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I thought about placement, but IMO if the northbridge needs a heatsink that big, maybe it's placed there to benefit from the fans in the powersupply. P4's already have pretty good thermal protection so maybe they DON'T need to be there.

Coincidently, The Truman Show uses excerpts from Powaqqatsi in its score... Honestly, Jenna Elfman (is there such a thing as an unattractive "Jenna"? I think not. I've never met an unattractive one, anyway) aside, I think Truman is the better film. Aside from the Philip Glass score, there's a...

I'm pretty sure the heatsink on the north bridge is bigger than the ZIF socket...

The issue is so much whether greenhouse gasses cause warming, but how much warming greenhouse gasses cause. We haven't had daily whole-planet weather data very long, and the fossil record isn't exectly a fine-grained tool for this kind of information. I don't think we can really judge long-term...

Tannin, movies are like animated banner ads, only they try to sell you things through product placement instead of sheer obnoxiousness (actually - and I'm ashamed to admit this - has anyone else seen the flash-based ads for "The Real Cancun"? I hit aintitcoolnews.com this afternoon on a machine...

Nope. One of my brothers is big on horror movies, and gave a screening of "Brain Dead". I haven't been able to find a copy of it or any of Jackson's other B-movie work (as opposed to "The Frighteners" which got wide theatrical release). Heat has great moments. Great opening, great intense...

Yes, there is. She talks to her kid at the babysitter's all the time... Honestly, seeing how men act around her makes me extremely ashamed of my gender. You can actually watch men's IQs drop.

What I tell my students is, to compare a Nwood Celeron to a P4 or XP+, cut the listed speed by about 25%. Some cursory tests between a Tbred 1700 and a Celeron 2.2 proved my point well enough (I had the two machines, running XP, create thumbs.db for a directory with 500MB or so of JPGs. The...

This is in direct contradiction to what I was told by WD Customer Service, in the particular case of my drive. Talked to a rep, talked to a manager. If I really cared I'd go a couple steps higher and try again, but frankly, having RMA'd some of those drives TWICE, I don't really want the...

She's 6'1", blonde, maybe 120lbs of long legs and tiny waist and frickin' gorgeous. It's not a problem. :D

Apparently, not in this case. The drive in question (pre-pre-RMA) was originally purchase at Sam's Club and came in a retail box, in August of 2001. It died in November, and was replaced with the 600BB. The length of warranty on the BB, I am told (by phone and WD's warranty validating-thing)...

Drive in question is a 600BB. I don't have the model number handy, and yes, it is literally being used to keep a bunch of dead parts in a tidy pile. It was manufactured in November 07 2002, and I received it as a replacement for a 600AB that I RMA'd in early December. The neat trick is, I've...

My office-mate Angie got 5 dead 3 injured on her first try.

Apparently, the warranty for my replacement drives is 90 days, mubs.

Nothing will bring back the 8(!) 600ABs I've RMAd so far this year.

There are good movies with Christopher Lambert? ENG373 at Purdue was "Science Fiction in Literature". At one point we watched Highlander (outside of class. Mostly we read Joseph Campbell and talked about archetypes and symbolism)... the instructor was a big fan. Unfortunately, a few of us had...

Fear thee not. A mere 45 posts to go and Tea will have a toast of her own.

Must... resist... urge... to... talk... about... pr0n... Did "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" get a mention yet? When "Pulp Fiction" was showing at the $1 theater while I was in college, I went to two showings a day, sometimes between classes. It was literally the cheapest way to kill...

Never mind the disparities between memory configuration and operating systems on the three test systems, what's important is that AMD's graph on AMD's home page is longer!

I think I scared Mickey away. Don't worry Mickey, you're family. If WD's ongoing suckiness is your fault, I'll only take some fingers. And a thumb. I promise. And maybe a kidney. But that's it. Ranting is best when it's done from the heart. Somehow I doubt that WD's senior management gives a...

Er, because he dies at the end, right?

Conversely, Raising Arizona is my favorite among the Coen Brothers movies. Nick Cage was also in "Moonstruck", another movie I find intensely amusing (not "best list" material, but enjoyable nonetheless).

honold, what's up with "The Big Lebowski"? Is it one of those movies you have to be stoned to enjoy, or did I just miss something? I only just saw it about 6 weeks ago, so I'm pretty sure I would've noticed any particular "quality" to that movie, but given that the single impression I have is...

*AB drives are like (and, if you could see underneath this text, there would be at least 20 minutes of really loud, profane utterances in combinations I assure you that you haven't heard before)-ing time bombs. 15 months then *poof*. Head crash/20% bad sectors/motor failure. Given the choice...

time, the cinematography in West Side Story was groundbreaking for its time. It was filmed on New York streets, not sets, and the opening shots moved from a bird's eye view of New York to the streets of the Jets and the Sharks. Technically, that was thought to be impossible at the time. West...

Anyone ever seen "Brazil"? I love the set direction in that movie, and of course one of the key plot points seems to be that technicians seem to be the only people in the world who have a clue what's going on... Terry Gilliam was going to do "Don Quixote", which is one of my favorite literary...

That's OK, it wouldn't've made my list. "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" would, though. Certainly a fun twist on Pygmalion. You'd be surprised to know that late 70s porn actually had things like props, budgets, actors who memorized dialog and sometimes upwards of 20 minutes between sex...

AotKT is on the rarified category of being "so bad it's good", the genre pioneered by Ed Wood. One of my personal favorites, "Vegas in Space" is in this category as well. Besides, you can't have a worst movie of all time without Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan or Richard...

Oh man, I could get in a lot of trouble.

There's going to be a time to switch to LCD? Do I *HAVE* to?

1. Rebates suck 2. WD is on my shit list again. Is it THAT hard to make a reliable 5400rpm drive??? I went *out of my way* to buy those things... 3. Samsung 120GB drives, $94 shipped, every day, from Econopc.com. They've been hovering under $100 for a couple of weeks now. Wanna how I can get to...

Here and here.

That's an overpriced 28.8 connection, O-Canadian-in-denial. Didja see how I worked that? Aren't I clever?

Aluminum foil hat? I hear tin foil works better, if you can find some, but looking at what the author had to say, I'd at least be a bit concerned, myself. Tough times have come when we get to the point that every machine has to have a firewall, just to keep our software from narc-ing on us.

Hard to buy IDE drives nowadays when warranty (or rather, the politics associated with having one) ends up being the deciding factor. :| newegg.com can't keep 80GB Samsung drives in stock, BTW.

What I meant to imply by the last post, for those who don't get it, is that I just built a machine that probably SHOULD have imposed some kind of special challenge to a builder, but didn't. Nine IDE drives, SCSI, overclocking, multiple NICs... Surely somewhere in there I should've had a recipie...

I now have a single PC with 800GB of disk space, not counting the two mirrored drives. And it's... commonplace. Pedestrian. The damn thing doesn't even make noise. It gave me no problems when I was building it (first new machine I've built for myself in easily two years. Mostly I do cascaded...

I cannot imagine a reason to drop support for that chipset. It has a high-quality WDM driver, and it's a high quality chipset.

Unfortunately, I think the only Linksys thing I've ever had fail - other than my AP with a bad (?) antenna, which went back to the store - is a single PCI NIC. Not worth the trouble to send in. I've never dealt with Linksys for RMA. I'd suggest the "ignorant consumer" approach. "There's this...

In quite possibly the most annoying decision ever, 2003 Server does not support the DEC Tulip (e.g. Linksys 10/100 and a bunch of other generics) NIC chipset. No idea why, but the first two machines I thought about moving to 2003 Server both had a Linksys card in them, and the setup program...

Bravo! That was a good one, Mark. I thought it had something to do with painting over the "s" key on Tea's keyboard, but I think the brain tumor story sounds a lot better.

RealTek stuff is perfectly serviceable, honold. Sound is acceptable, and I've had fewer problems with RTL8139As than recent 3Com cards. I managed to track down full sets of Intel, Agere, Conexant, PCTel and ESS WinModem drivers. I'm not going to bother with USR. At this point, USR is actually...

I assure you I had nothing to do with it.

Done. I'm a little weak on Intel motherboard stuff. AMD/Via boards all have more or less the same stuff (Realtek LAN/Audio, Via or NEC USB2...) but Intel can't seem to be bothered to be uniform.

Not in any browser I use. Or IE, even.

As long as there's a George Harrison I know everything will be OK. Hu- Wha- He is? Oh. Well that's it then. We're boned.

DX9 is required for ATI vidcap. Besides, gamer-types get their panties (gamers, your secret is safe with me ;) in a twist when they don't have the latest version of DirectX. Hard to track who is making current WinModem chips. Cirrus Became Ambient became Intel Rockwell became Conexant Motorola...

ATI Capture Driver for Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000, 9700 (3.27MB) Catalyst Win2K, XP (3.27MB) Catalyst for 98 (6.55MB) ATI Control Panel (4.66MB) Rage Fury Pro for 9x (12.3MB) Anyone else wonder why the stupid control panel app is bigger than the driver? Stuff for ATI 7x00, 8x00, 9x00 VidCap &...

Since I more-or-less have javascript turned off, nvidia's site doesn't function very well. Besides, I know someone else will link it for me. ;)

Maybe it's time for a "car" forum :|