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Doug, there is at least five tvtuner/capture cards out already: - sapphire - msi - ati ($$) - powercolor - visiontek I know newegg carries some of them.

Eric, your results look in line with the performance of the drive: From Cdrlabs 3500 review: Writing - "The ND-3500A is one of the first drives to feature 4x DVD+R DL writing speeds ... aside from the slight dip at the layer change, the drive writes at this speed from start to finish."...

Its a newegg typo...look at the pic of the box (top left corner) - socket 939

Curiously, I'm now finding that the initial delay "problem" before being served up SF has increased to probably a mean value of ~1.8s. And I thought that 1s delay was bad! You should see me now -- I'm like a crack junkie rehab centre escapee jones'n for a fix. :P

At low resolution, I find the difference between VGA and DVI to be noticeable but only in a very subtle way. Specifically, I find that if you use DVI for an extended period of time and then switch back to a VGA connection, you'll find yourself wondering what happened to the crisp text and...

The line between the evil empire and the shinning knight just got blurred.

Defying conventional wisdom, Creative has managed to turn garbage into gold. I asked a garbage truck driver about this and he replied: "If ya put crap in the can, you only get trash oudda de can". I'm inclined to believe the garbage-man.

This CD-Freaks news item looks rather interesting. No more scratchy scratchy?

My understanding is the follows Ghost 2003 = Ghost 8.0 ... this was both windows based and included dos version....this is the one I have and use. Note, I only use the dos portion....it works like a champ Ghost 2004 don't exist AFAIK, unless this is what sechs meant by Ghost 8.5. I know...

Windows is corrupted :P As a complete guess, I'm thinking its a scsi drive your using and its a controller driver related issue. If not, then so much for more fledgling career as a clairvoyant. Questions: - what kind of drive? - what controller? - what firmware and drivers ? - anything...

Yes, but I'm sure the Bartender could provide ample reasons why that may just be :D

Correct, that is exactly what happens. Its Firefox for me. Sounds like phpbb can't be ruled out yet either.

Yes, thanks. Dang! And I done take great pains to right mighty propper! :D

Sorry, I don't follow....grammer related reference?

Nice. You're likely going to have a lot of fun with that Blake.

Since the upgrade, I've noticed that there is a slight (~1s or so) delay before SF will load for me. No other site experiences this delay. If I were to guess, I would suspect its a resolving of the DNS related issue. Anyone else notice this? Thankfully this isn't like last year's...

works for me

True, but what I meant to imply was that: absence from the F/S's doesn't necessarily mean the litigation was resolved. My former statement implied somewhat of the opposite.

Yes, that was definitely one of the more enlightened comments :D

please excuse my double negative.

I thought they had, but google search seemed to indicate it was ongoing. They don't list it in their financial statements, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been resolved yet.

Well timed, time, as roaming profiles made news elsewhere recently. I didn't read the article, but I skimmed through the comments. In typical OSNews fashsion, the know-it-alls, trolls and insulters are quickly fleshed out of the ether.

In other news, Tiger Direct is apparently suing Apple over the use of "Tiger". Frivalous trademark lawsuits . :evil:

Ars has a huge review (which is too long for me to read thoroughly right now so I just skimmed through it) of Apple's latest rendition of OS X. Tiger looks really good. One quote from the article that made me laugh:

I have triangulated the signal vectors and conclude they all originate from Houston, Texas. And, further, if we freeze on frame 138, we distinctly see a puff of blue hair coming from the grassy knoll.

Metro --- sounds very cosmopolitan

AAC is a lousy compression codec. More info here. CDDB identification is based upon track length not the bits. See here.

Well, I think you've talked me into staying the execution. I don't know if I'll personally be able to reform the prisnor, but barring my failure, I'll get the extradition papers together. Right now inmate 500CDT will remain in cell block G.

Since the beginning of Smarch

I've noticed on the rare occasion that some PDF's trigger acrobat to phone home for updates -- I'm guessing its because of foreign fonts or something. That bugs me enough that it automatically attempts to phone home. But what pisses me off more is that it starts trying to contact a whole...

For sure its 80pin SCSI. Even more evidence comes from the writing on the connector cable that I noted: My friend Google says its SCSI cable. :D However, my old nemesis Acrobat wants to phone to all kinds of motherships when I open any of those PDFs :evil:

You know I thought that both of them were plain PC Card slots! I didn't even spot the stuff about SCSI that you found. I'm positive I can find one. The cheapest one I found was something like $25US from somewhere deep in the heart of the Jersey swamplands. Nothing reasonably priced locally...

Boot disks I have handy! But a laptop that works I have not. The batteries are long drained, and I ensured it wouldn't be working again when I took it apart 2 years ago -- I mangled part of the PSU. Actually, a little bit of soldering would easily fix my mangling, but I detected what looked...

If your interested, Liggy & Dee's firmware is probably the best out there.

I really liked Star Blazers back in the day....not really fond of modern day stuff.

Ahhh - the old "OS before the egg" syndrome eh! Or is that chicken before the driver? Damn. I guess pulling the ol' El Torito gang out of retirement ain't an option now is it. Lousy bunch of slackers. Awesome! By my calculations (and having assumed a conservative 5% annual rate of...

They do. But what I was getting at was - the CF-37's screen is obviously 800x600, but if your hooking up to an external monitor through the laptop's VGA out, can't the laptop's video card be set to work at a higher res for the external monitor? For that matter, can you turn the laptop's own...

Nope, none of that. Its on a Toshiba Tecra 500 (circa '95)... The machine came with an external floppy, no external power. It plugs into a small port on the left side of the laptop. The port/connector bears a strong resemblence to a parrallel or scsi type connection, albeit much smaller...

Speaking of old floppy drives - Anyone know if an old extenal laptop floppy drive use the same voltage as a regular floppy drive?

Are you sure you can't adjust the res for the VGA out?

yes

My guess is on Eric.

I tried to tell 'em our prudish legislation would always lead to our own demise, but they wouldn't listen. They just mumbled something about God save the queen ....

It didn't work. So I guess your far fetched theories might be on to something Jan :D

The apples to apples comparison revealed absolutely no performance improvements with the udma driver. In fact, a very slight performance hit was observed. I have to (rightly or wrongly) conclude that the improvements I saw the other night were attributable solely to the vast differences...

Its pretty amazing how quickly we are impacting the composition of the world (although those familiar with the mechanics of exponential growth models really shouldn't have any reason to be surprised). The problem is elucidating these facts to the great hoard. Necessary changes are going to...

I'm thinking power state something...and upon typing "power state s0" into google, the very first link is a msdn document that talks about Power State Transitions. So that's my guess. I'll check this out later tonight.

Just watched the first two episodes (invaders and one degree) of this National Geographic Program which on premeired on PBS tonight (they probably will be airing on the west coast stations in half an hour from now). Very interesting.

I was unaware that CrystalCPU was independent of C'n'Q. I had been under the impression that C'n'Q was actually a requirement for Crystal. I note that having unistalled the AMD driver AND disabling C'n'Q in the BIOS, Crystal continues to function perfectly. That last point makes me pause to...