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I don't know if this is true for other SCSI controllers, since all I buy is Adaptec (it's a name thing, the same reason I stick with RedHat for Linux installations), but on Adaptec cards, any controller with the same chipset will share the same IRQ. I've seen machines with a pair of 2940s and a...

When I was in Cub Scouts, a looooonnnnggg time ago, one of the things we did was make root beer. It was pretty cool. I don't remember much, but we did have to harvest saspirilla (leaves, I think) to do it.

My grandmother has your dad beat, GMac. Her oldest today is 67, her youngest only 29 (or maybe 30. Either way it's pretty bad). It's weird that I have cousins with kids older than my youngest aunt.

There's an email address I know Jason actually reads upwards in this thread. It's something like jehh@vzavenue.net. Or something like that. I think it's his personal, ISP-provided address.

James, I'd still like to know what you did that I didn't. I tried precompiled. I tried rolling my own. I used a default smb.conf and one I made by hand. I tried three different versions of samba even. I never got so much as a connection.

Given that the problem you're having seems to go away with a change in resolution or refresh rate, perhaps you're stressing the RAMDAC a wee bit too much?

I asked. They said no. I'm not going to pursue it, even though I see students using those machines for a lot of dumber things (most of the machines have winmx, kazaa and some of the other programs that install adware on them, and run those programs on startup. I want to fix it but the hardware...

Bartender, please inform Mr. Wilson we're no longer speaking.

That's all the quality, being transferred into RAM. :) Tea might be off my xmas card list, except for the little fact that I don't celebrate xmas.

Hurry up and get started or I will, Cliptin. I'm bored today. Waiting on FedEx idiot. Can't leave the apartment, 'cause that exactly when he'll come.

$30 USD to get a 10x burner seems reasonable to me. How much would shipping be? I know. Don't ask. But humor me.

Don't you have an old component preamp sitting around somewhere? Or a sound app that's capable of boosting your audio recording levels?

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > "Enable Quick Launch". Moz starts up with your PC, just like IE (er, on a Windows box). Opera the web browser just doesn't have anything on any version of Mozilla since the preview releases (about 18 months ago).

<thwip> *CRASH* Whoops. I slipped.

I don't see why not. I suppose the game won't be much fun if the story isn't posted at the end. Hopefully it'll be something readable. :)

That's another one of those things I don't have a sense of humor about. That last bit, I mean. Sorry NRG. I've always had quite a temper. Believe me. I used to get mad enough to actually see red (which I understand now means that I get so worked up I'm nearly ready to pass out). It caused me a...

LinuxPPC is pretty nice. Or Open/NetBSD. For look and feel, MacOS is really nice. I wouldn't complain about it. For myself I'd probably install Linux, just because I'm used to it. But I'd say that you should give OS9 a try first. It's a pretty nice environment. I will warn you that it's not...

Well, it's my idea. Of course I'm in. I thought it might be an interesting alternative to a slow weekend of minimal numbers of posts.

Your order will be based on your reply here, then. You can start, and I can go second, or the other way around.

At the height of the surrealist movement in art, there was a parlour game played by young participants in the movement called "Exquisite Corpse". The idea was that each partygoer contributed a few lines to a story after reading only the previous contirubtor's entry, then, at the end of the...

Dual something-or-other, I'm sure.

It'll probably be longer than that before mainstream computing needs 128-bits. 64bits represents an awful lot of data (18446744073709551616 is the largest number you can represent. Obviously that's quite a large number.). 128 bits gets you 3.4x10^38. There you're getting in to "as many particles...

I forgot one on my list of careers. I think I could be a decent writer. Fiction or non. I've written things before that one might find online but most of what I write goes into notebooks (the paper kind). Anyway, I like to write, too.

I'd prefer not to hit anyone at all, actually. Women especially. My father wasn't the nicest guy in the world when I was growing up (holding me a foot off the floor by my neck, punching my head so hard I couldn't put it on a pillow two days later, nice things like that) and there are still times...

I disagree somewhat. Matrox has been at the limit of 2D quality for quite some time. The other players are just starting to get there (ATI's new cards look good, supposedly nvidia's do too, and 3dfx was just a notch behind when it was devoured). But since quality is there in the hardware, I...

There are any number of careers I would choose before pimping. For one thing, I couldn't hit a woman, and that's part of the job description (they use coathangers wrapped in towels. Leave fewer marks). Architect, some kind of low-responsibility physician (sports medicine, plastic surgery...

I'm partial to "Spatula" myself. I just think it's a fun word.

Yeah, but readers aren't standard equipment yet, and I still see floppy interfaces on motherboards.

I'm surprised there isn't at least a barebones DOS client out there. Someone being hardcore about things would no doubt get better performance in DOS than anything else, anyway.

Serial ATA. Particularly if, as SAN_guy eluded on SR, bridged U320 SCSI to SATA enclosures become available. Floppy replacements, if anyone is listening to me (CF, dammit!) Anything that improves PC I/O (PCI X, HyperTransport, whatever). A sound card with native support for DPLII. Smallish...

That looks like a variant on the Nimbda virus that went around last year.

Tannin and Tea can't have a nice discussion if one hand is holding the mobile and the other is holding the landline! How about a nice, relaxing call to your local time and temperature service? Or call the power company and complain about something; they're always up for that sort of thing.

How about "Tony's sometimes ex-girlfriend's daughter". That's a good one, right? "Spatula" "Zoltan" "Handle" (not that we want to give Tannin any ideas!) "T-bone" Anything good so far?

Most ECS stuff I've seen comes out of the factory as a dud. They pretty much all have something wrong with them. It's just a matter of finding it. Tannin's lucky. His had problems that were easy to find. So why isn't Kristi on this board again?

Actually I was thinking about getting her a 3/4 scale Harley. I know someone selling one. She drools every time she sees them on the road. Except that she hasn't been very nice to me the last couple weeks... Do you think she'd learn to like the beautiful 8KHA+ as much as she likes those bikes?

IBM's array manager made me re-initialize the array when I went from a 4-drive to a 10-drive RAID5 on my setup. Had to do a full backup, change the array, then restore. Or it's possible that I didn't do things right, I suppose. It isn't like I add drives to established RAIDs all the time...

Rotund is a good word to describe the fat guy you're using it to describe.

On the other hand, $55 is a steal for a quality KT266A part. Everything decent is at least $80 new. Note that being decent is clearly the same as not being ECS. I'm sure that board is in prime condition. My only concern at the moment has to do with the fact that Amy's birthday is in two weeks...

Honestly it's only a big deal for a narrow range of applications. Mostly you aren't going to notice. I was thinking about upgrading a machine from a KT133A to the Epox Clocker is selling. A difference I might not notice, either.

Rotund One? Like you'd know, Ms. Sock Puppet. :P My tax is easy: It's 5%. That's it. Thank goodness. It's all about costs, though. Having that low-cost machine is a great way to get sales. So many people won't ever do what even the little duron can handle.

You'd think parts would be cheaper, what with Oz being so close to all those southeast asian manufacturing companies... That's close to $800. Almost twice as much (2/3rds more, anyway). That's just insane.

I'm thinking. I'm thinking.

I only sell two systems, but it's amazing how similar the "budget" machine Tannin describes is to mine, and how similar his best-seller is to my upper-end machine (although I use a gigabyte board for that one). My low-end unit is $425 right now ($475 with a Windows 98 license)... how much is...

That's how I got that link to anandtech... I knew it was something like that. Jason can be a lousy, unethical businessman. It doesn't particularly change my opinion of him (take that as you will).

Ultra2 Wide. i960 is an awfully slow CPU for a RAID card at this point. You really want a high-end card with a StrongARM if you can find one. ICP Vortex cards are nice. Look for one of those.

Really, I meant what I said about Jason's former customers staying around, too. The ones that weren't Tea (don't crap where you eat. Remember that), I mean. SR needs clueful people. SF needs them, too. Either way. Jason's buddies claim to be IT pros? Fine. We should make them welcome and value...

They're cheap, alright. Decent enough hard disks. Displays that in and of themselves aren't bad. But criminally bad chassis and keyboards. They overheat, too. Give them a few months and let me know what you think.

As I think about it, the first problem I have with that thread is its title. Jason and "IT pro" don't go together in the same sentence (except just now). Looking at what's happening on SR right now, I really do feel something should be done. My response as a moderator would simply be to lock...

I dimly recall seeing some nasty stuff about Knight Technology on anand's forums last year. It's possible that there are actually more people with complaints. Either way, what's going on is stupid. I REALLY wish I was a mod on SR. This is a case where I think something clearly needs to be done...

You're all amateurs.