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Hopefully your first observation is just a bad data point. If the lackluster mileage continues, it could be indicative of other issues (fuel filter, etc.). Are you measuring MPG via trip computer or via miles driven on a full tamp & gallons required to refill? Trip computers are sometimes off...

Virtually all the gas around here has had 10% Ethanol for years. Unless you normally get 40+MPG you shouldn't be losing more than 10% or so on your mileage. E85 is known to reduce mileage by 15-30%, the same as 100% Ethanol. See 2nd paragraph. Even with the 10% Ethanol I pretty much always...

paugie: I'd have to call the woman both crazy & negligent to get in a vehicle herself and also take along a 4 year old with a drunk driver. Greg: Does Apple still support 9.1? If they do not then I wouldn't expect any ISVs or peripheral vendors to support it. If they do, then HP made the...

On this day in 1958, the F-4 Phantom II first flew. In 1957, Toronto's 1050 CHUM AM became Canada's first radio station to only broadcast a top 40 Rock n' Roll music format. In 1939, DC Comics published its second superhero, Batman. In 1937 in California, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to...

On this day in 1958, Explorer 1 ceased transmission. In 1933, legendary American racehorse Seabiscuit was born. In 1929, the first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse ("The Karnival Kid") was released. In 1923, Belgium's SABENA airline launched. And in 1911, the New York Public Library was...

Re: ATI drivers. While I'm a little surprised about W2003 losing support, W2K doesn't surprise me at all. I imagine XP drivers will be available for some time to come. Realistically they'd be dumb to stop XP driver offerings as long as XP had a 15% or higher market share. IIRC XP came out in...

Congrats to sf-[SPLASH]-gh for passing the million point mark!

Right now I commute 23 miles each way (46 mile round trip) 4 days a week & telecommute the 5th. By the end of the year I hope to be telecommuting 8 of 10 days with day 9 being an 88 mile round trip and day 10 the 46 mile round trip. That would drop my commuting miles from 184 per week to an...

Current farm: My main PC: Q6600 on Gigabyte (see building new PC thread from May '07). 4GB, Vista, 3870. Runs 3xConsole + 1 GPU2. Server: Q6600 on ECS 671T. 2GB, Vista. Runs 3xConsole + 1 System Tray. I use the term Server loosely; it really is a repository for sharing files & backing up our...

See reply in the main Folding thread.

On my P4M900T-M using CPU-Z 1.45, I've got the following: CAS 4 RAS to CAS 5 RAS Precharge 5 RAS (Cycle Time) 13 RC 19 RAM is at 1.8V, 333MHz although it'll do 400. The board is Rev 1 and BIOS is 080014 from 5/29/2007.

My wife still gets the occasional dry eyes but not often enough to be an issue. I haven't had my eyes tested lately. I'm pretty sure my near-/far-sightedness is basically unchanged but my color perception isn't what it used to be. In moderate light certain shades of green & gray are hard to...

I've got one of those. Running Vista it seems to fold within roughly 10% of my Linux system, which is some other ECS board (have to look it up ..). The Linux system will shortly be redone as an XP system to replace my wife's Athlon as noted above. The rebuild will include adding a 3870...

Mark, any idea which ECS motherboard that was? Today's buy was my 3rd Q6600/ECS combo & I think they've all been different boards. Now, since we have to dedicate a CPU core to the GPU client, if you run a C2Q with GPU, are you doing single-core clients for cores not tied to GPUs or are you...

On this day in 1992, Space Shuttle Endeavour landed safely after a successful maiden voyage. In 1975, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. In 1969, a Soviet spaceprobe (Venera 5) landed on Venus. In 1965, Campbell Soup Company introduced SpaghettiOs under its...

Yeah, but I won't be installing it right away. It'll be the foundation of my 1st DDR3 system so I'll have to start watching for a good mobo & DDR3 RAM. The Q6600 will replace my wife's Athlon XP 2900. Nice bump for her. :)

Fry's Anniversary Sale. I think it's nationwide but it is at least going on in the Downers Grove (Chicago suburbs) location. Stuff that wound up in my cart: Q6600 w/ ECS motherboard for $180. Q9450 for $280 750GB Seagate for $110. Antec Solo for $30. Vista Ultimate OEM for $170, get a $50...

You probably use Road Runner so it logs you in automatically. As to the article, I would agree that many issues are caused by bad lifestyle choices. ADD/ADHD, for instance, is a legitimate condition for some however I'm pretty sure that a diet with less refined sugar & no caffeine/stimulants...

Do you have a link to an actual article? From a news organization? That just goes to an ISP page with a state selector.

Nice. I can get the full version of Office Premium for $19.95 + about $2 shipping via my employer & the MS Home Use program, but OS versions aren't on the list.

Ditto; I've one by the office. I stopped by this afternoon & they were out of the 4480s. Makes sense since it's a sale price & the sale ends Sunday.

Agreed on the bundled PSU/cheap case. Last year I picked up an Ultra case with PSU - 400 or 450W; I don't recall which - and the PSU lasted about a month. It was never overloaded but was just cheap. Thankfully when it died it didn't take anything with it. Still, I consider myself lucky and...

Micro Center is not normally cheaper than Newegg but they have the NSK4480B for $60 + $17 s/h while Newegg wants $100 + $20 s/h. Clocker, which case were you talking about having a door? Your reply is right below the mention of the NSK4480B but it doesn't have a door covering the drive bays...

Those are upgrade editions, not retail. So they'll work but you'll have to do the upgrade trick to use it on a clean install. IIRC I paid $235 for Ultimate Upgrade last May. Not buying direct you can get Ultimate Upgrade for $189 and Retail for $250.

I'm using this for my main PC. Works well. The only issue I had was when I replaced the PSU. Due to the large CPU heatsink I am using I had to dismount the motherboard to make room for the PSU to maneuver out of the case. It would have been nicer if the support crossbar was hinged/removable...

Hmm. I guess we'll have to watch it again then. I'm sure my wife wouldn't mind drooling over Robert Downey Jr. again. I was wanting to see it in IMAX but no such luck, at least around here. Speed Racer will occupy my local IMAX starting Friday.

When he said 'I am Iron Man' and the credits rolled my first thought was that would be a great place for a sequel to pick up from. The PG-13 rating would no doubt be for violence. People are shot, blood is shown, there's some implied torture. Language and sexuality were minimal. Stan Lee's...

The product sheet says: IcePack™ Mounting Frame – The 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor is enclosed in a 3.5-inch mounting frame with a built-in heat sink that keeps this powerful little drive extra cool when installed in a 3.5-inch drive bay. Which implies the tray can be removed. In the specs section...

My wife & I will go see it. We do tend to avoid opening weekends, so we might not partake until it's been around for a week or two and people are distracted by Speed Racer (I'll probably see) & Indiana Jones 4 (we'll both watch). Looks like a decent summer for blockbusters as long as the...

I've never, not once in over 20 years, had a Logitech actually fail.

For starters, let people have control over their own destiny (you know, be closer to a 'land of the free') and making suicide (assisted or solo) legal. A more controversial suggestion is to make (reversible) birth control mandatory in order to receive welfare or other forms of government aid...

Conservation of consumption reduces expense, not cost, by reducing demand. Production costs aren't reduced. So you do save, just not by directly getting suppliers to cut costs. In theory this could lead to even higher per-unit costs for energy to let the provider maintain profitability but in...

You said "Partitioning is not virtualization". You brought it up. Sorry you can't admit to your mistakes. I would hate to be around you in real life.

My wife & I have been looking to get a Wii. Refusing to go to ebay, I've been monitoring ads and whatnot for several weeks but had no luck. I went to Deep Discount's local store last night to look for a DVD and they had Wiis in stock. Funny how actively searching yields nothing but random...

I should note Stanford is only sending test WUs at the moment; they are small so are completing quickly. Larger WUs will come in a week or two.

I can just see Tannin's reaction now: "Dell ships box of trash. Film at 11." Bamboo is a grass and grows quite fast. It is pretty strong, though, so we use it like wood, including as flooring material. Historically it has also been put to other good uses. My concern is having the bamboo and...

I couldn't find out anything specific about the VisionTek card but I bought one anyway. :cyclopsani: It has an 800MHz clock (as reported by Catalyst Control Center) so it isn't quite as OCed as the HIS card, which runs at 850MHz. With the new GPU client, you have to dedicate one of your host...

On this day in 2000, the Big Number Change took place in the United Kingdom. In 1998 at Walt Disney World in Florida, Disney's Animal Kingdom opened. In 1993, the Web browser Mosaic version 1.0 was released. And in 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated. Happy Birthday actor Ryan Stiles...

Microsoft KB My Vista Ultimate with everything installed except a handful of the extra languages is running at 16.7GB.

I'm not finding any details on the VisionTek 3870 OC edition, including on VisionTek's site. I'll stop by BestBuy & check out the packaging for details to see how it compares to this card from HIS.

You brought it up.

On this day in 1923, Yankee Stadium opened in Bronx, New York. In 1909, Joan of Arc was beatified in Rome. And in 1506, the cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica was laid. Happy Birthday actor Melissa Joan Hart (1976), talkshow host Conan O'Brien (1963), comedian Rick Moranis (1953)...

Oh yeah, the 9450 is definitely the CPU to get, although I haven't bothered to OC much lately, prefering stability since I don't have the time to devote to tweaking. Microcenter had the 9450 for $350 with a $50 gift card; it was the cheapest source I could find at a net $330 or so (CPU + tax...

There are two main methods to performance comparisons: 1. Like-for-like hardware as close as you can get. 2. Pick a price point and see what you can get a.k.a. bang for buck. They did neither, apparently just choosing whatever caught their eye. Popular Mechanics does themselves no favors...

So, since I may be rebuilding my wife's PC in the next few months, taking it from an Athlon 2800 to a C2Q, what would be the recommended GPU based on currently shipping hardware? 3870X2? At this time I don't think I can justify replacing my 1950s with newer cards but I can certainly put them...

That's rather annoying. I wonder how many contributors made specific investments in 1xxx cards to support the cause. I'm running 2 1950Pros myself. Both are less than one year old & were picked for the express purpose of Folding.

Beta Folding clients for Radeon 2xxx & 3xxx have been released and can be downloaded here. No Crossfire support but multiple GPU support is there.

Overwrite has the same net effect as a delete/recreate - replace an old file with a new one - but the process is different. An overwrite would not be a delete/copy; it would look more like allocate/open a file, write the new contents, truncate to force EOF in case the new file is shorter...

Funny. First thought I had was Monster looks like SCO to Blue Jeans Cable's IBM.

Case 1: Changing a file is probably the issue. Delete the old file, then write the new file. Changing/overwriting programs is something that malware does, not something that properly designed applications do. Case 2: No ability to recover from registry issues is easily a symptom of a poorly...