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Yes, yes, yes, Stereodude. We know you're a rugged individualist in the mold of Ayn Rand, and we'd all be better off if we weren't subjected to such inequities and predations as taxes so that the general public can have roads, schooling and police. I'm sorry, but it's unregulated or...

I've been putting it on 1GB Celeron 1.8GHz machines along with Vista, and I haven't noticed it as being a particular performance hog. They were doing some pretty obnoxious preloading malware scans using IE and Firefox plug-ins. Web Server admins were complaining about that and I believe they...

Mr. Obama served in the Illinois State Senate for four years prior to the US Senate. If you'd like to bring up the topic of experience, I might suggest that you look at what the job duties of a Texas Governor are (hint: the governor of Texas has very limited executive powers compared to the...

Republicans are scum. The party of hate. The party of ignorance, racism, anti-intellectualism, selfishness, unctuous and self-serving piety and patriotism. They are in my judgment a representation of evil. And they've only gotten more disgusting over the last eight years.

Lightscribe is a waste of money under the best circumstances. It's slow, VERY poorly supported by CD Writing apps, requires special discs, and special drives to do something for which a $1 sharpie marker is an improvement.

I've had two bad Optiarc burners out of five or six hundred that I've bought in the last couple years. None of the units I use in my labs or builds get used all that heavily, though the ones at home sure do.

The power bill for my apartment full of computers, HDTVs, electronics and an extra freezer still manages to come out less than $100 a month, so that would be an awfully expensive computer.

Buffalo got sued out of the 802.11 business a while back.

No. Belt too big.

I'd hate to think what the power bill for a quad core SLI rig that manages to keep all its processors at or around 100% utilization.

I'd donate the whole computer if I thought she'd let me. I have parts that are as nice or better than what she wants just sitting around my apartment in unopened boxes. :\ I floated the idea of helping with the case, though. I was told that there were happy girl noises.

I'd donate the whole computer if I thought she'd let me. I have parts that are as nice or better than what she wants just sitting around my apartment in unopened boxes. :\ I floated the idea of helping with the case, though. I was told that there were happy girl noises.

D-Link mostly has the most retarded firmware I've ever had to used, but I recently had to configure a 3Com AP, so there might be a challenger to the crown. I miss Buffalo hardware. Range was usually pretty good, and if they were hard to configure, at least the damned things didn't break all the...

Iron Man was also a huge amount of fun. Very close to the comic (something I'd expect from Marvel's own movie studio) and with overall inspired casting. All the scenes with Tony were utterly charming, and the tiny bit of Samuel L. Jackson at the end had me jazzed for about a week. Wanted...

I've been using Foxmarks. I would melt any computer I have if I tried to keep tabs sync'd. Google Browser Sync would start acting funny and start losing bookmarks if all your Firefox sessions were more than a couple months old, so I switched off it a while back.

Wall-E made me fucking cry.

Something I have noticed about Firefox 3 is that UI performance slows quite a bit when there are more than 20 or 30 tabs open. There's a noticeable delay when switching tabs. I suppose that's just the result of Firefox aggressively trying to keep its memory footprint low, but someone who has 30...

1. Try turning off AHCI in your BIOS. 2. Yes, you can install on PATA, install drivers and then clone to SATA. 3. You can use nLite + the drivers on driverpacks.org + XPSP3 to make a really lovely install disc. It can even be an install DVD. Very handy. 4. If you ask me really nicely and you're...

I just had to cut a new notch in my belt. This is the second time I've had to do that this year. Maybe I should buy a new belt.

OK. You don't need a premier account. You just need to get IMAP working on the server you have. You can set up your existing mail clients to speak IMAP to Gmail, and IMAP to your Exchange server. Exactly the same mail will be exposed through IMAP on Exchange as is exposed through its native...

How many users are we talking about, here?

One thing I really do not like about Gmail is the way its spam filtering works. Users have absolutely no control over it. I've had people lose real, important emails without ever knowing because it's basically invisible to end users.

Exchange 2000 most certainly does support IMAP. I'm looking at System Manager on an Exchange 2000 server right now. You just need to go into Server > Server Name > Protocols > IMAP4 and turn it on, if it's not. The quick way to transfer mail to Google Mail is to set your client up with IMAP...

Exchange 2000 most certainly does support IMAP. I'm looking at System Manager on an Exchange 2000 server right now. You just need to go into Server > Server Name > Protocols > IMAP4 and turn it on, if it's not. The quick way to transfer mail to Google Mail is to set your client up with IMAP...

22,000 words. A 900F, modded oven. Scholarly discussion of flour proteins and tomato canning procedures. This man is a god. Carmelized Onion and Emmenthaler cheese pizza.

It's not a BAD choice. In fact, it's a case I recommend for someone who doesn't have much money. But it's the difference between getting something that's acceptable and something that's genuinely nice.

I'd be interested in the Blade Runner game. Do you have any kind of price in mind?

I've read something to suggest that something similar was done with Xbox360s, hence their extremely high failure rates.

She's looking at a black HEC chassis/PSU. I know it's a solid choice and the price is in her budget, but I also know what a difference there is between that and an Antec NSK-something-or-other. This is a person who has a minimum wage job. She's got just over a couple hundred bucks saved up but...

I said acquaintance and not "perfect woman."

1080p Projectors have become surprisingly affordable. I've seen $2000 1080p projectors and sub-$1000 720p models.

Here's a nice idea: Get a big LCD. I prefer 1080p but it's easier to see 720p if you're 10 feet away. Hook it to a computer in your living room. Optionally, add a receiver. Optionally, add an HD drive of some sort. Buy a Logitech Bluetooth Keyboard for Playstation, and a USB Bluetooth adapter...

Opinion time: An acquaintance of mine is about to undertake her first ever computer build. She wants to do it on her own, which basically means asking me for help selecting parts, but her doing all the work for assembly. She does not have much money, so I am thinking I will share with her a...

1. They're running the drive constantly, which no normal user does. 2. It's from Tom's. 3. Real world experience tells me that Tom is either lying or an idiot or both, based on the fact that I own an SSD-equipped notebook and therefore have actual real world experience with them. 4. QED this is...

As a rule, anything that runs dd-WRT will run Tomato as well. Linksys has some draft-N hardware that does, but as I recall it was all over $100.

Yes. You can do the same thing with a CD-RW or a bootable USB drive if you have a machine that properly supports booting off those (both are kind of iffy; CD-RWs take longer to spin up for some reason and USB is, well, USB). Or you can just make the floppy and turn it into an ISO file.

uda posted twice after me. uda, you're on my ignore list. I can't stand you. Please direct your typing at someone else. Preferably someplace else on the internet. I'm thinking you'd fit right in with all the furry porn cretins on 4chan.

Boot off a Windows disk. Go in to the recovery console. Run the following commands chkdsk /r fixboot fixmbr bootcfg /scan No help? Try booting off an XP boot floppy or CD. Format a floppy under XP. Copy the boot files off of that PC onto your floppy disk (NTLDR, boot.ini, and NTDETECT.COM)...

I built my own and it works great for, um, $350 or so... My advice is that you find a thing that can run dd-WRT or Tomato firmware. Whatever Tomato does, it seems to stand up very well to torrenting, or better than dd-WRT, in any case. On the other side, you can do a lot more stuff with dd-WRT...

It's an MPEG4 codec. Most anything that can play modern Quicktime files can play Nero Digital, including my Linux machines.

IDE to SATA converters only cost about $10. I'm not sure they're reliable enough to run drives in RAID5, though.

Server 2008 works OK on my Thinkpad, but the couple servers I have are both mysteriously slow for interactive tasks; way WAY moreso than would be suggested by the "adjust this server for background processes" setting would indicate. I don't get the feeling that it's really running any faster...

Well, my disc arrived pre-scratched, so about all I can do is get the title to start and then not actually do anything with it. My cats like to sleep on the board.

Asus, in my experience, has only marginally better service than PC Chips. Actually, I take that back: I RMA'd some boards to PC Chips once and got them back. The Asus customer service web site disappears off the internet for days at a time and in my experience they never respond to RMA requests...

I'm sort of contemplating two 40" panels on my gaming PC. They will just fit across the desk space of my loft, though I'll have to attach them to the wall. The 27" monitor I have right now isn't really very good for watching from in bed or Wii Fit-ing.

Why would you bother with RAID0 over USB2.0? Even a pokey notebook drive shouldn't have any problem saturating 25MB/sec. I like having an SSD in my Thinkpad but most of the time it's not a life-altering difference for the sorts of things I do on that machine. I'm far more curious about desktop...

I should be so lucky. Other than Nitsirk, all the women I have ever taught are either 60-year-old steelworkers or the wives of steelworkers, or they're heavyset, uh, "urban" girls, many of whom are either pregnant or have had kids. Ew. ... and those are the only women I ever see, other than the...

The couple people I know who do any kind of digital content production both still use large Sony CRTs in preference to LCDs for their main display. Although that might have more to do with not wanting to move a 90lb. monitor than any issue related to the quality of any particular LCD.

This is a case where I have a hard limit in the form of the limit of my corporate credit card. That, and since the state is ultimately paying, we have to wait on their billing and accounting process. It'd be nice, thuogh.

It's downright hilarious. You've got a bunch of evolution deniers being a pain in the ass to an eminent biologist, and you've got the biologist owning their asses every intellectual level. As I've watched these assholes and more just like them try to convince the world that creation science or...