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The word is that Intel put the kibosh on all products with an ATI chips as soon as news of the merger hit. Isn't everything with an integrated graphics chip and no exotic I/O options a "value platform?"

Tea, why does your elephant have green rubber boots? And how did you get them on the elephant? And who let you have an elephant in the first place?

Er... any chip ATI makes is going to be a better chip than Intel's integrated graphics options. I was under the impression that the ATI chips were used to provide a more mainstream integrated graphics option for Intel chips.

RE: The Fat project. The girl gained 23lbs and still looked pretty damned good to me. The guy gained the full 30lbs by the end and frankly I would not have noticed at all without them pointing it out. That's very interesting to me. RE: Basic Basic is still stupid. If I wanted to get a young...

Philistines. Both of you. :P

Fat32 and its filesize limits are ugly, ugly, ugly. I'd pass on that basis alone.

It would not surprise me in the least that Dell is selling the AMD systems with the full permission of Intel. The AMD baseline machine costs more, but has superficially similar specs to Dell Celerons. Dell can say that they provided AMD systems and no one wanted them, an industry press/PR win...

If you happen to wander back to the thread I made about recovering a very large RAID array (which I am too lazy to look for, since I am sleepy and still in bed), one of the things that I pointed out was that GDB had several "near miss" recoveries that were almost right, but not good enough to be...

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For what it's worth, there are times when other programs DO work. I've played with tools that are easier to use for recovering specific, purposefully deleted files FASTER than Get Data Back does, but given the number of plug-ins and options that it has (e.g. RAID recovery), it deserves all the...

It annoys me immensely that 80GB drives cost $8 less than 160GB drives. But I use 160GBs for home PCs and 250s if someone wants a larger drive. I can't think of a 320GB drive I'd consider appealing enough to buy. 400GB+ drives I've just been buying for myself.

I'm comfortable with any pointing device someone puts in front of me. Trackpads are fine. Joynipples are fine. Stylus and tablet arrangements are dandy. Mice are annoying for requiring desk space and actual arm movement, but whatever. I'll even sort of tolerate the bletcherous forefinger...

I actually found it pretty interesting that just about all the drives in the review performed better on one test than any of the rest. The Maxtors, Seagates, Raptors, Caviars and Deskstars all had at least one benchmark generally in their favor. I kind of wonder if those benchmarks would hold...

I'm a huge fan of Get Data Back from Runtime Software. The 30 day trial is fully functional and, I have to say, after PAYING a Tech License for Ontrack, it's worth the $100 they charge for a copy of GDB. But, uh, if time's PM doesn't mention "Get Data Back", you can PM me, too. :D

Yes. That is what I will be doing. However, knowing about other options is certainly not harmful. Given that I'm talking about a guy who just bought a $4,000 video camera, it might useful to mention it.

I miss web pages like that. 1995 was a much happier time on the World Wide Web.

One of my students is bringing me an HD camcorder Thursday, so this is extremely timely information.

A while back I mentioned that I set up a profile on okcupid.com. I've had essentially zero lucky with it. However, I told other people about it. To date, I know of at least five people who have at least found dates through it, after I told them about it. Usually I get a comment like "Oh man...

Why would it do that? Chances are, somewhere in your auto loan paperwork and/or the conditions of sale from GM, you probably agreed to waive your privacy rights.

If it's important enough, I've set up GPG for it. :P

Yes, I am interested in yours, Mark's and ddrueding's. I'm having a hard time assigning a value to the modules, though. I'd like to offer some kind of compensation above and beyond shipping but... Prices for "new" PC100 memory are insane. $25 for 256MB that'll go in a PC that's probably not...

I believe my privacy is a fundamental right. I also believe that, if you give someone a tool to violate privacy, it will be used. I'm absolutely positive that Onstar techs are, when they aren't terribly busy, listening in on other people's lives for their own amusement, let along what the...

Well, in this case the Tor services were being raided for a very legitimate reason: Tor is popular with kiddy porn-sharers. The Tor people don't want it any more than anyone else does, but, you know, build a secure private network and it's not just going to be used by anticensorship advocates in...

OK, my small business story. When I got out of college, I was all fired up and ready to go to work as one of the thousands of system administrators obviously needed by the .Com boom. I'd been trained as a programmer, but I'd lost my taste for it before I even got out of school. I tried to find...

Something I did not see in that article is whether the ES-model drives are designed to deal with additional heat as well as additional vibration. I'd guess that rubber mounting grommets are enough to curb vibration, but not having to add an extra fan (and the noise of an extra fan) would be a...

Onstar = vehicular spyware. They can turn it on whether you pay for it or not, and they can hear what you're talking about in the car. Law enforcement wiretaps Onstar all the time. Yeah, that's something I'd want.

Top 25 Censored/Unreported News Stories of 2006 I am particularly filled with disgust at "#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran" I hate this country. I hate it, hate it, hate it.

Well, except for threesomes and sailboats... /just kidding. //mostly.

I've posted before that I had a good experience with getting support from Gateway. My Gateway Laptop - one that I use pretty much exclusively for running projectors in classrooms and reading comics I've downloaded (one of the few good applications for a 16:9 display!) has had minor display...

Some boards cough*Asus*cough absolutely will not accept a BIOS flash from a CD-ROM. You might consider makign a BartPE CD/Thumb drive with the relevant Windows Flash utility on it.

MaxBurn - I thought I'd already paypal'd you for the board and RAM. Guess I forgot. Uh.. you've got cash?

Yes, I need them. How much do you have to sell them for?

The place where I work teaches lots of Rednecks, but not HTML.

Yeah. Mark made a funny. :(

With the SB Live, you have two choices: Microsoft's crippled driver or Creative's sucky one. Take your pick. Bleh. On the other hand, Clocker is right that it'll do what you want it to do. WRT Sound chips and OEMs and standards and stuff, there's WAY too much that can be customized to make many...

Starbucks has good Hot Chocolate and pecan squares!

OEM devices are the same thing as retail minus packaging. NEC or S*ny or Samsung or whichever company is not going to piss off a channel partner by putting substandard parts in bulk packaging. After all, they want to be the supplier on the next go-round as well. The only exception to this I'm...

More Microsoft Nonsense: Microsoft patches its DRM protection faster than fixing security issues.

I had good luck with LiteOns for a very long time. At the beginning of this year I got two bad batches of drives in a short period of time so I dropped them for NEC. I will also say that quality control on DVD burners in general is in the toilet.

Several of the ladies in my office use such services. I've seen 4x7s and the like and they pretty much look like photo prints. Just like Walgreens and the like, sometimes they screw up and misprint your stuff, but usually they only screw up one print instead of a whole roll of film.

Yay, 152 more messages! :)

FWIW, Comcast and AT&T (SBC) both have provisions buried in their terms of service regarding home routers and NAT. Needless to say, everyone ignores them. Just don't mention your router when you have to call their support hotline. I'm pretty sure it's just boilerplate language to justify cutting...

I hate to mention this again, but any chance there might be an increase in PMbox size, soonish?

This is very useful information Gilbo. Thank you for sharing it. Messing around with data recovery on a RAID array is pretty much a cold-sweat nightmare for any techie.

Bozo, Tannin, mubs, time and Buck, paugie and Groltz are all older-ish members. Clocker's somewhere between, as are Cougtek and Fushigi. Pradeep, myself and Handruin are all around the same age, a bit younger. ddrueding is the young 'un. I'd say the average age of members is probably closer to...

Nope. Merc built a computer that he actually plans to sell for a profit. Most of the time I make around $10 when I sell a computer.

That's why I keep buying projectors. However, it's damned hard to get any work done on a projected screen. They aren't bright enough for text, and it's hard to set up a desk space to really make using your 3 meter^2 screen so that it's actually all readable, anyway. Personally, I use the...

Well, I put the two cards into one machine that I built last night. It's going to be a very nice Core 2 Duo E6400 system. Probably the most pimped-out machine I've built in a couple years. Four 400GB drives in RAID10, 2GB DDR800 RAM, and those two 7900GS cards. Asus motherboard, but it's already...

Just to be slightly on-topic, Vista RC1 is finally on MSDN and Technet, for those who have access. Not that I'm expecting anything like an improvement. Folks who are interested in TinyXP, PM me.

It's a trade-off. Flash drives have zero seek time. As long as the chunk of data you want is smaller that the maximum DTR of the flash module - something that's highly likely - the flash drive wins.