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Might I remind everyone of my offer: Write an article, 1000 words, on a computer related topic, and I'll ship you a 256MB PC3200 DIMM from Crucial.

Dell already has a similar program. I have no idea why. Dell Whiteboxes are more expensive than regular whiteboxes and you're essentially responsible for support (Dell gives you a special support site you can visit). That HP is doing the same thing just says that they're trying to get greedy...

Conversely, it's fairly easy to get a 4, 5, or 6U chassis with support for lots and lots of drive bays, builtin temperature monitoring, and a drive bay arrangement that lends itself easily to dealing with cables that can only be 18" long.

Yeah, 'cause y'know? Rackmount cases need all the heat they can... Oh. Wait. They didn't use a rackmount case, either. Pardon me while I point and laugh.

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... proving once again that the people at firingsquad are morons in search of a clue. For that price they should be able to manage 2400GB and a high-end Escalade to put it on.

I ended up buying from a little shop that just opened in Highland Indiana. They keep weird hours - I think they do installs during the day, but they carry Denon and Integra, KEF and B&W. Plus furniture, interconnects and home automation equipment. This after visiting several places over in your...

One of my personal favorites is the Rage Fury Maxx, which divided the screen in half and assigned each half (top v. bottom) to a Rage Fury Pro processor. Obviously, a last gasp before the Radeon. IIRC it benchmarked roughly equivalent to a Vodoo 3500. Also there were two chips from Rendition...

Why does anyone in California need a garage? Garages are for keeping you from having to scrape ice off your windshield. Buck, have you ever even SEEN snow?

KEF Reference series + Integra DTR-8.2 (with builtin cat5 terminals for multiroom speaker wiring and a radio remote) = Heaven. Bliss. Plus the damn thing weighs 60lbs. Perfect for beating Greek medical students who tell me I don't know anything about audio equipment 'cause I don't like Bose.

I am vindicated in my opinion of the Matrix. At last.

While still not Firebird or even Opera, Microsoft has decided there there is in fact something it can do to make IE suck less. If this is enabled by default, it'll probably mean web advertisers will have to come up with new ways to suck more.

So you're actually planning on putting all your stuff in that little hutch they give you? I think that would be a PITA to deal with, as far as getting decent sound goes. I think I'd orient my living room to the straight, bare wall and put everything along that. Put speaker stands behind the...

I just upgraded my gear recently. For chrissakes, if you're spending real money on speakers, listen to them first. Buying speakers over the phone or online is a lot like buying a display online. I auditioned B&W, Mirage and Wharfedale before deciding on an all-KEF setup for my living room...

Basically it comes down to less knowledge of the testing material floating around. There are books out, about what to expect, but the 1st editions never get quite right.

Er, MSN Messenger, that is.

The most annoying thing about MSN? If you take the time to figure out how to remove it from XP, the FIRST THING that happens when you connect to the internet with MSN is that it gets downloaded and reinstalled.

It can get worse than that, of course...

I'm just glad no one has made a post about the new Matrix movie in this thread...

You could always try a Zalman cooler, Blake, or one of those 80mm lateral exhaust fans that screws into an expansion slot.

The Antec Sonata is lust-inspiring. I like most of Compucase's lineup. Premier makes decent cheapies.

Ahem. This will probably lead to re-visiting several customer sites. Maybe I'll just move 'em all to RADIUS and be done with it.

It's not much of a problem for me. I pass my "old" ones out in builds. My current inventory: ATI 9800Pro (2003 Server) ATI 9700AIW (Gaming system) Sapphire 9600AIW (HTPC, because it's quieter, draws less power and can tune FM) Sapphire 9000VIVO (Linux Fileserver 1 and no, the VIVO features...

You specified public hospitals. It's somewhat off the topic. The fact is, those place will treat you. They'll also write you a large bill on your way out the door. The goal of something like Universal Coverage would be to keep medical costs within the bounds of rationality.

I went out and bought a 9800 Pro. I wanted a copy of HL2 anyway. :)

Yeah. I should still have the CD from my 9700 and a couple of retail 9500s I sold, but the installer from ATI's site isn't working with those.

Unfortunately, it has to be from ATI for the DVD software update to work. It turns out that ATI's hardware MPEG2 decoding makes a big difference to playback quality on my HTPC

I've got a half-dozen original ATI CDs sitting around my desk, absolutely none of which work with the CD-checking program that runs prior to upgrading or installing ATI DVD software on R300-based ATI cards. If someone has one (from a 9[5-8]00) they'd be willing to part with temporaril, or to...

It's not worth a whole lot any more. There's no way I would've bothered with the 2003 stuff if I didn't have to teach it.

Oh man does this make me pissed.

A+ or Server+ and Network+ together count as an elective toward MCSA certification. MCSA 2000 = 70-210 or 70-270 (2000 Pro or XP Pro), 70-215 (2000 Server) and 70-218 (Administering a Windows 2000 Network), and one elective. The 2003 exams were not a picnic and I'm not sure there's any point...

There is of course the issue of finding a public hospital. In all of Chicago, there is only one, Cook County General (the basis for the medical drama show whose name escapes me). Three million people, and only one that will take in anybody. A couple years ago, a gang member was shot and lay...

I come into contact with people through my trainer job who think they're technical geniuses for being able to plug everything in the back of their PC. Trust me: They know the word "Popup". And "Spam". And complain loudly about both. We keep burned CDs with AVG, spamihiliator and Panicware's...

You might do better to switch the SCSI drives for something largish and IDE. The person buying the machine will almost certainly not appreciate the performance and will probably dislike the noise. If you're selling it locally, absolutely don't try to price your computer higher than what someone...

That's 3.5 years, Coug, even if MBTF *did* mean "lifespan". Again, I know the Optorite drives are cheap, but I'm pretty sure they're just the drives Sony didn't feel like putting its name on. They are usable products, particularly given Fushigi's budgetary constraint.

That every Canadian can actually see a doctor when he or she is sick?

If you're in Euroland, why do you care so much about our politics?

After a little thought, I've decided this was a poor decision. Not going after a spammer... going after the WRONG spammer. Windows Messaging pop-ups are so easy to stop it's disgusting. Really. Even if you're a total moron. You don't know what causes them, but hey, right in the title bar for...

I've only ever used the 4x models. That 8x unit doesn't look anything like the ones I've bought (DD2203, according to their site).

Ever hear of Section 8 Housing, Bill? Granted, I'm not sure the federal government still specifically funds that program, but there certainly are government funded programs for providing shelter to those who can't afford it (I know, for example, that when Chicago demolished Cabrini Green, a lot...

And only 1.5 million direct from federal sources. The NEA and PBS are similarly self-supporting. It annoys me a great deal that certain people in our government claim that we need to stop supporting public broadcasting (all $1.5 million of it, for NPR), while they at the same time sponsor...

The 2.4GHz-equivalent area is more or less where AMD and Intel actually run together in terms of performance (with Intel breaking away over 2.8 or so).

There aren't any books yet for the new requirements. I teach with the McGraw-Hill "Mike Meyers A+ All in One Exam Guide", which has the distinct advantage of being readable, not as dry as the other books on the subject. Frankly, you and most of the other folk who visit here should be able to...

Getting new drives is a slightly more regular event at my house. I do check pin alignment before I install hardware. It's usually more of an issue with CPUs - one of the reasons I no longer buy CPUs locally is that I ran into too many that someone else had gotten before me - probably checking...

You know the requirements change on the 26th, right? Questions on Bluetooth and 802.11, XP and ME. I might be thinking of the recommended RAM for ME, I admit. The A+ test won't normally ask disk space requirements, except the confusing case of 98 FAT16 v. FAT32. You're much more likely to get...

Most states offer food aid to the poor already. Here in Indiana we call it EBT but most people still use the generic term "food stamps" People who use it aren't necessarily on welfare. A lot of them work, but can't afford to feed their families. People on food stamps can only buy certain...

WinXP requires a P2-300 with 1GB of disk space and 128MB RAM. Those exact same requires are also used by WinME.

That's "silicone implants". You knew that, I hope. I'd think a full ATX board of any type would be a little bit large for a lesbian android. I think perhaps something u-ATX or maybe one of those VIA SFF deals would be better for Adcadet's application. The bigger question is, what weapon system...

timwhit, I use Office-type binders (the kind meant to hold paper), since most of my collection just lives on bookshelves and doesn't travel around. The fabric binders I have come from CDProjects. Wallgreens has the big ones on sale about once every three months for maybe $15. The ebay one you...

Why do you need to sell one, bahngeist? The P4 probably has a higher resale value. That Intel name and the extra RAM are what people would look at.