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Nero 8 was released a couple weeks ago. I can't for the life of me figure out why it has a new version number.

The overwhelming majority of the time, it makes no difference. All the onboard graphics options are actually decent for everyday sorts of things, including playing Bejeweled and Text Twist. The main question is, are those simple flash/java games going to outstrip current offerings for onboard...

I have a customer who likes Yahoo and Realarcade sorts of games. She wants a new PC, and she is completely OK with spending money if I think it's a good idea. My recent experiences with older women who play computer games has been mixed - two of them started playing Nancy Drew games that...

Also, in the spirit of Halloween, Things to Do if I Ever Become a Vampire. I like the parts about concubines.

It is October and my little part of the world just had four successive days of 90 degree temperatures. Stupid weather.

AVG (not-free) is still not a bad choice, if lightweight is part of your requirement. I know of businesses that use it, and it really doesn't have the impact that Symantec or Kapersky have on a computer. NOD32 is probably the best choice, though, given the cost (same as AVG) and overall effect...

Dumbass.

Why bother with the high performance video under Solaris? And why not a Linux/BSD machine, or for that matter OSX?

Seems like overkill to me, particularly since the Linux-in-flash won't be able to save to external storage or install firefox addons. It's a neat trick, and perhaps with some tweaking - say, a full-featured Puppy Linux install along with maybe some techie tools for fixing a Windows install -...

I've had issues with Gigabyte Intel-based boards and certain types of RAM. I've not tried one with an nVidia chipset, but I know that 965-based models don't seem to like PNY, G.Skill or Geil DIMMs that newegg.com carries - and by "not like" I mean "not boot". Oddly enough, Gigabyte AMD-based...

I have two Seasonics that are not working right, though they haven't completely failed. Has anyone used their warranty service? And has anyone actually purchased a Corsair PSU?

Adaware launched a 2007 version back in May. Spybot just upgraded to version 1.5 and introduced a simplified update process. Both programs offer full time IE/Registry monitoring, which is as painful and annoying as ever, but both seem to fulfill some demand Vista has for active malware...

I know what I got and from when. I had to ship a bunch of my video files off to tape about a year ago, but I still have about 250GB of image files, and I'm sure I can pick out the ones I got back in 1994 from the others. One of the first useful computer programs I wrote was to batch resize the...

Packard Bell SX/25? Probably had 120 or 210MB drive in it. I worked on lot of those. First PC in my house was a Honeywell XT clone. We had a hard drive for it and dual 360k floppies. It came with 256k RAM that was upgraded to 640k the day we got it. It came with Xenix, and I didn't get a DOS...

I like multiple layers of redundancy a bit too much to do large single arrays.

When I was 17 years old, I bought a 1.768GB Micropolis SCSI drive for about $800. It was a half-height drive, and I bought it because it represented a limitless volume of space (common IDE drives at the time were 120MB - 350MB) and the cheapest megabyte/dollar ratio I could find. It was filled...

If it makes you feel any better, my biggest hard drives are only 500GB. Granted, I have about 20 of them, but still...

I was talking to ddrueding actually...

Have you been paying attention to what can be done with C2Ds at all? The $100 1.8GHz E4300 can be readily taken to 3.2GHz. Hell, I got one to run at 3.8GHz for about a day and a half. Bozo what kind of RAM are you using?

I have had to RMA a BFG 768MB 8800GTX twice (my ex gave it to me...). The cooling solution on those cards is woefully inadequate in my opinion, even in non-overclocked and well-ventilated systems. I have one in my gaming system and I'm utterly afraid to use that PC to play games now. Also I...

I've had an uptick in how much teaching I've been having to do. Less time at desk. Random thing: I went to eat at the Chicken Wings place down the road from my apartment on Saturday, and there was a guy there who had a bear in a cage being towed behind his truck. He wasn't quite a cub, but he...

One of the Server 2003 computers should take up the role. Do these machines have firewall exceptions for File and Printer Sharing?

Try using the omega drivers.

Thanks for even looking, guys. I did finally find one.

I post from where I am. If I'm at a client site, I usually VPN home and go out through that, just to keep my habits private, but the way I see it, I'm absolutely justified in participating in technical forums of any type at all. It's part of the learning process, and that knowledge is what makes...

The "stealth update" breaks the ability to install old Windows Updates after a repair install of Windows. In case you were wondering why your updates are failing.

My brother bought a $400 Acer 1680 a few months back. Apparently, this morning he cracked its display against the arm of a chair. The display broke - there's a three to four pixel-wide diagonal line from the upper left to the lower lower right. This is not covered by warranty. Acer wants $600...

The 8800-series cards have a really quiet cooling solution. It's woefully inadequate to keeping the card cool under load, but it's very quiet.

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/home

Does anyone have a socket 939 HSF sitting around? Preferably an AMD retail one? I just bought a pair of Masscool fans that were advertised as working with 939, that don't.

uda's posts are always good for a headache.

I think there's enough big business interests on the Democrat side (primarily from unions of supporting industries) that even the party with a shred of rational thought won't go for something like Kyoto unless someone finds a way to monetize the shit out of carbon trading *and* major industries...

Also: That 22 month old Gateway died, but I also have four perfectly functional IBM notebooks (the oldest one is *eight*, newest about nine months old) and two Dell Latitudes (the newest ones is four years old, a D505, I think). I would just like to say that this says a lot about the difference...

More necro-posting! My Gateway MX7515 died today. Specifically, the Radeon X600 crapped out, and it does funky things whenever it's in any kind of graphics mode other than 80x24 text. I thought I might be able to replace RAM and get it back to working order, but no, it has discrete memory...

That device looks and has capabilities that are awfully similar to my phone, including the touchscreen and microSD support. My phone retails for $500. Makes me wonder how much of my phone's price is in the Windows mobile license; 64MB RAM, the radio transceivers and the CPU certainly don't add...

Can anyone get to demonoid.com right now?

SLI is single monitor only. You'll need an additional video card. A PCI video card will in fact work just fine for any normal-ish sized monitor.

As a contractor I was once sent to a law office where employees were told to raise their hands and ask a superior to visit the restroom. I stayed exactly as long as it took for someone to explain that to me. There is a medical practice where I have worked in the past, where employees are...

Nope. You can do everything on one server if you like.

There should be pretty detailed howtos for everything you want to do. It's mostly just a matter of figuring out what steps you need to take and repeating them. More fun: Configure Squid + SquidGuard (content monitoring) ClamAV (Virus Detection) SSH endpoint Asterix (PBX)

There should be some kind of preconfigured package for Apache/MySQL/php that already has everything working. I don't see Spamassassin on that list anyplace, and if you're doing a mail server, you'll want it. Also, some kind of IMAP server (Dovecot, probably).

sudo find / -name phpldapadmin -print will search your whole directory structure for the files you need. It should be somewhere under /var/www.

My previous experiences with Ubuntu are that the server install CD did not include lots of little things I expected to have from long-term use of RedHat/Fedora/Centos. No one thing is terribly annoying, but in combination it led to a great deal of irritation.

Try phpLDAPadmin. Makes sense to manage your database from a browser anyway. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish in doing server-y stuff on one of the most obnoxiously desktop-focused Linux distros there is - but that's up to you. As far as structuring your directory, it's rare for...

The stuff I read indicates that Maxtor as a brand will continue to exist for the foreseeable future as Seagate's budget line, similar to how Mercury = budget Ford. I'm not sure I understand that strategy, since the price difference at retail seems to be minimal, but there is a big difference in...

qmail is deprecated. The guy responsible for it quit working on it and was pretty much an asshole besides. sendmail has pretty much had no end of security issues and forked off into commercial software a while back (there is still a free version, naturally, but IIRC the commercial one comes with...

vi makes plenty of sense if you understand where it came from. 25 years ago, a multiuser terminal system generally would not have the RAM to allow dozens of people access to full screens of text, so a text editor operated one line at a time. The standard editor was called 'ed' and was basically...

There is a very, very good reason to learn vi. It is the standard text editor. Every system has to have it. Also, using anything less makes you a total wuss.

No idea. That was around 10 years ago. It was 3 blocks from the Fisk power plant just south of the loop. Don't have the book, but I'd buy it if I saw it.

These days it's probably procmail.