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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...

Data set is a big one. Most drives these days are optimized for high transfer rates and rather unappealing access times. If your data set consists of lots of little files (e.g. thumbnails of graphics files), your performance will generally be poor. Another might be bus contention, particularly...

I've had good experiences and bad experiences with it. The "Bad" mostly have been machines that either are or were heavily infected with parasite spyware badness at some point prior to installing SP 2. I've seen a few PCs with incompatible applications that were important enough to cause...

The X300, X600 and X700 are all PCI express.

There are plenty of PCI-express video cards. ATI makes at least three, and newegg sells them. I'd guess the crap factory that is nVidia likewise makes a couple as well.

I visited several of the vbulletin forums. Gotta say I'm not enamoured with the look of it.

Users in City of Heroes are planning memorials. On the server I play on a number of high-level players will be standing near the costume shops, giving away money so people can change their costumes to black. Others are dropping their capes or adding an "S" to their outfits. It sounds like a...

Basically, I have no idea what's going on with the backend. phpbb seems to work and I don't know what we'd gain from a change. So... what do we gain out of the switch?

Well, yeah, but I still feel the need to complain about it.

I've had a lousy time getting anything to work over 8x. Normally I buy Verbatim DVD+Rs for my personal needs, but I've tried Memorex and generic "8x" discs. The Memorex discs my LiteOn drive wants to use at 2.4x (ouch), the generics (Prodisc?) underrun if I try 8x, but work OK at 4x. Guess it...

Samsung's hutil is the error checking tool for Samsung drives.

I've got a nforce 220 board here that can use an XP 2400... might as well. Sigh.

All the motherboards I'm familiar with that have 64-bit PCI slots are Serverworks or Intel server boards. I'm not aware of any that offer AGP *and* 64-bit PCI. Might be worthwhile to upgrade to PCI express peripherals if you really need that level of performance.

I need to design a site for my little LAN thing. The goat-sucking bastards currently hosting my website can't even handle keeping a 3-line CGI script working properly. Sigh. I'm finally going to have to break down and get real web space of my own.

<checks another thread> Ah. So I am. Neat. But not anything to make a big deal of at this point. Just means I don't shut up. Why not recognize the guys who DON'T post incessantly yet still make valuable contributions here, like Jan Kivar or LiamC or CityK or e_dawg (or the others, who I am not...

Two things: One is that I've found it to be a royal pain in my ass to determine if the folding client is actually doing anything, if it's just running and waiting for a server response or something. I've had machines that I thought were folding, that actually were doing nothing for, well...

<sniff> <sob sob sob> <Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah> I was offered - by one of my students, no less - an nvidia FX5900 (aka Leafblower) - for $125 last night. Just, out of the blue: "I just got a 6800 Ultra. Do you know anyone who wants a 5900?" Of course, I hate nvidia with a dark passion and...

Is this the thread you were thinking of?

It does work. We do it in my office because comcast wants to charge us per port we use on the router/access device they provided. The obvious caveat is that you might need to change the address range for one router or the other. Most of them seem to use 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x by default, so...

I hope that you have good luck in China, Howell. I'm sure it will be a fascinating experience.

You can somewhat enhance video on the fly if you use ATI's capture app with an ATI card, but the Conexant TV cards are cheap and work as well for VHS tape. Honest.

All the programs that make DVD, that I have found, are at least somewhat buggy. That said, these are my recommendations: Get a cheap Leadtek or other Conexant-based TV tuner/capture card ($30). Cheap in this case DOES NOT MEAN BAD. Get a DVD burner. I'm partial to liteon models. ($50ish) Get a...

Meh. Probably killed off the romans, too. :)

Handy Windows Install CD making thing

Not that I could tell. But then, it isn't like sol.exe got gobs better when it was recompiled as a 32-bit application, either.

It's a tribute to the sci-fi serials of the 30s. If you've ever seen the old Flash Gordon reels, that's the feeling it's going for. Actually, it has that much in common with the Indiana Jones movies, which were essentially a better realization of 30s action serials. Anyway, there's a whole...

As an MSDN subscriber I can use XP/64 now if I want. :P Or load Linux or *BSD on my machine. But supposedly an x86-64-bit version will be available to consumers next year.

I did, Buck, but it doesn't include some of the newer cards available. Yes, David, the Albatron board appears to have problems with both 9600XTs and 9600 Pros.

I've got a couple of PCs set aside in my office for people to play LAN games on. AthlonXP 3200 Athlon64 3000 P4C 2400 (Thanks Clocker!) Each has 512MB RAM and... nothing in its AGP slot at the moment. Now, these are PCs that probably won't be heavily used for much of anything but game playing...

Er... you realize that absolutely everything that wasn't a human being was CGI, right?

The disappointing thing about the S3100 is that it's a 32-bit chip. I kind of had an association in my mind between Socket 754 and 64-bitness, but that isn't the case.

Do the problems go away if you put that jumper back the way it was? Do you have front USB plugged in or any other cards or extra cables? Any grounding issues inside the case? Are your fans spinning properly? Did you use thermal compound?

Again I say "bleh." My Tivo doesn't have a digital output. My bandwidth it reserved for porn other porn things porn. I'm NOT analog-capturing a movie off a Tivo if I can get the same thing from a real DVD with alternate soundtracks and decent surroundsound options.

Oddly enough I found my first actual, RMAable Samsung drive this week. A 160GB model with 150k of bad sectors. :( But these longer warranties only make Samsung drives even more appealing.

Bleh. DVDs are undoubtedly easier to steal.

Good luck and do us proud, timwhit.

Given the costume Halle Berry was wearing, it might has well have been Will Smith.

You MUST be sick you poor thing. That movie was almost as bad as Catwoman. Shoot, I think Will Smith should pay me for wasting my bandwidth on the screener I downloaded.

Hopefully Tannin will wander back here soon with more impressions of his Thinkpad.

Speaking of: Has anyone else here run into Althon 64s autodetecting PC3200 RAM - regardless of brand - as PC2700? All my Athlon64s do that. With Crucial, Mushkin or Corsair DIMMs. Regardless of who made the board. Of course I can go into the BIOS and manually set them to work at full speed...

To answer your other question, one of my distributors has OEM 1MB 3200s listed for $220USD and the plain old OEM 3200s for $190. I see it on newegg.com (which isn't exactly a help to you Aussies) and several listings for them on pricewatch. Prices are all over the map for the 1MB chip, some...

Oddly enough I was just tooling around on AMD.com yesterday looking at that stuff (more accurately, looking for a table comparing AMD's PR speeds to actual frequency... funny how they don't have that laying around anywhere). The 1MB 3200 is still listed on their site as available, as are other...