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The other people in my office - MOS Master certified instructors - make gagging noises and stare longingly at the veins in their wrists as they are working on Office 2007. Shockingly, I already know of two largish (100+ employee) companies which have deployed it. I don't know what the big deal...

No, I've done a little research. It's just that only certain audio chipsets properly support digital I/O under Vista. Nothing that uses the generic AC97 audio driver in Vista supports digital I/O. Nor any Audigy product. SB Live! does. C-Media codecs don't, apparently. So it's just spotty...

A clean, new install on a C2D is pretty reasonable. Less time than XP takes, I think. Sadly, that's probably the last time Vista is faster than XP at anything. Anyway, the guy who called me this morning has hardware that isn't fully supported with Vista; he's using fancy speakers with digital...

Some Vista versions are not licensed for use on a Virtual Machine at all. I don't know how the OS could tell, but I don't think any Home Version or Business basic are allowed as guests in VMware or Parallels or MSVPC. When I look at my MSDN key list, I have listings for Home edition and...

Yes, I just got my first "Vista Upgrade fucked up my computer!!!" call. 8 hours, 43 minutes after the public launch.

I can't ever recall an Inwin case that I would call quiet. The good news is, it'll be sturdy. Maybe Coug will need a hammer to properly express himself when a steel-toe boot doesn't cut it. ;)

Yeah, I'd have to go where women are, then. I don't know where that is.

Bill + John Stewart. From, like a couple hours ago.

In my experience ICS usually works well enough for what it's for; the biggest problem I've had with it is a small ICS network where someone mistakenly adds a wireless router which they just want to use as an AP (easily solved by making the router the primary gateway but a source of trouble...

I looked at doing that but the pixel pitch on a TV is rather too high for my liking.

See previous post, but for today.

It's only my choice to look for myself. I can't make anyone else look back at me. FWIW, I'd rather have something that is more emotionally meaningful than a cash transaction in the relationship department. Call me old fashioned but I'd rather have nothing at all than something which is...

I see your Windows 386 and raise you Introducing Windows 95 with the cast of Friends. Which I still have on VHS...

I've had a profile for well over two YEARS with no actual responses. I had the only straight, young female I know edit it (and I must say, her fiance is one lucky motherfucker). The full set of lesbians (being female and therefore somewhat helpful, and some of them used to be straight, so...)...

Did you have much trouble finding proper RAM settings?

Probably because the smaller guys are commodity items while the bigger PC displays still have the cachet - and profit margin - of "high end" items. I'm sure there's no end of folks who are ditching their 21" CRTs and picking the only LCDs that's measurably bigger than what they had, which is a...

I can "borrow" 802.11G to cable internet connections from SIX of my neighbors from anyplace in my apartment. Some day I plan to build a machine to aggregate all of those into one conduit for my personal torrenting needs. ;) MAC filtering is trivial, TRIVIAL to walk around, particularly on a...

Pure cuteness.

I know of no such thing.

Linux+ is a joke for anyone who has any real experience with Linux. Also, all the Linux certs I've looked into a deeply focused on command line and config file level subject matter, which might not be the best thing to learn for someone who is used to Windows. A+ is a joke for a tech or...

The good news is, personals sites are obviously doing something for you, even if you don't see it that way. You've gotten dates and contact with other human beings that way. It certainly does not work that way for everyone. At this point, I'd gladly pay several hundred dollars just to have the...

I'm still struggling with that choice myself. I just rebuilt my Media Center PC, but I have yet to load an OS on it. I *need* to spend time with Vista, but I can't stand the thought of putting it on a PC I'll actually use.

I've purchased four of the Dell 2405s. I have one myself and I've bought others customers. One thing I will note about them: All of them have had at least one stuck pixel. After sitting at the Dell, it's very hard to go back to lower brightness and contrast of the 17 - 20" LCDs I have.

I use a $15 Vantec USB2 to SATA/IDE adaptor. No case, it's just a pair of cables. Very useful. Actual eSATA is certainly faster, but unfortunately not as portable as I would like.

I'd say you're welcome, but you haven't paid me yet. So technically you have a nice, free 512MB DIMM from Merc.

Most thumb drives are formatted as FAT32 and will therefore support file sizes of either 2GB or 4GB depending on the application and OS in question. You normally would not have problems with sub-1GB files unless there is some kind of external issue. Were I to guess, I'd say you've got some bad...

The box could also be infested with wallabies. I hear they get into everything. Could also be dingos. Hard to go anywhere in Oz without stepping on a dirty baby-stealing dingo.

Does anyone know of a good, cheap overclocking board for a Core 2 Duo? All I buy are Gigabyte and Intel, and neither of those really let me play. In my experience, every E6300 and E4300 I've tried seem to be able to do 50% overclocking without issue, even more reliably than the old Celeron...

MS VPC is also substantially slower and plagued with compatibility issues when dealing with non-Microsoft OSes. Many people, me included, have had difficulty installing Linux under VPC. In comparison, I've seen .VMDKs for OSX/Intel a couple times. Plus, there are TWO free VMware products...

These guys say they have products to support up to 8 LCDs.

Anyone else a Netflix subscriber? Login. Go to the Your Account page. In the middle-right part of the screen, there will be a link that says "How can I watch movies instantly on my PC." This will add a tab to the top toolbar on the page that says "watch movies", which will in turn open a page...

Why this is available at Newegg, I do not know. Seriously. Misunderstand your target audience much? Also 14.5 lbs and a battery that probably lasts about 14.5 nanoseconds: the 20" SLI-capable laptop.

Oh yeah... Remember how nVidia used to have a really nice unified driver? That was the thing the pro-nVidia camp used to point to whenever they started their rambling and incoherent bitching about ATI. 8800s need a non-standard driver which is NOT the same one as the driver used by discrete...

The Inq has something to say about current SSDs. It is not a happy thing.

Stay home. Send women.

Yeah. I usually leave VMs at 1024x786 in a Window so I can switch easily, but you hit CTRL-ALT to return input focus to the host in a full screen session. Alo make sure you install VMWare tools.

Turns out my issue with the 8800s was the power supplies. A 700W Seasonic has both cards running fine in SLI. Maybe the umpty-billion 12V rails help a bit. The cards I use are evidently picky about these things. Also, I think I hate modular PSUs. Stuff sticks out more. And it is quiet, even...

If you've already made your VM, you can switch to the even free-er VMWare Player... Unless you actually use the detachable consoles, it's perfectly fine. Also, I'm not aware of the Server key expiring, and I keep using the same one over and over.

VMWare really is easy, Tannin. Just try it already. If you have a dual core something or other, you REALLY won't even notice it's running.

I'm not immediately up on when the next 2k3 Service Pack is due, but Longhorn Server is Vista with some of the stupider userland crap removed and the usual server crap added. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing as Blackcomb.

It only took three or four years, but everyone whose computer I support has finally switched off of IE. Everyone whose computer I don't support should do that also. Start the change now so it will be less painful later.

I installed IE7 because I was too lazy to except it from the Critical Updates on my machines. I don't use it. I don't care about it. I don't open it. VMs are really very simple to deal with. You install VMware server, make a VM by assigning some RAM (512MB if you have 1GB) and some disk space...

The connection in general or connection to shared drives? I've found on VERY fast PCs that connections to shared drives (Windows Networking) can take 30 - 45 seconds to start after the PC is at a clean desktop, which I guess is the result of some optimization of the Windows XP boot process.

And by that you mean "With Firefox", right?

N equipment is supposed to have the best range and throughput, and Apple's Airport products are supposed to be pretty good for N. Basically if you do N, make sure everything you use has an Atheros chipset (as Airports do). Their tech is reportedly far and away the best.

What happens if you turn off whatever Firewall is on the laptop? Does it have McAffee or Norton or something similarly useless on it? Has it ever been cleaned of Spyware? Have you tried reinstalling TCP/IP? Sometimes that fixes weirdness. At a command prompt, type: netsh int ip reset log.txt...

I absolutely do not believe that. I'm prepared to believe that sugar gives a person "more energy", or caffeine, but physical activity has *never* given me any great urge to go do anything else when I am done. 3. May seem like a non-sequitor, but to me it is not. I don't think I've done anything...

Based on the last four years, yes.

Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit

Lots of rocks in Big Sur, I guess. Pradeep, the thing with your neighbors sounds awful.