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Umm... how does "DynaPlay" work? Especially on a slow-seeking 7200rpm drive. I mean, if I tried to play 10 simultaneous moderate-bitrate MPEG2s back simultaneously on, say, a 7K250, I'd kill the damn thing. Did Seagate come up with some fantastic new R/W algorithm or put some truly staggering...

Asus has an overheating protection feature on their motherboards called COP. COP shuts down the system if it even THINKS the CPU is about to overheat. COP can't be disabled in the BIOS or by jumpers, and is a hardware-only feature with no software controls. I have an Asus A7V400 that seems to...

ATI's RMA service is fantastic, Clocker. When I RMA'd my 9700 AIW (fan died, card soon after) I got my replacement overnighted to me. Couldn't be happier with them.

Newegg's direct RMA period is always 12 months. An OEM video card probably has a couple years left though, from Sapphire or whomever.

Have a look here, and here and here and here. Notice anything? Like maybe This item is warranted through the product manufacturer only? That phrase appear on every single motherboard listed on newegg.com. I don't know what anyone else sells or RMAs, but I see a lot of motherboards die in...

I know your pain, Handy. Actually, the even more amazing thing is the cat's amazing ability to literally vanish immediately prior to a car trip. Cat's on your lap, purring. You even think about getting the cat carrier and... <WHOOSH> Cat is gone. It is uncanny. On the other hand, one of my...

IIRC there's a 32kb limit per post with phpBB. Is that what you were testing?

Someone who has probably thought a great deal more about this subject than anyone here, and very likely the best person to ask, is your local librarian. One other thing to keep in mind is that the various filtering companies have their own political bent. Some filter terms "gay", or "breast"...

As coincidence would have it... The link has some early screenshots of a Microsoft Antispyware product. Looks kinda stand-alone to me. Why would microsoft fix the problems in Windows that lead to spyware in the first place, when they can SELL you a fix instead? /me goes off a corner to play...

One of my distributors told me a couple weeks ago that LiteOn drives are actually manufactured by JVC. I don't particularly have any data to back that up, but I hold LiteOn in much the same regard as JVC, so it wouldn't surprise me.

Personally I derive a great deal of satisfaction in tormenting the Fry's sales staff, asking them questions they can't answer - especially while they're helping other customers - and watching them make stuff up. In a related story, I made a Best Buy employee cry once. On the other hand, I love...

Also, remember to set the parental password to something other than his login.

I suppose the safe thing to do would be to configure another PC to host the array temporarily, until you get your data off. Yes, that's a lot of work. Yes, your family photos are worth it (and a more permanent backup!). With a functional Linux box only lasting 24 hours, I'd say you've got a...

Actually, turning on the IE RSAC ratings and telling IE to disallow unrated pages is a hilarious office prank as well. Which is how I know about it.

I'd be willing to take my chances on a Hitachi drive. I wasn't burned by the 75GXP, so that may be part of my reasoning, but I have not had any problems with drives I've gotten back from IBM. Western Digital, on the other hand, has sent me pre-broken drives on several occasions. Tales that...

Happy new year to everyone.

Kids are bad. Turn in the IE RSAC ratings. That'll cut the number of pages they can visit to about 7.

No, it should be "Curse you Sony, for existing in the first place."

The Plextor unit only works with WinDVD Creator and a lightweight tool on Plextor's site. It caps directly to MPEG. There shouldn't BE any conversion, unless you want to put stuff in AVI format to use in some crappy old editing program. You can open the MPEG files it makes in just shy of...

Remember to install all the updates and stuff off plextor's site before you get going.

Bah Humbug!

Did I do anything that helped on that Sun cert? I don't remember doing anything helpful. I looked for some practice stuff but I don't recall finding any. Oh well. Congratulations JoJo!

For the money, considering the upgrades involved, a shoebox with a processor of your choosing is probably a better choice. But as servers, yup, they're pretty sweet. Does anyone know where the X600 and X700 fit in to the 9600/9800/X800 line in terms of performance?

Thank you very much, LM.

HA! Now, maybe, just maybe, fewer clueless morons will tell me that there is no better board. No offense to Doug, but I have had nothing but problems with Abit since the BX6/BH6 days. Hope they rot in hell.

Not true for Windows XP or 2003 Server, at least. The Shadow Copy service will dupe the file as it exists in memory and allow you to copy the copy. Acronic TrueImage does in fact make full, complete backups while Windows is running and doing stuff.

Oh yeah, well I had to get by with ntalk for like two days until someone got around to compiling ytalk. :D

I think of myself more as a librarian, actually.

That's because I measure storage in handy Porn Storage Units, which I call Jennas, abbreviated j. 1j is equal to about 225kb, which is about the size of a good hi-rez nudie picture (e.g. a full size image from hegre-archives.com) . 2000j = 1 hour of quality dixv porno or the amount of content...

Ghost 2003 works beautifully with SATA drives so long as you use -fNI as a command line option. I do it all the time. Honest. Works every time. TrueImage also has marvelous support for SATA drives. PQMagic, not so good.

Newegg sells the fanless 128MB, 128-bit Gigabyte 9550 Pro for $60. I can't tell any meaningful difference between a 9550 Pro and a $40-more-expensive 9600 Pro. They work with my Albatron K8X800 Pro IIs as well (which refuse to boot with a 9600 in their AGP slots). I have purchased 3 of them...

Is anyone else REALLY bothered by the fact that you pretty much have to pick one or other Huge Media Conglomerate's tool when you want to use IM software? I don't want to support AOL (shudder), Microsoft (shudder) or Yahoo (meh). I don't want to rely on their servers for such a basic type of...

So I take it we aren't switching forum software?

Guilty as charged. I leave all my PCs on all the time. And I probably have more personal computers than any three other people here. My work habits involve moving through my house, doing stuff on one PC or other, then switching to another. They go in power saving modes when they're idle, but...

Some random thoughts I sincerely suspect that automakers could make a vastly more efficient Internal Combustion Engine were they given any real incentive to do so. Of course, the hobgoblin of dwindling petrol reserves just isn't that incentive - running out of oil isn't something anyone is going...

I can't remember which PC I happened to read this on. Apparently Giant had already licensed its anti spyware software just before being purchased by Microsoft. If that's the case, I have to wonder what Microsoft got out of that deal. Well, here's something about it. Personally I would be very...

I'd like to see a Via-based AMD motherboard with PCI Express slots on it so I can TRY a Parhelia AVPe. Also - and I know I mention this every time we talk about Matrox - I'd love to see a sub-$100 part from them. So much of what I do nowadays is onboard video or $50-ish low-end ATI cards. I'd...

It is good that IBM is so concerned about my capacity to store porn.

I am going to give you a bit of advice that will sound flippant, but I am serious about it: suprnova.org has every AV product under the sun availble. If there's one that doesn't have an official free demo, I assure you there's an unofficial one available there. :) I think of all anti-virus...

Sounds like a job for a tiny bit of php or perl, actually.

I am too busy with affairs of state, from all the ruling that I do, to answer in much detail. Ever had one of those days where absolutely everything goes just right? I'm on vacation until January. This is the actual kind of vacation, where I have no work planned or scheduled. My biggest...

Irrespective of anything that may or may not be going on right now, I would just like to say that I rule. Further updates as events warrant.

The main feature of the program - the video capture and conversion stuff - is easy to use, fairly quick and hassle free. DVD MovieFactory has a bit of a problem dealing with discs longer than two hours. Even if your video is valid MPEG2, it will tell you there's not enough space to burn the...

Use Linux. :P

When I was growing up out in the middle of nowhere in Illinois I knew a couple farmhouses not far from my house that had a "party line", a single phone line for about 6 houses that might've been charitably called a town sometime around 1870. And 20 years ago we kind of laughed at the kids who...

If anyone had any reason to consider the alternative to AMD fanboy-ism, I suggest you reconsider. I had the displeasure of assembling a coupe LGA 775 P4 560s last weekend. One went OK. The other... well, there are 775 pins in a very small space on those boards. If one of them, someplace other...

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

Er... Will, you do know that women do in fact HAVE genitals already, don't you? I mean, they aren't on the outside, so maybe you didn't notice but...

Check that same config on ebay. I've seen them BIN for $2500.

What about Sun?