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At the moment I have a glut of RMA-able Asus motherboards. Well, OK, four = glut, but they're all less than 18 months old on what I know to be 3 year warranty products. So I've been looking around the Asus Web site for a place where I can submit an RMA claim. And I can't find that place. At...

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

Has anyone tried this program or heard anything about it?

I just found this. It scratches a particular itch I've had for a bit.

Does anyone know where I can get a 4 drive SATA or Firewire enclosure at something like a reasonable price? I'm looking at a 4 drive SATAenclosure from MacGurus.com for $250. Which I guess is not bad, but its fundamental similarity to SCSI units that cost half that much is off-putting... and...

Asus has an overheating protection feature on their motherboards called COP. COP shuts down the system if it even THINKS the CPU is about to overheat. COP can't be disabled in the BIOS or by jumpers, and is a hardware-only feature with no software controls. I have an Asus A7V400 that seems to...

Have a look here, and here and here and here. Notice anything? Like maybe This item is warranted through the product manufacturer only? That phrase appear on every single motherboard listed on newegg.com. I don't know what anyone else sells or RMAs, but I see a lot of motherboards die in...

Irrespective of anything that may or may not be going on right now, I would just like to say that I rule. Further updates as events warrant.

When I was growing up out in the middle of nowhere in Illinois I knew a couple farmhouses not far from my house that had a "party line", a single phone line for about 6 houses that might've been charitably called a town sometime around 1870. And 20 years ago we kind of laughed at the kids who...

If anyone had any reason to consider the alternative to AMD fanboy-ism, I suggest you reconsider. I had the displeasure of assembling a coupe LGA 775 P4 560s last weekend. One went OK. The other... well, there are 775 pins in a very small space on those boards. If one of them, someplace other...

If you had 40 hours of classroom time with a Linux expert (er... that's me, in this case), is there anything in particular you'd want to take away from your time in class? Found out I have to teach a Linux+ certification class starting tomorrow. I looked at the objectives and passed the test...

I saw this on Slashdot Yesterday.. Spybot Search and Destroy did VERY poorly in these tests, confirming something I suspected before I ever read the article. The "winner" was Giant Anti-Spyware, a product I have not heard of before. The testing methodology does not appear to consider the use...

Seems like I'm having a harder time finding KT600 boards. I can still get Gigabyte VT600s right now, but has anyone else noticed a marked decline in the availability of Via-based boards lately?

Dotster.com is handing out domains in .info for free. You can register up to 25 of 'em.

One of my customers seems to be having weird issues with Nero 6.3.something... I've been dealing with this for about 6 months on and off. She is burning DVDs that seem to always error out at around 65% with High Focus Tracking Errors" when burning DVDs, either with DVD Shrink or with Nero...

There is now no reason to use any other browser. :P

Several months ago I bought an additional Plextor ConvertX external video capture device for classroom use. Since I wasn't doing anything in the classroom related to video capture, I never bothered to open it. I opened it last week to find that the power cord wasn't in the box. So I went to...

I've been quiet here, because I don't have many nice things to say to the majority of readers here who happen to disagree with me on the ultimate superiority of my political ideals. But tomorrow is the day when we in the USA will essentially decide the state of the free world for some time to...

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Yesterday I ran into a problem I found rather unusual. A few weeks ago I sold a Home Theater PC to a college student whom I thought was reasonably "on the ball" as far as computers went. She told me that videos played in windows media player didn't play back on her TV. She said they show up as...

Samsung's hutil is the error checking tool for Samsung drives.

Handy Windows Install CD making thing

I've got a couple of PCs set aside in my office for people to play LAN games on. AthlonXP 3200 Athlon64 3000 P4C 2400 (Thanks Clocker!) Each has 512MB RAM and... nothing in its AGP slot at the moment. Now, these are PCs that probably won't be heavily used for much of anything but game playing...

Does anyone know of a place to get pallets of cases? I've ordered fractions of a pallet before, usually 1/3rd or 1/2 a pallet, along with a local computer retailer. But that guy moved out of the area. My "local" distributors, Evergreen and ComCapital, don't sell them at a reasonable discount...

I hadn't been by Tony's site in a while. redhill.com.au is looking really good (as usual), but I thought it might be inspirational for the rest of us to read Tony's descriptions of the systems he sells, and in particular the justification for the way his systems are build, his price, and the...

I lose this link all the time. It's on redhill.com.au, which is how I always find it, but for those who don't know about it, this is a really handy site.

Here's an odd thing: I have two machines with nforce chipsets. One is a 2000 Server and has an nforce2 board. The other is running 2003 server on an nforce 220. Both use digital sound outputs. What I've noticed is that periodically on BOTH machines, the volume level of audio output drops...

... that Symantec is evil. Recently found some machines that had fairly large numbers of viruses - java-based trojans, actually, in the usual locations for such things (Windows Temp Folder and Temporary Internet Files), using my good friend housecall. The funny thing is, I vaguely remember...

This review references the same environment as this one, specifically a really large house with serious WLAN interference issues. Not that it matters. Since my customer had continuous and ongoing wireless connectivity issues in his home between one particular PC and his wireless AP, I decided...

At the moment, Linksys is unique in offering a Wireless repeater product; I believe it is the only company with FCC clearance in the US to manufacture and sell such a device. So last week when I purchased several of them, at $80 apiece. I was very interested in seeing how they work. And I'm...

Walmart and ECS - the two deserve each other? Two fine purveyors of Crap have teamed up with a very special offer. Walmart, home to NASCAR-brand thong underware for toddlers, and ECS, home to surface-mount semiconductors that flake off like a week-old sunburn (I'm not making that up. It really...

Anyone have an older model Athlon, Thunderbird, XP or Duron they aren't using right now? I'm willing to negotiate on price but I don't really want to buy a new one.

"How can you call yourself a computer expert if you don't know AOL?!?" -- former professional baseball player, current professional idiot I just thought I'd share that with you guys. Feel free to discuss.

Don't know if anyone cares, but today's Newegg.com update shows AMD Sempron processors are now available. Most of the chip lineup consists of Socket A processors that appear to be slightly crippled Athlon XP chips (slightly crippled = still way, way faster than a Celeron) with a slightly...

Alright. I know at least Clocker has done this. I don't feel like looking around for info so... What do I need to do to paint computer parts? Should I just buy a can of Krylon and go to town or is there something special I need to do? Reason I ask: I have a small number of removable IDE disk...

While I personally haven't had any problems with XP3200s, I've had some dicussions with another tech recently in which he suggests that there are inherent stability problems with that processor. I've installed six of them to date, all but one on a Gigabyte VT600-based board (the exception used...

Yup. All you XP-using freaks can now have 460MB worth of updates to install. You can grab the file off a bittorrent site if you're brave, or MSDN subscriber downloads if you're lucky. It's not on Windowsupdate yet. If anyone's willing to host a 460MB file, I do in fact already have it.

My company just moved into nice, new offices. It was suggested by occasional SF lurker BooST that we take that space and offer to host LAN games from time to time Since David more-or-less does these things all week long, and P5133_XL has recently admitted to being involved in one... Does...

Amy and her partner Kim moved back to Indiana last week. Amazingly - stunningly, one of the first things they did after they got their dishes put away was to call me, to invite me over. It's been long enough, I guess. So I went over to their house, so nervous that I was ready to vomit, ready to...

Killing the Buddha.

Tivo user bliss

I can buy a WRT54G for maybe $75. That's a wired switch + NAT device plus infrastructure-mode AP that runs at 54Mbit. I can buy a WET11 for around $90. That's a single-port ethernet to infrastructure-mode AP that runs at 11Mbit. I can buy a WGA54G for around $130. That's a single-port ethenet...

ddrueding is at 999 posts. I'm sure that won't last much longer. :) Thank you for coming around and for staying, David. You've been a source and a contributor to many great discussions here. I can only hope that there are many thousand more posts wrapped up in your head.

I'll hold my tongue, but it's probably worthy of comment by someone.

Yet another treasure from our friends at BBspot.

OK, not really. It's not like he's George W. Bush or anything. But he's pretty bad. This guy moved in about two weeks ago. He works from home and talks on a 2.4GHz cell phone constantly. He has an 802.11 AP (with, hey, all the defaults left in place). These things didn't cause a problem for...