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Unless you know of a place that has 802.11a, there's probably not much point. It seems to have lost the battle for widespead adaptation, and 802.11n hardware will probably be out Real Soon Now.

Well, I am a real person. And I've spoken to Handy, BooST and Howell, and all of them are real people. Gary, I think you miscounted. There are FOUR real people. Anyway, Lunar can't be a Gary, because his location isn't that awful place formerly known as Mexico.

I'd probably choose KDE for a first-timer with a decent machine. I'm a minimalist myself, but it's pretty windows-ish IMO.

My father strained at the same thing as a Naval Officer, timwhit. There is no shame in finding that you have a different vision for yourself than the one offered by the military. There are other ways to serve one's country and there are other ways to serve the world. At this point I think this...

Apparently. ;)

I eat hot peppers at any opportunity. I've never had Gilbo's, uh, experience, but I've had the odd burn on my hand from insufficient washing.

It's worth pointing out that since you're dealing with less-than-pristine analog sources, there will be issues with less-than-pristine sound input no matter what you do. As a practical matter, using a USB device for input probably isn't going to make any difference. "Auto Level" sounds to me a...

The search works just fine. I can find anything here that I'm looking for. The benefit of omnipresence. :P Anyone know a good mix of spices for chili? I've been using packaged stuff but looking at the ingredients list on a spice packet, I'll bet all that stuff is in my spice rack. I mix three...

This was, I think, the second-ever thread from the Pub. Maybe the third. It's, uh, pretty old. :)

win98's fdisk is supposed to handle whatever. You just need to use Percentages instead of raw numbers.

Most of them are minor, nit-picky stuff. There are articles elsewhere on the web that list them all. The biggies for me pretty much involved replacing the "old" emperor with the one from the newer movies, and doing the same thing with Hayden Christenson as Anakin.

I like cases that blend in with my home theater rack. Shoeboxes don't cut it in that regard, and they really don't support enough drives IMO to make a decent stab at being long-term video storage (note to amateurs: 500GB only sounds like a lot until you get used to having that much). The HT400...

Cause most people don't do MPEG4 to MPEG2 conversions all the time.

You're right. You do sound like a religious zealot.

I've got DVDs of the LaserDisc (original) editions, the VHS "Special Editions" and the DVDs. MOST of the changes are are very minor in the grand scheme of things; the changes in the special editions tend to be more radical. These updated versions ARE still Star Wars. Not quite the movies I...

That sounds about right to me.

If you're gonna rent a woman, you might as well go all the way. One of my brothers is taking a trip to Prague expressly for that reason.

I do note that Hauppauge, after telling me in *two* different email queries, is finally offering their PVR-250 in a half-height PCI card. That makes finding a decent HTPC case about a billion times easier.

I would get up and walk out if someone asked me that question with the expectation of a serious answer. If someone had asked me five years ago what I would be doing today, the answer would be very, very, very different from reality.

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I'd do it, but I have to have the phone line (and long distance service, according to Verizon) to have my DSL service.

Friends don't let friends use Western Digital. Please Lunar, if not for us, think of the children. Think of the children. <shudder> (I did notice, when I was in Sam's Club on Sunday, that 2500JBs are apparently now $99. Even at that price, I'm not buying).

I'm of the opinion that it's better to never start. Alcohol is expensive. It doesn't smell good. And a bottle of anything "decent" costs as much as 256MB DIMM. ;) No, I still haven't had my first drink. I don't know what circumstances would lead me to do so. I do think there has to be a better...

You can use any DNS you want. No one cares.

Spyware is absolutely the first thing I think of with those symptoms. But it's easy enough to try a different DNS. Verizon's for example, are 4.2.2.2 - 4.2.2.4. Thing is, you are finding pages. They just aren't completely loading. That suggests that you're getting timed out. Which suggests...

I enjoy movies. As I said, I *can* get 24 in a week, if I'm sufficiently motivated. Usually it is just 8 or 16, plus maybe another 8 from wantedlist.com (for, uh, the other kind of movies I like). But for example I could grab a couple series' worth of Star Trek or the X Files in a week, and...

Nero has a really nice audio editor builtin. Well, OK, not REALLY nice, but more than good enough to do the job. You'll need an amplifier for your turntable and a set of stereo RCA to mini-jack connectors. Total cost, even if you have to buy the record player, should be under $200.

It can be 24 DVDs a week, if I try hard enough. I notify them of return the day they ship out and with the one day turnaround to the Chicago shipping center, I get movies three times a week.

I note they haven't changed the price of the plan *I'm* on. :(

I wrote software to help me sort it. It's not really a big deal. Lots of people basically do the same thing with their email. Clocker, LM already said most of his drives are external firewire units.

Multimedia console. It's the catch-all for ATI's video viewing and capture applications.

I've read that they've already split the engineering group that was responsible for soundstorm into different product groups. I don't think we'll see a future version of it. The good news is, there's enough outcry that perhaps someone will take up and champion the technology someplace else (a...

I did my Steam rant a few weeks ago. It's in some other thread here. Anyway, girls play games. My little LAN party in my office was 15% Estrogen-american. Y'know what? They were all cute, too. Anyway, I think the only part of this that's even remarkable is a mainstream acknowledgement of the...

I'm sure it will, but it will be built on AC97 or some similarly crappy standard, rather than the drool-worthy Soundstorm codec. IIRC new intel southbridges do Pro Logic II, but IMO that's the least-pleasant of the fake-5.1 encoding methods. I don't have THAT much of an opinion on DD5.1 vs. DTS...

USB is REALLY poorly implemented for some things. There are a lot of USB devices that won't work unless they're attached directly to a root hub. Converter products (USB-Serial, USB-SCSI) have been hit or miss for me. I bet your mouse just isn't getting whatever the hell it needs to work from...

Anything newer than an 8500, Coug. VideoSoap isn't THAT impressive and only works with ATI's MMC.

I sell on the order of 50 systems a year. Tannin probably does ten times that number. We both use and recommend Via over its alternatives. Hm...

Over a year ago nvidia made a press release stating their intention to offer a soundstorm based sound card And, for the record, the NV1 graphics product was integrated as a dual purpose video and sound card. nVidia HAS made sound chips before. Anyway, I'd commit vile and heinous crimes to have...

I had an old Microsolutions Parallel port CD-ROM and an old Pinnacle MP10 that also would not function properly with my collection of laptops. Eventually I found that most non-printer parallel devices required EPP communication, which was not supported on the oldest Dell and IBM notebooks I owned.

Last I checked, Shakespeare wrote in English, OT:Polizei.

Soundstorm is a DSP that converts PCM sources to Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. You've stated opposition to surround sound in the past, but here's the thing: It's wonderful for gaming, and as far as things go, the soundstorm process does a vastly better job than other 5.1 upconverting techniques I'm...

No one has a chance against Lakers. :P

I think I found a good use for a small nuclear weapon. Really, this completely and totally fucking sucks.

Second floor to first works much better in practice.

Yesterday I ran into a problem I found rather unusual. A few weeks ago I sold a Home Theater PC to a college student whom I thought was reasonably "on the ball" as far as computers went. She told me that videos played in windows media player didn't play back on her TV. She said they show up as...

Acronis works wonderfully and does a better job with RAID volumes and SATA drives than ANYTHING else. It can work while windows is running. It's a solid product. That said, I still do everything with Ghost, mostly due to inertia.

Before you throw that WD drive in the box to RMA, you might try pulling its jumper and using it in Cable Select mode. WD drives are REALLY funny about that...

There are a variety of solutions to these problems on sourceforge.net and Freshmeat.net. I haven't used any in the last three years; I'm not sure my experience would have any validity at this point. In the commercial realm, SuSE has an Exchange replacement that I've heard good things about...

I've seen Hitachi drives for $145 with no rebate at all. Plus there's the hunting and killing part.

Poor choice of pairings: PIO-mode devices on the same IDE channel as UDMA devices lead to having two PIO mode devices (lesson: don't put an LS-120 on the same cable with anything you actually want to use) Single-ended devices do the same thing to LVD SCSI. And while I'm at it improper...