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$325 USD. Good PSU, nice fans, lots of RAM. Minus a few bucks for the nvidia card, plus a few for Soltek...

Tyan = Volvo. Not as popular as the other guys. High quality, bulletproof but there's always some minor little thing that keeps it from being the best thing on the road. If Gigabyte is Toyota (and it is, e_dawg), Epox can only be Nissan - much adventurous and slightly less reliable, but still a...

From time to time I find it necessary to explain my distaste for a particular motherboard via analogy, usually to nontechnical people who are interested in purchasing a new PC. The analogy I end up repeating over and over goes: "That ECS motherboard in your quote from XXXXXX, if that were a...

Another budget. I set aside $100 for that out of the cost per PC. You're right that it's exceedingly difficult to make a PC that cheap, but I wouldn't be ashamed to own or to build a machine like that. We probably all would've been envious of that machine in, say, January of last year. The...

I ended up with... Biostar 7vmIQ (s3 graphics, NIC, sound) XP1800+ retail 40GB SP40 40x Liteon CD-RW 256MB of the ultra-generic stuff Intel HaM 56k (yup, I hafta shoehorn in a modem, too) floppy Premier (yuck!) case w/ 300W PSU HP DJ3320 USB Cable (costs $1, but the printer doesn't include it...

I'm pretty sure Half-Life was one of the first titles to support EAX, blake. Seemed to work pretty well for me.

I make no claim on Indiana. I spent the first half of my life in Illinois. And no, I don't know what a "Hoosier" is, either. For those that don't know, Indiana, as a state, was once largely governed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. It probably still is - that would explain local political...

Perhaps DB has finally corrupted poor sweet little Tea. Oh. Yup. I guess she was like that to start out with.

"Good ole boys" frighten me. Perhaps they wouldn't, if that image were not so easy for me to picture. Me, I think everyone living south of the Mason-Dixon line is one date with their sister away from being an extra in "Deliverance II: Bobby's Revenge". I base this on some truly scary visits...

Knowing full well that no one shares my particular taste in fiction, I'm going to go ahead and mention that I thoroughly enjoyed the three books to date that have been published in John Ringo's "Posleen saga". Today I bought and finished "Wigfield, the Can-do Town that just May Not", by Amy...

I can't justify $38/month for standard cable service but $300 or $13 a month for a TV guide... wow. ... that was me rolling my eyes, in case you missed it. Here, let me do it again. Free TiVo is certainly a step in the right direction. Being able to pause any home entertainment, or...

Judging by my spelling in this thread, I must've taken the brown acid again. Reading the review, it sounds like there's real plot. I don't think that much time would be taken with facial expressions if the characters were just decoration. I actually finished Half Life and all the expansions...

Damn tim, don't do that to me when I have open windows with dirty pcitures in 'em. Let's do linkage instead... Link.

The details of those buildings, the shadows... wow.

Iwish I knew what the HELL to do about that fact.

I'm not anti-government. I'm anti-George Bush. I'm not anti-corporation, I'm pro-small-business.

Less software and administrative costs I'm looking at under $350 in total. Dell and Gateway are out. These computers will be assembled by members of the local Steelworker's union and distributed to students entering college by the Urban League of Northwest Indiana.

Those a Textronics Phasers, man. You agree to buy the, um, crayons (little under $600 to fill one up). Finding out about that program actually led me to purchase an 850DP for myself.

Oh. And printers. $21000 for 25 PCs, printers, monitors, Windows and some training. That's $300 for the actual computer hardware, nearly as I can tell. Called CDW. No one has gotten back to me. Their charity hamster must be broken.

See above. Waiting to die. That's it. I sincerely doubt that I have the force of will to maintain any kind of exercise regime. I used to walk with Amy, in the morning, but then I had a single motivating factor (ie Amy's company).

Anyone ever dealt with this before? I got "volunteered" to specify and purchase computers for a US 503(1) charitable organization just a moment ago, and unless the discounts for software licensing for charity are a LOT better than the ones for academic software, I don't know whether I'll be able...

Really, honestly, 210 and 215 are practically the same test. 218 is kind of hard. Administering Network Infrastructure is a total PITA 'cause it asks about a ton of stuff you never have to mess with. Anyway, I go back and forth about how valuable certs are. Right now I've got a couple of...

1. I can't imagine being envious of vitriol, but thanks, I think. 2. For the other part, I only wish I could see things that way. honold, I don't know if there's any truth to what you say. I am depressed in a way that requires very very careful choice of words when I talk about my feelings at...

Well, I had kind of hoped that posting my weight would help me somehow. I don't think it has. I'm the sort who terminally abhors physical activity of any kind (when I lived in the country, my father used to punish me by driving someplace and making me walk home). I used to lift weights. Haven't...

I've decided that I supremely dislike spring. Spring is when my allergies kick in. Spring brings thunderstorms and lightning and the annual "You're going to bill me for flipping the switch on that surge protector" complaints. Spring is when other people open their windows, and when their lives...

Tumesence of the male member.

Vee prefer tha rock. Pop ups, pop downs... vee get zhem mit computermonitors oder mitout.

If you freeze frame in just the right place during "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", you'll find that Mrs. Rabbit is not wearing undies. The first video boxes for both "Alladin" and "The Little Mermaid" were pulled because some stupid housefrau decided that the minarets+towers of the castles in the...

So no duplicable errors with Nero-made DVDs except playback on Xbox (doesn't Xbox need a playback kit, anyway, or is that the other thing?) I've seen anti-Nero DVD stuff a few other places as well. It's really going to bug me, 'cause sure enough I can't find it any more.

Pradeep, what is it, exactly, that you do? Months in the states, visits to Tokyo, an Aussie location... Seems like you move around more than any of us.

I prefer "circumfrentially challenged".

I've read in several different places now that DVD Video discs made with Nero are not highly compatible discs. I've done several now without any problem, using Nero 5.5.10.20 and 5.5.10.28, mostly Disney movies that happened to be below 4.5GB on-disc (e.g. 101 Dalmations). Is there a basis...

330, actually. Or thereabouts. Normal bathroom scales don't weigh things so heavy. I used the scale on the loading dock at the building where I work. LunarMist, mubs, the short version of the last year of my life is that my long-time best friend and fiance woke up one morning and realized she's...

I know it'll be fixed and everything, but it absolutely stuns me that something like that could make it through QA. MS code is supposed to reviewed and whiteboarded before being committed to the product. Something like that would be basic error checking.

... and tonight I came home and found my 2003 Server happily hard-locked, utterly at idle (TMPEGenc having completed the night before), and without any clues to indicate the source of the problem. Nothing in the event log, even. This same hardware ran 2000 Server stable for weeks at a time.

Well, Nero tells me that this thing can't read a pristine DVD-R at anything more than 6.8x. That tears it. I'm sending this POS back. After playing a bit today, I'm pretty sure this drive is a Sony. I've got a gen-u-ine Sony 48x CD-RW sitting here, a DRU500AX, a LiteOn 52x burner and this...

Drat. I was hoping one of the folks here who have actually RMA'd a CPU would be able to help without my having to make that call...

That's the problem. I don't know, either.

I have in my hand an AthlonXP 1700+ that appears to have failed. The problem: No stickers or markings indicating retail or OEM status. This is a very old chip. It's from a time when I was buying retail only (I started buying some OEMs again some few months ago for my personal use)? Markings as...

The only time LiteOn drives seem to make noise is if they're reading a data disc, and when you first put a disc in. Mine seem to be fairly quiet if I'm just watching a movie. The other 16x models I have are LTD163s. They're cosmetically identical to the newer model.

Since Amy left my life, I've gained almost 100lbs, and I wasn't skinny to begin with. Since I don't leave my apartment except for work, it isn't like there's a compelling reason to develop better habits. Eating more junk food and practicing assal horizontology are sure ways to gain weight. The...

Is this thing on?

Just thought I'd let everyone know that new Lite On XJ-HD166S 16x DVD-ROM drives appear to be locked at 2x for DVD ripping, just like Toshiba drives. The last drive I have that does fullspeed rips was made in January. The two I got today were both made in early March, and both hover around 2x...

Just goes to show how subjective speakers are. I can't stand Klipsch speakers, particularly not when I think about how much they're charging for them. IMO, the sub that comes with Klipsch speakers tends to overpowering even at low volumes.

I've been beating on my 2003 server just about as hard as I can for the last two days. I popped in a pair of GigE NICs and added it to my backbone, I've added a couple of USB2 drives to it and I've been bulk-copying data from those to my fileservers, running an InstantCopy transcoding job and a...

I tend to think of my left-handedness as an advantage in computing. I type a larger portion of the keyboard with fingers of my left hand than my right, so I don't "miss" my right hand on a trackball as much as a right-handed person probably would. The Quill people are still spouting crap. Just...

Thanks mubs. I don't particularly have an outlet for writing other than here. re: MSI. I don't see them very often. In fact, I've seen five MSI boards, ever, outside retail packaging. The one I own, A K7T Pro ARU, is basically the template for the above rant. If nothing else is accurate about...

S'OK. He wasn't using it anyway. The lab machines I maintain ALL have an attached printer. Mostly color inkjet, more HP 932s or 945s, with some dreadful 620s, 670s and various $30 Apollo Inkjets as well. There's one fairly high-end Epson and a couple of LJ 6Ls. The Ls seem to give more more...

My rule of thumb is that if it looks like a photocopier and doesn't say Lexmark on it, it's probably fine. Just about every office I go in seems to have a 4500N, and I don't know of anyone who has a problem with a 4500N. Those big printers are probably the last thing HP makes that's any good...

I don't know. They both feature UFO-like objects on their retail packaging... Gigabyte experience: Smartly packaged, solidly packed motherboard, along with a detailed user guide, a large poster with step-by-step installation instructions, and case sticker detailing DIP switch and front panel...