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Enable SP/DIF and Line-In goes away, even though they're different connectors. Grumble Grumble. Are there any mainstream sound cards that supports digital in and out AND leave the line-in functional? Do the nforce2 boards have functional (native) digital in/out connectors? SB xyz Platinums...

So, um, you know that any old WAV, MP3 or WMA file can be used to make an audio CD, right? There are some good (classical) MP3s at http://calligaris.carisch.it/scalen/piaen.htm

I remember listening to a couple of math majors in my CS classes complaining that "prove 2" was an obscenely difficult thing to do. It took Stephen Hawking to prove that time moves forward. Science doesn't work if everything is assumed. Sometimes the assumptions have to be proven, too.

I built a Linux box that runs a POS (point of sale) app and a bunch of serial terminals for a local chain of tire stores that's been running constantly for about four years now. No, it's not connected to the internet. And of course, if that's impressive, I've seen Netware 3 machines working on...

Nope. =~ is used for regexp string comparison.

That's the claim that's been made by Be employees, Blake. It probably is true, but who could tell? The agreements are secret anyway.

I've heard, anecdotally, of Maxtor exchanging ball-bearing 740Xs for FDB; literally just because someone didn't like the pitch of the noise their drive was making. This was precrash at SR. Don't know if that's true, but it's a far cry from "won't replace because of bad sectors".

Real MGA was also called "Hercules" graphics. It was great technology; it took VGA for MGA to finally be exceeded in resolution.

I didn't. I'll try for another later. The Iopener does seem to be the one to get, just because of that 10" screen.

Wasn't me complaining about Maxtor, it was MARK. I've never had a Maxtor drive fail, and the only time I've used their warranty service was for a dead quantum AS. I had one arrive DOA, but that went back to the vendor. Maxtor drives are perfectly reliable as far as I'm concerned. I would...

In common usage, we talk about "VGA displays" often enough. I reject your nitpicking. Doug, all the themes on that site are ugly. None of them are mono green on black with monospaced fonts.

Just put in for an I-Opener on ebay. $25 isn't bad for a 10" LCD, right? If I win I'll scarf up a ~4GB laptop disk, USB-ethernet device and some extra RAM, then see what I can do with it.

Sounds like a fun project to me! The one drawback to all of the above would be the lack of an ethernet port. Most of those appliances had a builtin modem, and I know USB-ethernet adapters are available, but it's too bad nobody put it in to begin with.

I have fond memories of my MGA display. :)

I didn't much like SR when it first went to phpBB, either. I didn't like the buttons or color scheme. I got over it. I don't think anyone will even notice in a month. I'm still waiting for someone to give me a monochrome green on black theme with a nice monospace font. That's what I really...

About damn time. Now the G550 will finally drop to a reasonable price. I hope. No note on a video-in model. Hopefully Matrox will continue its pro video-editing line and perhaps release another rainbow-runner for enthusiasts.

WinAce is free for noncommercial use. I think.

ISA and RS232 are among the very few bits of a "modern" computer that are really, deeply hackable. You have to pay Intel a big wad of money to get the full specifications for PCI (or maybe to produce the cards?), but anyone with fair-to-middling working knowledge of electronics can hack together...

Just a note to express my continued refusal to post a picture. Ask Fushigi what I look like if you really need to know.

Bleh. I'm not into the XP-lookin' skin.

It DOES have onboard video, SD.

Ummm. I don't think "Ew" exactly carries the full weight of my sentiments, but it's a good start.

A Dell P90 probably doesn't have USB, and you have to open the machine up to put in a card. Might as well grab the hard drive while you're in there... F&STW makes a "client disk" that can be installed on previous versions of Windows, Mr. Platform sir. I'd probably charge $75 or so for a...

He wants to do 125 floppies, and that's cool, but it looks to me like he'd max out his USB1.1 interface at around 30 2x drives. He's going to need to duplex across several controllers to get the full power of his 125 drive RAID. If performance scales linearly, at 125 drives he'd be looking at...

Yes, from old, crappy laptop to new, less crappy laptop. It was fairly indiscriminant about what it copied, ending up with about 2GB worth of stuff on a 4GB drive, and the transfer was VERY SLOW, once I got the laplink cable to work the way it's suppposed to. How slow? I think I started the...

Jan, The drive that started this was not OEM.

I thought about placement, but IMO if the northbridge needs a heatsink that big, maybe it's placed there to benefit from the fans in the powersupply. P4's already have pretty good thermal protection so maybe they DON'T need to be there.

Coincidently, The Truman Show uses excerpts from Powaqqatsi in its score... Honestly, Jenna Elfman (is there such a thing as an unattractive "Jenna"? I think not. I've never met an unattractive one, anyway) aside, I think Truman is the better film. Aside from the Philip Glass score, there's a...

I'm pretty sure the heatsink on the north bridge is bigger than the ZIF socket...

The issue is so much whether greenhouse gasses cause warming, but how much warming greenhouse gasses cause. We haven't had daily whole-planet weather data very long, and the fossil record isn't exectly a fine-grained tool for this kind of information. I don't think we can really judge long-term...

Tannin, movies are like animated banner ads, only they try to sell you things through product placement instead of sheer obnoxiousness (actually - and I'm ashamed to admit this - has anyone else seen the flash-based ads for "The Real Cancun"? I hit aintitcoolnews.com this afternoon on a machine...

Nope. One of my brothers is big on horror movies, and gave a screening of "Brain Dead". I haven't been able to find a copy of it or any of Jackson's other B-movie work (as opposed to "The Frighteners" which got wide theatrical release). Heat has great moments. Great opening, great intense...

Yes, there is. She talks to her kid at the babysitter's all the time... Honestly, seeing how men act around her makes me extremely ashamed of my gender. You can actually watch men's IQs drop.

What I tell my students is, to compare a Nwood Celeron to a P4 or XP+, cut the listed speed by about 25%. Some cursory tests between a Tbred 1700 and a Celeron 2.2 proved my point well enough (I had the two machines, running XP, create thumbs.db for a directory with 500MB or so of JPGs. The...

This is in direct contradiction to what I was told by WD Customer Service, in the particular case of my drive. Talked to a rep, talked to a manager. If I really cared I'd go a couple steps higher and try again, but frankly, having RMA'd some of those drives TWICE, I don't really want the...

She's 6'1", blonde, maybe 120lbs of long legs and tiny waist and frickin' gorgeous. It's not a problem. :D

Apparently, not in this case. The drive in question (pre-pre-RMA) was originally purchase at Sam's Club and came in a retail box, in August of 2001. It died in November, and was replaced with the 600BB. The length of warranty on the BB, I am told (by phone and WD's warranty validating-thing)...

Drive in question is a 600BB. I don't have the model number handy, and yes, it is literally being used to keep a bunch of dead parts in a tidy pile. It was manufactured in November 07 2002, and I received it as a replacement for a 600AB that I RMA'd in early December. The neat trick is, I've...

My office-mate Angie got 5 dead 3 injured on her first try.

Apparently, the warranty for my replacement drives is 90 days, mubs.

Nothing will bring back the 8(!) 600ABs I've RMAd so far this year.

There are good movies with Christopher Lambert? ENG373 at Purdue was "Science Fiction in Literature". At one point we watched Highlander (outside of class. Mostly we read Joseph Campbell and talked about archetypes and symbolism)... the instructor was a big fan. Unfortunately, a few of us had...

Fear thee not. A mere 45 posts to go and Tea will have a toast of her own.

Must... resist... urge... to... talk... about... pr0n... Did "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" get a mention yet? When "Pulp Fiction" was showing at the $1 theater while I was in college, I went to two showings a day, sometimes between classes. It was literally the cheapest way to kill...

Never mind the disparities between memory configuration and operating systems on the three test systems, what's important is that AMD's graph on AMD's home page is longer!

I think I scared Mickey away. Don't worry Mickey, you're family. If WD's ongoing suckiness is your fault, I'll only take some fingers. And a thumb. I promise. And maybe a kidney. But that's it. Ranting is best when it's done from the heart. Somehow I doubt that WD's senior management gives a...

Er, because he dies at the end, right?

Conversely, Raising Arizona is my favorite among the Coen Brothers movies. Nick Cage was also in "Moonstruck", another movie I find intensely amusing (not "best list" material, but enjoyable nonetheless).

honold, what's up with "The Big Lebowski"? Is it one of those movies you have to be stoned to enjoy, or did I just miss something? I only just saw it about 6 weeks ago, so I'm pretty sure I would've noticed any particular "quality" to that movie, but given that the single impression I have is...

*AB drives are like (and, if you could see underneath this text, there would be at least 20 minutes of really loud, profane utterances in combinations I assure you that you haven't heard before)-ing time bombs. 15 months then *poof*. Head crash/20% bad sectors/motor failure. Given the choice...