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In a training environment, you want people to be able to see around the monitor, Buck. :) Also, and I plan to continue to bitch about it until it gets better, where the hell are the 24" 4:3 monitors? Grrr.

Reimaging isn't a time-limited process. It takes four and a half minutes now, which I'm fairly certain is limited by the speed of the hard disks involved. I don't see a RAMdrive making that better.

Yeah. O'Reilly and Associates has a book called "Wireless Hacks" that goes into some detail about a Linux-based PC router along those lines.

There's a shock. On the plus side, I've recently had people ask me about Linux/MySQL who I didn't think could spell SQL.

Realistically, there's no reason for any of those things. These machines will sit in a lab and be unused for probably 95% of their 3-year shelf life. They don't need graphics hardware beyond what's needed to run Vista.... which the 6100 is perfectly capable of doing. They don't need SCSI drives...

One of our training clients wants new computers. He set a budget of $1500 per PC. No monitor, just the PC. And a seperate budget for labor and support for three years. The sad thing is, I can't figure out how to spend more than slightly over half that amount. X2/4800 Antec NSK4400 Case 2GB...

I'm not exactly sure what it is you're wanting to do here. Why not just bridge with an AP like a normal person?

Oh, I've been laughing all day. It's only just made it to Pennsylvania?

That's a Firefox!

It's about damned time.

That was a reply to the suggestion that the gentleman seeking an upgrade could buy a high-end Celeron. Which he couldn't, 'cause his motherboard uses socket 423, which Intel hasn't used in ages. And you posted that while I was replying. :P I *do* believe that there are "just scrap the whole...

Intel dropped socket 423 in 2002, if I recall correctly.

Fun links from somethingawful.com (which may not be the best site to visit at work, but there's nothing bad about these links). First: Retail Worker Horror Stories: Part 1 Part 2 Second... Did you all know that AOL released years of its users' search records to the public? They did, stripping...

Here's a fun idea. Just got off the phone with a guy who wants to upgrade his PC. I told him there's probably no point, he should just buy a new one. Nope, he wants an upgrade. He has a 1.4GHz P4. A six-year-old PC. It would need a new PSU (200W), a new motherboard, new RAM (his uses RIMMs)...

The new X2/3800s I have don't seem to be able to handle 2.6GHz. 2.4GHz is reasonable for them, but I'm not 100% sure they're fully stable. If the 3600 can typically be overclocked to stable 2.6GHz, I'm going to feel stupid for wasting ~$25 on each of the 3800s I bought. Grrr.

We're bombarded with them. Handruin probably has to delete five or six accounts a week. I don't post as much on the weekend because I'm usually out doing contract work, which usually means three or four hours in my car (no internet) and six or eight hours actually working. And I imagine other...

It MAY be required; you're switching HALs, after all.

Russian Spammers. :)

I'd like to know how a baseline nvidia 6100 works with it, and I'd like to know if the Dual Core thing is just BS. A $60 x700 seems like it might be OK; those are roughly on par with the old 9700. I've got a group of 12 guys who are in a guild(?) who want these machines. Some of them have a...

It has suddenly become important for me to be an expert on World of Warcraft and specifically what kind of hardware one needs to reasonably max out graphics performance in Wow. Problem: I don't have WoW or access to anyone who does have it. Here's what I do know: Blizzard's POS has problems...

I'd suggest paying a 12-year-old to do it, which is the step Stereodude left out.

Where it goes depends on how you installed it. I use the .tar.gz and put it in /usr/local along with everything else that doesn't come with the system. I don't remember having to do anything more special than running config-pl and running the app to make it work, but it's been a while since I...

It's probably not in your path. Try typing in ./usr/local/vmware/vmware If that starts (which it should), you can make an appropriate application icon for it on your desktop or whereever you like.

Speaking of things that look interesting. And it's from Asus. I feel unclean.

Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all my problems. -- H. Simpson And yes, that was a depressing read. And no, I don't know what to do about it either.

Try typing "vmware" at a prompt?

It's a i945 chipset instead of an i965, which probably has some kind of ramifications for memory bandwidth or supported frequencies or something, but it still looks vanilla to me. In fact, it's a little less than vanilla. It's cream-flavor or something, since it doesn't have any IDE support...

Greg: I haven't changed my mind. Someone who complains about a fast dialup connection being slow is like someone who complains that he is poor despite a six-figure income. That person is worthy of contempt. Clocker: Send me a hard drive and I'll fill it up for you. Any size you like. Your pick...

Howell is a guy. I have also spoken to him. I'm not sure what brought the current reaction on. I looked at the picture in question and judged it both safe and tasteful for its intended purpose, even posted as an in-line image. I pass things that are more objectionable that're on 30-foot-long...

That looks like a very vanilla motherboard to me. That's the standard feature set for current intel chipsets as far as I can see.

Or he could've PM'd me to let me know he doesn't like pictures of healthy and fully clothed young women. It's a picture hosted on my site. I could remove it. Whatever.

In another thread I mentioned an iRiver FM transmitter that works with anything that has a headphone jack. Of the various mp3 player to FM devices I've seen, it's the nicest.

Asus is having *serious* issues with different BIOS revisions and Core 2 Duo support. Fanboys are having to buy a Celeron so they can flash their BIOS, or they can send their motherboards back to Asus along with a check for $20, to get a proper BIOS for the new processors. That kind of shit is...

Enterprise backup products have been doing full-system backups for as long as I can remember. Of course, back in the days of DOS/Netware, or on a Unix system it's probably a little bit easier. :) Anyway, the latest build of TrueImage Workstation, 3718, includes the option to store the Bootable...

There's always Soltek, I guess. :(

My Pictures from Wizard World I'm still putting comments on them but about half have some kind of explanation. I wasn't there to take pictures but I did it when the thought occurred. My favorite "wish I'd had the camera out" moment: Pretty young woman, maybe 20 years old, leaning down to flip...

That's the other pictures. ;) Er, anyway, I'd like to suggest that the conjoined companies be known by the most obvious of names: Assabyte.

This made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership presumably makes up for that.

I haven't gotten anything, either. Also, Stereodude, I have 4 4-port and one 12-port 3ware PATA cards. I know exactly what you mean about wanting more PATA drives.

Please pass the mind-bleach. Thank you for sharing that beautiful mental image, ddrueding. Here's something happier to replace it. Now that we're all feeling better... I've heard legends that in the distant past, Asus did not entirely suck. Perhaps it will return to the ways of its...

The Merchants of Cool, a PBS special on the marketing machine the recording industry uses to turn idiot teenagers who like bad music into sheep who buy bad music. Also, I was comic-conventioning all weekend. This year I have pictures. I will post some of them shortly.

The only news about WD that I want to hear involves multiple convictions and land sown with salt.

To give an honest answer: Blue or White LEDs are both horribly bright. Obnoxiously bright. I tend to put electrical tape over blue LEDs when I find them. I'll leave the matter of whether or not they are truly pimptastic to the scholars. As far as PCs go: The end of the year might bring...

I suggest sticking with the Windows XP firewall for XP users. NIS, Zonealarm etc are obnoxious and easy to misconfigure, and in some case have moronic default configuration anyway (e.g. McAfee's firewall, which blocks SMB file/printer sharing by default). The one that comes with Windows works...

So basically, AC3-encoded material (guessing you're playing AC3-encoded stuff in both) is going out your center channel, but nothing is going out your rear channel in that case? And Wave sounds are being played "right" with rear channel stuff going out the rear channels? If you switch your...

The wikipedia page summarizes some of the concerns about the tool.

Battlemech :D

Interesting thing to note, regarding brands we love etc. About two years ago, Newegg stopped providing warranty service for motherboards it sold. Bad move; I started buying motherboards other places and so did a lot of other people. Just today I notice that Newegg has largely shifted back...

No. The Envy is totally different from the xPlosion (which uses a C-Media chip). The Envy driver package includes some jack-sensing software that IIRC allows you to reassign which plug goes to which hardware function. Don't you have that installed?