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I'm comparing mine to WD2500JBs, Maxline 300s and Samsung 200GB units. I don't see Seagate drives very often.

No. I just want to see what I can get off these drives. For the record, Easy Recovery Pro got nothing. Nada. Active Partition Undelete didn't see anything, either. Get Data Back for NTFS did something interesting: It managed to recover some data - about 20% of the array, actually - well enough...

7k250s are certainly much warmer than other drives I've used in the 200 to 300GB range.

Odd that Pradeep mentioned how hot Hitachi drives get in his other post... Over the weekend I got my replacement batch of 20 7k400 SATA drives, and I decided to use some of them to move around some existing data. So Saturday I installed four of them on a cheap 4-port controller controller, a...

That's normal for Hitachis, yes, even with some amount of active cooling.

Well, I'm looking at the patch notes for the next update to the game, and I'm not happy about them. I'm almost to the point that I think the only good game is Master of Magic. Or maybe the non-sucky original Half-Life. It's not like there's tons of new PC games any more. Once you discount...

This thread just gets better every time I see it.

It's finished metal, and the cables are laying flat on either side of it. The piece in question could just as easily be plastic. I just think having a hook or strap there is a really great idea.

I just noticed that, while Gigabyte has BIOS flashes to make top-end Semprons work with three year old motherboards, Asus is restricting support only to certain PCB revs, and apparently only to newer Socket A boards. ... and the CPU support web page for Asus motherboards has been offline for a...

OK, it's not stupid. But I found the neatest thing on a cheap, $18 case (thankfully, it wasn't $18 with a power supply). What is it? It's a 1" thick, 2" long piece of fairly bendy metal that hooks upwards, off the motherboard tray, parallel to the bottom edge of the power supply. It holds all...

That's the one. Download the drivers in the $100 sound card thread in Computers, connect to an HT receiver with SPDIF or Coax, enable Dolby Digital, and hear what I've been raving about hear on SF for the last three years.

jtr, as I recall the basis of the suit wasn't just that the kid stored the songs, but that he'd functioned as a Napster supernode for x number of months, during which time some large number of people downloaded music from him. Still, $90 billion is such a fantastically enormous sum of money that...

X-Mystique. Don't argue. Just buy one. You can thank me later.

Don't ask what I was doing to find this, but there are some seriously funny sound clips on this page: http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/

If you'd bought an X-Mystique, you could've had better sound and better drivers. Hell, if you bought something with a Via Envy, you would've gotten better sound for 20% of what the Audigy cost, and better drivers than Creative OR the X-Mystique. But hey, people who buy Creative hardware deserve it.

All I can say is, if I received third degree burns on my groin from a cup of coffee, I'd be suing everyone from the guy who made that pot to the bastard who grew the beans. It'd be one thing if I spilled coffee and had a little boo-boo on my leg for a couple of days. Fine. But that's not what...

Newegg's drive packaging tends to be lousy. I've gotten four or five DOAs from them. Samsung drives at least come in their plastic shells, but I won't buy a 3.5" Hitachi drive from them, 'cause they just bubble wrap the static bag. I can break Hitachi drives on my own, thank you. Anyway...

I've done it a couple times, for my own amusement. If I can do it from just reading a page of instructions I printed out from google, I don't think anyone else is going to have a very hard time, either.

I've gone and upgraded all of my home machines, no problem. My ex-, however, started getting "Firefox has performed an illegal operation" at random intervals since upgrading.

Well, I finally installed that CLP-550N. And for now, at least, it seems like a GREAT deal. They are dead serious about the low-noise. It makes less noise than a running Microwave, and in it's whole paper transport there're absolutely no percussive sounds - it's all white noise. Mono output was...

Does anyone use webbish stuff to customize Windows' active desktop? Ever? I've seen web developers do neat stuff like set up multiple images in frames as their wallpaper. I was thinking it might be cool to set up my Windows desktop with a set of text links (I don't like icons on my desktop)...

Linksys has it's own tool. I make linksys adaptors work with 2000 Pro all the time.

<eulogy> I can't imagine that finding drivers for modern hardware has been any fun lately. It was a good OS though. It deserved better than it got. I imagine that if it'd had any worthwhile Win32 support, it'd still be a player. That, and marketing. The OS/2 Fiesta Bowl (American football, for...

I think I hate WLANs. The title says it all. I just got to look at an "I just bought it yesterday" DLink AP/Router. No WPA. So I flashed it to the newest firmware. STILL no WPA. Where the f*ck is WPA? Linksys makes all kinds of wireless geegaws now. Toys, almost. Wireless audio systems, range...

What I mean is, the oldest and crappiest technology just refuses to die. In two years, I'll bet we're still installing IDE optical drives, just because the SATA ones will cost more, and we'll still have PATA ports on our boards that aren't doing anything else.

At this point I'm almost convinced that all software utilities that aren't ghost or adaware are snake-oil. I see sooooo much stuff that either doesn't seem to make a difference, or actively obstructs the way a computer should function, that I'm instantly wary of everything.

And yet, 2/3s of my customers still get bitchy if I don't spec for a floppy drive...

OK, now that I've finished picking piece of my brain off the wall behind me, I'm thinking you would do well with Coyote Linux. It's got a 2.4 kernel, which ought to be good enough for anything a router might be doing.

Er... new hardware? For a Floppy Linux distro? Like what? NIC? 'Cause it's not like you'd be using anything else. /Merc's head asplodes.

I remember being about 8 years old and my parents driving the blue ridge parkway. It was early July, about 95 degrees out, and we were in, IIRC a Taurus wagon... I was in the back seat, between my two brothers. End result was we spent 12 or 14 hours driving that day. They ooh'd and ahh'd over...

You pretty much want to dedicate a PC to vidcap no matter what hardware you have. It really sucks when your dedicated MPEG capture device can't write to the hard drive because you browsed to a web site with an extra-obnoxious Java app.

I think it's worth $50 to get a hardware encoder as well, but honestly, MPEG encoding with zero dropped frames is possible on even a pretty low-end 1GHz machine.

Well, that pretty much covers it. Typical Asus crap. Be glad that your machine has a floppy drive, at least. Asus won't let you do BIOS updates except from an actual floppy disk in an actual floppy drive on a 34-pin floppy cable.

In Indiana at least, the recording party is not required to inform anyone, and can record without consent. How's THAT for civil liberty?!? Also, I find the best answer to "How are you today?" to be anything that's not a standard reply. "Seething with rage." is good when speaking to level 1...

The king is dead. Long live the King.

Greg, I'm almost 100% positive that Walgreens/Walmart/Kmart is the best way to get photos printed. Sometimes as cheap as $.19 a print. At the office we use an Epson 1280 with a continuous ink system for everyday photo printing. The ink system keeps the costs down to something manageable. We...

Aw, Buck put something together for me. ;) It's very tasteful. Now at some point I just need to actually do something with it. Preferably during a less busy time at work. Thanks to everyone who offered help!

Coug, LOST, do those amounts include a mortgage or something? I think I've carried a balance on my credit cards maybe four times (one of those times I had a balance on a card of like $4.57, that I just didn't feel like writing a check for). I remember basically my whole income for two years...

The good news is, I get to send all of them back. At least I'm not losing anything.

I think that wasn't an option in this case. My customer wanted 1. Color Laser printing and 2. for that color printer to be quiet. Printers aren't and never have been a one-size-fits-all product.

This may be a silly question, but how do you guys get that much CREDIT?

1. callcct.com sells S-Video cables for $1.50 apiece. Even a Sony or JVC editing deck that has proper S-video output is only a couple hundred bucks, new. 2. You - the Granite Digital fanboy - are complaining about the cost of cables. If your ATI card isn't able to take input from a VCR, I'm...

Greg, that's true of almost every low cost laser printer.

Oh. The Sceptre monitors are out of budget, then. :( I and the customers I've given them to have been quite happy with the $280 19" model. Mainly, the thing that recommends them to me is the combination of low cost, good dot pitch (some of the cheapie monitors have .28!) and excellent...

I'd say that machine is massive overkill. Even if they're implementing fairly serious transaction processing on Foxpro on SQL Server, that machine is probably massive overkill. Actually though, my main concern is the nVidia 6200. Even setting aside my usual suspicions about nvidia hardware...

Well I put in my nice new gaming rig in the P180. I went with a 90nm A64/3200, because I wanted a 90nm chip and there weren't any 3000s about. So it's a SL-K8TPro-939 A64/3200 that can probably be overclocked somehow (never bothered with an A64, but if I can get it to 2.2GHz I'll be happy)...

Greg, dscaler is quite spiffy if your source video is nice. I wouldn't want to watch something that was poorly captured (e.g. Paris Hilton sex tapes) on it but it makes, say, caps from cable or prepackaged VHS tape look pretty darn good. I alternate between being pissed at snapstream and...

It's the something-550N-something or other. I haven't had it out to install it yet. It's been sitting in its enormous box taking up about 80% of the free floor space in my tiny office for about two weeks now.

Handy, I *really* like the Scepter Xg9 19" models from Newegg. There are two models, maybe a $20 price difference between them. The one with the faster response time is a little less bright according to spec, but I've really had good luck with those displays.

I had an excuse to buy one - in my recent move the front faceplate on one of my desktop machines basically cracked in half. Normally, I hide computers if possible (they go in closets or inside desks or behind curtains or whatever), but this particular PC is my gaming PC and it sits right out...