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What timwhit said is essentially true... AC3 is the current encoding format for "Dolby Digital". There have been other encoding standards in the past (used in movie theaters). There may be other "Dolby Digital" standards in the future, such as an official "7.1" format. Your other options are...

Yeah, bankruptcy does that sort of thing. :( I've only been there once in the last three months, myself. I know a couple of other monitor resellers. I'll see what they've got.

Look here for the longest-running web servers. I think there are probably some Netware 3.12 boxes that might double 1350 days, but since those aren't exactly public machines, they don't show up anywhere.

Wanna hear something disgusting? One of my Linux boxes maintained its uptime through a change in residence. I left it plugged into a UPS while I moved it. ;) Of course, that machine had been down for a kernal upgrade a few months before, so it wasn't like I was preserving a record or anything...

Looking at the feature list for RH8, it looks like the two killer features (to me) are the unified desktop GUI and simplified font management. RedHat8's install supposedly is missing a lot of multimedia stuff, though, which probably makes it somewhat less appealing to the mandrake crowd. Galeon...

Your wife works for AOL? Did you know that when you married her? <shudder, shudder>

Either I've had fantastically poor luck with nvidia products or there's a serious problem with their hardware and/or drivers. I choose to believe the latter until I find some evidence of the former. Since I can install Radeon 7500s all day long without having any problems (OK, I had *one* come...

Friends don't let friends use nvidia! Have you considered one of the many fine options from Matrox?

If it helps, AD, I know that some of the lesser Radeons do have dualhead support. I also know that the 8500 has only really worked under X for about 6 months, and a quick googling doesn't show anything more promising than this.

United Linux will never amount to anything. Its main backers include Caldera, a company that needs to be beaten hard with a clue stick (they're basically SCO at this point, and trying to wrap their Linux product around SCO; Caldera is seriously talking about charging per-seat licenses for...

-U means upgrade/replace instead of installing fresh; the old package is reporting that it needs the old files, and doesn't know what to do with the new ones. rpm is not the greatest thing in the world. You can, of course, download and install from a tarball/sourcetarball. That'll work fine...

-U means upgrade/replace instead of installing fresh; the old package is reporting that it needs the old files, and doesn't know what to do with the new ones. rpm is not the greatest thing in the world. I don't use Galeon.

Whoops. rpm -Uv

Prof, some distributions have a very useful package management system called apt-get. It's part of debian, but I think several other distros use it, too. It works amazingly well for upgrading your linux install. I think an alternate viewpoint to Prof's is that Linux shows you that you need a...

The radeon drivers under linux are acceptable for 2D work. AFAIK, the Radeon xfree server works with everything up to the 7500. The 8500+ still need work. For 3D, I understand that the drivers just aren't very good at all (not because of ATI, but because not enough work has been done by the...

Try rpm -uv instead.

Since the Menards just down the street from my apartment has, among other things, frozen pizzas, computer games and a pharmacy aisle, I think I'd try there before home depot for my cross-continental destructive urges.

You mean being faced with the shame of being born with a microsoft logo printed on them?

OK. I suck. Clickable Link

Alright, I laughed my butt off at this: Linux hackers [url=http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/articles.php?aid=1&sub=windows%202000]Boostrap Windows 2000[/i] on an Xbox running Linux. Wow. You knew it would happen but... wow. Now I'm seriously considering that Xbox purchase. ;)

Bah. Trackballs are the one true pointing device! Logitech does make good stuff. I'm not terribly fond of Microsoft keyboards or mice, although my customers are always happy to get them. I've no idea why. I've probably presided over the deaths of a half-dozen microsoft keyboards.

James, I thought you were jumping C&W's ship. You haven't left for greener pastures yet?

Google works by sorting the frequency of links relative to the frequency of links to the sites linking that site. A site linked to by a very popular web site, such as cnn.com or slashdot.org thereby rises within google's rankings. It's really quite brilliant. I'm aware of that particular...

The best legal version you'll find will be a downloadable, bootable ISO that doesn't include an installer... you can try out SuSE on a CD, but if you want it on your hard drive, you have to buy it or steal it.

It's a "multinational" thing. India has a decent education system and they're awake when most of the US is asleep, so they get hired for 24hr call center operations in the US. Somehow it's cheaper to pay an Indian in India to take your call than it is to pay for the international phone calls...

In my experience, Lexmark printers break if you even so much as look at them funny. Lexmark is the Kia of printer companies. I can't even imagine Dell doing well with their printers.

Nope. It's billg6969@msn.com. Or maybe whgates666@microsoft.com. I'm pretty sure it's one of those two.

I've never been on a plane, myself. Everywhere I've wanted to go, I've gotten in a car. My father, however, complains about air quality nonstop any time he has to go to Houston. He's got a set of pictures he took from one flight demonstrating the green air phenomenon.

Mark, if you can actually identify a new, quality inkjet printer, I know that all the rest of us would love to know about it.

Gary, look out the window of an airplane next time you land in Houston. You'll see, as you descend, the air gradually change color.

RedHat upgrades are fairly notorious for doing that, in fact. And redhat's x.0 releases are usually a bit buggy, too. .2s and .3s are much better places to be if you can't handle all the package management on your own.

Premium for a new product. The GA7VAXP has only been on the market for around a month. My only negative from using one is that the damn thing has a fan on the northbridge. Granted, it's a nice-looking fan, but I'd rather have the heatsink the GA7VRXx used. :(

The guy I buy cases from swears up and down that Shuttle AK31s are a solid product. At $56 a pop, they certainly qualify for "budget" status. Asus makes a cheap board?

What I really want is DoomI/II remade. From what I understand, DoomIII is more of a Thief/System Shock-type game, with only one or two bad guys on the screen at a time. That, frankly, leaves me limp. I want the occasional roomful of badguys. The "psychogical" hook will work for a little while...

Yup. It has different buttons. It loads a bit faster. UI speed is a bit better. It's zippy like mozilla in all mozilla's usual ways. Still, for my light mozilla-based browsing needs, I like Kmeleon. I *DO* like the default browser action for non keywords in the location bar (Search Google for...)

Things are probably slow because you don't have DMA enabled on your hard disks. hdparm is your friend. I think you need to type "Windows" to start windows, and I still haven't gotten your email.

No punch-down stuff? Punching strands is all the fun! Seriously, it's a fun way to deal with aggressive tendencies.

I think our house was networked in 1990... My father is such a technophile that, growing up, I didn't even realize how much I knew about computers. I mean, I *really* didn't know how much I knew about them. I mean, I was fixing PCs in high school, since grown-ups paid me usually $20/hour to...

Oops. I think you're right. Lindows is Lindows, a different distro. I can't remember what Corel turned into now. :( tim, send me an email.

Home Depot works really well for quick purchases but I can ususally find thnigs cheaper online. Except for Cat5. Home Depot is absolutely the place to buy Cat5. Menards (but not HD) also sells a $100, wall-mount 4U rack in their telco wiring section. Never bought one, but it's still cool to see. :)

Lycoris is what was once known as Corel Linux. It's based on Debian, has an exceedingly nice-looking desktop (including all the standard Windows-ish icons), and has a decent buzz from the Linux community. I expect it'll be a niche player for at least a while as a good choice for resellers...

I only bought one drive, but since I haven't been able to get their page to load, I'm basically ready to write this whole thing off. Too bad. :(

My philosophy is basically that, when I'm trying to get work done, it's usually less of a hassle on my linux boxes than on Windows. I get less weirdo errors, and once everything is configured the way I want it, I don't have to do any of the "fighting" I sometimes wind up doing on a Windows...

Try www.cableconn.com. Since you're fairly new to networking, I'd also recommend that you head over to blackbox.com and request a catalog. I wouldn't buy anything from them - their stuff isn't cheap, but their catalog is a good enough instrument that my applied datacomm class used it for a...

See? Communist plot. Just like I said. I love it when I'm right. ;)

ReplayTV doesn't require a service contract to use most of its features, unlike the Tivo. I know the subscription charges for Tivo can be bypassed somehow, but I don't know whether that works in the US or not. I'd buy whatever offered the most recording time, myself.

I just saw that these people are offering a 160GB 540X for $61. No word on who these people are, whether the drives are refurbished or stolen or what, but for $61, it might be worth a shot. ;)

I've noticed that the cases my distributor sells (Compucase, Foxconn and something so generic he doesn't even know the manufacturer), all the cases with front USB have that same seperated connector layout as your Antec. Must be some kind of communist plot. :)

Mine spits the paper almost all the way out, then pulls it back in. So I guess that's the second option. No curl, anyway.

Really? I just bought mine because it had a NIC, supports postscript and has duplex printing. Duplex printing rules!