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Yes, but swans mate for life. Doesn't seem so unnatural now, does it?

Santilli, Windows 2000 Pro also supports SMP and hyperthreading (2 "real" CPUs with 2 "virtual" CPUs inside 'em), and doesn't have all the visual crap XP does. For you, and a lot of other people, XP brought nothing to the table.

I'd suggest something in a Via Envy chipset.

I think this is quite amusing.

The guns in farcry all seem pretty crappy. I've got the hang of "aim at the feet and let the gun pull upwards", but a lot of the time you can empty a clip at something, see a dozen shots connect, and then watch as they don't die.

Web Edition is made to be fairly cheap. It can be found for $350 for a full version, which is in line with the $250 a full retail copy of XP Pro costs. Several people at my day job went a Microsoft conference and came back with copies of 2003 Server Web Edition for their trouble. I got all...

I'm fairly certain I heard that from some CATO-institute talking head who was being interviewed on NPR. A check of Osama's wikipedia entry suggests "kidney disease" rather than diabetes, but the outcome - dialysis - is much the same.

I tried FarCry and Riddick last night. Riddick is clearly doing neat things, graphics-wise, but I can also tell that it started its life as some kind of console title. The controls are annoyingly imprecise, and there's a lot of "use the mouse to point at something, instead of just typing on the...

I bought a couple InWin internal 10 in 1 readers. They're really funny. If they're plugged into a motherboard with a Via 80237 south bridge, the machine won't boot. Plug them in after the machine boots, and they work fine. Of course, InWin didn't actually make that model, just sold them. I'm...

I've strongly suspected that Osama will show up about the same time someone in the current administration gets in trouble - or maybe the next presidential election. Osama bin Laden is a type 1 diabetic. He needs dialysis regularly. He's 6'6" and, while he's a brown person, he's not the same...

I've seen the .Net version of ATI's control panel screw up a few times. I've seen nLite screw up a few times. I don't know anything else that uses .Net, and it's hard to tell if those problems are the fault of a developer or an inadequacy of the environment but .Net's been around a few years now...

Honestly I do not know. My interests align primarily with disk-intensive tasks, which gaming is not. I can say it's more than credible desktop OS, that the default install seems to use less RAM than XP (around 50 or 100MB, based on the lab PCs I checked today) and lacks some of XP's more...

Well that WAS rather impressive.

Couple weeks ago I RMA'd a plain old LiteOn 52x CD-ROM to Newegg. The replacement they sent me is an 8x DVD burner.

This Albatron K8T800 does as well.

If nothing else, grab the IE6 Administrator's Kit of Microsoft's site. That will let you download the whole thing in one shot. I have a full copy of the install and yes, it does fix problems on machines that have been particular screwed by spyware.

The foreground/background thing is pretty much switchable option. Server 2003 does NOT have theme support (no Luna) or the memory hog that is System Restore, and has no services beyond what XP has enabled by default. I don't have anything Macromedia, but I could probably swing a copy of...

I do not think they do. I am not an overclocker. Next time I reboot one I shall look. I think the OCing crowd for A64s is big on Nforce3 boards.

That's a really shitty thing. Sorry to hear it. On the other hand, cats do know where home is. Your little buddy might surprise you.

OK, I downloaded a real H.264 MPEG file. 1280x720, 9.5Mbit/sec; 20 minutes of Cindi er... sitting on a couch. And it plays PERFECTLY on even my XP2500 and everything else I have, even over my LAN. I thought the problem was just the resolution of the video. Now I'm thinking the problem is just...

NOLF was funny. I played it through a couple times (once in god mode just to hear the random chatter from the underlings). Also played the sequel. Call of Duty is a boring world war 2 game, or something. Quake3 is basically a multiplayer-only game. That is not my idea of a good time. Tex Murphy...

I have Photoshop 5.5 and (full) Acrobat 5 on the Server 2003WE I have as my work desktop. I've had Illustrator 7 and Pagemaker on it at different times. Does Premier not work? I would think that some people with high-end Intel rigs would be forced into 2003 Server just because of processor...

Well, I found a Microsoft patch that turns on DX9 acceleration for WMV files, but interestingly, it can't be installed until this little gem is in place. Better WMV = carrot, more DRM= stick. No thanks.

Personally, I think 2003 Server Web Edition is a WONDERFUL replacement for Windows 2000. It's almost Linux-like in its speed and utility, and it plays all the games and crap that I like to have on Windows. Anyway... forced to upgrade, a few guesses: 1. New software won't install - IIRC neither...

Hey, did everyone see the news about Windows Vista having eleventy-billion different versions and a minimum required 512MB RAM for the 32bit version? Or the thing about needing a monitor that supports HDCP to display HD (720p and above) content? Or the thing about it wanting a DX9-capable...

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Pbbt. The last one *I* found didn't work. Or at least the torrent with the same label didn't.

Pretending for a moment that you're using an NT-ish version of Windows, go to Control Panel (Classic View, if you're using XP), Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, right click on whatever disk number it is, and choose Delete or whatever the hell the option is. Then, right...

The Onion Strikes Again!

Handruin, I loves me some Worms. Haven't played it in forever, can't find my install discs for any of the versions I have (2, World Party or 3), but I do think it's good fun. Ninja rope + Ming Vase for the win! Farcry I will have to look for. Groltz also suggested Riddick-something-or-other...

I've found that rackmount hardware sits on a counter-top just fine. :) I understand that, for the workstations, the 2100wz and the like, the basic platform is a Tyan motherboard with a highly customized BIOS, but the servers throw away all reference designs in favor of something built entirely...

Actually, as I think of it, all WMV files play like ass on my machines. Not just playbacks, but seeks within the files are exceptionally slow, even when I'm comparing 5MB wmv files to 5GB mpeg2s. I'll also say that I avoid updating Windows Media stuff, because I despise all versions of the...

Er, the 3400 is the first 64-bit Sempron. That's why it's special.

I just found out that Sempron 3400s are in fact 64-bit chips with full support for Athlon64-ish goodness like Quiet n' Cool and SSE3. Pretty good deal for a chip that's $30 cheaper than an A64/3000.

Wish they had a similar deal for their opteron workstations...

Honestly, for the time it does work, Linksys stuff works better than other products. I'm not going to compare it to heavyweight Orinoco or true Cisco hardware, but it's been my experience that Linksys hardware works when Dlink or Netgear won't. In particular, Linksys APs tend to have vastly more...

The TWAIN app is distinct from photoshop. You should be able to work in both at once.

They all pretty much suck. I like Linksys PCI better than other brands I've tried, but my main problem is with the antennae coming off somehow. I actually have a client site where there are a couple of people who swear, despite repeated bitch-outs on my part, that they are handles. Anyway, the...

WIA scanners are evil. TWAIN! TWAIN! Nothing but TWAIN! Anyway, unless you're scanning negatives or slides, it's pointless to scan more than 600dpi, and if you're scanning negatives or slides, it's pointless to use a flatbed. This information is primarily for posterity. I'm sure everyone here...

To be fair, they're probably a little more common in Finland. what with being right next to Sweden and all.

To me the biggest crimes are the fact that many games these days are ported console titles that don't take advantage of PC hardware and the sudden narrowing of allowable genres.

I tried to be in a Saab once. I didn't fit. Oh, wait. That was an Audi. Never mind. True story: There is ONE Saab dealer in Indiana. It's in a town in the west-central part of the state, a place with a population of about 500.

6.8Mbps WMV9. I get about 20 fps on my 3800, about 15 on a 3200.

Honestly, it seems like a lot of really great stuff could be done, using Flash as a graphics engine. A lot of older, non-sucky games basically used tiles and sprites for everything, and that's pretty much what Flash is all about. I mean, look at the FSM flash game I linked to, or all games on...

I downloaded a HD video a few weeks ago. "Island Fever 3", starring Tera Patrick, Jesse Jane and Devon. 720p, and I don't think I have even one computer that can play it back smoothly. Perhaps I should try one of those other players. Media Player Classic certainly isn't doing it.

Remember to play the DOS version. The Win32 version doesn't have the whole, cool score or a 1024x768 display mode. PC games used to be good. I don't know what the hell happened. I'm looking at my collection of PC games. I see some really great and creative stuff here. Games that didn't suck...

Adobe's software does seem to work better on Intel. I'd say that's a mistake on their part. Personally, I use Gigabyte and Soltek boards with Via chipsets, and they're fine. I have gobs of them. I sell gobs of them. I'd build them every day of the week, no problem. For myself, I won't consider...

Since I just upgraded my game PC to something nice-ish (x2/3800, x800 GTS/256MB), I thought I'd go look for something new and cool to play on it. Little did I know that all PC games on the market right now suck in ways that could only be explained by an analogy to gay porn that I don't feel...

loose vs. lose Ur vs. Your and U vs. you rediculous vs. ridiculous 4 vs. for 2 vs. too to vs. too IM/texting-speak is evil.

I'd suggest something in a dual Opteron. Say, a Tyan K8WE, with support for two dual core CPUs, PCI-X and PCI-e, and as much as 16GB RAM. That ought to cover all your bases for I/O and CPU horsepower. Back in the land of reality, Gigabyte and Soltek make great Athlon64 boards. At this point I...