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Everything related to your computer has to support it for it to work. BIOS, OS and the device itself. The biggest problem at the moment is lack of BIOS support - my 5.5-year-old IBM 540 can boot off a thumb drive, but I don't have a single Athlon 64 machine that can do it. In short, it...

Yahoo's service is pretty sweet. My 50MB account morphed into a 2GB account earlier this week. Too bad it's not free. Myrealbox.com also offers great service.

They're REALLY hard to find. The only local vendor I know who stocks G450s wants $115 for them, new.

Uh, it's about 50MB. Damn streaming video formats.

[City of Heroes Advocacy] This brought a grief glimpse of joy to my otherwise dreary life. [/City of Heroes Advocacy]

I hit reload 3 times in a 3 minute period, and I don't think I saw anyone move. Creepy.

Honestly, I don't know. But they're Kef speakers, which means they're better than anything sold at Best Buy.

Hard drives in trays are easily the fastest and possibly cheapest way to go. The man hours needed for optical media would probably be too high and the density just isn't there.

The cost of a Matrox card, unless you can find G400 system pulls or something (Axion Technologies is selling G450s for $35, if anyone cares BTW), is simply to much to bear for a typical PC. Yes, there's a readily identifiable quality difference between the Matrox cards and, say, the nvidia crap...

The amplified range of my 802.11 equipment is pretty good, but not quite as good as I'd expected. I don't have any trouble getting my laptop to associate with my AP 4 blocks from my house. 2000 feet of wireless goodness. Wish I left the house more often.

Nope, Linksys fixed their stupid security flaw shortly after it was discovered. Netgear's was discovered a week after that one, and to my knowledge still hasn't fixed their "fix" yet.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32861&item=5704549235&rd=1 Mmmm... Kef

There's a couple of nice free ones on the "Ultimate Boot CD".

I'd rather have the control, myself. That and every so often you hear something about the "black boxes" doing someone either monumentally stupid or insecure. They certainly aren't perfect. On recent example comes with the Netgear 54g router, which was found to have an external port 80 backdoor...

Yes. I like the Albatron board best among the A64 boards I've tried.

I JUST installed the June 15th nightly build about 10 minutes ago on a fresh install of 2003 Server. Seems OK so far. Must admit I've never wanted to log out of SF or bothered to install a new theme... Magpie 3.11 is a lot nicer though.

A Canon Digital Elph is about the right size. The zoom isn't that thrilling. 3x, I think.

I disagree. All AV software is buggy, slows a computer down, and unnecessary for a responsible and sensible person. Yes, I'm serious. The day I have to install AV software on my home PCs is the day I'll stop using them.

Why not an NEC DVD-R? One of the ones that's flashable to dual layer, maybe? The Gigabyte board you've proposed is a really nice little guy. I've used it several times and I like it a lot. Does it fit in an Aria, though? I know there's a fairly short list of acceptable boards...

KT400 4 eva' :D OK, now that that's out of my system - my solution to the active cooling on new Gigabyte boards is to just take the damn fan off. It'll die in six months anyway, at which point the fan basically becomes an insulator, so the way I figure it, I'm probably doing work that someone...

1. Yes, a network card and router is the most effective way to share the connection. Windows ICS is kinda lame. 2. Hardware firewalls are probably a better idea than software. Software firewalls are complicated to set up and can cause compatibility problems with other software. Most home-type...

You'll only thank yourself for buying a real receiver and real speakers. $1000 is plenty of money for that. 1. DON'T SKIMP ON YOUR CENTER CHANNEL. Spend extra to get a nice center. 2. Buy timbre-matched speakers (all from the same manufacturer, at least) - I like Yamaha for cheapies, and I...

Aopen typically makes really good motherboards. If it has what you want, I'd say go for it. Disclaimer: I've not used an nforce3 250 for anything.

Photoshop's RAW plug-in. Is there something else I should try?

My service is nominally $30 a month for 1Mbit down/128k up, but it's bundled in with my (otherwise unused) phone service and cell phone.

I'll say something nice: He was funny when he wanted to be. However, Reagan, a man of no great intellect, also had a habit of wandering "off message" and into realms that really made him look, let's face it, bad. I suspect this is at least part of the reason GWB's handlers don't ever let him...

Too bad mainstream PCs won't have liquid cooling any time soon.

FWIW, knowing lots of medical students and nurses, nothing I've heard makes it sound like the US is any better.

While we're grousing about media availability, everyplace on Earth with a "Technology" aisle seems to have one-or-another dual layer burner for sale. But I have yet to see dual layer media in a retail setting, even in single-packs. Whose dumb idea is that?!?

I don't remember whether I congratulated you earlier or not, JoJo. If I did, I'm doing it again. If not, I'm sorry for the oversight: Congratulations to our Finnish compartriot. The simple fact that he's managed to post 1100 times in a language not his native tongue is well-deserving of both...

Groltz sent me this story.

I'll say it again: I hope they're all the unmotivated bastards responsible for their ATA drives.

My standby card is a 128MB Sapphire 9200. Unless someone tells me they play 3D games, or are really poor, that's what they get. At this point, I almost always go with a KM400-based-mainboard for the budget segment. Gigabyte's board is more than good enough and has a real AGP slot if someone...

Congratulations. Is working on SUV design as sexy as saying "I make the Corvette?" While I'm thinking about it, a few years ago, I read an article suggesting that the big 3 were looking at generic drivetrains over which multiple bodies could be fitted (e.g. Escort = Focus = Contour = Volvo...

Might be worth asking.

I think I don't care.

He's a Ham Radio fanatic. I imagine these are similar.

Any Windows key combo can be replaced with CTRL-ESC. Which is a combination of keys I'm much less likely to hit on accident. Which is why I run special software to disable the windows key on my game PC.

Through one of my father's employees. I won't actually have it until Friday.

Guess which brand they didn't test. Grrrrr.

Yup. It's supposed to be. If other people can't be bothered to fix their radio emissions then I'm just going to override them (probably not that many, though, not using channel 11). Then it's their problem. Yeah, I feel like a jerk for doing it, but since the $500 worth of 802.11A stuff I...

Because of the aforementioned involvement of Crack? Other than the confusing UI it's a great program, but even after using it for several years I still close important windows on accident. Elements can be had cheaper, and you can't trip over a warez site that doesn't have Photoshop. I've heard...

Plus the media readers are usually WAY faster.

I hesitate to mention Gimp. It's free and does all those things. Its UI, however, was made by someone who either had too much or not enough crack.

PM me.

So I was imagining all those "DriveZilla" ads on SR about a year ago? Hopefully, the 3000 people Seagate laid off were the unmotivated bastards responsible for their ATA products.

One key difference between Matrox cards and everyone else is that Matrox tries really hard to have hardware acceleration for EVERYTHING. ATI and nVidia have some acceleration for MPEG playback and for 3D, obviously, but as I understand things, they don't bother with a lot of 2D effects or CAD...

I ordered a 2W, 2.4GHz amplifier. I plan to use it on channel 11, which is not in theory used by any cordless telephone. If my neighbors - within the probably 4 or 5 block radius 2W should give me - want to listen to their infants with stupid monitors, they can all buy 900MHz jobs and work the...

I really like crunch-time work. I find the stress to be very helpful, but I know it's not for everyone. Part of the nature of spending a long time at a client site is getting to see how a business actually works. One think I'm continually shocked at - and I guess I shouldn't be - is how poor...

I keep a CF reader and an 802.11A adaptor in mine. I carry a second battery. Anything more and I don't think I'd be portable anymore.