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A Canon Digital Elph is about the right size. The zoom isn't that thrilling. 3x, I think.

I disagree. All AV software is buggy, slows a computer down, and unnecessary for a responsible and sensible person. Yes, I'm serious. The day I have to install AV software on my home PCs is the day I'll stop using them.

Why not an NEC DVD-R? One of the ones that's flashable to dual layer, maybe? The Gigabyte board you've proposed is a really nice little guy. I've used it several times and I like it a lot. Does it fit in an Aria, though? I know there's a fairly short list of acceptable boards...

KT400 4 eva' :D OK, now that that's out of my system - my solution to the active cooling on new Gigabyte boards is to just take the damn fan off. It'll die in six months anyway, at which point the fan basically becomes an insulator, so the way I figure it, I'm probably doing work that someone...

1. Yes, a network card and router is the most effective way to share the connection. Windows ICS is kinda lame. 2. Hardware firewalls are probably a better idea than software. Software firewalls are complicated to set up and can cause compatibility problems with other software. Most home-type...

You'll only thank yourself for buying a real receiver and real speakers. $1000 is plenty of money for that. 1. DON'T SKIMP ON YOUR CENTER CHANNEL. Spend extra to get a nice center. 2. Buy timbre-matched speakers (all from the same manufacturer, at least) - I like Yamaha for cheapies, and I...

Aopen typically makes really good motherboards. If it has what you want, I'd say go for it. Disclaimer: I've not used an nforce3 250 for anything.

Photoshop's RAW plug-in. Is there something else I should try?

My service is nominally $30 a month for 1Mbit down/128k up, but it's bundled in with my (otherwise unused) phone service and cell phone.

I'll say something nice: He was funny when he wanted to be. However, Reagan, a man of no great intellect, also had a habit of wandering "off message" and into realms that really made him look, let's face it, bad. I suspect this is at least part of the reason GWB's handlers don't ever let him...

Too bad mainstream PCs won't have liquid cooling any time soon.

FWIW, knowing lots of medical students and nurses, nothing I've heard makes it sound like the US is any better.

While we're grousing about media availability, everyplace on Earth with a "Technology" aisle seems to have one-or-another dual layer burner for sale. But I have yet to see dual layer media in a retail setting, even in single-packs. Whose dumb idea is that?!?

I don't remember whether I congratulated you earlier or not, JoJo. If I did, I'm doing it again. If not, I'm sorry for the oversight: Congratulations to our Finnish compartriot. The simple fact that he's managed to post 1100 times in a language not his native tongue is well-deserving of both...

Groltz sent me this story.

I'll say it again: I hope they're all the unmotivated bastards responsible for their ATA drives.

My standby card is a 128MB Sapphire 9200. Unless someone tells me they play 3D games, or are really poor, that's what they get. At this point, I almost always go with a KM400-based-mainboard for the budget segment. Gigabyte's board is more than good enough and has a real AGP slot if someone...

Congratulations. Is working on SUV design as sexy as saying "I make the Corvette?" While I'm thinking about it, a few years ago, I read an article suggesting that the big 3 were looking at generic drivetrains over which multiple bodies could be fitted (e.g. Escort = Focus = Contour = Volvo...

Might be worth asking.

I think I don't care.

He's a Ham Radio fanatic. I imagine these are similar.

Any Windows key combo can be replaced with CTRL-ESC. Which is a combination of keys I'm much less likely to hit on accident. Which is why I run special software to disable the windows key on my game PC.

Through one of my father's employees. I won't actually have it until Friday.

Guess which brand they didn't test. Grrrrr.

Yup. It's supposed to be. If other people can't be bothered to fix their radio emissions then I'm just going to override them (probably not that many, though, not using channel 11). Then it's their problem. Yeah, I feel like a jerk for doing it, but since the $500 worth of 802.11A stuff I...

Because of the aforementioned involvement of Crack? Other than the confusing UI it's a great program, but even after using it for several years I still close important windows on accident. Elements can be had cheaper, and you can't trip over a warez site that doesn't have Photoshop. I've heard...

Plus the media readers are usually WAY faster.

I hesitate to mention Gimp. It's free and does all those things. Its UI, however, was made by someone who either had too much or not enough crack.

PM me.

So I was imagining all those "DriveZilla" ads on SR about a year ago? Hopefully, the 3000 people Seagate laid off were the unmotivated bastards responsible for their ATA products.

One key difference between Matrox cards and everyone else is that Matrox tries really hard to have hardware acceleration for EVERYTHING. ATI and nVidia have some acceleration for MPEG playback and for 3D, obviously, but as I understand things, they don't bother with a lot of 2D effects or CAD...

I ordered a 2W, 2.4GHz amplifier. I plan to use it on channel 11, which is not in theory used by any cordless telephone. If my neighbors - within the probably 4 or 5 block radius 2W should give me - want to listen to their infants with stupid monitors, they can all buy 900MHz jobs and work the...

I really like crunch-time work. I find the stress to be very helpful, but I know it's not for everyone. Part of the nature of spending a long time at a client site is getting to see how a business actually works. One think I'm continually shocked at - and I guess I shouldn't be - is how poor...

I keep a CF reader and an 802.11A adaptor in mine. I carry a second battery. Anything more and I don't think I'd be portable anymore.

I'll hold my tongue, but it's probably worthy of comment by someone.

Uh, 'cause WD advertises at SR?

Dear lord yes. That man can play guitar.

Set it to master, and try a different cable. You might want to attach the drive to your primary channel and check the drive with PowerMax, too.

Man, I HATE the XP picture viewer. I own ACDSee, and I like it much better. ACDSee is non-free, and versions after 3.x suck progressively more, but there's a similar program that works just as well: IrfanView. It's a much more flexible program, capable of doing a lot of things XP's viewer can't.

There's a visible bell howto out there somewhere that will probably put you on the right track.

Check the For Sale forum. Couple people have offered X15s recently, if you really want speed. Raptors (sorry Mickey) mostly seem to be an expensive mistake. Just ask ddrueding.

Link doesn't work.

Sigh. So what you're saying is, because I'm not part of the majority, there's no reason to serve my interests as a citizen of the representative republic. I'd say that says a lot about you and your beliefs. See, if we went very far down the path that viewpoint leads us, we would get to a place...

Sigh. So what you're saying is, because I'm not part of the majority, there's no reason to serve my interests as a citizen of the representative republic. I'd say that says a lot about you and your beliefs. See, if we went very far down the path that viewpoint leads us, we would get to a place...

So you think the US, one of 192 countries in the world, should act unilaterally at any time its interests are challenged?

So you think the US, one of 192 countries in the world, should act unilaterally at any time its interests are challenged?

Well, not technically. That's the point.

I'm more impressed by the kids in "Barely Legal". :) So, raise your hand if you knew what "autochthonous" meant before you saw Buck's post.

Nope. No. It was the former Enron executives.

PPbbbt. Can't type. Eating.