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Since the thread is locked and I can't reply there: In answer to your question, timwhit (and for anyone else who might wonder), Coug's weekday job is a considerable distance from his home, so he's only living there on weekends. During the week, he's away from internet access, and thus hasn't...

Around 10 - 12 years ago, when Dell was really starting to emerge as THE mail-order OEM, there was a rumor that Dell's boxes were literally built and configured by Intel. As I think back, that might be true. Intel wasn't marketing motherboards then, and it had to start someplace. Dell has...

If he's using a quality 300W PSU, he can almost certainly afford to fill his PCI and DIMM slots. Probably add another HDD, too. I've got machines with similar specs on similar PSUs.

If he's not going to be installing anything else in the case. 300W is more than enough.

Actually, I noticed that most of HBO's promos for its self-produced content are 16x9. Its commercial for the new season of 6 Feet Under is absolutely the best-produced commercial I've ever seen, BTW.

The waterfall really is the way to go.

My laptop is nice and new, and it lives in my trunk or in my living room. I was thinking a cop car-like semi-permanent computer installation would be the way to go, especially given the very real PITA factor of finding room 'twix spare tire and steering wheel for to place a laptop.

Hmmph. I'll remember to try harder next time.

I have DirecTV, shared with my neighbor, who pays for literally every channel in its lineup. Seriously, his bill is something like $140/month. I pay him $25 a month for access to one of his LNBs + directivo service. The website you linked looks extremely interesting but it also looks more than...

I think you passed.

To that I add that anyone who is arguing a political position in a public forum has exposed his or her opinions to both examination and mockery, and he should expect more than a little of both. One more thing: I'm dismissive and openly contemptuous of pretty much everything I don't like. That's...

Moderation is what one makes of it. If you want to be an activist, and tell everyone (me included) that they're pushing their luck, do it. That's the power at your discretion. If you want to edit a post that contains a naughty word or a link to a software pirate web site, that's your power, too...

So Buck, the answer is clear: You need to get you page linked on slashdot and CNN.

Slashdot's discussions can, in some cases be highly, HIGHLY technical and educational, especially if you browse at high moderation levels (+3 and up). Sometimes you can even talk to tech luminaries, if you're lucky - I had a couple of back-and-forth comments with Lawrence Lessig once, for...

I believe google crawls pages it considers more important more regularly. Do a search for cnn or slashdot and note that its cache is rarely more than a couple days old. If you're linked on a "more important" page, your ranking likewise goes up. At least, that's how it's been explained to me.

One of the local municipalities here has Police cars with a regular 15" LCD mounted on a pole-and-swingarm assembly in the middle of the front console. I haven't been close enough to see what they use for input if anything, but driving at night the display is very large and very visible. That'd...

The more I think about it, the better British Columbia looks to me. Maybe I should just go live there. :)

Will any of these cards work with my satellite service?

Given the pricing differences some of you guys talk about, it sounds like it could very easily pay for itself.

Here it is, for all you Aussies and Canucks (and people who live in Canada who say they don't) and Finns and Brits... your very own cure for the "Newegg is so cheap it makes me cry" problem... (insert drumroll) MyUS (insert trumpet fanfare)

Bill, I don't believe I've made any specific attacks on you. I have never made any claim of liking or respecting your political ideals and I absolutely can be vocal about things that I dislike. I don't feel there is anything wrong with this; it's much the same as when certain "people" spent all...

This is coming from someone with a huge HTPC but... What do you need a car PC to do that can't be done as well or better with existing, non-computer parts? I toyed with the idea of installing a PC in one of my cars, but the only thing I could come up with for utility, aside from having access...

So your team was ...De La Salle then? Maybe high school sports aren't a big deal in California, but I looked for a minute and I couldn't find anything that linked you to that team. I was expecting that there would at least be something, somewhere.

Sarcasm? Me? Surely you jest. If I say all conservatives are complete and total morons who have never in the history of time been right about anything, I mean it. Unless I put a ":)" after that sentence, in which case you might realize that I'm kidding. But usually I'm not, because I really do...

That's because it gets worse every time I get a different person from Verizon on the phone.

In other words, you don't like it when other people feel the need to in-no-uncertain terms disagree with you.

But wait, there's more! Turns out, I can't even order new service for 3 days until my DSL account - still active - is closed out by Verizon, since it wasn't closed at any time before I called and specifically closed it. So I'm now looking at mid-April before I get internet service at home.

Other than sport-shooting, can you name any? 'Cause when I see a handgun, all I can think is that someone wants to have a convienent way to carry around an instrument of death. Also, mubs, you've mentioned being ignored before. I don't think you are (then again, I might be wrong). Seems to me...

I went to Canada once. Does that count as travel to another country?

On the other hand, I've had Windows Update find drivers for hardware I couldn't identify. So it's not entirely a bad thing.

Oh. I've probably got a dozen or so SP1614Ns. I was just making sure there wasn't a material difference between the SATA and PATA versions. It's good that I didn't need to worry.

I have 3 dozen LS-120s sitting in storage. I hate them with a fiery passion (you should all know that's a bad thing). For one thing, they're PIO mode 1 devices. Anything else on the same IDE chain with one is also a PIO mode 1 device. Hope you didn't want fast access to your CD-ROM drive! For...

My personal favorite ultra-mini PCs were Sparc-20s fit into 5.25" drive bays with a SCSI interface. I forget which weird Sun reseller made them, but I saw 'em at a trade show and at the time I was seriously in lust with 'em.

... and oddly enough, I had one just this weekend: My K8X800 now, ha-ha, resets to CMOS defaults if I try to power it on with an AGP card installed. This includes telling me that my CPU settings are wrong (they're auto-detected) and refusing to display video. Works fine with a PCI video card...

I buy refurb stuff from Newegg from time to time, for myself. I haven't had a problem with anything I've received (three motherboards, two hard drives).

Happy birthday JoJo! Hope it was a good one.

Are there any particular examples you can think of?

Just to correct Tannin: It'd be a wide stretch to call me a moderate. I'm well left-of-center. ... and I'm posting in the moderate-and-conservative thread anyway. Nyah Nyah Nyah. :)

...but wait! My situation got better: Because the billing date for my DSL service (a different bill from my telephone bill) occurred during the two-day period when my line was disconnected, now I have to completely re-order the service. That's right: Verizon's data service support people...

I'm thinking of buying a few Samsung SATA drives, but reports I'm reading on newegg indicate they may be loud like WD *JB units. Has anyone here used one?

I'm operating under the assumption that if flagreen linked to it, it's propaganda.

Tuesday night I noticed I was being billed for voice mail service on my telephone line. Which is funny, 'cause I didn't ask for voice mail - don't even have a landline phone, and it was costing me $4 a month. So I called Verizon, my phone company, and asked them to take it off my line. Then I...

Seagate drives are aggravating because of the combination of properties that tend to make up their ATA products: o They aren't economy storage - usually Maxtor or WD has a cheaper drive at a given price point. Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but Samsung drives are explicitly not economy...

Bill, I don't have time to read a bunch of right-wing propaganda. I'll apologize for that in advance, but I do have other things that take priority in my life. Like flossing my cat's teeth.

The first Yamaha CD burner (i.e. the actual FIRST commercially available burner) used 28W, so I don' think it's that far out of line. Gary, I believe I've made my position on Seagate ATA drives clear - they shouldn't bother. MaxLine drives are a different matter, but if Seagate went SCSI only...

I think I could cut things down to just Gigabyte. I work at a very low volume (~50 PCs/year), though, so if I didn't mix in other stuff from time to time I wouldn't have any basis for comparison. Which in turn would make me that much more pissed off the next time I worked on something else...

Bill, I firmly believe that history will show that the only real reason we went to war in Iraq was the extension and preservation of an American hegemony in the middle east. Flatly, I think anything else Mr. Bush says on the matter is to some greater or less degree a lie: Bush: Iraq promotes...

Lynch? Lynch who?

I thought we were in Iraq because of WMDs. Oh. Wait. That was only until July of last year. Then we were there to "liberate the Iraqi people from a corrupt and evil dictator" (that's "people we didn't give a shit about until some analyst realized there weren't going to be any weapons")...