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Lucky you are that I didn't click on that link when I was at the job.

ah shit, I always think he is from Uk.

You newborn is already receiving mail? Wow, he is really in advance for his age. Or maybe the UK goverment starts taxing its citizens earlier than our does.

Well, that's quite normal for an American. I mean, you would all want to be uncle Sam, wouldn't you?

Buy an air compressor. This is what we use at the store. It would be a lot more expensive if we had to waste one or more compressed air cans every time we have to de-dust a computer.

I could have swear that I read somewhere that ddrueding was in his thirties. Anyway, being young is a good thing. Merc, you look like a person with a good heart. There is a hint of sensibility in your gaze. People must notice it and try to be nice with you­. You are luckier than you seem to...

So you're telling me that there is another 70$ virus sold in retail boxes on the shelves now?

I think that just for that, it will be the next game I'll buy.

Buck in charge of the liquor cabinet is like having Obelix in charge of the magic potion. 90% for me, 10% for you. Please, don't tell me you don't know Obelix.

Congratulations Taz. I hope you'll like it.

I see you must be very eager to meet me then...come within a few miles from where I live and forget to tell me. ;-) Montréal's citizens habits are different from the rest of Québec. Especially downtown and zones called Plateau-Mont-Royal, Outremont (plenty of jews there) and Westmount...

The most effiective anti-spyware I've found so far is Spysweeper, by Webroot. Adaware isn't bad either, but Spysweeper often finds additional nuisances that Adaware looked over on the infested machine I threat at work. Spysweeper cost 30U$. You paid for Trend Micro anti-spyware? :rotfl:

More accurately ,an audio solution with a similar feature to Soundstorm : Dolby Digital 5.1. But the Realtek audio codec should use more CPU cycles than the old Soundstorm south bridge did.

My main issue with ASRock is their dumb "Press F2 to enter setup". Why not "Del" like the rest of the world? Except that, the few ASRock boards I've worked on were quite easy to configure and appeared to be reliable. I even recommend them for low-end systems.

The enclosure we uses the most looks a lot like their SK-337 model. I'll look into Foxconn models. Their TLA-570 (ATX) and TW-01 (µATX) don't look too bad. Hopefully, they have less sharp edges than our most popular chassis.

The cases we currently sell are, IMNSHO, pieces of crap. They bend in every possible ways when we try to replace the side panel, are made of paper-thin metal sheets and are finger-hazardous areas (I cut my finger badly last Monday). Bottom line : I'm sick of it. Tomorrow, I want to make a few...

I did a lot of 2.5" drive backups and copies in the last two weeks. Acronis is great for backups since it can make an image of your drive and send it to a remote backup drive via network (Acronis can use your network card). But for a drive to drive copy, I still prefer Ghost. The other tech...

If you resale them and your customers want to upgrade them in the future, they'll think you sold them crap.

Just to confirm, uninstalling CloneCD fixed the issue. And the game was Medal of Honor, not Call of Duty like I first thought.

Well, too bad you're not in Australia : we could have blame it on the hemisphere change. For me, TrendNet is 0 for 2 while SMC has a perfect score so far. One of our routers is a Linksys WRT54G and it seems to work well.

I'm pretty sure CoD uses Safedisc protect, not SecuROM.

I googled a little and the issue seems to be over-agressive copy-protection from Activision's games. Basicly, most burning programs installed with the default options will piss off CoD somehow because Activision wants to prevent the user from pirating the game. I'll have to configure its...

I have a customer who complains that since he installed (himself) his DVD drive, his favorite game (I think it's CoD) no longer works. When he starts it, an error message appears saying that this game detects that a CD emulation program is installed and that it is not compatible with it. I'm...

Avoid this brand at all cost for wireless devices. Both their routers and their PCI cards (I tried the 423) are flaky and unreliable. I had one on the shelf and I installed it in a customer's PC who wanted to link his machine to an SMC router (the 7004something). While the drivers included...

I would be very interested in a 2.5", 60GB+ Samsung drive otherwise similar to the one Aussie Owl linked. That would be great inside an external USB 2.0 enclosure to backup the important data from the customers' hard drive when we wipe/re-install their system. Our current system is more clumsy.

I gave up on smoothwall years ago when I read that the admin password was stored in an uncrypted .txt file. That really tells about its level of security. Is OpenBSD that hard to configure?

Just saw it on the news. At 290Km/h, its winds blew stronger than any of the hurricanes that formed in the Atlantic/Mexico golf last summer. It was quite a sea farth.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Cyclones? At this time of the year? Wow, the weather is really fucked up.

I came to realize that Gary was right. My reason for leaving my computers on 24x7 was FAH, but I now believe that the global environmental cost of running the folding@home project overweights its positive impact. There are more than 200,000 active processors worlwide contributing to the...

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Thermal paste doesn't hold much of anything in place. Thermal tape might though.

LOST6200 : "All your typos are belong to me!"

February has come and gone. For those who want something fast now and don't want to wait for half an eternity, there's the first-gen i-RAM

Just wanted to update this thread since I've found a canayan store that has the i-RAM drive in stock and ready to ship.

There's storagereview.com, the place where many of us originally meet each others. We have several Californians in our forum, maybe some will come. Sadly, San Diego is a little too far from Montréal. I'll pass.

It's hard, but try not to worry too much about it. There's little you can do and you won't help her by developping a cancer of your own.

Sorry to hear that Pradeep, but I'm sure someone like you won't have trouble finding something else.

It is quite hard for me to refrain from throwing you a bunch of insults after having read the above. I'll just say that at best, you're an ignorant. You probably live in your buble and comfort yourself with those kind of simplistic thoughts. I've known both being fairly wealthy and being...

I guess there are 2000 of Merc's posts that Tony didn't like. Probably those "nVidia is crap, ATI rules" ones.

About 2.6GHz, maybe 2.7GHz. Retail heatsink?

Thanks everyone. Well, first day was quite hard. It was a kind of horror show. PCs after PCs, none with a proper browser or even a hint of an anti-spyware program. Anti-virus? Obsolete versions of McAffee and Norton. And users want them to go fast (Most being PIII-class, none with more...

Here lies the inimitable EBB, famous for writing English with a russian accent.

A pre-9 Opera build is now compliant with the web standards and it displays the Acid2 test properly. Our Brisbane delegate will be happy to read this.

I think that's one of the main, if not the main reason why they are pushing virtualization on us.

Yes, I know that. I had a scare this evening because the boss originally wanted to discuss the job therms while visiting me. I was in a hurry to hide four smashed towers before his arrival. Finally, he was too busy so he just told me that I begin Monday on the phone. What a relief. One of...

I've done many things to earn money in my life, including being a stock broker and running my own company, but because I was my own boss, I don't count those for "jobs". And being my own boss hasn't given me enough money to live on for the last few years, so I've had to work elsewhere to join...

I haven't read your outrageous deal post when I sent my previous reply. It seems like quite a bargain and it makes more sense than any of your previous choices.

I think all three of your choices won't meet your criteria. Assuming you have a high frequency Athlon 64, all the cards you mentioned will bust 60FPS at 1280x1024, even if push the AA to 4X instead of 2X. For frame rates between 30FPS and 60FPS, you could save 150$ and wait for the GeForce...

Do you already have he motherbpards for those systems? If you only need 2D and DVI, there are solutions with integrated graphics from both nVidia and ATI. There are a few motherboards with the GeForce 6150 that have a DVI output as well as at least one (from MSI IIRC) with a DVI output and the...