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I'd ask for advice prior to travel in your neighborhood, but truthfully I'm not much of a face to face sort of person, jtr. Like Faust before Mephistopheles, I'd rather learn from books than learn from living. Other than the single branch of the Smithsonian I've never visited I don't think...

[sarcasm mode] Wow, Groltz, you mean there's a benchmark that can make your spiffy new nvidia card as slow as any old 18-month old card? How is that possible? [/sarcasm mode] OK, really. Now that *I'M* done laughing, show me games that can cause your card drop to 30fps. For that matter, show...

And as you'll see, I offered my opinions within the confines of the options given - Wait or buy the cheapest one.

32MB will handle 1024x768xtruecolor pretty well, within some reasonable limits for texture size and scene complexity.

At this point, in 2D, it doesn't matter. A 16MB card does every desktop resolution any monitor can support. In 3D, it matters a little bit, but only up to the limits of what game designers are assuming people have... Which right now is 32 - 64MB. Memory is mostly used as framebuffer (a place to...

Just a second: Nvidia should have a new chip out in what? July? August? Whatever makes the current chip so zippidee-do-dah special, they'll probably toss a whole bunch more execution units in to do more of it, bump the local memory I/O and maybe add some special new stuff to make idiots with...

ICS is supposed to be brain-dead simple to set up. So like I said above, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if there's a software method to override client configuration. My books (I have lots of books) don't really give a good explanation of exactly what ICS does, exactly. You set it up, then magic...

Can't say I've ever done ICS from Windows before (only NAT), but I think there's probably a method for overriding the default IP configuration for non-static clients on the LAN with the ICS machine.

Correct. As I understand thing, nvidia's closed driver module is actually a pretty nice piece of software, but I'm highly suspicious of why anyone would need a 256MB GF5 under linux, anyway.

I've *always* had that problem with the latest versions of flash (yet I keep trying). The program I've found to work very well is an old version of Flask 4 that was optimized for AMD CPUs, called "FlaskAMD". I don't know if you can still download it but the modifications make it easier to use...

Hit this site for some updated 3dfx drivers. I'm using the Amigamerlin drivers on Windows 2000. They work very well for gaming.

What you needed to do, for future reference, was run WINIPCFG on the 98 box, then do a Release/Renew. It'd find the ICS quasi-DHCP server and take an address from that instead of the APIPA address it had been using.

The standard console client is called ircii. The X-ish one I've used in the past is called bitchX (no, I have no idea where that name comes from). PeeWee: Better hardware in this case means a less-generic NIC (I use Tulip and Intel-based NICs in my boxes), a video card with actual OSS drivers...

Methinks if you bought better hardware, it wouldn't be an issue. Nor am I the person trying to tell you to use Linux, only less crappy versions of Windows (NT3.5.1 was good, so is 2000. The rest suck eggs). At any rate, I haven't had a Linux box NOT auto-detect and install all the hardware in...

Go back and read why I ditched XP after a week. I think it's on the 2nd page of the computers forum by now. Lessee... Oh, yeah! I couldn't access better than 3/4 of a TERABYTE of disk space from my XP box, 'cause it was on samba shares. And on down the list, the wonderful, happy blue screens...

Wow PeeWee. Too bad I can't enjoy your scintillating wit. There is an image there I'm not seeing, right? Here's a thought for you: I've been doing this stuff for long enough to know good ideas from bad ones. I'm perfectly willing to use older technology if it's superior to new. I'm not...

I'll advertise an IP if for some reason y'all want to ytalk/ntalk me. I don't believe in nonstandardized chat applications. Especially if they're server dependent like AIM/YIM/MSIM/ICQ.

Since you have two instances of F@H running, have you set processor affinity for each to only one of your CPUs? Might help.

Msconfig is your friend, Tea.

I had almost the exact same thing happen to me when I was in school too, James. And also had people stick CDRoms in 5.25" disk slots, which was not usually good for the CD. You'd think people would learn that stuff somehow.

I spent around an hour and a half fixing a botched NAV Corporate 7.6 install last night. Anyone who wants to tell me NAV is a worthwhile product needs to spend a few quality seconds with the Symantec knowledgebase. Most of the time, after the description of a problem, the text reads: "Symantec...

I saw someone on SR mention a 1200AB a few weeks ago. I started a post to correct him, then did a search on pricewatch. It's not a cheap drive by any stretch of the imagination; 120GXPs are cheaper, but it is out, and OEMs have been selling it for a few weeks at least. I thought there had...

After learning that a dead pixel isn't enough to RMA an LCD, there's no way I'd consider buying one, even though I could really use at least a couple. A dead pixel would simply drive me nuts. So would the narrow viewing angles. I'm often working at one PC and looking at a different display. I...

Nope. I just use icecast to keep an MP3 playlist running on all my machines with speakers. That way I can wander around the apartment and hear the same piece of music without having obscenely loud volume someplace.

Good luck trying to get Samba and XP to play nice. They just don't. Although learning Linux is a more than admirable goal; I wouldn't be surprised if you find Mandrake more usable than the HP boxen you use at work.

It'd make a great little firewall. OpenBSD is your friend. Or a print server. Connect it to your network and to your stereo for instant MP3 access. Make it a dedicated virus-scanner. Test box for (some) parts? DOS gaming. Web Server. Backup point for little stuff like OS and driver files...

I don't watch much actual TV. I'm too cheap to pay $50 for cable TV (or for an actual TV, for that matter). The building's TV antenna only gets Fox and sometimes one of Chicago's spanish channels (motto: Every TV show is better with a thong!). Anyway, the only show I watch live is "Futurama"...

icecast. Win32 and Linux. Works great.

Crap like that is the reason I buy most of my stuff online.

The 120GB version is $165 shipped from a half-dozen places.

I've been watching the price on newegg.com. I've seen the prices drop probably 25% since the drive was introduced. Un-freaking-real. I still have TWO 75GB 75GXPs that have worked without interruption since I bought them. Of course, I think I've only had that machine off twice since I put them...

It probably sounds horribly seedy, but you already know where to find image-associated databases, don't you? Quite a bit of that stuff DOES make it to freshmeat.net. It wouldn't surprise me at all that there's something completely usable developed entirely in PHP and ready for use, just...

Another Bitter Amiga User (TM). Bitterness that one's favored technology did not carry the day is all too common in the computing world. I've met Bitter VMS Users, Bitter OS/2 Users, Bitter Be Users, Bitter Novell Admins, even Bitter Apple II Users, not to mention the host of malcontents who...

A long time ago I had a customer buy a video card from me. I sold him an ISA card. At the time PCI was not something that anyone had and it wasn't safe to assume VLB, either. A few hours later I got a message from my parents (see? This WAS a long time ago) that the guy's computer was on fire...

I have a pair of Sony noise-cancelling headphones that work OK for the two times a year I want headphones for something. They aren't Sennheisers but noise cancellation works REALLY well for computers and fans and air conditioners.

The enterprise version is considerably more expensive than Visio or Visio technical.

We're on the top of the third page of results. I don't think it'd be a lot of work to get enough linkage to move up a page. Beyond that I don't know. Anyway, what can we do to get a little better linkage?

It's funny, though. As per the article on slashdot yesterday, the preponderence of copies out in the world are the lowest-tech forms (camera pointed at movie screen, microphone to speaker), and sold to people who just don't care about the distinction. Still, I agree that the whole notion is...

I'm almost positive there are better programs out there than goldwave - which likes to use a temp file VERY heavily - but I'll bet if you look there are a couple of packages designed to clean up analog recordings.

Tape deck to aux in on the soundcard. Use one of a hundred sound recorders. The scratchy noises from tapes can be cleaned in most audio editing tools. Some even have "wizard-based" auto-cleaners. I think the Live! MP3 has software to handle that. Personally I use Goldwave. I'm sure there are...

Yes, I read it. Probably every other visit (which still means several times a day for me). Comment? Just once in my case, I think. I will if there's something really compelling. Wish the forunpage forum was integrated with this one somehow, though. :|

Methinks Mr. A.D. has been partaking freely of his pig uteruses.

Did we ever actually start this? 'Cause I certainly haven't gotten a turn yet. :(

Why the *hell* doesn't anyone else make a work-alike app that does what Visio enterprise can? I need Visio to produce proper documentation. I can get by just fine with a different OS, a different office package, different development environment from what Microsoft makes, but there's nothing...

I used PageMaker and Quark in work for newspapers in highschool and college. I still see them both from time to time, depending on where I work. Still, what possible daily use for such programs is there, that can't be handled by any of the top-notch WP packages at this point?

Eh. Either way. It isn't his money. I would've held out for something really expensive, though. A fully-loaded, top of the line X-series from IBM, probably. Dell doesn't do lightweight notebooks very well. And yeah, that 60GB drive, too. Why settle for anything less. :)

Prof, do you *see* the results of the poll up there?

Well, it's certainly easier than "Acard SCSI to IDE bridge". Guess I learned a new word today.

Beware the wrath of IBM if you're installing anything in an AS/400 they don't approve of. Service contract? What service contract? $700 for 1GB of RAM in any kind of "big" machine doesn't sound unreasonable to me. Anyway, that machine is undoubtedly a sweetie. How much does it weigh? And is you...

When I was in college I had a roommate - and one of my better roommates - who had to keep a cockroach alive as part of an entymology class. That thing scared the hell out of me. It was probably two inches long and made noises all night long. About halfway through the semester I started killing...