install case fans... ...Yeah, O.K I think I went a bit off topic there...

Yes... Yes he did...

When I first got wind of Joss Whedons wonder woman project I was a little concerned... But then I remembered that a cheerleader who kills vampires was also a pretty stupid concept that ended up being a pretty funny movie and at one time the best show on television so I'll have to give him the...

You could always just earth it... Actually I suspect that since your pretty much always going to be touching the case and the metal tube of the vacume cleaner you pretty much always are earthing it anyway...

Bucking the trend and going on topic for a minute another option would be something like this. Admitedly you'd have to buy a screen and some speakers (Headphones?) to go with it but the advantage of being able to just rip some DVDs to a hard drive would seem worth having. Reduced possibility of...

Wow, everyone has such complex and/or expensive methods for cleaning computers... Even Buck uses his vacume cleaner to blow the dust out of the case... Is there some terrible reason that I'm not aware of that means you can't just use a standard little brush attachment (the type you get with just...

Except that on a platter, said mote becomes like unto the aforementioned viscous and hateful humour, and concequently not so insignificant...

Wow... That's like counting your chickens before the eggs are even laid...

On the other hand consider the posibility of a Samsung 10K RPM SATA drive...

Does that go along with other unanswerable car yard questions such as "Which came first, this annoying and potentially expensive transmission problem or my actually buying the car?" and "If the smarmy, arrogant car dealer get's beaten unconcious in the back room and no-one is arround to see it...

I agree with Tony on this one, the highest point in the lifecycle of any Symantec product is right before Symantec bought it. All my experience with Symantec products, ghost included, suggests that Symantec products only ever get worse, never better... Does anyone know of a producct that...

I ditched PC-cillian as soon as the integrated the firewall and anti-spyware... If the can't sell me just what I want then they won't be selling me anything at all (Ditto if they will sell it to me but make me hunt for it).

I can never remember how to do those things 'cause they don't adhere to rules consistent with how you do everything else in the system... In the end I'd just create the normal shortcut and use the Windows Key+Pause to get the system properties up. The only other special icons I can think of are...

I've been playing The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion for the last couple of days and so far it's been living up to expectations. For those of you who havn't played any Elder Scrolls games before they are RPGs with extremely open worlds. So you can go off, ignore the plot for a while, and just do...

Congrat's all 'round, seems like everyone's getting new jobs...

GSpot codec information is a helpful little program for determining what codecs you need to play media files. It can be found in most good codec packs or at http://www.headbands.com/gspot/. For getting rid of all the crap your fake codec installed I'd suggest the best bet would have been...

The brand I hate most would probably have to be Benq. Without having actually ever owned a Benq product I have seen some absolute drivel come from thier factories. Of the 4 or so Optical drives of thiers that I've seen, only one was not DOA and it was a waranty replacement. Other than that they...

I am on occation guilty of excessively understating things...

Oh yeah, clonecd added a virtual drive somewhat after alcohol 120% came out with thiers... Very few people use it anymore though and most stopped prior to the version with the virtual drive. FYI: Medal of Honor is pretty old now, there are no-cd cracks for the latest version that work perfectly...

One more reason to hate Starforce that I've not seen documented anywhere is that if you have an Ext2 filesystem plugin running starforce will blue screen your PC. It'd be nice if the new driver architecture (to the extent that there is one) in Vista stopped horrors like starforce from getting...

Santilli I would suggest; Try running in windows 2000 compatability mode (if you can in 2k3) Try manually opening Call of Duty - United Offensive.msi Change SuppressWrongOS=N to SuppressWrongOS=Y Call of duty and united offensive are based on the Quake3 engine. Games using this engine don't...

I found that no matter how cool the description of any mission was the mission invariably ended up being; Go to a randomly chosen entrance of type X, end up in an inside are chosen from about 3 or 4 apropriate to the entrance, a)kill everything, b)kill a specific boss character, c)use a...

Since it's a linux based distro it should be as simple as setting everything to mount read only in the fstab file.

I suppose that statistically speaking if your customers want stupidly complex setups then they are me... But anyway sorry about draging us back to the topic but that's what you get for posting three times while I was considering my own post...

All three actually as well as a couple of others... I guess the COH defender class is a setp towards what I'm talking about in that they aren't just healbots and having aa defender spamming heals on a tank will not win you battles most of the time, but COH had so little content that I just...

I was looking for a similar spec system to help a mate build a MAME box and I noticed that VIA boards and CPUs would cost about $60 more than a gigabyte 754 board and a 64bit semperon 2600+... It's possible that you can get VIA stuff cheaper than I can or that the power savings of using a VIA...

I know there are some people that actually enjoy playing healer characters but I've alwways just assumed that there was something wrong with them... besides even granting that some people like them the whole tank/healer/damage dealer/crowd control dynamic has been taken way too far... Healers...

I just saw the first pitch one too but I think for Mercutios version he needs to replace Laura with Dick... I mean who's bitch are we talking about afterall?

Sounds like they have made the same mistakes as every other MMORPG out there (Except for City of Heroes and Eve Online which to thier credit made quite different, if no less fatal, mistakes). I'd really like to see an MMORPG with properly dynamic environments, ie. no instances, no killing the...

I think they're all pretty similar in that you can only be logged in on one PC at a time. MSN and ICQ will just log out your current session if you start a new one with the same ID... I'm not sure about any others since I havn't used them. Essentially the only way to really deal with this would...

Yeah interestingly enough IE does seem to render the block noticably more blue to me as well. The rest of the page seems very slightly more blue. Opera looks exactly the same as firefox colour wise (IE Purple).