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Given a choice between an Asus, Abit or MSI board, I think I'd vote "None of the Above." I've had better luck with MSI than the others. Sorta. I say that as I look at the two dead MSI nv6100-based boards that're here on my desk. Asus = Crap Abit = The dirt that's under the Asus.

There's a DeWalt repair depot in Hammond, Indiana. They've got signs up right now that say "Moving Sale, 75% off." This is the only possible way I could contribute to this thread.

There were several. I liked FoxMarks but I don't think it works with 2.0.

I linked to that about a year ago in the something random thread. ;)

I mainly use NEC 3550s, but I also have LiteOn and Pioneer. I do not think the drive has much to do with the quality of the Burn.

Writable DVD quality varies IMMENSELY even from batch to batch. What I have found to work best is: 8x Taiyo Yuden A-grade media burned at 8x speed. Use 16x Media if you have to, but BURN AT 8X. Not 4x, not 2x, not 16x. I do not know why, but stuff works best that way. And don't use +Rs. Use...

Volume license discs are your friend.

Well, anyway, my guess is the original poster is probably trying to keep a PC with a line-of-business application going. I can't think of any other reason to try to work on a 286. So here is my advice for the O.P.: Buy something cheap and kinda-sorta-a-little-bit newer-ish. Like a Pentium 2 or...

Weren't you ~five years old back then?

Why aren't you using slipstreamed install CDs in the first place?

Health Care in the USA: I had a "medical issue" over the weekend. Normally, when I have medical issues, I let my ex-, who is a physician, take care of it. But I couldn't do that in this case, because of the body parts involved and her pre-stated preference for not dealing with those parts. So...

Full Aero does NOT need DX10. It needs a DX9 card with 128MB RAM. ATI and nVidia both have ONBOARD solutions that offer that level of support. Er, if you want to give up 128MB of main memory, anyway...

4:3 is a better deal for a lot of content, anyway, but so is just dropping cable completely. It's moronic to have it if you aren't going to watch it. TV shows can be downloaded or legally purchased on DVD or on itunes (usually $2 a show; I could buy an assload of TV shows for the $170 my cable...

I also reduced the mintabwidth to 20 from 100, so I can have more tabs on-screen. I dislike the scrolling tab bar, too.

Ask me sometime about my $900 Sony ES Receiver that spent roughly 60% of the time I owned it in the shop. Or my Sony ES DVD Jukeboxes that won't play DVD+R discs. Sony is a shitty company that deserves to die.

The sweet spot CPUs are the Athlon64/3800 ($99), the Athlon64x2/3800 ($140) and the Core 2 E6300 ($200). My recent experiences as a system builder tell me that most people feel that the single-core AMD 3800 is faster than a dual-core 3800 by a large enough margin that it's worthy of repeated...

Yeah... thanks for that. My ample manhood just became an innie. I'm going to have nightmares now. Hope you're happy. >:(

My god! It's full of BOOBS! Seriously? This is either some kind of game that involves CG girls running around on a beach, or it's the world's most perfect jiggle-factor simulator. If it's the latter, I'd say that it's a computing achievement at least as great as simulating weather patterns or...

I'm sure it "can" read movies. Ones that aren't encrypted. Which, at this point, would be BR-DVD pr0n. And you'd need a player application. PowerDVD probably won't cut it.

Here's a fun and hilarious article on how American elections are fixed. And it doesn't even involve Diebold voting machines!

Sounds like a Solution series case, kind of, but I can't recall seeing one with the metal bar in question.

I would hate to live in any world where Opera might be seen as a "proper browser."

On what do you base that statement, time? More on the subject of atheist evangelism.

Actually... I guess the P180 could be a power-supply problem child, depending on the size and type of motherboard involved. But the metal bracket on it unscrews independently of anything else in the case, IIRC, and nothing in it is riveted.

That doesn't sound like any Antec Case I'm familiar with. Was it an extra-tiny microATX or something? I know the P150 and the P180 and the Solution series and the NSK series and the Sonata and the Aria and the Performance series, and most of them are among the easiest cases there are to work...

Really? That's not the four letter word I use...

Richard Dawkins on why there almost certainly is no god.

Nope. And stupid things like that are entirely the reason why.

I'm using Server 2003 here with those same settings and stuff is working fine on my digital output. Rebooted recently?

In the Sound and Audio Devices Applet, Audio Tab, is HDA X-Mystique 7.1 Wave listed as your default playback device? Have you tried a DXdiag?

Also, IIRC Santilli went to Law School at UCB. He might be able to help you out with your... issues, ddrueding.

Did you tell the audio driver that you want analog sound instead of digital?

What's the advantage of Sharepoint over just sticking things in a Shared folder someplace and using a real CMS for non-MSOffice content (e.g. Joomla)? I know of about a dozen ways to do what it does without installing some other dumbass product on my server... The folks in my office are all...

My latest OKCupid story. OKCupid matches people by their scores on a series of tests. Only people above 75% compatible are considered a match. Worldwide, there are only about 200 straight women on that site, worldwide, who "match" me, and almost all of them are around the 75% number. Almost all...

I do not think you guys understand the depths of desperation involved in my previous statement. :(

So, you're saying that if I go to a frat party, I might be able to have sex? Why didn't anyone tell me this?!?

OK. I can fix that. It's all over torrent networks now. Or This site I've never heard of.

Kids today. If it's not HTTP they don't want anything to do with it. The world was better when more things were on gopher servers!

Anyone know anything about Sharepoint? The Microsoft Product page is remarkably free of content or information other than "business 2.0"-buzzword crap. I know it has something to do with sharing MS Office documents on the web. Anyone know more than that?

Never heard of FTP?

OK. Complaint #2: I liked the Close Tab button better on the end of the Tab bar. I'm sure someone will come along and fix it back to the way it used to be, but IMO moving that particular UI element around is just stupid. It's no longer possible to quickly close tabs with the pointer. That sucks.

I'm running 2.0 (no RC, full FF2.0) now. At least some mirrors have it today. My only complaint at the moment is that the Session Saver extension doesn't work with it.

Sol, you need to track down and watch the most recent two episodes of BSG. The three episodes of season three leading up to the most recent have been what I would call the extended foreplay leading up to a HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD YES YES YES climax.

Oh. And there's one other appearance of "Serenity" that I'm aware of. Had a nerdgasm when I noticed it.

Spinrite?

Earlier in the week I had a conversation with the parent of a 13 year old girl. She asked me how she could be sure her little darling/hellion was being safe on the internet. I got the impression that her idea of what "safe" was meant an internet that ended at disney.com, but just the same, it's...

Do they support 939? If so, yes.

I don't think of 250GB as a large enough amount of contiguous space to use for any kind of data dump. I'd probably make the two drives into some kind of volume for trivial data like internet downloads, movie files or mp3s - stuff that really DOESN'T need to be backed up. My massed spaces are...

Porn, porn, classical (porn) music, porn, comics, and porn. Yes. Those things. I'm looking for some kind of non-sucky-to-install Tracker software. I see a lot of things that look annoying to install and a lot of things that are easy but also buggy and broken.

There are instructions for installing multiple versions of IE on the same PC floating around... But as far as I'm concerned that's like screwing different people to get multiple versions of herpes. IE7 broke my company's web site. I suggested that we put a large "Get Firefox now you fucking...