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I have a presario 7599 (p3-700) sitting in my car right now. Its onboard sound is dead, but not dead enough that Windows can't still detect it via plug and play. Compaq, in its wisdom, provides no way to disable onboard sound either through the BIOS (I can change it to IRQ 5 or IRQ 9, that's...

I'm sure cas has already heard about this but maybe the rest of you haven't. The simple explanation is that the gentleman who wrote that article figured out an easy way to use a flaw in Windows message-passing code to grant himself higher-than-Administrator user rights from a guest account...

I get answered the question "So you're a computer person? My relative xyz who took a computer class in college says to never buy a BrandX because they suck goats. What brand do you think I should buy?", or a question very similar to that one, seventeen times yesterday (I was working someplace...

I'm a big fan of sequential art (aka Comic strips and comic books). While I was looking at some books of comic strips I was thinking about buying, I ran across something that I find hysterical. A little background: Family Circus is an obnoxiously unfunny comic strip about raising young...

Anyone know of a human-readable resource regarding Windows licensing? The basic question: I'm looking at filling a lab with computers that have either/or Windows XP/Windows 2000. Which would be fine, except my customer wants to dual boot all 32 computers. In the past I thought dual licenses...

The machines in my classroom are K6-3 500s (on crappy PC Chips boards) with LS-120s installed. Today I learned that Win98SE won't make a "normal" (Add/Remove Programs > Boot Disk) boot floppy if A: is an LS-120 installed. I've not done much of anything with an LS-120 but it appears to be the...

I dedicate this topic the "Bill 'I've been divorced twice' Green Memorial Topic". Now that my ex is wearing rainbow shoelaces and looking at my back-issues of "Playboy" for the pictures, anyone have any advice on where grown-ups (especially socially maladjusted ones) are supposed to go to meet...

I *know* I've brought this up before, but it's something that's genuinely interesting to me. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a sort of brief test of personality characteristics. When I read its result from my own testing, I was amazed at how closely it matched my own attitudes. I'm curious...

Front page news, probably, but since I seem to have lost my login... This is a discussion of the business end of platter manufacturing technology. It's just a different point of view from our usual discussions on the forums.

OK. This is mostly just going to be me grousing for a minute, but maybe someone will suggest something... I'm in the midst of setting up a second vidcap machine. It's just a little guy - Tbird 1GHz + 768MB PC133 (a 512 and a 256MB module, both Crucial) on an Abit KT7-RAID. Used my "old" ATI...

Fiercely.

Last time I did anything web-ish, HTML3 wasn't even spec yet (tables? What tables? OK. Maybe HTML2 wasn't out. Whatever. Nothing supported tables). I know things have changed vastly but other than getting databases to output nicely-formatting HTML search results, I haven't touched web...

Anyone have any experience with *small* domain-parking/web hosting services? I'm looking for a really low-volume application. Probably under 100MB monthly bandwidth; basically just enough to park a domain and a bunch of images (2MB or so) for some people. POP forwarding would be cool, too...

We're on the top of the third page of results. I don't think it'd be a lot of work to get enough linkage to move up a page. Beyond that I don't know. Anyway, what can we do to get a little better linkage?

Why the *hell* doesn't anyone else make a work-alike app that does what Visio enterprise can? I need Visio to produce proper documentation. I can get by just fine with a different OS, a different office package, different development environment from what Microsoft makes, but there's nothing...

Is there any mechanism available to batch-save PMs?

If I seem grumpy, mean or absent over the next few weeks, not that anyone will necessarily miss my almost jehh-like omnipresence... I'm living in something not unlike a particularly stereotypical "Jerry Springer" (that's the trashiest show on TV, period, for all outside the US) episode at the...

At the height of the surrealist movement in art, there was a parlour game played by young participants in the movement called "Exquisite Corpse". The idea was that each partygoer contributed a few lines to a story after reading only the previous contirubtor's entry, then, at the end of the...

I have a bit of a problem. Namely, the speakers I've been shipping out with PC builds keep failing. Annoyingly, they aren't the $6 speakers one expects to break, but $20 ones that cost just enough that there's some expectation of quality, and just little enough that the company's support people...

This evening, the first editorial moderation was made on SF. In my heart, I'm not a censor, and I hate changing the words of other people. James posted a direct link to a site that gave the appearance of being a warez site. This isn't a referendum on James. We like James. James is cool. But I...

Had to buy a USB2 enclosure today. Well, I didn't have to. But I got an expense authorization for one, so I did. So I have a USB2 enclosure and a USB2 controller. I stuck an old 13GB 5400rpm Maxtor drive I had laying around in it. Let me tell you: It's fast. Fast enough to make me forget I'm...

One of Amy's friends from school was having problems with her iMac. Stupid problems, as in she didn't know to work OS X. So I had to show her how to get the OS9 personality going so things looked more familiar to her (once I figured it out). Anyway, she let me take the bottom off the base. I...

If you believe this stuff, you probably need your head examined.

This one's for the builders and integrators among us: I'm sure we all have different experiences with computer hardware. What I'd like to see is a rough ranking of which video cards (by chipset, not brand, for the 50-billion S3s and nvidia cards out there) that seem the least "fussy" - the most...

Today I refused help my fiance's uncle move to a new apartment. My reasoning: In three years, I've helped him move four times. Today would've been the fifth. Unless he's moving, I never see the guy. He didn't help when Amy and I moved into my apartment. Didn't even offer. He's a high school...

Anyone have an old hard drive laying around that's not in usable condition but sorta still works? Bad sectors, scary hard disk noises, visible arcing on the board when powering up, only spins up half the time... whatever. I'd like to buy disks like that for classroom demonstration purposes...

Short rant to follow - Spent part of the day playing Unreal Tournament with my fiance. It was a fun time. Two things I noticed: 1.) I really miss co-op play in these games. As fun as it is to yell "Ha!" every time I blew up my girlfriend, what I really wanted was a game where we could work...

Looks like the price difference between the Duron 1.3GHz, T-bird 1.33GHz and an XP1500 (1.33GHz) is something less than $25. In the name of delivering value, I'm wondering which is the best choice. The Duron is theoretically slower, right? Still limited to a 200MHz bus? But probably the...

Fed up with crappy FAT32, I switched my game machine to WinXP Pro last night. Machine specs: Athlon T-bird @ 1.5GHz, Epox 8KHA, ATI Rage Pro VIVO, 512MB PC2100 RAM, (2) Maxtor DM 40+ 40GB. Some thoughts, in no particular order: 1.) Cracking PA was embarassingly easy. Thanks to James for...

Before I go installing XP on one of my machines... Does anyone know if XP properly supports digital output, or if LiveWare's LiveSurround works under XP? I just totally lost a 40GB FAT32 partition on my Win98 machine and I don't feel like recovering it, or putting up with another major data...

I picked this up off Slashdot this afternoon. Xenix was the first OS I ever used, so there were, um, memories (I won't pretend they're good ones) for me. I figure some of you young bucks might be entertained to read this stuff. And yes, I'm 26. "Young" is subjective. It means "for those of...

One of the more interesting challenges I've undertaken lately is to teach fairly inexperienced computer users the skills involved in troubleshooting a PC. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have a nice little job teaching 20 people - mostly steelworkers - the information needed to become a good PC...

I got a couple of Lite-On 32x CD-R drives drives today, along with an Acard IDE to narrow-SCSI bridge. Installed a drive in a Windows 2000 Server machine (actually, in an external enclosure. Whatever), loaded Nero 5.5.6 (included in the box - not a bad deal for $75)... oddly, the installer...

OK, I've recently come into posession of a whole bunch of .mov files that won't play in anything but Quicktime4, which has to be the crappiest movie player ever made. Certainly the worst interface. Anyone aware of software that'll convert quicktime to any other movie format?

Anyone know the story? Resellerratings.com isn't there any more. How royally crappy.

A depressing news story. Reading things like this is what makes me want to get out of the computer business.

Anthropomorphic Hard disk humor is so rare, for some reason.

I happen to have in my possession at the moment, 10 P3 1GHz/256MB/20GB Toshiba 4600 notebooks. Some of them have Win2000 Pro or WinXP Pro loaded on them, but they're all destined to have Win98SE. I'm only going to have them for a few days. Anyone interested in impressions of the hardware, or...

Drunk posting: A serious issue. Some SR regulars have admitted it openly. Some have confessed after the fact. Some make their inebriated state part of their username. Tonight on StorageForum, a shocking exposé: Do our readers post while under the influence?

Just noticed that I have more posts than Tannin. It'll probably never happen again, so I'm going to celebrate while I can. ;) Me: 234 (er, 235 when I hit submit) Tannin: 232 A momentous day in the history of logorrhea!

Simple question, vaguely related to the programming languages thread: What non-OS software do you find most useful? What software do you actually use?

Well, my professional life just keeps getting worse. I made only 38% last year of what I made the year before, and no prospects for things getting better. Going back to school doesn't seem terribly interesting but... My fiance made the most interesting offer. My college GPA was something like a...

Wish the batteries for my camera weren't charging. I have two cats. At this very moment they are laying on three different keyboards. One of them the one I'm trying to actually use. Animals are amazingly smart some times.

I make an effort - at present - to read everything here. I've noticed that often, I'll continue to see the new posts notification in forums I've completely read, and that have no additional new posts. Is anyone else seeing this or is it a byproduct of using mozilla?

Mostly just playing with the poll-posting options. Anyone else here like to cook?

Ladies (that would be you, Tea) and Gents (the rest of us), storageforum.net is now up and running. Huzzah!

Is SR still having "issues" or is it me? I've tried to post a couple of times in the last half-hour or so and gotten "You can't post so soon after your last post" messages in response.

I noticed IE6 is on the latest driver CD for the Modems I normally buy, so I installed it on one of my machines. It looks the same as IE5. It acts the same as IE5. All the menus are the same. Speed is the same. It's IE5 with a slightly different icon, near as I can tell. So for you every-day...

OK. This is a joke, right? Or is this guy just nuts? Does anyone remember seeing a post from "mirQtio" on SR?