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It appears that in the case of at least one of my Albatron failures, the BIOS battery literally explodede I didn't notice the scarring on the inside of my chassis when I pulled the old board out, but boy is it visible now. Weird.

I've had pretty good luck with googling for "Kazaa Lite Resurection". I I've also seen older versions on the eDonkey network and on torrent sites like suprnova. Not that I ever go there or use horrible, bad, evil programs liek that. ;)

Let's put it this way: There is an association in my mind between gun owners and some really unsavory things. In the midwest we have these very unusual things called "Militias". Like the kind Timothy McVeigh belonged to. Now, these guys aren't all out to topple the UN Shadow Government or...

Only one taker for the iPod porn? Man you guys are a buncha prudes.

Does that mean you've taken the plunge, Buck? I got two of my Albatron boards back today. Man, if these don't work out for me their replacements will be available free of charge in the forsale forum.

ftp.cdrom.com It was a P100 with 500GB of storage in 1995 or so. At its peak it was serving terabytes of files daily. It ran freeBSD, and yes, it was a testment to what a commodity PC could do. And yes, for those who don't know it, if your file server is built properly, a P100 with 64MB RAM...

Didja notice a big difference with your Ultra133 controller on that Athlon64 from the Ultra100 on your old Tyan? Really, all that U320 added were pretty much limited to datacenter level technologies. The workstation you're using at home does NOT need the refinements made to domain validation or...

Andy: You don't need more STR. Almost no one needs more STR. Unless you're multiplexing realtime AV streams or spend most of your day moving CD Images between drives, you probably don't, either. High STR helps your OS start a touch faster. Sometimes games load more quickly. If you spend hours...

That's funny, cause I remember when I was 19 that I had to take a test and get a license to drive a car. Most people don't get into auto accidents or voluntarily hurt things with their car. Again, if all you gun owning people out there are so safe and responsible, why is it an issue? We have a...

Geez. My porn doesn't even come in plain brown wrappers any more. THey MUST be ashamed of their products.

I found some pretty decent porn with an ipod in it tonight. PM me for a URL. It's pretty nice. ;)

FWIW, BluRay is kind of a yucky format IMO. Current readers require a catridge mechanism, and I just can't see that getting very far in consumer adoption. Also, HDDVD also supports VC9. This is really a "keeping up with the Joneses" issue. DRM will almost certainly be attached to any future...

And yes, I'm fully aware that some of those very same phrases and planks also appear in the Democrat's plank. I don't like them there, either.

Hope SteveC is a Mets fan.

Amalgam. Howell, in what way has george w. been "vindicated" with regard to Iraq? Last I checked, the entirety of all "Weapons of Mass Destruction" found in Iraq consisted of an artillery shell of nerve gas that pre-dated the Kuwait war. Unless I was unconcious for some period of time in excess...

Unfortunately, there is now a legal caller ID falsification service in the US, available at star38.com.

Faster disks, anyway. Faster RAM really doesn't make any difference unless you're doing gobs of video rendering work.

Going back to three year warranties. This can only be a good thing. For one thing it means I can go back to buying the odd retail drive if I want. :)

Perhaps I'm not up on the contents of the latest Peoplemagazine, but didn't Arnold admit to doing or seeing a bunch of that stuff while he was a Mr. Universe contestant in the 70s? And wasn't think there a harassment scandal about 2 seconds after he took office? Anyway, I didn't make the list...

I got this in my email today. Normally I wouldn't share it, but I feel the need to irritate more of you than I already have. It's illogical to vote Republican in 2004. It's illogical to vote for the Republican Party in 2004, because you are expected to believe all of this. Religion 1. A...

Instead of merely calling everything a virus and having appropriate definitions, apparently NAV2005 breaks down malware into categories (Worm, Virus, Trojan etc), with different definitions. Some of the things that used to be called viruses now aren't, and may (?) have been removed from current...

Tap Tap Tap Is this thing on? The 3000 and the 3200 are the same chip. They work at the same FSB and multiplier. The difference is that the 3200 has more L1 (IIRC) cache.

... that Symantec is evil. Recently found some machines that had fairly large numbers of viruses - java-based trojans, actually, in the usual locations for such things (Windows Temp Folder and Temporary Internet Files), using my good friend housecall. The funny thing is, I vaguely remember...

Actually, if you read the article, he makes sort of a back-handed statement. IIRC he says something like "I just had to patch firefox the other day." I am FINALLY making inroads at my place of employment in getting people to switch off IE. Someone finally noticed we're making almost as much...

The Socket 754 Sempron is supposed to be the one to buy; the only one with a decent price/performance rating compared to current A64 and XP chips. But given that an A64/2800 is still cheaper...

My client has computers pretty much so he can access the internet with AOL. There really isn't even anything else installed on his PCs, unless you want to see the excel file with his workout schedule. The theoretical security issue with the powerline adaptors - and it IS theoretical, is that...

Sort of. There's a decent gain to be had in jumping from 3000 to 3200. The only difference between the two chips is the doubling of on-die cache. Personally I don't know if that's worth the $50 price difference between the two chips, but then A64 prices have plummeted in the last few weeks...

I like Mozilla Mail. I like Thunderbird. Of course I like and mostly use a text-based client called elm best of all, but in comparison to Outlook, Outlook Express or Lotus notes, MozMail and Tbird are vastly superior.

The Sempron 2800 isn't really in the same performance class as an XP2800. It's more like a 2500. Choose accordingly.

This review references the same environment as this one, specifically a really large house with serious WLAN interference issues. Not that it matters. Since my customer had continuous and ongoing wireless connectivity issues in his home between one particular PC and his wireless AP, I decided...

I find browser cache quite useful. Every once in awhile I have a "serendipity" moment where I remember that I looked at something x days ago that's important to me now. I like being able to rummage through my cache to find that thing. Er, when I can remember which PC I was using.

R's are average-sized. T's are nice and light. X's flutter away when you blow on them. G's are exercise equipment.

There's a sourceforge project called gmailfs now to make your gmail account a mountable filesystem on Linux. Hopefully someone will do something similar for my Yahoo account as well.

Howell, I believe I have sufficient justification for my opinion on that matter. I'll let you know if I ever feel that way about yours.

Er... my understanding is that you have a bunch of model and map files. No executables. I don't know how much models and map files are without a game to go with.

See, that's when I feel the need to visit storageforum to make yet another of my famous "anti-Philips-Head" rants.

Um... I'm alright with screws. Usually.

Do you actually have to pay to beta test?

Those people are heroes, and I'd gladly be one of them. They're standing up against something that is wrong, against the unctious motherfuckers who have used the EXCUSE of national tragedy to ram a whole dystopian agenda down our throats. There's a whole nation of basically unconcious people out...

Joseph, Suffice to say I disagree with some of your evaluations. Your post deserves a long reply, one that you aren't going to get right now. I've ttied to craft a reply that doesn't involve lots of ranting. I like to rant. However, I'm fully aware that everyone here is (from my perspective)...

It's as I said, MORE THAN ONCE, I've had to help a woman who was swearing up and down that her e-mail service wasn't letting her log in. That these people have this problem despite seeing the opening page graphic (last I saw it was a dude with a sheet strategically held over his midsection by a...

Oddly, I can't get housecall to run on one of my PCs, either. Every time I start it, it tells me the definition file is corrupt. I'm not terribly worried about it, but it's something that's never happened before. Maybe the service is having growing pains or something.

They were thusly snottified and returned to Wendy's. I'm not eating there again. I have similar stances about Gloria Jean's coffee shops and Joe's Crab Shack. The clerks in a local Gloria Jean's wouldn't take my order even when I was standing directly in front of the register and waving a $20...

Yup. CISSP is a big deal, and a ton of work. Congratulations and I hope you're justly rewarded for you efforts.

Er... I didn't know that the Belgian hunks at hotmale.com had an email service. Although I've run into a couple of people in the past who, like e_dawg, claim that they do. :D

I'm waiting for a box I can buy in the store. I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY deeply hate Steam. I despise the reliance on a high-speed internet connection and the assumption that I want to constantly download their updates. I hate its moronic interface. What if I like the game as it was two...

Personally I believe that general agreement with social conservatives is indicative of an intellectual failing on one's part. If that applies to you, so be it. If you come by your right-wing leanings because of fiscal conservatism, fine. I can comprehend that. I think you're guilty by apathy and...

Recently I had the misfortune of eating at Wendy's, a fast food chain generally popular with the women in my office because of its selection of salads and greasy burgers. On that day I offered to buy everyone lunch. Everyone had an order that involved special combinations of toppings on...

You actually have to work pretty hard to find and install the Sigma Designs DVD Decoder driver under XP. In fact, I have students in my troubleshooting class install one under XP precisely because it IS so hard to find. So I have to wonder how many computers are actually affected by that bug...

And for the record, they are super-quiet and super fast. I can't speak to reliable yet, as I've only been buying them about five months, but the nine or ten I have haven't given me any trouble.