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You're off by a little bit, blakerwry. I paid about $1350 for a 17" Mag in late 1993. I can probably even dig up the Computer Shopper I ordered it out of. The second 17" I bought, in the fall of 1995, was only $585 + shipping, but I paid wholesale price from the importer for it.

I think it'd be cool. Actually, I know of a couple places along those lines already - one that's run by adult-site webmasters and one that's for fan-types. The adult-site guys have a social club, not unlike our B&G. The fans site (it's a subsite of bomis.com, but I won't link it) has almost...

The machine I'm sitting in front of right now has a AIW7500 in it, running 2000, and there don't appear to be any MPEG2 codecs on the machine in device manager, despite the fact that I also have PowerDVD4 installed. Just capped 20 minutes of MPEG2, 720x480, 30fps, 5Mbps, while playing a game of...

If it makes you feel any better, blakerwry, I have a couple of boards (one Abit KT7A and one FIC AZ11E) that had leaky caps as well. A large percentage of Abit boards were affected by that particular problem because, while a great many OEMs (Asus, Tyan, Abit... the list is very, very long) used...

I looked for a full-time, permanent job for years before I started doing what I do now. I can honestly say that I was overqualified for about 85% of everything I did as a contractor, and I can honestly say that I know that my qualifications got me turned down more than they got me interviews or...

'kay.

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That's three more seconds between me and my SF fix, hence the bookmark updating. :)

Do you have any idea how many different PCs I have to change bookmarks on, Doug?

(first: sexual assault is absolutely NOT something to joke about, even a little) Au contraire (is that right, Coug?), Cliptin. As a mushy-headed liberal, I don't think that's evidence of sexual assault. Besides, I Know some religious wacko conservative-types who would probably call kissing...

I know, after training several people who have wanted to work as salesmen or techs at Best Buy, that retail stores in general don't have any real desire to hire truly competant employees. Two reasons: 1.) A competant employee might desire a higher wage or leave his job for more challenging work...

The "expertise" in taking a Pavilion apart is hard won. I spent 2.5 hours trying different things and furtively searching HP's site while working on one before I realized that, despite good documentation for some of their cases, some others have absolutely none.

Sadly, I know this one. The 69xx Pavilions are the MicroATX P3s with Asus boards, aren't they? You obviously got one side of the case apart without problem. The problem is the other side, of course. Three choices, depending on the case: There may be a button in a CD tray (it's on the lip...

That depends on how many scantily clad women are in the photo. 8) If I choose to look at an image, I really don't care how big it is. I'll go do other things while it loads. The point where I have a problem is when there's upteen million embedded images or just a couple of really craptastic...

... And Doug gives me the chance to expound on one of my favorite topics: The money is in content production and licensing, Doug, not the ads. At this point it's almost impossible for a new site to break in to the stranglehold (e.g. Internet Entertainment Group*, Danni Ashe's site) the largest...

The power plants where I used to work actually had seperate circuits for office equipment, from outside the plant to prevent those kinds of problems.

I just saw something about "penis enhancement" in my inbox, too.

I bought a whole bunch of 32, 40, and 48x CD-RWs for the labs I maintain. Out of three months and 48 drives, I've thusfar had six fail in lightest use imaginable (most of the drives have been used, oh, three or four times). Plus I have a couple that have the jet engine sound I normally associate...

I've found that most surge protectors are less than ideal for computer equipment because of either poor positioning of the plugs (ever have a wall-wart take up three outlets on a surge protector?), having cords that are simply too short or because the on/off switch is too easy to trip. Plus I...

Never in all my time on any site have I ever seen a discussion about surge protectors. We all need them. We all have them. I only have actual UPSes on 2/3s of my machines. The rest have a variety of crummy, $15 surge protectors, exactly none of which are particularly well suited for the job...

You think they wait that long?!?

I made a neat little find last night. These guys have developed a free, functional 386/DOS emulator that supports soundblaster sound, and VGA graphics. Why is this cool, you ask? Well, maybe I'm the only guy that still plays games in DOS, but I'll bet a couple of the rest of you have one or...

Hey! That card has cost me something like $1100.

Here's the NewEgg reviews, mubs. I'm not the only person who think they're a good deal. Also note the newegg price - $46 including the shipping. Ouch. OK. I'll quit pimping them now and go to bed.

Five miles, in New York, in winter, and not that far from the icy depths of the Atlantic? I guess $5 for two cab rides is rather extreme for a $10 memory module but I think we'd all forgive you if you hopped a bus. :)

Honestly, upgrading "server" CPUs doesn't happen very often. A change in the Xeon socket is nowhere near as distressing as a change to the P3/P4 since in all likelihood, the people buying these new chips are probably buying whole new servers at the same time. Still, it's amazing how much life...

Whoops. XP DOES NOT, repeat DOES NOT support mirroring. Software RAID1 and RAID5 are the province of server editions of NT. XP, like NT4W and 2000Pro, can only do striping. You may now beat me with my MCSE ID card.

There wasn't in NT or 2000. I'd venture a guess and say you're not going to get it in XP, either. If you want "performance RAID1", you could do a lot worse than a 3ware card.

There are very comprehensive directions for removing NAV on symantec's web site. I've had to do it by hand many, many times. I believe there are 8 or 10 branches of the registry to prune as well as some directories and files. There's also an automated tool for getting rid of it, but it does not...

Bill (Flagreen) is oldest (early 50s?), actually, but he has been around much in his original nick. Koggit, Bill's son, is probably the youngest person who has posted here, but timwhit is the youngest "regular". I generally go by one nickname or another. Being "Mercutio" here is just like any...

If anyone is interested in a new 2.1 speaker set, Target has the utterly fantastic Logitech Z340 set on sale for just $23. I usually pay about $33 a set for these, and boy are they good speakers. I picked up several sets for inclusion in builds. There were lots of 'em on the shelves at the...

DVD Audio sounds like, er, 6 channels of audio. Lots of sound from the center channel speaker, so make sure you have a good one. I have the same unit. It's a little bit noisy and very slow when it changes disks but otherwise an excellent piece of equipment.

In case anyone cares... Talked myself into a 32" JVC, since I made more money this weekend than I thought I would. In the end, I liked the brightness and color separation of the JVC better than the Panasonic or Toshiba models. White looked "more white" and black seemed "more black" on the JVC...

I'd like a moment of silence for what may very well be the only 75GXP ever to die a "normal" death. He served me faithfully in a RAID0 for more than two years, and expired this evening, after a short but valiant battle between GMR head and disk surface. His undead rattle is tintinnabular, and I...

CNN Sport, that is entirely unfair. SteveC, PeeWee, Coug, Fushigi, Handruin, Buck and myself (and probably some I'm forgetting) all posted yesterday. There were people here, just not much to say.

I don't think the 9700 caps MPEG1 any better than the 8500. I tried several different bit-rates and examined the files in slow-motion with virtualdub. Most of the "MPEG-blocks" were even in the same places. I haven't played with component out yet. :(

Upon further investigation, the AIW9700 is clearly awesome. Today is the first time I've played games with it and, wow, what a difference from my Voodoo5.

What the permissions on your profile directory?

The 32" Tau is $800 from Amazon or $900 locally. It also weighs over 70kg (most 32" TVs weigh around 50kg). That seems a bit steep for its size, and JVC's 36" offering, with similar specs, can be had for less money. As far as specs in what I'm looking for: 3 line filter, no "enhanced" sound (TV...

I was asking the guys in my class tonight (many young-ish, unmarried men). Those that had opinions were mostly of the "stay away from..." variety. thanks for opinions, regardless.

Going over the top sometimes causes problems with things like XUL (which makes textboxes and other form items in Moz) and with themes. You can end up with something quite unusable if you don't uninstall first. You shouldn't lose anything when you uninstall. Your mozilla profile doesn't get...

I love my watches. I have a small collection of them that I never wear. ;)

That SuperMicro case does have a down side, Gary. It's unusually loud, even for a "server-type" enclosure. Tyan can be hit or miss. Stability is always good, but sometimes they release absolute dogs. Hard telling which ones are which sometimes, especially for their workstation-ish boards.

Yup. Been using it since 10:00 this morning. The mail client is a bit better. It doesn't overlap the windows taskbar all the time now.

I can name lots of Egyptian gods: Ra, Horus, Bast, Anubis, Thoth, Geb, Ptah, Isis, Astarte, Hathor, Maat That's, umm... 11, anyway. I'd have to google to get more than that. I think the only way to do server farms would be old-testament biblical names or something. That's kind of an...

Anyone have a strong opinion on newish Television sets? My 27" presentation display is losing vertical synch maybe one power-cycle in five or when I leave it on too long, and I think it's basically going to die. I think I'll just buy a standard-issue TV to replace it (unless it's worth fixing...

Anatomy lesson: A penis is a sensitive organ, but it isn't in the same league as your fingers or your tongue. Like a finger, only the tip (or precisely, the glans, the right below the tip on the underside) is really all THAT sensitive. Testes are generally far more sensitive to changes in, um...

Nothing from Crucial, but it looks like Corsair is selling CAS2 sticks at up to 512MB PC3500. That's probably pretty good. ;)

Just to amplify... A server is, or should be, a controlled environment. Ideally, nothing should be installed on one that has not been tested first. Blindly applying patches and updates is a great way to get fired from a job. In the worst cases, such as the case with one of the servers I...

My IBM 540 is (host)named Atropus. I started naming my PCs after muses, but I ran out of those. Until my cell phone gets a static IP, I'm not giving it a hostname.