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An action pack subscription is ~ $300. Considering that you get a full, legal copy of everything Microsoft makes (er, except games and the odd consumer package like Plus!), I'd call that a frickin' bargain. ... or there are the 120 day trial versions of more-or-less everything that you can get...

Hm. I've not been able to get the ISO from MSDN, either. Been trying for about two weeks. This is bloody annoying.

I got my happy-pack from MSDN this morning. Office 2003 beta 2, Exchange 2003 and... 2003 Server RC2 (only this time a "360 day trial version")? WTF? Didn't 2003 server go gold like a month ago? Anyone else have an action pack sub or MSDN? Didja get 2003 server yet?

Weird. When I get home I'll look at what version I was using on that machine.

Update to 1.4. Yes, it's still beta. Too bad. It works beautifully and it didn't do that on my linux box this morning when I first saw Pradeep's location.

I've got a few spare 8 and 16 port port switches. Linksys and Dlink. The linkys I still have are the old ones with the steel cases and... they really don't get hot. Are we talking about the old metal ones or the only sorta old plastic ones? SMC's low-end managed switches get pretty warm.

My router has two high rpm fans in it. One for each power supply. ;) A bog-standard linksys switch should be no warmer than room temp, and my wireless AP isn't particularly hot either.

MMMMMmmmmmmm... pie. obyugogHug.

Why should it? Given linksys's market, there really isn't much need to daisy chain equipment. When I do home network installations I typically wire 8 ports, usually four rooms with two ports each. Very few people need more connectivity than that in home/SOHO settings.

"Butt kicking" depends largely on point of view, blake. Radeon 9000s are in the low $60 range and seem plenty fast to me. If all you're looking at is 3D fill rates, the fact that you can get a GF4MX (approximately the same power as an Xbox, right?) for $45 or so has got to be pretty impressive.

I have customer who INSISTS on having meetings at hooters. Frankly, their food isn't that impressive and I don't think I'd choose to go there on my own, but the local establishment is a series of decks and recessed areas, such that there are short flights of stairs EVERYWHERE. The g-forces...

I can't stand wearing headphones, myself. My glasses are extraordinarily heavy, and anything that presses against my ears makes that worse. My one concession to my neighbors' enjoyment of my music was to put a much smaller/lower powered set of speakers in my living room. I use an Acoustic...

... nah, too easy. OK. Maybe just one. Lately the actions and decisions of nvidia have reminded me of latter-day 3dfx. I'd call that poetic justice.

I've decided that the TOSLink connector on those boards must be a digital input, 'cause coax works beautifully for both. Weird.

Pointless but funny war link of the day here.

Or weirdness from Opera. Whichever. Since I'm presently in a mood to tolerate software I don't like very well (eg, booting XP on a couple of machines), I'll give this latest version a go. Maybe it'll be less crashy than the last four times I tried it (last attempt was, I think, v5.5)

Yay! $50 AMD2000s!

One of my cousins has a ~1978 Volvo 240 with 580,000 miles on it. He commutes from Fithian, Illinois (the small town where I grew up) to Decatur, Illinois. I don't know exactly how far that is. Far enough. The thing is, that car is in perfect mechanical condition. I think the most work he had...

Cable isn't kinked. Connector is in securely. Cable works with a CD Changer connected to the same receiver, but I did try another PC with the same motherboard and sound setup, to no avail. No room to install a soundcard in this particular machine.

If you have both DHCP and a static address on the same interface, there's a very good chance for the sort of settings conflict that would make one or the other unworkable eg - You have an assigned DNS address from DHCP and a static one you've configured. Which one gets precedence? Does one...

Stupid Windows XP trick: If you've got ieee1394 on both machines, you can use that as your local network. Works very well. If you can find the right %$$ing cable. Otherwise, yeah, you should probably do the 2 NICs + ICS thing. It'd work better for your setup.

Check permissions on the "all users" folder under \d&s

I've been slowly but surely working my way through FreeSpace2 for the last 18 months or so. I must've gotten with a video or sound card. I found the CD and I'm certain I didn't buy it. FreeSpace 2 is also a lot like Wing Commander, in particular given the scale of the capital ships. I was...

My 9700AIW is a beautiful, perfect thing. It makes all the old DOS games I play look real real purty. :D Wish I could get excited about a game that's less than 2 years old....

720p or 1080i vs, say 1024x768NI? (or whatever the widescreen equivalent is. I don't know). Not to mention the fact that a computer display refreshes twice as often on its lowest display setting. I'd take my projector or my old presentation display over my brother's HDTV any day. Dad's 36"...

I'd exchange that card for another. ATI cards - video cards in general, even crappy nvidia or SiS ones - aren't supposed to do that, and I can't say I've seen it happen on any newer ATI card. In fact, the last card I can remember doing something like that, where I couldn't attribute it to EMI...

Anyone know why, despite the fact that I have SPDIF enabled and "digital output only" on my GA-7VAXP, I'm not getting sound from TOSLink to my receiver? OS can be either 2000 or XP Pro, and yes, the backplate is connected to the motherboard.

Yup. Tried it both ways, too. You can do a lot of testing in eight or nine hours. Never did get it working the "easy" way. Finally exported their OAB to a CSV file, imported that to Winfax's phone book and made my groups that way. ... but only after spending 90 minutes explaining to clients...

Don't make me drive up there. Besides, I invited you, too, and you're still here.

Initially we wanted to add users slowly, and we didn't want SR's admins to think we were competing or "cherry picking". I contacted a group of maybe 15 or 20 people to visit our site initially. There's a long list of folks I remember from "the old SR" whom I wish would drop by this site, if only...

Fully optimizes itself to your hardware, taking advantage of whatever unique improvements have been made with your CPU, motherboard chipset, memory controller... It's a half-step easier than doing a "roll your own" linux system and the results are supposed to be very impressive. I keep meaning...

Smaller crowd. High signal to noise. Some members (James, iGary) don't visit SR any more. Some (honold, Mickey) spend more time there than here. Some (Pradeep) seem to divide their time in half. I'm moving this thread to the Pub, BTW.

I went through a great deal of trouble to contact you. Friday, March 22 2002 I finally did. You visited, posted a couple of times and didn't come back. I don't know why either.

I've spent literally the last 6 hours trying to make faxing to a distribution list work. Should be simple, right? Make a list, make sure everyone in the list has a business fax number, pop into Winfax message center, select the group from the Outlook Address Book... Bang! "Some recipients were...

Forgive me for asking a perfectly innocent question but... Why does a car need to go fast? Even in places where average speed of traffic is 80mph (I'm thinking of 394 between, oh, the 80-94 merge and Exchange road - timwhit knows what I'm talking about, probably), you aren't going much faster...

... and last week, when someone wanted better firsthand information about SANs and FC, which group was more helpful? This site doesn't have ads. This site has clear rules for forum conduct and some transparency in its administration. The fact that a large group of SR's regulars moved en masse...

Outlook is evil and must be destroyed. Seriously. Since my entire day today has been spent trying to resolve Outlook/Winfax integration problems, I'm more than entitled to voice my displeasure.

Right this very instant, newegg is listing refurbished Abit NF-7Ss and an Asus nforce2 of some kind for $79. I'm perfectly happy buying refurbs for parts that I know are generally OK, that I'm going to use for myself, like my gigabyte boards, but some of you might be interested in a nice...

Since when do we care what honold thinks? ;) IIRC, there's a fix for upgraded-Outlook-XP-from-2000 crashes. The fix in question involved several invokations of regsrv from the command line, but I can't seem to find it with a 2 second google search. And, of course, using Word to compose outlook...

CougTek's attitude is mirrored by those of French and Spanish Basques, Iraqi and Turkish Kurds, Roma throughout Eastern Europe, autochthonic peoples of the Americas (where those of largely European or immigrant ancestry tend to be in charge), Hawaiians, Abos in Oz... I'd say it's a pretty...

Do we not have problems like that because we're smaller? Are we going to run into hilarious issues like these some day? I'd be very upset if we lost 4 hours of posts here or I had posted on SR in the time period in question.

We have a toolbox. It has Atto in it. How do we add things? Is there a size limit? F'r instance: I have all 80MB of IE6 SP1 + all the add ons, universal installer. It was a monumental PITA to get it. Microsoft REALLY wants you to use their web installer. Might be a cool thing to share, for the...

No point to point stuff, Buck. My apartment faces, erm, well, a swimming pool, and then a bunch more apartments. I might be able to manage a decent 802.11 setup with some of the houses nearby, but even at that, I live in a bad part the world and I don't think I'd get very far with that...

I live in the greater Chicago metroplex (where I live isn't a suburb of Chicago by any stretch, but from where I live all the way to Chicago, there's an unbroken chain of truly urban landscape). Not the boonies. The are weird laws in the county where I live that make providing broadband service...

It's under the dust cover about a half inch in front of the parallel port, and it installs just like every other bit of laptop memory.

No broadband. I check about every two weeks. No outdoor antennas, either. :(

January 13th. The first people who registered for the site, including Handruin and Clocker, registered January 13th 2002. The first day the site was really open to the general public was January 22nd 2002, when timwhit and Will Rickards joined.

I was referring to people with broadband generally, not just Canadians. For reference: I pay a little under $50 for two telephone lines. Because of weirdo bundling, I can't get local unlimited free calling - I have to pay for long distance for that. "Basic" phone service is cheap ($10/month)...

All of you people suck. I mean that. From the botttom of my heart.

Alpha went to EV7 for 533MHz, IIRC Were I in the position of licensing the technology for the processor technology I was betting billions of dollars of engineering and fab work on, I'd at least license that technology for as long as practical. 8 years? 10 years? A long time. Were I a...