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My ex- asked me about Vonage service tonight. She looked into it and was told by some Vonage salesdroid that their VoIP service doesn't work with home routers. Huh?!? Vonage apparently doesn't show their support site to non-subscribers, so I have no idea what they could even be talking about...

It's not economically viable to replace the HSFs, PSUs or cases for every machine unless I can demonstrate a clear and immediate need. Even if it only took me 15 minutes to make a parts swap, that's still paying me for a day and a half of work + cost of whichever part x 60. The larger issue to...

What about lessening the clusterfuck that happened after the fact? How many days did it take to get the Red Cross in? How long were phone, internet and cell networks dead?

Well, my Matsonic motherboard + C3/2000 can in fact saturate a 100Mbit network link by itself. If nothing else, that means it'd work as a storage appliance.

Why all the desktops? The woman who owns the company I work for doesn't like tower cases. Buck, are you talking about Compucase Desktop or Tower cases? I bought Compucase towers for as long as I could find them as part of my standard build and I don't EVER remember seeing idle CPU temps above...

Background: I maintain about 60 PCs in a classroom setting for my day-job as an IT trainer. Of those PCs, 24 are in Enlight 7200 desktop cases. Another 12 are inCompucase 7106s while the rest are in cases visually similar to the Evercase e1205, but without the front panel. These machines...

Anyone remember the movie "The Last Starfighter?"

What does mobilizing the military to set up communication networks have to do with declaration of martial law? The two things are entirely different. In the event that the disaster hadn't been serious, the military could've just declared the whole affair to be a joint-training exercise or...

Mr. Bush could and should have mobilized the military beforehand. I'm not just talking about the Army Corps of Engineers or about Medics. The US military is full of people who know how to use heavy equipment and how to build hardened communications and logistical networks. I'm sure there were...

The Silverstone La Scala cases look pretty nice and aren't utterly insane for HT appliance use.

Windows Update through non-sucky browsers. Still works for discontinued OSes.

Downloadable 120-day trial of Windows Server 2003. Requires a passport ID.

I'm what?!? I drive crappy old cars, live in a crappy apartment and dress like I'm homeless.

That's better than the alternative. George Bush absolutely, unquestionably deserves to be impeached. Anyone who thought lying under oath about a blow job should have no problem with impeachment for illegal wiretaps, costly wars due to "faulty intelligence", or leaking the names of security...

Pretty sure Hannah is one of the forum-spammer accounts like we've been seeing lately, Tannin. What with that being the second post relating to that online storage system she keeps linking to. Not that your remarks aren't still accurate.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/1/235828/9378

I guess I should say one more thing: The overall user experience that I have had so far with Vista essentially comes down to a few simple statements. It's basically Windows XP with a prettier interface. Common Control Panel options are pretty much redistributed at random. Security is WAY off the...

I ended up installing 5308.60 32bit edition - the newer than newest build that was released yesterday. Again, my starting machine Specs: Athlon64/4000 1GB RAM 128MB X600 Pro 4200rpm 100GB hard disk ... all in a nice little Gateway laptop. Installation: No text mode. All graphical. There were...

Plus, they lack proper HDA-X-somethingorother sound output. :D

There was a new Community Tech preview released Friday. I'll probably install it tomorrow. Also, looking at the rules for licensing, it appears that the only distributed Volume-Licensed media will be Upgrade discs this time around. That makes me sad. I bought 5 XP Licenses once upon a time and...

I'm not actually sure what Picasa does that makes it worth installing. It makes "albums", which are probably useful for someone who doesn't understand how to rename directories in Windows. Maybe. The metadata capabilities would be nifty if they could be imported and exported. But they probably...

More specifically, there is no BIOS on an Intel Mac. They use OpenFirmware instead, which Vista supports and XP doesn't. I can't see using one of those as an HTPC. They can't possibly hold enough disk space and they'd need so much USB crap hanging off of them to get decent sound and video/tuner...

Not as loud as some older projectors I've used... hold on, I have a manual around here someplace... which also doesn't say. Just as a guess, it's probably around 35db.

Probably not safe for work, but possibly the most inspired use of Flash in the history of mankind And oddly enough, on topic in the Pub this week.

Well, to date I've found 3 useful programs that use .NET, and some versions of ATI's drivers require them (I don't install those versions). I haven't found that .NET hurts anything, other than being another potential way for binaries to execute on a computer.

The guy's ebay posting is wrong.

Microcenter in Westmont stocks BenQ projectors. Can't say for sure if Frys does. With my current NEC 2600-lumen projector, the image is visible in daylight but washed-out. Fortunately, half-closed blinds solve that problem pretty well.

Aw crap. I meant to put this in the toolbox.

i810 is old enough that I wouldn't expect it to support LBA regardless. I don't know if it does or not, but come on, it's been around since, what? 1999?

I'm not a photoshop person. I know how to use it, I've even taught classes with it, but it's not something I use very often. My photo-editing needs more or less start and stop with a little cropping, removing red-eye and pasting Allyson Hannigan's head on the bodies of naked women. I've been...

Ce n'est pas une maison

IIRC the 686B was used on KT133 - KT333 or so Via boards and does not support drives larger than 120GB. I've got a Promise Ultra/100 or five that I'm not using. I can probably UPS one out to you tomorrow. I don't know how much it'll cost though.

Bozo is using a naughty word! Let's go back to the projector thing for a minute: A 5lb. projector - say, something like a BenQ 6240 DLP projector - can project an image that might be, oh, 60" in a small room. 2700 lumens is bright enough to view in full overhead light. You can project onto a...

So, are Seagate and WD still advertising on SR's site?

Me? I'm drowning in PCe 4x slots. Every time I order anything from Newegg, they throw in a whole bunch of them. Hell, they packed the my last order in 4x PCIe slots. I spilled some 4x PCIe slots on my living room floor and threw them away because they were dirty. I'm thinking about replacing my...

They can kinda-sorta burn in. You can fix "LCD burn in" by leaving the screen on and displaying a black image for four or five days.

I'll just save everyone the suspense of reading the 15 pages of little weeny pages and spoil the surprise: "However, RAID5 arrays still leave much to be desired. I dare conclude that HighPoint software developers should pay a little bit more attention to this array type. However, I am confident...

I'm perfectly willing to pay that sum, but I'm going to check with the US distributor of the product to find out why it's available in Sweden but not the USA. Thank you so much, TheSwede!

Nothing makes a better picture than a CRT. I'm fond of DLP, as it's available for larger screen sizes than LCD, but prices on LCD displays have come down, while DLP remains expensive, and DLP needs new bulbs every so often (I'm on the second one for my TV). LCD screens have gotten bigger and...

Name your price.

I pay $8.50 a month for 20GB of space on a server - it grows by 1GB a month, I think. 900something MB, anyway, and 120GB/mo transfer. In that space I have two complete DVD images, 1 CD image, and sometimes I use that space to download whatever other stuff I feel the need to download (wget). My...

I have several sitting around if you need one.

I was out most of the day. Now I am not. I still need the internet in my car.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B303013

Seriously, TaxAct.com costs all of $13 total to E-file state and Federal taxes, if your income falls below whatever their threshold is for that year. I used to use it for my Ex's taxes.

Use Taxcut?

34' shorts??? You, sir, are a god! Either that or you meant "

Gosh that's terrible. Only 110GB more I can transfer between now and tomorrow. :)

Not worth it. You lose 16-bit compatibility (a lot of older programs use 16-bit installers) and general driver availability is for shit, and you gain, um... wait, lemme think... oh yeah! Absolutely nothing. mubs, I don't think you'd like Vista, either.

Google Applications all seem to have issues with privacy. I'd rather not install one. Google Maps misses my street address by about a mile, so I can't use it, either.