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Mine is basically the appliance for processing my satellite's video. Snapstream supports tuning my satellite receiver via serial cable, so I can set a schedule of recordings and just walk away. It also directly supports the ATI remote, and it can multicast recordings to other PCs in my house. So...

Hardware upgrades, followed by ranting at snapstream tech support people (snapstream RECORDS just fine but I get hard locks when I try to play back anything through the snapstream interface. It REALLY pissed me off when someone told me to buy an nvidia card to fix it), followed by working on...

I can actually tell when I'm near a Walmart by the increase in Nascar window decals. If more than three cars that I can see have 'em, I'm within a quarter mile of a Walmart. I swear to Buddha that I saw a guy simultaneously prove 40 "You Know You're A Redneck If..." axioms in a Walmart parking...

I ended up using Sony's Screenblast MovieStudio. It's a $100 program, but frankly I'm stunned by what they packed in for the money. Some other cool things: My classroom for this had super-nice PCs, but no Firewire. I paid $8 apiece for Lucent-based 3-port jobs, and they came in a retail kit...

I liked Photoshop Album's interface, but given the sorting task before me, it's woefully inefficient for my tagging and sorting needs. It worked great for my library of digital camera pictures, but after I spent a couple hours setting up the categories I wanted for my, uhm, "other collection", I...

It's not the size of the boat...

Technically, the slave laborers are actually contractors hired by temporary agencies that deal exclusively with Walmart. Sort of like Microsoft's relationship with Volt, only even more slimey and underhanded. I can't stand Walmart. I've been in their stockrooms. They're disgusting, and even...

Since this thread is up near the top of the list, I'd just like to say that I'll only be working 52 hours this week, and that I've already worked them all. This is the least I've worked since February of 2002.

And yet, somehow, only half as right.

Radio Shack has 'deep's Cyberhome deck for $50 this week.

I dunno. I think it's worth the money to not have to put up with Windows.

I usually tar and bzip or gzip. Winzip I don't actively resent using but I'm standing by my evaluation of WinRAR. If anyone needs to rehash this, there was another thread here about WinRAR sucking. You can go read that.

I use the tried and true "people who use .RAR for anything are ugly and their files deserve to be ignored" method. So far I've found it works very well.

Tried WinRAR. Tried WinAce. Both suck.

The 333s weren't, usually topping out at ~375 (75MHz bus). About 60% of the 366s could hit 550.

So I just tried the \i386 xfer with my Celeron 433 Laptop (also 66MHz bus, 256MB RAM, 10GB crappy laptop hard disk), over 802.11A. Took ~3 minutes 45 seconds. Over 802.11A. On a 4000rpm hard disk. In a laptop that wasn't plugged in.

Are you sure what you've got there isn't being limited by something else, Bozo? Your 3rd machine is substantially different from the others after all.

Hm. It's reproducable across several of my PCs. I'd send you the file but 1. The asstards at Verizon keep screwing around with my bandwidth (presently a whopping 110kbps according to DSLreports, down from just over 1Mbit a month ago... on the flip side I've also gotten 1.2Mbit results as well)...

Sounds like we should arm the deer to prevent hunter overpopulation.

The SuperMicro P3TDLE. It has the distinction of being the only SuperMicro board I've ever actually used. :) I can buy it locally for $275 but a lot of the usual suspects on Pricewatch (Axion, PartsPC, PC Nation, carry them.)

I see no reason to move away from the P3 config I mentioned earlier, in part because I'm unsure of the wisdom in installing a CPU that can't be replaced without replacing the whole board.. Plus I'm a little more comfortable with SuperMicro's engineering and, hey, 64bit PCI. That 600MHz EPIA...

I disagree that advanced expansion isn't worth the expense. If we're talking about Gbit networking, 32/33 PCI is actually a bottleneck. If we're talking about enterprise-class disk controllers, PCI is actually a bottleneck. Especially if it's sharing a bus with a Gbit NIC. I also disagree that...

I think we need to telephone Ballarat to see if anyone there has a clue where our itinerant tree-dweller is.

UnRARing a 600MB file full of JPGs on the fastest PC in my house - presently an XP2800 - takes several hours. At least it does with WinAce.

Yeah, me celebrating xmas IS pretty amusing. Usually I don't have to work too hard to find some poor schlub who doesn't mind paying me some nice "holiday" rate to work the 25th of December. I get get a paycheck for doing something that's usually fairly mindless - although a few years ago I did...

You'll have to forgive me a little. To me, the only excuse for buying an nforce2 is the high-quality onboard sound.

I think winrar is just slow period.

Gah! Another sadist.

Sadist.

David, Where are you getting the SP1614C for $136? Best price I've found for it is still over $150. Also, I see that big, expensive fan on your system. Have you ever looked at a Speeze FalconRock or the awesome 5F263B1M3? What you're building looks to me a lot more like a workstation than an...

I have a working 300A-based system as well. I used to use it for hardware testing but at this point there isn't much new stuff I can test with it. It isn't hooked up - I don't have a place to put it, but it's a DRDOS machine with a GUS in it and an 6GB Maxtor drive in it. It sits in my garage...

Fortunately, I pay cash. They weren't THAT expensive. Less than I was expecting. The whole setup - speakers - was a hair under $10000. Er. I guess that's relative. Before you start picking on me... I'd been planning and saving for this purchase for about three years. Other people take...

Apex is evil. They're the company that uses computer parts. They need to. I had five or six of 'em - the 150xwhatever model - back when it was the only thing that played MP3 CDs and was the only thing easily hackable, and the story is... I had five or six of them. The first two I bought, took...

I don't think there's anything else that's anything like affordable. Boards that support 64bit PCI tend to be dual, workstation-type boards. Well, OK, the former googlegear - now "ZipZoomFly.com" seems to have an Intel SHG2 Xeon board with some PCI-X slots for $135... but then we'd have to buy...

If your house is still being built, beg and plead with the eletrcians to get Cat5 and/or speaker wire put into your walls. I just did the wiring in my house. It sucked beyond the telling of it to cut holes in finished drywall, climb around in my (way too hot) attic, fishing cable. Someday, I...

The less expensive ones are actually made with computer parts. Some even have replaceable DVD drives in them. I uh, don't normally pay attention to low-end electronics, but I bought a KLH DVD Player as a get-well gift for someone the other day. That model at least reads -Rs. The other thing...

9 of 10. I recognized a couple of 'em, and the only one I got wrong was a serial killer pictured with a tie.

I don't know much about Trendware, either, except that they have the outstanding quality of being the lowest priced 64bit PCI GBoC NIC I could find. Probably worth looking in to. Regarding DVD playback and streams per interface... I don't quite know what's going on with that. My theory is that...

One of my labs has 20 1901FPs (and 20 XP2800s... but no internet connectivity or they'd be folding). They're the nicest LCDs I think I've come in contact with. Even better than Apple Cinema Displays.

No more comments on the long post, above?

I've never paid much attention. Icecast works fine @ 10Mbit.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to expect a media server to also be a game server. Most popular games seem to have Linux servers, so I'm not worried about that aspect of things, but would a 1.13GHz P3 suffice for LAN play of Counterstrike or Unreal or whatever kids are playing these days?

i? Sol? Groltz? Am I getting warmer?

Oh yeah, video. The P3TDLE has an ISA slot. Our fictional server is accepting donations. ;)

I could probably write for a couple of hours in this thread right now. This is really what I wanted to do today. re: Video Streams. You can expect 1 100mbit interface to reliably deliver ONE from-the-VOB DVD video. If I try to hit two at once on the same interface, they're fine 90% of the time...

OTOH, the extra $1000 you make as the VAR who delivers a transparent domain-model authentication and file server that leads to saving your customer $10,000 in CALs and license fees is more than worth the hours you put in learning how to do it. Especially when you can do it over and over again. ;)

I was going to make smart-assed comments about how much better automatic picture re-sizing and marginally better page printing are, compared to tabbed browsing, image permissions and popup controls, but I'm tired tonight so let's just leave it at "IE is evil".

I pay for salon.com. $30 for a year. To me that's about right.

Steel mills tend to generate their own power; I think that's the Burns Habor mill formerly known as Bethlehem Steel and now ISG.

Uh, what Coug said is basically true. When George Bush the second took office many of his first days in office were spent reversing EPA policies set by the Clinton administration, in the name of fostering a pro-business environment. I've never really been to Lake Michigan in Indiana. It's right...