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Wish the batteries for my camera weren't charging. I have two cats. At this very moment they are laying on three different keyboards. One of them the one I'm trying to actually use. Animals are amazingly smart some times.

From what I've seen, the best bet for no active cooling would probably be a Via Samuel chip. I think they top out at 700MHz, but they work just fine in BX motherboards and they run so cool my distributor says they don't really even need heatsinks.

I can say with authority that Asus boards aren't used in any tier-1 or -2 named brand PCs. I remember seeing them in Zeos machines ages ago, and in ComTrade machines many times (ComTrade makes everything, EVERYTHING look good in comparison), but that's about it. Maybe Asus gets all its size...

I don't remember the evil bastard's name, but Aussies have been complaining about him for as long as I've been on the internet - 1993 - which was long enough ago that .com wasn't even the second most common TLD on the internet. I actually think it would be pretty cool to run .com.au as my own...

But I never liked Time-Warner, either. TW owns DC Comics, which sets the bar for worst treatment of employees at a comic book company in the US. Famous example: Read up on what happened to the people responsible for the creation of Superman. They aren't much better today, either. That AOL owns...

Oz does seem to have it bad for internet stuffs. Not only the evil phone company, a villian that's almost an operatic in stature, but a government that has tried very hard to make sure y'all can't look at naughty pictures online, and a single, grouchy person in charge of .com.au domain...

I'm under the impression that PC Chips (is that ECS?) is biggest. Maybe because you can't go to a computer shop without stepping on one. And I got some literature from FIC a few years ago indicating they were the largest motherboard vendor. Where are these figures coming from?

To anyone thinking of complaining, I'd like to point out that no one else here seems to have a problem connecting to the internet via modem @ 28.8kpbs.

Doesn't mean a thing to me if I've never seen one. It's one of those mystery brands, like Soltek. People on SR talk about them. That's all I know. As far as size of companies - I'm guessing PC Chips and FIC are bigger?

I never even heard of MSI until last year. Still never seen an MSI board. AOpen, on the other hand, makes stuff that I know is universally first rate. Personally, I'm not fond of integrated parts, either. Screwdriver shops that push all-in-one boards are just not to be trusted.

Gotta love those per-megabyte charges on broadband!

I'd suggest a Celeron 900 on an Aopen AX3S + 256MB high-grade SDRAM + a 40GB Maxtor 740X + Dlink or Linksys NIC + Matrox Gx00 + Aopen 52X CD-ROM + Compucase mid-tower Total without a Windows license should be around $350. $400 if you want building it to be someone else's problem.

I keep VNC windows to my non-Windows machines open all the time so there's not much to do with webmin. I use Mozilla for windows to do things with webmin from time to time, mostly quickie changes like stopping samba or something. I don't even have a java VM installed on most of my machines, so a...

No problem here. We each offered a different solution to his Tannin's difficulty. I've found Opera to be unstable, too. The only time since the .9 release that Moz has crashed was the day my cats unplugged the fileserver containing my Netscape profile from the rest of my network.

Installing IE6 would probably fix your setup nicely, as well. I really don't like the Opera web browser for reasons I've discussed at length in the past.

Sorry to be so much the browser zealot, but have you tried mozilla? For the rest: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Internet Explorer > Change/Remove (wish we could stop here!) > Repair Internet Explorer You really should be running 5.5 w/ bugfixes, though.

You mean you can sell overpriced TFT displays but you can't manage SCSI hard disks? j/k Not that I have any room to talk or anything. Here, the only reasonably priced 15" TFT display I can get says KDS on it (US $329), and doesn't look impressive in the least. Give me a CRT any day. I like...

Slashdot.org had a couple of 500-reply articles on that very subject. I haven't gone back and read them yet, but I'll bet if you take the time, you'll see something useful. kuro5shin is another place to look. Usually there are more technical comments there.

Arguing with people on SR over the value of writable DVDs, of course! Don't ask me. I can't keep intel chipsets straight anymore, either.

This is too interesting a thread to just watch it die... I'm asked all the time about upgrading PCs, rather than buying new ones I've developed a sort of philosophy about it. Basically, for a non-technophile, upgrades make just about no sense at all. I'm sure just about everyone has heard "I...

Ahem. http://www.penguinppc.org/articles/tgall/pop.shtml Yes, I want one too.

Well, the first thing I thought when I read this was "Tulatain", but Pradeep has already found something that's absolutely perfect, so I guess the only thing left for you to do is to get your customer to change his mind about the modem.

Does the soon-to-be-MrsCadet know what you're hoping for? Hm. Guess I'm not a bachelor party kind of guy.

Yes, I would. It's been at least a half-hour and no confirmation message, either. Have you bugged your hosting provider about SMTP config yet?

Hoax. Apparently, Yahoo posts stories from the Weekly World News (a supermarket tabloid noted for some hilariously fake news stories, which the truly ignorant sometimes think is real) in its entertainment section. If you go up one level from that story, you get this...

You'd be placing an awful lot of faith in the practices of our (hopefully) round-robin moderators. Of course, given that the group is Handruin, Tannin, Clocker, P5_133XL, Groltz, CougTek, Time, (energy), Pradeep, and Flagreen (did I forget anyone?) at the moment, maybe there's good reason for...

She either has the strongest back on earth or else she doesn't move around a whole lot offstage. When I worked in a strip club[1], I knew one girl who was working so she could pay to get her (natural) DD-cup reduced to a B or C. The other thing is, 72-DD does not exist. That's not really a bra...

My very own recipie for Marinara (which I made tonight). I'm very proud of it. You can put it on anything and it keeps very well in the freezer. 1 large can diced tomatos 1 can tomato puree - in the US, only Contadina makes this 3 fresh basil leaves 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 Yellow onion a...

Well, y'all probably all know my proclivities from SR; I just think it's hysterical. :)

If the Golden Rule could be the only law in the world, would the world still be a good place to live? There's a question for philosophers and theologians. Truth is, there are breakdowns. It don't think it's disrepectful of anyone here that I provide a link to direct download of the full...

Some interesting points, The Giver. There is a fierce deadlock on how to handle forum scofflaws and how to properly phrase our rules at the moment, among the admins. Yes, one issue at stake in our debates is precisely who gets to decide what material is inappropriate for StorageForum. However...

We have a message from a real user on Handruin's host (webmaster@storageforum), being delivered to a valid user on Handruin's personal ISP (dcahill@townisp). There are no other recipients, the mail has not been set to priority "bulk" or "Urgent" (two things that frequently tag mail as spam)...

Are you certain you're using the right mail gateway for your box? What happens if you shell in to your box (via ssh or telnet or whatever) and use elm or pine to send yourself a message? Same delay?

Well, things don't really work that way. Your 5400rpm drives, assuming they were of a type that works well in RAID0, would probably have a roughly 2x transfer rate. However, there aren't very many things an ordinary user does that are terribly transfer intensive. For 95% of what a typical...

I make an effort - at present - to read everything here. I've noticed that often, I'll continue to see the new posts notification in forums I've completely read, and that have no additional new posts. Is anyone else seeing this or is it a byproduct of using mozilla?

Could anyone share the complete headers of a user verification email? It might be helpful to see what's going on. Also, Doug, there exists on your system a /var/log/maillog file. I don't know whether you have access to it or not, but it'll certainly tell you what SMTP is doing and when.

JTS mainly sold drives to Compaq for use in Presario machines. The phrase "largely supplanted by the Quantum Bigfoot" springs to my mind when I think of them. Draw your own conclusion.

Salty? (I don't know how that space got there. It's supposed to be KimChee) Erm, KimChee is a sort of combination of fermented cabbages, peppers and radishes, spiked with various hot spices and bits of fish. Koreans like to make the stuff, then bury it in the ground for a few months while it...

You're not going to start waxing poetic about JTS or Micropolis, are you? :P

Professional gamblers stay away from roulette, craps and keno. All have odds overwhelmingly in the favor of the house. Blackjack is OK if you know how to play - real strategy, the only game where a good player can actually get better odds than the house, or poker if you're a longtime, serious...

Hm. I started doing dishes when I was five. Now I think it's relaxing. Mindless activity. Turn up the stereo in the kitchen and just do it. Tannin, vegemite is the most horrible thing I've ever eaten, and I've had Kim Chee.

I like making Italian food. People act like it's something special but most of it is really, really easy to make. Basic stuff like Chili is always good, too. Anyone can make chili. I'm trying to teach myself to make a few Chinese dishes but nothing ever turns out the way I want it. I even...

Tannin's probably referring to the mess associated with xfree86's fonts. You can run a truetype font engine, but not every program is TTF aware, which can make the look and feel of the GUI uneven in places. That, and the included fonts aren't as nice as those in Windows. At least under Redhat...

I curse the floppy drive! I will dance, then spit on its thrice-curst grave. I will do 'The Hustle". And then there shall be peace across the land.

Mostly just playing with the poll-posting options. Anyone else here like to cook?

A bit of both, really. You'd think making the out-of-the-box desktop as nice as possible would be a high priority, but that just hasn't been the case thusfar. You really *can* get a nice setup. It can take a lot of tweaking to get things right, and there's about a dozen places where things can...

Probably until whatever DNS is authoritative drops handruin.com from its cache.

Ladies (that would be you, Tea) and Gents (the rest of us), storageforum.net is now up and running. Huzzah!

I mostly use Linux for work-sorts of things, so even though I'm very much an A/V enthusiast, I have to say I don't know. A little research tells me that there are tools that do ac3 out through SPDIF on various sound cards (everyone seems to have a Live!), and that there are patches in CVS for...

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