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Huh? 7.1 on a Rage is bug-free. It's missing a single feature (the one-touch record) that 7.5 - 7.7 have, and it's missing support for skins. MMC 7.5 was buggy, but it was designed for a different series of cards, and the bugs were worked out quickly. I can't think of a time I've had a problem...

I wouldn't go whining about HEC, either. They're not loud at all and reliability has been very good.

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They're loud. Loud in a "loud" sort of way. Loud enough that midrange SCSI disks aren't particularly annoying. At least, the ones in my SuperMicro tower cases are.

Yes, and at one point I had a neighbor who used his apartment to deal rock. He had a REALLY obvious steel door and frame put in, and it's still there, two tenents later. Somehow I'm not worried about my little wires.

Let's just say storage needs border on extreme.

I'd go with Sparkle. They're loud but they don't much. :)

Just to be clear: I was booting off the crappy 6GB IDE disk in my laptop; I don't know of any external devices that you can boot off of only notebook PCs, either.

As a moderator, I think you're pushing it a little, Mr. Fubar. No one joke in particular, I just think you should tone things down a bit.

Well, as long as we don't find a need for inline images for all this.

My happy little Adaptec card seems to have helped my situation immensely. I shaved about a minute off login times on my clients by having that 2nd port...

That is correct, sir.

1.) 80 to 68pin adaptors are a serious PITA, or at least I haven't found them to work well. 2.) Compaq-labelled drives usually have "weirdo Compaq drive BIOSes", too.

Personally I think a P4 with a tricked-out heat sink would be the worst. Or maybe one of those Zalman sharkfin jobs that has the 120mm fan on the end. Ouch!

Yes, mine was a 75GB model. I've gotten substantially better drives from RMA a couple of times, but IMO this was not one of them.

I'd weep for joy if I could get Samsung's drive tools...

I got an 80GB 180GXP for my 75GXP, but mine was refurbed.

Just to spoil things for everyone, the two chipsets might as well be identical in terms of performance. The nforce2 "wins" more comparisons but usually a tiny fraction of a margin. KT400A will be cheaper, performs just as well. Makes the decision easy for me.

Fallingwater. It's closed at the moment, but I've been there. It's... dank. The exterior is gorgeous but the inside is like, well, it's a little like a locker room, at least in the summer. A big part of Frank Lloyd Wright's problem is that materials science wasn't up to the challenges of his...

Tried it a while ago. I must've rejected it for some reason, although at this point I don't remember why. I've really moved on. Now I'm in the process of finding "the perfect DVD burning app". Ulead Movie Factory works pretty well for analog caps, but I haven't found a 9 - 5 tool that I can...

PowerDVD XP. 7.1 & DTS Support, Sony SRS with a patch. Plus it comes with Liteon DVD drives. It also supports hardware playback on most decoder devices (e.g. ATI cards, Zoran, Hollywood+... whatever). The other stuff I've tried isn't nearly as good.

I like smartripper best as a pure ripping tool. DVD Decrypter does other neat stuff, too, though. To get a good-quality divx on a CD, you probably need a bitrate calculator. I use an older version of FlaskMPEG called FlaskAMD for my encoding, or the MPEG-2-enabled version of virtualdub. In both...

My experience with Cyrix is much like the one I've had with Nividia. Tannin and I have a brief arguement about it several times a year, but in my experience they were... not good. Opposite of good, in fact. I think that's called "bad" or maybe "evil". Either way.

What? I've done ethernet installations before. It's absolutely my least-favorite way to make money, but I've done it, and what I did beat the heck out of bundled cables everywhere in my apartment. The high-end hardware I have is all castoff stuff. I picked up the rack and the RAID array (and a...

The local campuses of both IU and Purdue charge $5 for copies of software. At IU, the requirements are strict: A student may purchase a single copy of any microsoft business product, but must show school ID and other picture form, sign two documents agreeing to the license and is not allowed to...

Just for comparison, when I *moved* I left one of my machines up. Of course, I only had to go about 500 feet with it and its UPS, but it's an impressive feat nonetheless. honold will be by shortly to tell us all that uptime means poor security, I'm sure.

Not on a laptop.... For a while I had a Cheetah hooked up to an old laptop of mine, just because I couldn't stand how slow it was, so I guess anything is possible. Yes, Linux will do suspend to disk. At least, I remember seeing stuff about it in various documentation.

It's poll time!

Last time I had that problem on one of my machines all I had to do was pull the GF2 and replace it with a Savage4... Slightly more realistically, the only computer I boot with any regularity is my laptop (only if I didn't remember to "hibernate" it), and the Raptor isn't going to help that...

So if I want to reboot my computer over and over, I should get a raptor! w00t!

Die for George Bush? That's a very funny joke. It must be, because I laughed aloud. I curse each new day as I awake, and I still wouldn't die for George Bush. Of course, I obviously hate the Bush family with a passion. Could have something to do with the whole "atheists shouldn't be citizens"...

Keep in mind that we're talking about a passively cooled box with a 740X in it. In my experience the BB version of that drive isn't hot in a SCSI/early Barracuda ATA sort of way, but it does get warm. Most of the ENs I've seen had WD AA-series or Seagate U drives in them. Slugs both, but they...

Last week's issue of time reports a 54%/36%/8% War/Peace/Don't Care profile among Americans. Of course, I think Time leans just a hair to the right anyway. Compared to Newsweek, our slightly leftist glossy news magazine.

The terms of UM's agreement are identical to that of Purdue's. You should be able to buy VERY cheap upgrade copies of XP Pro from your bookstore.

Yup. But I sold two of them. Fry's just sounds like a geek Mecca to me. Microcenter is bad enough, but the idea of a place with a "motherboard aisle" gives me happy thoughts.

Pradeep: Probably, yes. License transfers depend on the specifics of the license in question, but the local Not for Resale copies I've got (from Purdue and Indiana U) indicate that the license simply CANNOT be transferred to a 3rd party. Adcadet: Wow. XP Home is eXtra-Puketacular. 5 network...

No, but the blue thing in the background to this picture is a waterfall. :) I like the crays that look like couches better, myself, but you've gotta admit that a PC with a waterfall would kick major ass.

The longest run (12 cables, 20 - 35 feet) was in a wall with removable wood(like) paneling. That was really easy. I popped off the panels and bored the studs. I had access to the wall my closet was on, with those panels off, so I also bored those studs and used a long fiberglass rod (cable...

... and in an example of the sheer irony of life, I picked up a job today to "fix" the PCs of a "Marketing Company" (The kind with a lot of telephones that seems to be most interested in your business around dinner time). Turns out that through the fascinations of their various loser employees...

You might want to throw a real fan in that thing. Those old ENs have passive-cooled CPUs.

Sad thing is, I make more money selling parts on Ebay - something I've only done a couple of times - than I do for complete systems.

Yes but they're almost all quiet little Maxtors and Samsungs, not SCSI Barracudas. :) Anyway, I just finished fixing this little problem. Here's a description of the finished product. The rest of that topic at slashdot is pretty interesting, too.

Yes, but will it be Tornado proof? Blakerwry, I've never found a game I couldn't crack with clonyXXL and CloneCD.

Unfortunately, the basis for my familiarity with the local computer shops in my area is having to fix their screwups. I won't go near small retail computer places as a result (that and the fact that I don't like the 175% of wholesale prices that the stores here charge their customers... ECS...

... and I suppose the even simpler Media Center version will be called "Oakie". BahdumDUM-ching!

Be sure to visist xupiter.com and say yes to everything it asks to do! Yes, that was a joke. Although it's a really good thing to do to someone you don't like.

Turn it on in Network Connection whatever > Properties > TCP/IP Properties > Advanced > IP Security > IP Security Policy > Secure Server, in Windows 2000 or XP.

I really hate it when certain monkey-types substitute "z" for "s" in their posts. But I'm nice and I don't complain about it. See how easy that is? :P

Umm... I've got a few RMA-able Barracuda IIs in the 20GB range. I'm using everything I've got down to 20GB, and I have a couple of 8GB drives still in service as well. I'd probably be using the Seagates, too, except that they suck in almost every way (hot, loud, slow for 7200rpm). Anyway I've...

I dimly recall George the first as saying something like: "When I get my newspaper in the morning, I turn to the same section as every other average American, the International News". George I's administration lost any kind of momentum it might've gotten from winning a popular war due to the...