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Good to see you again, Coug, if only for a single post. Kapersky works, and if it has a bigger footprint than AVG, it's still far less than Norton or McAfee or CA's shovelware. Regarding Spyware... I insist and make mandatory use of Firefox on all computers I support. IE Icons are removed...

Also, David's $573 box doesn't have a hard drive. But that's OK. Use a less expensive Via-based motherboard, a less expensive Sempron or A64 and you're still just fine. A couple points: A business PC does not need and may not want a DVD burner. Certainly "fleet" computers don't. Second: I'm...

That's almost fine, but I'd spring for an A64/3800 for $40 more and use a no-name 19" LCD ($170 - the extra screen size is worth it IMO), and $35 Foxconn case. The Foxconn case has a louder PSU, and that's the only down side to me, but it's measurably better, too. Those 2.4GHz 3800s absolutely...

People actually use Mouseware?

MovieFactory works, but it's plenty buggy. It has the problems you've mentioned, and also a problem with any video longer than two hours. Nero's stuff is better but the problems you have don't go away completely. These days I stick with Nero, simply because it's one less program to deal with...

I've seen Howell's account logged in since "the incident" so I don't think he's completely gone.

Access can run on any Mac with a Windows license and a copy of the software.

Yes. Does the PC behave without the tuner installed or does it goof up in other ways?

nVidia's disk controller can be pretty awful. Vidcap hardware in general sucks unless you're doing DV over firewire. I haven't found THAT many problems but getting it set up almost alwys takes longer than I think it should. Have you thoroughly tested your motherboard without your cards?

Dell support is terrible unless you are on their fortune-500 premium plan.

Realistically, I wouldn't buy a Dell under any circumstance. I'd sooner take an HP "business" machine, and if you know the general forum opinion of HP, you know that's pretty far from a compliment. The major problem I have with brand-name PCs is that for as long as it takes me to build a...

THC?

Coug got mad after one of his posts was modded. Something about the World Cup, IIRC. Coug isn't responding to my e-mails, either (I have his real address and stuff). Howell lurks, I think, but no longer posts. He got annoyed one day and left. We're too liberal for Flagreen. I don't know where...

I use AnyDVD + Nero Recode for my DVD stealing needs, and Nero Vision for simple DVD authoring.

Buy ATI.

"Heroes" is another show worthy of consideration. It's people with superpowers in a nifty dramatic series that's played straight, rather than as schlocky Science fiction. Kind of like the early episodes of the X-Files. Also, Battlestar Galactica deserves a mention or twenty in this thread...

When you install SuSE (or any other full linux distro), you don't need to install any other applications, which was more specifically my point.

My training company is trying to find homes for around a dozen 17" CRTs. The displays are five years old or so, but even at that, we can't find any takers. Surely there's some low-cost source for better displays in your area.

It's even worse when you realize that all of OpenSuSE 10.2 fits in a 3GB ISO file.

I've set up maybe six CLP-510s in the last year and a half. They're less annoying than other small printers. People whine about toner costs, but they do that no matter what. Duplexing and LAN support are the big two features that make them so worthwhile. The fact that they are not loud is the...

HD Encoding is all about hard disk write speeds and some kind of staggering amount of disk space. We all hate RAID0 but it's the best way to go to actually do that kind of work. I'm not sure of CPU requirements but I'm guessing something with a modern system bus (hypertransport) is probably...

Unfortunately, I can't take it out of service until the 22nd. I could not ship it until after Xmas.

My retry was 1880kb/sec. Fast enough I couldn't take a screenshot. I'd say it made a difference.

Almost all the traffic we're dealing with is passing between Very Big Routers in a datacenter someplace. It's POSSIBLE that the routers in question are load balanced somehow so that the IP address is not representative of a physical interface, but the datacenters I've been in seem to just use...

I've never seen that bug before. First time I'm using Intel onboard graphics. Maybe that's it.

At home, different cable segment, 26.1kb/sec. Tracing route to storageforum.net [69.57.180.83] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 73.55.216.1 3 8 ms * 8 ms ge-1-44-ur01.griffith.in.chicago.comcast.net [68...

Comcast issue, maybe?

Actually I take that back. I can hear a little clicky noise when the drive is being written to. It's not noticeable from four feet away, though. The fluorescent lights in my office are making more noise than anything else at the moment.

The 100GB 7200rpm SATA drive in the Thinkpad T60p that I'm working on right now is a Hitachi, apparently. I do not notice any drive noise from it at all, and I'm doing a doing a fairly disk-intensive partition resize (on a partition with data!) at the moment. Speed is... better than I can...

So has jtr. ;)

I just installed Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 on a new Windows PC. I notice that the cursor disappears while I'm trying to compose a new E-mail. It's driving me nuts. I can't see where I'm typing. No, switching cursor sets does not seem to help. Anyone else seen this?

There are cards that will do HD, and there are cards that have component input; those are not cards that cost under $40. Under $40, you'll get Svideo, which is essentially the same picture quality as component as long as you're looking at standard-definition TV (there's a big jump between...

I'm downloading at an average of 30kB/sec over a 6Mbit cable line that really isn't being used at all, otherwise. I'd call that pathetic. I'd send a Traceroute, but Comcast has had ICMP blocked on my cable segment for the last several months.

I might have an (754-pin) Athlon64/3000 + Biostar board here in the next few days; I know I'll have it by the beginning of January, but it's a matter of when I can take the machine down to pull the parts.

December 10th, 2006 was a truly sucky day. That is all.

Coincidentally, guess what I downloaded Friday when it was released?

jtr, It must be awful to lose your father. You have my sympathies.

A Real-life horror movie.

Don't use headphones?

It's better than my words for S*ny and Western Digital product lines. Also, I think time might have some historical data worthy of examination. Don't forget time.

No Sony Rootkit. No evidence of Sony Rootkit. I've removed it before, but not under a completely different set of symptoms, which is why I did not think of it as the problem. But I really thought that was it. I can't even tell where the stupid thing comes from. It's not Nero. The PC I was...

Channeling the wisdom of every "Boobies" thread on Fark.com... I'd hit it. :)

I think there's a strong correlation, myself. I've heard rumblings that the bigger and newer Samsungs aren't as wonderful as the old ones, but my experience remains excellent overall; I might see a Samsung fail once in every six months. Considering the number I have deployed in the last four or...

Renaming the file did not work - Windows seems to BSOD on boot without it. Fortunately, one of the students in a class today brought an Inspiron notebook. It also had the file in question (is it a Dell thing?), but its copy was 693 bytes larger than the one on my cursed PC. I copied the...

No Sony rootkit. I've run several tools that promise to remove the Sony rootkit, and none of them detect it as being present. Google, Google Groups and Microsoft's various support venues cannot tell me what sonypvl3.sys is, either.

I find it A LOT easier to use Fedora for server-y things than anything else. There's nothing in the basic config that actually PREVENTS you from enabling unusual server functions, for instance, which is a point of annoyance I have with SuSE.

woot is wooting off today. If anyone sees more of those Logitech powerline ethernet adaptors, please buy some. Every time they have some, I buy three. Usually they're all spoken for before I even actually get them.

I do not know yet, but it's certainly possible.

Paugie, could you tell us more about this saute that you make? Philippino cuisine is something I'm curious about.

I see your unhealthy food and I raise your bet.