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I meant, $50 more than you were planning to spend already, Coug, not that there's a $50 price difference between the two sets. And, as usual, it's my opinion that even a low-end receiver and set of real speakers is better than crappy "premium" computer speakers.

In XP? With an ATA drive? It doesn't.

But was there shock?

The big chains usually carry Memorex or Maxell, but very often, they'll be low speed (e.g. 4x) discs. The people in my office have gotten lots of dud discs from retail packages, too. I don't know if that's a Maxell thing or if we just bought several packages of discs, though.

I use it fairly often when I'm upgrading disks on my fileservers. It's fairly painless.

They're slow, expensive, and obnoxious for a variety of reasons. Don't bother.

I generally use Fujifilm CD-Rs. They're priced reasonably and all the high-speed ones I've looked at recently have been manufactured by Taiyo Yuden.

Well, we already own the fuxored HPs...

I mostly work with low-end Dell and IBM servers. The biggest boy I've played with in recent memory was an x225 (Xeon 2.4, 2GB RAM). I thought it was a really nice machine, but I have to say that the feature I liked the most was the slim redundant PSU and the "feel" of the case, and neither one...

Also, Handy, you don't need to buy a $50 "6 channel analog cable" if you just want try listening to an SACD; stop by a Kmart or even a Walgreens and pick up three $3 pairs of stereo audio cables (the red and white guys). I don't think I'd be insulting if I said you aren't in a place where cable...

It depends a great deal on the acoustics of the room you're in. The only thing you can do is experiment. My greatroom (kitchen/dining/livingroom) is arranged in such a way that it was easy to get something similar to the "standard" a 5.1 arrangement (center straight-on, L/R at +- 30 degrees...

Er, that's what the consumer electronics companies are SAYING. I don't necessarily believe it. I have read that there are at least a couple of high end ($3000 single-disc models) units that'll do DVD Audio over "normal" SP/DIF cables. Unfortunately, google is not being my friend right now and...

Sigh. Yup. I've even posted that link a couple times before. 90% of what we print is monochrome, and we have a couple of printers from that service (the black was only free in the sense that you get a couple free bricks for every purchase of color bricks. It isn't like they gave you as much as...

A couple of SACD suggestions. Epics - a collection of familiar movie themes. I like the Lord of the Rings bit in the middle of the disc. It's not a spatial showcase, just a pretty cool disc. It's a hybrid SACD, which means it'll play in a regular CD player if you decide you don't need to go...

Her. And we already have two. We don't let students use them. The consumables are too expensive and we tend to use them for huge jobs like printing out 200-page manuals and stuff.

Altec's THX marketing is bullshit. The newest 2.1 pair is not impressive AT ALL. All in all I think I'd buy a lower-end set like a Logitech Z640s and save some cash - that's the set I resell to people who want 5.1 speakers - or pay the extra $50 for Z680s, which have a builtin DD/DTS/DPLII...

And in a story that should be a surprise to absolutely no one here...

If it's a big deal, it'd cost about US$150 to put together a HIGHLY overclockable P4 2.4A (that's the 533MHz Prescott) + motherboard. I understand those chips reliably hit 3.3Ghz with a few tweaks to core frequency. It should be easy enough to get rid of a brand new Barton + board combo.

time, if you'd care to look back at my 5000something-odd posts, you'll find I've never used any of those stupid yellow Emoticons. This is not a new fetish by any means. :) <-- No problem with the old-fashioned kind, though. Anyway, there are no Epson printers here. Reasons cited are the...

ASP isn't a big deal, Doug. It's just writing VBA or Javascript or PHP or Perl or whatever, and having your server interpret it, rather than passing it to a client.

You can't use a digital connection - TOSLink (that's fibre) or SP/DIF (that's the coaxial version) for high-res audio. It's a form of copy protection; content producers pretty much demanded it, to keep people from recording full-quality high-res audio. If you want to listen to those sources, you...

You have better DACs on your Receiver. Your DVD player should be outputting the AC3/DTS stream unmolested AFAIK, and only doing the decoding if you're using stereo or 6ch. analog connections. By the way, if you want to listen to SACD or DVD-A, you HAVE to use the 6ch. analog. There's no digital...

XPCreate From the web site: "XPCREATE is a utility program that will combine an original XP distribution and assorted hotfixes and updates to produce an up-to-date XP Distibution CD. XPCREATE allows the user to define custon installations and setup programs, but it's main richness lies in the...

Why is your server always down, David?

Buck is a design god. Handy knows PHP. Tannin's got mad HTML skeelz. Will Rickards is VB (don't hate me if I'm wrong...) developer... There's actually a pretty good base of Web-monkeys here.

... have been around for a long time now. IIRC the DJ820 and/or 870 were both "For Windows 98" and wouldn't print from DOS. Fortunately, there is a limit to HP's evil and they dropped that idea. Anyhoo, I misread Howell's post as I responded, but it wouldn't help anyway - the whole problem...

They lie. I've tried the original drivers and the most current rev. :( 2000 and XP don't let you capture local ports with the standard Windows network client. That's a 9xism.

Installing the printers locally does not seem to help; the photo options go away when the printer isn't connected locally via USB or parallel. Switchboxes are likewise out, just because of the cost of outfitting them for so many PCs - we'd have to buy 20 or so, each capable of doing either USB...

City of Heroes today! Huzzah!

I saw some pictures like that one alt.binaries.pictures.ero... Aw screw it. They were a little disturbing. At least one of the choices isn't "condom".

*WAY* too much work for our instructors, much less students. They come and get me for all that icky fooling around behind the computers. :(

Nope, just every other PC doing SMB-type sharing.

Here's a fun little problem: Here at work I've got a fairly substantial number of home-type photo printers mixed in with normal inkjets (e.g. HP 932, 870Csi). As for why we don't have a networked laser printer instead, I don't know. But... my boss wants all our classroom PCs to be able to...

So which ones are socks and which ones are puppets?

RAM prices are up and only going higher. My understanding is that chip makers are concentrating on DDRII and solid state devices rather than making us the DIMMs we need NOW. I'm sitting on four assembled PCs right now because RAM prices are so high. It's really disappointing.

They're semi-proprietary. There are at least three different pinout for the bay-caddy connection, and if you use the wrong one, you toast your drive. I speak from experience here. Find a brand you like and stick with it. I use Kingwin trays.

The outbound transport for my home network is qmail. I'm perfectly willing to try it on mine. I'm actually more interested in the fact that I'll have a standard mail server on a standard mail port - verizon blocks port 25, which makes having my own mail server a lot more annoying and a lot less...

When you think about it, probably 90% of the drives in modern computers are way bigger than they need to be anyway. It isn't like most corporate desktops don't have the space for a program like that. Reading about it, it looks like a pretty good idea. Now, the fact they're sending mubs spam...

Before my co-workers started whining about the processor utilization graph in "task manager" , I ran a F@H on couple dozen machines in my classrooms with absolutely no ill effect (except my co-workers' eventual whining).

While I'm at it, who is Nelson?

What the heck do your customers play the most, David? I've been popping in periodically on your server and there's never anyone there but me and the bots. I've been looking at City of Heroes. It's an MMO - and as a general rule I think MMO players are one step up from pondscum, but I love...

Where're you moving, Kevin?

Well, that's certainly cause to break out the Bombay Sapphire tonight!

Pretty much. How is the Aphex "super proprietary wonder harmonics" in comparison to the DSP Listen modes on your average $250 receiver? 'Cause it sounds to me like they do the same things.

I lost my connection too. :( BTW, I suck tremendously.

I'll swap you then.

I could probably arrange a Radeon 9100 or something.

Any time now...

Shall we try again tonight?

It works on XP as long as the computer in question does not belong to a domain.