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I read the police activity writeups in the local paper. The area around me is still being developed and there are occasional reports of windows, siding, and air compressors being stolen from construction sites. Thankfully, there is rarely any crime reported in the established subdivisions. -...

BTW, IBM will release an Opteron-based server later this year. Read about it. If this holds true, this could be the Tier-1 support AMD needs for legitimacy in the corporate world. Funny it would come from the manufacturer of another 64-bit CPU. - Fushigi

As told to me by a claims adjuster once, if your car is stolen and you have a, say, $250 deductable, tell the ins co you keep $300 in the glove box to handle emergency repairs. Ditto for a house robbery or fire. When tallying what was taken don't forget that deductable's worth of cash you kept...

Back in high school the battery was stolen from my mother's car. And as a juvenile, my bike was stolen. Thankfully, nothing so far in my adult life. We even forget and leave the garage door up all night on rare occasions and nothing's been taken. - Fushigi

Since it's just for a test, and you don't seem to mind wasting 6 CD-Rs, take 1 existing CD (preferably with 12+ tracks), bring in it's tracks as WAVs or whatever, and write 2 different tracks to each of the 6 CD-Rs. Then use them for your testing. Of course, this assumes the car deck can play...

I've got the laserdisc for Robot Carnival. It's the Streamline release :cry: but it's still watchable. Anime on DVD down .. well, that does happen from time to time, and they were switching forum software. Try the link again sometime. Not sure if Memories will make it to cable, but then...

You know, the horns aren't so bad. It's the scales and claws that scare people off. :geek: - Fushigi

It's soooo obvious. No MicroChannel slots. :wink: - Fushigi

A good collection of shorts. Have you seen Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories? Three shorts, each rather different from each other. Good social commentary. Gorgeous animation. Rumor is it has been licensed for US release, but the Japanese version has English subs. Memories is definitely an...

But the real question is this: How fast will an Opteron be when it comes to Folding? :lol: - Fushigi

1. Arsenic and Old Lace - Simply hilarious 2. The Court Jester - Also just plain funny & entertaining. 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark - The epitome of action/comedy 4. Star Wars (the original, not the hack job released later) - Resurrected and validated SF as a popular genre 5. Better Off Dead - One...

I had a summer job during college at Fox Photo. The photo printers (Kodak printers that printed pictures from negatives) were programmed by paper tape. My brother, who worked there full time, might still have some. - Fushigi

What about Circuit City? WD 160GB/8MB for $140 after rebates.

The memory settings are at BIOS defaults, so it's more than likely "By SPD". I will check later on, but am at work now and will be busy tonight. Once I find the ceiling on 133MHz FSB operation, I might try the 166 to see how well it handles that. Not urgent, though, as I'm already quite happy...

I've followed a 'logic chain' with other vendors: 1. When was the product was introduced to the market? 2. Is (today's date) - (that date) < warranty duration? 3. If Yes, then the item must still be until warranty. This has worked with IBM and others. Also check the product for a date of...

From Newegg: 11-156-014 CASE RAIDMAX 879P BG MID RET 1 $27.00 $27.00 13-133-005 MB FIC|AU13 NFCE2 U2/LAN/AGP R 1 $85.00 $85.00 19-103-351 CPU AMD|1700+ 1.4 ATHLONXP TBRED% 1 $50.00 $50.00 20-200-017 DDRAM 512MB|PC-2700CL2.5 APACE INF% 1 $63.00 $63.00 35-150-010 CPU FAN SPEEZE...

Running stable @ 16X multiplier (2141MHz), temp is 56C. That's a steady temp at 100% CPU utilization via F@H and no adjustments to RAM timings or anything else. Nearly a 50% CPU overclock without doing anything but adjusting the multiplier. Sweet. - Fushigi

Save it to your PC, double-click it; the large images work fine that way. IE doesn't display them. Yeah, it does seem small. But that's a good thing when it comes to making a dual CPU system fit in a 1U server. - Fushigi

Why yes, yes I can. This reply is being typed and sent from my Treo. The text entry field becomes a popup so I don't think I can cut and paste easily but typing a reply isn't too bad. - Fushigi

OK, I guess this is bad news for my sister. I'm keeping new mobo & XP1700+ and will send her my 'aging' T-bird 1.4 in it's place. It's still quite a step up from her K6/III-400 so it'll be worthwhile. I had to buy a new PSU to get the stinkin' 4 pin plug the mobo demanded. Wouldn't boot...

Works fine for me in IE6 under XP, 2000, and 98. It also works fine (if slow) in Blazer under Palm OS 3.52 on my Treo 300. Yes, I can surf SF from my phone. - Fushigi

Yeah, drop the "Aus" part. :lol: - Fushigi

Yeah, I pulled all the hardware except my SCSI & graphics cards. Re-enabled mobo IDE & moved the CD to it. Under that config I still was not able to boot into Windows but was able to successfully boot off the W2KSP3 CD. I mucked with the repair console -- what a primitive tool -- but couldn't...

I haven't upgraded any hardware since January when I added the 160GB drive & Promise card. I did do a BIOS update then. But since then the system has been shut off & on, restarted, etc. in addition to being up 24x7 folding. I left it off overnight and through today. The W2K SP3 CD did the...

Nope. You know the screen where it's displaying some junk in white on blue and the status line at the bottom is saying loading ______.sys or somesuch. After that it directly goes to "Starting Windows 2000" and a few seconds later I get the STOP. I'll got the SP3 CD now and will give it a shot...

Sometimes I really hate PCs. Last night, while playing with my new Treo 300, I decided to run Windows update on my main PC. I selected the .NET Framework update and DirectX 9.0a. I had already installed these on a couple of other boxes with no problems so I figured they were safe enough. The...

Nissan Spec V. 0 to 60 in 7ish seconds without needing a turbo; negotiated price under $18K. 175HP, 185 LB-Ft torque. And don't knock it until you've driven it, but the Hyundai Elantra GT has a good 140HP engine + the 10 year warranty and is available under $15K (possibly under $13K). Not...

Tim, I'm curious why you're showing loyalty to the company (DC) who sold you a vehicle that has so many problems. Modern vehicles, unless they have been abused, should have experienced 0 to 1 unexpected repairs in the first 70K miles of ownership. To have so many problems, again unless the...

Well, the only reason I grabbed the Speeze was because it was an OEM CPU .. no HSF included. Otherwise, for my sister I am less concerned about a few extra db. My use is purely to push a little air across my drives & to help exhaust it out the back of the box. Despite having an X15 and a Tbird...

For the front grill, snips are the tool of choice. Fast. Safety and aesthetics are of no importance since it'll be covered by the front of the case. For the rear. Dunno. Maybe I'll just buy a Dremel or a generic 'rotary tool' and use that. I told the wife I'll only buy power tools when I...

Yeah, I was planning on just removing the whole area covering the front fan and doing something to increase the hole size in the back. I don't have a Dremel or equivalent but can rig something I'm sure. At less than $30 I don't care if I trash it while experimenting. My thinking was to use...

I'd agree that the autosense is the likely culprit, especially as you're using a crossover cable & not a hub/switch. - Fushigi

Well, if you want to add phone service to that, take my $43+3 and add another $37 for local (SBC, 1 line, caller ID, linebacker). That's $83. You could add $4-7 a month for domestic long distance when we're too lazy to use the cel phone. My cel phone currently is reimbursed by work...

Thanks everyone. I'll try the Apacer RAM. The order has been placed. For my personal system I'm going to try a different budget case, the Raidmax 879P. At $27 I'll just toss it out if I don't like it. I also ordered a couple of Pabst 8412NGL fans from Directron. They don't move a lot of...

I'm not sure; what do they say? :wink: It was our experience that during very heavy rain storms or snow storms that reception quality would degrade. Usually just some static; occasionally a total signal loss. But only during extreme events and only for fairly short durations like <15...

Domestically, DSL still is not really that widely available. The distance limitation is the killer. I don't know if there's no such thing as a DSL repeater or why the telcos can't put some form of a concentrator in the field to extend the DSL distance. Anyway, $40 for DSL for 768/128 is a...

Thinking about CougTek's post and sticking to brands, I came up with the following: Speeze CPU Fan Model 5F263B1M3 for AMD/Intel Socket A/370 $7 KINGSTON KVR333X64C25/256 256MB 32x64 PC2700 DDR RAM (better than 2100 2400) Qty 2 @ $37 = $74 **FIC Motherboard for AMD Processors, nForce2 Model...

Broadband, that is. http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?id=312 - Fushigi

Mercutio, thanks for chiming in. I forgot to mention: No Asus products. Since they burned me badly on my last mobo purchase, I've sworn off them. I don't believe they have any QC at all. (Sure, it's just 1 of 4 Asus products in my inventory and the other mobo & the 2 graphics cards have been...

OK, here's the deal: My sister's PC is a somewhat outdated K6-3/400 on a GA5AX with 512MB SDRAM, 8MB Rage 128, etc. It's fine for general use but she needs to do web development & graphics editing. Her birthday is approaching, so I thought I'd upgrade her system. What she has that doesn't...

I get anywhere from 2-12 a day. Mostly it's about 3 per. That's with no filtering at all on my main personal email account. My work account doesn't really get any and I don't think we do any filtering at the Exchange level either. I get newsletters and stuff but it's all messages I've signed...

Thankfully, this is neither my dog nor my laptop. - Fushigi

My cat is not normally a lap cat. But when I read the Sunday paper she's there. Sometimes I kick up back in the recliner and have the dog on my legs and the cat on my lap. Mostly she's a burrower and likes to be underneath the paper (or blanket or whatever) but sometimes she's a bit more...

Ditto. - Fushigi

So how is 9.0a? It's on Windows Update and I was wondering if it's OK to install. Any benefits or drawbacks? Ditto for Media Player 9. MS Security patches, etc. I get pretty much automatically. But lately I've less trust in their 'enhancement' downloads. The PCs I'd load it on use various...

Of course I know better. I back up my systems periodically. However, if I have to go buy a replacement drive after a failure, I'm out a reasonable amount of money just to get to my data. If the drive is still under warranty, at most I pay for 1-way shipping. None of us can (or is willing to)...

For me, the main reason to get an 8MB cache JB, GXP, whatever is for the 3 year warranty. Performance is incrementally better than a 2MB cache drive, but the warranty is of far more value since the drive holds my data. My X-15 (1st gen) and my WD 160GB JB have STRs that are relatively close to...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/02/HNdiskdrives_1.html

Exchange (and Domino for that matter) only store one copy of a message on the server regardless of how many people it is sent to. Everyone who sees it in their in box is actually just seeing a link to the message unless they're replicating the messages to a local PST file. PST files can be...

The UN says 7% and since cars are designed for world markets, this would be a more reasonable figure to assume. There is a reason cars are that heavy: cost. Use of the composites you describe would probably triple the cost of the average 4 door sedan. Don't forget the weight of the...