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Every Klipsch set I've heard has been boomy and bottom heavy. That's probably great if you listen to boomy, bass heavy popular music but let's just say Klipsch doesn't do a soft classical piece any favors. I'd call the Klipsch approach to speaker-building flawed at best. Sound is subjective, of...

That awful Baz Luhrmann movie. Pay it no mind fatwa on all who employ Leonardo DiCaprio (who is, of course, a reason to hate moviegoing, all on his own). Harold Parrineau is the actor who played Mercutio in that version. He played Augustus "Wheelchair" Hill on "Oz", a role that he made very...

They appear to be saying that IE6 is worth installing.

I have yet to comprehend the appeal of drinking. Especially given the cost of the alcohol and its side effects.

What does $1100 get you in a tripod?

Since I'm basically boycotting SR, can someone tell me what a "warn" bar is?

Women don't like it when you call it that. :)

sechs, yours is a sentence in desperate need of a specific subject.

If you avert your gaze from the links in the "News" links, you'll see that "miserable failure" does in fact link to whitehouse.gov and the Autobiography of George W. Buttmonkey.

Search for Miserable Failure.

My personal accounts are BankOne. BankOne is a viscious, evil institution that introduced the "Pay $3 to talk to a bank teller" fee about five years ago. That's OK. I can do even the most complex personal transactions at an ATM. I've never even talked to a teller there. Almost every Walgreens...

I'll second that. In the realm of computer speakers, Logitech continues to impress. I got a set of Z680s today and they're magnificent. A set of Acoustic Research HC5s + a low-end receiver is still a cheaper and better option, but if you're dead set against having a receiver hooked up to your...

AGP 8x Slots can't take AGP or AGP 2x cards, although I believe an 8x card will work in a 1x/2x slot. There's also AGP Pro, which adds an extra part to the front of an AGP card, which can deliver additional power to a workstation-type AGP Pro card. Some motherboards support AGP Pro. They're...

There is no reason to send out rich-text Email. I believe I've ranted on that subject before.

I believe the big difference is in updated document conversion filters. OpenOffice works well enough for 99% of people who need to do word processing - Word and Wordperfect are ridiculously overpowered - but last time I played with OpenOffice I remember being able to make it crash without too...

I've pretty much always installed it. Including the IDE driver. I'm working from the assumption that if Microsoft's generic driver were truly worthwhile for VIA chipsets, VIA wouldn't provide their own. SiS doesn't for most of its chipsets.

Bush just lots a whole bunch of votes in Northwest Indiana. w00t! Honestly, I think protective tariffs are a dumb idea all the way around, except in the case of dumping, but since that's what happens when we open steel markets... Paying farmers not to grow anything DOES have an interesting side...

Both Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan (the last man on the moon), went to Purdue. Meeting the two of them, at the same time, is a memory I can genuinely treasure, even if all they did was shake my hand. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the US had far, far more knowledge of Sept. 11 than is...

NT's graphical-ness was bolted on in NT4, it was NOT designed that way. Yes, the graphics are in the kernel now, and it's very hard to make XP start up as console-only, but all the system-level utilities have a command-line component, and the entire operating system can be run from a prompt.

I keep thinking I'm going to buy a new laptop but all the subnotebooks I find have those asstastical Celerons in 'em. Has anyone else tried the new Duron 1600 chips? I saw 'em on newegg for $40 and bought a couple. In terms of raw performance they really do appear to equal standard-issue...

The biggest unions sold out in the 70s, but the causes of workers still need to be championed, especially in these days of throw-away employees. Public School Teachers and steelworkers get shit on. They'd get even more shit on if they didn't have some kind of collective power.

George Bush is an actively evil and stupid person, but I don't think that makes the moon landings of the 1970s a hoax. We've had 35ish years for something to come out from a person who might've been affliated with a hoax. We haven't. We *do* have moon rocks and dust and stuff, and I've...

Sort of. It maintains a Master File Table, which Windows 2000 and up will recognize. If you put a dynamic disk on a Win98 PC and run fdisk, it shows up as "Non DOS disk" instead of as being an unreadable NTFS (large) volume. Take my word for it, they're perfectly interchangable as long as you...

My brother's theater includes 10 subwoofers and at least 15 speakers; that's EXACTLY what he did(*). My main receiver could do 7.1 without problem and a slightly higher-end Carver Sunfire (drool) can process 9.2 with an extra amplifier. The bass signal is mono, so it's really easy to split it to...

Whoops. Just ignore me. If you're doing DPL2, your receiver must only be a 2 - 3 years old and is not in need of upgrade.

$250 buys quite a lot of receiver these days. Something like an Onkyo TX-SR501 or 601 is probably right in that ballpark and a fabulous buy. Put off your surrounds and spend some cash on an upgraded center. Video switching alone will make that purchase worthwhile.

I'd suggest getting a copy of Scott Archer's "Designing a Windows 2000 Active Directory Infrastructure", finding the individual responsible for that mess, and playing whack-a-mole with his head until you're exhausted. Internally, there's really not much reason for your guys to be using .com for...

Get the astroglide and a Hindi-to-English dictionary, 'cause here's yet another hilarious example of how much love Dell has for us all. That's right: If you're a Dell customer, and call to get help with Bonzi Buddy or new.net, they won't help you. Isn't it nice to know that's what Dell...

Most new receivers also support Dolby Pro Logic II and Neo:6 listening modes, both of which involve the rear speakers even more than most 5.1 movie soundtracks. Depending on what you're listening to, the surround channels can either add "presence" by duping the left and right on a slight delay...

Try making a new Outlook profile for him. You can always add his existing PST as a data source later, if that works. His PC is part of an appropriate domain, right? And if not, is he at least part of a domain with a trust relationship with the one containing your exchange servers?

I like being under blankets. In my old apartment, I didn't realize that my heat didn't work until January. I woke up one morning and it was 40F inside 'cause I had left a bunch of windows open during a sudden temperature drop.

That all looks very run-of-the-mill to me, Greg.

Eric fits in well here. We seem to have a large share of members who are depressed and (WAY) overstressed. Probably even more than are willing to admit it. Not that I'm one to be offering advice on any such topic. Good luck Eric.

Look under "TV Wonder". Note: I wouldn't wish that card on Osama Bin Laden* *"W" can have it, though. If you're using ATI, there are compelling reasons to use MMC for capture, namely, support for Video Soap. Mostly, I work in Virtualdubmod, cap with Huffyuv and send the output to...

Joliet reads just like ISO9660 on OS9. 8.3. The pain of DOS will live for eternity.

I appreciate the sound of Dipole speakers for music, something like a Wharfedale WH-2MP. For entry-level bookshelf-type surrounds try something like a pair of Acoustic Research AR17 (smaller) or AR15 (bigger). They should come in right at your budget and are well wirth the $150 or so a pair...

That should be $50 for 36 feet. Is your set-up primarily geared for movies/TV or for music, Buck? And what kind of budget for these misbegotten speakers?

I usually buy Belkin. Costs me $10 for 6 6' pieces + maybe $10 more in corner pieces . They're supposed to be self-adhering. They aren't. Install with a staple gun.

Macs read ISO9660 CDs, just like everything else. I strongly suspect they support Joliet extensions as well. UNIX systems needs Rock Ridge extentions but Linux can handle Joliet without any problem.

The classic "consumer" wireless speakers are made by Advent. The problem with those units is that they work with a Rectocon wireless transceiver, which expects RCA stereo inputs, NOT speaker cables, which means they won't work as surround channels. At least, not the ones I've seen. The...

What it comes down to is talking the guy out of RAID0 for everything. His OS will be on a WD800JB that he already has. I'm hoping to convince him to take RAID1 + RAID0 on different volumes but I freely admit that I don't fully understand what he's doing yet - some kind of digital sound mixing...

That's the 13G0255 - 250GB version. Anyway, it'd be nice for some pictures.

Approximately 1TB disregarding RAID config. I'm building a digital audio workstation this weekend (if I feel up to it. My foot is #$%#ing killing me) that's going to use a Promise TX4000 controller and 4 SATA 7k250s, on a Gigabyte 8I875. College kids and their money (he wouldn't spring for the...

I'm probably the only one who remembers the good old days of alt.cascade. There was a whole newsgroup dedicated to nesting quotes. It was great fun for the people who couldn't figure out how to uudecode binaries (porn). Lutefisk > Lutefisk > > Lutefisk > > > Lutefisk > > > > Lutefisk...

Anyone here seen the 1975 version of Rollerball? I just watched it for the first time. It's almost frighteningly prophetic in this context.

If you can score a copy of Ulead MovieFactory, you can do all of the above with that. It's not an ideal solution, but it's not bad, either. For AIW-type cards, I like capping with MMC directly and editing with vdub.

Cable select is a standard, AD. It certainly should work.

Tried installing Toast (or something similar) yet? Windows 98 and 2000 call 'em CD-ROMs, too.

Can you describe the exact jumper settings on your drives? eg. IDE0 M=WD80GB, S=DVD or whatever. Have you tried them all in cable select mode?

What did you use to affect the transfer? Ghost? WD's program?