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I kind of hit a wall where nothing I thought of sounded interesting enough to write. I'll give it some thought and see if I can think of more to write.

Yup. I downloaded the manual and that's basically what it said. I'm just having a hard time with "six phase power" being worth $65 more than the "1 model down" version of the same board.

From your description it sounds like Mr. Thumb Drive did something very, very bad. You need to strip things down to bare. Pull all your cards. Disable everything. Use a PCI video card if you have one. PS/2 keyboard. If it doesn't boot like that, well, you probably wanted to upgrade anyway.

Well, 1. Newegg is no longer listing GA-7VAanything, and 2.) there are a number of new Gigabyte nforce2 boards, some at up to $200. That in itself is a little odd (and annoying, since I just bought a second asus one), but Looking at the product link, can anyone tell me what the weirdo card...

Yup. Sounds like you're getting better PSUs than I am, though. I'm really fond of Compucase. I'm a believer in buying high quality at reasonable price, and Compucase mangages that fairly well, being both higher-quality and lower priced than AOpen and Enlight.

Not that I can tell. Probably. I just can't see it. It's not really long enough to have a style, anyway.

So you guys have Kangaroos like we have deer, or something? I guess that means Pradeep spends a whole season wearing safety orange and playing with 'roo piss, huh?

It's on my OpenBSD and Solaris machines, not just linux. You know as well as I do you could have it if you want it. :P

They do have the cut-outs, just not the connectors. The 6919 actually has cutouts for sound and firewire, too. I don't use them. I'm refusing to touch front-mounted anything until someone standardizes the cabling.

Er, I honestly didn't plan to write any more, fool.

Nope. Next time you're connected to a *nix box by a terminal with proper support, type "sz filename" and see what I'm talking about.

I like the Compucase 6919 ($72) and its little brother the 6A19 ($60). Both appear to be clones (?) of the Antec design, just like Coug's Chemming.

The woodland shot would be especially nice without all those icky birds.

Using the RealTek as a baseline, yes, everything that's out there sounds better. Sound tends to "skip" when your CPU is under high load, something that doesn't seem to happen with PCI based sound cards or soundstorm. When does your average PC user, even your average gamer, max out their CPU on a...

That's actually 2x 14.4, which isn't quite the same thing as 28.8 (a bit like having two 1GHz CPUs in SMP isn't 2GHz). Actually, my mozilla image permissions are such that I don't load images from outside the site I'm currently viewing. That gets rid of the overwhelming majority of advertising...

I'd probably use ACL650 unless I had a compelling reason to do otherwise. Only a gamer or a multimedia hobbyist would likely notice the difference. For everyday sound, the Live has a little bit better SNR, but without expensive speakers, you're not going to notice that, either. In short, the...

I used an AK39N not too long ago. Like the AK32A, I don't have any particularly bad things to say about it. It was cheap and it worked the way I wanted. Which I guess is praise enough. Since the AK32 and the AK39 are like that, I'll bet the AK38 is, too.

mubs has exhorted me to write something. I had some free time this weekend and nothing in particular better to do, so I sat and tried to do exactly that. Sadly, I couldn't come up with much of any interest. This is as far as I got. Not very. Normally I wouldn't share something like this (it's...

This thread, until PW's post, was nothing but two blank posts from Tea. It doesn't bother me. If I really wanted to see, I could always fish the URL out of page source.

Er. No. There are lots and lots and lots of power strips, surge protectors and UPSes about. It is up to code, though, with 1 outlet every six feet along all walls.

blake, zmdoem works over any shell connection. It's faster whether I'm connected to something via serial line or GBoC. Three things make my apartment REALLY nice: 1.) It's cheap. Really cheap. Under $400/month with paid utilities. 2.) I hate moving my belongings, and my current apartment is...

Yay! A now-uncommon visit from the hairy aussie! IIRC, the Via P4 chipset is a real POS. You know something is wrong when every chipset SiS makes compares favorably. I don't know if any motherboard maker would bother with Via P4 at this stage, anyway. Looks like the players for the near future...

It is?

When I want to download things quickly, I use zmodem. It's considerably faster than FTP or anything else, for that matter.

Yet Another Technician Funny. What's sad is, my co-workers actually do this (I don't answer the phone. Ever).

Last time I checked, anything that ended in .SWF was a Shockwave Flash file.

Doesn't matter. The "Dune" series after the first book was so god-awful that writing it practically bordered on a Crime against Humanity.

I've almost exclusively bought Sapphire cards anyway. I found I was getting something just as good for about 10% less than ATI's price. Oddly, didn't nvidia actually manufacture all the FX5x00 cards itself?

Either that or a very small TV. LCD TVs are a frickin' scam. You've probably noticed this by now.

I ended up with 2 CDs of essential drivers. I bookmarked the pages where I found them, and I plan to update them monthly as needed. I have two OTHER CDs of applications. One of non-free but nonetheless essential stuff like ghost, another that's completely free, that I give away like popcorn...

I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a goatse.cx joke. I will not make a...

Sure it is. If your ISP is anything like most businesses, they probably don't have the time or an employee to spare to make sure that network services you're interested in providing on its network won't cause a problem for its other users. They can take two approaches: 1.) Declare Servers to be...

Mercutio shall not play these games because he understands that crap like that is the reason Flash is completely and utterly worthless.

Probably that they don't want to deal with the insecurity of having people who really don't fully understand what they're doing running very hackable servers on their network. I know that's the problem I'd have with it. Or maybe the fact that you might be doing something illegal on your...

PeeWee, I've made every argument I can make on the subject. I've linked to *objective reviews and measurements of Bose equipment*. I've stated my subjective opinion about Bose, a subjective opinion of the equipment in question, and several other members here have made similar statements...

Temperatures aren't reported in sufficient gradiation. 27C would be a very warm room, but 25 C would be the chilly side of comfortable. I'd much rather know that it's 80F or 75F. It'd be different if Celsius air temps were regularly reported in 10ths of degrees. They aren't, and to me the more...

I've come to the happy conclusion that you enjoy being a fool (no offense to other members so named). Here it is, Mercutio's Second Law of StorageForum: Take a position contrary to Professor Wizard if you want to be right. (the first law, for those who have forgotten: The interest in a topic...

NAT breaks a lot of RFCs. Things don't work the way they're supposed to when you're using NAT. It's better to have a real IP if possible.

If you'd go back and read this very thread, you'd find that Bose's highest-end speakers, the 901s, are trashed just as their low-end crap.

I'd say it depends on the size of your TV. Big TVs look like crap close-up. There's got to be a minimum distance, too. I'd guess probably 2 feet for every 12 inches of screen.

Hosting/colo is usually about $100 a month. That's a serious "ouch", I think. I'd put in if that's something you'd need.

If you leave stuff running long enough, you'll actually start fearing shutdowns, since "that's when things break".

I'm not even sure you can get a motherboard without sound these days. The RealTek ACL650 that comes on lots of VIA boards works pretty well for almost everything a typical desktop user might want. I've never heard of "Remington" computer chassis. Premier is listed on your linked site at $50...

*MY* JVC actually has substantially better color control than Toshiba and Panasonic models I looked at. Also, JVC's color balance is shifted a bit toward red. Don't know why, but I've observed it on five or six different displays. The 32" 16x9 display (see Honold's link) would be a hair over...

Here's another side to this mess.

I like the 16x9 32" VGA CRT even better. I think I'll order one.

I don't see much need to upgrade from a Rage Pro for this situation.

I'd suggest something like a Shuttle AK39N (vanilla KT400) instead of Coug's Soltek. It's probably $25 cheaper.

If you're using svideo input, you don't need a (multiple)comb filter. The filter, as I understand things, is only used when input is from a composite or UHF source. I started a similar thread back in, oh, November or December. Several people suggested JVC, and that's what I bought. I got my...

I'm not. Stuff about Asia Carrera shows up in mainstream print all the time. Again, she's the one the whole industry points to when they want to say "we're not ALL sleazy idiots". OTOH, I'm the guy who lists pr0n on my profile under "Hobbies".