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Lower loads are better. A load of about 1 is ideal. Someone you're sharing your box with is creating lots of processes and generally not being a very good neighbor.

This wasn't macrovision. I've already fixed macrovision. This was something embedded in a TV signal that came OTA on a channel I don't get well enough to have a picture. I'm not aware of any technology that "copyrights" broadcast signals, but the error message didn't come up until after the...

It wasn't so much that I specifically went downtown to protest as I was downtown already and decided to spend a little time getting "held back by police" in front of the Daley Building (where the Picasso statue is). There were maybe a thousand people milling around shouting nasty things at each...

Why isn't anyone else talking about them? They're hard to find and this thread probably has a link to every review of these coolers online.

I would use either a Microflow II or a WhisperRock. They both cool well, and they're both quiet. I didn't have to pay for shipping on the more expensive Microflow, and with other things being as they are, I'd take the Microflow for its better clip. If I had to pay shipping charges, making the...

Naw... If you want to talk to crackpots, either listen to the idiots who are STILL babbling about Vincent Foster's death, or talk to the people who managed to get arrested at the protest I went to this morning.

Hairy Aussie. I now have a goal in life. man I wish I was kidding

Subject says it all. Ahem. "This video stream is copyright protected. ATI MMC will stop recording now. [OK]" I got that message when my recording of a VHS movie (which recorded just fine, of course, despite being copy protected itself) ran over into regualar broadcast. I've been trying to...

Copying DVDs is most certainly at the top of the list of things most DVD burner owners want to do with their hardware, even if they won't admit it. It certainly was for me. Sadly, most movies seem to have been specifically engineered to be a little bit larger than the 4.7GB disks that are...

Maybe half as tall, or a little more. I think it's a little louder than the WhisperRock, but it cools quite well. 4C cooler than my last read of the stock HSF, but those are both readings at idle temperatures (the PC in question had been serving files for the last couple of months, and after...

If a company is prepared to drop from a three year warranty to a one year, without stopping at, say, 2 years or 18 months, that suggests to me that there's a large drop off in reliability - such that the incremental cost is greater than the "goodwill" and/or market advantage accumulated by a...

As far as cost v. reliability: I am presently working under the assumption that every drive I buy will fail within three years (and I'm willing to give WD's stuff only about 9 months at this point). I believe this is true because changes in warranty policies suggest that a "modern" hard is not...

I got my hands on a few Microflow coolers today. Haven't tried them yet, but my first impression is a little disappointment. I'm now used to the punishing bulk of the WhisperRock. The Microflow is maybe 2/3rds the size of the big guys, with a less substantial fan. Clip certainly is better...

Backing up meaningful amounts of data on DVD isn't any more useful or appealing than backing up meaningful amounts of data on CD-R three years ago.

I do this stuff for fun, timwhit. Working with things like that is usually a challenge I can overcome, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment. That one, though, I felt everyone should get a warning about.

It's not all pr0n, you know.

Screw performance. I want my 320GB drives!

Has anyone else here had the unbelievable misfortune to work on an ECS K7SOM? I get asked to upgrade machines to Windows XP pretty regularly, and I'm mostly nice enough to sit down and click "Next" a couple times for $30 or so. Usually, it's an utterly painless process. This thing, though...

I've used a Biostar KM266 board a couple of times. They're generally well-behaved and very reasonably priced.

I actually wonder what impact this will have on public perception of of linksys. In my own estimation I've found linksys products to be very high quality, better than comparable equipment from say DLink or 3Com. 3Com products are more expensive, though, based on name recognition (I think), and...

I looked at a couple of my more recent 1700s, and, sure enough, they were 2200s at one time. Sweet!

Trust me, a long network cable - if it's your only tether - is not a hinderance. I like my 802.11G just the same.

I believe I said much the same thing about 100 posts ago, Tannin. About our "allies", at least. Spain is my favorite. "Spain". That's like the punchline to a joke. Spain's citizens are still pissed about the USS Maine and losing Cuba. Think support among Aussies is bad, less than 10% of our...

Hoorah for tyranny. :(

There's a comanpany around Chicago that has a stretch Lamborghini Diablo.

Nothing except that his name is Legion for he is many.

PCI cards face upside down so that a PCI card can share a slot with an ISA card that faces up. ... and we've done it that way ever since. And I have a WORSE story about an ISA graphics card, a PCI slot and some machine tools. Hammers? Pffft!

Million and one creative ways to speed up your crappy modem connection. First of all, I live in a hell that will send cold shivers down your spine: 14.4. 19.2 if the phase of the moon is right and I sacrifice a goat or something. Now, to get to a speed that isn't considered unlawful under the...

I'd just like to contribute by saying that the piece of human filth who decided to put fans on northbridges needs to be removed from the no-doubt shallow end of the gene pool he's presently muddying. Was that bitter enough? No, probably not, but I somehow doubt anyone will disagree with the...

This is the kind of crap that makes me dislike Shuttle.

The AK32A has been around for at least six months. I've had it on my price lists that long.

I bought the board in question as a mistake; it doesn't have SDRAM slots, physically it looks a lot like an Epox 8KHA or any other vanilla KT266-based board, but it says Spacewalker on the heat sink and my invoice lists it as an AK32A. It's definitely *not* an AK32L. The retail packaging is of...

Litter as in "gold-encrusted stretcher carried over the shoulders of a bunch of strapping men". Preferred mode of transport for evil overlords everwhere. ;)

I've put Palamino 2.2s under those things. They've been just fine. I think one will handle a Duron 1.1.

Litter? Rickshaw? Chariot? Horseback? Two-Person Bicycle? Carriage? Motorcycle & sidecar? Razor Scooter? Rollerskates? Sailboat? (something of a trick if there's no water between here and there). Skydiving? You can get non-traditional Limos, if that's what you're in to. There's a guy in my...

Our support of Israel isn't "mindless". The problem is there's a couple of lines in the Bible about the state of Israel needing to exist for the Christian Rapture to occur, and there's a lot of nutjobs - large swathes of the Republican party - who believe that crap. There's something really...

That's funny, 'cause I've got one right here and it's 184-pin only. The AK32L is the only one with SDRAM sockets.

Kazaalite. Search for ebooks. When you find one you like (my search found three), buy it.

The AK32A doesn't have 168pin DIMM slots on it, Blake. That doesn't do Clocker any good.

The one will do just fine.

Owing to a couple of years of being forced to listen to a particularly belligerent neighbor's Wu Tangy goodness (that's a joke, people!), I sort-of got that, but the one I was referring to is the homophobic wanna-be M&M. Or Vanilla Ice. Whichever.[1] [1] Now I'm making jokes about rap. It's...

My Dell is OK. It'd probably moan about it quite a bit if I'd had to pay more than $200 for it, though. Are P4/2.4s all supposed to be slugs? Or is it just mine?

Perhaps we should start a club...

There won't particularly be a performance loss. He's on SDRAM already, and DDR doesn't really come into its own until you hit a 133MHz bus.

Also Abit. Abit also needs to apologize for being born. And AOL. And Barbera Bush, for marrying George I. George I should never have known the touch of a woman. And I use that term only technically, 'cause I've seen defensive linemen that look more feminine.[1] While I'm at it: Both Jerry...

Speaking of Micropolis... I found a 4.3GB 50-pin drive in my goodybox this weekend that appears to still work. It holds data and doesn't have bad sectors anyway. It's also louder than some entire computers I have, by itself. I'm still waiting for nvidia and Bush to apologize for being born.

You need a Shuttle AK32L. KT266 - some doubt as to the "A", but it's got DDR and SDRAM support and it can handle a 2000+ chip just fine. Plus they're all of $60 new. I've got one kicking around in a Linux box and thusfar it's been excellent, even with 1GB of SDRAM (2x 512).

Spoken like someone who has never upgraded the CPU in his Latitude. ;)

*I'M* crazy? None of my PCs have bootprints (not much of a feat since I'm pretty sure I don't own any boots) on them, and Wordperfect certainly does work well under Linux.

Centrino falls into the "it'd be nice, but..." category for me. Wireless + low power + reasonably fast ultraportables are undoubtedly good things, but I'd rather someone make a laptop drive that's as fast as a desktop's. That's a more interesting product.