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Yes, I am interested in yours, Mark's and ddrueding's. I'm having a hard time assigning a value to the modules, though. I'd like to offer some kind of compensation above and beyond shipping but... Prices for "new" PC100 memory are insane. $25 for 256MB that'll go in a PC that's probably not...

I believe my privacy is a fundamental right. I also believe that, if you give someone a tool to violate privacy, it will be used. I'm absolutely positive that Onstar techs are, when they aren't terribly busy, listening in on other people's lives for their own amusement, let along what the...

Well, in this case the Tor services were being raided for a very legitimate reason: Tor is popular with kiddy porn-sharers. The Tor people don't want it any more than anyone else does, but, you know, build a secure private network and it's not just going to be used by anticensorship advocates in...

OK, my small business story. When I got out of college, I was all fired up and ready to go to work as one of the thousands of system administrators obviously needed by the .Com boom. I'd been trained as a programmer, but I'd lost my taste for it before I even got out of school. I tried to find...

Something I did not see in that article is whether the ES-model drives are designed to deal with additional heat as well as additional vibration. I'd guess that rubber mounting grommets are enough to curb vibration, but not having to add an extra fan (and the noise of an extra fan) would be a...

Onstar = vehicular spyware. They can turn it on whether you pay for it or not, and they can hear what you're talking about in the car. Law enforcement wiretaps Onstar all the time. Yeah, that's something I'd want.

Top 25 Censored/Unreported News Stories of 2006 I am particularly filled with disgust at "#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran" I hate this country. I hate it, hate it, hate it.

Well, except for threesomes and sailboats... /just kidding. //mostly.

I've posted before that I had a good experience with getting support from Gateway. My Gateway Laptop - one that I use pretty much exclusively for running projectors in classrooms and reading comics I've downloaded (one of the few good applications for a 16:9 display!) has had minor display...

Some boards cough*Asus*cough absolutely will not accept a BIOS flash from a CD-ROM. You might consider makign a BartPE CD/Thumb drive with the relevant Windows Flash utility on it.

MaxBurn - I thought I'd already paypal'd you for the board and RAM. Guess I forgot. Uh.. you've got cash?

Yes, I need them. How much do you have to sell them for?

The place where I work teaches lots of Rednecks, but not HTML.

Yeah. Mark made a funny. :(

With the SB Live, you have two choices: Microsoft's crippled driver or Creative's sucky one. Take your pick. Bleh. On the other hand, Clocker is right that it'll do what you want it to do. WRT Sound chips and OEMs and standards and stuff, there's WAY too much that can be customized to make many...

Starbucks has good Hot Chocolate and pecan squares!

OEM devices are the same thing as retail minus packaging. NEC or S*ny or Samsung or whichever company is not going to piss off a channel partner by putting substandard parts in bulk packaging. After all, they want to be the supplier on the next go-round as well. The only exception to this I'm...

More Microsoft Nonsense: Microsoft patches its DRM protection faster than fixing security issues.

I had good luck with LiteOns for a very long time. At the beginning of this year I got two bad batches of drives in a short period of time so I dropped them for NEC. I will also say that quality control on DVD burners in general is in the toilet.

Several of the ladies in my office use such services. I've seen 4x7s and the like and they pretty much look like photo prints. Just like Walgreens and the like, sometimes they screw up and misprint your stuff, but usually they only screw up one print instead of a whole roll of film.

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FWIW, Comcast and AT&T (SBC) both have provisions buried in their terms of service regarding home routers and NAT. Needless to say, everyone ignores them. Just don't mention your router when you have to call their support hotline. I'm pretty sure it's just boilerplate language to justify cutting...

I hate to mention this again, but any chance there might be an increase in PMbox size, soonish?

This is very useful information Gilbo. Thank you for sharing it. Messing around with data recovery on a RAID array is pretty much a cold-sweat nightmare for any techie.

Bozo, Tannin, mubs, time and Buck, paugie and Groltz are all older-ish members. Clocker's somewhere between, as are Cougtek and Fushigi. Pradeep, myself and Handruin are all around the same age, a bit younger. ddrueding is the young 'un. I'd say the average age of members is probably closer to...

Nope. Merc built a computer that he actually plans to sell for a profit. Most of the time I make around $10 when I sell a computer.

That's why I keep buying projectors. However, it's damned hard to get any work done on a projected screen. They aren't bright enough for text, and it's hard to set up a desk space to really make using your 3 meter^2 screen so that it's actually all readable, anyway. Personally, I use the...

Well, I put the two cards into one machine that I built last night. It's going to be a very nice Core 2 Duo E6400 system. Probably the most pimped-out machine I've built in a couple years. Four 400GB drives in RAID10, 2GB DDR800 RAM, and those two 7900GS cards. Asus motherboard, but it's already...

Just to be slightly on-topic, Vista RC1 is finally on MSDN and Technet, for those who have access. Not that I'm expecting anything like an improvement. Folks who are interested in TinyXP, PM me.

It's a trade-off. Flash drives have zero seek time. As long as the chunk of data you want is smaller that the maximum DTR of the flash module - something that's highly likely - the flash drive wins.

You can probably find two budget 19" LCDs for the price of Dell's high end models. I like Sceptre monitors a lot, for the money.

I'd recommend a 4:3 monitor for any monitor you're going to be using for actual work. 16:9 = a ton of extra scrolling.

I suppose it makes a difference if you have one of those bargain-basement Dells with 128MB RAM. Vista basically creates and uses the thumb drive for swap space.

It's not helpful to you in Nova Scotia, but I buy lots of things from Cableconn.com. Recently they switched policies, though, and now they don't do free shipping for $20 orders any more, which makes me a sad panda.

Northern Indiana Public Service Company. Who, by the way, are even worse. There's no civic entity like Chicago to keep NIPSCO in check.

If you have Vista 64-bit edition, that's one hell of a lot of extra memory.

I do believe that's an architectural limitation of your system chipset. IIRC the limit for AMD64 is actually slightly lower. Basically, you need a "server" chipset if you want to see all 4GB of your RAM on a 32-bit OS.

About a half hour ago I had the gob-smacking realization that the last time I paid a power bill was early May. So I hastily called up the local power monopoly to find out what I need to do to make sure my power stays on. Turns out, they had grossly overestimated my "budget billing", and I...

Nope. Isn't the Discovery Channel the one that likes to pretend that Ghosts and UFOs are "Science" topics?

I had no idea who the guy was. But apparently there is video of him actually removing the barb from his heart. I imagine that'll be on the internet in a week or so.

Yes, but taken in combination, the sound projector is a better deal than buying a HTiB kit. And for what it's worth, it DOES have real speakers. About 30 of them. As I understand it, there's a longish setup process where it figures out where to point each of the speakers to maximize echos and...

I can think of maybe a half-dozen DVDs that have 6.1 soundtracks, let alone seven. Did you look at that Yamaha sound projector?

The version I have came from a torrent site. It's one of the more stripped down releases. It's slightly annoying for defaulting to the UK keyboard layout and language setting, but that's easy enough to fix.

I like cellphoneshop.com. They had the battery for my phone at a literal 80% discount from what the local Verizon store wanted to charge. I've bought other people data cables and face plates there. They identify phones by the manufacturer. In some cases you have to figure out the actual phone...

AC97 is its own special category of horrid. As a techie it offends me. As a music enthusiast it repulses me. The main issue is that in an AC97 implementation, all sound is upsampled to 48kHz, processed and then output back to whatever quality you've selected for playback (almost always...

You just made my list, bucko. :P

Wanna know a movie that's cool to look at and listen to, even if it's not really that good? The George Clooney version of Solaris. It's a great test disc for a home theater system.

TinyXP FTW. I put it on two ~300MHz Celerons with 64 and 96MB RAM respectively, machines that I would not want to see running Windows 2000, let alone full-blown XP, so that some nice people could actually use the USB printers they bought. It runs better than Win98 on that hardware. What this...

Sort of Tangental to the audio issue, this is a comparison between PC-based video playback and a number of standalone DVD players. Stuff like this is why I <3 my HTPC.

It's cool enough for me to shut off one of my air conditioners tonight. My apartment is quiet for the first time in about four months!