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ATI's drivers have, in the time I've been buying ATI hardware - about two years - been acceptable to very good. The Radeon family is also a unified driver and always has been, and besides, I'd rather have good hardware with crappy drivers than hardware that's bad to begin with.

Sorry, O Weilder of the Sock Puppets, my experience has shown me otherwise. They get too hot, have uniformly criminal 2D output and fail at a rate in excess of any rate I might find reasonable. That's neither perfectly serviceable nor fuss free. Quite a lot of fuss, actually.

It was subjectively identical to working with a KT400a or KT600, only without all the PCI slots. It didn't seem slower or worse for having integrated graphics, other than the objectionable use of system RAM for video. And people who live in glass houses shouldn't be Canadian. :P

XP better than 2000? Them's fightin' words! The only thing XP/2003 Server adds that I really, really appreciate is auto-population of Network Places with resources shared on other XP/2003 machines. It's not faster - or at least not enough that I can tell. I've seen more crashes and...

I've built a couple systems around the Biostar M7VIQ. They're not very exciting boards but they do the job well enough in lowest-end budget machines.

Hell no. I jumped through all their hoops and I *STILL* don't have one. Next time I have five seconds to bitch about it I'm going to be on them like ugly on Dick Cheney. I think I want a written apology suited for framing and/or wiping my ass with.

One more thing: The 80386 was the first 32-bit x86 chip. It was made available to the public in 1988. The first 32-bit DOS-compatible, protected mode games were released in 1994. I thnk it'll be a while before we see a 64bit game, other than (possibly) Doom3*. *Carmack's stuff is usually very...

You don't need to go there, David. No reason whatsoever. Yup, The Althon64s are fast but... they're fast. That's it. You're not going to do anything "64bit" until this spring at the earliest, unless you make a dramatic change in your opinion of Linux, and even at that you won't find out that...

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Well-optimized microcode, a goodly number of execution units and a pipeline that isn't 20 stages long. Nothing to do with 64bit-ness. To dramatically simplify, a pentium core is 2 486 cores (2 ALUs and an FPU) each with a (?)5 or 6 stage pipeline, a p55C is 2 ALUs, an FP unit and an MMX/FPU...

Coug, I'll thank you not to use that kind of language again.[/code]

There's more than one kind of shoes? I wear black new balance, uh, shoes every day. If there are more kinds than that I don't care. Women's fashion is really very easy because it is very direct. Once you understand something about the woman you are trying to dress it's really not hard to figure...

In lieu of any sort of review let me just say that I have never been in the presence of so many grown men weeping.

I will say however that I have played it for others, to mixed review.

I can manage Ravi Shankar or Fela Kuti or LadySmith Black Mambazo but the jingle bell origin is a little too much for me. Plus, cheesey drum machine at the beginning. Big time turn off.

Congratulations on another year of not dying, Handy!

I am absolutely foaming at the mouth to see RotK. I tried for the midnight showing opening night, but the lines were way too long. Couldn't go tonight because of moronic local theater scheduling conflicting with stupid job. Turns out neither local theater with showings is playing it in a...

XP Home edition should not exist. You guys have no idea how much simple file sharing messes me up. What I'd love to try some day is to get a user-group of people on the same home-type broadband connection and take a stab at centralizing administration for them. In the right community that...

It's interesting. I dunno about liking it quite, but as you said, it beats the tired version everyone is used to.

I am omnipresent.

Well, it's not really a hole. The messenger service should be on and enabled by default so admins can send out alerts (Server123 is going down in 5 minutes. Users on the second floor may not be able to log in during this time.) A better idea might be to require some authentication before they...

Nope. Most of my interest in Snapstream stems from its integration with my remote and satellite receiver. If all I wanted was a viewing interface I'd be perfectly happy with MMC and Guide+.

I don't know about that, Coug. IA-64 was Intel's well-meaning effort to break with the 20-year legacy of x86. Its main fault was being uncompelling from a price/performance standpoint. Of course, EVERYTHING is uncompelling from a price/performance standpoint, when compared to hordes of cheap...

How big are the discs in a microdrive? They can't be much bigger than that. Aren't there 2GB microdrives now?

The ranting? Or your mp3? (I don't have any sound hardware on this PC or I'd listen, too). I certainly was feeling poisonous last night, wasn't I?

It's not just that he's married, it's that he's a newlywed. I can't believe he's come up for air already. Shoot, last time I got within 50 feet my approximate age was probably, um, ten days ago. JoJo, you live in Europe. You get naked people on TV, naked people on the cover of respectable...

I got broadband three months ago. Where were you guys?

The media library is really the only part of v5 I found that interesting. Video playback is not good enough, in particular.

For JoJo's picture I would've at least made the effort. Besides, most things on the internet over 30kb that aren't scantily clad women still suck. Can I get an Amen?

Primes are used extensively in Cryptography, Coug. Very useful application. Calculating pi is pretty much useless on the other hand.

8000x6000 pixels. Good thing I have broadband now...

Gary certainly does have that impression down pat. Makes me wonder what he does with his weekends. Gary is of course from the place we need to give back to Mexico, Texas, and for some reason my mental free-association is in high gear right now, 'cause I just went from Gary's impression of a...

Check your reading comprehension CGB, I made the correct attribution for the song. I'm just waiting for Sir Paul's own Mark David Chapman. As far as year-round musical fear and loathing, the good news is that I generally don't spend enough time in one place to become familiar with pop music...

I guess the rest of you just aren't tired enough of christmas crap to complain.

Having been subjected on occasion to Xmas songs since June (no, I'm not kidding. I was in a Kmart, June 14th when I heard Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas" over the elevator music system) of this year and recently subjected to a little over 50 minutes of pure psychologicial torment while...

Tannin, I've been meaning to ask why you always type "thankyou" instead of "thank you". So, um, why is that? Jojo, did you have a Thai wedding or was there a local cleric fluent in Finnish? And while I'm at it, why Thailand?

You have to add the "1.jpg" on the end manually. It works. Honest.

Yet another bizarro techie thing from Mercutio: When you Assign a Task in MSOutlook, the recipient should recieve a message with a prompt to Accept or Decline the task. Outlook-users among us might be familiar with that option. For mail routed through my exchange server, this does not happen...

Is blue the traditional wedding color over there? :)

I've tried two PVR250s and a PVR-usb2. They all do the same thing. Current drivers and AFAIK there are no firmware updates for either device. The effect given by all of the above, during action sequences, is a lot like watching the crowd in a televised an auto race. Things get blurry. I...

A little research suggests you'll be well off with a Panaflo FBA08A12L1A. That's an 80mm fan but there's probably an adaptor for your heat sink somewhere. For an all-in-one you might look at a Vantec Aeroflow. If you'd rather spend money on things more interesting than heat sinks and fans...

Logically, on most hard disks there should be large areas of free space (especially on new, large disks). Drive needs to do a write, it probably has some that's fairly close at hand. The magnetic operation works out to be about the same for a read or a write, that shouldn't be an issue. In a...

The PVR 250 works only with its deeply retarded capture application (TV2000) and with Snapstream. It does NOT work with Virtualdub or Premier or anything else I can find. Interlacing does not seem to be a problem. I think the PVR doesn't handle high-motion very well. I'm using the ATI...

You forgot to preface your remarks with "In a remarkable show of good taste...", sechs. Bill, have you read Al Franken's new book? If you haven't, I'll be perfectly willing to send you a copy. Heck, I can email you the ebook or the audio version right now.

Blake, I tried the Hauppauge PVR250 with my setup. There's really no CPU load from encoding, but snapstream still crashes from time to time - the people on their forum say it's just ATI drivers being crap and that I should get an nvidia cards and, well, you know how that went. Anyway, the...

Bill, you cited information on the presidential web site as if it were a valid news source. I provided a link describing a tiny "revision" to something on that page - a revision with a vast difference in meaning from the original statement (and the further change of blocking the sorts of web...

Puh-lease. Discussion of humanitarian reasons for fighting in Iraq didn't make Condi Rice's talking points for "Meet the Press" until we were already in Baghdad. Oh, yeah. Hey, look lies!

The present administration seems to do things, then come back with reasons to justify them. Sometimes even changing their story a few times along the way. Making their facts to fit the story, as it were. That sounds a lot like lying to me. The thing is, now we have Saddam. Huzzah. 2 wars...

It's of limited use in this case. Files & folders have to be specifically tagged for auditing, and auditing has to be turned on in Local Security polices. If the files in question are being corrupted rather than deleted, auditing is of no use at all. No one has mentioned RAM as a possible...

Going out on a limb I think a fair asking price for the whole shebang would be $325 or so, AD.