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Best place to ask is probably schools. Lots of teachers have them.

Well, OK, I got my September issue of Playboy today. With olympic jumping-person Amy Acuff on the cover. Yowza. (link is completely work safe and in no way has anything to do with Playboy). Now, what time is she gonna be on TV again?

Of course, there's always ZTree. Which is like Xtree, but understands modern filesystems, which is something that should make everyone happy. Unless your clients like all the "~1"s, that is.

This dude has cable internet to his house, but he's never used it. He apparently still dials out on a regular phone line. I've *seen* the cable modem. With a thick layer of dust on it! He thought it was supposed to make his dial up work faster. OK, so, anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one...

Original Macs shouldn't be THAT hard to find.

"How can you call yourself a computer expert if you don't know AOL?!?" -- former professional baseball player, current professional idiot I just thought I'd share that with you guys. Feel free to discuss.

Are you somehow suggesting that my hobbies are less than wholesome, Tannin? I'd like to suggest to Tea that, unlike other popular fiction, there is a rich legacy of strong and well-chracterized simians in comic forms. Postive role models are just what every growing oranguatang needs!

Supposedly they aren't. They have the same amount of cache memory and operate at he same set of mulitipliers and frequencies. The difference is that the newer mobile chips are made with a smaller fabrication process, I think.

One of the fantastic little doohickies that's part of Firefox is a tool called Mycroft. Mycroft gives me a nifty little search bar immediately to the right of the address bar. Because of mycroft I haven't seen google's front page in a few months. :) Anyway, just to comment on the other thing...

I'm more interested in the budget socket 754 product. I KNOW the Socket A versions are dogs - although at a rather more substantial discount, they'd still be tempting - CPU performance is ridiculous these days anyway. For those interested in a REAL bargain, those still on Socket A platforms...

Er, no, you don't. There was someone here some years ago asking questions about MFM drive settings. Yeesh. That stuff was a memory when I started as a tech, and that was, er, 14 years ago I think. Anyway, I've got a MODIFIED original Mac out in my garage. Modified as in "I threw out all the...

So you say there's an olympics this year? Hm. First I've heard of it.

Don't know if anyone cares, but today's Newegg.com update shows AMD Sempron processors are now available. Most of the chip lineup consists of Socket A processors that appear to be slightly crippled Athlon XP chips (slightly crippled = still way, way faster than a Celeron) with a slightly...

Be free! Post often! Ignore your spelling errors and omitted words (the crime I am most guilty of), and have a clear conscience knowing that no one here thinks you are an idiot.

re: Link. Aria Giovanni's web site is just about 100% pay site. Even fairly innocuous content is in her pay area. I've had a membership before and I presume I'll have to renew to see her photo. I guess I could scan the polaroid... Other thing: The last 1/3rd of this thread probably needs to...

I sincerely doubt that I am. But there's one marvelous thing about a convention of anything, and that is, if you're into whatever is going on around you, chances are everyone ELSE around you is, too. I wasn't a guy who started conversations and indeed, I tried pretty hard not to be noticed, but...

Eh. My own damn fault. My internal DNS is configured to hold addresses long enough for something like that to be an issue. Holdover from dialup days. Anyway, I figured out what happened about 2 minutes after that, when I actually read all the stuff above.

I just made a REALLY substantial post about an hour ago, about my comic-con experiences. It's gone now. I am very sad.

Asus nForce2 boards distinctly need install-time drivers. I have to think that Gigabyte's do, too, since a Silicon Image controller isn't gonna be part of its southbridge.

That reminds me: Has anyone moved to completely to SATA hard disks for new builds yet? I don't mean your home PC, but the ones you're selling to other people. It does not give me a warm fuzzy to sell a system that needs a driver to reload windows, nor special configuration to work with Ghost (...

When the hell did I get so popular?!?

Holy crap man. I think I'd just slit my wrists if I had to face something like that.

I know profit margins are thin enough already, but if you REALLY worry about it, an OEM copy of Nero is available for just about every drive in the universe and costs all of about $3.

Alright. I know at least Clocker has done this. I don't feel like looking around for info so... What do I need to do to paint computer parts? Should I just buy a can of Krylon and go to town or is there something special I need to do? Reason I ask: I have a small number of removable IDE disk...

Funny thing about that: The "big number" remains the big draw. 3200 is more than 3000, and despite my best efforts, it's very difficult to convince some people that an A64/3000 is in fact faster than a XP/3200. At some point I think it's more of a bragging rights issue. The other funny thing I...

I install 5.1 after finding that version 4 doesn't open some new Acrobat documents.

Roxio owned GoBack, which was largely useless in the face of XP's System Restore functionality. XP also has the ability to burn data files to CD and CD-RW, and also to make music CDs (granted, crappy ones that have to be converted to lossy, DRM-laden WMA format first) with Media Player 8. If XP...

While I personally haven't had any problems with XP3200s, I've had some dicussions with another tech recently in which he suggests that there are inherent stability problems with that processor. I've installed six of them to date, all but one on a Gigabyte VT600-based board (the exception used...

Whoops. I read "rm" as "ra". My bad. Uh... you might try installing the Kazaa Lite Codec pack - which includes the realplayer codecs - and running your .rms through virtualdub. That might work.

Streambox can do that. It's basically illegal in the US, but if you do a google search you'll find it. Minnesota is in Canada, right? ;)

Is there anything special I need to know RE: setting up game servers? Is it fairly plug-and-go? Do I need a license for the server? In particular I'd like to provide UT2004 and CS. I understand Battlefield 1942 is also a popular game.

Really? Thank you Mark. That's a very high compliment considering some of the regulars who post there. :)

OK, this is about seven different kinds of dumb. Actually, I'm not sure what business Roxio was in prior to this - I dimly recall it owning some multimedia-editing software, besides its craptacular burning and backup software which itself was largely rendered irrelevant by XP's features list...

SF. I like SF.

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Anyone else appreciate the irony of the Granite Digital SCSI Cable Advocate complaining about the price of cables? :)

Yup. All you XP-using freaks can now have 460MB worth of updates to install. You can grab the file off a bittorrent site if you're brave, or MSDN subscriber downloads if you're lucky. It's not on Windowsupdate yet. If anyone's willing to host a 460MB file, I do in fact already have it.

The article blithely ignores the vast increase in the likelihood of data loss and at the same time derides the common "desktop storage expert" opinion of RAID0. They test with synthetic benchmarks only, they DON'T use the same benchmarks as either Anand or SR (what's a "storagemark"?), and...

Yes, it did. The uninstaller doesn't dump profiles or extensions. Uninstall/reinstall is a standard request from FF developers, and I think in this case, since tha majority of the fixes were security related, that it might be a good idea anyway; for all we know some old setting in an unused...

No sir, I have not. But I do have positive things to say about Sonicwall SOHO access devices. They aren't as cool as the ones you're describing but I do know that they work and that they're fairly painless to configure.

Personally I'll be really happy when I can regularly buy motherboards with native (part of the southbridge, therefore driverless) SATA controllers.

I'm not going to take any involvement in what gamers do, besides provide the premises and network (er, unless someone gets violent. Or drunk maybe). If they're playing illegal games and swapping CDs, it's a civil matter anyway. :P I think servers will end up being brought in - I know at least...

<sarcasm>That'll be just dandy for all the Blu-ray movies that'll be out by then.</sarcasm> Supposedly, Sony's been on a tear through their product lines, looking for ways to reduce the number of parts it needs to buy to build its consumer products to about 1/5 its 2001 level. Perhaps the...

Supposedly, this helps gobs.

I'll bite my, er, fingers.

Dammit Buck, you just made tea (the beverage, not our own hairy aussie) come out my nose!

You know, I've had an iPod. I wasn't impressed at all. It sounded OK - better than portable CD players I've heard, and the controls were sort of interesting, but I couldn't figure out the point of having one. The battery doesn't last that long - maybe 5 hours - and it's fairly useless if you...

In addition to Adaware, you need to have CWSshredder and Hijack This available. Possibly also Spybot. I've run into parasites that directly attack Adaware and keep it from running, so the more tools you have, the better. Make your friend buy adaware pro and adwatch, since it will actually tell...

To troubleshoot power problems? Yes.

Specifically, what you want is one of those big, heavy mothers HP made in about 1960. If I was an electronics guy instead of a computer guy, I can't see how I'd ever let one out of my grasp. Built not like a tank, but a battleship - like early HP laserjet printers, HP made them so well no one...