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Shamelessly lifted from Slashdot. Maybe higher and higher wattage chips are still possible after all.

I know a couple folks here have them (Linksys' G AP, WRT54G) Has anyone run across "frequent disconnect" issues with this device? I have a couple of clients with APs that I've had to replace because their NICs "lose" their AP periodically. One of them is complaining about this now on his...

Subject says it all. If anyone sees one, can y'all drop me a line?

I'd like it known that I came here before I went out in search of the 10 years worth of porno that I've been waiting until I got broadband service to download.

Does anyone actively recycle computer parts? The kind of recycling that's done for end-of-life parts, not "I swapped my old video card into one of my older computers." Dell and HP both have recycling services. Of course, if you visit their sites, you REALLY have to poke around to find anything...

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Can someone try to reproduce this? In WinXP, open Paint. Make a scribble, create a new folder in "My Documents", and save the file. Exit paint. Now, try to delete the folder you just created.

This makes perfect sense to me.

Vanilla Win 2000 SP3 File and authentication server. I've only accessed it remotely, but it appears as vanilla as can be. It hosts some Access 2000 .mdb files that a small number of VB applications work with. The DBs are tables-only. No macros, no code. I've been using the apps with test data...

Why doesn't anyone make a keyboard with a smallish LCD (12 or 14 inch) attached? I can think of at least five or six applications for that in as many seconds, even more if someone can make the video signal run over CAT5. Why doesn't anyone make a remote control that can be programmed or...

I know of no other way to explain it. I thought I might, just to do something different, ring RedHill in the middle of its business day, which happens at about 11PM according to the clock on my wall. So I dialed the number using the instructions I found on dataandtime.com. Didn't work. "Your...

Tannin's web site is undoubtedly a fantastically useful place. I visit there fairly regularly and send others there even more regularly. Still, it's been a year since the last update (Sept. 7, 2002). Since summer is coming in Ballarat, we know no one is going to update it until, oh, March or...

1. Time Warner donor body rejects AOL transplant. 2. Deeply amusing letter in Purdue's student newspaper. Just thought I'd share a little bit.

Arrr! I be plannin' to make the lives of me hearties a great deal more surreal on September 19th, Talk Like a Pirate Day. I'm tired of boring, somber religious festivals Talk Like a Pirate Day is the kind of holiday I think everyone should partake in.

I need to get organized. I don't know how many images I have. Between digital cameras and collecting fine art images and yes, porn, I have a LOT of images. Very possibily more than a million (the computer I'm sitting at has ~123,000 .JPG files on it, and it's not one of my file servers). I've...

In 1970, Pierre Trudeau declared martial law in Quebec. So why not name Montreal's airport after him? Yes, I am posting this just to get a rise out of Coug. Retaliation for the Gabe Newell thing. ;D For those who dont get the DC reference... In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired a whole lot of...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/67/32742.html

Title says it all. Two of the Walgreens in my area (both the ones I've been in today) have 15-packs of 4x DVD+R discs for $32. You can get 4x discs cheaper in bulk, but they usually cost $2 apiece in small quantities, without shipping charges, so this is a pretty good deal.

XP SP1a. Windows 2000 Server. This machine is just like every other XP computer in the building. Gets all info from the same DHCP server. It authenticates just fine. It's just that it throws this error when I try to access (or map) shared resources. I've done ipconfig /flushdns, release &...

Does anyone know of a case that has builtin SATA power connectors?

Well, since JamesW isn't here to do anything about it, I thought I'd remind everyone that my time-limited term as a moderator has ended. This means that it's time for me to turn in my gun and badge. Nominations?

One of my Sony Burners continually gives "Could Not Perform Fixation" errors in Nero, and seems to make a lot of noise. Sony offers a tool to determine if your drive needs to be RMA'd.

Linkage.

Simple question. Any answers?

Bowling for Columbine just came out on DVD, at least in the US. 1. I thought it was a fantastic documentary. 2. It's about guns, and it's admittedly by a "shrill voice" of the left, Michael Moore. 3. ... who happens to be a member of the NRA, an organization not known for its leftist politics...

This will scan whole subnets for unpatched systems that could be affected by blaster. What a happy little program.

Giant sock-puppet eating predators once thought to be extinct ravage the forests of Victoria! OK. Not really, but that was fun to type. And what's up with "Tasmanian" tigers being found in Victoria? Shouldn't they be "Victorian Tigers?" Between this story and the possible discovery of a new...

My brothers hijacked me for a trip to Roselawn, Indiana today. I didn't have my camera - they didn't tell me where we were going - but I've got like 200MB of pictures using their (less nice than mine) cameras of... things that happen on the third Sunday in August in Roselawn Indiana. These are...

Ghost 7.5 Enterprise. 4 Maxtor 15GB drives: two source drive, two that are blank. These are identical disks. Contiguous serial numbers. Two partitions on the source disk, one with Win98, the other WinXP (not participating in a domain, but the end result will be) Default Disk to disk cloning...

It's Quicktime, which is of course one of the pillars of evil in the universe, but DAMN is this cool. I love comic books. It's amazing to see Batman portrayed so faithfully.

Well, I don't pay much attention to Windows product pages at microsoft.com, but I did notice this. By-and-large looks like a drop-in replacement for *nix in NAS devices, but I do notice some interesting stuff about iSCSI support and data recovery by restore points (like XP's restore point stuff).

Browsing Liteon's site for no good reason. Ran across [rul=http://www.liteonit.com/liteweb/lvd_2001.htm]this[/url]. Reading the blurb it indicates video upsampling and support for Hardware MPEG-4 (doesn't say which codec. One assumes MS MPEG-4 and/or Divx).

After much debate with my invisible sock puppet, I place this in the P&B. Gentlemen and Apes, I give you amibiosornot. Bonus points for actually being able to ID 'em.

This really scratched an itch for me. Basically, with a profile in place, users don't get asked for an office install CD, which is one of my personal pet peeves as a support-type person.

I've somehow been roped into buying a game console for one of my cousins, on the grounds that I'm "the computer guy". He's almost 16, his parents are severe technophobes of the worst sort - my uncle is a writer who still writes with a manual typewriter and I've heard them refer to their VCR as...

There are a number of users here who regularly build computers. Others support desktop machines, and others are simply hobbyists keen on a handy treat. Want a treat? Sysprep.exe is a treat. Available from your Windows 2000 or XP installation CD, or here, Sysprep, used in conjunction with your...

I'm sure we've all seen that Marc Andreeson, ex-netscape guy, thinks that there's no more room for browser innovation. So, let's put the issue before the members here: Are there any areas were web browsing could be a better experience?

Here's an interesting thought. I work in scads of different places, annually. I see a lot of different attitudes towards pirated software. Some places are hardcore about not pirating software. Those are places where the secretary makes do with wordpad and no one has winzip installed. Those...

For the non-EPIA mini-ITX machine, how the heck is cooling handled? There can't be a full-size fan in those things, right? I notice today that there are mini-ITX systems from shuttle that support real desktop chipsets, which means real-desktop CPUs and therefore real desktop heat. Anyone know...

Yup. That's right. USB 2.0 doesn't mean what we think it does. Isn't that funny? Apparently, a manufacturer can claim USB 2.0 compliance with a device that only handles data at the pathetic 12Mbps that "USB 1.1" offers. More here. I was reminded of this because of recent grousing about scanning.

I'm having a tough time dragging myself away from Wordspy, which is a sort-of guide to terms that seem to have been coined in the internet age. Maybe not everyone is interested in words, but some of the entries are really quite illuminating.

I just did a write-up for a bunch of mid-price PCs. XP2800 Epox 8RDA+ 120GB 7200rpm Samsung drive 64MB ATI 9000 2x256MB PC2700 XP Home WordPerfect Suite 2002 That rig is basically a dream machine. Total came to basically $775, without a monitor, including shipping. Even moving to an i865 and a...

Well, 1. Newegg is no longer listing GA-7VAanything, and 2.) there are a number of new Gigabyte nforce2 boards, some at up to $200. That in itself is a little odd (and annoying, since I just bought a second asus one), but Looking at the product link, can anyone tell me what the weirdo card...

mubs has exhorted me to write something. I had some free time this weekend and nothing in particular better to do, so I sat and tried to do exactly that. Sadly, I couldn't come up with much of any interest. This is as far as I got. Not very. Normally I wouldn't share something like this (it's...

Yet Another Technician Funny. What's sad is, my co-workers actually do this (I don't answer the phone. Ever).

Yes, it's happened. Yet another "Wannabe Storage Freak" has joined the likes of CougTek and Handruin. Huzzah for Pradeep.

I don't play online games, but I can EASILY imagine how utterly annoying this stuff must be to "normal" players. Found this link on /. There's some naughty words. It's too funny to not pass on to the Clockers and Groltzs and Handruins, though. Link

SF was down from ~10AM CST to 6:35. What happened to it? Was it just me?

Just now, on accident, I installed a Via USB2 PCI card into a Gateway E-4200 (P3-450) running Windows XP. While it was on, and at an XP desktop. This is of course something that makes even experienced techs cringe. I didn't know it was on (these things are REALLY quiet and the power LED must...

One of my students taught me a neat trick today. 1. Staples is an Ingram reseller. Call Staples, ask for an Ingram part number, and they'll give you Ingram's price + Staples markup. 2. Staples has a pricematching policy. 3. Staples accepts online vendors, like, oh, Newegg, as valid for...