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Yikes. For the record, 64-bit Windows isn't that exciting. Or different. Or appreciably faster.

Northwood.

And it's still true, too. :P

I've tried Geil Budget RAM a few times. I've been neither happy nor impressed with it. Are you buying some premium variety?

I've got three or four of 'em sitting around. If only they had a CF slot or something. They'd be fantastic little mail/web servers. It still annoys me that one of the most complex devices Linksys makes costs so little when compared to vastly simpler hardware.

I can buy a WRT54G for maybe $75. That's a wired switch + NAT device plus infrastructure-mode AP that runs at 54Mbit. I can buy a WET11 for around $90. That's a single-port ethernet to infrastructure-mode AP that runs at 11Mbit. I can buy a WGA54G for around $130. That's a single-port ethenet...

Radeon cards also use a unified driver. The only thing that's different is having to install the MMC-related stuff if you have an all in Wonder.

I've heard staticky sound, but never on my personal machine nforce system. One thing I have noticed is that nforce2 boards seem to be picky about RAM in ways that Via-based systems just aren't, e.g., this pair of DIMMs won't work in slots one and three, but the machine works fine if they're in...

Hey Picard! Nice of you to drop by.

Do you have packet writing software installed?

My solution for that, in my bedroom, was to do do XGA-over-cat5 (the baluns are around $40 for a set) + a USB hub on a long cable. My "bedroom PC" is on the far side of a wall, in another room, from where I sleep. I can't hear it at all.

The command line I gave you only copies files that have changed since the last backup. Isn't that what you'd want?

The Window-based guys generally run Windows CE and have ~300MHz CPUs with 64 - 512MB RAM. If you can compile your program for that, they can do things besides be a terminal. Besides, why do anything on a client if you've got a monster server 50 feet away that's using .04% of its CPU(s)?

I had a cat who would play piano with me. She'd pick two keys and rock back and forth on them while I practiced. When I had a regular, corded phone, my cat Will would knock the receiver off the base (right by my head) to wake me up. Usually at about 5:00AM, when he thought I should get up and...

ddrueding is at 999 posts. I'm sure that won't last much longer. :) Thank you for coming around and for staying, David. You've been a source and a contributor to many great discussions here. I can only hope that there are many thousand more posts wrapped up in your head.

I'd just like to point out that: 1.) LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) is going to hit the market in a very big way in the near future. Intel is throwing a lot of R&D into it, and that can only be a good thing for ALL the different screens on the market. 2.) Unlike a projection TV, I can watch...

And PCI only supports whatever PCI it is... probably slower than the transfer rates on the card. That would be the limiting factor in that case.

So what's wrong with an Xterminal or a Windows thin client? If you aren't doing local processing, these guys are the way to go.

Hardware 5.1 Dolby Digital Encoding for all PCM sources. It's beautiful, and it works better than anything else I've heard for doing the stereo to 5.1 conversion.

I usually ask permission first.

I like it a lot, but I haven't had much time to practice with it. I take it for wanderings around my local park, but I haven't taken any pictures yet where I can say "I'm proud of this". I've been trying to take pictures of people - the Saturday Rugby (yes, Rugby) game, kids on swings - things...

Yay soundstorm!

Pradeep is perfectly justified in taking a day off. Our jobs are not our lives (well, not most people, anyway)

Do you hate yourself so much as to want a Rear projection TV?

So you're going to grow old and die with WinAmp, then. And of course, I envision a future where I can't get my music at all.

The problem with those being, they're from Dlink.

HomePNA and Homeplug are expensive and slow. 1 - 10Mbit is just not very appealing. ($150 for a Homeplug bridge, plus $80 per NIC, IIRC). And you don't always have a phone jack where you need one. There are only three in my house. And neither are well-supported outside Windows. And ethenet...

And utterly surrounded by EMI. Usually the USB guys are at least one "bump" better in terms of reception quality.

I'd strongly suggest looking at an External USB2 device rather than a PCI card for desktop WLAN needs. Reception tends to be substantially better.

I shall make a Pilgrimage there this weekend.

So, how are your knees?

Composite carries all color and brightness information on the same wire. SVideo splits chroma (color) and Luminence (brightness) into different wires. Component splits the information into three entirely seperate cables, one each for Red, Green and Blue. Contrary to popular belief, digital is...

Svideo should be your standard connection for everything that doesn't do component. It's vastly better (and the difference is immediately visible to everyone, unlike the difference between Component and SVideo) than composite.

I do most of those things. I drink a can of sugared, caffiene-free soda (usually a Pepsi) in the morning and a can of something diet in the afternoon. I've also found that by combining a can of something in the diet, lemon-lime vein (Sierra Mist, Sprite, 7Up) in 32oz. container, I get nearly the...

No. You'd need some kind of video distribution system for that. And that's realy money. Or possibly a replay TV. Me? I rolled my own system for handling that stuff. I can get A/V stuff anywhere in the 5 block radius of my house. :D

I've found that while playing City of Heroes, I forget to eat. That's sort of like a diet, right?

It works like a VCR, more or less, so anything with a TV in can display its picture.

IIRC XP and 2003 Server have a writecd command...

Ever heard of YahooPOPS, timwhit? Or, if you have a paid account (with a 2GB limit!), just using Yahoo's POP3 server? Oh well. I'd take an invite, but I know full well that my nick is one that gets chosen very quickly anyway. :(

By the way, thanks for stopping by, i.

It's used by a lot of "professional" cards. Personally, I think AGP Pro is a better solution than plugging a power connector directly into a card, but what do I know?

There's a linear relationship between TV size and room size. My previous 32" display was a bit too small for my living room. I had to move everything around to make my DLP set anything other than a hulking monolith, though. In a lot of small spaces (like my apartment, when I lived in one), 27"...

And while I'm at it, are there similar limits placed on those bandwidth-abusers who choose to purchase leased lines?

Gack! Remind me to not consider Tannin's offer of employment again until Australia gets back in the Bandwidth Fairy's good graces.

xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d in a batch file + Task Scheduler.

I pretty much manage to download 800MB to 1GB a night. How the heck do you live on 1GB a month? Even a 48k modem connection gives you something like 1.5GB/month if you managed to download continuously. How do you stand for that BS?

Nero has a pretty darn good audio editor. Record the whole thing as one long file and then put your tracks in after the fact. Takes about 2 minutes, 'cause you can see right where the breaks are.

You misspelled S*ny. Use it properly, like any other curse. Either as punctuation (as I do in real life), or reserve it for only the most dire of needs (as I do on SF). "I just stepped in a deep pile of S*ny."

Invites are running $1 apiece on Ebay, if anyone REALLY wants one.

Speak for yourself, meatbag!