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OK. My father gave me about five years worth of back issues of this magazine about six months ago, and they've been piled in the back of my car ever since. Until today. An exceptionally long line at the drive-through window at Taco Bell had me ready to KILL for something to read. I vaguely...

It's all the same to me. Technically it's upgrading over itself.

Upgrading to ACPI on 2000/XP isn't that bad. You start the install, and at the point where you reboot the first time, you switch on ACPI, then allow the upgrade to continue.

Just thought I'd say that I had NOTHING to do with this rant. Just to be the voice of reason.... is gainward the only company selling SDRam GF4MXs? I'd rather hang one company than a chipset manufacturer...

XP wants a level of encryption in authenticating connections to file shares. Some of these things can be fixed by prodding local security policy on XP, some by recompiling samba with additional support for encryption. Neither I nor James has found a way to make it "just work" like it does with...

I have couple of problems with nforce. One is that it's made by nvidia, a company whose products I firmly - and with good reason - believe are inferior. The second is that as a chipset, it hasn't been widely adopted by companies whose products I would actually buy (i.e. Gigabyte doesn't do it...

Yeah. Inexpensive stability sucks. At the $5 a KT333 with USB2 support costs over the price of KT266A? That's not worth a damn thing! nforce2 is a niche board. The high-end audio is cool, but mostly I don't see it as delivering real value to a customer. If I tell someone they can pay $10 more...

Samsung or current-gen Maxtor drives (only in red boxes). I heart my warranty. I don't know what I'll do if Samsung drops to 1 year warranty. Cry, I guess. BTW, Clocker, more RAM is always good. You know that without me having to tell you. :)

802.11B and G at least are "shared media". There's 11 or 54Mbit to share no matter how many clients are using that particular AP. So I guess that would be "hub like".

Took the AP back to the store, got a different one. Things now work MUCH better. 80%+ signal strength in my whole apartment. Since the physical installation didn't change, I guess maybe there was an antenna issue? 54Mbit is almost tolerable for file copying, too. ;)

For a casual user I doubt it would be much of an improvement. I'd also like to say that I've RMA'd 5 of the 11 WD drives I've purchased for myself in the last 18 months, a mix of AB, BB, and JB drives. That's NOT a good track record.

When has there not been a reason to buy a VIA board?

A more mature product from VIA is a good thing.

Filesystem design. Journaling FSes (NTFS, ReiserFS etc) should have even less need for such things.

ext2 isn't "supposed" to fragment to the sort of extent that an active defragger is needed. If you REALLY feel the need, there's a defragger at ibiblio

My AP is set on a wall about 4 inches from the ceiling. Yup, 802.11G still has crappy encryption.

Yes Jan, I do. I turned it off before I even plugged my AP in. At this point I think my neighbors' cordless phones might be the problem. I got up at 4:00 and tried again, and things seemed to work a bit better.

It's supposed to. It's not working that well for me. My signal drops from 100% to like 20% when I move 2 feet from where I'm sitting right now.

In my life as a consultant I run into 802.11B equipment with something like annoying frequency. It's downright common, truth be told. I'm given to understand that 802.11A is the "next great thing" in wireless - 5GHz band where practically nothing else can cause interference, 54Mbps speeds, and...

Kmeleon DOES have bookmarks. It also has your IE favorites list. I've got an old version installed on one of my PCs and I can see both. Maybe if you right click on the menu bar or something... it might just be hidden.

I'm not a retailer. I'm an "advanced hobbyist". No store. No profit motive (customer usually pays cost + taxes + a very small fee for data transfer or XP-related annoyances). All that said, I'd offer to take care of it for a customer within the warranty period of the part. Customer can pay...

Meh. I have my own system of blocking images anyway. Of course, sometimes I miss images on this site, like Tea's monkey picture of the day, but that's the cost of having a crappy network connection (who says modem connections aren't "always on"? At least one of my modems has been connected to...

Let's try this again, and get it right this time. Leech - Context batch downloading (e.g. "all the *.zip files linked on this page"). I don't think I need to explain why this rules, do I? Spellchecker - Spellchecking within your Mozilla Mail client. Adblock - Fine-grained image permissions...

Someone on Slashdot pointed me to this site. After playing a bit, my Mozilla installation has reached the point where it is absolutely sublime. A collection of links to goodies: Leech - Context batch downloading (e.g. "all the *.zip files linked on this page"). I don't think I need to explain...

No one ever listens when I say the easiest way to defrag large clusters is a ghost backup/restore, which is too bad, because it is.

In the US, when we hear about cold weather, the termperature is reported at either International Fall, Minnesota or Buffalo, New York. Toronto is 50-something miles north of Buffalo. Now, this could still be part of the whole "It snowed on the East Coast and we're all a bunch of pansies"...

Actually most overclocker friendly motherboards have a tool that lets you adjust frequency settings on the fly. Ages ago I recall a tool that did the same thing for multiplier settings, but it only worked on Abit BX boards.

http://www.kazaalite.com Does a body good.

Being omnipresent doesn't mean I go slumming.

What's a "Sonic"?

Canada as a nation is cleaner than anyplace I've ever been in the US. Canada would be a really cool place except for all that "Cold". Maybe it's nice in Vancouver or something.

Yeah. When he's hooked up you can set the level of his commentary, and he dances and stuff. He says stuff depending on what you're doing (e.g. you're "Boring" when you open word or excel) or where you are on the web.

Silly Canuck, Kazaa is free! Nero 6 will probably still beat the crap out of it, but I found somone sharing it on Kazaa like an hour ago.

OK

I have a USB-powered Homer Simpson. :)

We've all got stories. This guy has stories and pictures.

The answer to that question is "it depends". Everything between the original Rage AIW and the 9000 Pro VIVO uses the same Rage Theater chip for video encoding. My Rage VIVO is as capable as my AIW7500 as my 8500DV. The difference between those cards then comes down to the number and quality of...

As someone who knows the remote access passwords for several large boxes at his ISP that say "Cisco" on them, let me just say that "reprogramming servers" isn't as much fun as it sounds. At least with IOS 10.2. I quit doing that sort of thing a long time ago, though, once I almost made a...

Crap. I *just* got a decent deployment script for my lab PCs and now you people want to give him more computers to play with. grumble grumble grumble Now I'm gonna have to break down and fold on some of my home PCs

I have a tendency to lose tubes of artic silver after a few weeks. I don't know where they go. That's why they're lost. It gets expensive after awhile. It's exceptionally annoying since I do almost all my techwork in one room and I have all my tools in one place, and I have a dedicated toolbag...

Anyone know where to get thermal pads to replace those found on retail HSFs? AMD's site makes some mention of them. I've never seen one. Are they out there?

That's the build ID for my Microsoft Gold Certified Partners version, too (mine is called Windows 2003 Server Edition, and I just dug it out from a pile of crap on my desk).

Damn. Missed that one while I was typing the other. C3s are SLLLLOOOOOOWWWWW. That "933" may in point of fact be equivalent to a 500MHz Intel chip in many respects. From what I know about the build quality of 500MHz IBM notebooks (at least in the 600E and 540 series), I'd FAR rather have the IBM.

ClearType doesn't seem to help with scaling.

Any site that makes someone use Flash should be de-peered from the rest of the internet. Those sites, and AOL can go off and start their own network. They can it "DebilitatingBrainInjuryNet" or something, and let those of us gifted with slighly-greater-than-room-temperature IQs have something...

Win2000 and XP can do "font scaling". It looks like cat puke and causes the occasional bit of graphics weirdness, but the letters are indeed arbitrarily larger!

Maybe someday you'll grow up and turn into OS X like me. :)

"Large Fonts" are your friend in that case, and any windows app that can't do text scaling probably doesn't need to be on a laptop.

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. My simpleton answer is that higher numbers tend to be faster, except that there's a singularity for values between 8500 and 9100. Radeon 7x00s tend to be a little faster than GF2 MXs. Radeon 8500s are in the same league with GF3s or GF4 MXs. The...

Moderation has been performed on .Nut's post. It's an iffy thing in this case, and maybe a bit of text from Gary acknowledging the nature of the content would've changed my mind, but there were a couple of naughty words in there that warranted some action.