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Most ECS stuff I've seen comes out of the factory as a dud. They pretty much all have something wrong with them. It's just a matter of finding it. Tannin's lucky. His had problems that were easy to find. So why isn't Kristi on this board again?

Actually I was thinking about getting her a 3/4 scale Harley. I know someone selling one. She drools every time she sees them on the road. Except that she hasn't been very nice to me the last couple weeks... Do you think she'd learn to like the beautiful 8KHA+ as much as she likes those bikes?

IBM's array manager made me re-initialize the array when I went from a 4-drive to a 10-drive RAID5 on my setup. Had to do a full backup, change the array, then restore. Or it's possible that I didn't do things right, I suppose. It isn't like I add drives to established RAIDs all the time...

Rotund is a good word to describe the fat guy you're using it to describe.

On the other hand, $55 is a steal for a quality KT266A part. Everything decent is at least $80 new. Note that being decent is clearly the same as not being ECS. I'm sure that board is in prime condition. My only concern at the moment has to do with the fact that Amy's birthday is in two weeks...

Honestly it's only a big deal for a narrow range of applications. Mostly you aren't going to notice. I was thinking about upgrading a machine from a KT133A to the Epox Clocker is selling. A difference I might not notice, either.

Rotund One? Like you'd know, Ms. Sock Puppet. :P My tax is easy: It's 5%. That's it. Thank goodness. It's all about costs, though. Having that low-cost machine is a great way to get sales. So many people won't ever do what even the little duron can handle.

You'd think parts would be cheaper, what with Oz being so close to all those southeast asian manufacturing companies... That's close to $800. Almost twice as much (2/3rds more, anyway). That's just insane.

I'm thinking. I'm thinking.

I only sell two systems, but it's amazing how similar the "budget" machine Tannin describes is to mine, and how similar his best-seller is to my upper-end machine (although I use a gigabyte board for that one). My low-end unit is $425 right now ($475 with a Windows 98 license)... how much is...

That's how I got that link to anandtech... I knew it was something like that. Jason can be a lousy, unethical businessman. It doesn't particularly change my opinion of him (take that as you will).

Ultra2 Wide. i960 is an awfully slow CPU for a RAID card at this point. You really want a high-end card with a StrongARM if you can find one. ICP Vortex cards are nice. Look for one of those.

Really, I meant what I said about Jason's former customers staying around, too. The ones that weren't Tea (don't crap where you eat. Remember that), I mean. SR needs clueful people. SF needs them, too. Either way. Jason's buddies claim to be IT pros? Fine. We should make them welcome and value...

They're cheap, alright. Decent enough hard disks. Displays that in and of themselves aren't bad. But criminally bad chassis and keyboards. They overheat, too. Give them a few months and let me know what you think.

As I think about it, the first problem I have with that thread is its title. Jason and "IT pro" don't go together in the same sentence (except just now). Looking at what's happening on SR right now, I really do feel something should be done. My response as a moderator would simply be to lock...

I dimly recall seeing some nasty stuff about Knight Technology on anand's forums last year. It's possible that there are actually more people with complaints. Either way, what's going on is stupid. I REALLY wish I was a mod on SR. This is a case where I think something clearly needs to be done...

You're all amateurs.

Finding cable that's up to snuff for gigabit is really, really hard. Sure, most anything "premium" you buy will say Cat5e or even "cat6" (not actually a standard yet). The proof is in the transfer rates. Use a crappy cable and they hover around 150 or 200MBit/sec Find the right one and they'll...

Without reading the article, I'm guessing that all 18 are "Install Windows 98"

I'd rather leave things the way they are. I like the distinctions between the forums. They're obvious and reasonable.

Blasphemous but... Man, I hope this works. Since I can't see it and all.

Huh? Fresh air? Out-side? Oh. The place with no ceiling and all the dirt. Hm? That's addictive? I guess it should be regulated or something.

I've never had a problem like this. My history, however. Historically, I bought cheapies. You know, the $5 unbranded sort. No problems there, and anyone who cared went out and bought their own. I still use those sorts for my lowest of the low cost builds. Starting about the time MP3s became...

Too bad there isn't mention of cost. I'm guessing $250 without drives, $300 or so suggested retail. Too much for a SCSI enclosure and a bridge. If the price is right, though, I'd have no problem picking one or two up.

I have a bit of a problem. Namely, the speakers I've been shipping out with PC builds keep failing. Annoyingly, they aren't the $6 speakers one expects to break, but $20 ones that cost just enough that there's some expectation of quality, and just little enough that the company's support people...

Found it! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q234773

I'll be getting to you shortly, Prof. I've got my nice stack of MCSE books to see if there's something stupid about ICS I'm forgetting. But we'll see. Just let me do a pass through here and SR...

I dropped .kr, .jp, .tw and a few other Asian TLDs into my mail filters some time ago. Bill, I absolutely don't see anything wrong with that spam. Of course, I don't see it at all in Mozilla, but looking earlier with IE I didn't see anything particularly objectionable either. Is it just the use...

The "No" option for me needs to be a lot more vehement: "I'm not a dad and other people shouldn't be either". It's not a possibility for me in any case, for several reasons.

Last Article about motherboards on Slashdot was their spastic reaction to the new Abit Max board. The one with every single possible thing integrated on it and eight IDE ports. Might've been that one. I also understand that those cheapo removable drive bays, when connected to the PS connector...

I have an *old* HP, C. It's a model 715. I think it's about 80MHz. It might be as fast as 110MHz. I don't really care. It's my firewall/mail relay. Not that I have anything to firewall at home. I use it to read mail and be all OpenBSD-ishly impeneterable. More than fast enough for what it's for.

Either way. Sometimes none of the above. Your machine probably isn't adding his forwarded packets to the stuff it's passing through the VPN, it's just blindly throwing them out on the interface. Brainfried at the moment. I'll look and see what I can see when I get home tonight and have books...

Only one of your machines should be running ICS, first of all. The other should be configured for automatic assignment an IP address.

What is it you Aussie chaps do on the football field again? I mean, the way things normally work, there needs to at least some sort of courtship period prior to any testicle-biting activities.

My rule of thumb is 4 - 5 years for a 17" display. 14" displays usually don't age very gracefully at all; after three years or so, there is a really noticeable deterioration. I've not had a 21" monitor for long enough to really tell, but 21" displays tend to be overspecified anyway. I'd expect...

Audiophiles usually love to talk about why their electrically-isolated, vibration controlled, no-digital-components stereo systems are superior to one another. Peons using anything so simple as an SPDIF are clueless at best. It's a bit like winesnobbery or us talking about the noises hard disks...

Adriel, have you done a listening test between DVD-A and SACD?

I have tons of expensive consumer-grade stuff. If anyone cares. :) Now we need is Stereodude and we can have an audio pissing contest. Which might also be a fun thing to record. :)

I've no doubt it's complicated. I use multilink PPP at home; no idea what that does to server logs. I'd think most of the other IPs would be AT&T cable... which is probably 64.something, or through the local Purdue campus's IP block, 205.215.103.x (Amy teaches there on Wednesdays and I usually...

Laid back? I barely have a pulse. Still, I'm uncomfortable taking words from the mouths of friends. Which is a good thing, in a way.

Remember, Doug, IT contractor. I move around a lot. Although most of my hits are probably from either 208.154.170.something, which seems to be the address block the Livingston Portmaster I dial into allocates. Mostly I use the modem on my laptop or mulitlink at home, though.

Well, actually, we've roughly tripled in number of users since the site became open to the public. Not everyone is active, of course (heck, I probably STILL spend more time here than Doug), but we ARE growing. How cool is that?

You're the one who can look in last night's backups, right Doug?

[sniff] I believe there are at least five more x's. I'll bet that link points to something really dirty now. Actually, Coug, I thought it would be the most evident sign that I modded; I litterally crossed it out. Maybe I should've used "t"s? Also I resent the characterization as porn...

Well, as long as you aren't upset about it. I've been uptight since I made the change. :|

This evening, the first editorial moderation was made on SF. In my heart, I'm not a censor, and I hate changing the words of other people. James posted a direct link to a site that gave the appearance of being a warez site. This isn't a referendum on James. We like James. James is cool. But I...

Oh, and DECENT ATX power supplies have a hard switch on the back for shutting things down.

The last quality board I'm aware of in AT form factor was a Tyan BX model. I don't remember the model number. Probably didn't support more than ATA66. An ATX switch is a tiny little guy that just hangs off the board. Being what it is, it actually represents less of a bulk of cabling less than...

Well, since the goal is fidelity to what are admittedly just a bunch of semirandom "white noise" elements, I still can't put my back behind MP3. As an example, given a real image of static such as that on a TV screen, if you wanted something true to life, could you really trust that JPEG could...

MP3 is a bad choice. It's a compressed, lossy format, after all. I can hear the difference between MP3 and CD Audio with only slight problem. The other problem that's presented is volume gain. You really need to record every drive at a quantitative, reproducable volume level, with a quality mic...