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I've almost exclusively bought Sapphire cards anyway. I found I was getting something just as good for about 10% less than ATI's price. Oddly, didn't nvidia actually manufacture all the FX5x00 cards itself?

Either that or a very small TV. LCD TVs are a frickin' scam. You've probably noticed this by now.

I ended up with 2 CDs of essential drivers. I bookmarked the pages where I found them, and I plan to update them monthly as needed. I have two OTHER CDs of applications. One of non-free but nonetheless essential stuff like ghost, another that's completely free, that I give away like popcorn...

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Sure it is. If your ISP is anything like most businesses, they probably don't have the time or an employee to spare to make sure that network services you're interested in providing on its network won't cause a problem for its other users. They can take two approaches: 1.) Declare Servers to be...

Mercutio shall not play these games because he understands that crap like that is the reason Flash is completely and utterly worthless.

Probably that they don't want to deal with the insecurity of having people who really don't fully understand what they're doing running very hackable servers on their network. I know that's the problem I'd have with it. Or maybe the fact that you might be doing something illegal on your...

PeeWee, I've made every argument I can make on the subject. I've linked to *objective reviews and measurements of Bose equipment*. I've stated my subjective opinion about Bose, a subjective opinion of the equipment in question, and several other members here have made similar statements...

Temperatures aren't reported in sufficient gradiation. 27C would be a very warm room, but 25 C would be the chilly side of comfortable. I'd much rather know that it's 80F or 75F. It'd be different if Celsius air temps were regularly reported in 10ths of degrees. They aren't, and to me the more...

I've come to the happy conclusion that you enjoy being a fool (no offense to other members so named). Here it is, Mercutio's Second Law of StorageForum: Take a position contrary to Professor Wizard if you want to be right. (the first law, for those who have forgotten: The interest in a topic...

NAT breaks a lot of RFCs. Things don't work the way they're supposed to when you're using NAT. It's better to have a real IP if possible.

If you'd go back and read this very thread, you'd find that Bose's highest-end speakers, the 901s, are trashed just as their low-end crap.

I'd say it depends on the size of your TV. Big TVs look like crap close-up. There's got to be a minimum distance, too. I'd guess probably 2 feet for every 12 inches of screen.

Hosting/colo is usually about $100 a month. That's a serious "ouch", I think. I'd put in if that's something you'd need.

If you leave stuff running long enough, you'll actually start fearing shutdowns, since "that's when things break".

I'm not even sure you can get a motherboard without sound these days. The RealTek ACL650 that comes on lots of VIA boards works pretty well for almost everything a typical desktop user might want. I've never heard of "Remington" computer chassis. Premier is listed on your linked site at $50...

*MY* JVC actually has substantially better color control than Toshiba and Panasonic models I looked at. Also, JVC's color balance is shifted a bit toward red. Don't know why, but I've observed it on five or six different displays. The 32" 16x9 display (see Honold's link) would be a hair over...

Here's another side to this mess.

I like the 16x9 32" VGA CRT even better. I think I'll order one.

I don't see much need to upgrade from a Rage Pro for this situation.

I'd suggest something like a Shuttle AK39N (vanilla KT400) instead of Coug's Soltek. It's probably $25 cheaper.

If you're using svideo input, you don't need a (multiple)comb filter. The filter, as I understand things, is only used when input is from a composite or UHF source. I started a similar thread back in, oh, November or December. Several people suggested JVC, and that's what I bought. I got my...

I'm not. Stuff about Asia Carrera shows up in mainstream print all the time. Again, she's the one the whole industry points to when they want to say "we're not ALL sleazy idiots". OTOH, I'm the guy who lists pr0n on my profile under "Hobbies".

Asia Carrera went to Rutgers on a full academic scholarship. Dropped out after her first year. She's a mensan (not that it's a big deal. pre-1995 SATs scores over 1350 qualify you, too). Supposedly, she wants to get away from performing by age 30. I think she's 28 or 29 now. Asia has made some...

1. This site squeezes "Alltheweb" in a few more times than I might think healthy, particularly for a search engine that almost no one uses. I've used it. It's spiffy. So is altavista, so is inktomi. None of them perform the same way google does. I'd really like to see what kind of relationship...

Mozilla works on my bank's web site. Even online bill payment. Mozilla works on my credit cards' sites. Mozilla has had bookmark aliasing for a long time as well

The problem I end up having - I actually HAVE distributed the client to my classroom PCs - is that they aren't left on and idle very often. I work with some real anal-retentives - people who get upset when printers and monitors are left in standby mode. The classroom machines get turned on...

My expert advice is that it more than likely isn't possible. Under some circumstances, booting off USB is possible, but you need support at the BIOS and device level. I've seen boot support on keychain drives but not on any USB(2) hard disks. Sorry. :(

Guess if you want IE 8, you'll have to constantly update with Windows Update. I more-or-less figured this was coming. It's really hard to get a standalone IE install right now, anyway (you can make your own with the IEAK, and that's about it). Since support for Windows 98 ends at the end of...

If the giver is that hard up, then yes. Personally, I'd rather go in for one of the professions previously suggested in another thread than have anything to do with that woman. Just remember that there are some people for whom the phrase "Coyote Ugly" was coined. One could also coin the...

I have a funny Ron Jeremy-related story. I have a student who, despite all indications to the contrary on my part - up to and including threats of restraining orders - wants to, um, take me for a ride. She's in her mid-30s, recovering alcoholic, so hyperactive her family force-feeds her...

Yes, it's happened. Yet another "Wannabe Storage Freak" has joined the likes of CougTek and Handruin. Huzzah for Pradeep.

Oddly enough, the Giver is not the first person to tell me I'm good at being mean. 41. Aunt Jemima 42. Professional Fencepost 43. Forensic Dermatologist 44. Small Ungluate Taxidermist 45. Traffic Cone 46. Burn Victim 47. Sumo Accountant 48. Bikini-wax stylist to portly celebrities 49. Patient 0...

I met Hugh Hefner and his then-wife on a high school field trip. Some of my classmates showed up in the movie he was filming. When I was in college I met and spoke to Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan (the 1st and last men on the moon, respectively. Both attended Purdue.) I once got a hug from...

24. White House Phonics Tutor 25. Personal Assistant to Rev. Louis Farrakhan 26. Exhibit B in "The Trial of the Century" 27. Page 3 girl for "The Wall Street Journal" 28. Diversity Coordinator for the Ku Klux Klan 29. Jet or Shark 30. 2nd Bill in a Tijuana Donkey Show 31. Starring role in a...

In the US, knives aren't usually given out at school, even for meals that would normally require them. At this point, in the US, students are lucky that they can still use scissors and staplers.

4. Sanitation Engineer? 5. Colo-Rectal surgeon? 6. Ordinance Disposal? 7. Towel-boy at a San Francisco bathhouse? 8. Staff Writer for Ms. magazine? 9. Battery taste tester? 10. America Online Level 1 Technical Support? 11. Chicken Sexer (yes, this is a real job)? 12. Spice Girl 13. Iraqi...

You were at ORD and you didn't let us know? Can't believe I'm saying this, but that might've actually been worth a trip to O'Hare.

That really is a great deal. Sadly, my 3.5" drive bays are reserved for things that're at least 100GB bigger than that. Why are you selling it, if I might ask?

Well, that's 'cause there's only (very quiet) one computer in there... My whole apartment is fairly quiet, except for the AC units. I insulated the closet where I keep the obnoxiously loud stuff with carpet scraps. Works pretty well. :) Someone needs to make air conditioners that don't make...

Is this really a thread we need to continue at this point? About ninth. I'm actually fairly confident that SCO will implode nicely all by itself. The current situation really hasn't impacted my view of SCO. They were stupid and evil before they were bought by Caldera, and they're stupid and...

If we're talking liqour and people's rears, there's an even better answer: Alcohol affects the body no matter how it gets in there. Ingestion? Passe. Two gallons of single-malt, offered as an enema, would undoubtedly introduce alcohol poisoning AND lead to a certain feeling for discomfort for...

Um, Hitachi has 1-year-warranties, too. In any case, this story has hit zdnet and slashdot, which means basically the whole spectrum of techies has heard about it. The damage has been done.

And midgets.

That's weird. My best stuff is in my bedroom where it's quiet and the "little" stuff is out in the rest of my apartment.

Of course, if I could adulterate my filth, I'd be able to post it. Consider that an offer for UNadulterated filth, instead. While we're at it, AOL paid $4 billion for Netscape in 1998. At the time, Netscape's core assets were its browser, its various server products and the X million hits per...

I'm afraid, as a moderator, that my response to this news item cannot be reproduced in this or any other forum frequented by our membership. Anyone who wants 10 paragraphs of adulterated filth, feel free to PM me.

I don't play online games, but I can EASILY imagine how utterly annoying this stuff must be to "normal" players. Found this link on /. There's some naughty words. It's too funny to not pass on to the Clockers and Groltzs and Handruins, though. Link

Listened to a pair of these, along with a few other pairs in the ~ $200 range at a shop in Hinsdale, IL (Audio Consultants?) a couple years ago. They reduce noise somewhat at low frequencies. Traffic noise, for instance. A little bit better than plain ol' closed headphones. They had VERY LITTLE...

I was referring to professional network hardware. When the time comes, someone will no-doubt make a $100 box to replace the IPv4 one that consumers have now.