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By FAR the easiest thing to do is to use a Promise or HPT controller for your big drives. If you have one laying around that is. Most of the boards I'm using have them integrated, which works well enough for the first 800GB or so. ;) WRT onboard sound, the SB64 was a premium card, and if all...

HEC power supplies are very quiet and inexpensive. That's what most of my PCs have. The 300W ones cost me like $25. Now that I think of it, I think I can give HEC a supreme testimonial: One of my PCs have 5 hard disks and two optical drives in it, besides the Athlon 2500 and 3 filled DIMM...

Ahem. Quality isn't inkjet, but nor is the cost of the supplies,

Sparkles are above average but very loud.

LVD2002. They are over $100. The 2001, which doesn't do divx, is the cheap one.

Santa doesn't visit. The magic of Craigslist, however, found me a good week's work.

Santilli has a history of doing that. Like his weird habit of typing something in the subject line. Speaking of holidays, here's my list: January 2nd (the day all the xtian winter holday crap is finally over), June 30th (don't ask), July 4th, Thanksgiving That's it.

Ebay for your speakers, man. You can probably get away with $200 for five mains. I'm not sure about the sub, but if you buy decent front speakers it isn't an issue anyway. If new is a requirement, Best Buy sells low-end ($150) speaker sets from Yamaha and KLH; a $100 center channel would...

I had suspected the drive in question was going bad for a long time, but I couldn't get it to fail S*ny's diagnostic (which consists of writing about 10MB of data to a CD-RW then reading it back). From a technical standpoint, I'd still rather have fast CD burning than fast audio extraction...

You might want to look at some of the things that have been done with knoppix. IIRC they have bootable CDs that start up America's Army and UT2003. No text editing. Auto-detecting all hardware. For the guy in your sig, I know there's no official support for 3D on R300 chips. I guess if you want...

OS X is in much the same place right now that NT4 was in up to about 1997. The hardware just hasn't quite caught up with the software yet. It'd help if Apple would do a little more of the Quartz stuff in hardware but I think another GHz or so from Motorola would make all the difference in the...

There were a lot of people who came out of the same program I did who struggled and fought with the Solaris, Irix and HP-UX machines we used, hard as that is to believe. There were guys who knew PC crap and that was it, or Mac crap only; a lot of comp sci grads from my program couldn't handle...

Textronics and HP only.

What the bloody hell is "PrintMe Internet Printing" and why does it keep showing up on my start menu? It's everywhere!

Middle of 2004, from what I've read.

Couple of things to keep in mind: 1. My education in computer science was conducted almost exclusively on Unix systems. This puts me in a very different place WRT to Linux than most people. 2. I've been using Linux for a long time. 10 years, now. It is very easy and very possible to get Linux...

The "pigs in the blanket" I'm familiar with are made with hamburger, rice and peppers stuffed into cabbage leaves and covered with a tomato-based sauce. I'm assuming that's not what you're talking about?

That is undoubtedly a postive, but here's to hoping the moron in question removes himself from the gene pool in a spectacular fashion just the same. "And now I'm gonna liquid cool my laptop with my bathwateBZZZZT." Common sense: Something that keeps us from doing more work than we have to...

That could also be Nero being more accurate. :) I don't have much of an opinion on 5.5 v. 6. But I don't like Sonic MyDVD and I REALLY don't like CD Creator (which has the slight problem of having a million different OEM versions that do different things depending on what the OEM paid for. e.g...

You know, I never get any spam for taking away the unwanted inches I already have... I was all set and ready to try these and now I can't find a wintel machine with a maxtor drive in it. :(

Not much call for awk, actually. Learn perl instead. I don't know what you're complaining about, e_dawg. I can make a linux box do anything a Windows machine can and vice versa. KDE works very well for Windows-types and the default apps that are available with Mandrake (which I've never used)...

LiteOn in this case means the evil S-word; LiteOn drives and indeed about 3/4 the dual-format units on the market appear to be OEM'd S*ny drives. I have gobs of Optorite (OEM'd evil) drives in service, a handfull of that which shall not be named, a LiteOn or two, and an I/O Magic drive that I...

No. One of the power toys for XP does Right-click resize to 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

I know what you look like, and I'm utterly certain we wouldn't look like twins.

ATI's drivers have, in the time I've been buying ATI hardware - about two years - been acceptable to very good. The Radeon family is also a unified driver and always has been, and besides, I'd rather have good hardware with crappy drivers than hardware that's bad to begin with.

Sorry, O Weilder of the Sock Puppets, my experience has shown me otherwise. They get too hot, have uniformly criminal 2D output and fail at a rate in excess of any rate I might find reasonable. That's neither perfectly serviceable nor fuss free. Quite a lot of fuss, actually.

It was subjectively identical to working with a KT400a or KT600, only without all the PCI slots. It didn't seem slower or worse for having integrated graphics, other than the objectionable use of system RAM for video. And people who live in glass houses shouldn't be Canadian. :P

XP better than 2000? Them's fightin' words! The only thing XP/2003 Server adds that I really, really appreciate is auto-population of Network Places with resources shared on other XP/2003 machines. It's not faster - or at least not enough that I can tell. I've seen more crashes and...

I've built a couple systems around the Biostar M7VIQ. They're not very exciting boards but they do the job well enough in lowest-end budget machines.

Hell no. I jumped through all their hoops and I *STILL* don't have one. Next time I have five seconds to bitch about it I'm going to be on them like ugly on Dick Cheney. I think I want a written apology suited for framing and/or wiping my ass with.

One more thing: The 80386 was the first 32-bit x86 chip. It was made available to the public in 1988. The first 32-bit DOS-compatible, protected mode games were released in 1994. I thnk it'll be a while before we see a 64bit game, other than (possibly) Doom3*. *Carmack's stuff is usually very...

You don't need to go there, David. No reason whatsoever. Yup, The Althon64s are fast but... they're fast. That's it. You're not going to do anything "64bit" until this spring at the earliest, unless you make a dramatic change in your opinion of Linux, and even at that you won't find out that...

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Well-optimized microcode, a goodly number of execution units and a pipeline that isn't 20 stages long. Nothing to do with 64bit-ness. To dramatically simplify, a pentium core is 2 486 cores (2 ALUs and an FPU) each with a (?)5 or 6 stage pipeline, a p55C is 2 ALUs, an FP unit and an MMX/FPU...

Coug, I'll thank you not to use that kind of language again.[/code]

There's more than one kind of shoes? I wear black new balance, uh, shoes every day. If there are more kinds than that I don't care. Women's fashion is really very easy because it is very direct. Once you understand something about the woman you are trying to dress it's really not hard to figure...

In lieu of any sort of review let me just say that I have never been in the presence of so many grown men weeping.

I will say however that I have played it for others, to mixed review.

I can manage Ravi Shankar or Fela Kuti or LadySmith Black Mambazo but the jingle bell origin is a little too much for me. Plus, cheesey drum machine at the beginning. Big time turn off.

Congratulations on another year of not dying, Handy!

I am absolutely foaming at the mouth to see RotK. I tried for the midnight showing opening night, but the lines were way too long. Couldn't go tonight because of moronic local theater scheduling conflicting with stupid job. Turns out neither local theater with showings is playing it in a...

XP Home edition should not exist. You guys have no idea how much simple file sharing messes me up. What I'd love to try some day is to get a user-group of people on the same home-type broadband connection and take a stab at centralizing administration for them. In the right community that...

It's interesting. I dunno about liking it quite, but as you said, it beats the tired version everyone is used to.

I am omnipresent.

Well, it's not really a hole. The messenger service should be on and enabled by default so admins can send out alerts (Server123 is going down in 5 minutes. Users on the second floor may not be able to log in during this time.) A better idea might be to require some authentication before they...

Nope. Most of my interest in Snapstream stems from its integration with my remote and satellite receiver. If all I wanted was a viewing interface I'd be perfectly happy with MMC and Guide+.

I don't know about that, Coug. IA-64 was Intel's well-meaning effort to break with the 20-year legacy of x86. Its main fault was being uncompelling from a price/performance standpoint. Of course, EVERYTHING is uncompelling from a price/performance standpoint, when compared to hordes of cheap...

How big are the discs in a microdrive? They can't be much bigger than that. Aren't there 2GB microdrives now?

The ranting? Or your mp3? (I don't have any sound hardware on this PC or I'd listen, too). I certainly was feeling poisonous last night, wasn't I?