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Bear with me as I pause to remember the 3 month period when the Matrox G100 was available... Sigh. What a great card that was. All the justificatons for buying Matrox in a card that cost maybe $30 new.

Funny story. Total urban legend. Check snopes.com if you don't believe me. I shook Neil Armstrong's hand once. He was unbelievably gracious for someone unique in the history of mankind .

Hard drives have tech support? :P Seriously, I remember having to call and pester Seagate about CHS data for drives I'd never seen back in the early 90s (I haven't been a tech as long as some, obviously), but, um, what else is there to ask about? They don't charge for RMA calls, do they?

I seem to recall something about a revolution of an oppressed people in 1776 against a lawful goverment that was fulfilling its obligations as a sovereign. Were the initial actions (The Boston Tea Party, for example) of our founding fathers terrorism? After the revolution we developed the...

$20ish. It's for a good cause. :)

At this point we come to a question of globalism. The French, Russians and Chinese are all respected entities in US diplomacy (I might also point out that they all have "the bomb"). Those motivated to acts of terror - in the US, in Israel, in Ireland, whereever - do so because their opinion is...

So you aren't willing to accept that 9-11 was predicated by certain misguided foreign- or at least blatantly pro-Israeli policies on the part of the US?

What's "a few", 'cause at $20, the number I've heard before, that's an insane premium.

Hey Doug, if you can wait a few days before buying anything, I'm going to be able to shake loose a couple of 1700s from my personal collection very shortly. Normally I'd use them to upgrade more of my stuff but since there's a need...

I've got a worse decision forthcoming: I have an IBM external RAID array with 10 4.3GB Barracudas in it. SCA drives, all, and everything is hotswappable. The cabinet only does U2W SCSI and for all that I only get 36GB of disk space. A prime piece of technology, worth a small fortune. Of...

Who the hell says King Shrub is "Enormously Popular" here. "Popular", maybe, but some of us have some sense, dammit. I suppose we could enact Godwin's Law at this point. I mentioned that before: Any time someone invokes "Hitler" or "Nazis" in online debate, rational argument is at an end...

EAP = external source for authentication, besides that which is built into your data link protocol. It's not a replacement for VPN-anything, but rather an enhancement for making sure you are who you say you are.

I'm pretty sure the city you're thinking of is on the Southwestern tip of the Illinois side of the line, AD. It was in the running as our national capital at one point. I've never crossed the Mississippi but I've been to Cairo.

WEP is a trivial hack. You should be looking at IPsec instead.

Seagate had that gigantic quarter-screen flash abomination on SR in early 2002. I think that's what you're remembering.

The, the connotations of your previous post suggested (apparently to me and to Fubar) an overinflation of the efforts of the US in the liberation of Europe in 1945 rather than the combination of the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe and the Truman Doctrine to halt the spread of Communism...

Actually, the reason that teflon sticks to the pan, but nothing sticks to teflon is kind of interesting... Teflon WON'T stick to anything, given its nature. But it WILL accumulate in places where there are broken surfaces (in trenches, if you will). So companies that make teflon products make...

Where's Tannin when we need him? I'm pretty sure most of the credit to winning the European part of World War II goes to the USSR also. St. Petersburg was the meat grinder that shat out Hitler's best. You know what they say about land wars in Asia.

I didn't pick this thread up until just now. Looks like you're really on to something Blake... Are you doing any experimentation with different types of foam?

I scrounge lease-returns, man. Nothin' like a $180 21" CRT. Most computer shops will have some, if you don't have a Comdisco or something nearby. Aren't there failed .coms in MA?

Like Coug said, best of all is to wait a bit for price drops, but Lite-On doesn't make any bad drives IMO, and that Speeze HSF is way, way quieter than the stock retail model. If it's a big deal, pay $5 or whatever to extend the warranty on your OEM CPU. Or buy the Speeze and the retail CPU. If...

Oh. And that Asus drive is noisy as all hell.

Good gods yes, 300W is enough. The Speeze HSF comes with a pad of grease. It's not artic silver, but it works for an initial application.

Why should we care what Europeans think. They're only our big, important allies (Great Britain and Australia of course, which might as well give up and become the 51st through 59th states). Or at least they're supposed to be, until they do something that we disagree with. 'cause, you know...

It's never been an issue before, and Buck posts in German all the time.

This is news? We have laws against actionable sorts of lying anyway. Libel, slander and fraud all still apply. For things that aren't actionable it probably doesn't make a difference. The Giver would probably say that the vast left-wing media conspiracy has been lying for years anyway. I'd...

I'll bet even our resident Norwegian would dispute that one. Can't you at least pretend to argue?

Hey. Think what you want. I'm just tired of every, single thing in the world being Iraq's fault. Iraq is evil. Fine. So is North Korea. So are Libya, Columbia and many of the former Soviet republics (some of which are dictatorships of "new europe" that are being ever-so-cheerfully accepted into...

Some Sony drives *do* have a different face plate. Thus my assumption that they're different drives, since BusLink and Cendyne don't bother with different ones, mostly.

Perhaps the Giver should consider that, since the vast majority of Europeans and a large percentage (I don't know about majority, though) of Americans are AGAINST THE WAR, they might have a valid point. Something else to consider: The country that receives the most military aid from the US is...

I/O Magic is I/O Magic. They're um... not that good. Good tray mechanism and they are quiet, but I installed a 52x model just yesterday, and using 48x rated media it took almost 5 minutes to make a data CD with the the included copy of NTI CD Maker v5. Cendyne alternates LiteOn and Sony drives...

The sad thing is, the $200 rig we're discussing is still a nice improvement over the 1.2GHz machine I know Doug has...

You install java? Voluntarily? I've been known to install it long enough to run housecall.antivirus.com and uninstall it when it finishes. Nothing quite so annoying as realizing the reason you can't cap video is the dumbas java spinning icon on the last web page you visited.

I think I saw something twisted about Object Oriented Cobol a while back. That's got to be at LEAST as distubing as x86 assembly. If only someone would OO-ify RPG... sigh. Big Iron forever!

Hey mubs, don't forget that GbE handles crossover automagically, so if you're just doing it point-to point, two NICs should set you back less than $90. I have two of my servers connected via a GbE link. They route between each other and two different VLANs, which is a lot happier than letting...

Once a week, newegg throws some refurb boards up on its site. I've seen $19 ECS K7S5As (thought $29 is more likely). A $20 motherboard that'll take that 1700 = a pretty decent video card, or maybe a doubling of RAM if you've got something old laying around to stick in that AGP slot. I've also...

Wow! A HSF that costs as much as the last CPU I bought. I knew it would come to this someday. j/k sorta For $40 is it at least quiet?

I used the Biostar board in a couple of super-cheap builds a couple of months ago. They were pain free but the onboard video was, well, obviously made by Trident. For your application I certainly wouldn't have any trouble recommending one. The problem with that nforce is that it says both...

Let's see... Going "as cheap as humanly possible", how about... Biostar M7VKQ ($51) - integrated LAN, Video (trident blade) $20 more would get you a basic nforce, if you swing that way. 256MB SDRAM - $25 (not from newegg) Tbird 1.1GHz ($35), Duron 1.3GHz ($48), XP 1700 ($55) Fan ($10ish)...

Good ones are more like $20. Lian Li makes some that don't suck as much. Again, the big problem here is that you probably won't buy all the ones you need, and if you don't buy a brand name you can remember, you'll never figure out which fly-by-night made yours. Heck, I've got a bunch of...

jtr, trust me when I say that cheap drive racks suck in ways you cannot imagine. All my lab PCs have a couple of them and I can tell you a few things about them. 1.) Metal racks are REALLY loud with a fan. 2. Plastic ones get drives REALLY hot, fan or no. 3.) Every time I open up a PC, I...

You forgot the "give it to Mercutio" option!

My bad. Thought I read "Enterrprise". Don't you know someone with a crappy computer that needs an update?

Give it to me! Actually, I think the best thing to do (besides giving it to me) is to drop it onto ebay. SOMEONE will find a use for it. If it was an IDE model, it'd be an easy decision - you probably know someone for whom ~20GB would be a big upgrade. With SCSI, ebay is, I think, the best...

That just means they didn't take the opportunity to screw it up. That is a good thing.

Sadly, Frys is a West Coast only thing. There's a Circuit City about 2 miles from my apartment, along with OfficeMax and OfficeDepot, so when I go out I usually stop in there before my expensive weekly stop at Borders. I watch ads pretty closely, so good deals are never that hard to find. This...

That depends entirely on if they suck or not. :) Some Compaq cards I've dealt with will do it as will the adaptecs we've been talking about. I've seen Intel and 3Com cards that won't. Of course, you can use any dual card as two or more seperate logical devices and effectively have several...

Circuit City. Every time I go in there I blow $100... sigh.

Did you try downloading the driver onto a new floppy disk?

Nifty Link, courtesy of google I couldn't get the actual page to load. Howell's description of his desired results sounds a lot like what I've got sitting around MY apartment, except my WU imap server isn't accessible to the outside world. I don't put much effort into keeping my openBSD box up...