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What that says to me is that IBM and Intel are probably undervalued in the current market.

I'm entirely inclined to just use the pre-cracked OEM Dell copies of Vista that are floating around right now, rather than put up with the Activation nonsense. I *really did* have a guy tell me he was going to sue because his copy of Vista Home Premium deactivated. He had a sticker on his PC and...

I always love seeing operations centers set up like that. Giant screens are the new blinkenlights.

Uh, also, the electronics industry is moving away from that technology. From what I've read, 2008 will probably be the last year that plasma screens are widely available.

Plasmas have more vibrant displays, but actually display a smaller gamut of color, limited lifespan and also have issues with burn-in. I don't think it would be a very good idea to use a Plasma screen as a PC display.

Generally, HDTVs don't look that good for primary displays. They're spectacular for gaming an multimedia, but not for 'real' computing applications. I have a PC hooked up to a 720P DLP set and another to a 1080P LCD, and while I'm glad to have them, my forum-ing and reading is done on actual...

I sell PCs to home users, and I have students I have to support. And I do know of at least one person affected by this issue.

Bullshit. You have customers calling and crying that their Windows install doesn't work, or worse, threatening lawsuits because you CLEARLY sold them an illegal copy of Windows, and that's not a big deal? What color is the sky in your world, ddrueding?

Not so much. You can do a repair install, or make the hardware switch halfway through an upgrade install, and it'll be OK.

All the time. You can pretty freely switch Intel and nVidia-based motherboards.

Also, Blackadder has the saddest series end of any comedy series ever.

I have two Q6600s sitting right here. :D

I thought this was a pretty good article.

Actually, hell is a Vista Premium laptop with 384MB RAM, a 4200rpm hard disk, Norton Internet Security Suite, WordPerfect and all of its font packages and Webroot Spysweeper installed. I worked on one last week where it took fully 45 minutes to install all 500MB of "drivers" that came with...

I just finished watching the Prisoner a few weeks ago. I had seen a couple episodes, but never the whole thing. I have to say that the last episode was disappointing.

I think they're just looking at the fact that HP is bigger right now, Apple earns vastly more on a per unit basis, and the edicts are coming down from on high for their engineers to find ways to save money. I do not think they're giving consideration to the long term in the slightest.

A couple models, yes. It's not a good fit, really, but I think Dell has given up on quality in the name of market share.

You might get more utility out of a BartPE USB boot drive or a Linux boot drive.

Remember that one of the things that makes a C2Q CPU so appealing is the sickening capacity to overclock. FBDIMMs cost pretty much double what DDR2 does and tops out with support for a 667MHz FSB. Also, Xeon has never been what you'd call an overclock-friendly CPU; anyone who makes a "server"...

AnyDVD does several things that make it worth the cash (or the effort to continuously pirate, whichever): They've been very good about updating to handle those broken DVDs and for that matter CDs, and also to handle HD Disc content keys, and also AnyDVD strips out HDCP requirements, which makes...

OK. What formats? Plain text? MS Word? PDF? Punch cards?

Uh, also, Ubuntu 7.10 is available now for people who like that sort of thing.

I generally find it easier to rip DVDs under Windows and/or WINE. ARCCOS copy protection is a stopping point for a lot of new releases (ARCCOS is also updated continuously, so something that can handle the ARCCOS of two years ago, like Ripit4Me isn't going to do much good vs. the ARCCOS of last...

I've seen a rather steep decline in the overall quality of Dell-badged hardware within the last year or so. Lots of blown power supplies and bad motherboards. It's not that hard to make a quality desktop or low end server, and they aren't doing it. My feeling is that Dell is probably cutting...

Too bad those CPUs are on a Dell.

Actually, the article says that it happens under a variety of circumstances, but most easily while Kapersky products are running. They're blaming a kernel memory leak. Some guy in the comments suggests it's a leak in Explorer and not the kernel, but frankly that's just as bad.

I considered the Q when I bought my 6800, but there were a couple down sides to that phone. One is the lack of integrated 802.11 - a feature I really appreciate, and the other is the compromise between the screen size and the keyboard. As much as I don't like iPods, the one positive thing to...

Why do you need audio in the restroom? A few easy answers: Get a boombox with detachable speakers that use real speaker wire. Run the speakers to strategic places in the ceiling. Get a pair of 900MHz wireless speakers. Put them in the ceiling. Get a pair of 802.11 speakers. Put them in the...

I use an HTC 6800 with Sprint. $300 phone. It's not great as a phone - I don't like losing the hard buttons because I memorize phone numbers and don't bother with the address book. I use the thing as a WiFi signal detector and for Email as much or more than the phone. It has 1Mbit internet...

I have some shells from Samsung drives I can send you.

Fine. Looks like I get 50 fps or so @ 1920x1200 with an 8800. You'll probably get half that.

UT3 Demo: Very very pretty. Runs very well on my gaming PC. Level load times seem long, and the menu system is all console-y and crappy. The gameplay is just exactly as fun as the previous two games in the series. I've only done Deathmatches against bots so far, but they are a blast.

The Unreal Tournament 3 Demo was released today. I fully expect it to bring my PC to its knees sometime in the next 40 minutes.

Tonight's selection from my DVD jukebox was "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", which stars Terrence ("Kneel before Zod!") Stamp and Hugo (Elrond, Agent Smith) Weaving as Australian drag queens. I'd never bothered to watch it, but it is highly amusing.

It is my firm belief that working at WalMart for longer than 30 days turns you into a CHUD.

Crouching Tiger, Hero and House of Flying Daggers are all high on my list of most spectacularly beautiful movies. Actually I really like Crouching Tiger's soundtrack, also. Kind of surprising since I'm not a fan of most Asian entertainment idioms. Somewhere in Time is a touching movie. One of...

I did end up enjoying Babylon 5. It really picks up in seasons 3 and 4. Heroes is the only network TV show I download.

Hey, Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize! What has President Dickweasel done lately? Does anyone here still think W. was in any way, shape or form good for the country or the world?

Google for "streamripper" or "stream ripper"

My thought for the day: I went to Walmart today, and I realized that I cannot in fact be a bad-looking guy, because I am positive I was the best looking person in the building for as long as I was there.

Yeah, just my luck that the women I know who play games are all my mother's age...

May I just say that the methods for adding music to Creative Players are exactly the same as methods for adding music to Sandisk? You use Windows Media Player. That's it. It's the same for both. The bundled software with any MP3 player is going to be worthless if you're trying to use that. My...

I bought an x2/5200 about two days before the previous round of price cuts. I'm still pretty annoyed. I can almost get a 6400 for what I paid for that 5200.

Here we go. $220 for an X2/6400 seems pretty reasonable for me.

Play This Thing has tons and tons of links to cool games of all sorts. Flash games, Freeware, Demos and even tabletop stuff. I found four or five neat titles in about about three minutes of looking at the site.

The ones that keep coming back to me are 50 or 60ish single or divorced women who start on Gamehouse titles or Yahoo games, then move into things that are advertised through that - Puzzle Pirates, the Sims,Tale in the Desert or the most recent Nancy Drew titles. They are to a one understanding...

Are there modern motherboards that don't have a 16x PCIe slot?

Dammit. That makes me annoyed. Now I am wondering if there's something wrong with the boards I have (an S3 and a DS3).

The 2GB G. Skill modules I have don't work on a P965-DS3. And yes, they are 1.8V, in pairs or one at a time. The Corsair "Dominator" modules I have a 2.1V and work fine on the same board.

Belarc Advisor would tell you that.