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This one's for the builders and integrators among us: I'm sure we all have different experiences with computer hardware. What I'd like to see is a rough ranking of which video cards (by chipset, not brand, for the 50-billion S3s and nvidia cards out there) that seem the least "fussy" - the most...

Didn't Doug say that he didn't start having major problems until he tried using a 3rd party tool to clean his registry? The whole concept of "third party" is "not the people who are directly involved in whatever". Or to put it another way, perhaps Doug should not have been surprised at the...

Epox has a really nice KT266A board, and I have nothing but good things to say about Gigabyte's higher-end KT333. I finally got around to using a Soltek KT266A board last month, but it left my possession almost as soon as I got it. Trouble-free and a decent connector layout (not as sensible as...

Where is Skallas these days?

Well, "Load BIOS Defaults" is always a good guess. Your board is probably new enough that you can't toggle ACPI off, but if you can, do it. Load XP with just your video card install. Pull your sound and NIC for now, disable USB and onboard RAID, if you have those. See if that works.

There's a Valparaiso, Indiana, about 15 miles from where I live. So did Tannin look at a map of Northwest Indiana, or was he simply referring to the city in Chile? Either way it's funny.

Come toward the light! What is it that's giving you lousy frame rates? What's a "lousy framerate"? My experience with the 7000-series cards has been excellent in 98 and 2000.

I feel OK describing what this guy is doing as "using" me (moreso than Amy, who weighs all of 95lbs. and despite amazing spatial abilities, isn't much help in actually moving furniture). That's the case I tried to make to her, too. Now it's a debate. She helped - he's family to her, even...

Today I refused help my fiance's uncle move to a new apartment. My reasoning: In three years, I've helped him move four times. Today would've been the fifth. Unless he's moving, I never see the guy. He didn't help when Amy and I moved into my apartment. Didn't even offer. He's a high school...

Shown in the US on BBC America, if you're lucky enough to get that station.

Thanks for any offers. I'll see how many I need, but I'd like drives that really do have obvious faults (lots of bad sectors, enough so that the firmware can't remap 'em all, or really nasty-sounding drives). The idea is to put them in front of people and diagnose the drives as having problems...

Nice to see that you maintained the proper sequence of attrib options as well (-r -a -s -h). Rather than Windows - so as not to show a bias, why not something simpler, like the output from running an old-fashioned config.sys or autoexec.bat? Or we could go all the way c:\windows\attrib -r...

The bottom one is freakin' cool. ;)

Anyone have an old hard drive laying around that's not in usable condition but sorta still works? Bad sectors, scary hard disk noises, visible arcing on the board when powering up, only spins up half the time... whatever. I'd like to buy disks like that for classroom demonstration purposes...

I guess I'm the last holdout on the emoticons front, too. I really dislike the graphical smiley-faces used here and elsewhere. Typing a ":" and a ")" is too much work? I have no idea what some of those annoying yellow symbols are supposed to mean, but :D :P ;) and :( are all pretty easy to...

Does that mean I win? :)

A little background: In '98 or '99, on a visit to Europe, a Dutch anarchist/performance artist whose schtick happens to be throwing cream pies at important people managed to nail Mr. Bill right in the kisser. There is a tiny bit of video footage out there of him cleaning off his face (which I...

I, the slow connection guy, voted for unlimited. Why? Because I'd rather view a thread in its entirety than just the most recent X commencts. I'd rather minimize the number of pages I have to load than the amount of data I have to download on a discussion site like SF.

Ars has a black background, but the text is white, and the trim is orange. Only their logo is vaguely tasteful. Ars original site design, which IIRC was blue and white on black, was actually much nicer. I just remember the joy of my hercules-graphics display (green on greenish-black), and think...

Maybe because it was 1:30-something GMT over there, which is a perfectly reasonable time to throw a funeral. The more interesting question is, why would a self respecting quebecois (sorry I don't know what all the right special characters are) watch the Queen mother's funeral? I know she was a...

Are you intimating that the sight of Bill Gates' face, covered with pie, does not bring even the tiniest bit of joy to your life?

Monospace block green text on black. The one true color scheme.

... Or just accept that sideband exists primarily as a marketing buzzword and not real performance-enhancing feature of a 3D video card, and be happy that you don't need it. I know which I'd do.

Don't feel bad, Tannin, I never learned grammar, either. Since I was slotted in with the "gifted" kids in school my whole life, no one ever bothered to teach it to me. I write and speak passably well without knowing and my instructors through all my years of schooling rightly figured it'd be...

The slowest windows machine in my apartment is 950MHz/512MB/Voodoo3 (and steps up to 1.2GHz, and whatever an XP1700+ actually is). I'll probably be moving the V3s in to ATI 7500s, or 8500s if the price ever drops to around $100/card, over the next 6 months. So system requirements probably aren't...

I don't know why, but I thought "Serious Sam" was a half-joke/benchmark tool. Maybe 'cause the only place I saw a review was Old Man Murray? "The Serbian computer game" or somesuch. Y'all are telling me there's really a "Serious Sam" game out there I can buy? (a quick look at google show that...

You forgot the "oversize" images in BMP format, blink tags, "honesty counter", poorly written javascript, and misinformed opinions about the Argentinian economic crisis. What are you trying to do, sell a hard disk?

Well, timwhit and Bikeman are both Wisconsin residents. Maybe it was one of them. ;)

Short rant to follow - Spent part of the day playing Unreal Tournament with my fiance. It was a fun time. Two things I noticed: 1.) I really miss co-op play in these games. As fun as it is to yell "Ha!" every time I blew up my girlfriend, what I really wanted was a game where we could work...

Most of Indiana doesn't do DST. I'm fortunate enough to be in the small, sensible part that takes time changes with Chicago, but there are actually places in Indiana (e.g. State Line City) where one side of a town is in a different time zone from the other.

Yup, no badge here. I don't mind. Bill is obviously doing a swell job as our moderator. ;) (and, since everyone who has participated in this thread thusfar is also privvy to the mods forum... didn't I basically say we wouldn't need mods much at the start?) As far the Support part of this site...

Bah. Motorola 6800s are the place for assembly. ...And Tannin, if you think C or Java is bad, go find the language specification for Intercal. It really exists, and it really does work like that.

IIRC side-band is a method for AGP cards to access main memory for additional texture storage etc. Again, IIRC, this was mostly a "feature on the box". 3dfx cards never had it, nvidia's did, ATI's did. I seem to recall the 3dfx response about why it wasn't implemented (back in the TNT2/V3000...

Has anyone here ever used an AGI power supply? They're the AMD approved PS in the cases I buy for my customers (CompuCase). They're amazingly quiet compared to the Sparkle units most of my machines have.

Fortunately, although I certainly consider myself a tech, I don't see as much awfulness as Tannin because I usually have the good luck to be working with business machines rather than home machines. Here's my view: Your CPU is utterly irrelevant these days. Those of with DVD-Ripping habits...

How is James's site different from some of the great AOL morasses, like mirabilis or CNN? Yup, it's ugly. But CNN's designers make theirs that way on purpose. I'm of the opinion that the whole internet should move to porn banners. Two reasons for this. 1.) Porn banners actually pay out. Porn...

WinXP, IE6, RAIDs of U-series drives, nvidia graphics cards... Prof, do you ever tire of being wrong? :P

Can someone with a decent internet connection and no moral shame at visiting the nvidia pages try a couple non-nvidia cards on that? I'm interested in seeing what their tools says about Matrox, 3dfx and ATI cards in particular.

As a C programmer - although I like to pretend that I'm not, but it's basically what my college degree is in - I'd just like to say that I do, in fact, have a mother. She's a dingbat, and at times I wonder if I was adopted, but a mother nonetheless. And java and javascript really don't have...

Well, I kicked one of my samba machines down to "workgroup-mode" for a little test. ... and it turns out that XP won't connect to that either. Note that none of the other machines have a problem connecting to it, even on the workgroup, just XP. So I kicked the XP machine out of my domain, too...

Funny thing about that... there are a lot of NAS units out in the world that use non-upgradable samba servers for client access. It's not just breaking the latest version of samba, it's limiting the utility of all that (fairly expensive) hardware, too.

Re: Mercutio: Isn't the trash can looking better all the tim XP has been out long enough that problems like the ones I've having just shouldn't be. I'm sure the Samba team is P.O.'d about whatever changes XP brought to the fileshare/authentication code, too. It's really not their fault...

If I have to alter the state of any domain controler to allow XP to connect to samba-served shares, then XP has sucessfully broken either netlogon or SMB and is therefore unusable.

Did you need a new nick already, Gary? I could always promote a 2000 server to be PDC on my domain. Honestly I don't think it would help.

That should be "The only reg. patch for XP distributed with samba", rather than whatever I wrote. I need sleep.

James, believe me, if I'm digging in source code, I've looked at all the docs already. This is the only registry key distributed w/ XP: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\netlogon\parameters "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000000 I've also tried entering the Win2000 plaintext...

It's looking like it. Windows 2000 might not allow digital out on my live!, though, so that's really no better. This box is set up for my gaming and entertainment needs. XP isn't doing anything positive for either.

Funny that I don't care to be crucified this morning... Basically my guess is that XP isn't sending passwords out in a format samba recognizes. A PITA since, looking at the appropriate registry settings, there isn't any control over that. What's frustrating is, sometimes, if I apply the .reg...

Yup. I operate an NT4-style domain that 10 of my twleve machines log in to. Works just fine, and the linux boxes all participate as DCs as well as the 2000 servers. XP can connect to the 2000 machines, but not the linux boxes. When I try to connect the linux shares, I get a password prompt (and...

FAT32 has a nasty tendency to screw itself when your system loses power or locks up. Usually you just lose some data in whatever files you had open, whoops, but every once in awhile you'll get a truly awful loss. In my case, my Win98 machine locked up, and when it came back online, scandisk...