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1. That's basically it, man. Decent CPU utilization and SNR. It's not going to be perfect if you're using an analogue connection like a headphone jack and an internal sound device, but you're obviously not an audio snob so I doubt you're going to care very much. :) 2. There are USB-based...

You guys are going to make me feel extra-guilty about my lab full of X2/4800s with X1900XTXs, aren't you?

I can't stand wearing headphones myself. The earbud type aren't noted for sound quality and closed-ear 'phones are REALLY uncomfortable with my glasses. Plus I hate to think what headphones might do to my hearing - I'm still able to hear a 19.5kHz test frequency at age 30, and I'd prefer to keep...

Hm. $120 + shipping for the set? Would that work?

I got one of the cheap ones. HDA-X1 or something like that. It was like $430. I bought it just so I could watch Serenity in all its glory. I've been through all the HDMI troubleshooting I can do. I'm under the impression that my TV (61" Samsung) just didn't get finalized HDCP support. My...

If you have a DVI-capable monitor, why not just use the VGA cable for the secondary PC and use the input select on the display? If both the PCs are fairly close, you can just set a second keyboard and mouse on top of the PC when you aren't using 'em. :)

Most new motherboards and cases support front-mounted audio ports. That's not the province of Creative Labs any more. Many new motherboards support onboard sound hardware that would've been on premium add-in cards a couple years ago. Midrange and better Intel Branded motherboards do Dolby...

Allpeers seems like a good and happy thing, from what I've read. I'll take an invite if you've still got 'em.

Oh look, the press has finally caught on to the fact that home firewalls suck.

Don't know if anyone cares, but the folks who make the 3D Rendering Program Bryce have put up a free version on download.com. I had a ancient, pirated copy for a while. I thought it was a lot of fun to play with. Linky.

I rather strongly suspect Cyberlink will tell you it's a problem with your hardware. On the other hand, Cyberlink's tech support has been very helpful the couple times I e-mailed them. Six channel surround doesn't seem to be implemented very well on a lot of hardware. The jacks for Surround...

You're also making the assumption that there won't be some kind of change in energy prices over the life of the systems. I'd guess that there will be, and that change will favor the most energy efficient chips. On the other hand, I saw a real reduction in my power bill when I switched en masse...

6 USB cards * 4 USB ports each = Yummy Meat Burnination. In Japanese. Normally I think of Japanese culture as some kind of weirdly diseased tentacle-fetishizing, anime-loving, raw fish eating waste of humanity, but one must respect the Tech Fu of a culture that produces a USB electric grill. I...

I was on at around 3:00AM as well. :P

Yes, but only certified OEMs can have cards that properly support those DRM features. HDMI is essentially just DVI + Digital Sound otherwise. HDMI compatibility is BAD regardless. Completely borked. I have a small number of HDMI equipped devices (TV, a projector, an HD-DVD player) and none of...

I'm given to understand that Firefox is closer to full Acid2 compatibility than IE6 is or IE7 will be. If "standards compliance" were fully a selling point for a browser, IE wouldn't still have 80something percent of the browser market, would it? I'd rather have a fully standards-compliant...

If it makes you feel any better, I was tempted to buy some just because I know I can resell them for $50 more than I paid. I still might do it; I know some gamers who would be very happy to get an upgrade.

I'm pretty sure it's S*ny.

woot has $140 Nvidia 7900GS video cards right now, which looks like about $100 off what anything else with that chip would cost.

That is what I'm looking for. I'd like to get at least six such modules, and at this point I've given away all that I have.

Lots

Anyone have spare 168pin SDRAM laying around? I'd like to find rather more than I have. I'll buy 128MB and 256MB modules.

I would be strongly inclined to stick with the platform that lets me re-use the RAM I have already. I don't think there's much gain to be had in DDR2. Particularly when the "good stuff" isn't affordable to begin with. IMO 939 has a lot of life left in it.

I've found the top (blowhole) fan needs frequent cleaning on the P180 to keep it from making noise. The door might be a positive or negative for people as well. I actually had to replace someone's case because they didn't like the door. Which was OK. I put them in a $60 solution series and...

14 Computers. Zero network. The fastest PC is an HP Vomit Box, a Celeron 2.8GHz with 256MB RAM. The second-fastest is a Compaq P4/1300 with 128MB. I have thrown away better PCs than the second best system they have. There are six PCs of Pentium-class, four of them P54Cs (non-MMX)...

Four or five years ago, I would've eaten a busload of nuns for a combination SACD/DVD-Audio player for $150. What the hell are you complaining about?

Nothing about Firefox/Phoenix/Firebird could've messed anything more serious than your default browser setting, Lunar. Everything Firefox does goes in its own keys in the registry and always has. Firefoxes are real creatures. They are also called Red Pandas. The logo is a Firefox chasing its...

In a training environment, you want people to be able to see around the monitor, Buck. :) Also, and I plan to continue to bitch about it until it gets better, where the hell are the 24" 4:3 monitors? Grrr.

Reimaging isn't a time-limited process. It takes four and a half minutes now, which I'm fairly certain is limited by the speed of the hard disks involved. I don't see a RAMdrive making that better.

Yeah. O'Reilly and Associates has a book called "Wireless Hacks" that goes into some detail about a Linux-based PC router along those lines.

There's a shock. On the plus side, I've recently had people ask me about Linux/MySQL who I didn't think could spell SQL.

Realistically, there's no reason for any of those things. These machines will sit in a lab and be unused for probably 95% of their 3-year shelf life. They don't need graphics hardware beyond what's needed to run Vista.... which the 6100 is perfectly capable of doing. They don't need SCSI drives...

One of our training clients wants new computers. He set a budget of $1500 per PC. No monitor, just the PC. And a seperate budget for labor and support for three years. The sad thing is, I can't figure out how to spend more than slightly over half that amount. X2/4800 Antec NSK4400 Case 2GB...

I'm not exactly sure what it is you're wanting to do here. Why not just bridge with an AP like a normal person?

Oh, I've been laughing all day. It's only just made it to Pennsylvania?

That's a Firefox!

It's about damned time.

That was a reply to the suggestion that the gentleman seeking an upgrade could buy a high-end Celeron. Which he couldn't, 'cause his motherboard uses socket 423, which Intel hasn't used in ages. And you posted that while I was replying. :P I *do* believe that there are "just scrap the whole...

Intel dropped socket 423 in 2002, if I recall correctly.

Fun links from somethingawful.com (which may not be the best site to visit at work, but there's nothing bad about these links). First: Retail Worker Horror Stories: Part 1 Part 2 Second... Did you all know that AOL released years of its users' search records to the public? They did, stripping...

Here's a fun idea. Just got off the phone with a guy who wants to upgrade his PC. I told him there's probably no point, he should just buy a new one. Nope, he wants an upgrade. He has a 1.4GHz P4. A six-year-old PC. It would need a new PSU (200W), a new motherboard, new RAM (his uses RIMMs)...

The new X2/3800s I have don't seem to be able to handle 2.6GHz. 2.4GHz is reasonable for them, but I'm not 100% sure they're fully stable. If the 3600 can typically be overclocked to stable 2.6GHz, I'm going to feel stupid for wasting ~$25 on each of the 3800s I bought. Grrr.

We're bombarded with them. Handruin probably has to delete five or six accounts a week. I don't post as much on the weekend because I'm usually out doing contract work, which usually means three or four hours in my car (no internet) and six or eight hours actually working. And I imagine other...

It MAY be required; you're switching HALs, after all.

Russian Spammers. :)

I'd like to know how a baseline nvidia 6100 works with it, and I'd like to know if the Dual Core thing is just BS. A $60 x700 seems like it might be OK; those are roughly on par with the old 9700. I've got a group of 12 guys who are in a guild(?) who want these machines. Some of them have a...

It has suddenly become important for me to be an expert on World of Warcraft and specifically what kind of hardware one needs to reasonably max out graphics performance in Wow. Problem: I don't have WoW or access to anyone who does have it. Here's what I do know: Blizzard's POS has problems...

I'd suggest paying a 12-year-old to do it, which is the step Stereodude left out.

Where it goes depends on how you installed it. I use the .tar.gz and put it in /usr/local along with everything else that doesn't come with the system. I don't remember having to do anything more special than running config-pl and running the app to make it work, but it's been a while since I...