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PCI cards face upside down so that a PCI card can share a slot with an ISA card that faces up. ... and we've done it that way ever since. And I have a WORSE story about an ISA graphics card, a PCI slot and some machine tools. Hammers? Pffft!

Million and one creative ways to speed up your crappy modem connection. First of all, I live in a hell that will send cold shivers down your spine: 14.4. 19.2 if the phase of the moon is right and I sacrifice a goat or something. Now, to get to a speed that isn't considered unlawful under the...

I'd just like to contribute by saying that the piece of human filth who decided to put fans on northbridges needs to be removed from the no-doubt shallow end of the gene pool he's presently muddying. Was that bitter enough? No, probably not, but I somehow doubt anyone will disagree with the...

This is the kind of crap that makes me dislike Shuttle.

The AK32A has been around for at least six months. I've had it on my price lists that long.

I bought the board in question as a mistake; it doesn't have SDRAM slots, physically it looks a lot like an Epox 8KHA or any other vanilla KT266-based board, but it says Spacewalker on the heat sink and my invoice lists it as an AK32A. It's definitely *not* an AK32L. The retail packaging is of...

Litter as in "gold-encrusted stretcher carried over the shoulders of a bunch of strapping men". Preferred mode of transport for evil overlords everwhere. ;)

I've put Palamino 2.2s under those things. They've been just fine. I think one will handle a Duron 1.1.

Litter? Rickshaw? Chariot? Horseback? Two-Person Bicycle? Carriage? Motorcycle & sidecar? Razor Scooter? Rollerskates? Sailboat? (something of a trick if there's no water between here and there). Skydiving? You can get non-traditional Limos, if that's what you're in to. There's a guy in my...

Our support of Israel isn't "mindless". The problem is there's a couple of lines in the Bible about the state of Israel needing to exist for the Christian Rapture to occur, and there's a lot of nutjobs - large swathes of the Republican party - who believe that crap. There's something really...

That's funny, 'cause I've got one right here and it's 184-pin only. The AK32L is the only one with SDRAM sockets.

Kazaalite. Search for ebooks. When you find one you like (my search found three), buy it.

The AK32A doesn't have 168pin DIMM slots on it, Blake. That doesn't do Clocker any good.

The one will do just fine.

Owing to a couple of years of being forced to listen to a particularly belligerent neighbor's Wu Tangy goodness (that's a joke, people!), I sort-of got that, but the one I was referring to is the homophobic wanna-be M&M. Or Vanilla Ice. Whichever.[1] [1] Now I'm making jokes about rap. It's...

My Dell is OK. It'd probably moan about it quite a bit if I'd had to pay more than $200 for it, though. Are P4/2.4s all supposed to be slugs? Or is it just mine?

Perhaps we should start a club...

There won't particularly be a performance loss. He's on SDRAM already, and DDR doesn't really come into its own until you hit a 133MHz bus.

Also Abit. Abit also needs to apologize for being born. And AOL. And Barbera Bush, for marrying George I. George I should never have known the touch of a woman. And I use that term only technically, 'cause I've seen defensive linemen that look more feminine.[1] While I'm at it: Both Jerry...

Speaking of Micropolis... I found a 4.3GB 50-pin drive in my goodybox this weekend that appears to still work. It holds data and doesn't have bad sectors anyway. It's also louder than some entire computers I have, by itself. I'm still waiting for nvidia and Bush to apologize for being born.

You need a Shuttle AK32L. KT266 - some doubt as to the "A", but it's got DDR and SDRAM support and it can handle a 2000+ chip just fine. Plus they're all of $60 new. I've got one kicking around in a Linux box and thusfar it's been excellent, even with 1GB of SDRAM (2x 512).

Spoken like someone who has never upgraded the CPU in his Latitude. ;)

*I'M* crazy? None of my PCs have bootprints (not much of a feat since I'm pretty sure I don't own any boots) on them, and Wordperfect certainly does work well under Linux.

Centrino falls into the "it'd be nice, but..." category for me. Wireless + low power + reasonably fast ultraportables are undoubtedly good things, but I'd rather someone make a laptop drive that's as fast as a desktop's. That's a more interesting product.

Someone clearly hasn't driven enough in snow.

Tea, I find you guilty of presupposing Shrub has brains to begin with. Iraq is a secular state in the Arab world. There aren't many of those, and given bin Laden's predilection to fundamentalism and what I've read on the subject, I don't think Saddam would be bestest pals with bin Laden...

Of course, keyboard shortcuts are also a good choice. Tried gestures. Didn't like them. Went back to ALT-leftarrow.

WordPerfect 2000 for Linux behaves just like the Windows version, far as I can tell. I don't know if it's still available for download, unfortunately.

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Moz has gestures. You can get them from mozdev.org. Not that I can see why anyone would want them.

I put the disk from my 9700 in a machine with a 7500AIW and that worked, even the DVD upgrade. I upgraded my 8500DV to everything else but DVD, and that worked, too.

I've got the update in-hand. I'll try it on some older cards tonight. I think the only thing that keeps this update from working is DVD support. At least, if I'm reading the site correctly.

Huh? 7.1 on a Rage is bug-free. It's missing a single feature (the one-touch record) that 7.5 - 7.7 have, and it's missing support for skins. MMC 7.5 was buggy, but it was designed for a different series of cards, and the bugs were worked out quickly. I can't think of a time I've had a problem...

I wouldn't go whining about HEC, either. They're not loud at all and reliability has been very good.

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They're loud. Loud in a "loud" sort of way. Loud enough that midrange SCSI disks aren't particularly annoying. At least, the ones in my SuperMicro tower cases are.

Yes, and at one point I had a neighbor who used his apartment to deal rock. He had a REALLY obvious steel door and frame put in, and it's still there, two tenents later. Somehow I'm not worried about my little wires.

Let's just say storage needs border on extreme.

I'd go with Sparkle. They're loud but they don't much. :)

Just to be clear: I was booting off the crappy 6GB IDE disk in my laptop; I don't know of any external devices that you can boot off of only notebook PCs, either.

As a moderator, I think you're pushing it a little, Mr. Fubar. No one joke in particular, I just think you should tone things down a bit.

Well, as long as we don't find a need for inline images for all this.

My happy little Adaptec card seems to have helped my situation immensely. I shaved about a minute off login times on my clients by having that 2nd port...

That is correct, sir.

1.) 80 to 68pin adaptors are a serious PITA, or at least I haven't found them to work well. 2.) Compaq-labelled drives usually have "weirdo Compaq drive BIOSes", too.

Personally I think a P4 with a tricked-out heat sink would be the worst. Or maybe one of those Zalman sharkfin jobs that has the 120mm fan on the end. Ouch!

Yes, mine was a 75GB model. I've gotten substantially better drives from RMA a couple of times, but IMO this was not one of them.

I'd weep for joy if I could get Samsung's drive tools...

I got an 80GB 180GXP for my 75GXP, but mine was refurbed.

Just to spoil things for everyone, the two chipsets might as well be identical in terms of performance. The nforce2 "wins" more comparisons but usually a tiny fraction of a margin. KT400A will be cheaper, performs just as well. Makes the decision easy for me.