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If it makes you feel any better, Bank of America would not let me look at information about my car loan on their web site since I didn't have a checking/savings account there. I got even by paying the car off 28 months early. Anyway, when do we get to see pictures of the new place?

Running is only for when things are chasing you. And hopefully, those things are the slow kind of living dead. Because if they are '28 Days Later'-Fast zombies, I will be zombie-chow. I can walk all day and not get tired. I will complain and be cranky, but I can certainly do it. I usually do...

People... who need people... are the luckiest people... <blam> OK. I'll stop now.

The Ninja is indeed very heavy and not entirely sufficient for cooling an overclocked C2D. I found that on my gaming rig (E4300 @ 3.7GHz) I couldn't keep temps low enough for my comfort with a Ninja and a low-speed fan. I dropped the OC to something more reasonable, and it's... OK, but...

I am not sure I understand the problem that's supposed to be addressed by this. I can't recall seeing an embedded video that would not play in Firefox in a very, very long time. Does anyone know where one could find something that would require one to use this new player? Of course, these days...

It's not like Intel hasn't developed a largely useless technology for marketing reasons before. E.g. Viiv, Hyperthreading, Centrino

Hilariously, I have found a drawback to the SilenX. It smells funny. When it's operating, it has a very strong "plastic" smell. I really hope that smell goes away soon. I would not mention it except that I can't recall experiencing that with any other computer-type fan I have ever purchased...

As I recall the issue with large DIMM support on 168-pin memory was usually called "Double-Sided Memory" support. A lot of the less expensive 256MB modules available in early/mid-2001 were double sided and therefore only worked with some AMD systems. KT133As certainly worked; my first PC with...

His was literally a freebie. I have a number of XP1700s but I no longer have HSFs for them. I'm sure I can find one for you. I no longer have any spare, functional motherboards. I just have a few CPUs I upgraded for myself and never got around to selling. There's not THAT much difference...

Bought everything from FrozenCPU.com.

The "winner" in my fan contest for CPU cooling is the SilenX. The Noctua has a low-pitched noise I can hear even with the case on. The Scythe 800rpm fan is inaudible (as is the SilenX) with my case closed but it does not move as much air. None of the three is unpleasant to hear. They're all very...

Office 97 inflicted Outlook on the world and therefore is much worse than Office 95. The way I figure it, 90% of the people who have any version of MS Office installed on their PC could get away with using Wordpad, a tabulating calculator and a decent webmail app without any loss in...

Also, Google Documents and Spreadsheets can open Word, Excel and in the near future Powerpoint files. Google Calendar is a calendar app. Gliffy lets you make diagrams online, much like Visio. You don't particularly need an Office suite installed these days.

I generally like Wordperfect better than other word processors. I need to make a spreadsheet about once a year. I firmly believe that presentation software causes a drop in IQ. I still deal with E-mail using a text-only client that doesn't understand MIME about half the time. And if I have to...

I've had four people ask me to fix their blackberry today. And I am including a panic-call that I got at 2:30AM in that. It's NATIONAL NEWS that Blackberry's network is screwed up today but apparently there are people who think that 1. I know something about blackberrys to begin with and 2. I...

That kind of crap only works when you live someplace where jobs are incredibly plentiful. When I was a full-time contractor I only managed to be employed an average of MAYBE seven months out of a year.

The humor works on many levels. :)

Normally silent computing isn't a high priority on my part. I'm happy that most of the systems I build nowadays are pretty quiet, but I'm not all fetishy about it. I'm dimly aware of SPCR but I've only been there a time or two.

Those terms seem pretty reasonable to me. I theoretically get 10 vacation days and 3 sick days a year. If I don't use them I don't get paid for them. That's it. Period.

I ordered one each of the SilenX, Noctua and Scythe fans. We shall see which one is least noisy.

I think it's supposed to be "Keep away from evil day-star", actually. Paugie, don't tell us you are getting a picture taken unless you are showing us the picture.

Just stumbled on to this shirt at Newegg. The reviews for it are pretty funny.

The CPU fan I'm looking to replace right now is a 120mm Silverstone variable speed model. It purports to have, at its lowest speed, a 22dB acoustic rating. It is by far the loudest thing in my bedroom, and even though the computer I'm trying to use it with is under my bed and therefore...

PCChips is so crappy that it is staggering how crappy it is. However, the board from Newegg is *new* and the Gigabyte one is used and at this point is probably a couple years old besides. That's a tough call.

Anyone have a recommendation for a good, *quiet* 120mm fan? I'd like to replace a couple case fans and also get something better than the fan component for a "silent yet somehow very, very loud" heat sink setup I have.

That's pretty typical of how that particular board fails. I believe it's technically still under warranty if you want to try to RMA it. Newegg's option. Socket A stuff is getting hard to come by.

Handy, I'm not seeing anything that makes me want to experience those things. I can look and I can say that those cliffs are pretty. I don't feel anything beyond that. I don't have any desire for additional sensation. They could be CG or they could be a painting or they could be real. Whichever...

I have never really found much value in those sorts of experiences. I can read or look at pictures just as well. Being someplace "special" has never conveyed any additional sense of majesty or wonder to me, and I can enjoy a tree or a rock or a sunset as well from a window or a JPEG as I can...

Yesterday I went and did some work for a wealthy man I know. His current SO is apparently someone I apparently should have known from several years of high school choir classes - a very pretty woman a year younger than me, someone who, a few years before, had been a model. Someone who should've...

I do not have an SO nor any hope of getting one. When I take vacation time from my day job it is only so I can go work more for myself. I usually take my vacation time around Xmas because we don't schedule classes during that time anyway and it is a good time to talk to my personal clients...

There's nothing I do for myself that can't be put off or rescheduled. I take satisfaction in work and in the demand others have for my skills and I have structured my life to accommodate that.

You could've saved a lot of typing with a single sentence. "I am a masochist."

What makes running with a bunch of people with someone else running a stopwatch more valuable or important than doing it yourself on your own time? There are certainly things that would cause me to say no to a paycheck, but at the very least, all of them would require a commitment to another...

Exercise is punishment for having done something wrong.

Mr. Ventura is a very wise man.

No idea on the TV, but AllUC.org is a HELL of a replacement for basic cable.

Calendars and address books are crutches for the weak.

I'd do the job, no question. You can time yourself running any time you want. You do the job and you're a stand-up guy for a whole bunch of other people.

I am trying the current beta of Tbird 2.0 and I literally see nothing different nor any improvement from the previous version. Even the memory usage is pretty much identical. But hey, I found this neat article about using Tbird to view and update a google calendar. For you strange people who...

Comcast, at least, has gone about implementing digital cable in complete the worst way possible. The carrot they use is more channel choices. They also claim better picture quality. The picture quality might be better under some conditions, but not when they keep adding lots of pointless...

Honestly, the HTPC thing is a lot nicer if you dedicate a PC to it. A "cast-off" 2GHz machine with a bt878 capture card, soundblaster or Via Envy and a largish hard drive can make a pretty spiffy MythTV machine (LinuxMCE looks REALLY nice and is supposed to be trivial to set up, though I have...

Between that and this morning's exchange about eating dogs, I think I need the brain-bleach.

The tests you're talking about probably indicate games that are being limited by something other than the graphics cards, and were conducted a very low resolution. An x850 is a pretty pokey card by modern standards.

You really want to use a digital audio output to a home theater receiver. Just like Pradeep said. Very simple.

I am in no way smug that the New York Times says renting is a good idea right now.

I'd say you'll be fine, if you can stand Intel's cruel joke of a stock fan.

When I wanted HBO in HD, Comcast made me sign up for literally everything else they had. Even a bunch of sports crap that no human should ever want to watch let alone pay for. My cable bill right before I completely dropped TV service was $165 a month.

It's true for all Comcast customers. I wasn't aware that there were any other options in Chicago itself. Comcast is turning off everything but local channels on standard cable and giving all its customers a "free" digital cable box in Chicago. The change is supposed to happen in mid-July...

In Chicago, by the end of this summer, there will be no non-digital cable. You will have a box or you will have no cable.

The Westinghouse units are pretty widely recognized as a bargain for the money. I've never personally seen one, but they're certainly nothing to complain about. Not having a tuner is not an issue unless you actually want to hook up an antenna. The vast majority of the time you're going to have...