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Someone hasn't worked on enough Packard Bell hardware. :)

I got the LPIC-2 not too long ago.

Pull the BIOS battery inside the case for a minute. If it's soldered in, strip some phone cable and lay the bare wire between the battery and something metal on the chassis, and flip the power on for a second. After that you will not have a password.

I will be offline starting nowish until May 3rd, when a Comcast henchperson comes to bring me cable, between suckling goat and vestal virgin sacrifice-times. Then I shall have cable, internet and somewhat less soul than I have now.

Offline folders help a lot.

Interesting thing: The obscure album I bought from itunes classical store a week ago is still listed as a "Top Album". I checked it on someone else's PC (one my account has never logged into). So now I'm thinking "Wow, the itunes classical store doesn't even sell 10 different albums in a week."...

OK, raise your hand if you give shit about whether torrents are legal means of distribution.

Well, the amp, sound processor and projector come to a retail price of about $18,000... All I can say is, I'm getting there.

Fortunately the default VGA driver allows 1024x768 resolutions, at least.

1. I've installed it. Driver support is LOUSY. I'm talking 10-year-old x86 commercial unix lousy. 2. You can't upgrade to it. Has to be a fresh install on a different partition from 32-bit Windows. 3. No more 16-bit Windows or 8-bit DOS programs. I didn't have a problem with this, but...

Well, technically those composers would probably be nationalists or impressionists or simply more evolved romantics. I like lots of classical music, even to the point of enjoying 12-tone, serialist and minimalist music, but the insistance on formal composition in baroque and classical styles is...

Must've been a red pill kind of day in Houston.

So is ascii text. Function before form, dammit!

Since I have a rare day at my desk I am going to start new topics on SF! Moving into an apartment has taught me something I did not know: I like a couple of TV shows enough that I want to watch them every week. It taught me something else: I hate Comcast with the kind of driving, permanent...

Hm. Perhaps I needed to zoom in more on my waveforms during visual inspection. :( Oh well. I ordered the real CD anyway. I like liner notes too much.

Can anyone tell from that outburst if Mr. Hendershot is serious or not?

I heard something on the radio this morning and thought "Damn, I really want to get that on CD." That almost NEVER happens to me - maybe once in five years. In part because the finite amount of music that I listen to was mostly written 150 years ago and recorded 30 or 40 years ago, and in part...

There are VERY few situations where they are worthwhile. I've deployed them. I've supported them. I do not like them. Besides the corruption issue, roaming profiles are hell on network bandwidth. Positively lethal. There is nothing worse than an office full of people who can't do any work...

Anyone know how long Samsung has had those 200+GB drives up in their product area?

Well, OK, I agree with the reality TV bit. Television isn't an exactly a medium known for breeding good or even passable speculative fiction, but It's a sad commentary when the major networks in the US each have at least three televised versions of "F*ck your buddy" each and every day of the...

I'll not ever call it an art form. That would imply merit. Japanese-type Anime/Manga is like acid. It eats away at the things I actually enjoy, like science fiction, comic books, computer games and cartoons. It is in my estimation a black hole of culture.

Tannin has birds on the brain, I think.

I have a very, very strong dislike of anime, based on the behavior of those persons I have met who would call themselves fans of it. Someone might say that I shouldn't judge a leader by its followers but in this case my distaste can be matched to personal experience with the genre.

$850 seems entirely reasonable for that kind of density. I just made a single 13-drive machine (one OS drive) with a good old SC720 and a bunch of 7k250s. Damned thing weighs about 90lbs. Took 3 days to build the arrays and transfer the ~1.5TB worth of data to 'em. I'm doing it all with $50...

The big problems with LCD sets basically come down to limited size, poor off-axis viewing and limited brightness. If you're happy with the size and brightness of the display then there really aren't any other issues. Personally, I still prefer DLP/LCoS ("D-ILA") for my display. Both offer...

Yeah. The Spire Micro-flow ones are really loud compared to the BigRocks.

Has or does anyone here actually use iTunes? I installed it once to look at the classical selection and I thought at the time that it was piss-poor. What do you get out of itms that you don't out of a real, actual CD that's yours to keep forever?

Utterly off the subject but today I discovered why the UN's list of the best places in the world to live has Norway beating Canada this year.

I have no problem with it not working while attached to a RAID card. It's a major issue, though, if it doesn't work with a completely standard onboard IDE controller for something as common as a KT600 - and losing support for *any* drive on a KT880, nforce3 and nforce4 means that a substantial...

I'm willing to put up with having to go into DOS to run a BIOS flash or a hardware diagnostic. While we're on the subject, Win32 has been around for 12 years, Linux has been "on the radar" of most hardware vendors for at least five. Why the HELL isn't there a standard library out there for...

This argument probably seems silly to JoJo and bahngeist. IIRC they are both far enough north to get months-long day and night. And RW, from time to time I will say that republicans have a good idea. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, after all. Er, unless it's a 24 hour clock. In which...

I'm trading it to a coworker. Thanks Handy.

I kind-of think this is more on-topic for the Toolbox than the Computers forum so I'm putting it here: I went to download the latest version of PowerMax from Maxtor. On the Current Download Page, I noticed this little gem: In other words, Powermax only works for SATA on Intel motherboards...

I wish that I could spend more time here. :( I seem to have taken on greater responsibility in my "day job" as an IT Trainer. Right now, the classes that I teach are the best-attended ones my company has. As an instructor that means I'm spending more time with my students and less time goofing...

I live in the part of Indiana that's on Central time. I greatly prefer to have hours of light later in the day. Being on Central Standard time in the winter means that, in December, it can be fully dark at 4:30 in the afternoon, which means that a lot of people end up with zero chance to see...

I bought a 4MB Hercules ET4000 ISA card in 1993. $500, but I could use a display at 1024x786x32bit color about three years before just about anyone else. I really wish that I could still use my Voodoo 5500 or for that matter my Voodoo 3000s. They are great for 2D display. A mere half-step below...

If the disc is not commercially produced it can be copied normally, just like a CD.

You get a disc that doesn't play, because you can't copy the part of the disc that contains the cryptographic key for the rest of the disc. Not every Video DVD is encrypted. A lot of documentaries aren't, and neither is porn. The standard forms of copy protection are standard Macrovision and...

Oh, they've been talking about that for years. However, this thing is just about the neatest audio gizmo I've run into in recent memory. Saw one demo'd at my local boutique A/V shop and I gotta say I was impressed, even if they didn't have it all the way set up at the time.

Actually I saw a site a few weeks ago that used flash to display zoomable copies of actual documents right on a web page. Very possibly the first thing I have ever seen done with Flash that I would not immediately call evil.

Well, my hate has been officially transferred.

There's nothing in that collection of parts that looks like it belongs in a gaming box, Greg. At the moment I'd say a solid entry-level gaming machine would be something like... Athlon64 3000 on a K8T800-based motherboard 1GB RAM Some kind of DX9-capable card (I like the Radeon 9550, but a...

In my experience an A64/3500 is still something over 2 hours. I suspect Pradeep's guess is accurate.

As I recall it was one of TAB, F1, F2 or CTRL-S for the BIOS sequence. That model would take 64MB Fast Page or EDO non-parity SIMMs and I am pretty sure it topped out at support for 256MB of RAM. I dimly recall that the CPU was soldered to the board. If I'm wrong it probably has an Intel TX...

That's 250GB, obviously. Not MB. Arg.

Oddly enough, I've used them with 250MB 7k250 ATA drives in Bytecc enclosures, and they've been wonderful. In my office here we use them as unsecured file servers our students can access.

At something under $100, Linksys offers the NSLU2, a Linux-based device that allows connection of one or two USB2 drives. There is a [url=http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Main/HomePage]very active community[url] built around making them more functional. I've used them. They work very well...

As far as I'm aware a drive with nothing written to its boot sector should be readable regardless. Nope. You are missing one or more copies of your partition table.

This is probably slashdotted to holy hell right now, since that's where I found this, but I am *so* happy to see proof that I'm not nuts when it comes to the PVR250 and video quality.

Any country where otherwise reasonable people won't vote for religious nutjobs sounds like utopia to me.