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What CPU do you want, paugie?

How to Man Up your Gaming Smack-Talk. I am not a very good gamer but I did find out from running a few LAN parties that I can say things so wrong that I can make a whole room of gamers fall silent. Anyway, the link is teh funny.

New homeowners = SOL Also, Handy, 2 > 0. You're swimming by comparison.

There's no way I'd use a Shoebox for a corporate machine. Proprietary motherboards, flakey power supplies and frankly even the aesthetics are a problem on those things.

I use Samsungs if possible and beyond that it depends on budget.

One thousand posts is indeed a good number of posts. Thanks for many questions, Will.

Server 2003 Web edition is like $300. Microsoft likes to give out free copies of Windows Server when you go to tech conferences and stuff, though. I don't think x64 is worthwhile yet, at all.

That's unbelievably overspecified for a business machine. For an engineer, it'd be a good setup. You can safely drop to whatever the cheapest C2D is. I'd use an Intel motherboard with integrated video, and an 80 or 160GB hard disk. 2GB RAM would be gone, too, if the price per gigabyte exceeded $50.

Windows Server 2003, x64 edition. It's the only decent choice at the moment.

Handruin, that is very good news about your house. I have a feeling that the next several years are going to be a better time for those of us who don't own homes. And I am completely jealous of the fact that you can get a date. With anything. Seriously. I hate you.

I honestly couldn't stand to watch Die Hard 4. After the fourth or fifth completely moronic thing involving computers came up, I gave up on it. I am glad that I didn't pay money to see it.

I'd absolutely look at the Quad core before an expensive dual core setup. The subjective difference between a fast dual core and a "slow" one isn't all that great, whereas the advantage of quad is fairly obvious. IMO the only dual core Intels worth looking at are the slowest ones in any category.

I thought it would be, too. It wasn't. The book is awesomer, still.

It probably helps a lot that I order in much larger volumes than most people but I don't really have reason to complain about Newegg's packing. They've sent me some hilarious recycled boxes, though.

PowerDVD 7 works.

Everyone should go. Not just you. You should go twice.

Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback placed second, third and fourth in today's Iowa Straw Poll. Guliani and McCain didn't even register a single percentage point. On one level, that is positively horrifying, because those men who came out strongest are essentially the absolute most...

Those tools don't exist yet as far as I know. You live with ~25GB of files for a movie and you like it. Especially when the movie is "Serenity", which is the entire reason I bought an HDDVD player.

Why are you reading this? Go see Stardust. Now.

Stardust is very easily the best movie I have seen this year. Princess Bride with a bit more fantasy. Dark Crystal but for grown-ups. More romantic and funny than the Lord of the Rings movies. Really a superb movie. Just exactly right in tone.

It works fine with Server 2003. I use AnyDVD 6.1 to bypass the moronic requirement for HDCP.

Every time I've ever called Microsoft, they've told me one of two things: "You're running an unsupported configuration" or "That's a vendor-specific/service provider issue." What I've learned to do is to be very cautious about doing anything on a Windows server. If I'm not exactly sure what I'm...

I've never had a productive call to Microsoft.

It's based on the number of sockets, not the number of cores. XP Home Supports ONE. XP Pro supports TWO.

mubs, Microsoft is contractually obligated to deliver patches to its Plutonium-level Business Partners before it can give them to the little people.

Since ddrueding has hair all over his face and body, no boobs and a wang, I think the matter of his status as good-looking is very much up for debate.

Yes.

As a former Hairy Aussie... "The important thing to remember about Australia, though, is that it is some tough-as-nails country. It's, like, where all the nasty stuff from evolution went to go and live in a trailer with a shotgun." -- Ray Smuckles, Cartoon Cat

Get a Fibre Switch or a Fibre hub. That's what they do. There's tons of used FC equipment on ebay.

Windows 2000 Pro flat-out won't see more than two CPUs, real or virtual. XP You could install TinyXP, XP Home and XP Pro. The rule on XP is essentially that XP will support whatever fits in one or two physical CPU sockets. You could install SuSE or Ubuntu. Depending on what your needs for this...

A few weeks ago I got an HTC 6800 (Sprint calls it a "Mogul") and Sprint's utterly uncapped SERO data service plan (no bullshit Verizon "unlimited but only 5GB a month" deal). $30 a month for phone and data and my tests say I get about 750kb/sec downloads from my personal web server. I could...

I still do not even remotely understand the point of Myspace.

No. They are a whole bunch of incestuous business arrangements, however.

Asus is IIRC the second largetst OEM these days (Gigabyte is number three I think). It is big enough that it recently split into three distinct companies to cover its various business interests, including white-box hardware and component manufacture. They are the manufacturer for a lot of...

There are several different versions of Roxio. The more common ones don't support making DVD-Video discs. Anyway, I suspect that there are a minimum of free DVD authoring tools simply because DVD Video is encumbered with licensing costs at virtually every step of the process.

You're doing it wrong. There's lots of ways to make a quiet home theater setup but I think you're pursuing the wrong avenue. 1. You're playing back movies. Storage does not need to be local for that. Capture is a different story, but these days a crappy little 2TB array will last years if...

I haven't been posting lately because, frankly, for the last couple months I've been just about as empty and depressed as I've ever been. I haven't had anything I wanted to say or to talk about. I've been sleeping with any time I wasn't working and that is literally all I've been doing. I was...

I have a couple of the P35s on order but you'll probably get yours before I get mine. The "DS3" and its lesser "S3" brother, in both "G" and "P" varieties, are generally good for me, though not the best Gigabyte motherboards I've ever used. My main complaints are that there's no way to...

Oh yeah?

Bottled water is the one that's maddening. A lot of bottled water is literally some city's municipal tapwater. Not filtered. Not extra-pure or more free of contaminants. It's tap water that's put in bottles made from hydrocarbons and shipped all over world. The cost of the water itself is...

This is why I roll my own prepped images for the hardware I deal with.

Simplified information on how to Upgrade Vista to proper versions of Windows.

IBM 1401: a User's Manual. In this case, the video is an interpretive dance. The Mainframe is used AS the principle musical instrument. How cool.

There might be a legitimate state interest in encouraging childbirth and couple-hood, that being that there's probably a commensurate reduction in crime and public health issues for intact families. From the standpoint of resource allocation/energy footprint, I kind of wonder how worthwhile it...

Oh. I see how it is. You'll provide women for the maple-syrup-swillin' poutine and Tim Horton's lovers but it'll be a cold day in Palo Alto before you put even ONE chick in a fedex box and ship her off to Indiana! I'm telling Cougtek about all your plans for an English Only Quebec, sirs, and...

Shit. I'd send a whole PC, except that Handy would probably expect that by now. :D

The Tech Report has an interesting article on the value proposition of current Intel and AMD processors. There's even some folding-specific comparisons. I linked to the last page of the article.

In what twisted world do you live that a Treo is a "small" phone?

Eugenics was an idea that had a great deal of traction among the intelligentsia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It wasn't all Nazis. Mainstream physicians, philanthropists and social philosophers genuinely thought it was a good idea. There was a particular interest in sterilizing poor people...

I'm still a big fan of Nero. Nero 7 is kind of bloated, but the basic apps (Nero, Express, ImageDrive, Recode, Vision, and the Wave Editor) are pretty spiffy. I pair Nero with AnyDVD to handle my DVD copying needs.