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If it's a big deal, it'd cost about US$150 to put together a HIGHLY overclockable P4 2.4A (that's the 533MHz Prescott) + motherboard. I understand those chips reliably hit 3.3Ghz with a few tweaks to core frequency. It should be easy enough to get rid of a brand new Barton + board combo.

time, if you'd care to look back at my 5000something-odd posts, you'll find I've never used any of those stupid yellow Emoticons. This is not a new fetish by any means. :) <-- No problem with the old-fashioned kind, though. Anyway, there are no Epson printers here. Reasons cited are the...

ASP isn't a big deal, Doug. It's just writing VBA or Javascript or PHP or Perl or whatever, and having your server interpret it, rather than passing it to a client.

You can't use a digital connection - TOSLink (that's fibre) or SP/DIF (that's the coaxial version) for high-res audio. It's a form of copy protection; content producers pretty much demanded it, to keep people from recording full-quality high-res audio. If you want to listen to those sources, you...

You have better DACs on your Receiver. Your DVD player should be outputting the AC3/DTS stream unmolested AFAIK, and only doing the decoding if you're using stereo or 6ch. analog connections. By the way, if you want to listen to SACD or DVD-A, you HAVE to use the 6ch. analog. There's no digital...

XPCreate From the web site: "XPCREATE is a utility program that will combine an original XP distribution and assorted hotfixes and updates to produce an up-to-date XP Distibution CD. XPCREATE allows the user to define custon installations and setup programs, but it's main richness lies in the...

Why is your server always down, David?

Buck is a design god. Handy knows PHP. Tannin's got mad HTML skeelz. Will Rickards is VB (don't hate me if I'm wrong...) developer... There's actually a pretty good base of Web-monkeys here.

... have been around for a long time now. IIRC the DJ820 and/or 870 were both "For Windows 98" and wouldn't print from DOS. Fortunately, there is a limit to HP's evil and they dropped that idea. Anyhoo, I misread Howell's post as I responded, but it wouldn't help anyway - the whole problem...

They lie. I've tried the original drivers and the most current rev. :( 2000 and XP don't let you capture local ports with the standard Windows network client. That's a 9xism.

Installing the printers locally does not seem to help; the photo options go away when the printer isn't connected locally via USB or parallel. Switchboxes are likewise out, just because of the cost of outfitting them for so many PCs - we'd have to buy 20 or so, each capable of doing either USB...

City of Heroes today! Huzzah!

I saw some pictures like that one alt.binaries.pictures.ero... Aw screw it. They were a little disturbing. At least one of the choices isn't "condom".

*WAY* too much work for our instructors, much less students. They come and get me for all that icky fooling around behind the computers. :(

Nope, just every other PC doing SMB-type sharing.

Here's a fun little problem: Here at work I've got a fairly substantial number of home-type photo printers mixed in with normal inkjets (e.g. HP 932, 870Csi). As for why we don't have a networked laser printer instead, I don't know. But... my boss wants all our classroom PCs to be able to...

So which ones are socks and which ones are puppets?

RAM prices are up and only going higher. My understanding is that chip makers are concentrating on DDRII and solid state devices rather than making us the DIMMs we need NOW. I'm sitting on four assembled PCs right now because RAM prices are so high. It's really disappointing.

They're semi-proprietary. There are at least three different pinout for the bay-caddy connection, and if you use the wrong one, you toast your drive. I speak from experience here. Find a brand you like and stick with it. I use Kingwin trays.

The outbound transport for my home network is qmail. I'm perfectly willing to try it on mine. I'm actually more interested in the fact that I'll have a standard mail server on a standard mail port - verizon blocks port 25, which makes having my own mail server a lot more annoying and a lot less...

When you think about it, probably 90% of the drives in modern computers are way bigger than they need to be anyway. It isn't like most corporate desktops don't have the space for a program like that. Reading about it, it looks like a pretty good idea. Now, the fact they're sending mubs spam...

Before my co-workers started whining about the processor utilization graph in "task manager" , I ran a F@H on couple dozen machines in my classrooms with absolutely no ill effect (except my co-workers' eventual whining).

While I'm at it, who is Nelson?

What the heck do your customers play the most, David? I've been popping in periodically on your server and there's never anyone there but me and the bots. I've been looking at City of Heroes. It's an MMO - and as a general rule I think MMO players are one step up from pondscum, but I love...

Where're you moving, Kevin?

Well, that's certainly cause to break out the Bombay Sapphire tonight!

Pretty much. How is the Aphex "super proprietary wonder harmonics" in comparison to the DSP Listen modes on your average $250 receiver? 'Cause it sounds to me like they do the same things.

I lost my connection too. :( BTW, I suck tremendously.

I'll swap you then.

I could probably arrange a Radeon 9100 or something.

Any time now...

Shall we try again tonight?

It works on XP as long as the computer in question does not belong to a domain.

I sincerely doubt that there's anyone else here who listens to as much properly mastered classical music as I do. :) A couple of perfect examples of "showpiece" classical works are Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. In both pieces, the range goes from pianissimo to...

To quote Tannin: I can't believe you said that. It is exceptionally important that anyone in a support-type position have a good understanding of what can and cannot be done as a normal user. Even if you're the smartest IT guy in the world, you're eventually going to take for granted the fact...

My recommendation is to find a program and stick to it,, and to pretty much always leave normalizing on. The results sound better if you do.

The biggest problems IMO are people who use IE and click "yes" every time they're prompted to do something. That is absolutely the way that people have been conditioned in using a PC. Microsoft's Wizards almost always create a pattern of click "yes" or "next" and, let's be honest, most people...

1. Audiograbber uses a LOUSY MP3 codec. I'd suggest moving to CDex + LAME for ripping directly to MP3. Or I use CDex to do recording to .Ogg. I use EAC for ripping to .WAVs to make mix CDs. 2. If all the tracks are from the same disc, they presumably have been engineered to the same sound level...

The basic rule of thumb with EFS is don't mess with it. I'm not aware of a program that can easily break EFS-based file encryption, so if you encrypt something and lose the recovery keys, you're SOL. EFS is a feature of NTFS. A file can't be encrypted and compressed using NTFS builtin...

Encrypting File System. Short answer: You already have it, and you should mess with it until you understand exactly how it works. If I have to write a tutorial I will.

Probably. I'd love to do an autopsy, though.

ie6setup.exe = the setup downloader for IE, right? Why not download the IE6 admin kit and get a full IE6 installer? Anyway, you've got the basic list. It's a good idea to poke around in places like Program Files and the Common Files folders, and in the registry under the SOFTWARE keys for both...

Or I would have if I could. Screw it. After watching ut2004://216.228.25.250/index.ut2 for the last hour, I think I can come up with a better way to waste my time.

I don't appear to be able to re-connect at the moment. :(

Goddammit I told you to give up on that! Sell the Raptors you have - people on ebay are stupid and will pay more than they're worth - and buy 7k250s. BTW, I'm lousy at FPS games. But I'll show anyway. Also, I see that Tribes 1 and 2 will be released as freeware on the 4th of May. That's kinda...

I connected and played for a couple minutes. It was me and seven bots. Yee Haw.

Word of mouth isn't working. I talked to someone today whose job included maintaining ~40 PCs who had NO IDEA there was such a thing as adaware. Was the guy incompetent? Yes, probably. But the fact remains that NO ONE HAS HEARD OF THESE PRODUCTS. There is no retail distribution here and there's...

A fairly recent trend in Adware crap is to snag your DNS server entries for their own nefarious purposes. I've even run into programs that write entries in the hosts file, where almost no one would think to look for such things. I'm sure that's what happened to your customer. The thing I can't...

I used to work for Paul Harvey. For a couple months, anyway. There are linux programs for using high-speed GPUs as general purpose coprocessors already, by the way. Unfortunately, I can't remember any names. Otherwise I'd link.