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That's what I was hoping the silver polish would do.

Silver polish did not appreciably change the appearance of the major scratch, but it did help with a lighter one (barely visible in the photo), and it also did a wonderful job cleaning fingerprints and other crud off the plastic. It absolutely didn't hurt anything. I'm going to try a couple...

Here's some pictures of my messy, messy office. Because I have a camera. And I'm bored. Yes, I do manage to do work in this space. Bare hardware visible (stuff not in bags or boxes) is mostly dead or too old to be useful. There are several brown boxes from Newegg in the picture and quite a...

The bad scratch is about 6 inches long and is visible from 10 feet away. It's also visible when the display is actually on. It's a bad scratch. I shall take a picture.

Well... a long and arduous googling leads me to believe that I might be able to repair the scratches with silver polish. Meh. May as well try; the screen is already ruined anyway.

Tannin, that's such a marginal increase in processing power, there's no way it's worthwhile. There's not going to be any subjective difference for paugie. He's got something that works right now, and it's very possible that the vendor could be pulling a fast one on him somehow (remarked chip...

Not worth the effort. :(

I very seldom get to build "high end" systems other than my own. I normally look at Gigabyte's offerings first. I generally only proceed from there if there is some feature or set of features that is not available on a Gigabyte product.

Someone brought me a really nice 19" Dell LCD today that has a couple giant scratches down the front. Their toddler got caught in the cord or something and I guess it went for a little ride off a desk and over some legos or something. There's nothing wrong with the monitor other than the...

My take is that if you're on a new-ish processor, you're almost always going to get better performance than on an old one. You're fretting about a performance differential that's probably going to be too minute to notice, and you're worrying about performance on a top-end chip at that. The...

Apparently Intel is ending its use of ATI-integrated GPUs in its higher-end integrated motherboards but will continue to support Crossfire. Did anyone not see that coming?

Yay! I can officially cut WAY back on the number of PCs I own. I'm going from 14 to eight, including two notebooks. X2s + gobs of RAM + VMware means I don't need half my computers any more.

Handy, I'd be in a homocidal rage if someone made me move all my crap and then said "Oops!" The fact that they yet live and you're still a free man is testament to your restraint. Heat in California: Over the weekend, Yahoo's IM authentication servers and all of Myspace.com died because the...

It's official: $5.4 Billion for ATI.

I don't know of a motherboard manufacturer that offers advance RMA.

Kapersky

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/amd_atitech.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest

IIRC the custom dyndns sites are not free though. I miss my donkey.

There are 3 sticks of RAM, right? So pull two of them and go do whatever makes the PC lock up.

Stop overclocking. Stop overclocking. Stop overclocking. Pull some RAM out. See if anything changes. Run 3 cycles of 512MB to see if anything changes. Make sure the fan on the 9700 is spinning. Make sure the voltages on his PSU are close to normal. You might want to do that with a VMM; I've...

I think the big deal with the 590 chipset is Official nVidia support for overclocking when you use certain officially certified memory modules. 'Cause nVidia knows all about making things overheat. Glad they're finally doing something with that. I'm giving some serious thought to replacing...

Talk amongst yourselves.

I get calls from a guy I went to high school with about computer stuffs. He's got a M.S. ChemE, a PhD. in Pharmacy and tops all that all off with a law degree, and graduated at the top of every one of those classes... but he'll call me for stuff like printing to a non-default printer in Windows...

Whoops. I meant a CNAME record. Duh.

There's such a thing as a PTR record on a DNS server. PTR records redirect only textual domain name to another, which can then be looked up on the appropriately authoritative DNS server for that domain. That's what ddrueding is doing. The only down side to doing that is when a user actually...

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I'd suggest starting with a thin client and some kind of remote access solution. It won't cost any less to set up, but administration will be easier. Since I'm assuming that Linux is off the table for you, you're left with Windows Server. Start with Terminal Server. Set the RDP client to use...

I just installed Fedora 6 RC1 on a 1.2GHz P3. I was able to get DoveCot IMAP, Samba (server), fetchmail for 4 users, and Wordpress (an app that requires Apache, MySQL and PHP to be configured) in about 30 minutes. OpenSuSE is wonderful as a client/workstation, but it's a lot easier to set up a...

There's really just nVidia right now, and you know I don't like saying that. But Via's not to be found in AM2-land and the companies I trust for boards don't trust ATI enough to offer their chipsets. Anyway, I feel Will's pain. I have a $600 X2/4600 and a $500 X2/4400.

Nerve.com (site is Not Safe For Work, but it's an arty, intellectual sort of NSWF) has a piece of short speculative fiction by Douglas Rushkoff (well known for writing Cyberia among other things). The story is a quick read, told as a series of e-mail messages, about the trevails of sexuality...

Monarch Computer is offering preorders for price-cut AMD X2s + motherboards right now. AM2 X2 3800 + Gigabyte 6100 motherboard = $237.

The joy and serendipity of being a general-purpose computer trainer guy: I wrote a little proposal for one of the organizations for whom I teach, for a class in "Personal Electronics" which is going to fund buying a whole bunch of different crap (MP3 players, PDAs and cell phones) and getting to...

Plus there's a certain artful charm in the WAY this particular thread went off topic. And we're already in the Off-Topic forum.

Yup.

How did this thread go so wrong so fast?

I'd suggest grabbing a set of Winternals applications before Microsoft buries all of them. Process Explorer by itself is worth its weight in gold, but there's so much crap on Microsoft's web site that even if the tools stay free you'll never be able to find them again.

I think in the long term Nirvana will be judged superior, mostly because what's-his-name blew his face off while people still thought he had talent and because their music was SO genre-defining that even I know what it sounds like. Pearl Jam has decades ahead to ruin whatever good name they...

I don't know about Olympus, but S*ny essentially makes all its hardware out of the same parts. An engineer someplace made an DSP for flash-memory-based voice recording and I'll bet you $100 that it's the same IC that's in a S*ny MP3 player. Open up a low-end S*ny DVD jukebox and compare it with...

I found a $40 512MB MP3 player/voice recorder that's designed to clip onto a collar or lapel. I've never heard of the brand but for $40, who the hell cares? Something else about flash MP3 players: They can be a lot smaller than single-function voice recorders. I don't mind that a bit.

Huh?

AM2 is the platform of choice for current AMD hardware. Socket 939 is classed as legacy hardware. AM2 gets you DDR2 instead of DDR (no particular benefit at the moment) and the dim possibility that you might replace a AM2/3800 with some faster AM2 chip at a later date. 64 bits doesn't really get...

Why buy a $100 voice recorder instead of a $100 device that is a voice recorder/mp3 player/photo viewer/kitchen sink?

Pretending you're from Euroland lets you use the higher frequencies. And if you have a hackable AP (mine isn't, the WRT55AG doesn't run Linux like the WRT54G does), there's usually firmware to boost your signal output by as much as 20 - 30%.

Of course, I could build a Linux-based PC for $500 that would beat on that Dell like a red-headed stepchild. So could ddrueding. If your friend doesn't need a display, something like an Athlon64/3800 with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB drive would fit pretty well in your $500 budget, just from parts...

There's a "manufacturered on" date on the label of the drive that should give you a rough guess.

They tell you when you do an RMA. They've taken in drives beyond three years old from me, though, and sent working replacements.

I bought a Casio Exilim EX-Z120 over the weekend, something cheap, light and easy to deal with for taking pictures at the big Chicago comic book convention coming up in a couple weeks. I found it, in all places, at a resale shop in Aurora, Illinois (Fushigi's neighborhood). $125, including a...

There's another way that OS upgrades happen, mubs. In poorly managed environments, new PCs will come with whatever is getting shoveled on to PCs that week. I run into that one a lot. I see a lot of companies that have a mix of XP Home and XP Pro or Office 2000/XP/2003/Works Suite/Perfect Office...

37?!? Er... don't feel bad if you don't get it. Someone will. And that person will laugh heartily.