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My Dell is OK. It'd probably moan about it quite a bit if I'd had to pay more than $200 for it, though. Are P4/2.4s all supposed to be slugs? Or is it just mine?

Perhaps we should start a club...

There won't particularly be a performance loss. He's on SDRAM already, and DDR doesn't really come into its own until you hit a 133MHz bus.

Also Abit. Abit also needs to apologize for being born. And AOL. And Barbera Bush, for marrying George I. George I should never have known the touch of a woman. And I use that term only technically, 'cause I've seen defensive linemen that look more feminine.[1] While I'm at it: Both Jerry...

Speaking of Micropolis... I found a 4.3GB 50-pin drive in my goodybox this weekend that appears to still work. It holds data and doesn't have bad sectors anyway. It's also louder than some entire computers I have, by itself. I'm still waiting for nvidia and Bush to apologize for being born.

You need a Shuttle AK32L. KT266 - some doubt as to the "A", but it's got DDR and SDRAM support and it can handle a 2000+ chip just fine. Plus they're all of $60 new. I've got one kicking around in a Linux box and thusfar it's been excellent, even with 1GB of SDRAM (2x 512).

Spoken like someone who has never upgraded the CPU in his Latitude. ;)

*I'M* crazy? None of my PCs have bootprints (not much of a feat since I'm pretty sure I don't own any boots) on them, and Wordperfect certainly does work well under Linux.

Centrino falls into the "it'd be nice, but..." category for me. Wireless + low power + reasonably fast ultraportables are undoubtedly good things, but I'd rather someone make a laptop drive that's as fast as a desktop's. That's a more interesting product.

Someone clearly hasn't driven enough in snow.

Tea, I find you guilty of presupposing Shrub has brains to begin with. Iraq is a secular state in the Arab world. There aren't many of those, and given bin Laden's predilection to fundamentalism and what I've read on the subject, I don't think Saddam would be bestest pals with bin Laden...

Of course, keyboard shortcuts are also a good choice. Tried gestures. Didn't like them. Went back to ALT-leftarrow.

WordPerfect 2000 for Linux behaves just like the Windows version, far as I can tell. I don't know if it's still available for download, unfortunately.

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Moz has gestures. You can get them from mozdev.org. Not that I can see why anyone would want them.

I put the disk from my 9700 in a machine with a 7500AIW and that worked, even the DVD upgrade. I upgraded my 8500DV to everything else but DVD, and that worked, too.

I've got the update in-hand. I'll try it on some older cards tonight. I think the only thing that keeps this update from working is DVD support. At least, if I'm reading the site correctly.

Huh? 7.1 on a Rage is bug-free. It's missing a single feature (the one-touch record) that 7.5 - 7.7 have, and it's missing support for skins. MMC 7.5 was buggy, but it was designed for a different series of cards, and the bugs were worked out quickly. I can't think of a time I've had a problem...

I wouldn't go whining about HEC, either. They're not loud at all and reliability has been very good.

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They're loud. Loud in a "loud" sort of way. Loud enough that midrange SCSI disks aren't particularly annoying. At least, the ones in my SuperMicro tower cases are.

Yes, and at one point I had a neighbor who used his apartment to deal rock. He had a REALLY obvious steel door and frame put in, and it's still there, two tenents later. Somehow I'm not worried about my little wires.

Let's just say storage needs border on extreme.

I'd go with Sparkle. They're loud but they don't much. :)

Just to be clear: I was booting off the crappy 6GB IDE disk in my laptop; I don't know of any external devices that you can boot off of only notebook PCs, either.

As a moderator, I think you're pushing it a little, Mr. Fubar. No one joke in particular, I just think you should tone things down a bit.

Well, as long as we don't find a need for inline images for all this.

My happy little Adaptec card seems to have helped my situation immensely. I shaved about a minute off login times on my clients by having that 2nd port...

That is correct, sir.

1.) 80 to 68pin adaptors are a serious PITA, or at least I haven't found them to work well. 2.) Compaq-labelled drives usually have "weirdo Compaq drive BIOSes", too.

Personally I think a P4 with a tricked-out heat sink would be the worst. Or maybe one of those Zalman sharkfin jobs that has the 120mm fan on the end. Ouch!

Yes, mine was a 75GB model. I've gotten substantially better drives from RMA a couple of times, but IMO this was not one of them.

I'd weep for joy if I could get Samsung's drive tools...

I got an 80GB 180GXP for my 75GXP, but mine was refurbed.

Just to spoil things for everyone, the two chipsets might as well be identical in terms of performance. The nforce2 "wins" more comparisons but usually a tiny fraction of a margin. KT400A will be cheaper, performs just as well. Makes the decision easy for me.

Fallingwater. It's closed at the moment, but I've been there. It's... dank. The exterior is gorgeous but the inside is like, well, it's a little like a locker room, at least in the summer. A big part of Frank Lloyd Wright's problem is that materials science wasn't up to the challenges of his...

Tried it a while ago. I must've rejected it for some reason, although at this point I don't remember why. I've really moved on. Now I'm in the process of finding "the perfect DVD burning app". Ulead Movie Factory works pretty well for analog caps, but I haven't found a 9 - 5 tool that I can...

PowerDVD XP. 7.1 & DTS Support, Sony SRS with a patch. Plus it comes with Liteon DVD drives. It also supports hardware playback on most decoder devices (e.g. ATI cards, Zoran, Hollywood+... whatever). The other stuff I've tried isn't nearly as good.

I like smartripper best as a pure ripping tool. DVD Decrypter does other neat stuff, too, though. To get a good-quality divx on a CD, you probably need a bitrate calculator. I use an older version of FlaskMPEG called FlaskAMD for my encoding, or the MPEG-2-enabled version of virtualdub. In both...

My experience with Cyrix is much like the one I've had with Nividia. Tannin and I have a brief arguement about it several times a year, but in my experience they were... not good. Opposite of good, in fact. I think that's called "bad" or maybe "evil". Either way.

What? I've done ethernet installations before. It's absolutely my least-favorite way to make money, but I've done it, and what I did beat the heck out of bundled cables everywhere in my apartment. The high-end hardware I have is all castoff stuff. I picked up the rack and the RAID array (and a...

The local campuses of both IU and Purdue charge $5 for copies of software. At IU, the requirements are strict: A student may purchase a single copy of any microsoft business product, but must show school ID and other picture form, sign two documents agreeing to the license and is not allowed to...

Just for comparison, when I *moved* I left one of my machines up. Of course, I only had to go about 500 feet with it and its UPS, but it's an impressive feat nonetheless. honold will be by shortly to tell us all that uptime means poor security, I'm sure.

Not on a laptop.... For a while I had a Cheetah hooked up to an old laptop of mine, just because I couldn't stand how slow it was, so I guess anything is possible. Yes, Linux will do suspend to disk. At least, I remember seeing stuff about it in various documentation.

It's poll time!

Last time I had that problem on one of my machines all I had to do was pull the GF2 and replace it with a Savage4... Slightly more realistically, the only computer I boot with any regularity is my laptop (only if I didn't remember to "hibernate" it), and the Raptor isn't going to help that...

So if I want to reboot my computer over and over, I should get a raptor! w00t!

Die for George Bush? That's a very funny joke. It must be, because I laughed aloud. I curse each new day as I awake, and I still wouldn't die for George Bush. Of course, I obviously hate the Bush family with a passion. Could have something to do with the whole "atheists shouldn't be citizens"...

Keep in mind that we're talking about a passively cooled box with a 740X in it. In my experience the BB version of that drive isn't hot in a SCSI/early Barracuda ATA sort of way, but it does get warm. Most of the ENs I've seen had WD AA-series or Seagate U drives in them. Slugs both, but they...

Last week's issue of time reports a 54%/36%/8% War/Peace/Don't Care profile among Americans. Of course, I think Time leans just a hair to the right anyway. Compared to Newsweek, our slightly leftist glossy news magazine.