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Drool schmool :P Actually I wouldn't say no if I was offered one for free. Right now I'm trying to dl all the ATI drivers required to get my AIW 7500 up and running, 24MB for the 8.6 MMC and another 23MB for the 3in1 driver pack is excrutiating on dial up (24kbps yay!). I need it to record the...

A colour laser simply doesn't replicate all the colour shades that an inkjet can. It just looks like crap to put it simply. I believe supercaff has(had?) a solid wax printer, ther are really more designed for business document output with solid colours (such as bar graphs. pie charts etc). Dye...

In Australia one could say "I'm buggered", meaning one is exausted. Or "Bugger me!", signifiying shock or surprise. Definitely not an invitation for fudge packing.

Does she need colour? If not, then a Brother laser all in one would be the way to go. I dunno if they have any flatbed versions tho.

Sadly for the price they are asking, blinding speed is required. Of course for those who are enveloped in the RDF (Reality Distortion Field), these machines are "faster than light", "supercomputers" etc ad nauseum. I believe they can be equipped with the 9800 Pro viddy card? Should be sufficient.

Most (all?) of the DVD burners are limited to 2x rip speed with CSS protected discs. Unfortunately the Sonys also rip at 2x on non-CSS discs. However for the latest Sony burner you can dl a software appy that increases the rip speed to something like 6x or 8x I believe. In any case, much quicker...

You can get very long DVI cables (they use fiber convertors for the run). I believe in the region of $300-$400 for 30ft(m)?

There's no way it's going to cost 3 grand. Prob less than $1000. The Xeon MP is certified for up to 8 way operation, the pee4 version is for single cpu apps. People will pay the big bucks for large cache and 8 way. If the price is the same for the p4 version then people might as well buy the...

Hmm, I should prob put this noisy bastard duallie in the basement and let her run 24/7. But I'd need a KVM cat5 switch that uses DVI, and I don't think they make those, not for under $300 anyway. So I'll prob end up getting a new quiet machine with DVI, and run the duallie via VNC.

I have two of the ADS Pyro enclosures, one is the original FW only version, and the other is the Duo (FW+USB). It seems to me that the Duo is a tad slower than the FW only version (when using Firewire). Haven't tried it on USB2 tho (FW works fine for me). I also have a FW800 enclosure and...

Mmmm, 4 platters for 400GB? We can only hope.

I got a trial version with my Coolpix 995 a few years back. Apparently some kind of DB program for images. I couldn't figure out how it worked.

Get a 500ml bottle of Coke, drink some and pour plenty of run or vodka to taste. No one will ever know your alcoholic ways.

I think we're out of the runnning anyway Greg :mrgrn:

Just watched the second series of 24 on DVD, good entertainment. Can't wait for the third series, definitely a cliffhanger as opposed to end of season 1. And loving the commercial skipping capabilities of ReplayTV, makes watching a game of NFL reasonably interesting, once all the ads and slow...

The weather outlook for the weekend is improving? :mrgrn: I have to use Office because it's the only thing my mobile phone syncs up with without me buying extra software.

Good to see you around Ian. :D

LOL, your comments re: chili remind me the first time I went to a McDs in the USA. I kept asking for a chicken burger, after a few times I realized I needed to ask for a chicken "sandwich". And I often have problems with cashiers when you give them extra change so they give you a whole note...

I find Outlook 2003 to be a nice improvement over OutlookXP.

I'm waiting for SpaceWay. Hope it's reasonably affordable. It's basically the next gen of DirecWay. www.spaceway.com

The problem is the cost of bandwidth from overseas. When I was at Uni, I believe the Uni was charged something like AUS$50 per GB for international traffic. I don't know what the current costs are.

Certainly wireless has the possibility of ending the telcos absurd prices for the last mile to the customer. However I'm pretty sure most cable in NZ is bandwidth capped, a friend of mine gets a measly 3GB/month with excess charges for anything over. Poor bastard had a hell of a time with all...

I accept the nomination. *Bottoms up Bartender*

"Besides, Faenza says the wheels on his Lamborghini start to shake when he goes faster than 70." LOL, he's on his way to being without a license me thinks. Isn't there a cutoff point where you automatically lose your license? I saw an article where there was a bike that used a detuned Corvette...

Perhaps you could put the computer in a room which can be locked? Either that or leather restraints....

Can you use the door key lock to keep him out?

I would definitely return it if I had the option. I have a single stuck pixel on my i8200, fortunately the 133dpi makes it difficult to see. It appeared after the 30 day money back guarantee from Dell so I didn't have the option of exchange. My 2000FP is pristine so far (touch wood).

www.pair.com is good for me. Bit more costly than the elcheapos but you get a server that doesn't have a bunch of skript kiddies taking it down every day.

Ahh, so that's how you open up those Dell crapboxes! I nearly cracked a case open a while back, trying to put a NIC in a machine. I was so sure those little tabs on the top and bottom were the key. Freaking taking the feet off, who woulda thunk it?

It isn't Macrovision that's causing the flickering by any chance? Is it a commercial tape or one you recorded yourself. Sits on dial up with no clue whats going on......

Cumulative even....

I noticed there was a download for Win 2003 IE6 the other day, for the app itself, and not just a specific issue. Perhaps it was a comulutaive big patch, I forget now.

[quote="Handruin"]BTW, thanks Pradeep for the idea, I will research the ReplayTV soon. I didn't know you could connect them to a PC. Does it transfer DV across the LAN connection? Yeah the 5XXX series has an Ethernet port, you can hook up multiple Replay units together via switches etc. You...

Perhaps another option would be to get a ReplayTV (currently $199 at amazon.com for the 40 hour version, plus a $50 MIR till August 31st), capture from that, then stream via your LAN to your computer, and burn those files to DVD. Apprently speed is about 3MB/sec.

I don't know of any DVD players with Firewire connections. The studios don't want you copying digitally. Certain D-VHS decks have Firewire input/output, apparently works great for recording in HD, then transferring to the PC for editing etc. But your looking at $500+ The camcorders that I...

If you are recording TV or VHS then you can probably drop the rez down from 720*480. Is the playback jerky on your computer? Perhaps you were dropping frames during capture? I don't understand how you got a bit rate of 1411KB/sec when capturing 720*480? I've tried capturing that uncompressed...

Yeah I know :) One hunts fish underwater. Tho they do seem to frown on the use of explosives for such things. Wallabies mostly, and rabbits. This year I think I may go out in muzzle loader season, gives me a week of early hunting.

Oh yes I remember now, the real name is "golden sample". So instead of visions of getting sprayed with urine from some hot chicky babe, we instead have to think about some pee-in-a-cup test.

It's amazing that Faud, with his limited grasp of the English language, thought up such a nice title. Tho he does seem to be improving.

e_dawg: I'm staying with a friend. It's a long vacation. flagreen: I paid close to US$200 for my non resident big game and small game hunting permits last year. I think I've been taxed enough. Especially when a resident Super Sportsman (which includes hunting pretty much anything that moves...

Waiting for deer season to begin :mrgrn:

Bloody hell, I'm halfway thru mopping up the toilet floor after the dunny just backed up and flooded out. Sadly the US design of having the bowl half full of water before flush means that overflow is almost inevitable, a superior Aussie dunny has bugger all water in the bottom and can take a...

I use 2003 Server on the desktop machine, it runs ClearType on the 2000FP. On the laptop I do use XP Pro, mostly because it does seem to have better Firewire functionality, and it came with it. And performance is crap with the P4 1.6GHz anyway. Because its 133DPI on the lappie, I tend to turn...

Orangutan escapes at zoo An orangutan at the Seneca Park Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after 10 a.m. this morning, and grabbed a volunteer who was cleaning its habitat, officials said. The orangutan, named Lowell, was confined to a glass containment area, zoo officials said, and the...

LOL I made up the shower part, it's Golden something.

Well I had numerous cold Kileny Irish Red beers to see you thru. Wierd thing over here in the US is that they don't tell you what the alchohol % is or how many standard drinks it contains on the label. Must make it bloody hard to avoid getting busted for drink driving.

http://sony.storagesupport.com/dvdrw/downloads/dss10/DSS101.zip It doesn't work on my 500A, but apparently for the 510A and 510UL the tool can up read speeds from the pathetic 2x to 8x. I'm guessing this also includes CSS protected discs because they talk about dual layer DVDs. I think Merc...

Albatros review: http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/albatron/gffx5900pv/

I believe the Gainward "Golden Shower" super secret special edition is currently the fastest?