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No there aren't but er, what were you doing with it anyway? Main benefit is to move your sound hardware out of the EMI-hellstorm that is your case. Secondary benefits are providing more receiver-like functions (extra inputs and outputs and digital decoding and such) and ease of placement for...

I mentioned them in passing; my audio needs are a little bit different from your average gamer, too. Yamaha and Creative both make decent-ish external receiver-like products that handle audio extremely well, but at the cost of USB-bus bandwidth. The Creative Extigy goes for $125 or so, and I...

I've got a couple at work, too, remember? The ripping/DVD reader limitations of the Sony represent a real deficiency, particularly since all my DVD burners are installed in USB2 enclosures and may not be paired with machines that have fast DVD drives (or other DVD drives at all, for that...

Tu Chiang is of course correctly translated as "generic graphics chipset whipping boy for satisfying unsatisfying requirement performance " Those Chinese really have an economy of words. :)

Er... why? OK. Backups, maybe. Why else? If it's a choice between a $300 drive and a $350 one, well, I've only made one DVD+RW anyway. I was actually hoping that someone would pipe up and say "oh yeah, it doesn't have the stupid 2x ripping limit" about the LiteOn. Hope it's not a complete...

Justdeals.com has a refurbed set of Logitech Z640s for $35. Those things are a bargain at $100, let alone under $50. Logitech makes great, inexpensive computer speakers. I swear they're good stuff. Honest. At the $300 price point, I'd start looking for something that's, no offense, more in...

LDW-400D. Anyone heard of it? LiteOn multi-mode DVD burner? Identical to the Sony? Is it? I noticed it on pricewatch today but haven't heard/read anything about it.

The sonata is a really nice case. I worked on one last week. I really appreciated the way the 3.5" drive bays are laid out in them, so that the jumpers n' stuff are visible. I might also mention that Newegg sells a Compucase full tower that is identical in every way to the Antec Performance...

That can't be SR. There was no mention of RAID0.

Also, notice the poll on newegg's front page. "Best Motherboard". At the moment, Asus and Abit are tied at about 35% of the vote each, which a bunch of other brands (Soltek, Epox, Gigabyte, Intel) in the 1 - 2% range. That's the kind of thing makes me fear for the future of humanity.

NewEgg's 1700s are rev B, and trust me, you want to wait for the WhisperRock. The FalconRock is a fairly average cooler that makes fairly average amounts of noise.

Well, finally got around to installing 2003 Server EE. All I can say is, they finally did something right. Everything is off by default. EVERYTHING. IE's security setting, for the first time ever, is "high", Graphics acceleration, sound (gotta reboot for that one). Other big pluses: Recognized...

Superbit = all pictures and sounds. No commentary, no second languages, no boring commercials (I was *shocked* the first time I saw a commercial on a DVD), no features you won't watch. Dolby Digital and DTS sound, and all the rest is high-bit-rate picture data. I bought Crouching Tiger...

[Mercutio is suddenly shifted to SLASHDOT MODE] MMmmmm... 100 times more pr0n. [Amazingly, Mercutio has "Excellent" karma on slashdot. Kind of scary, isn't it?] Gazing into my crystal ball I see 25TB hard drives for $300. Meanwhile, 4GB models continue to sell for $40 on ebay.

Alright, could someone with an Nforce2 please check the doohickey you didn't hook up to see if you have any kind of digital sound connectors?

Is that like how ATA133 is faster than ATA100? You'd have to have a pretty special combination of drives to saturate SATA/150. And a better-than-PCI data bus, too.

Speaking of rendering grain, has anyone else seen a SuperBit DVD yet?

3000Mpbs = 375MB/s. Exactly how many drives can I attach to one of these? That will be really spiffy if each chip supports say, 8 drives. No? How about a new size limit? Still 48-bit? So what's the point?

I didn't realize they were still being made. In point of fact. I've already got a couple of them (both of which are being used). Live Drives are stupid. It's one thing to put a headphone connector and a line in on the front of a PC, maybe even a joystick port or TOSLink in, but why the other...

An nvidia product getting too hot. There's a shocker. I kinda thought Clocker had an innovative solution. Does your nforce2 have digital in/outputs for sound?

I guess the neighborhood where I live isn't so bad after all.

Radeon 7000 = Radeon VE. The 7500 DDR is only 7x00 model that can clearly best all the earlier "Radeon"-type cards/

That would work. Got anything with a mini headphone jack (Merc says, noticing that his clock radio has one). 1973. Wow. That's before I was born.

So I'm going to go ahead and call that a "no". Time for an Extigy or something.

Enable SP/DIF and Line-In goes away, even though they're different connectors. Grumble Grumble. Are there any mainstream sound cards that supports digital in and out AND leave the line-in functional? Do the nforce2 boards have functional (native) digital in/out connectors? SB xyz Platinums...

So, um, you know that any old WAV, MP3 or WMA file can be used to make an audio CD, right? There are some good (classical) MP3s at http://calligaris.carisch.it/scalen/piaen.htm

I remember listening to a couple of math majors in my CS classes complaining that "prove 2" was an obscenely difficult thing to do. It took Stephen Hawking to prove that time moves forward. Science doesn't work if everything is assumed. Sometimes the assumptions have to be proven, too.

I built a Linux box that runs a POS (point of sale) app and a bunch of serial terminals for a local chain of tire stores that's been running constantly for about four years now. No, it's not connected to the internet. And of course, if that's impressive, I've seen Netware 3 machines working on...

Nope. =~ is used for regexp string comparison.

That's the claim that's been made by Be employees, Blake. It probably is true, but who could tell? The agreements are secret anyway.

I've heard, anecdotally, of Maxtor exchanging ball-bearing 740Xs for FDB; literally just because someone didn't like the pitch of the noise their drive was making. This was precrash at SR. Don't know if that's true, but it's a far cry from "won't replace because of bad sectors".

Real MGA was also called "Hercules" graphics. It was great technology; it took VGA for MGA to finally be exceeded in resolution.

I didn't. I'll try for another later. The Iopener does seem to be the one to get, just because of that 10" screen.

Wasn't me complaining about Maxtor, it was MARK. I've never had a Maxtor drive fail, and the only time I've used their warranty service was for a dead quantum AS. I had one arrive DOA, but that went back to the vendor. Maxtor drives are perfectly reliable as far as I'm concerned. I would...

In common usage, we talk about "VGA displays" often enough. I reject your nitpicking. Doug, all the themes on that site are ugly. None of them are mono green on black with monospaced fonts.

Just put in for an I-Opener on ebay. $25 isn't bad for a 10" LCD, right? If I win I'll scarf up a ~4GB laptop disk, USB-ethernet device and some extra RAM, then see what I can do with it.

Sounds like a fun project to me! The one drawback to all of the above would be the lack of an ethernet port. Most of those appliances had a builtin modem, and I know USB-ethernet adapters are available, but it's too bad nobody put it in to begin with.

I have fond memories of my MGA display. :)

I didn't much like SR when it first went to phpBB, either. I didn't like the buttons or color scheme. I got over it. I don't think anyone will even notice in a month. I'm still waiting for someone to give me a monochrome green on black theme with a nice monospace font. That's what I really...

About damn time. Now the G550 will finally drop to a reasonable price. I hope. No note on a video-in model. Hopefully Matrox will continue its pro video-editing line and perhaps release another rainbow-runner for enthusiasts.

WinAce is free for noncommercial use. I think.

ISA and RS232 are among the very few bits of a "modern" computer that are really, deeply hackable. You have to pay Intel a big wad of money to get the full specifications for PCI (or maybe to produce the cards?), but anyone with fair-to-middling working knowledge of electronics can hack together...

Just a note to express my continued refusal to post a picture. Ask Fushigi what I look like if you really need to know.

Bleh. I'm not into the XP-lookin' skin.

It DOES have onboard video, SD.

Ummm. I don't think "Ew" exactly carries the full weight of my sentiments, but it's a good start.

A Dell P90 probably doesn't have USB, and you have to open the machine up to put in a card. Might as well grab the hard drive while you're in there... F&STW makes a "client disk" that can be installed on previous versions of Windows, Mr. Platform sir. I'd probably charge $75 or so for a...

He wants to do 125 floppies, and that's cool, but it looks to me like he'd max out his USB1.1 interface at around 30 2x drives. He's going to need to duplex across several controllers to get the full power of his 125 drive RAID. If performance scales linearly, at 125 drives he'd be looking at...

Yes, from old, crappy laptop to new, less crappy laptop. It was fairly indiscriminant about what it copied, ending up with about 2GB worth of stuff on a 4GB drive, and the transfer was VERY SLOW, once I got the laplink cable to work the way it's suppposed to. How slow? I think I started the...

Jan, The drive that started this was not OEM.