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XP ... the toy OS.

I haven't noticed any problems with my 2000FP. Of course you could always set power management to turn the monitor off after x number of minutes if you are concerned. With my Dell, I have the brightness at about 20 or 30 out of 100, so I don't think it will be a prob for me.

Yup lead out takes a long time. It does seem faster on the 4x discs. Lots of players have no problem playing back DVD-R, but have issues with DVD-RW. If it's playing back OK on the -RW in your computer then just make a -R burn, it should work fine in your home player. At least with +RW I find...

I'd be happy if they upgraded the Thruway E-Z pass system so that one could keep driving thru the EZ pass lane without slowing to 5 MPH. Of course given the sheer stupidity of some of the booth workers "hey why look if a car is coming before I step out on the roadway" I guess this won't be...

Until Sept 2nd (and I'm sure beyond) Mitsu is 7yr/100K powertrain warranty.

I believe the Cavaliers have a problem with failing alternators. Mitsubishi currently has $0 down and 0% financing in the US, do they have anything going in Canada?

Indeed: Intel: 3 versions of the Socket370. The P4: I've lost count. The Xeon: even worse. AMD doesn't look too bad. It is a new generation they are introducing after all, not like Intel and their bullcrap "oh we need to change voltage specs blah blah blah, hmm let's move one pin or add...

I would have a look at DVD Shrink for free before paying for DVD X Copy ( www.dvdshrink.org ) They have the 3.0 Beta out - it's on the where page, at the bottom. It doesn't have burning functionality however, but you could use whatever software comes with the Pioneer drive for that.

He's moving out of his rented digs and into his very own house/duplex.

Good luck on the move Merc. I'll have a cold beer in your absence.

Wierd thing. I ran AVG 6.0 on the laptop the other day and it detected OPEN_ME.EXE in two directories. Now I have it scan all emails and I Outlook 2K won't let me open executable attachements anyway. I'm wondering if I got it via the blaster backdoor before I patched (even though I never had the...

I dunno what DVD software you are using but you should be able to find an option to "preserve aspect ratio". This will preserve the proper ratio as you click and resize the DVD window to your liking (i.e. it won't squash or elongate the people on screen :) )

The problem is that since the "buy back" of '96, the rate of home invasions has increased. Now wasn't the point of the "buy-back" to make Australia a "safer place"? Surely it wasn't because Little Johnnie doesn't like them and apparently his wife is calling the shots regarding his gun policy...

As flagreen said, I think common interests are the key. Most of my good friends I met at the pistol club I'm a member of. See them a couple of times a week, and then we usually go interstate to State/National champs etc. Known them for about 6 years now. Also I have friends from high skool/Uni...

I'm pretty sure that it wasn't cumpulsary to take the gun, you could choose to get normal interest on the CD instead. I guess I just don't see a problem in a law-abiding person (one who has passed the background check) from possesing a device made of metal and wood, which some people demonise...

With peripherals they have in stock they usually ship within a day or so. Have you got the order confirmation email giving you the customer and order number? You can use those to track your order at the Dell site: http://support.dell.com/dellcare/orderstatus/orderstatus.aspx Be aware that...

I won't bother wasting a Netflix rental slot on such pure fabrications. I've seen the part where he makes it look like you get handed a gun when you open a bank account, too bad he missed out the fact that is was a multi thousand dollar CD and you were getting advanced interest. Oh yeah and the...

AFAIK there is no limitation on shades of colours via DVI. I believe most(all?) the panels use 7 bits per colour channel, and therefore cannot produce the gamut of a CRT monitor.

I guess the problem is that there are no single CPU mobos with decent PCI. And in a year you could get a second Xeon at bargain prices, slip it in and away you go.

Kill the whales, save the ozone layer! Think of the children

With a massive recoil like that, a light frame, and such a short sight radius, it wouldn't be of much use unless you were attacked in a lift. Still an awful big hole for a bad guy to look down. I would seriously shoot one before buying. It's not a comfortable experience. I've shot 454s out of a...

Prescription drugs aren't subject to sales tax in the US. I dunno if there is extra tax on the manufacturers tho.

I imagine that one of the reasons that prescription prices are so astronomical in the US is that the insurance companies will pay for those high prices (minus the co-pay). How else can Zyrtec be sold for about US$10 in Australia and US$80 in the US? Keep in mind that in Australia, you can't...

"Bangkok households, and those in the richer provinces of Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, and Samut Prakan earn an average of Bt27,514 (around USD$650) monthly, and spend Bt20,598 (around USD$480). However, nationwide the average is Bt13,418 (USD$320) and Bt10,908 (USD$220). Overall households in...

Amazing how cheap XP can become when faced with the Penguin. Of course XP with activation and Office are available on any street in Bangkok for around US$10 anyway. "In order to compete with the Thai government's plan to sell a million cheapo Linux PCs, which we covered earlier, Microsoft did...

Drugstore.com for $9.99. Free shipping with $50 spend.

Apparently 2003 Server won't shutdown, but it will infect other systems. And it'll still crawl under the network traffic.

I prefer the Blackhawk, I find the Redhawk tends to cut into the hand with heavy recoil loads (shooting metallic silhouette out to 200m). It's good fun knocking over a 50 pound steel ram at 200 :)

Got the juice back at 3am, lost a bit of dairy in the fridge but otherwise no probs. Good to get the A/C back on, it's going to be a hot one.

Well just had a nice dinner outside on the barbie, some pork chops and lamb burgers. Hopefully the juice comes back on before the basement floods. And of course no running water because we are on a well. My Maid of the Mist frozen beer mug has suffered a catastrophic faliure *blubbers* All the...

Thank god for the chest freezer *starts moving beer down to the basement* Worse thing was that I was in the middle of moving about 80GB of data when the lights went out, and the UPS only gave me about 15 mins when I needed an hour or so. Oh well, only a copy, can be redone later. Glad to hear...

Well no power here in Upstate NY. Lappie is good for an hour or two.

I was trying to insult Coug. Guess I failed :(

You know what they say about the Canajuns :D

Definitely not world wide, perhaps US or just NY. The Freelander had pretty bad crash-testing results didn't it?

With the standard STB, I have seen a couple with digital audio out (I don't think the RCA ones do).

There was a story on local news about reliability and the percentages of makes going in for workshop work. Apparently 60% was accounted for by Land Rover/Range Rover. Astonishing when you think of the low numbers sold in the US.

Congrats Fushigi. I'm waiting for the UPS dood to come with a package :) Anticipation....

Supermicro don't make AMD mobos, so you would be stuck with Intel if you went that route. If you want 64bit PCI, then you would have to get an SMP board, and that means Intel Xeons or AMD Athlon(X)MPs/Opterons. What's your budget?

Indeed, it sounds like a PCI related problem. I presume your dual athlon is a AMD 760MPX. I also speculate that this is the source of the bottleneck. It can have similar PCI issues as those that have plagued Via chipsets. What other PCI devices do you have running in the systems? Have you...

I don't think that any PCI card would increase the bus speed. But perhaps it could lessen the impact. That's why I won't buy any mobo with less than 64 bit PCI. It's insane to cripple a healthy modern processor with 133MBps 32/33 PCI. Yeah I know the on board crap can have it's own channels to...

The Forgotten Dump 10 mins after the deed, you can't even remember if you went or not.

Another problem with encoding them all with DivX at CD size is that you are going to lose the DD/DTS soundtracks. And as you improve the TV/audio system, the quality loss could be too much to bear. Also the time it's going to take to compress 600 DVDs may not be worth the money you could earn...

Santilli's cat on the prowl?

I've got a Braun cordless shaver (the one that sits in it's own stand and cleans itself). It takes a cleaning solution cartridge (which lasts me about 2 months). Costs about $10 for a two pack. Made in Ireland and shipped all over the world. Olde Gillette never loses out on the $$$. I'd still...

Apprently the McLaren F1 was good for 30 MPH with no damage. Amazing what a carbon fibre frame/body and a $1 million bucks will get you! None of that wussy steel here.

What kind of TV/audio system is it going to be hooked up to Fushigi? Ideally you could use component to hook up the video.

To give you a reference when I burn DVDs at 4x (~5.2MB/sec) using a FW external box, CPU util never exceeds 3%. I'm thinking it's the Windows CPU tax at work.

600 DVD's assuming 8GB per disc = 4800 GB. That's a fair bit of storage. Adding in the LDs and the CD's, perhaps 6TB? I would suggest 300 DVD changers like Merc has. Couple of those at ~$400 is going to be much cheaper. Is there a limit to the number that can be daisy-changed?