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2.2MB for a firmware update!?! What the heck is this? The direct link is http://www.scan.co.uk/software/ibm/DFT_GENERIC_DTLA_A59A_A69A.EXE BTW. Looking at this, I don't even know if the update came from IBM. Was it reverse-engineered or official? If it's official why isn't on IBM's site? If...

Terabits AVI Information. Sorry.

The easy fix is a program called Terrabits (Terabits? Don't remember) Avi Editor. Terabits will let you make micro-scale changes to your AVI's framerate, which can fix those silly audio problems. I drop a couple of frames in every hour of cap, and usually have to make a micro-change from 29.997...

Try a different power connector, if you haven't already done so. I had a machine doing that to one of my drives this summer. It was maddening until I swapped the drive and, at the same time the power cable. The drive works fine in another machine, and now I have a tag on the cable inside that...

You'd actually be amazed what you can do with MS Word or Works, if you have those. Personally I relegate Vidcap as a secondary task, anyway, like CD-burning. If I felt any need to have a faster video card, I'd certainly replace the Rage VIVO in my game machine. I'm still waiting for the right...

It's flattering to read that my recommendation is so highly regarded! Particularly since Tannin's been pounding on his Samsungs for ages and no one seems to buy them. ;) I'd feel awful if something happened a 740X that was purchased on my recommendation, though. But then, two things comfort...

Much as I hate to give Shuttle any play, they have a sub-shoebox enclosure that's supposed to support P4s, with an athlon-based one on the way. Probably featured right on the front page of spacewalker.com

It's not the right CompuCase. The one I like is much simpler. I will say that their standards of construction are pretty high. I'd been visiting the Taiwanese site instead of the US one. This is the first time I've seen the model number of my case. It's a CL6812. The ones I get are...

Once more: The one true case is the Compucase mid-tower. All other cases wet themselves in fear as they behold it.

Didn't need it. My camera was just made two weeks ago. Thanks though. I wouldn't have known.

Any of the new ATI VIVO or AIW cards. The Expert line captures to an ATI-proprietary format, but the Rage and the Radeons can do adjustable-quality video capture.

For Rachmaninov, try his Preludes. G# minor is overplayed - a simple, dramatic work that never fails to get attention, but the others are delightful. If you'd really like to hear an awful version of Also Spake Zarathustra, I have a recording that was arranged and recorded for electric guitar...

Step one: Find a copy of Holst's The Planets. I prefer the Yoel Levi/ Altanta SO recording on Telarc, but in part that's because it's a DTS CD. Anyway, turn the dial on your stereo to its highest setting. Press play. What you'll hear first is martial music, written for a madman. 7/8s time...

And to think this was to a thread about some sport or other! Tannin, we appear to have hijacked it. Don't feel too badly about Strauss. The only thing most people know of his is of course the vastly overdone "Also Spake Zarathustra". I know about 2001 and all, but dear lord is that thing...

Heck, if you'd like to use your PC while you're capping an on-board encoder is a really good idea.

Kodak's consumer cameras are really nice., actually. The best part about them is the little $50 add-on USB cradle, since it also recharges your batteries and makes a decent place to keep the camera when you aren't using it, which is much better than the "where did I use it last" nonsense I'm...

And of course I misremember which Camera SD actually recommended. Oh well. It's still really nice. ... and off I go to use up a lot of color ink. Weeeeee!

Spent some money today. On StereoDude's advice I picked up a Canon Powershot G2. $600. And a new (well, lease-return) 21" Sony display. The display is mine and mine alone. I'm splitting the cost of the camera with my girlfriend's parents; they wanted to buy a crappy little HP digicam and I...

Richter? Reger? I can't think of any other German composers who died in that era. Don't you keep program notes? And yes, that story is true. Hayden's life, since he worked in the royal courts of Europe his whole life, is well-documented. Now you're going to drive me nuts until I figure out who...

That's not terribly different from Oligarchy, in which powerful business leaders (in the US, powerful businesses, since our laws treat corporations as people) control the functions of government. The problem with that system is, those who fall outside the sphere of interest to the oligarchs...

The quality of recorded video on nvidia cards, and I say this after an objective evaluation of it, doesn't look as good as what comes off an ATI. It's certainly comparable with most of the Brooktree-based cards I've seen, but I think ATI and Matrox have the better solutions for inexpensive...

While I won't argue that there are some elements of facism in the US government, I'd like to put forth that the better term to describe our modern government is "Oligarchy". Although it was decidedly less so under our previous chief executive. My gay, herbalist, druid friend has also suggested...

In real browsers, the Esc key will stop animation. Then it's only annoying for how it looks, not how it moves. :)

I tend toward the other extreme of the day, Wagner. Tchaikovsky once said that Wagner "has great moment but bad quarters of an hour". Still, those moments... I bought a complete "Ring" cycle on DVD last weekend (Deutsche Grammaphon, of course). I'm still working through it. But, oh, what...

I've worked with them throughout time. The biggest beef I've had with Cyrix chips is unquestionably heat. Cyrix chips are the reason I started carrying around spare HSF combos. When the first 6x86s were released, NOTHING could properly cool them. You'd throw them in a case and eventually they'd...

The MII-366s I saw were mostly on the various PC Chips boards at 100MHz. Given how limited support was for 83MHz bus was, even on the generic boards that were practically made for the dreadful things, I'd hazard to say that was probably the more common part. Even if it wasn't, knowing the...

Pretty neat for CG. I know exactly how I'd make a trackball to go with it. ;)

As you'll note, I haven't exactly been complaining that my name isn't showing up in proper green type.

Back when P2-300s were the best you could buy, I had a DFI board that did that. I killed three CPUs before I learned. There wasn't an error message or anything.

On SR I don't mind so much, since I know every refresh brings a different ad and maybe a little more money to SR.

Also, I've seen vast numbers of MII-366s. They certainly were a shipping part. A horrible pox on technicians and heatsink/fans everywhere, but they absolutely were a shipping part.

I just looked at your CPU pages Tannin. I hadn't actually read all the way through before. A few things I can say (besides my usual snide comments about anything Cyrix): Yes, the C6 worked flawlessly without a fan. Acer made a low-profile, legacy-free machine around the C6 that was roughly the...

I would've liked a V5 for comparison's sake. They threw in the TNT2. I'm more than impressed with the showing my $60something Radeon 7500s made, though. It's bumping up against the fastest GF2s and not more than a couple percent slower than the low-end GF3 for most things.

While Fox has, at times, bordered on the permanently lurid, the truth is, I'm too cheap to pay $40/month for cable.

Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed! Dancing banana-man (are you trying to tell us something, Bill? - and yes I finally loaded IE to see what the heck you were talking about last night) just couldn't wait to use all those vast moderator powers and now...

As you can see I was highly sleep deprived when I wrote this. I must retract the bit of bolded text, above. Forget you ever saw it. All of you. :) Tannin, how come Kristi isn't at least registered to make fu... post here?

I've found the back button to be entirely useless both here and on SR, across all browsers and platforms. Usually I get a "page is expired" error.

The radio remote control/mouse makes it worthwhile. :) With my ATI VIVO and as much storage as I have (1.3TB online at the moment), I can record whatever the heck I want (of course, I'd have to have a lot more interest in the one TV channel I get before I'd want to record 1300GB of video, too)...

Yes, it was http://users.erols.com/chare/sockets.htm (or one of the pages on that site). I made my A+ class spend some time there. And on Tannin's site, I might add. Both are very educational.

The same thing as all the other commands. Why?

Did you try shift-printscreen?

IFSMGR is associated with some of the low-level IDE disk driver functions. You might be able to fix that problem most easily by copying a more recent version of the file (it lives in c:\windows\system\vmm32, and probably wasn't replaced during a Windows reinstall) from a Win98 system. The...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I typed that.

Must be a picture I'm not seeing. Hmph.

The ATI 7x00 and 8500 All-in-Wonder cards can take programming info from ATI's web site. That's free. 500GB of storage and a 7500 AIW is only $700 or so... TiVo doesn't *HAVE* to be connected to a phone line, AFAIK. You don't get the program guide or TiVo programming picks. That might have...

Did I miss something?

I don't enjoy any sports. My suggestions are based only on observations of sports fanatics.

Probably it was supposed to compete with the Pentium-II. It does surprisingly well, but ended up being more of a competitor to the Celeron, simply because there was more parity in pricing.

Is there such a thing as third-party clipboard software? Printscreen by itself seems to work pretty well, if you're OK with capping your whole screen.

Simple: no matter what I do, it takes too long. That's why I have so many computers; I can go look at the other stuff that loaded on machines I was using earlier in the day. :)