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Why not just wait for the dpreview review. They'll do a bang-on comparison between the K10 and the K20.

Oh, I know what you think I think you meant, ddrueding. :)

Woohoo! Eleven more steps to go and I'm a free man. :) ]-[

I'm unclear on this point, Tony: What does pixel *density* have to do with bottom-line resolution? If you're filling your D3 viewfinder with that Yellow-throated vireo you've got twelve million pixels on it. Period. No? What's it matter how close together those pixels are on the sensor? Oh...

What's all this, then? They don't have packaging in Germany? Asplain!

Dood, I walked into a Costco last year and nearly had a conniption when I saw SD cards being sold in bomb-proof blister packs the size of LPs. In fact, TONS of stuff that size from electronics to batteries to tools was packaged in the SAME SIZED blister pack, even if it already had its own...

Uh, also, what do you mean by that?

I see how she comes off a bit angry-hippie and that she exaggerates for effect (I don't throw out a computer every year. Maybe every seven or eight years). But as much as she's ornery her message rings true. I find it exceedingly important to learn to hear *what* someone is saying despite *how*...

Nifty!

So you feel my pain. I take solace in your implied sympathies. The problem with cheap speakers, besides the fact that they sound like poop, is that they, like, 99% of mass-produced consumer stuff, are designed to be used until it's time to throw them out. Nothing about them suggests any care for...

Crazy hippie lady does a great job of distilling and disseminating facts about an issue I think about all the time. I carry a schoolbag with me nearly all the time so that I don't have to take plastic shopping bags at the store. I look for old wood to use in my little building projects. I buy...

Yeah, but it's fun, and I have more time than either money or good sense right now.

I always found Thinkpads to have the most comfortable keyboards.

Coming from the world of $20,000 soffit-mounted studio monitors I've grown a bit snobby and have learned to turn my nose up at $200 toys. This despite the fact that I cannot afford speakers at half that price right now. Ironically, I've got like $6000 worth of speakers, amplification, cabling...

What's too much work— Swapping drives?

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showpost.php?p=104648&postcount=5 :)

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I still buy LaserJet 4's. Even after 12 years they still work and have drivers built into every OS on the planet.

Hey, ship me S/PDIF-ready preamp and I'll let you know what happens. :) p.s. I'll need some speakers, too.

I just set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to 0 again and even with "show hidden devices" enabled in Device Manager the ghosts do not appear.

Merc, I'm not sure what you mean by " 'C:' partition". Windows gives the name "C" to the first visible primary partition on the first hard drive in the system. If I hide the first partition on the drive then the Windows installer will recognize the second partition — now the first visible...

It's not as though I'm particularly enthralled by the hardware design or feature set of any PC laptop, either. I mean, 6-pin firewire jack? Hello? Anyone? Plenty of room on that side panel! No love. I'm the first to admit that Apple's builds some sexy boxes but I'm looking for more than just a...

I just stumbled upon a nifty feature I'd not seen before. From a command prompt type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 Devmgmt.msc and then in Device Manager go View > Show Hidden Devices. The device list now shows everything that was ever installed, with missing devices displaying a...

I would if I had a reciever/preamp/DA converter with optical inputs. It's an interesting point you bring up, actually: if the noise is somehow — be it due to EMI / poor shielding / dirty power / grounding issues / etc — added to the audio signal post-DA conversion then converting the signal...

I've had cases where add-on sound cards, regardless of quality would not solve the problem. I don't have another consumer sound card to try at the moment, but I noticed that the noise is significantly worse through the front outputs. This could be due to the front outputs being wired as...

Merc, I know about installing Windows in ascending order of vintage; that's simply function of the older OS not being able to boot the newer one. Basically what I'm looking for is a way to hide partitions from the XP installer so that both installations of XP think they're on the C drive. I...

What, so GRUB installs itself with Linux? UI and everything? Well if that don't beet awl! Should I first install Linux to my partition of choice and then use GRUB to hide partitions whilst I install XP and XP? Is that easy to do with the Ubuntu GRUB UI? Is there a need to hide partitions while...

OK, so there are two alternatives to multibooting: 1. Swap drives using a frame and carrier (or one of those newfangled carrier-less frames, although I'd be concerned about the SATA connector's ability to survive multiple insertions and removals). 2. Buy dedicated systems for graphics...

I've decided to set up my new system drive with at 2 installations of XP, one Ubuntu and another spare primary partition (Vista? What's Vista?) It's been a looooong time since I've done this so I sat down to do some reading; bit of a refresher course, if you will. I'd like all my OSs to be...

Fine. You have two-stroke access to a handful of extended characters. I have Five-stroke access to entire character sets with ALT+####. Incidentally, "™" is ALT+0153, and it takes me a split second to key in. Perhaps you can explain why an advanced, intuitive GUI like OS X allows me to resize a...

"Hey, I know— we'll put 'E' and 'O' on the one key and use a *second* key as a modifier to differentiate between them! Brilliant!"

Sechs, I have this argument with Macoids on a regular basis. For a company that spends so much energy extolling the virtues of its hardware and software design, they regularly release products that make me wonder if anyone ever attempted to *USE* the f-ing prototype before it went into...

Well, I've already installed the chipset drivers so I'm gonna try the second option. Thanks for the tip, Merc.

Ugh. This system's got the dreaded mouse-and-hard-drive-activity-static-in-the-soundcard-output disease. I've never been successful in eliminating this from a system. Stupid electrical interference.

Heard of, never used. From what I understand after a quick scan of the TechNet article USMT has to be initialized from the working source system, which I lack. All I have is the system drive. Also, I didn't read far enough into the article, but I can't imagine that USMT or FSTW copy whole...

I'll look into it, thanks. Oh, totally. That's exactly what I usually do, too, but I thought I'd try this out just for a change. Well, for a change and for the fact that I invest lots of time setting things up the way I like them and the thought of starting from scratch is a mild irritant...

Device manager usually lists HDDs by their model names but on my newly-transplanted system the drives are labeled as "Disk drive". Any ideas on why that might be?

New System Up and Walking Ok, so here's what I ended up with: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L CPU: C2D E2140 RAM: Crucial Ballistix PC2 6400 CL4 2GB Kit (Buddy-couriered from Toronto) Video: Asus EN7300GT Silent (cheap and it runs WoW and HL2 with reasonable FPS and visual settings) HD: WD 2500AAKS...

Well, that sucks. I'll have to find out if that's the case with DD-WRT, although I'd assume such consumer-esque silliness would have been written out, given the power-user appeal of this distribution.

Well, that sucks. I'll have to find out if that's the case with DD-WRT, although I'd assume such consumer-esque silliness would have been written out, given the power-user appeal of this distribution.

Thanks, Mark. Any idea why the machines couldn't get internet when the D-Link was providing DHCP and the Linksys was acting as a switch and WAP? Piyono

Mark, are you suggesting a separate switch in your second configuration? You know that the WRT54GS has a 4-port switch built in, right? The wired machines don't need or want VoIP. Ideally I'd like nothing more than to have the D-Link box configured as a client on the network with nothing...

Greetings from the Holy Land. So I've been messing with the physical and logical configurations of the routers on the network and found myself stumped by a configuration that looks like it should have worked but did not. The boxes are a DSL modem provided by Bezeq (the telco), a D-Link...

Tell me about it! It's a daily struggle for me. Piyono

I believe the SATA chipset is a SIL model. I was planning to do a repair installation on a clone of my existing system drive. I'm going to keep the original drive in case I get a replacement motherboard. Crazier things have happened. I found a Hebrew enthusiast site: www.hwzone.co.il. I posted...

Yeah, I'll stick with the stock cooler for now. I may have found a temporary computer for free; a friend of mine's got an AMD machine underneath his in-laws' house. It's 40 minutes each way by car, longer by bus. Time to start looking for a lift. It's been a while since I've had to move an XP...

Yeah, so the accepted device we Israeli residents employ is the buddy shipping method. If your parcel is small enough and durable enough, get a friend to toss it into his/her checked luggage. "Formal" shipping is subject to import duties. I've heard of mailed packages being opened for...

Newegg is great, but they don't ship to Toronto and they certainly don't ship to Israel. Prices here are, on average, 15% higher for computer stuff (pro audio gear has, like, a 100% duty. Cars, too). I use Newegg strictly for product images (an area in which they excel) and user reviews. It's...

The current crop of Intel motherboards looks good, except for the fact that Intel seems to have categorically dismissed PS/2 as a connector option. I like my legacy keyboard!

Thanks, Merc, I'll czech those out. I've been doing some late-night research: From what I understand, the best bet for a mainstream Intel chipset solution today is the P35, which supports CoreDuo Quad on LGA775 if I decide I want to upgrade. If I opt for integrated graphics I'd be turning to...