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Yep! Bloody good slapstick. I think Jack Lemmon gave a terrific performance in this movie. Tony, Peter and Natalie were great as well.

Does anybody know of a tool/utility that reports the PCI/AGP bus speeds. CPU-Z reports the FSB speed, but not the PCI/AGP.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37941 ..." It is a simple brute force attack, dumb as a rock that just tries keys. If it gets one, you manually have to check it and try activation. Is is ugly, takes hours, is far from point and click, but it is said to work. I don't have any...

Tannin, weren't you guilty of ThinkPad lovin'? http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37946 ..." The problematic batteries were sold to customers with notebooks or as optional or replacement for the ThinkPad R60, R60e, T60, T60p, Z60m, Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p. Models may have...

Seriously good stuff Coug. Congrats.

Fog of war? You'd be surprised how many battles have turned on some quirk. Still, I see you point, it does seem to be a pointless and trivial way to lose. Can anybody recommend a good (preferably WWII) strategy game? I'm rather over Hearts of Iron II and Panzer General 2, was probably the...

Mark, any word on by how much the Linux SMP points will be reduced?

The following posts my be of interest: By Stele (about half way down) http://www.anandtech.com/talkarticle.aspx?frmResourceID=2770&frmWhere=2 and Per Hansson, though you may want to go up that thread to the start by Operandi and read some of the other comments...

My experience with the mdrun 99 error is on a machine that was freshly formatted and installed—so there was no registry holdovers. Mind you it was a P!!! so I wasn't expecting too much. Still, it would have been nice. I'm going to try it out on a friends Athlon and see if its an AGP 4X/8X...

Holy sh!t Batman! BTW, congratulations Mark. Also, the 7.2 Catalysts get me past the 99 error, but now I get a 114 error in its place...

Are they going to drop the points? BTW, have you solved your error yet?

Ha! I don't feel so silly now.

Decided to follow up on suggestions and purchased an X1650XT AGP (HIS) for the P!!!. This has 24 pixel pipelines vs 12 in an X1650 Pro, and 36 in the X1950 Pro. The board is AGP 4X. Good news, the board works fine in the P3V4X. The bad news is that I get an "mdrun_gpu returned 99" error...

Now this doesn't make sense: GM planning on buying Chrysler http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,21240764-462,00.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37658 Go on, I dare ya!

Oh yeah, back to ugly. Ford Interceptor. WTF were they thinking when they put that grille on it? Yeah I know it comes from one of your trucks, but seriously, why? They were on track for a good design (even if they stole it off of the Chrysler 300C) and then they had to get the crayons outs...

It adjusts the RDTSC to compenate for poor design/programming choices in a multi-threaded world...

My take: Ugly cars don’t sell. The problem: What is ugly? Caveat: Bear with me. Nothing is absolute. This is my take on one aspect. Rather loosely structured I’m afraid. In this country, ugly cars don’t sell. This is not an absolute, but true enough. The exception is Toyota. Toyota’s sell...

An Opel (GM Euro subsidiary) Astra isn't it? Is it available or a mock up?

We'll make an Aussie out of you yet :)

http://www.fendigital.co.uk/assets/images/autogen/a_coal_tit_eating_from_a_bird_feeder.jpg :)

If you have a look at the block diagram of the NVIDIA G80, it looks like a ring bus connecting 128 "cores". AMD's R600 is expected to be similar. I'm afraid that AMD/ATi and NVIDIA have already made significant steps in the direction of Intel's multi-core graphics chip. Fusion/Stream...

Coug, what GPU are you using for folding? Only the X1600Pro?

** well, we use that term rather loosely as well. See what I mean? ;)

* May not actually have any of these features, but is is a car**

Cool. I'll sell you a car that does 127mpg, has 400bhp and seats seven in comfort with class leading active and passive safety features*

Interesting patent http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37568

What sechs said. That's my understanding as well. And every reference I've read says that ActiveArmor corrupts downloads. Yet another instance of NVIDIA being crap. VIA had a bad reputation five or six years ago, but NVIDIA seems to have inherited it. They have a lot of "check box" items on...

:rotfl: Anatomy? :D

'Trinity' works for MS. Follow his replies in this thread for some info http://www.aceshardware.com/forums/read_post.jsp?id=120074556&forumid=1 Random disk I/O

That is a great article Sol, thanks.

A rant and a follow up with some links http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37091 http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37291

I am under the belief that the DRM in Vista &/or driver requirements won't allow/disables digital out in case you are a pirate.

Zero interest in Vista. The DRM and licensing restrictions are evil.

I thought you'd like the comparison: ..."W-W-W-Windows/386's main selling point is that it looks "just like OS/2", and it can even allow multitasking."...

I prefer Windows 3.1's "Hotdog". Well, actually, I don't. That one really sears the eyes! I don't mind Blaze.

The video was used to promote Windows/386, which would date it as around 1987~1989. I guess you could say that it pre-dates current workplace legislation... ;)

Apologies to Tea. Watch the video. Watch what happens at the 7 min mark. Scary... http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&q=windows+386&b3ta

Screw Vista/Luna/Gnome/insert interface of choice http://www.flixxy.com/minority-report-interface.htm

Was just over on XBit and their latest review is of a couple of ThermalTake cases. Given what people here seem to think of ThermalTake cases, I thought I'd share the heading: ..."Thermaltake Armor Jr and Thermaltake Aquila: Worthy Thermaltake Heritage"... Hence the title of this post... :)

http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/11638 ..."The new Savvio 15K is not only the world's first 2.5" hard drive with platters spinning at 15,000 RPM, Seagate also says it's 10% faster than 3.5" 15K-RPM drives, making it the world's fastest hard drive. That's a bold claim to make, but the...

Well not the most hideous, but certainly up there...

I would second this suggestion. Some people don't like 16:9 on 4:3 TV, but you don't end up with quality issues from resizing. Looks OK on a 68cm TV, but the picture would obviously be too small for comfort on smaller televisions.

I've had good luck with DVD2SVCD, which despite its name, is quite happy to convert AVI files into DVD. I gather you are trying to convert AVI's into DVD format? You may (or may not, depending on what you already have) need an MPEG2 encoder, and there is a known bug—when converting AVI's to...

Are you sure? This review says otherwise. http://www.sysopt.com/features/mboard/article.php/12027_3644226_3 I'd like to know because I'm considering it.

Activation hack http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5299 DailyTech writes: ...Microsoft's solution for making Volume Activation 2.0 easier for administrators has been attacked, however. Hackers have spoofed Microsoft's Key Management Service (KMS) server which allows corporations...

jtr: my condolences as well. In April I lost my mother in similar circumstances—rushed to hospital, never awoke. We (my brothers) had to decide on when to "pull the plug". My mother-in-law is dealing with her third bout of cancer in two years. The hospital rang and said that the surgery...

Is this of interest/help? http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?p=133312&sid=2b3b404b2c7e30f017d549c3725ea281 search for Sonypvl3.sys and read the post and links by Alan

Some more info that may be relevant re AGP cards. The X1650 seems to work (according to the specs I've seen) as AGP 4X/8X, whilst the only X1950 AGP states 8X only.

Whoohoo! Just realised that the board I changed over to ASUS P3V4X is AGP 4X. I had switched it off as I didn't seem efficient. I'll look into this.