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802.16 at least where I am is really crummy service. Less reliable than cable and generally slower than DSL. It's a shared pipe too, like 802.11 or cable. You'll only get decent speed is there aren't many transceivers associated with your tower and if there aren't a lot of p2p fiends on your...

MUP.sys is a file related to Windows networking. It's one of the last drivers that loads before XP starts. I think the first thing to try is an XP repair install.

Er... Verizon FIOS is 30Mb/s service. Would you really worry about bandwidth?!? Also, Verizon is one of the "good guys" WRT to permissive TOS. Verizon let me run an SMTP and IMAP server on my DSL connection, and AFAIK it is the only major high-speed ISP that does not cooperate with RIAA or the...

I don't find Fast User switching to be conducive to proper security. Especially since most XP machines don't have proper passwords to begin with. What's keeping your kids from monkeying with your stuff, again? I also don't like sitting at machine that's running a bunch of programs that I didn't...

I should've sprung for overnight shipping. :( Actually the fact that there's a daughterboard for Digital inputs is even more lust-inducing, now that I think about it. Drool. I haven't been this excited about a PCI card since I got my Orchid Righteous3D. Is it wrong to have impure thoughts...

Personally I'm just trying for all the pr0n. But then I've always been an underachiever.

I won't download movies over Bittorrent. I know of an FTP site. :D

Vlad, you haven't posted in forever. How the hell are you doing?

I had trouble when I tried it before XP64 was officially released. It's probably better now. Anyway there is a very compelling reason to stick with 32-bit versions of windows: No 16-bit support. Ah! You say, "I don't use any 16-bit software!" Oddly enough, a lot of programs use 16-bit...

It's standard PCI.

New and cheap!

Maybe they just don't want to mention competing products in their press releases? That is weird though. I missed that sentence on my first reading.

You can buy Exchange addons to allow Exchange to pick up POP3 mail, or you could use a Linux PC with fetchmail to deliver them to Exchange. You SHOULD migrate them all to IMAP or something, which would handle the "seemless" part well enough, since it at least leaves behind the confusion and...

Huhhuhhuhuhuhuh POS huhuhuhhuhuhuh! Yeah, yeah, POS! POS! hehehehehehehe!

Interesting that we have a thread on motherboards and several parties who have been conspicuously absent in recent weeks come popping out of the woodwork. ;)

To borrow a word from Tannin: Shonk. MIPS is a term that gets thrown around a lot by Marketers who don't know what else to say about a processor. There might've been a time when it meant something useful, but everyone really interested in figuring out how powerful a CPU is looks at objective...

Newegg's prices, as a general rule, are so breathtakingly low that there's not much point in further discounting. That's the reason people show there. A lot of stuff I buy is cheaper from Newegg, including the shipping, than it is from a wholesaler. Granted, I don't buy in the quantities that...

Expect a review in about a week.

Thread Hijack is now complete. This is a faithful copy of the original game, with multiplayer support, that's Win32 native.

Ultra Elite Halfling Slingers with Lionheart and Invulnerability for teh win! Nothing like one-shotting Demi-God heroes and Sky Drakes. :D Let's talk about a game that needs a sequel...

About $50. Normally it's much cheaper to use a coaxial SPDIF connection instead. 50' of 75-ohm coax with an RCA jack on either end is usually 1/5 that price, even from the kinds of places that want to rape you for cables. The other part of that if you're so far away from your 5.1 surround...

There was a time, maybe a year ago, that A7N266s were available everywhere, cheap and plentiful. And then they all disappeared, almost overnight. Same thing has happened with other favorite boards of mine, like the GA-7VAXP and the GA-7S748N. Lesson learned: If I sell more than four or five of...

For those of you not following, the important bit of product info here is "8CH audio single chip with Dolby Digital Live Real-Time Contents Encoder" In other words, I can do something with the three Asus A7N8X and two A7N266s (the only boards that actually had a full soundstorm implementation)...

Soundstorm can bite my ass Joy!

Yes, but who wants Intel? And I'm not saying that to be a fanboy... those chips are REALLY hot, have louder fans and operate slower than the cheaper Athlon64. Where's the positive?

Really? Before the retarded "Category View" control panel, even?

Well, I've gotten as far as getting the money order...

The funny thing is, 90% of the sound cards that are made either use a proprietary Creative chip, or have the same Crystal Media or Realtek chips as you get on motherboards. Philips used to have a decent chip, and now Via has the only generic premium chip.

Master of Magic, specifically, looks like the worst kind of ass on every LCD I've tried it on (er... mostly on laptops).

People use fast user switching? Oh well. IIRC, Windows only considers physical CPUs for purposes of licensing. Even if that's the case, XP Pro is licensed for use on up to two physical chips.

Via KM stuff is great for business machines! No doubt about it. Well, OK, as implemented by Gigabyte it's great. No comment on anyone else's. Pair it with a Sempron and go to town. But back to the Asstasticness of Socket 939 offerings... I'm looking at 939 as a "performance" system right...

Christianity and Buddhism have wisdom now? Buddhism teaches moderation and passivity. Chrisitianity is a death cult that promises invisible rewards to adherents who behave themselves. Both seem to be more useful as tools to control a population than rewarding subjects for theological study...

What I want is simple: More than 4 SATA ports 1394 support Gigabit LAN Passively cooled Northbridge SPDIF output (fringe feature, but lots of boards have it) Sound from a chip better than Realtek's - I am NOT paying $100 for a sound card in 2005. Prefer Via chipset, since I don't particularly...

Western Digital doesn't count, especially in the Enterprise.

Pbbt... Merc is busy with unpacking. Like, I can find 15 computers but not the box with all my keyboards in it. I have priorities, man.

It's worth seeing in the theater. It's worth $8. I'm going again tonight. The workprint download is awful. I'm OK with that 'cause it'll drive more people who were on the fence about seeing it into the theater.

Couple more things: 1. Very early in the movie, while the ship carrying Anakin, Palpatine and Obiwan is landing a ship very much like the Millenium Falcon is visible in the lower right corner of the screen. 2. It's scary how much Ewan McGregor looks like Alec Guiness. 3. There's a "The...

Sorry, the version I have is a couple releases out of date. Distrowatch says they're still using 8.01 though.

I would like two of whatever they're smoking.

Let me boil it down for everyone: V > III = IV > III > II > I Did you all get that? I was immensely satisfied. No, Jar Jar does not talk (although, curiously, Ahmed Best is still credited). I was a little disappointed by this - his actions in the second movie obviously had very serious...

Looks like you have a helper! My cats help me build computers, too. Sometimes by standing in the empty cases, sometimes by smacking my tube of silver compound off my workbench and off to someplace where I cannot find them. My cats are very helpful.

Howell, that post makes my teeth hurt.

I think Lucas authorized Timothy Zahn to write them. The novels have been around for at least 15 years at this point.

I largely tend to agree with EBB. Life sucks, people die, and there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it.

No, but the Scepter Xg9 19" costs about the same and is really nice.

It doesn't look like that's something people are doing with that particular unit. At a guess, whatever's storing data on the drive probably knows the drive is a 160GB model. If you stuck a 250GB model in it's place and ghosted the contents of the 160 (assuming Toshiba didn't do something funny...

There's a real-deal screener on fulldls.com, if you really want it. Quality, especially the sound, is terrible. I saw all the other Star Wars movies, including the first one (I was 2 at the time, so I don't remember it really well but...), on opening day. I remember standing in line through...

Only naughty words. The video is sans boobage.

I used to work in several. They are really nice compared to coal plants.

Having looked at a co-worker's top-of-the-line Asus 640x200something PocketPC, I think the #1 thing that would keep me from using a palmtop is the terribly small screen. On the other hand, I've heard rumors that Toshiba is planning a laptop with a 19" display, which sounds exactly like...