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I enjoy movies. As I said, I *can* get 24 in a week, if I'm sufficiently motivated. Usually it is just 8 or 16, plus maybe another 8 from wantedlist.com (for, uh, the other kind of movies I like). But for example I could grab a couple series' worth of Star Trek or the X Files in a week, and...

Nero has a really nice audio editor builtin. Well, OK, not REALLY nice, but more than good enough to do the job. You'll need an amplifier for your turntable and a set of stereo RCA to mini-jack connectors. Total cost, even if you have to buy the record player, should be under $200.

It can be 24 DVDs a week, if I try hard enough. I notify them of return the day they ship out and with the one day turnaround to the Chicago shipping center, I get movies three times a week.

I note they haven't changed the price of the plan *I'm* on. :(

I wrote software to help me sort it. It's not really a big deal. Lots of people basically do the same thing with their email. Clocker, LM already said most of his drives are external firewire units.

Multimedia console. It's the catch-all for ATI's video viewing and capture applications.

I've read that they've already split the engineering group that was responsible for soundstorm into different product groups. I don't think we'll see a future version of it. The good news is, there's enough outcry that perhaps someone will take up and champion the technology someplace else (a...

I did my Steam rant a few weeks ago. It's in some other thread here. Anyway, girls play games. My little LAN party in my office was 15% Estrogen-american. Y'know what? They were all cute, too. Anyway, I think the only part of this that's even remarkable is a mainstream acknowledgement of the...

I'm sure it will, but it will be built on AC97 or some similarly crappy standard, rather than the drool-worthy Soundstorm codec. IIRC new intel southbridges do Pro Logic II, but IMO that's the least-pleasant of the fake-5.1 encoding methods. I don't have THAT much of an opinion on DD5.1 vs. DTS...

USB is REALLY poorly implemented for some things. There are a lot of USB devices that won't work unless they're attached directly to a root hub. Converter products (USB-Serial, USB-SCSI) have been hit or miss for me. I bet your mouse just isn't getting whatever the hell it needs to work from...

Anything newer than an 8500, Coug. VideoSoap isn't THAT impressive and only works with ATI's MMC.

I sell on the order of 50 systems a year. Tannin probably does ten times that number. We both use and recommend Via over its alternatives. Hm...

Over a year ago nvidia made a press release stating their intention to offer a soundstorm based sound card And, for the record, the NV1 graphics product was integrated as a dual purpose video and sound card. nVidia HAS made sound chips before. Anyway, I'd commit vile and heinous crimes to have...

I had an old Microsolutions Parallel port CD-ROM and an old Pinnacle MP10 that also would not function properly with my collection of laptops. Eventually I found that most non-printer parallel devices required EPP communication, which was not supported on the oldest Dell and IBM notebooks I owned.

Last I checked, Shakespeare wrote in English, OT:Polizei.

Soundstorm is a DSP that converts PCM sources to Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. You've stated opposition to surround sound in the past, but here's the thing: It's wonderful for gaming, and as far as things go, the soundstorm process does a vastly better job than other 5.1 upconverting techniques I'm...

No one has a chance against Lakers. :P

I think I found a good use for a small nuclear weapon. Really, this completely and totally fucking sucks.

Second floor to first works much better in practice.

Yesterday I ran into a problem I found rather unusual. A few weeks ago I sold a Home Theater PC to a college student whom I thought was reasonably "on the ball" as far as computers went. She told me that videos played in windows media player didn't play back on her TV. She said they show up as...

Acronis works wonderfully and does a better job with RAID volumes and SATA drives than ANYTHING else. It can work while windows is running. It's a solid product. That said, I still do everything with Ghost, mostly due to inertia.

Before you throw that WD drive in the box to RMA, you might try pulling its jumper and using it in Cable Select mode. WD drives are REALLY funny about that...

There are a variety of solutions to these problems on sourceforge.net and Freshmeat.net. I haven't used any in the last three years; I'm not sure my experience would have any validity at this point. In the commercial realm, SuSE has an Exchange replacement that I've heard good things about...

I've seen Hitachi drives for $145 with no rebate at all. Plus there's the hunting and killing part.

Poor choice of pairings: PIO-mode devices on the same IDE channel as UDMA devices lead to having two PIO mode devices (lesson: don't put an LS-120 on the same cable with anything you actually want to use) Single-ended devices do the same thing to LVD SCSI. And while I'm at it improper...

Data set is a big one. Most drives these days are optimized for high transfer rates and rather unappealing access times. If your data set consists of lots of little files (e.g. thumbnails of graphics files), your performance will generally be poor. Another might be bus contention, particularly...

I've had good experiences and bad experiences with it. The "Bad" mostly have been machines that either are or were heavily infected with parasite spyware badness at some point prior to installing SP 2. I've seen a few PCs with incompatible applications that were important enough to cause...

The X300, X600 and X700 are all PCI express.

There are plenty of PCI-express video cards. ATI makes at least three, and newegg sells them. I'd guess the crap factory that is nVidia likewise makes a couple as well.

I visited several of the vbulletin forums. Gotta say I'm not enamoured with the look of it.

Users in City of Heroes are planning memorials. On the server I play on a number of high-level players will be standing near the costume shops, giving away money so people can change their costumes to black. Others are dropping their capes or adding an "S" to their outfits. It sounds like a...

Basically, I have no idea what's going on with the backend. phpbb seems to work and I don't know what we'd gain from a change. So... what do we gain out of the switch?

Well, yeah, but I still feel the need to complain about it.

I've had a lousy time getting anything to work over 8x. Normally I buy Verbatim DVD+Rs for my personal needs, but I've tried Memorex and generic "8x" discs. The Memorex discs my LiteOn drive wants to use at 2.4x (ouch), the generics (Prodisc?) underrun if I try 8x, but work OK at 4x. Guess it...

Samsung's hutil is the error checking tool for Samsung drives.

I've got a nforce 220 board here that can use an XP 2400... might as well. Sigh.

All the motherboards I'm familiar with that have 64-bit PCI slots are Serverworks or Intel server boards. I'm not aware of any that offer AGP *and* 64-bit PCI. Might be worthwhile to upgrade to PCI express peripherals if you really need that level of performance.

I need to design a site for my little LAN thing. The goat-sucking bastards currently hosting my website can't even handle keeping a 3-line CGI script working properly. Sigh. I'm finally going to have to break down and get real web space of my own.

<checks another thread> Ah. So I am. Neat. But not anything to make a big deal of at this point. Just means I don't shut up. Why not recognize the guys who DON'T post incessantly yet still make valuable contributions here, like Jan Kivar or LiamC or CityK or e_dawg (or the others, who I am not...

Two things: One is that I've found it to be a royal pain in my ass to determine if the folding client is actually doing anything, if it's just running and waiting for a server response or something. I've had machines that I thought were folding, that actually were doing nothing for, well...

<sniff> <sob sob sob> <Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah> I was offered - by one of my students, no less - an nvidia FX5900 (aka Leafblower) - for $125 last night. Just, out of the blue: "I just got a 6800 Ultra. Do you know anyone who wants a 5900?" Of course, I hate nvidia with a dark passion and...

Is this the thread you were thinking of?

It does work. We do it in my office because comcast wants to charge us per port we use on the router/access device they provided. The obvious caveat is that you might need to change the address range for one router or the other. Most of them seem to use 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x by default, so...

I hope that you have good luck in China, Howell. I'm sure it will be a fascinating experience.

You can somewhat enhance video on the fly if you use ATI's capture app with an ATI card, but the Conexant TV cards are cheap and work as well for VHS tape. Honest.

All the programs that make DVD, that I have found, are at least somewhat buggy. That said, these are my recommendations: Get a cheap Leadtek or other Conexant-based TV tuner/capture card ($30). Cheap in this case DOES NOT MEAN BAD. Get a DVD burner. I'm partial to liteon models. ($50ish) Get a...

Meh. Probably killed off the romans, too. :)

Handy Windows Install CD making thing

Not that I could tell. But then, it isn't like sol.exe got gobs better when it was recompiled as a 32-bit application, either.

It's a tribute to the sci-fi serials of the 30s. If you've ever seen the old Flash Gordon reels, that's the feeling it's going for. Actually, it has that much in common with the Indiana Jones movies, which were essentially a better realization of 30s action serials. Anyway, there's a whole...