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I use an HTC 6800 with Sprint. $300 phone. It's not great as a phone - I don't like losing the hard buttons because I memorize phone numbers and don't bother with the address book. I use the thing as a WiFi signal detector and for Email as much or more than the phone. It has 1Mbit internet...

I have some shells from Samsung drives I can send you.

Fine. Looks like I get 50 fps or so @ 1920x1200 with an 8800. You'll probably get half that.

UT3 Demo: Very very pretty. Runs very well on my gaming PC. Level load times seem long, and the menu system is all console-y and crappy. The gameplay is just exactly as fun as the previous two games in the series. I've only done Deathmatches against bots so far, but they are a blast.

The Unreal Tournament 3 Demo was released today. I fully expect it to bring my PC to its knees sometime in the next 40 minutes.

Tonight's selection from my DVD jukebox was "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", which stars Terrence ("Kneel before Zod!") Stamp and Hugo (Elrond, Agent Smith) Weaving as Australian drag queens. I'd never bothered to watch it, but it is highly amusing.

It is my firm belief that working at WalMart for longer than 30 days turns you into a CHUD.

Crouching Tiger, Hero and House of Flying Daggers are all high on my list of most spectacularly beautiful movies. Actually I really like Crouching Tiger's soundtrack, also. Kind of surprising since I'm not a fan of most Asian entertainment idioms. Somewhere in Time is a touching movie. One of...

I did end up enjoying Babylon 5. It really picks up in seasons 3 and 4. Heroes is the only network TV show I download.

Hey, Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize! What has President Dickweasel done lately? Does anyone here still think W. was in any way, shape or form good for the country or the world?

Google for "streamripper" or "stream ripper"

My thought for the day: I went to Walmart today, and I realized that I cannot in fact be a bad-looking guy, because I am positive I was the best looking person in the building for as long as I was there.

Yeah, just my luck that the women I know who play games are all my mother's age...

May I just say that the methods for adding music to Creative Players are exactly the same as methods for adding music to Sandisk? You use Windows Media Player. That's it. It's the same for both. The bundled software with any MP3 player is going to be worthless if you're trying to use that. My...

I bought an x2/5200 about two days before the previous round of price cuts. I'm still pretty annoyed. I can almost get a 6400 for what I paid for that 5200.

Here we go. $220 for an X2/6400 seems pretty reasonable for me.

Play This Thing has tons and tons of links to cool games of all sorts. Flash games, Freeware, Demos and even tabletop stuff. I found four or five neat titles in about about three minutes of looking at the site.

The ones that keep coming back to me are 50 or 60ish single or divorced women who start on Gamehouse titles or Yahoo games, then move into things that are advertised through that - Puzzle Pirates, the Sims,Tale in the Desert or the most recent Nancy Drew titles. They are to a one understanding...

Are there modern motherboards that don't have a 16x PCIe slot?

Dammit. That makes me annoyed. Now I am wondering if there's something wrong with the boards I have (an S3 and a DS3).

The 2GB G. Skill modules I have don't work on a P965-DS3. And yes, they are 1.8V, in pairs or one at a time. The Corsair "Dominator" modules I have a 2.1V and work fine on the same board.

Belarc Advisor would tell you that.

Nero 8 was released a couple weeks ago. I can't for the life of me figure out why it has a new version number.

The overwhelming majority of the time, it makes no difference. All the onboard graphics options are actually decent for everyday sorts of things, including playing Bejeweled and Text Twist. The main question is, are those simple flash/java games going to outstrip current offerings for onboard...

I have a customer who likes Yahoo and Realarcade sorts of games. She wants a new PC, and she is completely OK with spending money if I think it's a good idea. My recent experiences with older women who play computer games has been mixed - two of them started playing Nancy Drew games that...

Also, in the spirit of Halloween, Things to Do if I Ever Become a Vampire. I like the parts about concubines.

It is October and my little part of the world just had four successive days of 90 degree temperatures. Stupid weather.

AVG (not-free) is still not a bad choice, if lightweight is part of your requirement. I know of businesses that use it, and it really doesn't have the impact that Symantec or Kapersky have on a computer. NOD32 is probably the best choice, though, given the cost (same as AVG) and overall effect...

Dumbass.

Why bother with the high performance video under Solaris? And why not a Linux/BSD machine, or for that matter OSX?

Seems like overkill to me, particularly since the Linux-in-flash won't be able to save to external storage or install firefox addons. It's a neat trick, and perhaps with some tweaking - say, a full-featured Puppy Linux install along with maybe some techie tools for fixing a Windows install -...

I've had issues with Gigabyte Intel-based boards and certain types of RAM. I've not tried one with an nVidia chipset, but I know that 965-based models don't seem to like PNY, G.Skill or Geil DIMMs that newegg.com carries - and by "not like" I mean "not boot". Oddly enough, Gigabyte AMD-based...

I have two Seasonics that are not working right, though they haven't completely failed. Has anyone used their warranty service? And has anyone actually purchased a Corsair PSU?

Adaware launched a 2007 version back in May. Spybot just upgraded to version 1.5 and introduced a simplified update process. Both programs offer full time IE/Registry monitoring, which is as painful and annoying as ever, but both seem to fulfill some demand Vista has for active malware...

I know what I got and from when. I had to ship a bunch of my video files off to tape about a year ago, but I still have about 250GB of image files, and I'm sure I can pick out the ones I got back in 1994 from the others. One of the first useful computer programs I wrote was to batch resize the...

Packard Bell SX/25? Probably had 120 or 210MB drive in it. I worked on lot of those. First PC in my house was a Honeywell XT clone. We had a hard drive for it and dual 360k floppies. It came with 256k RAM that was upgraded to 640k the day we got it. It came with Xenix, and I didn't get a DOS...

I like multiple layers of redundancy a bit too much to do large single arrays.

When I was 17 years old, I bought a 1.768GB Micropolis SCSI drive for about $800. It was a half-height drive, and I bought it because it represented a limitless volume of space (common IDE drives at the time were 120MB - 350MB) and the cheapest megabyte/dollar ratio I could find. It was filled...

If it makes you feel any better, my biggest hard drives are only 500GB. Granted, I have about 20 of them, but still...

I was talking to ddrueding actually...

Have you been paying attention to what can be done with C2Ds at all? The $100 1.8GHz E4300 can be readily taken to 3.2GHz. Hell, I got one to run at 3.8GHz for about a day and a half. Bozo what kind of RAM are you using?

I have had to RMA a BFG 768MB 8800GTX twice (my ex gave it to me...). The cooling solution on those cards is woefully inadequate in my opinion, even in non-overclocked and well-ventilated systems. I have one in my gaming system and I'm utterly afraid to use that PC to play games now. Also I...

I've had an uptick in how much teaching I've been having to do. Less time at desk. Random thing: I went to eat at the Chicken Wings place down the road from my apartment on Saturday, and there was a guy there who had a bear in a cage being towed behind his truck. He wasn't quite a cub, but he...

One of the Server 2003 computers should take up the role. Do these machines have firewall exceptions for File and Printer Sharing?

Try using the omega drivers.

Thanks for even looking, guys. I did finally find one.

I post from where I am. If I'm at a client site, I usually VPN home and go out through that, just to keep my habits private, but the way I see it, I'm absolutely justified in participating in technical forums of any type at all. It's part of the learning process, and that knowledge is what makes...

The "stealth update" breaks the ability to install old Windows Updates after a repair install of Windows. In case you were wondering why your updates are failing.

My brother bought a $400 Acer 1680 a few months back. Apparently, this morning he cracked its display against the arm of a chair. The display broke - there's a three to four pixel-wide diagonal line from the upper left to the lower lower right. This is not covered by warranty. Acer wants $600...

The 8800-series cards have a really quiet cooling solution. It's woefully inadequate to keeping the card cool under load, but it's very quiet.