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I'd like to find a version of PowerDVD/WinDVD that works right, but in my experience both of them have issues with sound output under Vista. I don't like Media Center because it's slow and missing functions that other programs have. Media Player Classic is OK but a lot of functions are in menus...

Can I just interject that Outlook is fucking retarded and there's no excuse for using it? Microsoft makes Windows. Microsoft makes Outlook. Microsoft presumably could make or license a defragger that understand .pst files. Yet guess what they do...

Stuff like that happens all the time. You have to watch it, though. Some manufacturers send back refurb drives with drastically shorter warranties.

A few things... Text scaling is a dream compared to XP - much better for very high resolution screens. The network printer wizard works a billion time better. File copies have an accurate timer (even if Vista is subjectively about 1/3 the speed of XP for network copies, even before the sound...

That's 2003, Greg. 2008 is an enormous pile of suck that takes all the worst parts of Vista and combines them with all the drawbacks of Server.

It'll be annoying for a while... and then policy will change and it'll become deeply sucky, like WGA lockout is in XP right now.

I'm sure you all know that there's a nifty little hack that reports an OEM BIOS to Vista so you can activate with a Dell/Lenovo/Acer/Asus serial number? Recent experience suggests to me that some new motherboards will continue to report correct BIOS information despite the installation of that...

Also, AMD's retail heat sinks are just dandy. The ones on bigger chips (6000s and up) are particularly impressive, with all copper bottoms and actual heat pipes. I'm not as much a fan of Intel's stock cooler because of the retarded lack of fan guard and the fact that that fact that they spin at...

I have come to the realization that the true purpose of 802.11 wireless networks is not, in fact, to facilitate communication between computers without the aid of lengths of copper. In fact, the main function of wireless networks is to provide techies with a lifelong stream of income.

I've used all three of those boards. The Gigabyte-provided setup is identical, as is overall performance, but I vaguely recall liking the 7025-based board better than the AMD690 because of something annoying about it's layout that I can't remember at the moment. IIRC the AMD690 one wins on...

Read the reviews: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000JTOYLS/ref=cm_rdp_product

So, I'm stuck deploying and customizing Vista a hundred billion times. I brought up the sample musics that it comes with on a PC with a decent set of speakers, and I quite enjoyed most of the tracks that it comes with - the Vibraphone jazz and the African tracks particularly. So I torrented a...

jtr, did you reach any kind of decision on these matters? I'm interested to hear what you bought.

To be clear, I investigated finchsync and indeed got it to work with my HTC6800 phone, but it's not something I need since all my email is stored on IMAP servers and therefore already synchronized with everything else that connects to it. I don't have any long term impressions.

It's not something I deal with, but I'm told Dlink has some pretty nice networked cameras. Some of them output MPEG4 or even .3GP; there's probably a streaming solution for those formats someplace.

I got a copy of Vista Ultimate for submitting a bug report during the beta program. That's already one more than I needed.

The word of the year regularly sells LeakFrogs for $4 and Roomba Discovery series models for $120, plus $5 shipping. w00t is, absolutely the proper thing to say when you level in an MMO. Or score with a hot chick. Not that I'd know about the second one. Or any chick, really. OK, this is...

I more strongly suspect that's the result of the Intel RAID you're using being a software or half-software sort of thing than a proper hardware one. TrueImage sees Windows Server softRAIDs as individual drives but arrays connected to hardware controllers (e.g. Dell PERC) as single volumes.

http://www.finchsync.com/

Well Chewy, that did not work either, but I did ultimately figure out the problem and a couple different ways to solve it. The issue *IS* in fact Vista's retarded boot manager, which is present on the C: drive even if Vista isn't part of the baseline image. It turns out that TrueImage and the...

I am restoring to a PC that is identical but for the MAC address and maybe BIOS ID. I've tried multiple drive imaging programs (TrueImage 9, 10 and 11, Ghost, DriveImage XML et al) and even rebuilt my image from scratch on a different drive; something ALWAYS fucks up.

System restore is off. I've tried using Sysprep on both, just sysprep on Vista, ImageX (makes a .WIM file just like the install DVD), Straight cloning the drives using about five different methods (including three different versions of TrueImage). What's happening is that I end up with either...

I don't get OT. I'm a salaried employee. My time in the office is technically flexible, so I kind of come and go as I please, but I stay late a lot because the things I need to do can't always be done when there are other people around. Deploying a dual boot XP/Vista setup is an utter...

What you're describing is almost certainly a problem with your power supply or motherboard; probably motherboard, in my experience. You really need to try your setup on another PC. I will say that there's nothing inherent to using WMI controls that should have any impact on your disk drive...

Bluetooth headsets hurt my ears. I've tried three of them now and they are just not comfortable.

I've been a little depressed since turning 32 and still sucking at life. Plus the fact that I have 10 ~16 hour days working at my trainer job because of shit that is other people's fault, and, well, I'm a little annoyed.

I know I can find a home for a notebook DVD burner. How much do you want for it?

That is undoubtedly a very good number of posts to have. :)

I've had students who have had it happen, but the ones I buy (Transcend) don't seem to have a problem with it, and seem to average washing one about once a month these days.

Reading that made me die a little on the inside. I love all the hard disks, except the ones made by Western Digital.

Swift. However, now that people are aware of the problem, I'll bet someone will have a fix for it in a couple days.

Learning that 50 is the high makes me want to get to 50.

46 high, 43 average at 1800 grains.

WD ships a 1TB NAS that is prohibited from sharing audio or video files. Just what *I* want for my birthday...

I exchanged a couple Emails with Buck today. He is doing well generally but like Tannin seems to have lost his enchantment with computer-related topics. I thought that you all would like to know that.

It's not Vista, but it's MS related and it's really, really funny...

I've loaded betas of Longhorn server a couple times now. The "server" parts seem basically untouched, but the sluggishness and unreasonably high RAM use that are in Vista are present in Longhorn as well. Actually I think that if you dig back far enough, you'll find a post by me on that subject...

If you're talking about a Barracuda drive that ends in -A or -AS, then yes, they're slow. They have firmware issues. It's generally not an issue, though.

I built it and sold it to a customer who'd had too many WRT54Gs die. They balked at the price - I think I charged them $500 where they were used to paying $60, but after explaining that I could actually fix it if it broke and the individual parts all had long warranties - and the industrial...

... and THAT is why I stick with Gigabyte. And to a lesser extent Intel and Biostar. But it does matter. There is good and there is bad and the problem Tannin is describing are not problems that GOOD products should have. Gigabyte's nv6100 boards have been tried and true workhorses for me...

... and THAT is why I stick with Gigabyte. And to a lesser extent Intel and Biostar. But it does matter. There is good and there is bad and the problem Tannin is describing are not problems that GOOD products should have. Gigabyte's nv6100 boards have been tried and true workhorses for me...

It's not worth the outlay of cash to spend that much on a motherboard. And it's worth the money to have a proper CPU instead of a Celeron. I wouldn't look at anything from Intel that's not an E or Q series. The E2200s don't offer that much compared to the E4500s, so that's pretty much my floor...

1. You’re like an exothermic reaction, you spread your hotness everywhere! 2. I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves. 3. You’re like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life! 4. If I was an enzyme, I’d be helicase so I could unzip your genes. 5. I’m attracted to...

Anyway, if I'm looking for longer-term hardware support, there's several things I'd like to say. 1. AMD sticks with sockets a lot longer than Intel does. Phenom (next-gen AMD) will happily sit on an AM2 board and just work, just as socket 939 and socket A were wonderful investments in the time...

Uh, no. XP 32bit is limited to 4GB of RAM. XP64 (which you'd have to buy as well) can support more, but then you're stuck in a magical land where no one has written device drivers. Unfortunately, there's another limitation that you'll hit before that, at the 3GB (AMD) or 3.5GB (Intel) mark...

I am lazy and these tabs are already open. AMD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128045 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103774 Intel http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121046...

The guy who writes xkcd is 22 years old and is described as a former NASA roboticist, if that tells you anything. xkcd has also displaced Penny Arcade as the most widely read webcomic. xkcd also has several sub-sites, Wetriffs (Not Safe for Work), a demonstration of Rule #34. The other sites...

Was Corazon Aquino not the great reformer she was portrayed to be my US media? I was under the impression that the Philippines had a fairly modern, Western-type democracy, albeit one plagued with occasional military juntas. Has the corruption simply returned, or did it never really go away...

I'll have to look into Clonezilla. DOS-based Ghost is problematic at this point, since its support for SATA drives and controllers is iffy to nonexistent. TrueImage works, and works well, but it's missing scripted restore and multicast support that I would really like to have.

Thank you Handruin!