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OK, now that I've finished picking piece of my brain off the wall behind me, I'm thinking you would do well with Coyote Linux. It's got a 2.4 kernel, which ought to be good enough for anything a router might be doing.

Er... new hardware? For a Floppy Linux distro? Like what? NIC? 'Cause it's not like you'd be using anything else. /Merc's head asplodes.

I remember being about 8 years old and my parents driving the blue ridge parkway. It was early July, about 95 degrees out, and we were in, IIRC a Taurus wagon... I was in the back seat, between my two brothers. End result was we spent 12 or 14 hours driving that day. They ooh'd and ahh'd over...

You pretty much want to dedicate a PC to vidcap no matter what hardware you have. It really sucks when your dedicated MPEG capture device can't write to the hard drive because you browsed to a web site with an extra-obnoxious Java app.

I think it's worth $50 to get a hardware encoder as well, but honestly, MPEG encoding with zero dropped frames is possible on even a pretty low-end 1GHz machine.

Well, that pretty much covers it. Typical Asus crap. Be glad that your machine has a floppy drive, at least. Asus won't let you do BIOS updates except from an actual floppy disk in an actual floppy drive on a 34-pin floppy cable.

In Indiana at least, the recording party is not required to inform anyone, and can record without consent. How's THAT for civil liberty?!? Also, I find the best answer to "How are you today?" to be anything that's not a standard reply. "Seething with rage." is good when speaking to level 1...

The king is dead. Long live the King.

Greg, I'm almost 100% positive that Walgreens/Walmart/Kmart is the best way to get photos printed. Sometimes as cheap as $.19 a print. At the office we use an Epson 1280 with a continuous ink system for everyday photo printing. The ink system keeps the costs down to something manageable. We...

Aw, Buck put something together for me. ;) It's very tasteful. Now at some point I just need to actually do something with it. Preferably during a less busy time at work. Thanks to everyone who offered help!

Coug, LOST, do those amounts include a mortgage or something? I think I've carried a balance on my credit cards maybe four times (one of those times I had a balance on a card of like $4.57, that I just didn't feel like writing a check for). I remember basically my whole income for two years...

The good news is, I get to send all of them back. At least I'm not losing anything.

I think that wasn't an option in this case. My customer wanted 1. Color Laser printing and 2. for that color printer to be quiet. Printers aren't and never have been a one-size-fits-all product.

This may be a silly question, but how do you guys get that much CREDIT?

1. callcct.com sells S-Video cables for $1.50 apiece. Even a Sony or JVC editing deck that has proper S-video output is only a couple hundred bucks, new. 2. You - the Granite Digital fanboy - are complaining about the cost of cables. If your ATI card isn't able to take input from a VCR, I'm...

Greg, that's true of almost every low cost laser printer.

Oh. The Sceptre monitors are out of budget, then. :( I and the customers I've given them to have been quite happy with the $280 19" model. Mainly, the thing that recommends them to me is the combination of low cost, good dot pitch (some of the cheapie monitors have .28!) and excellent...

I'd say that machine is massive overkill. Even if they're implementing fairly serious transaction processing on Foxpro on SQL Server, that machine is probably massive overkill. Actually though, my main concern is the nVidia 6200. Even setting aside my usual suspicions about nvidia hardware...

Well I put in my nice new gaming rig in the P180. I went with a 90nm A64/3200, because I wanted a 90nm chip and there weren't any 3000s about. So it's a SL-K8TPro-939 A64/3200 that can probably be overclocked somehow (never bothered with an A64, but if I can get it to 2.2GHz I'll be happy)...

Greg, dscaler is quite spiffy if your source video is nice. I wouldn't want to watch something that was poorly captured (e.g. Paris Hilton sex tapes) on it but it makes, say, caps from cable or prepackaged VHS tape look pretty darn good. I alternate between being pissed at snapstream and...

It's the something-550N-something or other. I haven't had it out to install it yet. It's been sitting in its enormous box taking up about 80% of the free floor space in my tiny office for about two weeks now.

Handy, I *really* like the Scepter Xg9 19" models from Newegg. There are two models, maybe a $20 price difference between them. The one with the faster response time is a little less bright according to spec, but I've really had good luck with those displays.

I had an excuse to buy one - in my recent move the front faceplate on one of my desktop machines basically cracked in half. Normally, I hide computers if possible (they go in closets or inside desks or behind curtains or whatever), but this particular PC is my gaming PC and it sits right out...

My apartment has both inner and outer doors. Both sets lock. Today when I came home from work, I had a couple boxes of new toys. So I carried them up the steps to the landing, set them down in front of the door, and started fishing for my keys in my pocket. While I was doing that, someone...

Greg, there's a patch for the Plextor device to work with various Ulead video editing programs. So that's a help. WinDVD Creator and Ulead MovieFactory both work pretty well. Um... The barebores $25 Bt878s like the LeadTek/Sabrent et al. units CAN do a pretty good job, depending on which card...

It's worth holding out for GA-7VM400s if you possibly can. I've found that the GA-7VAX (with its 333MHz limitations and all) can handle a Sempron 3000. I'd expect newer Gigabyte boards can therefore also deal with anything short of a 3200. Also, it's the thermal protection on that Asus board...

This is my 5th day of teaching 22LITERALLY retarded (sub-70 IQ) 14-year-olds how to build computers. For the last two weeks, every time I've thought about computers, a vein in my forehead has started visibly throbbing.

Just thought you'd all like to know.

I connect to most of my machines through VNC or RDP, actually. I have a KVM set up on my workbench so I can alternate between two or three PCs there, but for my stuff I think the remote view programs are just as, if not easier to deal with.

Yes, if you'll scroll upwards, you'll find that this is not a thread about sport, but rather ways to improve sport, and also classical music. I think you need to start a new thread and leave this one nice and off-topic.

I like Pepsi with Lime. :)

Yay 1TB! Woo! Woo!

Believe me, those slower socket 754 chips have been on my radar since the day they came out. The 754 boards are a bit nicer, since all of them at least have SATA (for "free"), and that Sempron 2600 makes a nice replacement for the old standard XP2500. The Sempron 3000 is a damned nice little...

http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/

Why are we talking about sports in a thread about Classical music?

Looks like my personal winner is the Soltek SL-K890Pro-939. 4 SATA Ports, Gigabit, 3xIDE, 2 PCI slots, digital in- and output via TOSLink, proper Via chipset. Of course, I understand the current Via 939 chipset is sub-optimal, but I'd still take it over nvidia.

Chills

Aaarrrgh! Next week is July 4th and I still haven't gotten to go play at the beach even once!

Er... are you talking about the one that came out in 1980? 'Cause I've seen that one about 20 times and I can't think of anything close to that.

Did those remind anyone else of the movie version of "The Yellow Submarine?"

http://whomix.trilete.net/?wmid=music

I have a similar arrangement in CoH. But in general - I've watched people play WoW - I'd say the standards of behavior in my game are way, way higher. City of Heroes is a completely different kind of game. There is no loot. No ranking. PVP is effectively nonexistant (there are special arenas for...

Glad someone can put up with all the maladjusted rejects from "Diablo". :P

Aren't there super-spectacular tax benefits to Hybrids in Virginia? One of my brothers lives without a car. He lives in Chicago, inside the loop (the place with all the tall buildings - kinda like living in Manhattan). The main thing he complains about is trying to deal with things like...

Some Intel boards throw a BIOS startup error if you don't have two channels populated.

Ended up going with the Samsung. The deciding factor ended up being the fact that it has a built-in Duplexer... and the fact that Samsung puts noise specs in a conspicuous place in its product literature. If I have a good experience with this thing, I think the next thing to say is "Is there...

It's not that simple. A lot of ignorant morons only know how to use Microsoft's tools for developing web sites. In particular, a lot of intranet applications actually DO use ActiveX controls for something more legitimate than installing spyware. Ideally a web page should be browser-neutral (or...

Coug, we have always enjoyed your contributions and tales of percussive maintenance.

The Opera guy is just bitchy because his browser - which defaults to IDing itself as IE, doesn't show up in statistics. I suspect Opera is fairly irrelevant anyway. The thing about Moz prefetch is... developers have to mark links as prefetchable. I don't know how many do that.

I notice that the new ATI chipset boards have DVI connectors on-board! I think the bar for good video might be a little higher these days