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I'd like to say that before I mailed out that board + CPU, I gave it a nice 24ish-hour burn-in with my default nvidia-chipset sysprep image. I know all the hardware was working at that time. I tested with XP, however. I have no idea how a nforce2 acts when Win98 is forced upon it. :)

Looks like Divx 6.1 has taken a page from Nero recode's book. Support for multithreading + a more widely accepted .MP4 implementation = much goodness.

I downloaded the score to Narnia and listened to it today. That made me want to see the movie less. Honestly, it's more new-agey than classical. When I'm listening to the score for an epic fantasy movie, the last thing I should be wondering is if it's closer to Yanni or John Tesh. Also the way...

Funny list of reasons for straight guys to see Gay Cowboy movie "BrokeBack Mountain". I like the one about Anne Hatheway topless. Wasn't there a South Park episode about independant films about Gay Cowboys eating pudding? --- Also, has anyone seen Narnia or Kong yet?

Dungeons and Dragons Online apparently has some kind of testing event this weekend.

FEAR is supposed to have really evil copy protection. Hopefully the pirate crews have gotten around it by now. I've tried a couple different "nonstandard" releases of Halflife2 now, but I haven't found one that works properly yet. Grr. Here's a thing on setting up your own World of Warcraft...

Another option for A/V distribution.

I just bought a BenQ 6240 DLP projector. $1200 after a $100 rebate plus it has a rebate for a spare lamp (about another $300). It's a 2700 lumen projector with a 2000:1 contrast ratio. It supports 1024x768 and HD resolutions up to 1080i. Even if it's crappy, that's shockingly cheap for those...

The reviews of the Q-pack at Newegg suggest that the Aspire PSU a really terrible unit. That pretty much matches my experience with Aspire PSUs.

The conclusion you might draw is that SiSoft Sandra isn't a reliable benchmark and/or is measuring something other than disk performance.

I've had Samsung and RCA DirecTV units with Tivo. The UI was the same for both. Guess that's the Tivo UI. Whatever. It's nice. Other things are not so nice. I have a Comcast/Motorola PVR. I don't know the model number. I hate it but supposedly Comcast PVRs will be turned into Tivos. This will...

Compared to Comcast I was very happy with DirecTV when I had it. I like the UI on current DirecTV hardware much, much better than current Dish or my Comcast box. I'm guessing that money isn't really the issue here, but FWIW I had a cheaper DirecTV package that actually had channels I want, as...

Ah, Groltz, believe me, I tried what you suggested. Didn't fix my issue.

Aw, come on? What could be easier to appreciate than the classic literary theme of drug-induced/enforced schizophrenia?

Good. Maybe she took it down. I've seen it but never purposefully been there. I know that a few of my students have found it.

I don't have anything else to try, actually. I tried renaming the program folder and deleting all things apple from the registry (after I made a backup). Didn't help. This is a computer that was used by an ADULT. No spyware, no p2p crap, no IM software. My boss had itunes 5 installed and was...

I made a document that says "If your computer ain't been quite right lately, buy another one. Make sure it doesn't say "Dell" on it." and handed that out. And then the people I work with came and bitched at me. It was worth it.

When I build a new PC or teach most computer classes, I give out a 12-page-long screenshot-with-labeled-arrows-laden document describing how to use Adaware and Spybot, how to update those programs and how to run them in safe mode. Today I've had four different people ask if I have any easier...

Absolutely.

PowerDVD supports ATI's hardware acceleration, but doesn't turn it on by default. So I don't think that's the problem. paugie, do you ever hang when you're watching a video file as opposed to something on a disc?

Meh. Google my given name and search through about 2000 pages of google results and it'll come up. I don't want anything to do with it.

I am the only male employee. When I started here, the ladies had Windows wallpapers of Chippendale dancers, gay dudes in thongs etc (do straight guys wear thongs?). I didn't say anything, as I really don't give a crap. The ladies mail each other those types of pictures on a mailing list that...

My boss brings me her notebook this morning. She says "I can't get itunes to work" I try to run itunes. Version 6, the one that came out maybe a month ago with the video support. I double-click on iTunes. The computer goes "ding". itunes does not start. I think "Oh well, I will uninstall and...

No. No. No. No. A card that supports Directx-whatever supports directx-whatever. If some program calls for features newer than that card supports, GENERALLY an effort is made to find a rendering path which can display some kind of placeholder or equivalent effect, or no effect is displayed at...

1. This has nothing to do with DirectX. 2. What DVD playback software are you using? Does that player support hardware acceleration? Is it turned on? Is the WRONG hardware acceleration turned on? 3. Are the DVDs scratch and dirt-free? 4. Have you tried different playback software? 5. Do the...

The Grammar Police need only visit SR for a few brief moments to see his true calling. And then his head will asplode.

Well, yes. It's not explicitly sexual. No naughty words or violence. It's a game with a bunny, linked on a general-interest news site for crissakes. On the other hand, since I know at least two (i.e. 40% of the staff) of my co-workers e-mail pictures of naked men back and forth, I don't think...

Is there nothing Canadians can't do? May be slightly off-color for work. But it is work-safe.

Supposedly they make decent media center machines.

woot.com sells one item per day at a seriously large discount. Yesterday it was a $40 250GB hard disk (it was a WD though, so maybe still not worth it). The day before it was a high-end Coffee Maker and the day before that it was a $10 XM Radio receiver. I don't know if there's anything there...

He was projecting his display on a wall.

I'd put my spam filters up to any test you'd care to make. Maybe twice a week I get an unsolicited email. You'd have to see the questions they're asking regardless. Nothing that's of much commercial interest. The site also has its own closed IM and email systems. --- Lunar, at least you have...

If you read their faqs, they say you have to answer some very large number of their questions before their analysis system will do anything good for you. With 0 questions answered you match up with like 10% of the people on the site. You don't start seeing values over 70% until you answer like...

Maybe we can have a contest. Hey, anyone seen "Logan's Run"?

I really like the Canon G-series. They're incredibly versatile. Unfortunately, they are also nothing like compact. :(

... er, in the BIOS. Whoops.

Most PCs have an USB compatibility mode for keyboards under DOS.

I don't particularly care about how much money I make, oddly enough. I thought about not putting anything down in that box, but on the other hand, my capability to earn a living is possibly the only worthwhile thing on that page.

There is no doubt that is a stunning picture. Did anyone see the shot of a shuttle crewmember on a spacewalk holding up a "for sale" sign?

Groltz do you have any serious heat issues with your Shuttle? Any concerns about the PSU? That machine is pretty well maxed out; I guess if there's no heat problem, it's a testament to the Shuttle design. Coug, that Aspire cube-thing is supposed to be nice except for the included PSU and really...

I can ask around, but I'm pretty sure good hygene is in fact one of my strong points. And I'm a pretty down kind of person. It's not like I have lots of things to be positive about.

Yup. I meant to put that in the Nero thread though.

Nero Recode - Base file 1.68GB video in a WMV container. Target is 700MB, 1.5Mbps .MP4 AMD64/4000 @ 2.6GHz = 135fps = 4.5x Real-time AMD64x2/4200 @ 2x2.0GHz = 198fps = 6.6x Real-time Does anyone remember doing .VOB to divx conversions on, say, a P2-450? I remember getting 3 or 4 fps. Hell of...

Coug, I have a nice list of victims for you. OK. This is the profile I was referring to earlier. Somehow I left it out of my previous post. Truthfully, I don't know why I am bothering, except that I feel that at this point in my life I have missed important parts of being an adult, some of...

Probably not a whole lot. You wouldn't be the first person to have a crappy, generic PSU that needed to be replaced.

Is there a non-pain in the ass unified installer somewhere?

Buy a better PSU.

I've tried it in the past. For some sites, it is very helpful. For others, particularly those that depend on a database (SF, for instance), it seems to make page access slower.