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I don't think either ATI or nVidia has a very good handle on how to keep their hardware properly cool. They need to be willing to specify much larger heat sinks and bigger, quieter fans; I'd be more than willing to pay for something like what's on an 8800GTX on any card I bought, even if that...

True story: A nice, matronly grandmotherly type lady brought me her notebook, an HP dv9000 that is about six months old and must've been the most expensive model in the Best Buy or whatever where she bought it. It has Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Premium on it, and license stickers for both...

When I was younger, I worked in Coal and Nuclear power plants. I had to pass a background check. That was it. A background check. To work in a Nuclear Power plant.

I might be willing to go along with that if the new GPU sat under the very nice but still vastly inadequate cooler used for the GTX/GTS. It doesn't. It's on a small cooler and I have little doubt that many people will lose their expensive cards because they continue to get too goddamned hot.

I've had to RMA an 8800GTX twice in less than a year, and that meshes with my continued low expectations for nVidia graphics hardware. There's certainly no reason to think their designs have gotten any better.

... except, I'll hazard, reliability.

Oddly enough my now-dead Gateway didn't have problems with waking up from Hibernate either. It dead, however, have problems with draining the battery in under a day while "hibernating." MS Mega-booster John Dvorak's latest column describes the current Vista product cycle as a "Death Watch."

I'm sorry, but you're living in a neocon fearmonger's dreamworld if you, as an ordinary citizen, are so worried about terrorists that you actually take the time to even have conversations about "them" and what "they" could do. Statistically, you're more likely to be the next guy to marry...

Recoding a DVD will cause all CPUs to redline on my C2Q. Otherwise, I have to be doing something ridiculous like playing City of Heroes (uses two cores) and running virus scans inside a pair of virtual machines.

There's no configuration involved. Windows either has a multiprocessor HAL or it doesn't.

I have four notebooks here with Vista on them: a Lenovo T61, an HP dv9000, a Latitude D531 and an Inspiron 6000. All of them seem to have issues with not waking up from hibernate. Most of them seem to wake up about half the time. I haven't seen the HP wake up properly at all. Does anyone have...

I checked around with suppliers and distributors. I can find 7200.10s, but not 7200.7s. Sorry time.

I was looking primarily at the reports page on our Phaser 8200DN. The older ones (850, 860) seem to be better for consumables cost than our newest one (8560).

Not sure how I missed this but... For a motivated student with some experience of the topic, three months is a decent span of time for most studying and test prep. I think it's important to take the test inside a three to six month time frame, or you WILL put it off forever. There is value in...

Lifehacker's article on how to put together a Hackintosh. Has some issues - the author admits to not-too-surprising difficulties with an Asus motherboard and a bog-standard C2D CPU, but it's fairly complete.

Well, let's lay that myth to rest... They are THAT bad. If my math is right, a set of black blocks last us on average about 4300 pages (some printers use bigger blocks, some smaller, and there's the question of how much of each page is covered... and the color blocks are only supposed to last...

Adobe's CEO doesn't think their shit is worth money either.

I'll buy and ship if I can find one.

Actually, If you're going nVidia to Intel or Intel to nVidia, or Sis to Intel or Intel to SiS, you'll probably be able to at least boot your system without a BSOD. Oddly enough, I've had more problems going nVidia to nVidia or anything to or from Via, than anything else.

If it's your son, just beat him until he stops downloading porn on your computer.

Dead Cheetahs need to figure out where the Caps Lock key is.

Congratulations. There is now irrefutable proof that you have had sex. :D

You're doing it wrong.. Also $50.

I already have to deal with six Phaser solid ink printers. They cost a young fortune in consumables and, once again, don't come close to matching the moronic photo printing requirement I am having to deal with. The newer Phasers are very fast printers; I think our newest is three times faster...

Unfortunately, that Samsung laser printer is no longer made and no model of equivalent features was made to replace it, and no, no human being on Earth would look at color laser output and compare it favorably to something with a 4 or 6 tank photo printer's. These are not my standards. My...

Random. And no selling. It was a "give." x2/4600, 2GB RAM, 250GB Seagate drive. Just some spare parts I had.

I gave all the parts for a new computer to someone I have never met today. It's nice to be able to do things like that.

They aren't *my* students.

... particularly if you've ever called Lenovo support and ANY other company's support service in the same day. I had to talk to Applecare today - supposedly renowned for its support - and it was like talking to a brick wall compared to Lenovo. Talking to Dell, even GoldSelectWTFBBQ Service, is...

*I* don't care about speed. I'm not going to have to use it. In my mind, slower is better, so the evil students use fewer of our consumables.

Budget is any amount of money that will result in three classrooms having functional, photo-capable Inkjet printers. My boss literally wants there to be a photo printer attached to each individual computer, so if I find one or two networkable printers (not HP, not Lexmark) that can handle the...

My latest Dell catalog says something that I find VERY interesting: It explicitly states in product comparisons which models have "North American Based Support." This tells me two things: 1. They know full well that Americans have a hard time with the accents of the people staffing their call...

Cars are universally boring and stupid. Let's have a thread about pretty girls instead. And ban uda from posting in it. Also, when did this thread explode? We just started a new page a couple days ago...

I guess I could buy some kind of crappy print server if I had to. I have four printers right now - probably $600 worth of hardware and ink, all told, that are useless now because someone walked off with a power cable. They are all different from a standard power cable, and I can't think of a...

Once again, I have the opportunity to purchase new printers for my classrooms. The people I work for demand photo-printing, and strongly prefer the biggest rip-off of desktop HP Photojets. My objections: 1. Current HP PJs install 300MB of drivers. SRSLY. 2. Assholes keep stealing power packs...

At the moment, I'd say the tide has shifted back to AMD: The motherboards are cheaper and have more nifty features, the CPUs are cheaper and more importantly they are faster at available price points than Intel's. For $160, one can buy an AMD x2/6000 or an E6550. If you aren't planning to...

Actual recommendations: GIGABYTE GA-P35C-DS3R - For $150, it doesn't do anything all that special, other than be a rock-solid motherboard for an Intel Processor. Intel 946GZis - $80. Barebones, trouble free and, once again, rock solid. No overclocking features. Only two DIMM slots, but decent...

I want 19" 1024x768 screens.

Economic Libertarian "Let the Market Rule" road construction? Yup. That'll be great. Until the day you need to get to the little town in the Midwest where your family lives, and find out that the ROI on maintaining the roads to do it weren't high enough to make a private company interested in...

I'd pay a great deal more money for a large LCD that was NOT super-high resolution. I spent 90 minutes today trying to make a crazy old lady happy with that Samsung 904 I wrote about. 120dpi, extra-large fonts at 800x600 (on a widescreen, naturally) was the only thing that made her stop bitching.

The Samsung 904BW is one inch larger than yours, mubs,, and based on the one I was just looking looking at a minute ago, it's atrocious. I'm positive it's not a TFT panel; I've bought better monitors from fifth tier fly-by-nights (Sceptre, Hanns-G). I can't believe it says Samsung on it. I...

There used to be a passenger rail service that ran, as far as I know, between Indianapolis, IN to Danville IL then at least to Champaign, IL. The train ran through, and made stops at many of the tiny little towns between those larger cities, including the very, very small one where I grew up...

Yes, but not legitimately. I have a program that unlocks PDFs. I can unlock it if you want.

You can get proper Samsungs - 940Bs - for $225 off of Newegg.

Aren't your files .3GPs or something? VLC and Media Player Classic play those just fine.

You know how other people have interests and expertise in other areas? Well I don't. Computer crap is pretty much my whole life.

The list represents an ideal. I read someplace that when Bill Gates decided to start looking for a wife, he started by making a list of all the qualities he wanted in a woman and weighting them. That's a supremely nerdy thing to do, but I was thinking about that stuff as a way to organize my...

I don't see any evidence at all that the job market is better for techies. I couldn't get a decent job during .Com and pretty much all the students I've ever trained for computer work have had the same struggle. Only a very small number have gone on to any kind of tech work. I already work as...

Class action settlement cash.

Never saw any the whole time I was at Purdue either. I don't think geek girls are real in the first place.