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Today's woot is a $1050 42" 1080p Westinghouse HDTV. Even as a refurb with a crappy warranty, that is making me regret the fact that I have a very large 720p DLP set.

I suppose that I should clarify that I was referring to dd's screen situation with regard to gaming. He does not seem the type to need a CAD app or IDE open all the time.

P5, that is a perfectly reasonable thing to post. I really don't know how to value the x2/4800s I have. They are still ridiculously fast CPUs, and they're scarce, which means they should be worth more than the AM2 ones... and when I bought them they were not cheap either.

So, really, what are you getting out of 2500x1600 or whatever the hell resolution those 30" monitors support, that you aren't getting out of 1920x1200? Other than a warmer video card?

I have a couple x2/4800s sitting around. They're used, but they're in "spare" machines sitting in my office. Those PCs could just as easily have 3200s or 3000s or Semprons or whatever in them. The reason 939s went for fire sale prices last summer was to clear them out of inventory. Now they're...

re: Vista Slow Copies 4GB of files from a 100Mbit switched network to a USB2 hard disk: 3 hours and five minutes, actual time. Vista claimed it would be at most 40 minutes, and even that is unreasonable.

I was pretty "meh" about Children of Men as well. Several people told me it was as good as Blade Runner. Those people need to have their taste recalibrated. The score was the best part of the movie, but it wasn't a particularly deep film. I guess the big deal of the whole thing was the very...

If it's running at all, you can do the standard repair install. Only this time, use a proper key. :)

Or a projector. And as far as I can tell, resolution above a certain point does more harm than good.

Speaking from a purely price/performance ratio, at the moment you're still better off with Intel. The E6400 is ~98% of the speed (it's in a statistical dead heat with the E6600, performance-wise) and 70% of the price. Or thereabouts.

That x2/6000 would be very appealing if I couldn't get an E4300 to do 3.3GHz for about half the price. Methinks there will be yet more cuts.

Children of Men has TWO soundtracks. There's a sucky one (labeled "Soundtrack") with a bunch of no-talent loser morons like John Lennon who are famous for causing crap out to spew from speakers. I saw that one in the store and had murderous involving record producers and a garlic press...

The Video in question. Just to keep you from having to paste the name into a google search.

:D x2/6000 is now a $241 chip? x2/3800 for $83?. I guess it can be said that AMD is hurting.

It wouldn't delete the drivers, but it wouldn't help much, either. You could use a program like Driver Collector to snag the files you need from a working Windows install. If that works. And it often doesn't. You really just need to know the generic names of your video, Wireless, modem, NIC...

Amusing and not very work safe, if discussions about how to teach the mentally challenged how to have sex are even slightly off the menu at your place of business. I figure ddrueding will like it.

Well, no room in the freezer (apartment size, about 2/3rds the size I used to have) and the women's shelter already has a hook up on bread and milk Also, that thing in udaman's post scares the hell out of me.

Well, 80 hot dog BUNS. I don't think I want or need to eat 80 hot dogs. But I don't exactly know what else I am going to do with them. I am open to suggestions. I bought some extra fancy things to try: Apple-chicken sausages filled with gouda cheese and the like.

I have a very large number of hot dog buns sitting in my office. Where they came from is shrouded in mystery, but there are a lot of them. And they aren't cheapie store-brand hot dog buns - they're an upscale brand. And I have eight loaves of them. I know that I cannot possibly eat 80 hot dogs...

I'm thinking that a $1700 Sharp 37" 1080p LCD would really be a better deal. The 30" computer displays use a native resolution that is really not all that comfortable and do not work well with non-computer devices.

I think you should call the cable company about your cable problem, actually. You're probably renting your boxes from them anyway.

I am thinking more generally about the fact that there are a lot of truly video low-end cards that are sitting on the highest of high-bandwidth interfaces on a given PC. Why make a card hog a bunch of PCIe lanes it can't even begin to use?

Where are the 1x PCIe video cards? Does a Radeon x1050 really NEED an extra 15 PCIe lanes to operate? Does a Geforce 7100? Are there secret things we can do with all the 1x PCIe slots on our motherboards besides put USB faceplates in front of them?

If you right click the desktop, there's a view option where you can choose classic (smaller) icons.

Personalize Windows Adjust Font Size Custom DPI will not take a value smaller than 100%

The Windows cursor bug hits a compromised Asus web site. And there are some WoW exploits for the cursor bug. Also, there's a nasty Windows cursor bug that took an exceptionally long time to get fixed.

I believe this comic addresses the problem that many of us have.

I think your memory is playing tricks on you if you ever thought the Rocky Horror Picture Show was EVER a "B" movie. It's more of a C-, I think.

Have you tried doing a jump to the left and then a step to the right?

Try reversing the polarity of your dilithium crystals.

That's not true! I like boobs of all shapes and sizes! :D

Oh. I see now. You're trying to share a printer that's connected to your network in another way. You're just doing it wrong. You need to go to printers, add a printer, local printer (do not detect), new port, TCP/IP port (note: give the printer a fixed address!), type in its IP address, then...

The woot monkeys are awesome. I do not know how you can complain about getting a woot monkey. I am so buying more of 'em. I need one to send to Ballarat, for one thing.

The way fonts work, in general, is when you don't have the font specified, the system uses a close substitute. I would GUESS that Windows would operate on some minimal number of fonts, since I have worked on PCs where the font folder has become corrupted. I have also observed Office 2000 being...

2003 Web Edition works just fine as a print server, Greg. Sounds like someone has been playing with Security Templates or Group Policy or maybe has File and Printer Sharing blocked by a Firewall program. You aren't using Norton Internet Security or something, are you?

It's usually easier to find someone else's BartPE than to build your own. I've tried demonstrating the process in classes a couple times and frankly the whole process is more than a little buggy.

I've gone out of my way to buy the WRT54GL routers rather than the current WRT54Gs. The extra $10 gives a router with 8MB RAM rather than two, and a router running Linux rather than whatever the proprietary OS on the 2MB model. The current-model GLs seem to be living longer than the Gs. In my...

IE supports saving the entire contents of a web page into some weird IE-only format that I presume you could deal with later. You could also paste stuff into a .RTF. You'f lose some formatting, though.

A power supply tester costs all of $15. They don't detect everything that could be wrong with one, though. And at least Seasonic only charges you if the PSU is bad. Try sending an RMA to Abit or Epox sometime. Those guys want you to foot the bill for shipping, both ways.

I have a confession to make. I have a great deal of empathy for those Trenchcoat-mafia types. A lot of them are acting out against the same system a lot of lonely, geeky, socially maladjusted kids run up against. They're the butt of jokes. They're the ones who are teased and humiliated every...

USB devices?

Some farmers certainly are very well read. Depending on where they live they might spend five months basically "on vacation", which gives them a lot of time to pursue whatever interests they have. But generally, yeah, people in rural areas don't exactly have a broad and expansive range of...

No, but a quick google shows a site that also cites the study Sol mentioned. The article more or less agrees with my thesis about the correlation between religious belief vs. intelligence and education. It's a fun read.

Also, YARRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr!

Part of my job is to prepare manuals for my students. I know exactly how much work it takes to create something. I'm also a decent-enough musician. However, as a creator of intellectual property, I am most pleased that someone finds my work useful or pleasing and that my work is appreciated...

OK. But as a general rule, I'm thinking that high rate of fire is not something that every citizen of the USA has any legitimate reason to have. If you're hunting, there aren't many circumstances *I* know of where you're going to get off more than one shot against whatever varmint got you in...

Some behavior is taught, certainly. But teamwork is a very different thing from basic social behavior. Societies don't form where members are constantly in danger of killing one another, yet human beings do form societies even in the most isolated places on earth. On some fundamental level, we...

Oddly enough, religious faith among seminarians is somewhat lower than in their congregant population as a whole, for many of the same reasons that other educated people lose their religious faith. A fundamental part of most higher education is learning logic and the ability to think...

There's a major difference between not paying for a physical object - you are depriving someone of that object - and a collection of bits, in which case both you and the person who made those bits still have a complete set of ones and zeros. Furthermore, given the restrictions on the purchase...

Not too terribly long ago I had a student who, despite an quasi-ivy league education (education tends to cure religion, and he went to Northwestern), professed to evangelical christianity and vigorously attempted to convert me. My student could absolutely not understand what factors could even...