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Antec NSK3300. They're lovely and silent. AOpen makes a clone of a Mac Mini. That is pretty damned small even if it's not a standard design.

My experiences working on Inspirons lead me to tell you this: Once you take it apart you will never get it to fit back the way it was. This is not a problem with Latitudes, or even with other laptops in general. Most Inspirons, though, seem to need a prying tool to aid in disassembly, and...

A while back, while I was cleaning out my trackball, one of the little gray balls that supports the big red trackball popped out and disappeared on my carpet. I couldn't find the damned thing, so I e-mailed Logitech. They sent me a little bag filled with the little gray balls I needed. Just...

I see maybe two or four DOA drives from Newegg in a given year, which is probably 1% rate for dead drives. As a guess, I probably lose another 1% of the drives I order from some kind of RMA-able failure in a year, no matter how much I baby the drives and how little they're used. In generaly, I...

Usually if you look, there are places that sell refurb Logitech/Microsoft input devices for substantial savings. Overstock.com and geeks.com are two places for USians to look. I've found my Logitech Trackball Marble rodents for $15 every time I've wanted to buy more.

I don't think there's any reason for anyone to have kids. There are enough people in the world already. There's not a whole lot of joy in my life. I do a lot of things because they are less bad than other things I could be doing; I'd rather build a PC than do dishes, for example, but I...

I bought a vehicle that, for its size and interior storage capacity, is fuel efficient. Almost all my driving is highway driving, and very often my car is completely filled with computers, parts or monitors. Under those circumstances, I believe I have the right car for my needs. I certainly...

2003 Honda Element.

Well I was confused on the AHCI issue, but I knew nvidia boards use some funny nonstandard USB scheme.

AHCI is just a newer USB controller standard. OHCI was used by pretty much everything except some Via and possibly nVidia motherboards, which used a different standard, called UHCI. Having an "unsupported" USB controller is most likely referring to the Windows install environment.

I distinctly recall someone putting a 486/66 in a freezer full of food and getting it up to something over 500MHz. If a freezer full of food can do that I'll bet some liquid nitrogen would get a Celeron 300A to at LEAST 3GHz.

I have seen fiber repairs done and it makes me glad that I chose a different path in life.

And on a completely different subject... I've had a lot of empty time lately. I don't really want to fill it all up with working but if I don't do that I just wind up sleeping or just being awake. I really don't know what else to do with myself. Don't want to go anywhere or do anything. I'm...

Assert control over the entire break room and the office with a window!

My ex showed me the power of the roll of $20 bills and a truck with some day laborers in it. I wish I knew about the day laborers before I spent a whole week trying to figure out drywall. Never having had any kind of shop class or any kind of mechanical aptitude, I am fairly certain that I'm...

Yes I do. Apple insists on re-creating its UI on Windows and as a result all of Apples apps are at the very best ill behaved, and at worst, completely broken and stupid. iTunes is the only app that looks and works like iTunes, and I've never seen a single program break in so many different...

Glad you're happy with it. I put one together and installed three hard disks. I mounted one drive using a set of heat sink mounting rails. My favorite touch with that whole chassis is the fact that there are channels for running every cable. I don't think it's wise to mount a monitor on top of...

I think so, yes.

Safari for Windows ignores your installed fonts and uses its own (Apple-created) instead. Also, it's supposed to be pretty piggy with RAM, even worse than Firefox is.

The tone generator I used to have came from BlackBox. I got tired of doing network wiring a long time ago; I swapped mine to an electrician in exchange for a free wiring job. No idea who made my punch down tool. It has a yellow handle. I do know that I can do a better job with a plastic...

It was religious. I didn't watch any more than needed to make that clear. My solution for getting house-things done. Find a place where a new subdivision is being built (or get up super early and go to the home depot parking lot where the day laborers live). Find the day laborers, Offer them...

Answer: Any web developer who has to check site compatibility with 20 different browsers and versions of browsers.

Whereas, with no one and nothing to look forward to, I'm ready to go at 31. Don't know how the rest of you do it.

Given that Safari is just a fork of Conq, forking and more forking seems like a distinct possibility.

... until you find out that Safari is built on a different codebase or something, just leading to yet another browser to test against.

The NSK2400 is very quiet. It's not an NSK3300, but it's less loud than an NSK4400 - which itself is still pretty quiet. The thermal design is actually astonishing. There's a thermal image of one in this month's Maximum PC and it is by far the coolest system they looked at. There's no reason to...

Yes. It isn't tall enough to support an "extreme" cooling system like that.

I am going to say this: I have worked in coal power plants and nuclear. I have seen the people who work in both. I have lived close to a coal plant. I'd take nuclear power any day. Particularly if that plant is a pebble-bed design.

The suggestion I almost always make when these things come up is to try Runtime Software's Get Data Back. You'll probably need the version for FAT.

I have more Socket 463s than anything else, but that's because I almost exclusively dealt with AMD chips for seven years or so.

Well, ATI is still making AGP video cards. nVidia gave up on them a while back. I don't think any of the high-number 7x00 series cards are available in AGP but IIRC there's an x1900 at least.

I have the same problem as Stereodude - heavy investment in PATA RAID cards, but I have enough ports of all types that it's not a big deal if the biggest drive I can attach is "only" 500GB. I can buy a lot of 500GB drives for what a 1TB model costs.

The little fuckers who are getting free computers, LCD monitors and printers plus a copy of Windows through the state program to provide computer training that my company is participating in, were bitching today because since the computers didn't come from a store and therefore must be made from...

Fixing MSI, when it breaks, is whole other worlds of nightmarish, for what it's worth. What's the app, time? I have TinyXP on a VM here someplace.

uda, How the fuck do you expect anyone to read your posts? I try. I really do. You're the only guy I know who can make three different and unrelated nouns the subject of a single sentence. It's like you just took a big, steaming dump at the end of this thread. Put down the crackpipe and try...

Are you dealing with Symantec? I bought licenses through an arm of GE Capital and it was basically a "how many do you need?"-deal.

Versions of Ghost that are actually Drive Image don't count. I know trying to make actual Ghost work with Dell and Compaq controllers (both, I think, LSI controllers OEM'd) and with ICP controllers was not fun or enjoyable.

Ghost tends to puke when dealing with real RAID controllers. Or at least that has been my experience.

You can if you have hardware that supports that sort of thing. I assure you that you aren't getting that shit at Best Buy.

ddrueding must be used to thinking by the acronym "S" being pronounced "ess", "an, would be right. If you pronounce SATA as "SAT@" (the @ is a schwa, the gutteral "uh" sound), then "a" would be correct. Isn't English fun?

They make rails and crap. Or you could just duct tape the drive to the side of your case. :D

time, have you tried enabling AAM on your Samsung drives? I had some issues with vibration on my Samsung drives on the PC that sits next to my bed; turning on the silent mode seemed to fix the issue for me. The PC is technically slower, but not in any way that I can subjectively tell.

Samsungs are less warm than Hitachis. They are also less loud.

So I've been ordering tons and tons and tons of stuff from Newegg lately. Parts for 100 complete systems, plus monitors and printers. This morning at 10:01 AM (basically, the moment Newegg opened) I got a call from Sangeeta, who told me that as a large-volume customer I am entitled to discounts...

I ignore the S*ny part and concentrate on the NEC part. A lot of LiteOn drives also have a S*ny logo on them. I'm not sure whether LiteOn made drives for S*ny or the other way around, but that name seems inescapable in optical drives. :(

I've been doing a computer-building class for the past few weeks. I got to watch a whole bunch of PCs with different optical drives load up XP and/or Vista a couple classes ago. The computers with NEC drives consistently finished the OS load before machines with LiteOn, Pioneer or Samsung...

Now I'm not... Newegg is rarely out of stock on a ppopular item for more than 1 or 2 days.

The NECs will be in stock Monday. I'm sure of that.

It's been my experience that C2D boards are fussy about RAM. I'd fully expect an ECS board to be less fussy in that one respect; ECS hardware is often paired with hardware that's marginal in other ways.

That... is not a pretty mental image. Also, the NEC/Optiarc SATA drives are several steps above Pioneer, Samsung and LiteOn drives. They are faster at reading CDs and DVDs and they make less noise.