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Samsungs are less warm than Hitachis. They are also less loud.

So I've been ordering tons and tons and tons of stuff from Newegg lately. Parts for 100 complete systems, plus monitors and printers. This morning at 10:01 AM (basically, the moment Newegg opened) I got a call from Sangeeta, who told me that as a large-volume customer I am entitled to discounts...

I ignore the S*ny part and concentrate on the NEC part. A lot of LiteOn drives also have a S*ny logo on them. I'm not sure whether LiteOn made drives for S*ny or the other way around, but that name seems inescapable in optical drives. :(

I've been doing a computer-building class for the past few weeks. I got to watch a whole bunch of PCs with different optical drives load up XP and/or Vista a couple classes ago. The computers with NEC drives consistently finished the OS load before machines with LiteOn, Pioneer or Samsung...

Now I'm not... Newegg is rarely out of stock on a ppopular item for more than 1 or 2 days.

The NECs will be in stock Monday. I'm sure of that.

It's been my experience that C2D boards are fussy about RAM. I'd fully expect an ECS board to be less fussy in that one respect; ECS hardware is often paired with hardware that's marginal in other ways.

That... is not a pretty mental image. Also, the NEC/Optiarc SATA drives are several steps above Pioneer, Samsung and LiteOn drives. They are faster at reading CDs and DVDs and they make less noise.

Well, if you're gonna be like that... there's this. I don't know how those things are for cooling.

I'd make an effort to find a graphics card that supports HDCP, though I don't see any reason to look for anything more powerful than that x1650. Even those are a little iffy for passive cooling. You can save a little bit of money by looking at an Intel 946GZIS rather than the Gigabyte board...

My "server" PCs - the ones on my gigabit network - have static IPs, so even using a hosts or lmhosts file works fine, and both those things work in Windows and Linux. I have BIND set up properly to allow for dynamic hostnames but frankly on a home network that's more of a hassle than just making...

I bet if you gave the Shrub-worshiping Evangelical tykes in "Jesus Camp" AK-47s and IEDs, and pointed them in the direction of a building full of atheists, gays and abortionists, you'd see something very similar to the actions of a Muslim extremist.

Don't all ISPs oversell bandwidth to a spectacular degree?

That's pretty much what I did, Mark. In my case, the original reason to build the separate network wasn't to use jumbo frames, it was because I didn't want to buy a 16-port gigabit switch.

The easiest thing, I found, was just to set up a second network.

I had no idea there was anything like a time limit on how long water and soap are allowed to be in contact with my clothes.

Actually, 34 minutes is what the timer on the washing machine says. I do not have any control over that, substantial or not.

Salon.com's article on the subject.

Hey! There was very little porn on it! Only a couple dozen megabytes. And they were just pictures my ex took at some nude beach she went to...

As I said in "Something Random", I'd consider Jesus Camp a horror movie. The little kid who was talking about growing up to become an evangelical minister needs to be taken away from his parents and placed in protective custody.

My objection to it comes in several forms: 1. Even if you install HL2 from CD/DVD, they still make you do a long validation before the game will install. 2. You have to continuously re-validate the game in order to play it. Even if you're not playing online. You also have to run Steam -...

Steam is not worth it. Period.

It's a fashion choice that's actually become progressively more "extreme" since at least the middle 1970s. It is *not* a new development, and anyone with a stack of Playboys can see how it progressed. FWIW, Ancient Egyptians plucked all their pubes out for hygienic reasons; the pendulum of...

OK. I read the article. I have to say I don't buy into the author's conclusions, nor do I believe that she has any kind of sympathy at all for the men she's writing about. She certainly didn't make any attempt to give those guys who are viewing porn a voice in her piece.

I thought I'd mention that Newegg has Westinghouse 42" 720p sets fro $850 plus shipping. Which strikes me as a really good deal.

I washed my Transcend 8GB drive a couple days ago. 34 minutes in a commercial washing machine on the "warm" water setting. I let it dry out for a day. And it's fine. The 1GB Kingston drive that was in the same pair of pants? Not so lucky.

Looks like you're stuck with some weirdo RAID crap, but that's still a cheap way to support a hefty amount of storage.

I've had very good vegan food a time or two, but I really do wonder what is wrong with a person who doesn't partake of a good rare steak every now and then.

I don't think so. I'm talking about little things that are the size and shape of a home router. They have little ARM or MIPS processors in them, 32 or 64MB RAM and just enough smarts to talk to an X, RDP or Citrix server.

Dude, lay off the meth when you're posting. I managed to finish Finnegan's Wake but I have a really hard time following your posts, Uda. I have not yet commented on this topic because I haven't read the article yet.

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The monkeys are awesome. That is all. Also, there is wooting-off today.

Not news: Vista a teensy-tiny bit more secure than XP.

I've heard of Comcast pressing criminal charges on people doing that to rented modems, too. :(

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I'm under the impression that Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me was/is heavily biased, just from his initial disclosure that his girlfriend is a vegan chef.

Went to the video store just now. I got to hear some dumbass complaining about the fact that he showed Jesus is Magic (note those plot keywords) to his saved, christian family. I stood there and tried not to laugh. Mr. Evangelical told the 18-year-old behind the counter he was going to hell...

And "Control Room", which you can watch for free on Google Video. And "Jesus Camp", which you can find through alluc.org.

That's a REALLY good board. I still have a couple of them and I certainly built quite a few systems with that board as well. For what it's worth, I *have not* found them to be unstable, and that makes me think there might be something else going on with your config. Basically, there aren't many...

Congratulations Buck! 8.5 miles of what?

Foxconn makes several cases that I can get for between $22 and $31 if I feel like driving into Chicago to get them. Here's a Newegg link. I think Newegg's cost a little more because they use a little nicer PSU; they often come with Fotron (Sparkle) power supplies. Foxconn cases are very well...

Older winterms go for south of NOTHING on Ebay. You can get one for $25 with the power adapter if you look. If you've got a nice Windows or Linux server you can have a zero noise, zero heat internet rig for little more than the cost of a display.

Actually it does have a rear fan. I'd be comfortable with it.

I've seen that 805 for $50 in the retail package this week. Newegg might not have it, but they're around.

Since we've established that you don't like laptops, does that mean you're setting up Wyse or Compaq Windows terminals all over your apartment?

They are hot. They are slower per clock than an A64. There are still two of them.

The really neat combo that I'm looking at is the Pentium D 805 (2x2.66MHz). They're super-cheap and live on a modern platform. You can use them with the currently-available $30 1GBB DDR2 modules.

Walmart has stocked Linux machines in the past. Particularly, they had a long partnership with some vendor that used Linspire and if I reach back a bit more I remember seeing Corel Linux and Storm Linux machines from Walmart as well.

I found the soundtrack to "The Incredibles" at a used CD store today. I'm really digging on the jazz-classical James Bond-action-movie scoring. Perfect for City of Heroes and it really wants me to break out No One Lives Forever, too.

I mostly do SoftRAID, actually. Do you know how hard it is to peg even one modern CPU on a File/Email/Proxy server? Might as well use some of that processing power to handle parity calculations or whatever.