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Generally they don't boot with 4 sticks while you're overclocking.

No. Temps are good OK-ish. I'm guessing it's memory that's the issue, but the DS3 links RAM and FSB speeds so I can't do much more about that. However, it's been stable @ 3.8 so I don't really have any reason to complain.

F10.

OK, new record: GA-P965-DS3 + E6320 (1.5V) + 2GB OCZ DDR2/1066 RAM + Coolermaster Gemini II + 2x 1200rpm SilenX fans = 4112MHz. It wasn't stable but it got all the way through a Windows install before it crapped out. Just never saw a four in the thousands place before. :D

I can get you a proper ISO if you wait about 8 hours for me to put it someplace. Do you need a standard or volume license?

The cartoons look like a scanned Chick Tract Jack Chick is very real, very sincere and very hateful. Even has it out for all the pope-worshiping Catholics.

Fundies say the Darndest things. (Coral Cache version)

Sent. I am a little worried about the "advertising content" in the EULA but I loaded it in a VM and it's running well enough and I have not seen any ads yet.

Anyone want a Joost invite?

Whoops. Wrong topic. Oh well. ;)

On the subject of FreeNAS, why not set it up in a Virtual Machine if you just want to see how it works? VMware server is free and easy to use, guys. Coug certainly doesn't. I've heard that Quebec is one of the few places where US citizens get treated better than English-speaking Canadians...

Is the PSU still a proprietary design in the updated case? Or did they just make an easy mod to a standard power supply?

Dreamhost, at least my server, has issues with oversold capacity. We have tons of disk space, and awesome bandwidth, but my server has 1107 accounts listed in /etc/passwd and every time I log in and look, load averages are way high (4.5 - 6 is common), making shell access unresponsive and a...

For a computer that's supposed to last three years and to run Windows, I really would look at 4GB RAM. The NSK6500 is a nice case. I have lots of them because they hold lots of drives. I'm REALLY fond of the NSK4400 and NSK3300, though. The 4400, in particular, is just about the easiest build...

Hey, it's a huge deal to me one way or the other. My random thing of the day: In my daily box of crap from Newegg, I got three little packages of Wrigley's Winterfresh gum. Next time I hope I get one of the secret decoder rings!

Yes. Which is one of the reasons I'm so surprised that it seems to have been a factor.

LunarPages pisses me off. I know there are people who hate Dreamhost with a passion but honestly, I e-mail dreamhost about a problem and they help. I call Lunarpages for something and the answer I've gotten every time is some variation on "Well, what do you expect on a shared hosting plan?"

I have a few Linux systems out in the world that I installed in '97 or '98 that are still running and doing the things they are supposed to do. I love it when I get a call like "The power went out and that one computer's screen just says 'login:' now." "Can you still access your e-mail and...

Over an hour by my count. Came back just as I started to bitch at Handy about it. :)

I have a Radeon 9700AIW I could certainly part with. At one point, I tried to install a Vantec(?) graphics cooler on a Radeon 9800. It came with no instructions and the card burned out about two hours after I installed the new fan. I do not trust after-market graphics cooling. On the other...

That kind of crap is exactly how Linux gets in the door of an all-Windows shop.

I went and did that concert-thing last night, and actually had a very good time. Even the drive into Chicago was good. I am told that I behaved appropriately, and other than a few moments of nerves, I was OK. Anyway, maybe I will get to do that again some day.

OK. It drove me nuts but I did figure it out. When I install WMP11 and run sysprep, my optical drive is detected as a generic "CD-ROM drive." The drive still works as a DVD drive and as a burner, but Windows itself won't let me burn until I uninstall the device, redetect it and then disable and...

The nForce boards I have seen have an option buried someplace in the BIOS to turn off the hardware firewall. I haven't seen an nForce board yet that had it on by default. Of course, all I've used are Gigabyte and a small number of MSI or Biostar boards, so maybe there is different stuff out there.

I think that you'll find the real-life difference between memory timings is one of those things that more or less only makes a difference in synthetic benchmarks; the real-world advantage of a 4GB configuration for someone who needs a 4GB configuration (ie, already using more than 2GB RAM) more...

It looks to me like there's an exhaust port on the side of the case, rather than the front. The name of the case is "Silentium" so maybe they are doing something really interesting with that design. I wish there were photographs, rather than the diagrams. Hey, speaking of interesting cases...

C I'd be really happy to take that CPU off your hands, but I don't particularly want or need the other stuff.

I am just getting back to this. Looking at the differences between PCs that have working CD burning and PCs that don't, it looks like the common factor is actually Media Player 11 vs. v9. Has WMP11 messed up CD burning on anyone else's PC?

Put it on a win98 machine, then. :)

That is a nice looking case. Have you actually built one yet?

You might want to look into Costco's return policy. I know they made it a lot less unconditional on January 1st of this year.

Upgrade to Linux or install a Windows Server product? AFAIK, XP Pro is hard-limited to 10 connections. There probably is some Registry Ninja-ing you can do, but my guess is that if you manage to get it to take more connections, you're probably also changing a bunch of things that make XP a...

No, but there are a few that will play WMV, divx AVI or Nero Digital MP4 files that are burned to a DVD.

Women are scary. All of them. This is really funny. And also sad. But mostly funny.

Found this tool via Lifehacker today. It's a quasi-virtual machine for running applications you don't entirely trust.

If you ever find someone who can fabricate external enclosures, send him to me when you're done. I'd love to work out a perfect computer chassis.

I've definitely had a problem with that in the past, and on commodity hardware. I don't remember whose. Just that it wasn't Linksys.

The site was inaccessible during what most of us here call "the day", yesterday. I'm kind of curious for Coug to respond as well.

I didn't try to help Will because I'm not an Opera user. time and Tannin are the only other Opera users here. Opera tries my patience to exactly the same degree that Firefox tries yours, perhaps moreso. I'll take my endlessly extensible and configurable browser any day.

City of Heroes is having another free trial offer. Now we have loot! Kinda. Moreso than we used to, anyway. I liked it better without.

A google group is just a newsgroup. Pretty sure about that one. I visit a couple forums on proboards.com. They use phpBB and other than having god-awful custom graphics they seem to work OK.

Hamachi is super slow. Azureus has a private tracker built in, but then you have to use Azureus.

I finally found a use for Opera. I actually need six different newegg shopping carts at the moment on the same PC. Firefox, IE, K-meleon, Flock, and IE and Firefox in a virtual machine were not enough.

ddrueding: It is very difficulty in my experience to get a good build on those Shuttle SFFs. They use Shuttle motherboards for one thing, which are a little bit too budget-y for my taste, and they seem to overheat pretty readily. Shoulda gone with teh Aria/NSK1400. Or for that matter an...

Check anyway, willya? Some routers assign either a different subnet or a different IP range to wireless vs. wired clients and that would in fact mess up SMB networking.

Check what's on what subnet.

Bed Bath and Beyond non-woot Monkeys do not have the cachet, the gravitas of the woot-variety.

They are good for 24 hours. They change at midnight central time and when they sell out, they sell out.

Westinghouse HD sets are supposed to be a bargain at the moment, quality and budget-wise.

They'll take PATA drives of any size, provided you're installing a OS that supports large drives (e.g. XP SP2 or Linux, but not original Windows XP).