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I shall make pronouncements in this thread this evening.

There are for the Linksys.

I can't stand coffee. I will drink iced quasi-coffee beverages as long as they don't taste much like coffee. I've never been in a starbucks storefront and I've pledged never to go in a Gloria Jeans again after I had the hilarious experience of being the only unserved customer in a shop, waving a...

I bought one because it's the only nforce2 board I can find with a coax spdif connector. Most nforce2 boards either omit digital sound - which makes soundstorm useless - or use TOSLink, which is expensive and doesn't allow for long cables. I would be very happy if I could get a card with the...

Is that not factually correct, ddruedings? Looking over Intel's site, that seems to be the case.

Oh yeah, more mostly-coherent sample text: Several Paths to the Same Goal Since there are a number of different strategies that can lead to the 1TB finish line, let’s look at some of the points of interest in building our storage server: • Network Performance – In this case, the...

We decided to focus on a home-type server some time ago. IT Pros have all the help they need and lots of friendly salesdroids from Dell and HP to figure it out. If there are "a couple dozen people" around your house then you need to be hit over the head with a box of Trojans. Also, you might...

mkisofs works under Windows with cygwin. It's probably still not David's cup of tea, which is why I didn't suggest it.

Yeah, we got about 4 inches of snow here since yesterday afternoon, so you'll probably see it Tuesday in New York.

I don't suppose I should bother to point out that most of us wouldn't notice the difference between 150 seconds and 170 seconds while doing a network file copy. It's like burning a CD: It takes "about five minutes" whether you have a 32x drive or a 52x drive. My usage pattern between my...

What about the next show-stopping IE bug? What to do about that?

If you put to 2 GB of RAM in your PC, it will not stop paging out memory. Paging and Swapping are two different things. Paging = The OS trying to optimize available RAM by moving 4k blocks that aren't being used very much to your pagefile. Swapping = Accessing your hard disk as if it were RAM...

Coug, you're referring to ECS here. Maybe some of us don't give ECS enough credit but in this particular case I think you were giving them a bit too much.

Probably not. Remember that Microsoft took almost all access to DOS out of ME (e.g. fdisk doesn't work, even though there's an fdisk binary as part of the OS). command.com will probably never die, though.

PC2700 and PC3200 have worked in addition to PC2100 whenever I've tried it. I'm 99% postive you'd be fine, even with a cheapo board, which that Asus isn't (the other 1% is the Vomit Box cheese factor).

I think a better test would be to use, say, an Apollo Pro and a KT400. There are two very different IDE implementations there, after all. Via:Via would probably be a cleaner comparison.

Absolutely no milk-based foodstuffs for cold or flu. Milk changes the persistance and viscosity of your mucous over a fairly short period of time, which is the last thing you want when you're sick. Do get well soon, jtr.

"Oh Boy, Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!" - R. Wiggum Have you guys who are having fridge/watercooling fantasies looked at BTX at all yet? From the drawings I've seen it appears that the CPU will be under a sort of directed airflow container that really does look like it was made to also...

1. Intel has a history of orphaning CPU interfaces. Anyone know if Prescott will work on i875? 2. The 2.8 P4 and the XP2800 are both toward the low end of the performance spectrum in this case. 2. The Athlon64's future is murky at best. 3. No sign yet of the "future-proof" Socket 939 from AMD...

I wasn't suggesting you had a problem with burning; I was suggesting that copy protection on the disc might not be compatible with the drive.

Very probably you have an incompatibility between the drive and copy protection on the discs in question. There's probably a crack out there for whatever the protection is, and there are a number of programs (ClonyXXL, Alcohol 120%) that can break such protections so the discs can be copied in a...

There's a tool called cdburn/dvdburn that's included in the Server 2003 resource kit that can burn an ISO image from command line.

158. You've taken an entire day to rearrange your hundreds of gigabytes of media files, it's 1:05AM, and you're not done yet. 159. ...but in your paleotaxonomy, you find data files from BBSes you last visited in 1990. 160. A hardware manufacturer has written custom firmware based on your call to...

I plan to work on it this weekend. I'm off today through Sunday.

Well fuck. I've lived another year. How perfectly shitty.

Well Coug, you're still one step better than me. I don't have human contact OR religion. Also I noticed that the link I made to SR (This is funny as opposed to pathetic) is 404'd. Rather than link, since SR seems to change its BB system annually, here's the pathetic-ness (which I'm rather proud...

What language is that sentence in? :)

Hi IHateATI. I hate nvidia myself. Maybe we need to start a club. There's a small selection of games, including Call of Duty and Neverwinter Nights, that don't work very well with current ATI driver releases. There's a patch on ATI's web site that's supposed to fix things (search around their...

Short answer: properly regal and/or bitchy. She's more active than she's ever been. She has problems with balance and doesn't have full control of her tail, but after many weeks of thrice-daily antibiotics and force-feedings, she's been pronounced "well". Her personality has changed a lot. She...

I found something a few days ago in a fairly serious article that described the Iomega Clik as a 40GB disk. In the Washington Times, a publication that's normally highly respected. Since I can buy a factory case of those stupid things for about $50, if they were 40GB apiece I'd never have to...

Tannin's done a miscalculation. David's dollars are worth 1.33 Aussie ones, so David has really provided 559AUD. Tea can of course have $1000 of my imaginary dollars as well. To make the math easy. :)

That's a very expensive way to hunt, Pradeep. Everyone in my family except me has hit a deer. It's a fact of life. A few years ago I was driving to work at 4:30 in the morning. I'm doing 45 in a 25 that should really be a 40, completely straight except for a couple gentle hills and some...

Sounds like a job for ebay, man.

It's a damned shame. I had a close call with one of my cats a few months ago and I didn't want to talk to anyone while she was like that. I didn't really want to do anything. That really sucks man.

I can tell you that there's a difference between USB1.1 and USB2.0 cables. If I plug one of my USB2 portable drives in with the cable that goes to my HP932 it works at 1.1 speeds.

$3500. No, seriously. XPC + 3GHz CPU + 1GB RAM + 19" LCD still comes to maybe half as much.

In yet another example of the "What were those Vomit-box engineers thinking", I had the opportunity to play with an Alienware "Gaming Laptop" last week. It wasn't a very long play-session, however. The guy who owned it was proudly displaying SiSoft Sandra scores when I noticed his P4/3000 was...

I don't know why anyone would knock the Duron. Unlike the Celeron it offers very good price/performance. I try not to be an AMD fanboy but there's a lot of PCs in the world that don't need to be 3200MHz, 100W monsters with hyperthreading. Mercutio's first rule of CPU buying: If it's more than...

Nope. If you start with the OEM version the installer upgrades the OEM version only. If you start from that upgrade without ANY nero install you get a limit-limited 30-day copy. I wouldn't normally recommend piracy but in this case you've paid for two OEM copies...

BTW, you aren't getting 100% page coverage from ANY workgroup printer. It's probably a lot closer to 80%, what with the borders and all.

I own a Phaser 850D, which is an awesome, awesome machine. The training company I work for is in that program. They got a Phaser 860DN (I see they're using 8200s now. I don't know much about that printer). Blank ink comes free with the color kits, which are $150 each and last, um, a long time...

By FAR the easiest thing to do is to use a Promise or HPT controller for your big drives. If you have one laying around that is. Most of the boards I'm using have them integrated, which works well enough for the first 800GB or so. ;) WRT onboard sound, the SB64 was a premium card, and if all...

HEC power supplies are very quiet and inexpensive. That's what most of my PCs have. The 300W ones cost me like $25. Now that I think of it, I think I can give HEC a supreme testimonial: One of my PCs have 5 hard disks and two optical drives in it, besides the Athlon 2500 and 3 filled DIMM...

Ahem. Quality isn't inkjet, but nor is the cost of the supplies,

Sparkles are above average but very loud.

LVD2002. They are over $100. The 2001, which doesn't do divx, is the cheap one.

Santa doesn't visit. The magic of Craigslist, however, found me a good week's work.

Santilli has a history of doing that. Like his weird habit of typing something in the subject line. Speaking of holidays, here's my list: January 2nd (the day all the xtian winter holday crap is finally over), June 30th (don't ask), July 4th, Thanksgiving That's it.

Ebay for your speakers, man. You can probably get away with $200 for five mains. I'm not sure about the sub, but if you buy decent front speakers it isn't an issue anyway. If new is a requirement, Best Buy sells low-end ($150) speaker sets from Yamaha and KLH; a $100 center channel would...

I had suspected the drive in question was going bad for a long time, but I couldn't get it to fail S*ny's diagnostic (which consists of writing about 10MB of data to a CD-RW then reading it back). From a technical standpoint, I'd still rather have fast CD burning than fast audio extraction...