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X800 v. Geforce 6800.

I need a recommendation for a P4 board. Let me re-phrase that The BEST P4 board. This is something I'm doing for my Amy. I absolutely need it to be perfect. Host CPU will probably be in the 2800 - 3200 range. I haven't decided yet. Anyone have an opinion on the matter?

XPCreate From the web site: "XPCREATE is a utility program that will combine an original XP distribution and assorted hotfixes and updates to produce an up-to-date XP Distibution CD. XPCREATE allows the user to define custon installations and setup programs, but it's main richness lies in the...

Here's a fun little problem: Here at work I've got a fairly substantial number of home-type photo printers mixed in with normal inkjets (e.g. HP 932, 870Csi). As for why we don't have a networked laser printer instead, I don't know. But... my boss wants all our classroom PCs to be able to...

Wow.

Has anyone here purchased/used a low-end 24-port switch with a GBoC uplink port? The only ones I've played with were $500 managed jobs from 3Com, and that's a substantially outside my budget.

I guess Linux installs really seem like arcane horror to some people.

60GB of Samsung 5400rpm goodness.

My day job as a trainer sometimes offers me opportunities I wouldn't otherwise take. Last week one of those options came in the form of $500 to spend on random video capture hardware. Since I already have a collection of Conexant-based LeadTek cards I'm going to use in class, the $500 went to...

There are a number of people here who take photography very, very seriously so... Last August I went an, um, outdoor festival. Some of you might remember me posting about it ("More than Corn in Indiana", in the Pub). I had a camera - not the Canon G2 that belonged to me, but my brother's...

Since the thread is locked and I can't reply there: In answer to your question, timwhit (and for anyone else who might wonder), Coug's weekday job is a considerable distance from his home, so he's only living there on weekends. During the week, he's away from internet access, and thus hasn't...

Here it is, for all you Aussies and Canucks (and people who live in Canada who say they don't) and Finns and Brits... your very own cure for the "Newegg is so cheap it makes me cry" problem... (insert drumroll) MyUS (insert trumpet fanfare)

I'm thinking of buying a few Samsung SATA drives, but reports I'm reading on newegg indicate they may be loud like WD *JB units. Has anyone here used one?

Tuesday night I noticed I was being billed for voice mail service on my telephone line. Which is funny, 'cause I didn't ask for voice mail - don't even have a landline phone, and it was costing me $4 a month. So I called Verizon, my phone company, and asked them to take it off my line. Then I...

Remeber the Yamaha CD-RW drives that would etch patterns into the writable side of CD-Rs? Well, HP has done one better. This is something that looks genuinely cool, if it is is from HP.

This is my 5000th post on Storageforum. I made my 4999th without realizing that I had gotten so far, and I went to sleep that night blissfully unaware that I needed to make one more. Which is really too bad, because I haven't slept in the three nights since, waiting for the right words to put...

Nine days ago the fan on my ATI 9700AIW died. Since I was in the middle of a multi-hour UT2004 session I didn't notice it demise (the fan itself is normally audible over other things in my case, but not when I'm blowing reactor cores and piloting raptors). ... until the moment when my screen...

I'm looking for an LCD monitor+keyboard mount. I can find LCD-only mounts, but I need one with an attached tray and preferably at least some height adjustability. I don't suppose anyone has seen anything like that?

[url=http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/02.html]Here are a whole lot of tests that may reveal bias in your personal behavior.[url]. Kinda interesting.

What is the first web page you visit when you start your browser? Anyone use SF besides me?

Well, this pretty much sums up about eight years worth of suspicions.

Here's a quick guide to setting up Volume Shadow Services, the magical "Network Recycle Bin" that serves as 2003 Server's primary reason for being. I just had the opportunity to actually, in-production use it, and man was it SO much better than pulling files off a tape.

I have a weird thing happening to me: Since December, I've tried to make a number of purchases online with the debit card for my personal bank account. Shirts and undies from Sears.com. Renewing online pr0n memberships (renew as in, "they took my info in the past and all was well"). The odd...

I have a bunch of XP1600 and 1700 chips laying around, the result of regular upgrades and a mistake, at one point, in ordering. So I've been looking for a low-cost, high-quality motherboard to pair with my extra chips. Today I noticed this . It's shipped free, and I know from experience that...

<rant> Has anyone been forced to be in the same room with a recent-vintage *JB drive? I'm talking about the 1600JB, 2000JB or 2500JB, here, not the original 80 - 120GB models. I have two of the 250GB models and one 160GB (all, at this point, have "refurbished" stickers on them, by the way)...

Valentine's day a hard time for anyone else?

I figure this is pretty much the waking life of every single person who might be motivated to visit StorageForum.

Anyone remember Mega-Maid from Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs"? Mega-Maid does not have enough suck to describe the Linksys BEFSX41. OK, granted, it's a little Linksys black-box Internet Access device. I'll bet 80% of the folks who visit here either have something similar or have at least configured...

Ted's Mozilla Page - Home of Flash Click to View and Mouse Rocker Navigation.

Does anyone have experience with using mobile athlon chips in desktop machines? They are available and have been for some time, but I'm wondering if there's a significant savings in terms of power use and heat dissipation. Reason I ask: I got a couple of thrown-away Optiplex GXsomething 600MHz...

In yet another example of the "What were those Vomit-box engineers thinking", I had the opportunity to play with an Alienware "Gaming Laptop" last week. It wasn't a very long play-session, however. The guy who owned it was proudly displaying SiSoft Sandra scores when I noticed his P4/3000 was...

What the bloody hell is "PrintMe Internet Printing" and why does it keep showing up on my start menu? It's everywhere!

Having been subjected on occasion to Xmas songs since June (no, I'm not kidding. I was in a Kmart, June 14th when I heard Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas" over the elevator music system) of this year and recently subjected to a little over 50 minutes of pure psychologicial torment while...

Yet another bizarro techie thing from Mercutio: When you Assign a Task in MSOutlook, the recipient should recieve a message with a prompt to Accept or Decline the task. Outlook-users among us might be familiar with that option. For mail routed through my exchange server, this does not happen...

Needless to say I am far, FAR beyond pissed about this, or I wouldn't be posting it here. Dawn says, What is the model # of your drive? What version of windows are you running? What is the mhz of your system? You say, DRU500a, 2000 Server, 2800MHz. Drive will not write to any media, reads...

Search for Miserable Failure.

Get the astroglide and a Hindi-to-English dictionary, 'cause here's yet another hilarious example of how much love Dell has for us all. That's right: If you're a Dell customer, and call to get help with Bonzi Buddy or new.net, they won't help you. Isn't it nice to know that's what Dell...

I was just looking at some things related to the storage server article and noticed that knoppix.org isn't distributing knoppix at the moment over concerns about European software patents. Which is a shame, 'cause I really wanted to discuss its use, per discussions in our storage server thread...

It must be the something in the drinking water.

OK, I know I'm not the only person here who has put together a workgroup storage server. How about some suggestions to do firingsquad one better? The goal of this process will be suggestions that can be integrated into a single article. It might also be a good idea to impose a budget...

While still not Firebird or even Opera, Microsoft has decided there there is in fact something it can do to make IE suck less. If this is enabled by default, it'll probably mean web advertisers will have to come up with new ways to suck more.

I've got a half-dozen original ATI CDs sitting around my desk, absolutely none of which work with the CD-checking program that runs prior to upgrading or installing ATI DVD software on R300-based ATI cards. If someone has one (from a 9[5-8]00) they'd be willing to part with temporaril, or to...

Oh man does this make me pissed.

I'm thinking that it's the end of the year, and for the greatest portion of it, we haven't been through our usual, ongoing discussion about PC building and price points and best parts for the money. So... What's everyone who builds PCs from time to time putting in their systems right now?

Well, it's xmas time already, and at my training company that means breaking out fun classes in consumer electronics. This year, because of lab upgrades and student interest, I've been asked to do a short class in video editing. On short notice. And a stipulation that the software I teach be...

Pacman, implemented in VBA It doesn't seem to work in Excel 2003, but it plays fine in Excel 2000.

Realplayer alternative. Quicktime alternative. Because RealPlayer and Quicktime are both crimes against nature. :)

So y'all know that google can do math, right? ... and that it can find addresses based on phone number (at least in the USA)? Well, the smart guys at Google have also added a "define" keyword, for picking up quicky word definitions.

What happens when you show "Pong" to a 10-year-old raised on Playstation 2? Read this, find out, and try not to piss yourself.

... and this is his castle More shots here.