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Current boards: I imagine the Gigabyte 7VAX (P) deserves a mention. Probably also one of the nforce2 mainstays, like the Epox 8RDA or the Abit NF7. Others? Tannin like Albatron. P4s? No idea. Current drives: Samsung Spin40s and 80s (120s and 160s, too, but probably not for Tannin's customers)...

Anyone who invokes He Who Sits Dreaming Beneath the Waves in the name of humor is a doing the world a favor.

The machine in question is an XP2500 with 512MB RAM running 2000 Server. Perhaps because I'm not a regular IE user, it takes longer to start up the first time. Firebird loads more or less instantly (maybe 1 second delay). IE definitely does not, requiring about 8 seconds before the window is...

Most of my complaints have at least a partial solution in the Advanced Prefs tab. It's just... just very organized. Haven't found a setting to turn off autocomplete, either. Firebird starts faster than IE on the computer I'm using right now, by probably 3 - 5 seconds.

Tannin's web site is undoubtedly a fantastically useful place. I visit there fairly regularly and send others there even more regularly. Still, it's been a year since the last update (Sept. 7, 2002). Since summer is coming in Ballarat, we know no one is going to update it until, oh, March or...

If I could keep milk - which I can't, it always gets sour too quickly for my tastes, I'd eat granola or possibly "Peanut Butter Crunch". How do you make pancakes, anyway?

It's better now @ 1k Did you remember to post the original where the othe mods could see it?

I'm trying to contain my annoyance with Firebird right now, too. I have similar problems with Moz 1.4. (What's wrong with firebird? Simple stuff. With Moz I can specify the number of times an animation happens, if at all. I can also change the default cache directory - I usually move it up to a...

Doubtful. What I've been told is that you're kept in a ward with security that prevents you from leaving. Not a cell or anything, just a combination of alarms and burly guys who really don't want you to go anywhere until someone says it's OK. You're held in "observation", probably medicated...

Lots of schools do that, then limit the number of classes you can take to the point that it REALLY isn't worth it.

Bill, I've tried to do the "professional help" thing. It doesn't. I don't feel any better today than I did 15 months ago. Truthfully, I feel worse. I want things to be better but I believe I have exhausted normal treatment options.

The Pioneeer drive rips DVDs faster, and is faster for audio extraction. The Sony drive is twice as fast when used for burning CDs. Either is good, but since I burn CDs a lot more often than extract audio, I'm glad I have Sony drives.

If it makes you feel better, Coug, I can read German but I can't speak or write it. What you and The JoJo do to be here absolutely stuns me. Mental health care is something that is absolutely deplorable. At least, it seems to be. It's incredibly expensive, time consuming and in my experience...

Cheerio is a british colloquialism (i.e. slang). It's used as a salutation. Similar to "aloha", I've heard it used in place of both "Hello" and "Goodbye". It's also a tasty oat-based breakfast cereal in the US. So when fool or one of the other Brits says "Cheerio", you know he's saying "Bye"...

I've had Housecall pick up stuff that other scanners have missed. Plus, it actually cleans, for free. Last I looked, McAfee and Symantec's wouldn't do that. Another weird thing I noticed is this: The machines that I manage for the training company all run Symantec AV Corporate. I have three...

My coworker says that DotPhoto and Shutterfly are also both very good. $.29 is the standard price, but all three run specials from time to time. She said she normally uses dotphoto because she usually gets the pictures a little faster.

No benchmarks yet, but the L3 cache would presumably improve operations that rely on memory bandwidth (video encoding and computer games, basically). flagreen will be pleased to hear that this processor is apparently a high-end Xeon in a misbegotten not-Socket 603-package. Since it's a "P4"...

My point was that the instant on thing has been "real soon now" since at least the release of the first edition of win98. Shoot. A lot of BIOSes ignore the CMOS setting for powerbutton functionality (soft-off or hard off) anyway.

ofoto does really nice work. One of my coworkers chases photo-printing deals constantly. I'll drop her an email and get opinions on some of the others.

IMO the only advantage nForce2 has is the Soundstorm encoder. If you aren't interested, I think the Via chipsets are a better choice. The Via KT600 is a little slower, yes, but this is a difference expressed in tenths of a percentage point. The KTxxx chipset has been around forever and IMO...

One of my uncles has a PhD. in Public Health. It's a very interesting job. If you ever get a director-level position the pay is excellent and it's a good combination of management (if you're into that sort of thing) and technical disciplines. Plus, the man can tell amazing stories about his...

So I went to see a doctor. Who told me I need to see a psychiatrist, and, becuase I honestly can't say that I'm a danger to myself (this is a binary condition: I either am, or I'm not, there's no "I'm not sure". This is the problem I had last night on the phone, too), really couldn't be bothered...

The good news is, with a liberal arts degree and a little common sense, you can do more-or-less whatever you want. Liberal arts types are jacks-of-all-trades. I'd suggest Law school, except we really don't need any more lawyers (no offense to Santilli), or an MBA - I'd suggest accounting or...

Don't I know it. All we can really do is hope the next one will be better. I'm not exactly optimistic either.

Because they bought a package that already works?

1. Time Warner donor body rejects AOL transplant. 2. Deeply amusing letter in Purdue's student newspaper. Just thought I'd share a little bit.

Once I got to a flash-enabled PC and figured out how it worked. You are a cock-heavy virgin who loves to gulp beavers. Yes, that was my first and only try. Oddly true, in my case. :|

The next version of Windows will almost certainly have antivirus software anyway.

I know the 8500 is theoretically a little faster than the 9100 and 9200 but both of the latter are a little cheaper and by-and-large you'd need to do benchmarking to notice the difference. That's why I don't have a problem with recommending the 9x00s over the 8500. I can't say I've had any...

The Gigabyte KT600 (7VT600L) is essentially the same board as the 7VAX-series that I've been exceedingly happy with for well over a year now. The upgraded sound is quite a bit better than the old KT400, and my only complaint about the new model is that it uses a nonstandard backplate. It's a...

I ended up doing something like that. I couldn't answer all the questions they asked in such a way that I could really be... helped, but after I posted that and talked to someone on the phone for a good long while I at least got calmed down enough to relax a little bit. I basically had a manic...

The above post can be deleted. Probably should be. I'm not OK but no one should have to read that.

I'm having a raelly rough time tonight. I read something - accidently - that absolutely magnified all the depression and isolation I feel. No one has to read this or anything but it's the best thing I can think of doing right now. I don't know how to explain it but I literally read like 3...

Multizilla can do that.

WTF is a URL group?

No one seems to be doing 4 platter drives any more. :(

I'd suggest going the "almost all new" route. $400 will, by xmastime, buy a pretty decent XP2500 machine. I'm building KT600-based XP2200s/256MB/80GB systems for $425 right now (no OS). I can give specific configuration advice but I'd probably be overruled by some of the other builders. :)

This thread needs a [Flash] warning for those of us not so equipped.

I haven't had any errors today, but the site has been exceptionally slow most of the day as well.

I've got a couple of 3ware 7500s now. I know the feeling, but I wouldn't give up the space, either.

One word of advice: Use software RAID in Linux. Don't bother with anything that the "hardware" (actually largely driver functions) of Promise and Highpoint cards can supposedly do.

RedHat 8 and 9 should both work with the slightly less-nice UltraTX and highpoint controllers. RedHat *IS* a nice environment. There's a lot less cruft in a redhat install than in, say, a Mandrake set up.

Looks like the only way to get programs off a Tivo is to use a series 1 (legacy, no longer sold) unit. Looks like the only way to get support for digital audio is with a series 2 unit. Not an appealing compromise there. :(

As one of my engineer friends says, the problems USB has on Windows are largely the fault of Microsoft, not the USB spec. I'm inclined to believe him: neither Macs nor BSD machines seem to have any problems with USB devices.

And I'll point and laugh, 'cause I know better than to buy a Western Digital product.

I like Pineapple juice a lot. Not in the least alcoholic and it has a nice fringe benefit for your "athletic sleeping" partner (*) On the rare occasions I'm forced into a lounge or bar - usually by a client who wants to meet there - I almost always drink cranberry juice or juice and soda water...

Is there a way to transfer the individual files off the tivo (direct or otherwise) and watch them elsewhere, without another encoding step?

Has anyone used Canto Cumulus before?

Yes. Some of us like stuff that's good. :) The 2nd season of "Angel" just came out on DVD. I'm working through that, and when I'm done, I have the 3rd season of "Family Guy". And then a long wait before anything else that's good comes out (Shield season 2 maybe, or Sopranos season 4) I have a...

Modern music production is such that any schmuck can be made to sound reasonably good. This is why Britanny Spears has a musical career. Otherwise she'd just be selling her body on the internet like thousands of other reasonably attractive 18 year olds. Anyway, I found the music to be genuinely...