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More of a rant than a question. The training company I work for has most of its content for its web site generated through an Access database by Frontpage and some magical ASP code. I just changed the hosting providers about a week ago Now the access crap doesn't work, and the moro... people...

I need to make changes to my company's DNS records like NOW and Dotster's been down all day for me. Can anyone get to it or is it just my problem?

Hey everybody, look at this! For those too lazy to click, this asshole republican (but I repeat myself...) wants to reclassify sex scenes in movies and TV shows to match the same criteria as actual, explicit adult films. In other words, movies and TV shows with love scenes - even ones where...

Article about Yahoo's support of certain adware companies. It's lacking technical detail, but still not what I'd call happy news.

Couple weeks ago I RMA'd a plain old LiteOn 52x CD-ROM to Newegg. The replacement they sent me is an 8x DVD burner.

Since I just upgraded my game PC to something nice-ish (x2/3800, x800 GTS/256MB), I thought I'd go look for something new and cool to play on it. Little did I know that all PC games on the market right now suck in ways that could only be explained by an analogy to gay porn that I don't feel...

Sounds like an odd request, yes? And it's funny, too, because I know about three dozen people who seem to be able to get hundreds of spyware doo-dads installed on their computers no matter what I do to prevent it. But I'd like to create a Windows XP install with a ton of spyware already...

Does anyone know of a decent program to rip CDs to FLAC. I realize I can probably screw around with EAC or CDex or something, but is there a program out there that just does it?

I just noticed that Newegg.com has several varieties of X800 and X800Pro below the crucial $200 mark, and a few models even below $150. I suppose that means ATI is about to release a even newer and faster product, but when I was looking last week at X800s I couldn't find any for less than $180...

OK, I'm fairly certain I'm not the only person who uses bittorrent, here. Maybe I am. Whatever. Anyway, one of my customers keeps telling me bittorrent on her machine is broken. I RDP into her machine, and sure enough, torrents I can see that're well-seeded are downloading at like 1kb/sec. I...

So I'm a Newegg junkie. I make about 20 orders a MONTH from Newegg.com on average. I pretty much buy everything but cases and motherboards there. A while back I decided that I don't like the current "updated" version of the site, so I bookmarked the old version. I've been using that the last...

Advice for those looking to be freelance techs.

I've been asked to build my first HTPC in almost a year. I have a budget of $900 which fortunately does not include anything but the PC, OS, keyboard and mouse. This is what I have come up with. Mobility A64/3400 Gigabyte K8VM800M 1GB Corsair PC3200 RAM Logitech Cordless Desktop Keyboard &...

FireFTP is a very handy, featureful FTP client that lives in the "Tools" menu of your Mozilla-type browser. It makes its own tab and everything. I like it.

There are now more non-caucasians than caucasians in Texas. Yet more evidence that Texas needs to stop polluting the USA with its continued statehood.

[url=http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org]OpenSuSE[/org] looks to be the direction for future non-enterprise SuSE releases, much as Fedora has been for RedHat. SuSE, until recently, hasn't been distributable from CD/DVD. It was available on LiveCDs and from SuSE FTP sites...

Has anyone had to backup iTunes, format a drive and then restore iTunes? I have a customer bringing me a laptop with 41GB of iTunes files (read: many thousands of dollars, even at $.99 a track), who says he has so much spyware crap on his 2.4GHz notebook that it's taking a half hour to start...

This site has repair manuals for dozens of Inkjet printers.

Have you ever wanted to make a CD from a .cue and a .APE file? Ever wanted to put an .AC3 on a music disc? Wish Nero could do something useful with all your .Oggs? You need Nero Plugins!

Newegg.com. 93 minutes on hold so far. With a rep from my credit card company. Can't go to lunch. Can't go to the bathroom. Wanna kill someone. Thank you.

Has anyone else tried google maps?

It's a name. Yay. I can't help but think of crappy cars and bad real estate descriptions.

Remember how Socket 754 was the platform that was going to be orphaned by AMD's long term support for Socket 939? Um... yeah. Turns out, early next year, the high end mainstream AMD chips will be living in a happy new 1207-pin package, along with a DDR2 memory controller. I'm sure there's...

My rant for the day: I just got in a nice, new Gigabyte K8VM800M. With no I/O plate in the box. Called zipzoomfly, who said they'd only do anything for me by email. EMAILED zipzoomfly, got back "It's not our problem." Now I've emailed Gigabyte, and called Gigabyte's north american office, and...

Odd that Pradeep mentioned how hot Hitachi drives get in his other post... Over the weekend I got my replacement batch of 20 7k400 SATA drives, and I decided to use some of them to move around some existing data. So Saturday I installed four of them on a cheap 4-port controller controller, a...

OK, it's not stupid. But I found the neatest thing on a cheap, $18 case (thankfully, it wasn't $18 with a power supply). What is it? It's a 1" thick, 2" long piece of fairly bendy metal that hooks upwards, off the motherboard tray, parallel to the bottom edge of the power supply. It holds all...

I think I hate WLANs. The title says it all. I just got to look at an "I just bought it yesterday" DLink AP/Router. No WPA. So I flashed it to the newest firmware. STILL no WPA. Where the f*ck is WPA? Linksys makes all kinds of wireless geegaws now. Toys, almost. Wireless audio systems, range...

Just thought you'd all like to know.

Anyone care to build me a simple web site? I'll pay, of course. I have decided that I should have something more than, oh, nothing. I'd like some kind of simple, template based thing for whatever ranting I care to do online, and some kind of password-protected web-based file transfer system. I...

I'm dealing with a jewelry store right now that is being computerized for the very first time. A week ago, they were filling out sales slips by hand. All their records were on paper. So I've wired the place up, installed four PCs, a couple inkjets for printing, whatever. The final part of the...

Does anyone have some 5.25" drive bay plates for a SuperMicro case laying around? I've tried some different plates that I actually have, and none of 'em fit or look right.

I play City of Heroes. I love being a Super Hero. I play several hours a week, and for me it hasn't gotten old, even a year later. I happened to visit the COH home page a moment ago. I see there is finally a free trial up and running, and I thought I'd bring it to the attention of SF's gamers...

I visit Boingboing.net a couple times a day, just to see what's up. And almost every day I find something interesting or worthwhile there. Sometimes those same things also find their way to slashdot or Fark (photoshop contests and boobies links, huzzah!) or any of the other perfectly good ways...

Well, my employer has asked me to work a miracle again. Every year we run a class for disadvantaged kids to come in and learn about computers. This year the kids in question are building and keeping new PCs. Given that this hardware has to fit inside a tiny budget for a much larger class, the...

Well, the stock fan on my X800 Pro is dying. Of course. It's the only card I have that has a fan on it, and the racket it's making is the only identifiable "computer noise" in a room full of mostly pretty quiet computers. Anyone have a suggestion on something passive and...

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Soundstorm can bite my ass Joy!

What I want is simple: More than 4 SATA ports 1394 support Gigabit LAN Passively cooled Northbridge SPDIF output (fringe feature, but lots of boards have it) Sound from a chip better than Realtek's - I am NOT paying $100 for a sound card in 2005. Prefer Via chipset, since I don't particularly...

Movie opens at Midnight tonight, presumably worldwide. Who is going to be missing some sleep tomorrow?

Since I don't fully understand British election rules, I'm not sure this is 100% accurate, but current projections show that the British have voted to allow Labour to retain control of the house of Commons, thereby granting another term in office to someone whose mouth moves every time George...

Clicky for results. Note the surprisingly good showing by Symantec/Norton AV and Kapersky.

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. In the US at least. Yay comic books! Yay free stuff!

Since I have a rare day at my desk I am going to start new topics on SF! Moving into an apartment has taught me something I did not know: I like a couple of TV shows enough that I want to watch them every week. It taught me something else: I hate Comcast with the kind of driving, permanent...

I heard something on the radio this morning and thought "Damn, I really want to get that on CD." That almost NEVER happens to me - maybe once in five years. In part because the finite amount of music that I listen to was mostly written 150 years ago and recorded 30 or 40 years ago, and in part...

I kind-of think this is more on-topic for the Toolbox than the Computers forum so I'm putting it here: I went to download the latest version of PowerMax from Maxtor. On the Current Download Page, I noticed this little gem: In other words, Powermax only works for SATA on Intel motherboards...

I just noticed something kind of strange. The PC I'm sitting at right now is only displaying video files in black and white (like TV, not like halftones). Color is normal - 32 bit, 1152x864 - and everything else displays fine. But in Virtualdub, PowerDVD, Media Player (10), Media Player...

Has everyone tried Housecall 6? In addition to a virus scanner that actually finds viruses, the new version of Housecall also finds and removes spyware and tells you what Windows Updates you need. How cool is that?

Everything at Newegg is $1 to ship until Monday April 4th. Newegg is normally reasonable for shipping anyway but that's a 94% discount on shipping for their computer cases.

Lately I've undertaken an effort to catalog the vast amount of media that I have collected in some better way. And conincidentally, last night I got an e-mail from Amazon.com that said, in essence, "an author whose books you've purchased more than once has written a new book, and we would like...

And if you bought an Audigy or an Extigy, They owe you $60, too. OK, it's a credit on a future Creative Labs purchase, not actual money, but I'm sure Creative will trick me into buying a sound card again someday. Especially when it's a dolby-digital encoding something-or-other.