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Nothin' wrong with a flat chest. Waist, hips, butt, calves, cheekbones, lips... - those are the things that really make a woman look like a woman. I'd rather see a lady with a flat chest than one with ginormous implants. And seriously, if you think a woman looks like a man just because she...

I think it has a lot with the way people use their computers. Most people, me included, tend to work with a single maximized application at a time. Other apps may be running, but generally, I only have one big window at a time on-screen (usually on their own desktop). In that case, beyond a...

New Vista build should be out by the end of the week. Supposedly a feature-complete version. Supposedly everything that will be in the shipping version except for some of the artwork. I don't know if that includes things like the "free" version of VirtualPC (available in the "Ultra" edition) or...

See subject. My favorite monitor - a Viewsonic P815 (21", .22 dot pitch, can do 150Hz refresh @ 1280x1024) - is on its last legs. I want to replace it with another 4:3 display of slightly larger size. 23", 24", something like that. Something that would make 1600x1200 comfortable to view. Why...

IIRC, HighRes audio supports ProLogicc 2, which is kinda neat.

Scythe "Beef Bowl" Power Supplies are surprisingly nice for the money. $20, 350W PSUs with a decent heft and an integrated 120mm fan. They're very quiet, too.

What kinds of workloads are you expecting to have? NAS could mean anything from a Linksys NSLU2 with a 40GB USB hard disk attached, to something like a Buffalo Tech Terastation (HD-H1.0TGL) to a NetApp Flier. On the low end, NAS is meant to represent a simplified storage solution for workgroups...

The AverTV works with anything you care to capture with, once you install the drivers (there's a note in the box that tells you the URL on the AverMedia site), and I assure you that it's not PAL only. Just looking around, what I have available for vidcap is: Leadtek WinFast 2000: bt878-based...

Well, technically, we could anyway, since the wording of the 22nd amendment specifies consecutive terms. Clinton is rather more right-wing than I'd prefer, but I can respect him as a thoughtful human being, and I can't attribute either of those qualities to the blob of pure evil presently...

The former IBM makes notoriosly awful 2.5" hard disks and always has. I was pleased to find a Fujitsu drive in my T40, as I've heard tales of OEMs taking delivery of two IBM/Hitachi 2.5" drives for every one they order.

No president Shall serve more than two consecutive terms in office. That's fucking bonechilling.

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... and it can be scripted.

Only up to a point, my friend.

Well, it's a delivery in much the same sense that US Warplanes "deliver" high explosives to Iraqi villages...

You don't need anything else to capture DV, except 1394 ports. For that matter, if your DVd camcorder is nice enough, it'll have inputs on it, and you can use those to handle your analog sources as well. I have two or three of the Plextor hardware divx encoders. They're kind of flakey hardware...

Tell me where to FedEx the bag of Full Height Micropolis hard drives!

That would be cute except that I think people who like anime/manga should be sent to live in prison camps where they're forced to resort to cannibalism to survive.

Hindenburg might be slightly hyperbolic, since that thing floats on Helium rather than Hydrogen...

I think you're right, but is it worth being picky for a $65 motherboard + CPU that I'm probably not going to keep anyway?

The one I ordered is on a Matsonic board. Isn't the C3 supposed to have on-chip MPEG2 decoding support? I have some zero-noise 200W PSUs that came out of Gateway P3/450s (how quiet? Well, I installed a PCI card in one while it was on, thinking it was off), and the newest C3s do seem to use DDR...

woot.com is fun if only for the product descriptions. "It’s happened to the best of us: just as our computer takes a moment to do some geometry, a gang of Hellions piles on our hero. By the time we can see what’s happened, our magic scrapper is face-down in the street and running an XP debt. We...

Hm. Maybe I should just buy one and play with it first. I was thinking of sticking a SATA controller and a GboC card in 'em, but if they can't keep up with a video stream, they're pretty worthless.

Seems to me like I got the camera in about a week.

I bought a projection screen from them a few days ago, and a couple months ago I bought a little MPEG4 handheld video recorder. They have WD2500JBs for $53 shipped around once a month, which would be cool if it were a brand that didn't suck.

I'm more interested in something that's a custom shape than something that could be adapted from an existing chassis. CityK linked to a sort of "mini cluster" of single board computers a couple weeks ago. I found some C3/2000+boards for a pretty reasonable price ($65) through one of the...

woot.com typically sells one geekish item a day. Sometimes it's a hard drive. Sometimes it's a radio controlled car. Sometimes it's a giant DLP TV. Sometimes it's random, unidentified crap (they call those "bags o' crap", seriously). Right now woot.com is selling more than one item a day...

Has anyone ever investigated the possibility of making a custom computer case, or having someone else make one for you?

Brokeback Mountain Action Figures (utterly safe for work). They look like slightly modified "Dukes of Hazzard" dolls to me, but I still think it's funny. While I'm at it, I sincerely hope Brokeback Mountain wins every Hollywood award it got nominated for. I hope they make up new Oscars to give...

I'm sure I have an Adaptec 3940 or something I could donate to that cause.

I work a couple miles from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Every so often, in the summer, I'll go someplace on my lunch break and find a bunch of girls running around in bikinis. :D

I like 50 - 60F by default. Warm enough to comfortably wear a long sleeved shirt without a coat. I also like it when it's hot enough for girls to wear halter tops and short-shorts. :D Other temperatures suck.

Yes they do. Ghost needs the -fNI option (Bypass onboard Disk Controller) set to properly. IIRC.

Rube Goldberg by way of HalfLife 2

Does the Scythe Ninja require motherboard removal to install?

I'm not an audiophile. There's an upper bound on the amount of money I'm willing to spend (which, granted, is more than most people). I just have good hearing. :)

You'll want to check the performance first. I don't think there's anything wrong with dual core or with that 2GB of RAM, but what's up with the super-custom 1U chassis and motherboard? If you're spending that much why not go SuperMicro?

That's a really good question, but it annoys me on principle. Maybe because there's no mechanism in place for Microsoft to handle it through OEMs? Probably 80%+ of the copies of XP that've been sold, ever, have been OEM copies. Even if they're just flatly saying motherboard change =...

I think you're insane spending that much money on something "low importance", but that may just be me.

Just ordered a couple of those Scythe Ninja heat sinks ddrueding likes so much. Any suggestions on a 120mm fan to mate with one?

Do you all know what HBO is trying to do right now? HBO is trying to extend "content protection" to 1. Completely block all analog recording and 2. Extend "content protection" to all their shows. In other words, HBO is trying to make it illegal to use a VCR or a Tivo or a Windows MCE machine...

That's the article, verbatim, from this place Unbelievable.

You guys just don't know what you're missing.

I usually have at least 20 or 30 tabs open, and at times I exceed 100. I usually have two open Firefox windows, one for porn and one for work. I use the Linky extension a lot (and not just for porn) which contributes greatly to having lots of open tabs. Right now I have 16 tabs open on this...

I guess I have a different philosophy about that, then. Even if I'm dealing with something on tape, I'd rather have a high quality recording device and know that I'm not reducing quality from my recording method, than just say "Oh, that's good enough" while I introduce extra noise into an...

While you're at it, take a look at Anand's tour of Newegg.com. Also, my FF memory use jumped from 25MB to 45MB in navigating from SF to Anandtech.com.

Thunderbird and Firefox are discrete applications. All the files they need live in their program directories. Tbird 1.5 seems to have issues with asking for passwords when it shouldn't - I KNOW I'm giving it the right password for my IMAP server but it'll tell me the password has been...

bootdisk.com or, from XP, format a floppy with the "make DOS bootdisk" option checked.

They didn't delete the boot sector; I can'r see why copying wouldn't work.