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Listening to this guy talk about how the Internet works is like asking a four-year-old to explain thunderstorms. Really, the two things are almost identical. This worthless piece of crap is one of the most powerful men in the US Senate, which basically makes him one of the most powerful people...

Literally, a Browser-related exploit for every day during the month of July, 2006. I am supremely amused by this.

Western Digital offers class-action settlement for people who mistakenly bought shitty hard drives. The ironic part is Western Digital is offering backup software (Retrospect) to the poor bastards who already have WD drives, something that should come in the box with all WD products anyway...

Just a couple of quick tests I ran with a "blank" Windows XP Pro image under VMware (hosted on an Athlon64/3200 with 2GB RAM): I started with an 8GB virtual drive, all space pre-allocated. I split the drive into two 4GB partitions and installed XP Pro + Updates on one, along with Ghost 2003 and...

Does anyone out in SFland understand the point of Joomla? Someone just called my office asking about a class in it, and like everything else that no one has heard of, it was passed to me. As far as I can tell it's just a way to populate data in a specific web page template. Surely there must...

Universal USB Hard Disk Adaptor doohickey. One device that can handle 2.5" or 3.5" PATA or SATA-to USB2.0 conversion? Seems like a good deal to me.

Has anyone tried Hamachi? The web site seems to indicate that it's a multiplatform PC-to-PC VPN that is brain-dead easy to set up.

There's some dumbass on a Torrent site I use who keeps posting neat stuff in Apple Lossless (.m4a) format. Apple Lossless appears to require iTunes for playback, or a program called "dbPowerAmp", which I have never heard of, to reencode to a decent format. I've tried installing filters and...

I know not everyone shares my love for high-resolution audio formats, but pcconnection.com has Toshiba SD-6915SU 5-disc SACD/DVD-Audio/Progressive scan DVD players for $74 shipped. It doesn't do HD-upconverting, play MPEG4 or support HDCP, but even a brand name changer at that price is a pretty...

I have a Logitech Ultra X-2 Keyboard that I've become quite fond of. This is a keyboard that uses a laptop-like key mechanism with plastic buckles beneath the keys. The other night, my 13lb. male cat decided to dive-bomb this poor keyboard, landing squarely on a couple of the keys (b and n)...

It may have already passed for some folk, but sometime very soon it will be 1:02.03AM on April 5th of '06. Unless you're in Europe, where the neatness of that date won't happen until May 4th.

DriverPacks look kinda interesting.

Today I made somene who brought me their 4-month-old computer buy a new chassis, CPU fan, DVD burner, floppy and card reader. Why? Cause it was filthy. I wasn't going to touch it. The real problem was that their video card fan had failed and killed the card (Does anyone want a burned up...

This morning I had to recover data from a drive that was attached to an NSLU2 Linux-based NAS. As I don't have any Linux machines sitting around, I thought it would take quite a while to work something out. However, I googled and found this software, which worked just fine to recover data from...

I have an ID on Yahoo, MSN (I think. I have a passport ID, anyway) and AIM. I've never used IM software for anything except showing others how to turn off the most insecure features of the programs. Now I'm trying to deal with someone whose primary mode of communication appears to be IM. Is...

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I've been asked to do an on-site job, to transfer data from a Macintosh Performa 550 to a modern P4. For the record, the Performa 550 has a 68030/33 in it (if you think 386SX/33, you aren't far off), a 160MB SCSI hard disk (with a Mac file system, of course), no ethernet, no PCI and no USB. The...

Background: I maintain about 60 PCs in a classroom setting for my day-job as an IT trainer. Of those PCs, 24 are in Enlight 7200 desktop cases. Another 12 are inCompucase 7106s while the rest are in cases visually similar to the Evercase e1205, but without the front panel. These machines...

I'm not a photoshop person. I know how to use it, I've even taught classes with it, but it's not something I use very often. My photo-editing needs more or less start and stop with a little cropping, removing red-eye and pasting Allyson Hannigan's head on the bodies of naked women. I've been...

Anyone have any bright ideas about the most efficient way to scan several hundred baseball cards for Ebay listings?

Kneel before Zod!!

See subject. My favorite monitor - a Viewsonic P815 (21", .22 dot pitch, can do 150Hz refresh @ 1280x1024) - is on its last legs. I want to replace it with another 4:3 display of slightly larger size. 23", 24", something like that. Something that would make 1600x1200 comfortable to view. Why...

Has anyone ever investigated the possibility of making a custom computer case, or having someone else make one for you?

That's the article, verbatim, from this place Unbelievable.

"Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions." It has a similar look and feel to iTunes - not a good start, IMO, but in practice it's...

I know of no useful function for SMS texting, but Google will send one for you for free. I guess that's kind of cool. And also, Handbrake, a pretty neat-looking DVD Shrinking and Recoding App (supports H.264) has been ported from its Mac-y original to Windows. It doesn't support deCSSing, so...

My life would be much easier if I could find a tool that de-suckifies Word-created HTML pages. I know such tools exist, and I don't particularly care what OS those tools need, but my searches so far have just turned up tools that remove private information from .doc files. Anyone know what I'm...

I'm just full of techie goodness today!

Seems like a useful tool to me.

Browsing the web and reading email safely with the administrator account under Windows

Factory where they put then goodness in Gigabyte motherboards.

I don't use IM software and I don't think anyone else should, either, but Meebo is an Ajax-webapp-kind of thing that replicates Yahoo and AIM and MSNIM and Jabber and loads through your browser. That's probably kind of handy.

I imagine someone here will find this amusing.

Am I wrong here, or does Toshiba not have an integrity-checking tool like Seatools or PowerMax anywhere on its web site

Here. Graphics: A Radeon 9500 or Geforce 5200. Guess that means that if you can do DX9 you're OK. RAM: 512MB minimum CPU: I didn't look at Intel, but the low end AMD desktop chip is a Sempron not an AthlonXP. I wonder if SocketA chips will even be a possibility.

Yet another reason to hope no one here is using it... Really, I don't know how much it matters. The kind of person who calls Microsoft for support on Windows pretty much deserves what s/he gets.

Ha-Ha

Looks like Divx 6.1 has taken a page from Nero recode's book. Support for multithreading + a more widely accepted .MP4 implementation = much goodness.

My boss brings me her notebook this morning. She says "I can't get itunes to work" I try to run itunes. Version 6, the one that came out maybe a month ago with the video support. I double-click on iTunes. The computer goes "ding". itunes does not start. I think "Oh well, I will uninstall and...

woot.com sells one item per day at a seriously large discount. Yesterday it was a $40 250GB hard disk (it was a WD though, so maybe still not worth it). The day before it was a high-end Coffee Maker and the day before that it was a $10 XM Radio receiver. I don't know if there's anything there...

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Does anyone have any strong feelings one way or the other about any variety of Shoebox computer? Shuttle? Aopen? Has anyone tried the small "cube" cases that accept a standard u-ATX board? Am I going to be able to get away with a midrange gaming card (X800GT) in one of those things?

teh article Newegg seemed to come up out of nowhere. This is the first time I've really seen any background information about it. Kind of amazing that it's a billion dollar business.

Since we've just had a long thread about cheapo laptops, I wonder: Does anyone have any particularly strong feelings about the bag your laptop goes in? My Thinkpad lives in a Kensington laptop backpack, only because all my tools and discs and stuff get crammed into a heavy duty saddlebag-type...

If your favorite web browser isn't firefox, I don't know what's wrong with you. It doesn't appear to have hit the main page at mozilla.org yet.

I know there are people who hate codec packs, but they make my life easier, since I don't get pain-in-the-ass questions about whether or not weirdo-video-format X plays or doesn't play in player Y. The current K-Lite Mega Codec pack was released today at Betanews

Thanks to my job as an IT trainer, I have a brand-spanking new retail copy of Nero 7 Ultra Edition sitting here on my desk. I plan to try it out over the next couple days and post my thoughts. First few things 1. The installation required two reboots. When did I go back in time to 1998? 2...

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A while back I mentioned that I wasn't able to use the second core in a couple of my x2-based machines, but if I let the machines run on non-SMP kernels, they still worked OK. Over the weekend I got around to correcting that - I put in 520W OCZ-something-or-other. It had lights inside it. I...

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