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As far as I can tell the Australian government has been extremely lax about actually telling the Japanese, in no uncirtain terms, to piss off. I think that's the first step, after that I'll grant the shot over the bow followed by shot not quite so over the bow does seem justified. The whole...

But that's sort of my point. Recycling is one of those things that gets billed as a great environmental victory. Environmentalist groups put plenty of time and effort in to encourage people to recycle and overall the environmental affect is probably a negative one. It's a way to employ people...

But that's just admiting defeat. Sure, all roads lead to ruin if we don't do anything about it. But assuming that we actually manage to convince our world leaders to do something (or replace them with leaders who will) it matters a great deal that we're convincing them to do the right things...

I think the ammo box idea is probably a good one. A large size ammo box would leave plenty of space for packing. With each drive independantly sealed with a moisture absorbing pack it would take some fairly substantial seismic activity to upset all the drives. And if you need more space you can...

A piece of prototyping board might be slightly smaller than the terminal strip. Just cut of a bit with 4 holes and solder a wire into each. But just twisting or soldering the wires and using shrink tube is probably smaller. I usually do both, fan out the wires on each of the bare ends then twist...

Unfortunately, as far as I can see, much of the environmental movement consists of groups of ill-informed student (Or people who never got over being students) zealots. There are a multitude of environmental problems which will need to be seriously addressed over the next decade or so but it...

Damn that X-Plosion is a $189 sound card over here... Still it's nice to have a superior alternative to creative. I have an audigy and it's inability to encode DD is a real pain (As are the damn drivers)...

I don't play a lot of audio files but I do watch a fair number of video files and I can't imagine why anyone would use WMP more than once... It's bloaty, not very compatible and the UI is so bad it hurts, that and the fact that it contains some security holes that make me wonder if the...

In any case GFS would seem to require a cluster of computers... All I want is a cluster of hard drives... The live CD would be a good idea but I think I'll have to buy a new sata controller and possibly borrow or buy a few more hard drives before I could set anything up anyway so probably...

Recently I've been setting up a linux box to act as a file server/router with the aim of getting the bulk of my storage out of my soon to be watercooled duel core opteron and into something a litte cheeper/safer to run 24x7 as well as increasing my options with security and internet control...

The inclusion of Power chips in the X-Box360 and the use of Cell in the PS3 have probably done more for the commoditization of the Power architechture than anything previous. IBM is definately gearing up to push Power into any market segments it thinks possible so I guess at the moment just...

I think it also comes down to the specific purpose these chips are used for. The Z series have always shone in tasks like accessing hard drives which is one of the features which makes them so blazingly fast at database access. Nobody ever tries to use a Z series for complex calculations...

I think the new shader model 3.0 stuff in cryengine is for their next game which is using it. They may also use it for the x-isle expansion (Or x-isle could be a whole new game I guess, Far Cry started sucking about half way through so far be it from me to care...). At the moment you can get a...

Recent video drivers from ATI and Nvidia will tend to install thier own AGP GART drivers (I have no real idea what these actually do). It wouldn't surprise me if this was the componant which isn't playing nice. If you decompress the driver packages manualy (or one of them at least) and update...

Newegg probably just havn't updated thier picture yet. There is a revision 3 of the NV5 silencer which supports the 7800 series cards.

If the only reason your having problems with your X800 is overclocking you could drop it back to stock and spend your money on an X800 crossfire edition... O.K so you'd probably need a new motherboard, but it's worth considering if the framerate increase your likely to get beats out whatever...

Why not just stick an aftermarket cooler on your existing X800? Arctic Cooling make a couple of models of thier VGA silencer series which would fit your card. They're pretty quiet and have the external exhaust your after. Thermalright have an impressive looking heat pipe cooler which, if thier...

I think you have two options ignoring the possibility of using an old PCI video card. First an SLI or X-Fire board with a couple of PCI-E video cards, I don't think it would actually matter in this case if they were configured to use SLI or X-Fire. Alternatively an ATI chipset board with...

A brief look at using openoffice suggests that it does a substantially less horrific job of converting word documents to html than does word. It still doesn't seem quite as readable as hand written HTML but it would be worth a try. I've always found when putting pictures into a word document...

You might find that making your screenshots .gif files will actually give you better results for the same size. If you have a copy of photoshop the save for web is a nice feature that lets you figure out what format and settings will work best for a particular image. I guess that's a lot more...

I think the only difference is that ImageReady is made more for web graphics like buttons and simple interface componants. It has a slight bias towards working with primative shapes rather than complex images. That said they are both based on the same technology and probably share most of the...

I guess any non-rubbery hard plastic would do the job, a couple of options spring to mind. you could go out and find a horrendously cheap mouse with similar shaped pads and perform a transplant. It would probably depend on your mousing surface too. Just grabbing random things on my desk I...

My experience with BenQ optical drives is that about 1 in 4 of them will actually work. I assume this is not entirely typical, since a product with a 75% failure rate wouldn't last all that long but I still have my doubts about thier reliability.

If Windows permissions were a lot more fine grained then this tool would be a whole lot more useful.

Generally most sane people avoid even attempting to get online with a mobile device in Australia. Plans tend towards the insane price wise, I have a connection I occationally need to use for work which is charged at 20c/k. Yes you read that right, just hitting the google front page with images...

Wow msnbc really hates Firefox... Not that that's really surpriseing but it's worse than the MS site itself...

I have discovered that almost any steel case will take a 120mm fan after a brief session with an angle grinder.

I use ABC it's a download manager based on the BitTornado source. I've always quite liked Azureus' options and the manager but it's far too much of a pain keeping it up to date and making sure you always have the very latest sun JVM, without which it tends to have problems. Besides which I don't...

It's worth noting that although DFI boards do suffer from exactly the same limitation DFI have an extremely relaxed view about overclocking (i.e they actually support it) so they will offer support for people who insist on running at 400Mhz or even higher with 4 sticks of RAM, even if they won't...

Sunon make a 40mm Maglev bearing fan which should be pretty quiet for a sustained period. A couple of the bays I've seen are aluminium and contact the top of the drive to function as a heat sink. I guess that avoids the need for a fan.

Any socket 939 nForce3 board should meet those requirements. They will generally not widely advertise that they are duel core capable but as long as they have a reasonably recent bios they'll work fine. I currently run a duel core opteron on an nForce3 board from DFI and that works very well...

3D Mark is also useful for testing just how much manufacturers have broken the latest SE or other budget version of a card. For comparing two cards with the same core and just differences like memory bandwidth and clock speeds the tests are quite valid...

Yeah I've put all sorts of drivers on without any problems, although in hind sight I'd stay away from video card drivers. If you add drivers then Windows treats them like it's native drivers, uninstall your current Catalyst drivers to install the newest ones and Windows will install the one you...

It sounds like you need a friendly neigbourhood computer store owner who'll loan you a couple of TB of hard drives for the weekend...

Other than motherboards (and them only in the last couple of years), I've never found gigabyte products particularly compelling... Thier optical gear especially (Which I suspect they don't actually make anyway) ranks along side BenQs in my opininon and that's pretty low... I've seen any...

If your building 15 it would be worth grabbing nlite and createing a slipstreamed XP install disk. That way you can add the sata drivers to it, avoiding the need for a floppy drive, and also include all the latest security updates.

I don't know that I really think this guys methodologies are all that valid... P3-800 with 256MB of RAM and XP-SP2? Wouldn't such a system just sit there and swap even without anything loaded? Surely if IE loads any componants at startup, as I believe is the general consensus, that would give...

It looks like your complaints have been addressed Tony, but the glasses are still wrong. I'm not sure about the rest of the country but in Victoria I'm pretty sure anything smaller than a pot is generally called a waste of bloody time.

Just as a matter of interest has anyone returned an out of warranty board to the manufacturer and paid for a repair job? I've noticed they all seem to have a flat rate repair/replace policy, which just seems odd to me. In the US/Canada I guess $35 repair for a $50 board isn't really worth it...

Oh and I'm pretty sure I've seen Dow Corning thermal paste in Dick Smith or Jaycar so int the US I guess I'd try Radioshack or somewhere.

I'm pretty sure that unlike car engines a CPU can not get any hotter after it stops running. With no electricity running through it it will not produce any more heat and since the heatsink will generally be slightly cooler than the CPU the laws of thermodynamics (as I understand them) would...

Yeah Mexican for Victorian isn't something I've heared... But then perhaps they just don't say it to our faces... Generally though I hear Victorian used more as a compliment, as in "He's so good he could be a Victorian".

If you really only want to do it once some thermal epoxy would work... The performance isn't as good but it will never dry out... Or it will, but it's supposed to... Of course there isn't really any going back when you've glued the heatsink on so it's not such a brilliant solution... I tend to...

I was fairly sure that ignoring DMCA (which I do as a matter of course) you can't actually be arrested for copyright violations OR breaching a contract. My understanding was that both of these were civil matters and someone would have to sue you... But I'm no lawyer... I was pretty sure that...

A couple of suggestions from building my own HTPC; I found I got a massive boost for playing really high bitrate video from chucking a gigabit network card in the system, this may just be windows (which I'm using because my DTV card does funky things to Linux, I'll probably just remove the DTV...

I havn't watched TV except from my PC in about 3 years. Australian TV is so far behind American TV and there is so much annoying reality TV crap it's just not worth the effort. O.K so technically downloading all the shows you want to watch via bit torrent isn't legal... But it does work... I...

I think the bottom of most end user licenses state, essentially, that you should just ignore any stipulations which they are not legal entitled to make in your country. It's a pretty cheap trick that means they can say whatever the hell they like, such as; your not allowed to modify the product...

Ah yes Bet on Soldier, I spent ages trying to figure out what was going wrong there, I did everything right to bypass the protection and it looked like it was going to run and then Bam! it hard locked the whole system... In the end it turned out that I was getting past the copy protection fine...

It depends on the copy protection used but generally making an image of the play cd with Alcohol 120% and mounting it in Daemon tools 4 should work. In the case of recent starforce protected games you may also need to unplug all IDE optical drives (which I guess kind of negates much of the...

You could try disabling the usb keyboard and mouse support in the bios. The windows hid drivers should still work (although I guess you would need a ps2 keyboard to get into the bios afterwards). In theory that might take some of the onus off the chipset as far as figuring out the keyboard and...