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None of the desktop cases I have support a fan of any meaningful size in the rear of the case. None of them have air-holes for ventilation in the front of the case (none I can think of anyway), although two of them have a place to mount a front fan. As I mentioned in the thread I referenced...

Didn't write this, but I found it. It's a fun little read. Dear President Bush, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's law. I have learned a great deal from you and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual...

In this instance I believe that the incredibly poor ventilation from desktop cases with 17" monitors sitting on top of them is the main cause of difficulty. In the past I've tried premium copper heat sinks and various different thermal compounds without much luck.

I just did a batch RMA of drives to Samsung. My "batch" was 5 drives that I've collected over the last 18 months. Two of them are being RMA'd for things like making noises I haven't heard drives of that model make. Two of them are plainly out of warranty (manufactured February 2002 and April...

SuSE is free and quite usable. Good OSes don't have to cost money. :)

I don't think it's stealing to copy a bunch of bits. Sorry. I don't. That's the wrong word to use to describe trading digital information. The original data still exists. Someone got paid for it. It's not like I took a physical, depletable item off a store shelf so that no one else can have it...

1. All the machines aren't on very often. 2. Having machines at 100% CPU utilization frightens and confuses the other instructors. I got yelled at last time I had folding set up. 3. The PCs in question were using AMD retail heat sinks with artic silver in place of the standard thermal pad. I...

mubs, You aren't going back to India, are you? :(

Two PCs sitting side by side in a room with the thermostat set to 23C. Both Barton 2500s on GA-7S748 motherboards, in Enlight desktop cases. Base CPU Temp after 20 minutes being on and idle (measured with motherboard monitor 5): PC1: 71C PC2: 68C Installed CoolOn on PC1, rebooted. (BIOS...

The really offensive thing is that this person is supposed to be an instructor of web and programming related topics. We need a full-time sort of person, unfortunately. I *really* need to break down and learn design stuff I guess.

I swear I'm going to quit this job if people don't quit asking me about Frontpage crap. The... person who does our web page likes to "live-edit" it - work directly from Frontpage with the actual page. And she just deleted a bunch of stuff. This is, of course, my fault. Or "web person" doesn't...

Slightly related to that subject... I used to love to go to the library. I can't stand the ones we have where I live, though. Nothing worse than getting a book you've been looking forward to reading and finding out that some jackass took a sharpie and marked over every time used the word "God"...

If the choice is between someone who only has $250 having a computer and not having a computer, I think I'd be a little less picky. Not only that, I think it's the right place to cut a corner. That system has a motherboard that's several steps up from PC Chips/Jetway/ECS. It has enough RAM. It...

Two more things: 1. Literature Map, a tool for finding authors much like the tool timwhit posted for finding (non-classical) bands whose music you like. 2. I keep raving about comic books. Here's a small collection of a comic that I really enjoy. The files are in .cbr format, and can be most...

I *still* haven't gotten around to reading that. I keep finding fiction that I want to read more. It'll probably be out in paperback by the time I get around to actually reading the hardcover. Sigh. I've been reading books by Eric Flint for several years. He's actually lives in nearby East...

I've got a room full of Barton 2500s on SiS748s that I think are about to melt down. So I'm very interested in this.

I know about Junkbusters, which keeps me off lots of lists. Particularly helpful when I don't want the catalog from that place where I ordered that Transsexual Midget Donkey porno.

I got an AARP membership card in the mail today. I guess the retired people are getting a little more aggressive in their recruiting these days.

I can probably find you a 512MB PC3200 part, timwhit. Anyway, I know all about U-series drives and their vomit-box connection. Some of the PCs I support here have U-series drives, or Maxtor DM8s, which are probably just as bad. Given enough RAM, a slow drive can be made tolerable. Not having...

That $450 machine you're talking about would be a mid-high end system for the people I deal with, ddrueding.

Where else do you get a brand-new $30 hard disk?

I'm not sure if it's a load of crap or not, but I have some candidate machines to try it on. I'll probably have a chance to try it later this week.

$235. It's a POS, sure, but I can build a $235 box today using all name-brand, new parts. Celeron 315 (2.2GHz/533MHz bus) 512MB of OCZ RAM Asrock P4VM800 motherboard (S3 graphics included) Foxconn TLN436-C4002 chassis with 350W Sparkle PSU 20GB 5400rpm Seagate Hard disk (U-series X) LiteOn 52x...

I have to fault their total failure to examine the dangers of Improvised Explosive Devices on their server products. I mean, when I'm pissed at a server I'm not usually thinking "handgun", but rather "I wonder what I could do with a 220V connection, and a few gallons of gasoline."

What Dells are good for.

Doesn't fusing clods take up a lot of space?

Kingdom Come made me yawn, but then I'm not a fan of DC comics in the first place. Too many gods (Superman, Green Lantern, Spectre, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Batman) and not enough mortals (um... Green Arrow, I guess). In a similar vein, there's Kurt Busiek's Astro City, which does an amazing...

The graphic novel of "V for Vendetta" is a far better experience in my opinion. Just like "From Hell" was. The same gentleman - Alan Moore - also wrote the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which was a fun movie, nothing like the comic, but it wasn't trying to be, really), and "Watchmen". Of...

That would be May 23rd. Which is good, 'cause - much as I hate to say it - Intel's next generation chips (Yonah-core) are supposed to be by better in every possible way compared to current X2s.

Miles better than Acrobat

Linux has SDL for DirectX-like functionality. It works pretty well, and some commercial developers have used it in place of DirectX on Windows games (Neverwinter Nights?) Linux DOES have 3D driver issues. Downloading and installing either ATI or nVidia's binary-only package is a PITA for anyone...

Annoying as Newegg is about some things, their prices on a lot of things are very hard to beat. I get lower prices, shipped, from newegg than I do from Chicago-area distributors.

Pimp my Snack

Dell had a $750 off $2000 coupon for Inspirons today, too. :)

Command and Conquer: The First Decade looks somewhat interesting to me. I liked C&C and Red Alert and C&C2. I kind of like the idea that someone went ahead and modified those games to support a more modern platform. Especially when the games are actually, you know, good. I think there's a...

I just got paid to de-crapify a Dell. I'm sorry, but if it's taking your month-old 3.4GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM almost 3 minutes to start XP Home, there's both a problem with the machine and a valid reason to send the stupid thing back. Dell installs a program called MyWay, which is thought by...

The only two people I know who use speech recognition to do anything are using Dragon Dictate. On the other hand, if you have XP or Server 2003 you can turn on the voice recognition that's built into Windows and give it a try. You might as well since you already paid for it.

I just bought two of these guys. I'm a little worried that they'll be too hot or somehow quirky, but I didn't have a lot of selection for an X2-based system with MicroATX and onboard video.

If I said both I would still not be wrong. :)

Once the supply for a particular board dries up, finding replacements for it becomes frustrating in extreme. I usually wind up hitting Ebay and paying essentially new, retail price for a used replacement board. If I'm a little luckier, froogle.com will still have a listing or two for my board...

I would like to know when he's going to apoloized for being born and everything else he's done wrong.

I had a titanium engagement ring. :(

Best Windows tip I've seen in a while.

Thorough review/bitch-fest.

Probably the second one. I know it's getting to be about time for a switch because I actually have a bunch of spare DDR modules and all my home PCs are full.

To be fair that was a T20, which was several years ago. But T4xs have a steel frame around everything and are quite rugged. I guess the only way you could really evaluate would be to look at the service manual for both (unless you happened to have one of each in the shop). Plus there's the...

I think the T-series does a little bit better on battery life and they're about 1lb. lighter on average. They also have the stupid fingerprint scanner. They support more memory (T60 does 4GB!) and have vastly superior internal construction. So... Lighter Better Battery Better chassis More RAM...

1998 or 2006, as long as the information on the site is presented clearly, a site re-deign would be REALLY low on my list of priorities. One of the down sides to being a highly technical, web-savvy person is that you can get used to, and tolerate design changes easily. Most web users aren't that...

As far as I know, Quantum was the only company that just swapped circuit boards to switch from IDE to SCSI. Were it really that simple, wouldn't some other OEM have a 10k SATA drive by now?

Apropos of nothing, I sent a paleolithic 15" CTX LCD in for service a few weeks ago. Literally a month before its 5-year warranty expired. I wouldn't've even tried, save that the person who had been trying to throw it out had nicely packed it in its retail box which said "5 year-warranty" in big...