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S*ny's low-end 400 DVD jukebox is only $280 if you wanted to buy it online. It obviously doesn't grok data discs, but with a keyboard input, you CAN just stick a bunch of discs in and label them.

If you login as a non-administrator on that PC, can you add the printer? Have you tried connecting to it with net print? Since these are roaming profiles, have you tried deleting the cached copies from User Profiles in System Properties? Have you run SFC (that comes up a lot from me. It fixes...

Neither Bluetooth nor Wireless USB (it's coming) would be worthwhile, unfortunately, since they're both shared media. I was thinking something more like custom internal cabling + internal SATA or Firewire or SCSI or whatever. Surely there will be multi-drive external SATA enclosures, just as...

A slightly more accessible CD of art songs is probably Long Time Ago, collecting some great American Folk Songs ("I Bought Me a Cat" and the lullaby "All the Little Horses") and Hymns ("At the River" and "Simple Gifts") and Copland's settings of Eight Poems by Emily Dickinson, along with his...

Toad the Wet Sprocket was the name of a band that kept changing its name in a Monty Python routine. It isn't like I made some kind of conscious effort to be different on the matter of music. My brothers have musical tastes that run to mainstream (80s stuff, techno and depresso-alterna-whatever...

At least you didn't say "A Night on Disco Mountain". I was asking a serious question. Try to tell someone that you don't know who xyz top-40 flavor of the month is because you only listen to classical music, and you get a look like you have 3 heads. Try to explain the appeal of, say, a...

Why don't people like classical music?

I managed to find a retail store that had a 10D in stock, but no Canon lenses. I used it with a Sigma 105/f2.8 lens It was a little hefty by itself, but lighter than every camcorder I've ever handled. I was trying to be deliberate in taking shots, but it seemed to be on a hair trigger. It...

[b]Ballmer[/url]: Developers! Developers! Developers!

My Albatron K8T800 had 3GB of RAM in it. I was running 32-bit 2000 Server on it; I didn't like XP for 64-bit - didn't see a performance difference, and, well, XP has the power to find new ways to piss me off. Of course, that was the PC where my 9700AIW decided to die, and a few weeks later the...

Last spring we gave Handruin a PC (er, most of one, anyway, and a pretty cool shirt). If sechs got a job out of SF, I'd say that counts as the collective good deed for the year. :)

Yet another reason ME is retarded.

Are you talking about SFC?

In a million dollar house, he ought to. ;)

Have you met my good friend blaster? Or maybe Nachi?

My favorite tactic, and the one that's worked best, is a gift subscription to Penthouse, mailed to their place of business. It's cheap, easy and effective.

Hope I don't offend overmuch if I say that I think that case is bug-ugly. I see several cases among Compucase's lineup that look like they could fit one's needs.

I don't have friends or the means to get any, so SF gets all my social energy. You want real world interaction. I really find it draining, and in a lot of circumstances it makes me physically ill. I'd hazard that Tannin knew the Ballarat delegation before coming to SR. I've met Fushigi, spoken...

Has there been an update to Ulead's package? Last version I looked at couldn't even save files in MPEG2. Newer P4s (Northwood+) are supposed to be faster for video encoding works. So say the benchmarks. Software MPEG2 encoding is something that, in best of times, a CPU torture best appreciated...

David once again proving he's my opposite. I'd guess that most of our members are either in Ballarat (not counting puppets: Tannin, Soup Nazi, sol, Kristi) or Houston (counting GaryH's puppets). There are quite a few of us around Lake Michigan, too. Cheer up. Once your store opens your life...

Passages. Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar. Very exotic and atmospheric. While I'm thinking about it, has anyone else noticed a huge increase in middle-eastern and Indian themes in movie/TV soundtracks lately? A couple of examples off the top of my head are the scoring to "the Hulk" and HBO's...

Prescott. OK. Well, I think it's funny.

Are you using your Gbit interface? Is it turned on? Does it need to be? Disabled Smart Burn yet?

Now that I think about it, it should be possible to put four 2.5" drives in a 5.25" HH bay... that would solve my problem rather nicely. When's that changeover to 2.5" desktop drives happen, again?

Oh, and thanks for offering.

I'm almost out of 3.5" drive bays anyway. :( Either I'm going to have to go back to using giant SuperMicro tower cases or drives are going to have to start getting bigger again. Too bad they don't stock the SATA version. I keep changing my mind over whether I want to go that road or not.

I've worked in inexpensive Apex cases before. IIRC they usually have Allied brand PSUs, nonremovable drive trays and in several places it's possible to deform parts of the various panels and enclosures with pressure from one's index finger. Is the G-series built to a higher standard?

The funny thing was, I went to a Verizon retail outlet in the hopes that they'd have some way to expedite my request for service. Nope! They have to call the same customer support dumbasses I could've talked to myself. I got to sit and listen for 25 minutes this morning as the Cindy the jaded...

Actually, since this thread has a very general title: Has anyone found anything new and wonderful in the world of cases, lately? I've largely used the same case for the last three years, the quiet and well-constructed Compucase 6812, but I've been told by my supplier that it's been EOL'd and I...

There was an influx of non-posting users from SR which got a thread, our regular stream of Russian Porno Spammers who sort-of got a thread, and now there's someone new who has actually posted something. BooST was asking me questions about benchmarking his RAID (3ware 8500-based RAID5) array...

Aw, crap. Figures I'll be working in Indiana all weekend. I (heart) instant gratification.

Argh. I'd like to take some pictures I can be proud of. Maybe something I might hang on a wall. Taking pictures at that one event is something I think well be highly enjoyable, but it's only peripheral to really taking great pictures. Classroom time isn't something that would be easy for me to...

...That's on a LiteOn CD Burner. Using Nero. With Smart-Burn on. Also, try turning Smart-Burn (or whatever the DVD equivalent is) off. % Interrupt Time should normally be 0 - 2% on a generally idle PC, BTW.

You might fire up Performance monitor and look at what the CPU counter for % Interrupt Time is doing. It should. I show it at around 40% while the PC I'm sitting at is burning a CD with Nero.

Everyone be sure to say hi to BooST. He's one of my students, and has been a regular lurker here for a while.

sechs was right. Verizon is home to the world's biggest morons. I'm so angry I can't even rant properly. I got my DSL activation date confirmation. But it's for the wrong telephone number. Mine is xxxyy06. The phone number for which DSL service will apparently start on April 6th, and for...

WinDVD Creator is essentialy feature-equivalent to Ulead DVD MovieFactory. Both have much less than full featured editing options, but good options for making DVD menus. It comes with the Plextor ConvertX I did a mini-review of a couple days ago.

I don't know why I haven't said this to date, but thank you to everyone who has participated in this thread. I think I will do well with the advice I've been given. re: art of photography. All those who are more knowledgable than me on this topic had to learn somewhere and some time. Putting...

Whoops. I meant the DRVSes.

E-mail isn't an effective tool for me at the moment. Here at my day job I don't have a PC set up to check my 15 or so accounts (it took me several minutes to track down Lunar's message), and at home I'm using MSN9 dialup on my laptop, which for some reason won't play nice with XP's ICS, so my...

I'd be happy to take the Altas III and the DVGS IBMs off your hands.

I teach a consumer video editing class. I'm not talking out my ass here. 1. Pinnacle 8 and for that matter version 9 are not good software. I can't stress that enough. These are programs you give to people you don't like. They're both horribly unstable, which is not something you want when...

Things I've seen in the last few days suggest Q3/04 for an update on the 10D. I don't have any basis for determining if this is true or not. I found this to be an interesting and useful source of information.

Maybe nobody's interested, but 2MB-cache Samsung 160GB drives are $93 shipped free at Newegg today. That's IMO a pretty good deal.

There's another thread about APs in the Tech Support forum here.

If I did an SLR, I'd pretty much require something that could do image stabilizing, probably something like this. Sounds like it would slow, but in trade I might be able to get away w/o a tripod. RAW mode isn't essential to my needs, given my understanding of its nature (pure CCD info without...

Fixaflat works well enough to get your car to someplace that'll sell you a new tire.

I anti-recommend DLink 802.11 products. They're bad, and bad in really, really stupid ways. Example: Hard coded intenal LAN addresses. That's right. I hope you wanted to be 192.168.0.x! I'd suggest Netgear or Linksys. Linksys products have obnoxiously short warranties but are otherwise my...

Oh yeah. Feel free to hijack. It won't stop me from posting. :)