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I need a hundred, minimum. I have, uh... six. Looks like I have six. This is easily as annoying as having to buy IDE cables.

Anyone know of a particularly cheap place to get lots and lots of standard molex to SATA connectors? Used to be, they just gave you bunches of them when you bought motherboards or something. Now I need a bunch of them and I do not want to pay $2 apiece for them, which what everybody wants to...

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My school was really good at being segregated (400:1 caucasian to "other" ratio) and apparently broke some kind of state record for most potheads per capita or something. And Indiana only mandates two semesters of PE classes in high school. As I recall, all we ever did was run around a track. I...

Four drives in the eight months since the last time I sent some drives back. One of them was dropped (my fault) and though it works, I don't trust it. Another was DOA (probably UPS's fault). Two others do in fact have SMART failures. One of those was two years and eight months old. I buy a LOT...

Fushigi, that was truly vile. Thank you for the nightmares I will be having. I don't remember the people I went to school with very well. Some of them were probably in sports and choir, but I think most of them were a distinct, non-jock species. My school was much better at music stuff than...

Um... I just submitted four drives for RMA on Samsung's web site. They told me to ship them to: SAMSUNG Receiving 25 E. Union Ave Unit 1 East Ruthrford, NJ 07073

I've had long term issues with Linksys APs and routers. I had the same problems with the older ones as the new. The problems I've had with 'em go back years at this point. Unfortunately, nothing else works as well and is as cheap and as available as those WRT54Gs.

Yes. I do remember that. I daresay there aren't many people here who used NT3.5. Graphics drivers should never have been in the kernel to begin with. It was a dumb idea, and I'm completely certain that it was the largest single contributor to NT's reputation as an unstable OS. 3.5 was *not*...

Um... it's just how my company's upgrade cycle hit. We got a gigantic paycheck from a client that had been holding out on us, and we've needed to get new machines for a while. Basically, we have computers that are in nine year old cases. They aren't made to deal with the thermal load of an...

I use the standard firmware on APs that someone might call for support on.

I'm not a retailer but I certainly build enough systems (40 this month, for classrooms, and possibly 60 - 70 next month). My concerns are the possibility of Vista-related support calls (how do I turn the little prompts off?), complaints of poor performance and lack of application compatibility...

I believe there is already a TinyVista. But it may be just XP with some skinning and free tools that resemble Vista features. There's also a vLite, similar to nLite.

I have a lot of 'em that either stop doing wireless or have the WAN port die, hard reset or no.

How are your failure rates for WRT54Gs so low? Mine easily quadruple that.

I only buy RAM that supports the standard 1.8V spec. I'm under the impression that Intel-based chipsets are just pickier about RAM. Most of those weirdo modules will work on my Gigabyte and Intel-brand boards, if I mess around with the memory voltage or in some cases just save the BIOS settings...

You can create multiple pagefiles on different drives. Windows addresses them separately according to which drive is least busy.

Really? Then why isn't Vista subjectively any faster? Windows Server is truly, subjectively faster than XP. Vista isn't. Whatever it's doing with that extra memory, it's not making the computer work any more quickly. Unused RAM will be used to load additional programs and work with large files...

The huge, offensive "Why not?" comes down to this: Vista, sitting at an empty desktop, is using 250MB more RAM than XP, which could be going to something useful. What's Vista doing with that RAM? Is it making my computer work better in any way at all? People with notebooks are finding that...

Nothing wrong with Peachtree. It has worked for a lot of companies for a long, long time. There's also Cougar Mountain. I have one customer that uses it. Microsoft has a bunch of financial packages as well. I don't know how well any of them work, but in this particular case I think MS would be...

32bit. 64Bit is a colossal PITA.

Sometimes it's awesome, too. Obviously no one wants to watch "Backdoor Cheerleaders XVIII" in HD, but if you get an actual cinematographer and a director with some idea of how to actually shoot (e.g. Andrew Blake or Joone or Micheal Ninn), it's just as breathtaking as everything else in HD...

XP can use multiple 4GB pagefiles. I'm not sure if it DOES, but it'll let you set them up. There's an absolute 4GB limit on RAM in XP, though. Server 2003 Enterprise Edition can support 32GB RAM on its 32bit version, but obviously not on hardware that a normal person is going to have sitting...

Prices will slowly fall until 1.2 or 1.5TB drives are about to be released. That's what happened with 750GB units. Personally, I buy drives that cost $100 to $150. That is ALWAYS the right range for GB per dollar, and I don't have to worry about having one drive so big I can't easily back it...

In this case, yes. I can E-mail you screenshots if you like, L6k2. Ones that don't even have women in them, if need be.

Intuit is a little bitch. I try to convince as many people as I can not to suck at that particular teat. It does no good. EVERYONE uses Quickbooks. But windmills are better for the jousting, and so I keep trying.

Good gods why?

I have an HDDVD player and a few movies. I have also found some VERY nice HD Porn on PureTNA.com. I have HD versions of Vivid's Pirates and Digital Playground's Island Fever 3 (which is gorgeous in the same way the HD stuff from the Discovery channel is, plus the naked plastic womens). Lots of...

Actually, I've been pretty frustrated with the quality of the modules I've been getting. I have eight different high-end 2GB DDR2 modules that seemingly can't be used on any LGA775 system I own, though they work fine on AM2 systems. I blew another $300 on a set of Corsair XMS2 "Dominator"...

1080p is a requirement for me only in that I don't think 1360x1050 or whatever 720p is, is enough screen resolution for a PC. And I *do* have some 1080p content, so it's hardly worthless. I'm thinking about trading my 60" DLP monster for something more like a 50" LCD. It'd be worth it to get...

Uh, thirded, I think.

As if we needed another reason to hate Alberto Gonzalez.

It's been fine. I run trueimage restores off mine. :)

I think I'm really happy with my Transcend 8GB...

My standard configuration with those boards is to use one Crucial or Rosewill (sigh) DDR/333 DIMM. I kinda sorta remember reading something about them being weird with some DDR/400 modules but I no longer remember the circumstances. Anyway, those boards typically don't fail in any way but a...

The way too fucking hot one.

Hey, take a wild guess which component in my gaming system died today? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't the motherboard, CPU, RAM, any of the disk drives or the PSU.

A USB2/Firewire/eSATA enclosure seems like the most reasonable way to accomplish what you're after. Actually, one of those cheap 3.5" inside 5.25" bay removable drives plus a SATA drive would do it.

Don't feel bad, MaxBurn. When I was in high school choir, I was specifically excluded from doing anything that required any amount of choreography...

Based on my brief experiences with an 8800GTX in a P180, I can say that the area of the side panel next to the card gets warm enough that I don't want to touch the case with my leg. It's not out and out hot, but it's uncomfortably warm. I am thinking we need to get AWAY from that kind of heat.

On a scale of one to ten, I'd say the average level of attractiveness of the people in those pictures is at least four points higher than the people I see in Northwest Indiana. Does California ship all their ugly people off to Utah or something?

Jesus told his followers to leave their families if they wanted to follow a righteous path. I'll dig up chapter and verse later, but it was in one of the four gospels. Everyone should keep their religious beliefs out of public life. That is something that would make the world genuinely better...

To the extent that the bible requires that some people suffer eternal torment because they behave in non-harmful ways that do not match the tenants of christianity, I'd say the bible is also a hate-filled book. Particularly if you read the bits in the old testament about how to keep slaves or...

Yes, but it's an nVidia card and I don't like it or how hot it gets... which is apparently less hot than the x2900. :(

I don't think it's the good kind of eternal torment.

I am highly disappointed, myself.

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Couple sites have early reviews of the R600 up tonight, but they're being Slashdotted, Dugg, Reddit'd and Farked off the Internet. Long story short: Fastest x2900 might be competition for the big 8800GTS.

RW, I think that your religious beliefs - anyone's, for that matter - are harmless as long as they remain personal. Proselytizing and inflicting one's morality on others are the things that I find offensive. I also do not understand where christians get off claiming to be a persecuted minority...

I'm already using the lowest memory divisor I can. The board is a rev. 3.3 and yes I know how Gigabyte hides the overclocking options. I wish I could make that the default display. The F10 BIOS for the DS3 has been out since January, apparently.