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Snogging?!? The mind boggles at the possible meaning for that term, particularly in context.

I never had 2% milk, real butter or mayonaisse before I went off to college. Now they all strike me as some kind of luxury.

One of the resellers I deal with sells 1-foot-long power cables. First time I saw one I didn't get it. They turn wall warts into line lumps.

The AT specification DID offer a plug for a monitor. 15 and 17" displays blew a LOT of PSUs. Really, this is a matter of size - power supplies are trending to physically smaller, as anyone who has worked on a new-ish HP, emachine or Dell can attest. I don't think there's ROOM for a bunch of...

Driving is work. Boring, stupid work. Like digging holes, only without the satisfaction of scarring the crust of mother earth. I just can't wrap my head around the common point of view here. I can buy an awful lot of repairs for the price difference between a new car and something that's four...

One of my students taught me a neat trick today. 1. Staples is an Ingram reseller. Call Staples, ask for an Ingram part number, and they'll give you Ingram's price + Staples markup. 2. Staples has a pricematching policy. 3. Staples accepts online vendors, like, oh, Newegg, as valid for...

Realize that commercial bulk scanning of 10k images is going to hit $3k, easy, and the time investment for doing it at home with a crappy flatbed will be, well, outrageous (probably at least a couple months of eight hour days, just for scanning). I think you really need to look at a dedicated...

I still haven't found a KT400A. What are they doing talking about KT600?!?

Trabi = Compaq. I should think that one is obvious.

The updated version was released in the US while I was in, I guess I was in 6th grade, so... 1987ish I remember a story in Time Magazine about it. Most libraries I've been to still seem to have the old edition on hand, rather than the new one.

Sorta kinda spoiler, if you're interested in reading the novel Basically, Alex, the vaguely sociopathic narrator, grows into a responsible adult.

Step 1. Take the stupid thing back. The whole thing, not just the adaptor Step 2. Take slides n' stuff to Walgreens. They'll do a better job and they'll d hordes of slides for the price of that scanner, plus you're not sitting around waiting for your poor PC. Step 3. Pour yourself a nice, cool...

I have no idea. My 2003 EE machine has hard locked three times with no known cause, by the way. Since it's a file server, I usually find this out when I'm trying to send it some data.

Yeah, that last chapter does add something.

It'll take about 90 minutes, actually. Plus the five reboots it takes to re-enable all the stuff you're used to having like, oh, sound.

I've noticed that, too. The DRU500AX isn't even particularly good as a playback device. It might as well be burner-only.

Ah ! Well aday! What evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

I think they need to change their name. Albatron sounds entirely too much like something PC Chips would make up.

I don't get new cars. You're throwing down minimum $15k (and probably more like $25k if want something that's decent) for something that's only worth $15k until the second you drive it off the lot . That's a substantial chunk of the cost of a HOUSE. All that car does is consume. Gas, oil...

Seems we know two different companies. The DFI boards I'm familiar with are as vanilla as all get-out. Average price (a bit more proud than FIC or Shuttle at any rate), stable but far from perfect, almost always spot-on reference boards (except maybe for a header layout that makes me want to get...

Sounds like we found our PC Chips!

The Soundstorm was a hard requirement. SPDIF is a hard requirement. Looking at pictures of various nforce2 boards, the Asus was the only one I could see that had Soundstorm and SPDIF. If you'll recall, I asked around here about that very issue a few weeks ago, but no one replied.

Hey, I'm trying aren't I?

What's up with haranguing me about my posts, mubs?

If you haven't guessed, I'm something of a pessimist.

It has a chance. I wouldn't buy something that doesn't have a chance. I wouldn't mind at all changing my blanket disgust with nvidia in general for a blanket disgust for nvidia video cards. I've never personally tried an nforce2. Personally, I have ZERO interest in performance. Anything I can...

DFI = Diamond Flower International. Haven't heard of them?

Hentai also leaves me limp in all possible senses of the phrase. Tentacle rape ain't my thing.

I bought a refurb Nforce2 today. An Asus something or other. I had some credit at newegg nothing else sounded good. Of course, I hate nvidia with the sort of passion that really defines such words as "deide", "contemn", or "execrate",so, I'm more-or-less expecting to be utterly disappointed...

I'm an Anime-not-terribly-interested-at-all-er. I watched Mononoke. It didn't do anything for me. I'm pretty much into all things geeky, but man, Anime leaves me limp. Of course, my first exposure was the utterly, utterly incomprehenisble mess known as Akira. I know it was based on 20-odd hours...

If AOpen is Ford, DFI = Chevy. Chaintech = Kia. Don't think I'll get much argument for that one. WTF is a Lada?

It depends on the motherboard. Nothing to do but try, but a high density 256MB chip on the DFI LX-based boards that're sitting around here pop up as 16MB (ie just this side of useless) when installed.

A lot of those places are probably B&M too, even if B&M just means a 10x10 cinderblock building with a phone and a web connection. If Gov. Davis signs this into law, yes, some of those businesses will no doubt virtually relocate to, say, Oregon, but I have a feeling that most of the majors...

Amy used to pay for my Mach IIIs. She said they were worth it... Someone bought me an expensive electric not too long ago, so I feel obligated to used it, but when I'm done I'll go back to my Mach III. VW is certainly the cheapest of the German firms, and historically, my statements hold...

Oh yeah. Link.

Someone can make this news later. In a move that must obviously be meant to drive amazon and newegg out of business, the California State Legislature today passed a "net tax" bill requiring that sales tax be tacked on to all purchases in California. Add on 8.25% to everything newegg sells, and...

SuperMicro = Land Rover. It'll get you where you're going. Maybe not in style.

I was going to suggest AOpen for Ford. Utterly, utterly vanilla products. A lot of resellers in my area use AOpen as a step up from ECS or PC Chips. I'm happy to see them, if only because I know that I COULD be seeing ECS in the same place. Soyo = Dodge. Something that looks sporty and may in...

The only time I have ever been fishing, I was about eight years old. Probably within five minutes of casting my line, a gigantic snapper roared up out of the water about five feet from where I was standing - reminding me of nothing so much as the Rancor from Return of the Jedi. I did the only...

I have a slight preference for Promise over HPT but subjectively they seem to be about the same.

We've had severe thunderstorms for about the last 10 days. Infrastructure is generally really good, but one or two lightning strikes in the wrong place(s) and suddenly everything is hosed.

They don't. I have a bunch (well, four) of Epox boards with bad fuses on the PS/2 ports. I still use them, but it was annoying to have to replace a keyboard I like with some USB POS.

Don't feel bad. I spent most of the weekend without power, and working at businesses that had lost power as well. Amazing how much stuff can break when power flips on and off every five or ten minutes.

$325 USD. Good PSU, nice fans, lots of RAM. Minus a few bucks for the nvidia card, plus a few for Soltek...

Tyan = Volvo. Not as popular as the other guys. High quality, bulletproof but there's always some minor little thing that keeps it from being the best thing on the road. If Gigabyte is Toyota (and it is, e_dawg), Epox can only be Nissan - much adventurous and slightly less reliable, but still a...

From time to time I find it necessary to explain my distaste for a particular motherboard via analogy, usually to nontechnical people who are interested in purchasing a new PC. The analogy I end up repeating over and over goes: "That ECS motherboard in your quote from XXXXXX, if that were a...

Another budget. I set aside $100 for that out of the cost per PC. You're right that it's exceedingly difficult to make a PC that cheap, but I wouldn't be ashamed to own or to build a machine like that. We probably all would've been envious of that machine in, say, January of last year. The...

I ended up with... Biostar 7vmIQ (s3 graphics, NIC, sound) XP1800+ retail 40GB SP40 40x Liteon CD-RW 256MB of the ultra-generic stuff Intel HaM 56k (yup, I hafta shoehorn in a modem, too) floppy Premier (yuck!) case w/ 300W PSU HP DJ3320 USB Cable (costs $1, but the printer doesn't include it...

I'm pretty sure Half-Life was one of the first titles to support EAX, blake. Seemed to work pretty well for me.

I make no claim on Indiana. I spent the first half of my life in Illinois. And no, I don't know what a "Hoosier" is, either. For those that don't know, Indiana, as a state, was once largely governed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. It probably still is - that would explain local political...