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For the others who want the perceived security of going with a household name, you are not going to change their minds (well, most of them, anyways). Never underestimate the power of brand equity. Dell is a very respected name in the PC industry, and that name alone is worth a couple hundred...

That was a good idea, Pradeep. I forgot about PowerStrip. ... unfortunately, it refuses to work at 1152x864 and requires the chipset drivers to be reinstalled. At other resolutions, it simply kills the video and forces a reboot into safe mode to uninstall PowerStrip.

Just wanted to let people know that the inoperative volume keys problem on my keyboard has been solved by installing the latest (still unreleased at present) 1.12 nForce chipset drivers from nVidia. In addition to fixing the problem with the volume keys, the sound quality is slightly improved...

Feel the shame, Coug... feel the shame... :)

Adriel, Very good points from you. I agree with almost everything you have said in this thread. As a former (read: reformed / recovering :) ) hardcore audiophile, I have gone through the various phases of analog/vinyl superiority, high end cabling, tube amplification, etc. and have basically...

:) Please tell me you're running an AMD system. Anyways, the Pande group has done nothing to impress me so far and United Devices has done nothing to violate my trust, so I have no reason to revoke my CPU cycles from the unfragrant Intel-associated cancer research project.

Boo! Cliptin is getting better at FAH because he is converting his UD machines to FAH! Traitor! :)

... forgot to mention that you must use the 1.01 BIOS for this to work.

Not true, Coug. I really like my A7N266-VM nForce board. (don't forget integrated video, audio, and LAN) Did you know that the -VM board is overclockable? Yes, it has been confirmed by several members in the nforcershq.com forums. All you have to do is simulate moving one of the BSEL "JEN"...

You know, I just realized the significance of that statement. UD is an Intel venture. You don't think they would deliberately penalize crunchers who don't use Intel NIC's do you?

I don't know about Mozilla, but Opera stumbles on online banking sites. Seems like most financial services sites design for IE 5+ first, Netscape 4+ second, and say to heck with everything else.

Heh, well my CPU is now rated at 141 instead of 150. We'll see what value it comes up with tomorrow. One thing that bugs me is the rating for the network card. I am always at 70, even though I have a 100 Mbit card. Is it because I didn't force the card to use full duplex?

Whoops. Forgot the speaker system. AOpen 2.1 sub/sat system $35 Total = $1304 + shipping

Coug, why not build an AMD system? Like Merc and Buck, trying to compete with Intel parts is asking for trouble. But an AMD system? Definitely possible. Here's what I can find at a local retail store: (all prices $CDN) Athlon XP 1800+ retail $157 Asus A7N266-VM nForce $117 integrated GF2MX...

On my UD client, my Athlon 1.5 GHz is given a performance score of 150, while a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz is assigned as 100. Does that mean the XP is 50% faster than the Williamette P4 for the same clock frequency? On another note, good to see you F@H guys are in such an exciting dogfight. SR's UD...

In fairness to FrontPage, I did hand-edit some of the HTML elements. Perhaps some of the height parameters and other things that were different were from me. I don't remember since it was quite a while ago, but it is entirely possible that some of the inconsistencies are my fault. As for the...

Strangely enough, the heading spaces are correct when viewed with IE6. Everything views correctly with IE6 except for the e-tailers heading. FrontPage, for all its shortcomings, does build pages fairly compatible with IE6. Unfortunately, the less popular but more W3C standards compliant browsers...

I offer up my own laughable website that was developed on FrontPage. View source for this frame: http://www.catalytic.ca/mainstart.htm Notice all the paragraph styles and other crap inside all my table elements? Compare that with the nice clean source code of the site you linked to (although...

That looks like Macromedia DreamWeaver style, but as Tannin said, a quick look at the coding says it's not. DreamWeaver would have MM_ functions strewn all over the place.

Sol, To disable that quirk which you dislike with the Favorites menu, simply go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab -> Browsing section -> uncheck the "Enable Personalized Favorites Menu" (about 10 lines down from the start of that section).

Coug, I got that too on AOpen's site.

I have always thought Multisession to be a bad thing in terms of guaranteeing that all your data be accessible in any reader. Back in the days when only 2x burners were available, I believe that some readers weren't even multisession capable. To this day I even try to write single session...

Just wanted to say that this Thermaltake Volcano 7+ HSF is amazing. With a mainboard temp of 36C, the XP1800+ idles at 43C and is 48C after an hour of 100% utilization with United Devices running. This is with the fan set to the lowest setting and using the cheap generic white thermal grease. It...

Heh, DOS. My introduction to the PC world (i.e., not Apples) was with an IBM PS/2 55sx -- a 386sx-16 with 4 MB or RAM and a 40 MB HD. You would be happy to know that it came with OS/2 (don't ask me which version... maybe 1.1? around 1989). You would be aghast, however, to hear that I removed it...

Steve, the GF2MX does not offer 1280x960 either. I was looking through all the possible modes in the Adapter control panel tab, but it doesn't offer anything in the 4:3 format around that resolution. :( Anybody with KVM's notice their keyboard hotkey multimedia buttons don't work? Do you think...

I just put together a new system with the following components: Athlon XP 1800+ Tt Volcano 7+ HSF A7N266-VM nForce 220D, integrated IGP-64 GF2MX, Dolby 5.1 audio, LAN 2x 256 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR 60 GB Seagate Cuda IV HD Lite-On 40x burner Enermax FS-710B case (Antec SX-1030B under a different...

That's how some students are like simply because they have more time than money. 6 years ago, I remember walking all over Montreal to find a 4 meter printer cable for $10 US because I didn't want to pay Future Shop $30 for the same thing. I saved $20, which went towards a steak dinner that...

Ugh... JavaScript. As Tannin would say, a pox-ridden scourge of the web if there ever was one.

Not bad, time... but where is the address bar? And can you rearrange the width and location of each section by simply dragging and dropping? (like the Windows taskbar) And can you include drop-down menus to keep important buttons and bookmarks close at hand yet out of sight? With great sorrow...

Here is a browser faceoff of Opera 6, Mozilla 0.96, and IE 6. The reviewer is obviously biased in favour of Opera, but if you can filter out some of that bias, he does make the odd good point about... Mozilla: - not being as fast as it was expected to be with its highly touted "Gecko"...

Opera has a skin that is similar to Mozilla's Orbit theme called Simian. It is based on the Ximian skin (for X windows, I'm assuming?):

Yes, this is what I normally do in IE, but because of Opera's lack of Alt-D shortcut, I can't do that! And the shortcut Nazis at Opera don't allow you to have custom keyboard shortcut assignments. I guess they don't care that IE has 65% market share and Netscape 25%, Opera probably having less...

You haven't discovered the File Bookmark equivalent of IE yet? When you click Add to Favorites in IE, you are presented with an Explorer like hierarchy of bookmark folders which you can expand/contract/navigate through very quickly. Time has already covered Opera's Add page here... equivalent...

Opera licenses are half price now, Greg. $20 ($10 if you are a student) seems like a pretty good deal to me. The ad isn't too obtrusive in the free version, BTW. I thought it would be worse. I could have actually lived with it there all the time, but I felt good quality shareware like this...

True, I guess I could reorganize my bookmarking system, but old habits die hard, ya know... (and IE dealt with it beautifully, BTW). Here is a shot of my bookmarks... I use the Bookmarks menu to hold ALL my bookmarks (I think I have over 2,300, some organized 5 levels deep. The purpose of...

Freaky, ain't it? :)

I will try Mozilla 1.1b and see how it goes. The clincher was that I found you could get an IE skin for it :roll:

BTW, you should let Opera build up its browser cache for a couple days before judging its performance. It will seem slower when you first use it because it has nothing stored in its virgin cache. After browsing around your favourite sites, it will have downloaded many of the pics, and you should...

If you are going to try another browser, Greg, Opera 6.05 is known for its good caching performance (see the Opera thread). For some reason, IE insists on hitting the HD as much as humanly possible, which is why I argued that HD performance is a factor in web browsing a couple years ago on SR...

It's not that cold in Ballarat, Tony. 11/1 C? You call that winter? :) Yes, we all use the SI metric degree Celsius. Not like those wacky US vs. Imperial Gallons.

I noticed SDRAM prices are pretty low, but they haven't brought DDR down more than a few bucks recently. Actually, I noticed prices for computer parts in general have gone up at a few stores. I think they are trying to take advantage of the back to school season because of the built-in September...

No A/C, Coug? Indeed, it's been disgustingly hot for most of the summer in S.Ontario and Quebec. I was a groomsman in my friend's wedding this weekend. Think 3 layers (black tux plus vest), 31 C (88 F), standing for 3 hours straight as we ushered guests to their seats, flanked the altar as the...

Well, a couple examples include: 1. The Personal bar truncate most of the text for your shortcuts and shortcut folders instead of resizing to fit the text. Furthermore, there is no drop-down arrow that lets you access the rest of your shortcuts when you have more of them than can fit on the...

Oh yeah, and if you didn't know, Opera licenses are going for half price these days. $20, or $10 if you are a student. For all I know, this could be a regular promotion, but it seems like a good deal to me.

After having some fond memories of Opera 4.2 as a viable alternative to IE (but still not being quite up to the challenge), I decided to try Opera 6.05. So far, it seems to work well. While it is still a little clunky compared to the familiar IE interface, it represents a nice alternative. Not...

Just how does it sound, Greg? More disk thrashing?

From the PDF and website, I gather that your Zoom v.92 is not a hardware modem, but a controllerless Winmodem. Note that (a) Zoom says it plugs into the PCI slot of any Windows-based computer, and (b) it only mentions the onboard DSP but not the onboard controller (whereas the dualmode model...

True, I don't need the latest and greatest for my uses, but I need something that (a) just plain works and doesn't bugger up other parts of my computer; and (b) is well supported with solid, stable drivers both currently and will be for the next 3 years. My experience with the Conexant SoftModem...

Mercutio, do you not use Linux or other non-MS OSes? If so, how do you get your Winmodems to work? Locally, I can only find Acer, Creative, and USR modems. Only the USR seems to be hardware based, and not software or Winmodem based. There is a Pine FM-3621 ESS 2819/2898 chipset hardware modem...

I refuse to install any Logitech drivers/software now since the MouseWare that I installed for my wheelmouse made my CPU utilization shoot up incredibly. Who would have thought that a mouse could noticeably slow down one's computer? Now it's just the Microsoft PS/2 mouse driver that comes with...