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Down again (12:00AM PST)...anyone else?

nope, she never left twice in the same hour ;)

We had a receptionist who took way too many breaks. I connected a straight though serial cable to the back of her PC and put the other end on her monitor pointing at her. I told her it would dock her pay if she left more than once an hour. ;)

Ain't this the truth. Oakland dockworkers get $110k, crane operators $150k and data entry people get $85k. All with the best holiday schedule and benefits. Too bad you have to know someone to get in...

Nice, how many galons/mile?

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Well, you know what they say...it's not illegal unless someone objects ;) But really, I ran the numbers for my GF and they stated that 17.5 would be OK.

Current Specs: CPU: AND Athlon "Barton" 2500+ @ 2.2GHz Mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2 Ultra 400) RAM: 1GB (2 x 512MB) Crucial PC2700 (dual channel) HDD1: 36GB WD Raptor SATA (RAID0) HDD2: 36GB WD Raptor SATA (RAID0) DVDRW: Sony DRU-510 CDRW: Sony 52x24x52 DVD: LiteOn 16x Video: ATI Radeon...

You were inspired from the inhilation(sp) of urine vapor?

IMO, every tech support needs an option: "If you actually know what you are doing, press 8...in binary"

Nice! Congrats...appearing mellow can be a good thing ;)

IIRC it was the 3rd of 4th hit. I don't remember the exact phrase, though.

Yeah, good job! :mrgrn:

sorry, link.

Motherboard Monitor 5 will do that quite well, and it's free

When I need service it's always been easy. They are based about 50 miles north of here. I plan on making a drive and picking up some parts directly (in bulk) pretty soon.

It might be funny to try and RMA the remains under a bogus number...

yup. disabling virtual memory is a really good idea.

Now that just depends on your capacity and speed requirements...I've built a machine now that runs off a single CF card.

nevermind...a google search came up with this :oops:

Well, I'm fed up with this MMC crap. Is there any other software that can display the input on the screen? THat's all I want at this point...

Interesting thread on fiximg MMC Let's see how it works...nope :( Darn... :x

Er, this doesn't always apply...as it gets a touch illegal on the low end :o

Merc, sorry to hear of your continuing troubles. But I haven't laughed that hard all day.

I live in an area famous for seafood, but I just treat myself to sushi every once in a while. I have no taste for the more traditional dishes.

Yes, welcome back! Though I'm a bit dissapointed you didn't come by for a visit...

Well, I too am having issues with the MMC. I've installed it fine on other cards (All-in-wonder VE PCI) in other OSes (98, XP) This one just won't go. I installed all the stuff as listed on their site, and when I run it it comes up with an error associated with the device drivers. Everything...

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And we all know that happy cows come from California ;)

The paint looks pretty good to me. They even included a little black cloth to dust the thing with ;) But I am careful with "piano black" cases. And as my workbench was full, I assembled this one on a rug on the floor.

Finnished assembly. My only other complaints would be that the motherboard only came with one IDE cable, and that the location of the IDE ports prevented 2 devices from being used on a channel - they barely reached at all. The system is fairly quiet considering the completely stock cooling...

Well, I've actually had 2 true relationships in my life. The first we got engaged our second year together and halfway though the third she called me to let me know she was leaving for Brazil with another man. I never saw her again. This was the original trigger of my crash, exacerbated by a...

Merc, Thanks for sharing a certainly difficult part of your life. From where I stand, it seems you did everthing the way I would like to say I would have done it (the "right way", IMHO). If I were to be way too bold and offer some completely unqualified analysis, it would be this: Perhaps...

I was thinking of commenting on this, but I just said "screw it" and closed the window without even reading the reveiw.

That depends on whether they ever intended to upgrade their system. While the Opteron might add another 50% to it's speed though it's lifetime, I doubt Xoens will get much past 3.4GHz.

Yep, considering the performance is close, the added benefits of the Opteron make it a clear winner IMHO.

:P

Indeed. Don't think that I'm complaining, though...I'm only using the first 5GB of each of my raptors in RAID0 :D Seeks and transfer rates are pretty darn good.

Blake: Yeah, I got the reson behind the outside being faster. But by doing head switches across all the heads to keep the "beginning" of the drive all in the outside is intentionally making the outside of the drive significantly faster. If you were to allow all the tracks on head 0 to be read...

Well. sounds like you've done better than me. Although "hitting bottom" was a fairly effective kick in the ass. If you were to commit to something huge, then burn some bridges behind you, you might be able to spur some motivation. It sounds like a big change may be necissary.

So it's specifically designed to have better thoughput at the beginning of the disk? Are there specific applications where this helps?

Depends on what you're doing with the system 90% of the time XP Pro will be fine, 70% of the time XP Home will be fine. I used to live on the corner of Euclid and Virginia (north side) BTW...

So taking this a little deeper... If changing tracks is faster than changing heads, why isn't it faster to run though all the tracks before changing heads?

I think the local talk radio got it right: 1. It's fu*king Iowa, who cares what they think?* 2. If it's that close, does "winning" mean anything anyway? 3. If it's that close, does that mean they are all above the bar? Or all a big dissapointment? *Another point made by the host was that a...

Although I cannot say I have felt the way you feel, I can say there has been a time in my life where I agreed with everything you've said. What did I do? After leaving the home that I had bought with my fiancee with 2 bags of clothes, I consumed over $200,000 worth of high-end drugs and...

Well, I'm still quite satisfied ;) An author who is his own toughest critic produces the best stuff. Mixing backstory/plot in with the action is a great way to maintain the pace of the piece.

This board has a nForce2 chipset, though I would have preferred one with soundstorm.

Alright, the case is incredible, I couldn't ask for anything more...but: The motherboard I chose is a complete POS. MSI K7N2-V, this thing shows some really amazing design flaws. 1. ATX Power connector between CPU socket and PS/2 header (the power cable goes OVER the CPU fan intake :() 2...

Yeah, we've got overcast here

I wish, it was actually a Tri-tip, the knife was a little too sharp and cut off a piece of bone for me to chew on. That was about a month ago.