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Pbbbbbt to both of you. Like I'd share the porn I've acquired with you people. ... and to be honest, probably 99% of the images I have are Playboy-type copyright violations, not the stuff like in the pornospam ("Shaved Bank Tellers" et al) we all get. I think any image I might have would more...

I'd have to vote "No". If they're hosted onsite it's a lot harder for me to filter them out without getting rid of everything else from SF.net. But I have a pretty good image I'd use if someone else would like to host it. :)

Prof - The only one that I've found so far is the "Prevent MS-DOS programs from Detecting Windows" .PIF setting. That and the obvious defect that is XP Home (no domain logon). After turning off absolutely ALL the interface fluff, except AA fonts, I finally got a satisfactory speed in UI...

Well, I took some hints and pulled messenger off my machine. OE is still there, offending me with its offensiveness. I'm not sure why it's there at all. My Win98 machine - and I did an upgrade install - didn't have IE at all. I guess the IE6 installer wasn't smart enough to do a minimal install...

Don't get make me get out my bag, Prof. ;) Seriously, there's no resaon for us to change. StorageForum is good. Most of us remain SR regulars. We have common interest in storage, and frankly, every variant on "extreme", "tech", and "hardware" has already been taken.

Fed up with crappy FAT32, I switched my game machine to WinXP Pro last night. Machine specs: Athlon T-bird @ 1.5GHz, Epox 8KHA, ATI Rage Pro VIVO, 512MB PC2100 RAM, (2) Maxtor DM 40+ 40GB. Some thoughts, in no particular order: 1.) Cracking PA was embarassingly easy. Thanks to James for...

None, now. I just remembered that for the longest time Win2000 didn't support digital out on SB Live. Since the machine I'm installing to is connected to around $2000 worth of stereo equipment, and another $3000 worth of monitor/projector, I'd be slightly peeved if I couldn't use the digital...

Has anyone tried Snood? I even paid for a registered copy. Seriously, don't blame me if you never do any work again, but its a lot of fun.

Dammit!

Your guess is of course correct. Here's a [url=http://www.wdc.com/library/legacy/EIDE/expt416.pdf]link[/ur].

Before I go installing XP on one of my machines... Does anyone know if XP properly supports digital output, or if LiveWare's LiveSurround works under XP? I just totally lost a 40GB FAT32 partition on my Win98 machine and I don't feel like recovering it, or putting up with another major data...

I picked this up off Slashdot this afternoon. Xenix was the first OS I ever used, so there were, um, memories (I won't pretend they're good ones) for me. I figure some of you young bucks might be entertained to read this stuff. And yes, I'm 26. "Young" is subjective. It means "for those of...

DVD-R and DVD+R are different technologies. Supposedly DVD+R is the format that will work with the most standalone DVD players. I think Panasonic is making a DVD burner that supports both writeable and rewritable DVD formats, at the cost of CD burning support. That seems like the model to watch.

Mozilla is my browser of choice and has been since preview-releases in the mid-teens. Killer features like image blocking decide it for me, but the ability to use a standard "bookmark.html" file are also big contributing factors. For those that haven't tried it, Mozilla is Netscape6+ with all...

It depends on which machine I'm using to visit, actually. Not quite every day. Probably five times a week. It looks good if you ask me. Now, let's get working on adding our own content. That'd be a great next step!

Porsches aren't for me anyway. ME? I drive a Crown Vic. I love it. Amy's in a Contour... Not exactly glamor vehicles, either one. Funny thing, Kev, I participated in three days of serious focus-group testing about end-of-lifing Oldsmobile, shortly before GM announced they were killing the...

The clear answer is "maybe". There are some pretty stiff requirements for doing it "right" - broadband, reasonably high-end PCs, RELIABLE SYSTEMS and a good selection of the software people actually want to use as a group. Where I live, I've seen low-end no-pay setups for gaming in comic...

Tea, for a sock puppet, you sure have an inflated ego.

Welcome James. Most of us here are refugee regulars from storagereview.com. There's a pretty wide range of knowledge on most computer subjects here. We have programmers (Helldriver) and PC techs (most of us, P5_133XL in particular), resellers (Tannin, Buck, CougTek) , networking gurus (JamesW)...

It would help if WD would tell us when changeovers like that occur. I really don't like their naming system, simple as it is. Maxtor mostly does the same thing - their retail packaging can include "same model or better", but WD's nomenclature means that anything with a 40GB capacity and 7200rpm...

I don't know. I bought a retail-boxed 400BB from the local Best Buy in January of this year and installed it in a machine I sold pretty much right away. I really don't have access to the drive any more to look, either. :(

I've only used a 40BB once in a customer machine. WD isn't exactly my favorite drive company, although I recognize they have gotten a lot better. My preference for the Maxtor 740x (and, to a lesser extent, the Quantum AS) was unchanged after playing with a WD400BB. Take that however you want...

newegg.com has the superior 60GB 740X available for an even $100. Why pay $30 more for a slower, older drive?

The drives came from my local distributor. One for a customer, one for me to replace a SCSI burner that failed (in warranty, thankfully). The card came from http://www.emaxasp.com/drpcs/details.asp?item=AC09AEC7720U When I bought mine, the price was actually $7 lower than what I see now. It's...

I *AM* the good computer help where I live. Are you referring to a classical core file such as might be found as a result of a *nix program dying, or more generally to refer to a file containing the contents of memory after a system crash (as is common on Windows machines)? Microsoft has some...

The order of the day is "Hands On", actually. There's a down side to it, though. The testbeds I have for student use are Compaq Pentium 66s... The power supply is non-standard. The motherboard has a riser card for expansion slots, but a seperate slot onboard for a daughtercard that includes the...

My PCs range from very quiet to "loud enough I can hear them through several walls", but given what I'd be hearing (rap, gunshots, people screaming at each other) if all my PCs were as quiet as the one in my living room, I'm pretty happy with the noise. I can't recall LCDs making any noise. The...

One of the more interesting challenges I've undertaken lately is to teach fairly inexperienced computer users the skills involved in troubleshooting a PC. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have a nice little job teaching 20 people - mostly steelworkers - the information needed to become a good PC...

I'm sure that the fact that Buck has mulitple logins here makes things a little more difficult as well. Is there, perhaps, a cookie with his login info? Maybe one that's getting overwritten regularly as he changes IDs?

Pineapple juice, please. I've added a link to SF in my slashdot signature, but I don't post all that often there. When my A+ class gets around to talking about storage, I'm sure I'll tell all 20 of them about this place and SR both. There just isn't any other place to learn more. And yeah...

It's working now, and seems faster than it has in the last couple of days. It's pretty bad when my poor connection can show a difference.

Am I the only person who doesn't care about the -RW aspects of CD-RWs? I think I've burned maybe four in my life; once for every drive I've personally owned, and never had any reason to do it again. Why should I pay a buck fifty for an -RW disc when CD-Rs cost a maybe fifteen cents?

Not trying to up my post count, only forgot a couple of things I wanted to say: 1.) Tannin, you have got to find a decent Maxtor supplier. The way you feel about Samsung, I feel about Maxtor. Fan-freaking-tastic drives. Biggest complaint you can have is that their 5400s are slugs compared to...

Maxtor's 740X is a great general-purpose drive. newegg has the 60GB unit for $100 even and the 40GB for $80something. Best IDE drive around, far as I'm concerned. For the other... well, I just posted something about the Lite-On 32x drive. Good drive. A good bit better than the 16x Mitsumis I've...

Just like you computer retailers trying to sell someone hardware he doesn't need.

I got a couple of Lite-On 32x CD-R drives drives today, along with an Acard IDE to narrow-SCSI bridge. Installed a drive in a Windows 2000 Server machine (actually, in an external enclosure. Whatever), loaded Nero 5.5.6 (included in the box - not a bad deal for $75)... oddly, the installer...

Isn't ATTO available for free?

We crossed over a little. I started working with OS/2 Lan Manager 1.2 and moved on to 2.0 and later 2.1. OS/2 3.0+ only supported SMP with Warp Connect Server, a product that was simply impossible to buy at a reasonable price (like NT server is now).

I suspect you and I have vastly different ideas about what a usable GUI is, Tannin. Me? On Windows boxes I remove all the default icons from the desktop I possibly can (use an invisible icon for "my computer", and I keep one for control panel out, too), keep the taskbar pushed off the screen...

I haven't gotten to play with a commercial unix machine in probably three years, Tannin. I'm not making excuses. Personally, I think KDE is pretty sharp and works just fine (good enough, so to speak), but I also know that Microsoft and Apple have had years and millions of dollars to refine a...

I have one. They're extremely limited. Hope you're fond of low PIO-mode transfers, for one thing, and you pretty much need to carry around a driver installation floppy everywhere you take the thing (basically, you install a SCSI driver and a device-specific driver). Reliability is pretty good...

I disagree with your evaluation, Tannin. KDE is pretty good, actually. It has problems but dismissing it as something that is equivalent to Windows 3.1 is entirely incorrect. You have to understand that there has never been any uniformity to *nix desktops, only in the "Presentation Layer"...

If you have to work on more than one brand of case, you'll develop a real appreciation for quality cases that don't use them. There's no such thing as a standard drive rail. Everyone makes them differently. You only use one, maybe two pairs when you're building a PC. If it's something you're...

Coug, surely you don't think of drive rails as a positive when evaluating a case?

110VAC. And the circuits for y'all's 220VAC mains are in our power supplies, too. Even if they weren't, anybody with a 12-week course in electrical wiring could build you the right step-up transformer. For getting a case the color you want and keeping it that color, try a dry, bake-on enamel...

Was it? The old card I just dug out of my parts box (man, I need to get rid of some stuff!) doesn't have any chips that say "Paradise" on them, or any stickers that might cover up such a chip. Nothing was better than those old ETx000 cards. Those were the best video cards out there for a long...

May we infer from Coug's picture that the downhill bit is considerably faster than the plodding, sweaty, terror-inducing climb up?

Dammit Coug, you made me load up IE for this! That can't be me. Just looking at something like that makes me tired. Actually, Amy rock-climbs and I have to admit an appreciation for the outffits she wears when she does it, but I think I've already revealed my bias against sport of any kind in...

Well, how do you feel about shipping to Austrailia?

D'oh! Knew I forgot one. Whatever happened to Weitek? They made decent stuff back in the early '90s... and Western Digital's half-meg ISA cards weren't bad, either (although they tended to get a little more funky than most when asked to display out-of-pallette colors). For me, ATI was the...