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I can't even understand how WD is still in business. I really can't. I know there were people who thought the same thing about IBM during the reign of the deathstar, but that was IBM. WD has one core product and they can't even do that one thing right.

Why do you hate your data so much, Anathor21?

And I think it's overhypered bullshit for a company that advertises on SR. But hey, if someone wants to buy a failure-prone drive from a company known to make particularly failure-prone hardware, who am I do anything but point and laugh.

Here. Graphics: A Radeon 9500 or Geforce 5200. Guess that means that if you can do DX9 you're OK. RAM: 512MB minimum CPU: I didn't look at Intel, but the low end AMD desktop chip is a Sempron not an AthlonXP. I wonder if SocketA chips will even be a possibility.

Yet another reason to hope no one here is using it... Really, I don't know how much it matters. The kind of person who calls Microsoft for support on Windows pretty much deserves what s/he gets.

Ha-Ha

Real sick. Had a sinus infection all last week. Went to doctor. Now I have the flu and a sinus infection. Never leaving house again. How fever do I have to be to go to hospital?

And those are the ones I posted. :P

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There are lots of tools you could use for normalizing plain old audio files. Unfortunately, we're not dealing with just audio. Um... I'm looking through the stuff I have (Vegas, DVD Workshop et al)and I'm not seeing anything useful. I think your best bet is probably Virtualdub. Seems like...

The Bluegears people just don't want me to have any money. 250% better bitrates than the X-Mystique, realtime DTS encoding support, integrated digital input, DTS:Neo6 support... My pants feel funny.

As I understand it, extremely high resolution LCDs apparently use a dual DVI connector to achieve extreme resolutions like that. That 30"er could still be very price-competitive vs. smaller flat-panel HDTVs. Just something to keep in mind.

At 30 inches. Like my wang. Seriously, I don't have any experience with the Samsung display, but the customers I've had who wanted large LCDs and bought widescreens (er, both of them) have later complained about missing the vertical screen space.

I think this is a case of want in one hand and crap in the other to see which fills up first. The only things I know that'll sync with a Palm and can be shared are Schedule+ and Exchange, and Schedule+ hasn't been updated in probably six years. Outlook Calendars by themselves can't be shared...

There's about a billion calendar-sharing applications on sourceforge.net. I doubt any of them sync to palm, but don't you have web access pretty much everywhere you go these days?

Get a region free drive. Run the disc(s) through a DVD ripper. Remake in your own image. The end. Supposedly, Vista will not allow DVD playback on drives that're hacked to be region-free, which I understand will screw over lots of anime fans (boo-hoo) and european-types.

Nero Recode?

Loose = opposite of tight. Lose = opposite of win, present tense of "lost" Man, why can't people keep that one straight?

You need the AC3filter codec to enable support for AC3 if you don't have it any other way. I install it with those KazaaLite codec packs that're in the toolbox section.

I am glad this awful year is finally fucking over.

Actually I think the discs are preformatted nowadays, or go through some kind of prep process. Wasn't too long ago it took 2 hours to format a CD. Now it's ~10 seconds?

That does explain a lot, doesn't it? It does make the Maxtor purchase seem a bit more rational. Seagate says there's growth in a previously stagnant market and they want a bigger slice of the pie. Mmm. Pie.

It's true sorta. Older CD-RW discs had a low-number limitation on how many times they could be formatted. Newer discs, the number is supposed to be more reasonable, in the hundreds of erasures.

Also, random facts about Chuck Norris.

Nifty pictures of a Stealth Fighter.

mubs has it down pretty well. Listen to mubs.

Walmart is also the Hillbillyest place on earth. Well, except the White House. Isn't there another WalMart like two miles past the first one? There are four or five within a 10-mile radius of my apartment...

I made everyone in my office switch to Thumb drives a while back. 1GB is not too expensive and easily portable. Get her one of those stretchy clip-things if she's forgetful (like what people use for their apartment keys) - she can attach one end to her purse or something. I carry a 1GB...

In the video game version of Kong it's possible to get a trip back to Skull Island. Pretty impressive game - Peter Jackson oversaw production after being unhappy with the way the various Lord of the Rings games came out. The Firefly box set is $20 at Walmart through this weekend. I seriously...

I normally use Verbatim +Rs to copy movies, but I get a bad disc every now and then. I also like Fujifilm discs a lot. In my experience, all DVD media is HIGHLY error prone and it needs to be babied.

Try doing an Office Repair procedure if you still have your disc.

Yes, I recovered a 1.2TB software RAID using GetDataBack NTFS a few months back. However, if you're doing data recovery, a couple things you should do, once you verify you're in a data-loss scenario, are to install the disk on an internal or native channel (IDE, SCSI, SATA; not USB or Firewire)...

Abit did at one time have a pretty decent midrange product... 10 years ago. Everything they have done since has coasted off of that reputation. I think they were hurt worse than most by the early-00s capacitor problems, and I think catering to the Overclocking Crowd since hasn't helped them...

Just for giggles I tested Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows Server 2003. It still found no vulnerabilities even though I'm pretty sure there was a "you must upgrade to 1.0.7 because of a security issue" bug in 1.0.6.

Most of my machines actually have 450 or 500W PSUs in them, actually. Nothing too fancy. At the point where a 1kW PSU is actually required, you'd probably be better off with 3 400W redundant units. I'm not sure what kind of idiot would really need such a thing.

I know you didn't just tell someone to use an Apple program on Windows. Anyway, .mov format is exactly the same thing as .avi. It's a container for whatever the hell combination of audio and video compression the producer chooses to use. New-top-of-the-line quicktime files are using an MPEG-4...

I found that even with an X850 and an AMD X2, playback of WMV content can be sub-par. Microsoft has a patch to fix it, but it's a rather unappealing thing to install. It wouldn't surprise me if there's simply no hardware acceleration for whatever is in Apple's HD-quicktime. I can tell you that...

"Serenity" is the #1 selling item on Amazon.com right now. Ahead of Revenge of the Sith, March of the Penguins and The Wedding Crashers. Firefly, the boxed set of the TV show that leads up to Serenity, is the #3 selling item.

What's wrong with the old fashioned Sharpie method?

Congratulations JoJo! Ranting to follow: Lovely. As one of the aforementioned Liberals, I'm going to first of all tell you that not everyone celebrates Christmas. It's moronic to assume that just because someone doesn't look asian or middle-eastern must mean they'll be sharing in your holiday...

Do we have reason to be concerned? You still have your sister, right? I don't know about parents or other family members, but it seems like those are the people whom you should invite to discuss your post-mortality with. Pre-paid does seem like a good idea to me; you can make better and more...

The sale include a $399 million rebate, but Seagate has to include the original UPC and a completed rebate form.

More US citizens have been killed by being struck dead by lightning than killed by terrorists in the last 3 years. Clearly, we must have a cabinet-level position to deal with the callous and unceasing scourge of mother nature.

Why not use Palm Desktop?

9m, five attempts. The game doesn't respond well to my trackball I guess.

Today, I bought a DVD at Best Buy. $18.01, and I happened to have exact change, so I handed the cashier cash. She then asked for my phone number. I thought that was odd, and what's more I thought it was unreasonable. I told her I don't have a phone. She said she had to put in something. I...

Coug, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I know a transsexual (used to be a woman) who could kick your ass up and down the street all day long. What someone chooses to do with his or her genitals has no-zero-none impact on any other characteristic of his or her personality or physicality.

Also, Win 98 SE can in fact fully support ACPI from install-time. setup /p j To install with ACPI.

I pretty much stand in agreement with i. I can't say there's anything I care so much about - that is willing to accept my care - that I could act in the way Tannin suggests. And that doesn't leave very much.

Also, that kind of crap more-or-less matches my expectations and experiences of dealing with nvidia graphics cards, now that I think about it.