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Hm. Maybe I should just buy one and play with it first. I was thinking of sticking a SATA controller and a GboC card in 'em, but if they can't keep up with a video stream, they're pretty worthless.

Seems to me like I got the camera in about a week.

I bought a projection screen from them a few days ago, and a couple months ago I bought a little MPEG4 handheld video recorder. They have WD2500JBs for $53 shipped around once a month, which would be cool if it were a brand that didn't suck.

I'm more interested in something that's a custom shape than something that could be adapted from an existing chassis. CityK linked to a sort of "mini cluster" of single board computers a couple weeks ago. I found some C3/2000+boards for a pretty reasonable price ($65) through one of the...

woot.com typically sells one geekish item a day. Sometimes it's a hard drive. Sometimes it's a radio controlled car. Sometimes it's a giant DLP TV. Sometimes it's random, unidentified crap (they call those "bags o' crap", seriously). Right now woot.com is selling more than one item a day...

Has anyone ever investigated the possibility of making a custom computer case, or having someone else make one for you?

Brokeback Mountain Action Figures (utterly safe for work). They look like slightly modified "Dukes of Hazzard" dolls to me, but I still think it's funny. While I'm at it, I sincerely hope Brokeback Mountain wins every Hollywood award it got nominated for. I hope they make up new Oscars to give...

I'm sure I have an Adaptec 3940 or something I could donate to that cause.

I work a couple miles from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Every so often, in the summer, I'll go someplace on my lunch break and find a bunch of girls running around in bikinis. :D

I like 50 - 60F by default. Warm enough to comfortably wear a long sleeved shirt without a coat. I also like it when it's hot enough for girls to wear halter tops and short-shorts. :D Other temperatures suck.

Yes they do. Ghost needs the -fNI option (Bypass onboard Disk Controller) set to properly. IIRC.

Rube Goldberg by way of HalfLife 2

Does the Scythe Ninja require motherboard removal to install?

I'm not an audiophile. There's an upper bound on the amount of money I'm willing to spend (which, granted, is more than most people). I just have good hearing. :)

You'll want to check the performance first. I don't think there's anything wrong with dual core or with that 2GB of RAM, but what's up with the super-custom 1U chassis and motherboard? If you're spending that much why not go SuperMicro?

That's a really good question, but it annoys me on principle. Maybe because there's no mechanism in place for Microsoft to handle it through OEMs? Probably 80%+ of the copies of XP that've been sold, ever, have been OEM copies. Even if they're just flatly saying motherboard change =...

I think you're insane spending that much money on something "low importance", but that may just be me.

Just ordered a couple of those Scythe Ninja heat sinks ddrueding likes so much. Any suggestions on a 120mm fan to mate with one?

Do you all know what HBO is trying to do right now? HBO is trying to extend "content protection" to 1. Completely block all analog recording and 2. Extend "content protection" to all their shows. In other words, HBO is trying to make it illegal to use a VCR or a Tivo or a Windows MCE machine...

That's the article, verbatim, from this place Unbelievable.

You guys just don't know what you're missing.

I usually have at least 20 or 30 tabs open, and at times I exceed 100. I usually have two open Firefox windows, one for porn and one for work. I use the Linky extension a lot (and not just for porn) which contributes greatly to having lots of open tabs. Right now I have 16 tabs open on this...

I guess I have a different philosophy about that, then. Even if I'm dealing with something on tape, I'd rather have a high quality recording device and know that I'm not reducing quality from my recording method, than just say "Oh, that's good enough" while I introduce extra noise into an...

While you're at it, take a look at Anand's tour of Newegg.com. Also, my FF memory use jumped from 25MB to 45MB in navigating from SF to Anandtech.com.

Thunderbird and Firefox are discrete applications. All the files they need live in their program directories. Tbird 1.5 seems to have issues with asking for passwords when it shouldn't - I KNOW I'm giving it the right password for my IMAP server but it'll tell me the password has been...

bootdisk.com or, from XP, format a floppy with the "make DOS bootdisk" option checked.

They didn't delete the boot sector; I can'r see why copying wouldn't work.

I don't know that I would agree with that, time. Internal sound input seems to have lots of crackling, probably from the billion and one EM fields surrounding tha analog input. and also Most internal sound devices have ungrounded inputs, and so do many VCRs and cassette players. This seems to...

Firefly. Battlestar Galactica. I'll set up a private torrent tracker if I have to. I must preach the gospel.

More Firefox hackage When I took a look on this machine, the relevant value was set to -1. I don't know what that means, but I didn't change it. FasterFox probably did. As far as changing Paging behavior... there isn't much you can do about it. Internally, Windows uses 4k pages for...

Wow, three ass-sucking browsers and Firefox. Firefox memory usage never bothers me. I put gobs of memory in my computers so I can HAVE the occasional process use 1.2GB RAM. But some people bitch about Firefox using more memory than they think it should. Ben Goodger, Firefox Project Manager and...

WMV of Daily Show coverage of Cheney's Ultimate Hunting Adventure. Seriously, this is hysterical. 6MB.

The problem with Intervideo products is they break a lot of other multimedia apps. WinDVD Creator + PowerDVD = no PowerDVD. WinDVD Creator + S-ny Vegas = No S-ny Vegas. I think I'll pass on that one. I use PowerDVD 6 and the "Neo" skin, which I find quite comfortable for a 10' interface. It has...

If you're doing that kind of thing and it's really important, you're best off with a USB sound device.

Got cards. I haven't installed 'em yet, since I'm at work, but for THIS revision of the hardware, they specify either their non-existant Digital Audio daughterboard or a Hoontech SB-DB III. I used to use a Hoontech I/O board back when I still had an SB Live, but the connector is completely...

Blah, blah, blah. I've heard Karajan. It's crappy like every other onboard sound chipset. Envy's been around at least a couple years now and I can only think of a couple boards that supported it. Too bad. It's an excellent high-quality audio solution. My new system - the board I just bought -...

"My Name is Earl" is pretty funny. Mostly 'cause that guy pretty much acts like every one of the Steelworkers I teach. Other than that, yeah, network TV just sucks. It'd probably be a little better if every 3rd show wasn't a reality show and if every 4th show wan't CSI or Law and Order and...

Movement for Voluntary Human Extinction. What a great idea, pretty much exactly what you guys are all talking about. Of course, half of the folk in this thread've already had kids... Also, in yet another Bush-related disaster, didja all see that Dick Cheney, not satisfied with killing brown...

That snowfall doesn't look too bad to me. Adcadet would probably call it "a dusting". :) Anyway, I found this and I think it's pretty neat.

Customize Google. Only available for decent web browsers.

I don't think I care about that. I just want a board to use in maintaining my sysprep images.

Alright, since I now have another "spare" socket 939 CPU and I need something to build images with... What're you people using for nforce4 boards? GA-K8N Pro?

I was actually working today. I need the internet in my car.

Have you looked at DLink's line of web-enabled cameras? Based on the advice of the person I talked to, they have some pretty decent hardware (DLink?!?) and the higher-end models have good multiple-camera control software, too. She did say that videotape remains her preferred method of storage...

Tannin is sleeping and Buck is enjoying a delicious curry and some kind of German wood-grain beverage.

Ken has a straight friend?

Usually I only start little fires. I have this really neat wind-proof grill lighter that can shoot flame about a foot and a half if I turn it up all the way. I like to use it on the memos people give me. Like the ones that say "Quit swearing at the students" or "Quit poking the students with a...

Top 10 Things I could be doing right now instead of making this list: 10. Installing Windows 2000 and Office 97 on a Presario Notebook. It's a Pentium 166 with 48MB RAM. Oooh baby! I'm gonna get right on THAT! 9. Browsing porno at work - there's no one else here and there are still a few sites...

More than I paid for it? Buy low, sell high, right? :D

OK everyone, we need to take up donations again. Handruin needs a bigger car. :D