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It certainly doesn't hurt. It's more like 210 now though.

Yup!

Speaking of Ebay, my bedroom set of Kef Q-series probably only cost me $600 to put together. I had to spend $100 to replace a driver on one of them but if I had paid retail or "hi-fi store used" that probably would have been $3000 worth of speakers.

Another Integra? No probably not. I'll probably look at Denon, Onkyo, Pioneer Elite and some other things are in the low-ish four figure range though. That might include an Integra, but I doubt it. I'm not terribly worried about getting a gazillion watts per channel since I don't typically...

Someone didn't know how to work disk imaging software?

I'm fairly convinced at this point that pirates always have the moral high ground in this debate. Game companies other than maybe Stardock tend to be pretty goddamned evil.

I built a dozen or so mITX boxes that actually do use a standard ATX power supply. I have no ideal who made them; I bought them from my local distributor the receipt just says "Generic." They're effectively the same size as a Shuttle SFF shoebox.

I think I just might update the receiver in my living room. I bet having HDMI is nice.

Google, in a general display of awesome, has implemented browser-based Angry Birds for people who really want to waste their time and have their computer make lots of oink-oink noises. It loads in Firefox and Chrome. I did not check suckier browsers. It seems a lot easier when I'm not using my...

As I recall you used to swear by Harmon Kardon, but that was apparently back when you cared about music. When I'm home there's always music on, to the point where I would rather sit in a 95 F apartment with no fans on than try to listen to my music with fans and AC. Which is pretty much May...

As I recall it's most useful if you use it on new installs. I'm not actually sure how helpful moving My Documents and My Images are since I hardly ever write data there to begin with, but I know a bunch of crap gets written to a user's temp folders on an ongoing basis no matter what. There are...

Well I would kind of like to know stuff about it since I could still send the Asus board back.

My brother is an insane audiophile and has been since he was in college. He gave me some pointers based on his experiences and then I disregarded half of it because I know he's an idiot, but since music is very important to me and I thought it very likely that I wouldn't be able to be...

One of the great frustrations I have is that everything in the world of Exchange costs a ton of money, especially antispam solutions. It was easier and more efficient for me to get a cheap computer with Linux and Spamassassin and route mail through that than to get a worthwhile mail filter for...

Things that are not Outlook most often store E-mail as plain text. Plain text that is easy to re-format if need be, which can be directly imported into other non-retarded clients and which can be recovered quite easily if some portion of the file gets munched for some reason. What good does...

mITX scares me more than a little bit. Decent PSUs wind up costing as much as a motherboard and Atom CPU, and then there's heat to consider for non-Atom systems. I wish I could take SFF stuff more seriously but it's still a lot easier to get good, cheap desktop parts.

Is it out of bounds to suggest a different mouse to see if there's something weird about the Microsoft one? There should be a pointer settings tool in your GUI someplace, or a way to install it if it's been overlooked.

I don't have time for a full reply but I'd like to say a couple things: 1. I'm not suggesting that your experience with Outlook is invalid, Handy, but I presume that your employer has a staff, possibly a small army, of people whose job it is to insure that E-mail conforms to expectations in a...

At a bare minimum, use Bcc to specify your recipients!

I signed up for a random site because it was the only way to complain about some commercial software one of my customers uses. Now I get spam from every forum hosted on that site. And it's all in Italian. And some of it doesn't have unsubscribe links. That's just about the only spam that ever...

It's not nearly so small when you're driving through it.

That's the Windows support way. It's disposable, so just start over. In the case out MS Outlook, part of the problem is complexity, but the standard fixes amount to 1. Save the .pst 2. Delete the Outlook Profile 3. Re-create the profile and change all the user's settings back to what they were...

It's a subjective matter, but no one here agrees with you. My opinion is that Klipsch is great at being loud and has no other redeeming characteristics.

I have a feeling that I can do better than that for an Ultimate license. :P

OCZ: It takes us six business days to send out the email soliciting information so we can start the RMA process if you do it through our official web site, but don't worry, because you can just contact us on a forum! Nice.

Kotaku had a long-format Q&A session with one of the creators of Portal today. It's an hour and a half long.

I probably do have plenty of room, but there are oversized coolers and then there are OVERSIZED coolers. I think I'd stop at the 120mm fans just because those are the biggest, easily replaceable fans I'm aware of.

It's cute that you think that.

I know my heat sink is on properly and I didn't molest the heat pad prior to installation, but that's a distinct issue from the noise level anyway. I'm thinking I might go with a Scythe Kabuto. I think I have to dust the inside of my case less often when I have a CPU fan that mounts horizontally.

So... vastly over-rated bass at the expense of any sense of mid- or high-pitched sounds? Thor was shot in 2D. All the 3D effects were added after the fact.

I suspect at this point that you're boned, but maybe you can get some advice from OCZ. And I almost kept a straight face when I typed that.

If you're going to leave a 30GB file alone, why not just leave the data as a .MT2S? They're playable in VLC if you have AnyDVD installed.

Maybe the slow-motion fully nude re-enactment of the best part of Black Swan with Kat Dennings in the Mila Kunis role will be an extra on the Blu-Ray. In 3D.

I have metric shitloads of experience fixing Outlook. From my perspective as an Admin/Tech, Outlook causes more problems than it solves. There's value in being able to set up a user profile in such a way that it already includes E-mail configuration and I won't dispute that, but I've fixed too...

I need to figure out what I want to do about cooling my 2600k. I'm given to understand that they should be cooler than previous i7s, but mine seems to have stabilized at about 41C at idle, and I'm not doing any overclocking on it yet.

Maybe you should look at Event Viewer instead?

Fixing almost every normal problem with Outlook comes not from mucking around with the registry, but deleting and recreating a user's Outlook Profile, and/or doing database maintenance on their .PST.

You don't think it would have any sort of deleterious effect on the electronic systems we depend on every day?

It's hard for me to say that the ML03 is worth $60 without a PSU. At that point, it's really no different from an Antec case in terms of price, and I'm not getting an Antec PSU for ~$30. This is why I generally say screw it and buy an Antec case when I have $80+ in the budget for a case.

I installed my new 2600k today. A few quick thoughts: 1. Asus has a GUI BIOS that I found more than a little annoying. Award and Phoenix have been the same for years and there's no reason to show me moronic little gauges. 2. The 2600k has a tiny, weak fan and average temperatures on my 2600k...

That's part of Norse Mythology, actually. And the comics. Did you not watch the little after the movie clip?

It tells me that it has incomplete items in its queue if I restart it after a crash.

Not being shielded from the full spectrum of solar radiation for some period of time would pretty much suck, Coug.

There was one sentence referencing Tony Stark and one oblique reference to the Hulk. And maybe 30 seconds of screen time for Hawkeye that was kind of edited in. I'll say it again: Loki was surprisingly sympathetic character given how much of a bastard he is in the comics. I suspect that this...

The problem disappears for data files created in Office 2003, actually.

I don't remember. I haven't had one die in a while.

I haven't had any problem with the Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks Applet. What is the basis for your objection?

The objection I have to the Minuet is the nonstandard power supply. They did that on the NSK3400, too and as a result I have to track down a particular Silverstone PSU every time one of my classroom systems craps out.

Go to Control Panel > Mail. Go to Data Files. Create a new data file. Make it sure you pick whatever the newest kind of .pst file. Copy everything into the new file within outlook. Tell your customer to delete old mail and move old crap to archive files.

Are you sure Handbrake didn't just crash before it finished? That does happen sometimes.