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The subject was the PC listed in a previous thread (Pentium 233, 32MB RAM), running WinXP on a non-ACPI HAL. The subject is now an XP2200+ with 512MB on the ACPI HAL for XP. XP was upgraded stopping the install just after the first reboot and ghosting the FAT32 partition to an 80GB hard disk...

Caldera is a really, really evil company. Evil like Real. Evil like Microsoft. Evil Evil Evil. They deserve the crash and burn they'll be experiencing shortly. cheapbytes.com sells pressed Linux CDs for essentially cost of media. $2 copies of RedHat or Debian are pretty cool. Downloading...

Where else am I going to get pictures of semi-clothed women and information about penis enlargement while I'm at work??? Actually, my office-mate and I have a regular contest over who gets the dumbest spam. It's kind of fun, in a "better than working" sort of way.

Look on Ebay. Those things cost like $25 used. That's where I got mine, anyway (then paid the new price for an extra receiver, sigh).

Good gods yes! Reseating cards, adding fans, swapping one card for one with the same nvidia chip. Changing drivers. Changing RAM. Changing power supplies. I actually have a few nvidia cards I haven't thrown away. All of them pulls from other PCs - so I really don't know if any of them work - but...

The following components are involved in mine: VCR SVHS VCR TV DVD Changer PC Receiver Projector 5 speakers, 1 sub 2.4GHz wireless video distributor (doesn't pass macrovision, which is happy for dubbing) 2.1 PC speaker set for occasional sounds from PC I've got the VCRs plugged into the...

Blake, the goal of such a device would be to eliminate some of the many, many cables and expensive devices that are connected to an HTPC. Right now I can't even consider removing my HTPC from its receiver, even though all that receiver is, to my computer, is a way to hook up "real" speakers and...

I'm not talking about M64s, Vantas or GF2MXs. I'm talking about products across all those that nvidia has developed. What I've seen has ranged from Riva128 to GF4MX. I don't sit down thinking "Oh, gee, nvidia card, I'd better take that out." I've never done that, although I have been awfully...

It wasn't a store. It was a card processor. A place stores send card numbers to complete transactions. This is what we call a "major boo-boo".

In *MY* day we had to write a lexx script to do this crap.

The problem James is referring to is something called "jitter", which is essentially related to the fact that any two AC electrical devices are on very slightly different electrical phases, creating VERY tiny errors in data transmitted on a digital cable. The anal-retentive dislike of digital...

I beg to differ. Looking back through my problem logs (I am a diarist by habit. Makes billing easier), I can see 41 times over a three year period where I replaced an nvidia card to solve lockup/ heat related issues or graphics anomalies, usually only after spending some period of time...

Only if your definition of "working" includes things like overheating or hard-locking a PC. Thanks, I'll take a video card that doesn't do that.

Sort of... USB is WAY too much of a load on a system CPU, and the only products I know of (Yamaha's, HK, Creative) are all USB, and don't have the functionality I'd like to see - eg video switching (especially switching to a VGA connector). If we're going to go outside the PC, those would be...

Real speaker connectors would be cool, and the "card" in question could be a low-EMI firewire device...

What driver weirdness? With recent cards?

Tannin, do you just not like your customers? ATI is the solution, not the problem. The Radeon 7000 in particular is just about the most fuss-free card I've worked with in recent memory, with 2D quality that's far, far better than anything else I can buy for US$29.

That's odd. I'm pretty sure the Xpert lineup was plain ol' Rage 128s.

The Xpert's 2D quality isn't very good. A Rage Pro is much better if you're going that low-end.

ATI 7000 would get my vote as well. It's a nice general purpose card. If I'm on a true budget mission, I'll look for S3 Savage4s, SiS730s or system pull Gx00 cards.

Why is snow on the east coast national news? Every time y'all get a foot or two of white stuff it gets to be front page headlines. The people who actually live on the East coast KNOW it's snowing. The people in the midwest and northern states have it just as bad or worse, and the people in the...

Mighta been. Have to admit that I don't particularly care. The capture software locked up XP every time I tried to install it (yes, I had the XP version of the software) - had to do comparison testing in 98, and of course the thing had the usual GF2 2D blurriness.

Unlike Storagereview, this site has established practices and guidelines for moderation, and a number of persons with moderation authority. If you choose to behave in the same manner as its fubar, Vagpaare or Monica Lewinski from the SR forums, your posts will be heavily edited and you will...

I would *love* to see a PC-based component that could handle most of the functions of a HT receiver. A digital in and out, plus some banana plugs for real speakers... it'd be sweet.

Newegg still has Speeze coolers! If anyone is still interested, doing a "search" for Speeze on newegg.com got me to the full list. Makes me wonder what else they carry that isn't linked on their catalog. I had two of the big guys shipped out today.

I bought a half-dozen Sapphire Radeon 9000 VIVOs for one of my classrooms. Some high points: $75 for composite video in and out, and Svideo in and out, and a passively cooled Radeon 9000. This card uses the newer MMC 7.7 capture software, with "One Touch Record" and a skinnable interface. Visual...

Here. Seems like a pretty damn good deal for a 68-pin drive.

It always bugged me that Galeon needs Mozilla in order to function. You'd think they could strip the Gecko bits out of Moz and work from there...

You misspelled "idiots", zx.

Nope. I'm contemplating the Epson, though.

It's not on by default. Local security policy on every 2000 or XP machine I can find has it set to "disabled". Again, the bigger issue is the ungodly number of 2000/XP Pro machines with blank passwords for the admin account.

Let's not get into that "Zero is a number" debate.

My love life is something of a sore subject (indescribably painful, truth be told, and I mean that in a "curse each new day as I awaken yet again" sort of way), but yes, I do have a fond memory along those lines.

... but only for a couple days. <eewwwwww>

And in other news, Anand's content still sucks.

Tannin didn't spell it properly, but somnolence means "slumber". We can remember this the next time someone complains about American English vs. the British or Aussie kind.

Ancient windows-fu: If you want stuff to show up in non-alphabetical order, precede its name with a shifted character or a number, and it'll move to the top of the list.

I think it's stupid to steal Microsoft's UIs. Microsoft's interfaces tend to be flawed (the classic example being "Click on Start to Shut Down") and certainly non-intuitive to an inexperienced user. I believe an ideal interface is adaptive. An experienced user should have more options or faster...

Yes. The recovery console works the same way from XP Home as Pro. In fact, I've used 2000's RC on XP, and XP's on 2000. The commands are all the same.

SteveC: A [url=http://us.imdb.com/Title?0068468]Lovelace[/ur] (L) is the SI unit for Suckage, particularly as it relates to software.

I want to find a low-cost flatbed scanner that doesn't suck. Several reasons, the first being that my office-mate needs one and can't afford it. The second is that the asstastic HP 5100s I've got at work have a Lovelace reading that's right off the scale. Seriously, the drivers I can find for...

TweakUI should be part of the default intstall. It also has a "repair" feature that can be used to rebuild icon lists and stuff. I was going to suggest playing with that a bit.

Yes, but have you put folders into folders?

I believe this adequately captures my sentiments.

Dood, All you need to do is make folders in your %homepath%\favorites folder. I think the favorites file system is stupid and wasteful myself, compared to bookmark.html, but at least in this one case there's a simple answer.

Only if, by "secure" you mean "already compromised". I didn't start getting regular contact with XP until early this year, but all the machines I'm seeing have user accounts with no passwords set. Most user accounts on XP seem to have been created at install time - all users created at that...

:) I think I win the "most pathetic loser in the romance department" contest. After all, *I* sent a Valentine to a woman who decided she need a new answering machine 'cause the old one had a male-sounding voice. On the other hand, I still haven't killed myself yet. Fuck, I wish I was joking.

Almost every XP machine I've run into already logs into an administrator account without a password. Complaining about security problems in Windows is like complaining about holes in nets.

I think it'll be a bit longer than that. DVD-ROM adoption hasn't been particularly fast or successful, and the companies that are attempting to make products for the most obvious application of a DVD burner are being sued out of existance. Many people I meet have had a burner for a couple of...

Filename conversion is a fairly simple procedure. You can do it yourself with maybe 5 lines worth of shell script, or - if you look on freshmeat.net, someone has probably done it for you.