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Why the fuck would you reinstall Mcafee?

nVidia lies and anally rapes puppies. I know this without needing any kind of chart at all. Actually, that would not be a chart I'd want to look at anyway. But I'll bet someone at nVidia would.

Act is just about the biggest piece of shit I've dealt with in the last five years. The was a good version, apparently, but it was released years ago, before it was owned by Symantec or... whoever owns it now. The current version runs visibly slower on a 3.8GHz P4 than the one from two releases...

Handy upgraded his PC and actually spent his own money on computer hardware. We have failed him. Sniff. :D

It's good to know that it's possible for at least one of the chronically depressed, socially awkward techies who comes here... Try okcupid.com. Everyone who isn't me seems to have good luck with it.

Now if only some Korean/Japanese LCD manufacturer will remove his head from his rectum long enough to put a 24" 4:3 LCD on the market...

Wouldn't that depend on the character encoding used by your browser and whether or not you had the relevant fonts and/or input locales set up in your OS? I mean, a text box is a text box, and all you can do is type in it. What you see is going to depend on the other stuff.

The 6100-based onboard video seems to make more color banding when upscaling video, in my opinion. I can't really say anything about fonts, since the only thing I have 6100s connected to are old 17" monitors. Depending on usage, a 3700 or 3800 is could very well feel more like an upgrade than a...

Almost as bad as rediculous or they're/their or its/it's or wierd or... Gah. Can't type any more of them. Head hurting.

Most video apps seem to be threaded applications. I don't know if that's because of the applications themselves or if some Windows libraries related to video processing use/require use of multiple threads. Virtualdub, Nero Vision and Ulead Moviefactory are all dramatically faster with a second...

Gee, punish people for using their internet-enabled software. That sounds like a great idea to me.

Firefox, at least, has a prefetch feature that starts downloading data from links in the active page so that subsequent clicks load faster. If the prefetch is not turned off, that looks exactly, to a corporate proxy server, like the user clicked on the link and went to the NSFW location. Which...

As a responsible tech, you HAVE to teach people how to deal with Spyware issues. You can't just reformat constantly. That's even more annoying that the occasional trip to safe mode. I've known users who could re-infect a system with spyware to the point of unusability in as little as 10...

As long as we're all in agreement on IE...

You linked to pictures of Sung-Hi Lee. That got you modded. I link to NSFW things sometimes, but generally not images or movies. The times I have, I've been modded too. I can do whatever I want on the internet. Maybe you can too, but some of the other folks who visit are working in places where...

Adaware is still helpful, though Spybot has certainly improved a lot more quickly. I've making do with a mix of tools including just about everything that one can download from merijn.org. Spybot does still seem to do the most good. I've tried Spy Sweeper and Ewido, but the fact that neither...

Consoles also have suck-ass controllers, horrid UIs in-game, almost no in-game modding and grow stagnant very, very quickly. Plus, there's the god-awful squidmonster and snot bubble Japanese influences on everything.

This just goes to show that no good comes of nVidia video cards, ever. However... I wonder if the reason MSI is making a show of this is that someone at *MSI* violated an NDA to get their cards on the market. I had the couple that I had for about two weeks before the "official release date" and...

Lunar, what are you doing using IE? Not that I don't 100% agree with the non-IE parts of your comment.

Merc is about to fall asleep but... Intel's HD audio is in theory a 5.1 or 7.1 setup that can deliver ProLogic II to a set of surround speakers. There does not seem to be any advantage in audio quality for stereo. My experience with Intel-based boards is almost entirely midrange boards which...

I am "mercutio" on AllPeers. I'll be keeping some >100MB porn clips, some classical music and some comic book scans on my share list for the forseeable future.

Two Posts about Zombies in one day! A few years ago, Max Brooks (son of Mel Brooks) released a book called The Zombie Survival Guide, a detailed and surprisingly serious manual that detailed what to do in the event of a zombie apocalypse. It's a novelty book, sure, but it's true to its literary...

The guys in my comics shop had an Xbox360 and were playing Dead Rising last night when I was there. I have never been jealous of a console title before. Why, oh why is there not a Zombies-trapped-in-a-shopping-mall game for PCs?

peet, it's a process of elimination. You just need to keep trying different options. Eventually you'll hit the right one. There's not much else I can say than that.

And if you get FIOS, they won't let you do anything with it... I'm still stunned by a $400/month T1. The last one I priced was $600 + equipment rental.

Yes, WD is very good at handling RMAs. Which it should be, given the staggering amount of practice it has. Buying WD is flatly unethical. Whether a single drive or the whole damned company. Has a drive company merger EVER gone well?

The first thing I thought when I saw the price difference is "I wonder what is wrong with it?" I can certainly understand someone being a motivated seller. Maybe that's the thing you should indicate. You might also want to add a VIN number. I used Carfax before I bought my Element, and that's...

You say weird, I say unholy. Same difference.

I've read that stock, non-overclocked Core 2 Duos will run with the retail heat sink and no fan without incident. Why is this Abit/Asus-recommending idiot using a Pentium D?

We had a thead about it a few months ago. It is just a rumor. Hopefully, an untrue rumor. Of course, so was the AMD/ATI merger, until it happened.

Over the weekend I found a CD of classical music composed specifically for performance on a theramin. I am getting a kick out of it, even though it all sounds like it came out of an Ed Wood feature.

Why are you starting your sale price for less than blue book value?

Those guys have been out there since the late 90s, anyway. Abit makes a line of motherboards endorsed by "Fatal1ty", who is some kind of FPS-playing person. Thresh, god of Quake, parleyed his success into his own gaming web site, firingsquad.com, which is still a fairly popular site. Stevie...

The idea of having a fast-ish coprocessor with a builtin Linux system has a certain amount of appeal. I don't know if it's $300 worth of appeal, but given a decent amount of storage I could see setting up a transparent proxy - something that might ACTUALLY make your internet connection faster -...

Oh? If I go look at the dozen or so faxed pages sitting on the fax machine down the hall I see... Carribean Vacation Offer Surplus Office Equipment sale Drugs from Canada Another vacation offer Florida Timeshare Condominiums Weekly Specials from Local Restaurant Ad for a new photocopy machine...

I still have a Honeywell mouse with feet. I pull it out to show my students. The damned thing refuses to die, and much like an optical, it can be used on any surface.

Dan's Data reviewed a SATA/IDE to USB bridge a few months ago. I've wanted one ever since. I have a couple IDE to USB bridges. Even those (without SATA support) are kind of expensive. I wish they were cheaper.

Start here. People still send faxes?

Selfishness? Why not give them some respect for saying "I am not at a point in my life where I can devote 18 years to the care of a child?" A woman having an abortion is making a decision to be responsible for her life. Conservatives like the idea of being inflicted with pregnancy as a...

You should only have ONE boot.ini file on your machine. One. Not Two. You make the change in one place - whichever drive your computer is configured to boot from. Usually that means your primary master IDE drive. If you copied and pasted the contents of your boot.ini file, there is at least...

I have one in my office that I plug USB drives in to from time to time. I have a couple spare ones that I bought to be APs (they're lousy for that!), where the storage component was an incidental add-on. They work with drives formatted with NTFS, ext2 and FAT32, which is pretty much everything...

I was planning to build an AM2 system this afternoon, but Newegg apparently shipped me straight-DDR instead of the 240-pin stuff. I called around. The local shops are still selling 939. The closest place with DDR2 is almost 40 miles away. Several places, I asked if they sell anything Intel, and...

This is the router I mentioned earlier. Wireless range on the stupid thing is about 10 feet, but it's always nice to have more switch ports and I've plugged 32MB thumb drives as well as 250GB hard disks into them.

The Sil device isn't going to be integrated into the motherboard, so it'll more than likely be multi(2)disk(0)rdisk(0 or 1)partition(1) multi(0) would be the Primary IDE channel, multi(1) would be the secondary IDE channel multi(2) will be for whatever additional disk controller he has. rdisk...

There is strong nerd backlash from EVERY new version of Windows. People get tired of hearing it. It is expected. They aren't going to listen, and they are going to expect the same jump as the one they had from Win98/ME to XP. It does not matter what we as techies say. Idiots will buy it just...

Neatgear used to make a Home Router that supported 2 USB drives via standard windows file sharing. It sucked as an AP, but it's not a bad file server.

This is a fun thread on Slashdot about doing home computer service.

Other than Industry Press Wankers, I've yet to see anyone make ANY positive and compelling statements about migrating to Vista. You guys still need more reasons?

A big problem I have with low-end NAS hardware. I haven't found any hardware yet that will remember its power state after an outage. I hate that. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion. I am posting this because 1. I see RWIndiana is browsing the site at the moment. :P 2. I am not at a computer where I could easily read it entirely at the moment and 3. It seems like a very interesting treatment of a particular topic: What happens when...