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OK. It drove me nuts but I did figure it out. When I install WMP11 and run sysprep, my optical drive is detected as a generic "CD-ROM drive." The drive still works as a DVD drive and as a burner, but Windows itself won't let me burn until I uninstall the device, redetect it and then disable and...

The nForce boards I have seen have an option buried someplace in the BIOS to turn off the hardware firewall. I haven't seen an nForce board yet that had it on by default. Of course, all I've used are Gigabyte and a small number of MSI or Biostar boards, so maybe there is different stuff out there.

I think that you'll find the real-life difference between memory timings is one of those things that more or less only makes a difference in synthetic benchmarks; the real-world advantage of a 4GB configuration for someone who needs a 4GB configuration (ie, already using more than 2GB RAM) more...

It looks to me like there's an exhaust port on the side of the case, rather than the front. The name of the case is "Silentium" so maybe they are doing something really interesting with that design. I wish there were photographs, rather than the diagrams. Hey, speaking of interesting cases...

C I'd be really happy to take that CPU off your hands, but I don't particularly want or need the other stuff.

I am just getting back to this. Looking at the differences between PCs that have working CD burning and PCs that don't, it looks like the common factor is actually Media Player 11 vs. v9. Has WMP11 messed up CD burning on anyone else's PC?

Put it on a win98 machine, then. :)

That is a nice looking case. Have you actually built one yet?

You might want to look into Costco's return policy. I know they made it a lot less unconditional on January 1st of this year.

Upgrade to Linux or install a Windows Server product? AFAIK, XP Pro is hard-limited to 10 connections. There probably is some Registry Ninja-ing you can do, but my guess is that if you manage to get it to take more connections, you're probably also changing a bunch of things that make XP a...

No, but there are a few that will play WMV, divx AVI or Nero Digital MP4 files that are burned to a DVD.

Women are scary. All of them. This is really funny. And also sad. But mostly funny.

Found this tool via Lifehacker today. It's a quasi-virtual machine for running applications you don't entirely trust.

If you ever find someone who can fabricate external enclosures, send him to me when you're done. I'd love to work out a perfect computer chassis.

I've definitely had a problem with that in the past, and on commodity hardware. I don't remember whose. Just that it wasn't Linksys.

The site was inaccessible during what most of us here call "the day", yesterday. I'm kind of curious for Coug to respond as well.

I didn't try to help Will because I'm not an Opera user. time and Tannin are the only other Opera users here. Opera tries my patience to exactly the same degree that Firefox tries yours, perhaps moreso. I'll take my endlessly extensible and configurable browser any day.

City of Heroes is having another free trial offer. Now we have loot! Kinda. Moreso than we used to, anyway. I liked it better without.

A google group is just a newsgroup. Pretty sure about that one. I visit a couple forums on proboards.com. They use phpBB and other than having god-awful custom graphics they seem to work OK.

Hamachi is super slow. Azureus has a private tracker built in, but then you have to use Azureus.

I finally found a use for Opera. I actually need six different newegg shopping carts at the moment on the same PC. Firefox, IE, K-meleon, Flock, and IE and Firefox in a virtual machine were not enough.

ddrueding: It is very difficulty in my experience to get a good build on those Shuttle SFFs. They use Shuttle motherboards for one thing, which are a little bit too budget-y for my taste, and they seem to overheat pretty readily. Shoulda gone with teh Aria/NSK1400. Or for that matter an...

Check anyway, willya? Some routers assign either a different subnet or a different IP range to wireless vs. wired clients and that would in fact mess up SMB networking.

Check what's on what subnet.

Bed Bath and Beyond non-woot Monkeys do not have the cachet, the gravitas of the woot-variety.

They are good for 24 hours. They change at midnight central time and when they sell out, they sell out.

Westinghouse HD sets are supposed to be a bargain at the moment, quality and budget-wise.

They'll take PATA drives of any size, provided you're installing a OS that supports large drives (e.g. XP SP2 or Linux, but not original Windows XP).

Consumer Reports has a very, very long history of doing very poor reviews. They pride themselves on their "objective" review methodology, even when their reviews do not include any meaningful basis for comparison or are based on faulty premises. I think, sir, that you might want to investigate...

Also managed AV software and for that matter client management tools like SMS and Tivoli.

... most security software.

HR department? Seven employees. Six women. Five of them are on the pictures list plus a bunch of my boss's friends and various other womenfolk. No HR.

The women in my office have once again added me to their "Pictures of Hot Dudes" mailing list. I know they E-mail each other pictures of chippendale dancers or whatever and frankly I don't care as long as I don't have to see them, but on Friday my E-mail address got added to the list somehow...

I've had three-hour one way commutes to work at times. Holidays and other traffic-heavy days combined with those sorts of long commutes can easily stretch a 90 minute drive into a 10-hour nightmare. One of the reasons I very much like my low-paying trainer job is that I don't have to deal with...

Opticarcs have an NEC badge on them.

I am four for four on LiteOn SATA optical drives. As in, I have four that need to be RMA'd. They were ordered at different times, so it's not like I got one bad batch of drives, but I haven't had one live longer than six weeks. Not only that, but the damned things are LOUD. Anyone had better...

"If you can't find a girlfriend at college and at your age, you'll NEVER be able to find one. " -- not a positive sign

Howell, that article seems to indicate that the nerdly INTP beyond college-age has zero chance of finding a girlfriend.

This is sooooo awesome: Wheel... of... Lunch!

A lot of disk tools seem to puke on disks formatted with Vista. I am not sure why. Going through TrueImage's "Add New Disk" wizard works though.

A lot of vomit boxes come with a 30 day trial of Office that has to be removed before a real version can be installed. Plus, if you ask me, Office is basically wasted bit anyway.

That's right, a general purpose crap-removing program. Huzzah!

Some numbers for various nations and the propensity to believe in a higher power. Check out those Scandinavians!

A lot of screens seem to use a 16:10 resolution and use an internal chip to scale it. Looks crappy. I understand there are also rules about how an image can be scaled over HDMI and I'm not sure those same rules apply to the analog connection.

ddrueding: Paint.NET. I don't know of any Adobe product that's worth the money. And that includes the free ones.

That's 'cause Windows is stupid. You can pretty much replace a motherboard with a Via northbridge with any other board with a Via Northbridge. You can also do Intel to Intel or SiS to Intel or Intel to SiS and have zero problems. nVidia stuff is obnoxiously inconsistent. So is ATI. And you...

Oddly enough, as much as I like to pirate stuff, I think I have a license for everything I use. I might be short on legal copies of Nero. That's about it.

Humor is less funny when you have to explain it. The picture is a map that describes various social-web destinations on the internet as nations, according to their relative size. There are some humorous but accurate geographic notations (e.g. "Noob Sea", suggesting that the reason that some of...

There's a 400GB SATA drive in my laptop bag most of the time. That's pretty casual.

Just as a watched pot never boils, so too does a watch Ebay auction never end.