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There are good-looking but useful PC Techs??? Seriously. Where is she? And why don't I have her phone number? Quit holding out on us, Buck.

Background: Right now I have two of these things I am not using, and a PVR-USB2. PVR250s are incompatible with an astonishing array of video applications. Which means you pretty much have to build a PC, install the PVR250 and its drivers before anything else, and then hope no other software you...

I'll buy whatever I have to buy in order to get soundstorm. As long as it isn't an nvidia graphics card.

Seriously, the absolutel LAST thing you want is ANYTHING on a Hauppauge card. My most recent experiences with them show that it would be just as easy to get an ISA card working in a modern PC as a PVR250.

There was some discussion on slashdot of using a GPU as a 3D audio processor. Multichannel audio and 3D sound are apparently processor-intensive but of course the "big two" video hardware manufacturers have cards with cycles to spare. It would supremely annoy me if Soundstorm 2 came packaged...

Also yesterday, the last Pentium II rolled off an Intel assembly line. Not as interesting or useful, but I had a "they still make Pentium 2s?" moment. I guess as long as embedded customers demanded it, they did.

It's very much like the deal between IBM and Hitachi. It's a joint venture with IBM as a minority partner, and license for Lenovo to use the names for some period of time. Yes, I'm worried about how that will change Thinkpad build quality but apparently IBM has been outsourcing the actual...

Much as I hate Symantec, it's what I typically use. What I've found in a lot of cases is that if I use something different (recently I've tried Kapersky and Panda), some dumbass will either hound me about not having "brand name" AV software, or they'll just install Norton/Macafee anyway (thereby...

I've decided that consumer-grade VPN pass-thru is a myth.

Run xfree86config and try again. :P

IMO there's no good reason to upgrade from a 2200. 2800s aren't THAT much faster. Cascade it down to a second PC and wholesale-replace board and CPU. A couple weeks ago I had a 1.2GHz Duron installed in a machine that normally has an Athlon64/3000. With the same 1GB of RAM I barely noticed the...

As I understand it these things are unattainable to the general public right now, web store notwithstanding. The price seems reasonable for a palmtop on steroids, actuallly. But I'm not sure what good they are. What program are you going to run on one of those, with your limited screen...

Couple things: 1. The way the certification exam goals read, there is no need to interact with a GUI at all. None, zero, zip. So I'm setting up a linux box, and I'm just going to have them telnet into it (yes, ssh is better. No, I don't feel like installing an ssh client on my classroom PCs)...

Yeah, that one hurts. What a great line of CPUs. At least, with the socket outliving the CPU, we'll probably be able to get motherboards for some time to come.

Share the wealth! :) Bad sectors are always a reason to replace a drive IMO. But if a drive is working, I tend to think it'll continue to work. I still have one of two 75GB 75GXPs in service at home (the other had a head crash, which I'd call "natural causes" given the weird symptoms other...

If you had 40 hours of classroom time with a Linux expert (er... that's me, in this case), is there anything in particular you'd want to take away from your time in class? Found out I have to teach a Linux+ certification class starting tomorrow. I looked at the objectives and passed the test...

AOL was a "bigger company" in terms of market cap than Time Warner, too. Remember those days? Sad thing is, I own some shares of Intel and I still appreciate the irony.

That doesn't make me wrong, time. :P I'd rather wait 3 extra seconds to get a page that's 50% loaded and completely accurate than get the first 10% of a page 3 seconds early with none of its elements in a fixed position.

In the past I've combed through HTML and used something like wget to snag the individual file. Heck, even typing the URI for the .swf file in your location bar works for getting the "save" option.

There's still the whole laundry list of things Firefox does better than Opera, from our last go-round on the topic. I seriously doubt if any of the things that bugged me about it last time I tried it have gotten any better. Opera no-doubt would still have me chasing screen elements as it changed...

Yes, that's the same model I have on my PCs. I have one 3C2000 as well.

Speaking of good deals on 19" LCDs... I found this on Newegg today. Never heard of the brand but the specs look AWFULLY nice for a desktop monitor (700:1 contrast, 170 degree viewing angle, DVI support), and the price is nothing to complain about, either.

It's sitting on my nightstand but I haven't read it yet. I'm alternating between Stephenson's Quicksilver books (which I'm not enjoying but feel compelled to finish for some reason possibly related to curing my insomnia) and Ian Banks' "Culture" series (which I am enjoying and hence trying to...

I've never heard a Arbor Day Carol, either.

Spybot "immunization" is nothing more than adding a bunch of sites to a hosts file. I've seen spyware that directly overwrites the hosts file, so I think immunizing is the wrong word to use.

It's a HAI6SIP. He has better luck with it than I did.

My opinion on the GigE issue: Most of *US* (let alone an average person) don't have the kind of pristine network environment that would let GigE shine. I did my own cabling in my house, used cat6 cables, minimum-distance runs etc. ... and GBoC is still kind of a let-down even with the Intel PCI...

There WAS supposed to be a "shopping walk-out" protest on Nov. 26th but it got almost no media coverage - maybe because media companies depend so heavily on pushing DVD and book sales in their news organizations. I'll bet this the first anyone here heard of it.

Gaaaaahhh! I heard "Christmas Wrapping" today, in the Supermarket. It's not even December yet! What's wrong with people!

That site can be obnoxious at times, so it probably isn't you. I think maybe last time I needed it I got it directly from Simtel...

Cleansweep DOES work but I haven't used it since Symaneviltec took it over. There's probably a freeware program somewhere that does the same thing. A tool I really like for Identifying troublespots is Spacemonger Which tells you at a directory level where the hell all your space went.

Women become gigolos? Well, OK, I guess with enough hormone therapy...

Pradeep, I have been where you are, and it is not a pretty or a fun thing to do.

Meh. I swapped everything - EVERYTHING but the motherboard and CPU, that impacts DVD burning. Different PSU, different burner, different cable, retail copy of Nero from original disc, clean Windows install, even a stack of nice Verbatim DatalifePlus +R discs... If nothing fixes it... I dunno...

The Netgear 634U I have access to does not refresh after I make a setting change and restart, when I use Firefox. Seems to work with IE. This is the reason for my previous statement.

I think the Ringo books hit me hardest. I picked up the first book as an "I'll take a chance on this, it's only $6" purchase... And ended up driving back to the bookstore to pick up the next two volumes the same evening. And finishing all three - around 1800 pages all told - by 9AM the next...

Inspirational reading: Try The Baen Free Library. I recommend 1632 (the author's wife is actually someone I've taught in a class) or On Basilisk Station or A Hymn Before Battle

Cardiac arrest isn't just fun and games. Sure, some people are engineered to survive it. Evsai was not one of them. We had barely 5.31 seconds to get to know one another, but even at that the combination of pulse change and eye dilation told me that he didn't know. Even without billions of...

Every current-generation MMO needs 1GB RAM to be genuinely tolerable. UT2004, Farcry, Doom3 and HL2 are all VASTLY better if experienced on 1GB RAM. A lot of new games are listing 256MB as a minimum supported configuration. I'd say anyone who describes himself as a gamer is going to want the...

General observations: Linksys equipment consistently offers marvelous range and good signal strength. THey are easy to modify with new antennae or hacked firmware. Their hardware, however, isn't highly reliable, as the stack of broken WRT54Gs (usually, the WAN port dies or wireless stops...

Case - clone of the Antec Performance case... at $35, even without a PSU, they're far, far better than the $100 Antec version. CPU + HSF Motherboard - there is no reason, NONE to go with the nforce3. 1GB RAM is an absolute minimum for game play. Anything less just sucks. This is a paired...

LiteOn for the most part have been very good for me. I've bought about 50 of them (8 and 16x Dual Layer models, mostly) in the last 3 months, so that's a decent sample size. I've also had good luck with NEC 8x units, but I've only purchased maybe a dozen of those.

I saw this on Slashdot Yesterday.. Spybot Search and Destroy did VERY poorly in these tests, confirming something I suspected before I ever read the article. The "winner" was Giant Anti-Spyware, a product I have not heard of before. The testing methodology does not appear to consider the use...

Microwaved it. :) But, OK, I have Roxio. It is lame and won't make video DVDs but I guess I can try making a data DVD or something.

I've been contemplating stepping down to 5.5, actually.

I build PCs like her's more or less weekly that don't have these problems.

Memory has been swapped. Went from Crucial to Mushkin IIRC (upgraded from 512MB to 1GB, about 6 weeks ago). Uninstalled Nero OEM before installing Nero Retail. She went back to Nero OEM when I ghosted her PC (at that time I suspected RAM). PSU? One would think that would manifest in other ways...

That is highly disappointing. I can go from a K6 or Pentium all the way to an Athlon 64 or P4 on a single system image with Via. I haven't had nearly as much luck getting nforce-anything to work that way.

Seems like I'm having a harder time finding KT600 boards. I can still get Gigabyte VT600s right now, but has anyone else noticed a marked decline in the availability of Via-based boards lately?

Read it already. Nothing helpful. :( Hard disk is a Samsung 120GB. I would not sully anyone's PC with a WD drive at this point. Two different copies of Nero 6 have been tried. XP's builtin burning for CDs works OK. Nero can also burn a CD just fine. The ease of use in DVDShrink + Nero...