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First off: Abit Sucks. In fact, I think it should be a compound word: AbitSucks. If you want a northbridge fan than dies in three weeks or caps that pop like popcorn, AbitSucks is your company. Me? I'm not into that sort of thing, so I choose to avoid AbitSucks products. MSI is simply not...

I only live about 50 miles away from Fushigi, in a solidly middle-class subdivision that's all newly constructed. The two sides of my duplex are ~3200 feet when put together, I think. 3BR, 1.5bath each side. I put down an exceptionally large down payment, but the all-told total for my...

My Athlon 64s have Albatron K8X800 Pro and K8NNXP motherboards. Of the two, I like the much less expensive Albatron board better. Gigabyte has a better layout (albatron puts the floppy connector in the middle of the bottom edge of the board, which is stupid), but I seem to get more silly...

Philips announces pricing for dual layer burner. EU$169 (no EU symbol on my keyboard, sorry), which will be around US$200 at current rates. That seems highly reasonable to me.

BestBuy.com is offering the special edition DVD + headset for $30.

Real estate in the US is highly overvalued. Real Estate in California is even more overvalued than most of the rest of the US. It's not that big a deal, although I'm sure it's a nice place.

I'd drink to that. Er, if I drank, that is. 'deep, let me know if the rumors about mutliple discs of extras in the season 7 set are true.

Bullshit. I see a 15% price difference for SATA drives vs. PATA counterparts among drives I might consider buying. The Seagate SATA drives might be cheap, but who wants one of those.

I ordered. They told me there would be a slight delay in shipping. Other than that, no problem at all.

I ordered a kit but haven't received it yet. Supposedly next week I'll receive it. An acquaintance of mine has a mother who is enduring a downward slide of Multiple Sclerosis, and a swingarm with keyboard, monitor and phone near her bed is something that'll make her life somewhat easier.

-Tiny Spoiler Space- Bilbo and Frodo were changed from other Hobbits. They could never find peace or happiness in their pastoral homeland, having tasted the thrill of adventure and very possibly the corrupting kiss of the ring. The scene at the end of the 3rd movie conveys this very well...

Photoshop is a tools for Pros to use. It's made for someone who spend his/her entire day in it to work fast and efficiently. I'm not very good at creating new things with photoshop, and I've never used Illustrator or CorelDraw, but I can edit things very, very quickly in photoshop; I've used it...

You're complaining about 1.2MB/minute?!? How many incidents do you have?

Can't be worse than the longhorn beta: it uses 500MB RAM just sitting at an empty desktop (at least the 64-bit version does).

Proper USB2 support and less-broken support for large disks make the SP1 upgrade entirely too necessary for a techie who uses XP. I'm not a big fan of it as an OS - I turn everything back to the "standard Windows" rather than all the Luna/Search Dog UI bullshit.

SATA's been available for over a year. I think I've put SATA in new PCs maybe 5 times. I'm waiting for the day I don't have to pay penalties in terms of cost and convienence to work with it; it just isn't compelling right now. Oh yeah, and I hate the dinky little SATA power connector.

Everyone say hi to our latest user "!!!porn-pushy". With interests like his you can bet he'll be livening up the conversations around here! (note: don't look if you're easily offended. I'm just pointing out that Handy provides a valuable service in killing those accounts)

Hush, you. I can dream, can't I?

RDP is a royal pain in the ass on a wince handheld. :(

I've seen them from time to time inside certain cases. The front panel connectors are sometimes wrapped around a ferrite ring.

The first version of their software (then called X-Copy DVD) was the aggregation of a bunch of free tools. DVD X Copy was a clean re-write.

I gotta say, the DMCA is particularly odious, but man, if you're just getting upset about it now, you probably ought to read more about it. The shit that gets pulled in the name of preventing copyright circumvention is enough to make a techie's blood boil. Linkage.

In another one of those weird coincidences, I've been posting about my pr0n-browsing habits on /. lately. It is one of my hobbies. Suffice to say, I wrote scripts to do all my heavy downloading for me. Nothing to track around. :)

I stick a piece of felt betwee my keyboard and my screen when I close the lid. I've done that for every laptop I've had and, surprise, none of my old ones have nipplemarks.

It take it you've got a problem with some or other version of Word, then?

I'm not sure I'm going to get the speaker and hinge covers back together correctly. Not a big deal. The person who gave it to me was going to throw it away. It has a bad hard disk - 2.5" drives aren't something I keep in spare. But it boots off a 1GB microdrive in a PCMCIA adaptor. :)

You are a splendid butterfly It is your wings that make you beautiful And I could make you fly away But I could never make you stay You said you were in love with me Both of us know that that's impossible And I could make you rue the day But I could never make you stay Not for all the tea in...

Weird. I have a Sony Z505 disassembled on the desk right next to my keyboard. I'm not a Sony fan, either, but I'll give it credit: It's nice and light, and despite its age it still has a good battery.

Grrr... I do wish people participating in this thread, and the odd visitor from SR, would read my initial comments in this thread. The ones about smoking crack? Up there, at the top? I never thought the "Ghost Trick" was real. I *did* report my observations as I made them. That's what one is...

Yet another beyond-belief cool set of videos. I'm really surprised how good the space scenes in the first clip of these videos looks.

Nope. Straight A-A violates some of the "rules" of USB. If you look at a data transfer cable, there's a little junction box in the middle of the cable that does the switching to make each side think that the thing on the other side is a mass storage device.

You need a special USB A-A data transfer cable. You can get one from callcct.com for $10.

Honestly, Greg, the "alternative lifestyle" folks that I've known have been smarter and a lot more interesting to talk to than the whitebread suburbanites and rednecks in my part of the world. I'd 10x rather hang out with a bunch of LGBTGTS-types than the kind of people I meet in *my* day-to-day...

Well, that'd be me, but my account's still here so...

Storage drivers for the RAID card?

You said a good many negative things about Compaq, my friend.

I didn't keep careful track. Most seemed to be on the 1st partition.

Remeber the Yamaha CD-RW drives that would etch patterns into the writable side of CD-Rs? Well, HP has done one better. This is something that looks genuinely cool, if it is is from HP.

The bigger problem I have with Athlon-based notebooks is that I haven't found a really respectable vendor making them. From what I've found, you've pretty much got to deal with Compaq/HP/emachines or else fall off the edge of the world with some no-name company (Avaratec? Jetta?). Of the three...

It's nice to have a semi-coherent conservative to argue with sometimes. :)

George Szell's Wagner Excerpts on SACD.

The bookkeeper in my office has a P25-S607, Tea. I'm really not impressed by it at all. I've stated in the past that I'm not a fan of Toshiba-anything. They seem to be very cheaply made even in comparison to Compaq, let alone IBM notebooks. But the standard Toshiba knocks apply: I can knock...

Crap! Let's try that again.

There's a white paper on SBS 4.5 to SBS/Exchange 2000 migration here[/url. Or you could take a look at this general-purpose Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migration [url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/library/mme55e2k.mspx]white paper. I would assume it'll set you off...

If you're doing authoritzed work on IBM laptops, you should be replacing the screws completely every time you take 'em out. In one of those great little IBM touches, their laptop screws are nylon-coated to ensure a tight fit.

I did three trials between last night and this morning. Test: I wrote 19 copies of a 1024MB zip file to the primary (real) partition on my drive. I wrote a further 10 copies to the partition created with the ghost process. Trial 1: 19/29 zip files could be opened. Trial 2: 18/29 zip files...

It's good that you've found a place here at SF, jtr. As one of the folks here who isn't, strictly speaking, a computer guy, the different perspective that you bring to technical discussions here is very meaningful. Not only that, but as a someone with some very different opinions on a variety of...

IBM My current laptop is a T40. 1. Centrino all the way. They run cooler. They use less power. My 1.6GHz P4m seems faster than the 2.2 and 2.4GHz Celerons other folks in my office have. Plus, 802.11b. Using the wireless connection seems to drain battery life. I get around 3 hours out of one...

I feel more comfortable that way.

How the hell did this get 2000 page views? Anyway, I can't stand WinRAR. The UI is awful. WinACE has a barely tolerable UI but is embarassingly slow when dealing with RAR files. I've swapped my experimental drive back to being a slave. I'm going to format both "partitions" and write copies...