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Since we've just had a long thread about cheapo laptops, I wonder: Does anyone have any particularly strong feelings about the bag your laptop goes in? My Thinkpad lives in a Kensington laptop backpack, only because all my tools and discs and stuff get crammed into a heavy duty saddlebag-type...

I think Mcaffee is several steps worse than Symantec. And Symantec is pretty bad. I support Symantec Corporate, which I don't like, but use for some of my clients and at my trainer job. I like Kapersky just fine, and I've been glad to use that as well. I provide AVG free on many of the...

You need a new power supply, I think.

The reason I switched from Moz to Firefox is that several must-have extensions are Firefox only. I don't know where Tannin gets his "dumbed down" opinion - the UI is clearly better than Opera (then again, what isn't?) and almost everything can be modified or customized to one's approval.

If your favorite web browser isn't firefox, I don't know what's wrong with you. It doesn't appear to have hit the main page at mozilla.org yet.

I got to play with a video ipod today. The main thing that doing so did, was show me the weaknesses inherent in iTunes. iTunes is god-awful. You can't just copy files to an ipod through a file manager. Nope. God forbid you plug one in to a computer with a different library.

Are you planning to use it as a monitor as well as a TV, Buck?

If you find out that all your RAM works, I happen to know that jtr could really use a 184-pin DIMM of some kind...

I know there are people who hate codec packs, but they make my life easier, since I don't get pain-in-the-ass questions about whether or not weirdo-video-format X plays or doesn't play in player Y. The current K-Lite Mega Codec pack was released today at Betanews

Good lord. What are you putting in that machine?!?

http://nuhi.msfn.org/ It's free. It needs the .NET application framework, making it by my count, the only useful application that uses the .NET application framework. It's basically a wizard for creating a custom Windows install disc. You can add drivers and slipstream in service packs and...

Gamespy Arcade seemed liek Spyware to me the one time I let something install it. Not seeing a problem with it being detected as such. Fucking Steam is ALSO spyware, if you ask me. WRT to VMware, I'd say that's disappointing, but are you actually loading up 64-bit guest installations? Of...

There's a non-chain-store sub shop not far from my apartment that has $99 bottles of Dom Perignon on the menu... the next most expensive item is $7. They said they sell about a bottle a month.

Do the new versions work better than the original? Anyone had it fail yet?

How often do you need to "press F6" during an XP install to begin with? And if you're doing it a lot, why aren't you making image-based installs?

There's about 200MB of nero-related stuff on this machine. That's the full install. NeroVision is a nice, barebones DVD authoring app. I don't know how it stacks up to Ulead DVD MovieFactory, but I see that it has options to create 16x9 or 4x3 movies. That by itself is its own sort of...

Thanks to my job as an IT trainer, I have a brand-spanking new retail copy of Nero 7 Ultra Edition sitting here on my desk. I plan to try it out over the next couple days and post my thoughts. First few things 1. The installation required two reboots. When did I go back in time to 1998? 2...

If you want to ghost to a USB drive, be SURE it's a brand name model (Seagate, Maxtor), and expect it to take 5 - 10x longer than going ATA - ATA.

Nope. It is surprisingly cool and comfortable. I sat in bed with the notebook perched on my belly (not so thin after all!) and watched TV shows I had downloaded for about two hours last night while I loaded software on it. My IBM gets somewhat warmer than that. The other thing that surprised...

About 60GB too small. :P

Looks like the battery is good for 2 hours, 7 minutes. I just watched a DVD on it, and that's how far it got. Not bad.

I was doing a deployment, in a room with several dozen of them. Someone set one, open, on the floor under a table I was sitting at. I stepped on it standing up. Some keycaps came off. I put them back on and the machine was fine. No matter how you look at it, that's a torture test. Yes Coug...

Firewire can go nicely in a cardbus slot. What else would you put in there? eSATA, maybe, which might be even better than firewire anyway... the T42 is well appointed otherwise. And I can't stress this enough: I, a 125kg person, stepped on a T20 once, and did no permanent damage to it. If I...

I'd rather have a Gateway, Sharp, Averatec or Emachines notebook than an Inspiron, just on principle. Yes, Emachines. Santilli, Toughbooks are NOT a solution for everyone. They're fucking HEAVY, overlarge and, going by the ones issues to state troopers here in Indiana, have limited I/O...

I plan to get my content from across a Gbit LAN, not on the drive. It'll suck for boot time, but who cares about that? Eventually I'll stick a 160GB unit or something in mine.

I had very good service the last time I talked to a Cowbox rep, actually, and their casing feels better than HP's, even though IIRC it's the same hardware HP uses underneath the chassis.

Just paid $1300 for a Gateway AMD64/4000+ with 1GB of RAM and an X600. It's 7.5lbs., bigger than I might normally like, but since I'm not going to be the one using it, I don't care all that much. Oh yeah... it was the last one in the store. :D

Oddly enough I was looking at the ads for cheapo laptops yesterday as well, particularly the ones that're under $500 - cheap enough to be an impulse buy (well, compared to my usual laptop standards). Most of the sub-$500 models seemed to be low-end Celeron Ms with only 256MB RAM, and were only...

Mark, that kind of shit is exactly why I make my sysprep discs. Doug, did you try the ones I sent to you yet? I'm kind of curious to know if my nvidia disc works on that nforce3 board...

I visit crack sites. I look at all kinds of porn (although, to be fair, I mostly prefer art nudes). And I don't have AV software on any of my computers. :)

Well, we were trying to be polite...

Daylight gone an' me want to go home.

I pretty much play by the "no one is compentent unless I know they are" standard. If I assume that other people are idiots, I'm usually right. It helps a lot to take that particular position.

There's nothing wrong with the way standard PCs look. If I don't want to look at a PC, I put it somewhere I don't see it. That thing, on the other hand, looks like a Japanese design guru went on a tequila and methamphetamine binge.

Consoles are beneath me. :)

Remember the happy days last year when an XP2500 was only $65? <sob>

I told you. Pack one up and mail her to me. I'll pay shipping. I am going to be 30 soon and I'm having a hard time seeing how my personal life could get more pathetic than wanting David to mail me a hoochie-chick. :(

That's hideous.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129699

Well, the first thing that comes into my mind WRT to Dr. Rice is that no African American with any respect for his or her own race would want anything to do with the Bush administration... that's pretty ugly to me.

Hold down your option key during startup to get a list of available boot devices. /Just got a Mac G4 Server

On this matter I will concur with Tannin. Tannin may live in the upside-down part of the world where nvidia makes acceptable products, but Asus boards are teh suck and Via-based boards are great and have been for some time.

Will it never stop? I heard xmas music for the first time this year (seven weeks before xmas), last week. And now the barrage has begun in my office. It can't be good for mental health. ARG.

For $200, a Creative Zen looks like a pretty good deal. I'd rather have 30GB than 1GB.

I really can't even begin to care. Dell makes substandard products. Maybe they will soon be making substandard AMD products. Maybe not. On the other hand, I maybe moving into a 100% Dell shop, in which case I can only hope they go AMD.

He used it for something under a week, or it might've been tested. I'd call it new, regardless.

Pardon me? Have you TRIED one of those ATI-integrated boards from MSI? They have a DX9 capable X300 onboard, and they are great.

I've got a copy of it. :P The motherboard it's supposed to work with is a $50 Asrock (asus) POS with integrated Intel video. I can't bring myself to buy one. Anyway, I see no compelling reason to stick with Windows if you don't play games. Install SuSE. If there's a Windows app you still need...

FSP Group is the company that makes Sparkle power supplies. They're all very noisy. I don't even think they make a low-noise model. On the other hand, they're reliable as all get-out.