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I've read about them in other industry rags as well (Infoworld? Info Week?); they seem to be legit.

When I was a kid growing up (many decades ago) my father would say the same thing; that the world was over populated, and nuclear weapons should be dropped an a few big cities of the world. Credit to him, the first city he would mention was the one we were living in! I recently viewed these...

If it's that important, you shouldn't bank on one medium only. I'd suggest also burning DVDs on archival quality media (Verbatim Datalife, etc.), and having multiple copies on each type of media. Temperature also plays a part. You may want to look into having it stored not underground but in...

LM, thanks, I used to regularly vaccum the entire case and blow compressed air through the HSF. What I meant was that the HSF was attached to the CPU 5 years ago, and not moved / removed since. The P3 FC-PGA CPU is in a slotket, so it's easy to remove the slotket from the slot without removing...

That is a bummer, isn't it? I have this on order, and will use it if the one that comes on the DFI is too noisy. I didn't buy it because it twinkles, but because it fits the the DFI and is supposed to be efficient. In another note, I am astonished at some temp. drops I've experienced. My P3-800...

The new system I'm building is going to have many fans. What's the neatest way of powering these? They'll all be controlled by a multi-channel fan controllers sitting in 5.25 bays. Most of these are 2-wire fans (no RPM sensing) with bare leads. I've looked for elegant (small) solutions that will...

Merc: I bought a LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert, but I had my reasons for that and it would be gross overkill for your purpose. Mark: I would have loved to have gone with the new AMD socket, but there were 2 problems: 1) It's still several months away (June?), and I needed to do this now. There...

Ha! Tried it just now, and one nice whack and it came out all easy and really cleanly. Thanks, Tannin and Tea, you're the best!

Thanks, Tannin, and Tea, your expertise is invaluable! It's an old case (5+ years), but a very good one, so I'm going to mod it a bit for the new setup and it'll be good to go. I think it came with the "Venus compatible" shield installed at the factory, and since my Tyan Tiger BX based board was...

I briefly read a news item that Gmail was offering file transfer facilities. Catch is that the transferred file can live on Google's servers for up to 30 days. What was their motto again? Do No Evil? Utter BS. I regret opening a gmail account. Consolation is that it's dormant, I don't use it.

Paugie, no matter the culture, shape, size or color of humans, they are amazingly similar all over the world. Most of your descriptions of your country and people apply equally well to every part of the world! So this ain't a new problem, then. Years back, I read a report that linked the...

Thanks, Anathor21, that's good to know!

The shield has two layers to it: a layer visible from the outside that is the same gray color as the unpainted portions of the SECC steel; and a layer visible from the inside that is shiny like it's chrome plated. The inner layer is quite thin, like typical IO shields. The outer layer appears to...

There's also the new Accelero X1 for "NVIDIA 7800 series".

I suspect LM is a pro, not a hobbyist. He seems to spend all his time with photo gear and then managing the picures he takes (why do you think he's here at SF?!). There's a boy in my my daughter's 4th grade class whose mom picks him up everyday in a Land Rover. Never understood the rationale...

DD, I'm buying only an x1xx based card (see my thread HIS brand video cards), so your x800 won't do it for me. If you're going to buy a new one anyway, some thoughts: 1) Suggest you buy an x1xxx based card if you can. 2) Arctic Cooling doesn't make a cooler for the x1600 that the public can...

Bad News! I was thinking of getting the Gigabyte heat-pipe cooled X1600 Pro; now your comments give me pause. Maybe I should buy the HIS x1600 instead, despite my misgivings. Monarch has better prices (and no tax for us in CA) compared to Newegg, but Monarch is not listed on HIS' website as an...

Do LED's run hotter than incandescents for the same light output? Would that be a problem (like halogen's in some light fixtures)?

In "third-world" countries, I've bought things from illiterate street vendors who immediately give correct change (without a cash register or calculator). Try that in a department store here; they're helpless without the cash register. Better yet, if you need to pay $11.17, try giving them...

Tea, have that hard-hearted Tannin wire you some money and fly home (ever been in an aeroplane)? Sorry I was out from 4 to 10 pm last evening and didn;t see your messages till now.

Nope. Non-server Windows OSes are supported as guests. For GSX to run, it needs a Windows server OS. See this page and scroll down to "Windows Host Operating Systems".

For me the only issue is that if one want's to use a Windows OS as the host, it's got to be a server OS, which I don't have. I think I can use Linux as a host, but will have 2 learning curves to go through, Linux and GSX.

Le Inq reports that Nichia has already achieved 113 lumens / watt.

Thanks, Buck (I somehow missed seeing your post) and Time.

Thanks, Fushigi.

Alright Tannin, I admit defeat :(. Since the new motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot, I can't use my fossilized Matrox Millenium 8MB AGP 1x card. I'm forced to buy a PCI-E card, cheapest I can find is an MSI GeForce 6200 TurboCache 256MB TV-out/DVI for $45 shipped (yea, it's an NVidia!)...

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And you should know that better than anybody else, Lost6200!

jtr: Everything you say about babysitting etc. etc. is on the money. There's one issue you're totally wrong on: pre-school. Children that go to pre-school do significantly better academically. This has been proven. Better off people send their kids to Montessori. That should be extended to all...

Tannin, you're so used to fast machines you have no idea what it's like to have a slow one. I have large Word docs that take time to scroll and kill the machine on repagination (I turn off repagination till I'm done editing). I have one page PDFs that are agonizingly slow to scroll. There are...

Thanks Handy, Merc & Fushigi. Since there are no strong opinions on which one to get (other than Handy's endorsement of Hibachi), I take it I could get either one. I would opt for the Hibachi's, then. The mixed messages about Newegg's disk drive packaging make me uncomfy. Once upon a time...

Most of the parts for my new system are here. I'm aiming for a set of conflicting objectives: I'd like my system to be cool, quiet and fast :). Cooling is a priority because I may be moving to warmer climes come summer. Reliability is critical; it's difficult to get spares and do RMAs from an...

HIS does not have an office in the USA. Their phone contact number is for Hong Kong! They say the retailer will provide warranty info; neither Monarch nor Newegg has bothered to respond to my inquiries. Screw 'em. I think I'll go with (gasp!) this Gigabyte card. It's a x1600 Pro with heat-pipe...

Tannin, I guess the design philosophy of FF was to write just the core and let users add whatever the features they want. A savvy user could end up with a highly customized browser. You keep harping that it's made for idiots (thanks for the compliments, BTW), but this aspect of it, allowing...

By my favorite reviewer, Dan Neil of the L.A. Times. Free registration required; get a login at BugMeNot.

Merc & David: With 3GB, is the memory running at DDR400 or DDR333? Merc: By "sub-optimal X2", you mean sub-optimal for the purpose (maintaining disk images)?

CityK: If the cost is $2 and Logitech will mail it first class inside the U.S., I can buy it for you and remail it to you.

15 MB/s sounds about right. Eight sucks big time. I have a WD 120GB 2MB 7200RPM external unit (whole thing made by WD) with FW400 and USB2 interfaces. In testing from my desktop I got: a) 24.7 MB/s copying from desktop Ramdisk to external using FW b) 21.7 MB copying from desktop HDD (WD 120 JB...

I recently received an email about Social Security. I'm reproducing it below. If it's really true, it's quite shocking.

Mark, you're right, don't do it. But watch this 30-second clip on the president's Iraqi update instead (what he really thinks about it). I urge everybody, Repub or Dem, to watch it.

Don't your machines suffocate in the closet? How do you get air to flow in there? Unless you have your home furnace's air intake in there...

Between Coug and Merc, they have it all figgered out.

This guy raves about µTorrent. "130 KB in size, 5MB memory footprint, no installation, has everything that 99% of the population wants."

Sir Coug, when you call please ask if they ship to the USofA. I just paid a bundle for a Seasonic S12-600 :evil:

I'd like to retire (and there's an involuntary aspect to it as well). But I'm not at the age people usually retire, though. Not that it matters, I feel a million years old.

No go, Bozo. I'm sick and tired of ultra low-end hardware. I want something faster than a 9600XT for my PDFs and photo-editing. I have grand plans for some video work as well. If I'm building a new system, I might as well hit the sweet spot insted of low-balling; that way I'll get to keep the hw...

Thanks, theSwede, great find! If only it wasn't an Asus! Still, I'll take a good look at it. Sir Tannin, when I made my post I was pretty sure it would evoke a response from you. Apart from said highly valued and generally very sensible but on this matter totally irrational and obsessive SF...

Sir Mercutio: You haven't looked hard enough! HIS has a x1300 Pro that is fanless, but I haven't found it anywhere. Maybe it's too new. This page at Newegg lists 6 x1300 (slower than the Pro version) cards that are fanless. I think anything faster is too hot to cool passively. I'm looking...

What did you have in mind, Time? I know next to nothing about NVidia GPUs and their performance; I am not a rabid gamer, and it's mostly the gamers that prefer NVidia. I've been an ATI person mostly, and as far as video manufacturers go, am firmly in Merc's camp - the one NVidia card I've had to...

Problem #1: A long warranty is useless if the card dies and you have to go through RMA hell. I'm going through that right now with Gigabyte "I'm a POS" Technology. Problem #2: I'm not D. "Rich" Drueding. My first name is Pore. Ain't for nuttin that my main system is 5+ years old. This whole...