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Thank you Lunar and Groltz. Taz, you have to understand that there is forum history on that one particular subject. Normally we do strive to have open fora - 95% of our moderator action is to remove spam/commercial speech or (Santilli's) duplicated posts. That's because the people who visit...

Er, you could just take checks and no paypal. Checks just take too damned long to clear. I won't buy anything off ebay unless I can pay with paypal. I hate futzing around with other payment systems. Checks and the like are a problem for me.

Not really. I basically have a great deal of redundant storage.

I managed to get my distributor to take them back, not Hitachi. Anyway, regarding my RAID recovery: I let Runtime software's RAID recovery make an image of the ruined RAID. This is a process that has been running for, uh... 15 days. Approximately. Fortunately the machine that's going to run...

Coug, I think the ATI 939 chipset includes DVI. Every tech I've talked to has said they are excellent.

I like to think I know what mashed-up bugs would taste like, 'cause I had vegemite once. Oddly enough, I ordered some Trackman Marble mice earlier in the week. My supplier shipped trackman vistas, those abortions that Tannin likes. They're in that annoying price range where it's stupid to send...

Trust me, you don't want to get into it.

One of them is in long-term storage and not driveable. Insurance is just another check I have to write. Not a big deal. At one time I even had another car, but I gave it to my ex-. Someday I'm going to get rid of one of my cars for a van or something a little more practical for my needs (I...

Also: The trailer for "Ice Age 2" (regrettably in Quicktime Stinky Format) may very well be worth $7 on its own.

So there was another Super Hero movie out today. Of course, that meant I had to pay $7 to see it. The movie was Sky High. A Disney Movie. Rated PG. Or Maybe G. Something not R. And I saw it as the only adult in the theater who did not bring along wombspew. And despite the fact that it was so...

Since I only use Via-based motherboards with onboard S3 video, or Via Boards and ATI Radeons, I'm not seeing much point in something like that.

For a while I was using a credit processor that had essentially come into existance to process signups for porn sites on the internet. It was great - the fees were very reasonable as long as there weren't chargebacks (kind of a problem for porn sites). But two years ago, Visa and Mastercard got...

Mostly I am immobile. It suits me. I own three cars. I really only drive one of them. There's a silver one, a black one and another black one. Transportation is boring.

Yes, but according to that "Layers of Hell" test that LiamC posted yesterday, I'm a heretic!

Clearly this is an underused emoticon. Perfect for any discussion of Vegemite. :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl: :hurl...

The Paypal horror stories tend to involve Paypal freezing money left in the account. Paypal will do this at times for as little as a single complaint. I use Paypal on both a home and a business bank account, and I can't say it's been a problem for me. But other people really do have valid...

Yes, but your people also like Vegemite. I rest my case.

As a proper trackball user - rather than a user of the abortions you're describing, I can only say that if you sat and used a Trackman Marble for any length of time, you would be able to use it just fine. I can make even very tiny and precise movements with my trackballs, even using my right...

Let's keep talk of horses out of the sex toy thread!

They ALL look like sex toys!

There are now two different Linux distributions for the NSLU2. I understand Debian/ARM isn't working perfectly, but it is working. $99 for a Debian machine + apt for package installs is a TON of flexibility, slow writes or not.

Welcome New Guy! Are you a friend of Tannin's?

Looks like a sex toy to me, but it's supposed to be some kind of pointing device.

Happy 0th birthday to James! Although, if anyone had asked me, I would've suggested a more conventional name. Like Zoltan. :)

It's against the rules, MaxBurn. But, I could probably mention that there's a site called IsoHunt...

I'm partial to just painting some empty space on a wall with reflective paint, myself.

And, of course, the torrent download is 7.4x faster for me than the one from the MSDN site.... <cough>

I am now downloading the beta. 2.42GB, released as a DVD .ISO. I hope to have it running on something or other in the next couple days.

Seems silly to me to get rid of a perfectly functional keyboard just because there's something newer. I haven't found PS/2 to USB converters to work reliably.

Version 7 works pretty well. Loads a metric assload faster, and is less annoying about leaving parts of itself running when you close an acrobat window/tab. However, I hate the AcroExch plugin Adobe made for Moz-based browsers with a fiery passion. In particular, I hate that it only downloads...

Have you ever wanted to make a CD from a .cue and a .APE file? Ever wanted to put an .AC3 on a music disc? Wish Nero could do something useful with all your .Oggs? You need Nero Plugins!

What I've been installing lately is the Kazaa Lite Mega Codec Pack.. It's a one-shot deal for pretty much every oddball video format.

I haven't seen a case like that since the end of the last century.

And, even though I paid for overnight shipping and "Rush Order" same-day processing... and met their criteria for those functions (order in by noon PST, CC validation by 12:30), I see my order is still sitting at "Stage One" in processing, which they say means that my card hasn't been charged...

Physically, it WILL fit. But you'll have to mod your case, since 3/4 of the screw holes will be in the wrong place.

Heh. Maybe Microsoft will just include proper volume management in their OS...

Try a different ASPI library? Like Ahead's, maybe?

We already have standard placement for Ethernet, sound and USB. Firewire, eSATA and digital audio are all very much niche applications. You'd rather have those things than make millions of people buy new keyboards, mice and printers?

Yeah. Never got anyone. After two hours my MBNA CSR's shift ended. MBNA upped my credit limit so I could just run the order again. If Newegg doesn't manage to overnight this I am declaring fatwa on all of La Puenta, California. Thing is, I've called Newegg before and gotten a human being on the...

Newegg.com. 93 minutes on hold so far. With a rep from my credit card company. Can't go to lunch. Can't go to the bathroom. Wanna kill someone. Thank you.

Well, they don't SAY that. :) $5k for a SANish solution is very inexpensive, how's it going to happen without the hardware?

What the bloddy hell is wrong with serial and parallel again? Or PS/2, for that matter?

There was a segment of US DOJ that floated the idea of deporting the kid that wrote Sasser to the US to face the death penalty. No kidding. I guess $14 billion in estimated damages is a big deal to some people.

No, the receiver has to be able to handle a Dolby Digital bitstream. Which anything with digital inputs should have.

I thought the P180's weird orientation would present a problem, but at least on my Soltek board, it did not. In any case, a 24-pin ATX extension cable costs a whopping $3. I see no reason not to use AMD's stock HSF. It's quiet and effective.

Greg, The main thing the X-Mystique does is real-time encoding of stereo sources to 6-channel discrete dolby digital. To use that, the X-Mystique has to be connected via a digital coax or optical cable to a Home Theater Receiver with Dolby Digital processing capabilities (basically anything...

There isn't much of anything that goes in a 1x lane. A couple companies make NICs, Matrox has its thing, and that's about it. No modems, no sound cards (that I know of), no TV capture cards. What else goes in a PCIe slot?

I really think AMD got it right with the 754 retention system. You don't even need a screwdriver for that one. Except for the fact that, 90% of the time, when you try removing the HSF, you also get the CPU...

Er... what goes in a 16x PCIe slot besides a graphics card? Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of a 1x card, but where's the other hardware that will take advantage of this tremendous amount of I/O? OK... well, googling I find that Tekram has the ARC-1210, which is a 6-port card (actively...

Four 250GB disks at this point cost MAYBE $500. Another $350 for a SATA RAID controller. Spend the rest on a hot spare. That's $1000. What's Microsoft doing with the other $4000? As far as off site storage for disk-based systems, one of my clients uses a SATA enclosure and some extra disk...