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Many of the monitors in my office are several years old. No DVI. Oddly, because they aren't crappy TN panels and because they ARE native 1024x768, which is very comfortable for my students to read, I'm willing to overlook their faults. I have one or two adapters in my laptop bag but frankly...

What's happened is that something has inserted itself in the chain of the IP Protocol Stack, and that thing was then removed, which breaks the chain. ICMP happens before the broken thing, and it works, but web stuff doesn't and therefore gets borked. There are instructions for doing the same...

wiinsockxpfix. Google it.

My current low-end card pet peeve: Two DVI connectors and no DVI to VGA adapter in the box. Jerks.

I've been holding up well with that stuff for years.

So Asus has rediscovered drive overlay software?

I looked into it and decided it was more of a hassle than I wanted to deal with.

I don't know what Top Gear is. I did just get 14 seasons of Good Eats. I've never seen it either but the name sounds promising. My dad's been on a food show kick, so I got all of "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" and "Man vs. Food" for him. Man vs. Food is mega-awesome and I want to be that guy...

The biggest problem I've seen on low-end graphics hardware is poor HD video playback. Something like a GMA945 can drive a screen at 1920x1200, but invariably that turns a system into mush if you try to play a 720p Youtube video. Also, every once in a while you get a "long refresh" where you can...

I'm perfectly happy to wait for DVDs and/or torrents. Everything is better without commercials and all the crap that TV networks splash over the screen during broadcasts.

It would depend on the end user who gets that system. For myself I'd buy the 300 + Seasonic for sure. The 300 is put on sale pretty regularly. I've gotten them as cheap as $35 or so. I've found that Amazon and Provantage are both good places to look for Antec cases. Amazon is best of all for...

I suspect that the generic target for all of that boils down to acceptable performance in WoW, which has low poly-count models and textures that scale to look decent at pretty much any resolution. On an Intel IGP, you play at 800x600 and on AMD's you can probably manage 1280x1024 or 1280x768 or...

Which, I note, doesn't even support HDMI.

The Radeon 4250 is a common IGP with a fill rate of 2240MPixels/sec and 8.53GB/sec or 11.2 GB/sec memory bandwidth. The 5240 offers a fill rate of 5400MPixels/sec and 6.4GB/sec or 12.8GB/sec memory bandwidth. I'd say there's not much difference from one to the other. For comparison, Intel's...

Walking Dead's season is only six episodes long. Dammit.

They make hand held video cameras, webcams, PMPs and they still make sound cards. Auzentech licenses some-or-other IP from them so they can claim full X-Fi compatibility with their high end sound cards, too.

I can certainly understand the desire for a certain threshold of quiet, but after a certain point there's not much to be done. The difference between a 120mm fan spinning at 800rpm and no fan at all is low enough that I can barely tell, and that's on a computer that's right next to my head...

I noticed that the PSU in the PC next my bed no longer has an operating fan. It's a simple 500W Antec Earthwatts. That machine is an i7 with seven 1TB drives and my old 8800GTX. I'm pretty sure that PSU is out of warranty, so now I'm curious to see how long it will operate without that fan running.

The key part of Buck's statement is "feel like an IGP." AMD's low-end discrete cards are more or less the same hardware they build in to their chipsets and nvidia's aren't any better. On the other hand, I'm not sure that I care. A Radeon 4350 or Geforce 9400 is respectable enough for business...

I don't think I'd waste a Windows 7 license on a system that old, Adcadet. You're talking about tying the software to a motherboard with uncertain reliability going forward. That board is four or five years old. It's not going to live forever.

The good news is that Creative Labs has been relegated to obscurity and will soon be sold to serve as a brand name for some-or-other line of personal music players.

Home systems get updated when I feel like doing it. Machines that are expected to work get updates in the wee small hours on Friday, because that gives me some time to find out if there's an issue with an update, to go out and fix something that's broken from an update, or for office workers to...

Silverstone has a couple very nice cases that are designed for HTPC applications. Look at the LaScala series.

I have three newegg accounts. I could've gotten 15 drives. The other option I'm considering at this point is just getting an LTO changer. I've been thinking about doing that for almost a year anyway.

"This code has already been redeemed."

Well, yeah. Also, I'm told that the correct term for the sport you're discussing is "Armored American Wankball." But that's neither here nor there. In closing, there is nothing on this earth so capable of depressing the shit out of a guy as not being able to find anybody to talk to on a...

Also, this is a post from Buck! Hi Buck! I think I'd move up one little step to the 5670, for the slightly newer core and better support for video decoding.

I should be getting a 6870 tomorrow. It's going right in a build but I'm interested in seeing how it compares vs. my 5870 for City of Heroes.

That seems awfully rich just to get some extra ventilation and some extra copper and/or aluminum on the inside.

Step 1: Construct a Dyson Sphere...

It's more of an art than a science, Lunar. It depends a lot on the specifics of your hardware. You just have to screw around with settings until you get something that works to an acceptable degree.

That's more or less the same configuration I'm contemplating, though in the interim I think I'm going to be deleting some data.

There are a number of posts on other tech forums about 5400rpm drives dropping out of arrays. I don't really want to invest in eight or 10 drives if they're going to do that.

That's probably not turned on.

They're available but they're not cheap. The better news is that a supply of newer cards might mean lower prices on Perc6s.

As near as I can tell, neither Seagate nor Samsung 5400rpm 2TB drives work well for RAID5/6 applications. I can expand storage on two of my storage servers by adding 1TB drives but that seems slightly less than optimal. My other option is to use 2TB 7200rpm drives, but they're more than three...

The problem is, fresh water isn't where it needs to be. We're not going to run out, but going forward we're going to see logistical nightmares from population centers lacking the water they need. Bad things will come of this.

Corsair PSUs are OEM'd from Seasonic. Everyone knew that, right? Besides being cheaper, Corsair bothers to certify their products for exotic video card configurations. I'm sure the Seasonic originals are just as capable, but they don't show up on ATI's HCL list for triple crossfire or whatever.

Can you possibly import your documents into Office Live?

My Academic Alliance sub, while I had one (it ended back in May), worked more or less just like any other Technet sub. I had a slightly different entry portal to my product keys and stuff but I had access to the same products and codes. Maybe your university's agreement with Microsoft is...

Again, it's one of those things I wouldn't expect a new Win7 user to know. I'd rather have a button that always does a predictable thing. The Back button is also problematic in that respect if you don't understand the filesystem.

maybe

The UI is inconsistent. Sometimes it's breadcrumbs, sometimes it's the pathname as a chunk of text. This is obnoxious when trying to talk someone through things on the phone or instruct them in class, particularly for people who don't grasp the concept of nested folders.

The first episode matches up with the first issue of the comic almost exactly. There are 75 issues of the comic. One of the things that's different about the Walking Dead is that it's character driven. It's not about the zombies. It's not about the apocalypse. It's about what happens after. The...

We're going to be fighting wars over drinkable water soon enough.

5GB is average but I just looked and yesterday it was 44GB and the day before it was 31GB. So I might be low-balling things a little.

Average is probably 5GB a day. Beginnings of new months throw the average way, way off for a variety of reasons. But now I'm going to have to figure out which 2TB drives play best with SoftRAID, because I know for sure that Seagate and Samsung 5400rpm drives both cause more problems than they...

Small icon view in control panel is very useful, and for some people it may just be easier to search for the stuff you want than to navigate. I like the ease of customizing my favorite folders but I miss the Up button terribly. Still, I'm not a big fan of UI mods; I don't want to get used to...

I've had it for about a week and a half and I downloaded the 2GB HD version last night for watching when I get home. I'm a big fan of the comic. My copy of the volume 1 hardcover was signed by Kirkman, Moore and Adlard. Chicago's Comic Con this year was held at the same time as a nation of...