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Finding cable that's up to snuff for gigabit is really, really hard. Sure, most anything "premium" you buy will say Cat5e or even "cat6" (not actually a standard yet). The proof is in the transfer rates. Use a crappy cable and they hover around 150 or 200MBit/sec Find the right one and they'll...

Without reading the article, I'm guessing that all 18 are "Install Windows 98"

I'd rather leave things the way they are. I like the distinctions between the forums. They're obvious and reasonable.

Blasphemous but... Man, I hope this works. Since I can't see it and all.

Huh? Fresh air? Out-side? Oh. The place with no ceiling and all the dirt. Hm? That's addictive? I guess it should be regulated or something.

I've never had a problem like this. My history, however. Historically, I bought cheapies. You know, the $5 unbranded sort. No problems there, and anyone who cared went out and bought their own. I still use those sorts for my lowest of the low cost builds. Starting about the time MP3s became...

Too bad there isn't mention of cost. I'm guessing $250 without drives, $300 or so suggested retail. Too much for a SCSI enclosure and a bridge. If the price is right, though, I'd have no problem picking one or two up.

I have a bit of a problem. Namely, the speakers I've been shipping out with PC builds keep failing. Annoyingly, they aren't the $6 speakers one expects to break, but $20 ones that cost just enough that there's some expectation of quality, and just little enough that the company's support people...

Found it! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q234773

I'll be getting to you shortly, Prof. I've got my nice stack of MCSE books to see if there's something stupid about ICS I'm forgetting. But we'll see. Just let me do a pass through here and SR...

I dropped .kr, .jp, .tw and a few other Asian TLDs into my mail filters some time ago. Bill, I absolutely don't see anything wrong with that spam. Of course, I don't see it at all in Mozilla, but looking earlier with IE I didn't see anything particularly objectionable either. Is it just the use...

The "No" option for me needs to be a lot more vehement: "I'm not a dad and other people shouldn't be either". It's not a possibility for me in any case, for several reasons.

Last Article about motherboards on Slashdot was their spastic reaction to the new Abit Max board. The one with every single possible thing integrated on it and eight IDE ports. Might've been that one. I also understand that those cheapo removable drive bays, when connected to the PS connector...

I have an *old* HP, C. It's a model 715. I think it's about 80MHz. It might be as fast as 110MHz. I don't really care. It's my firewall/mail relay. Not that I have anything to firewall at home. I use it to read mail and be all OpenBSD-ishly impeneterable. More than fast enough for what it's for.

Either way. Sometimes none of the above. Your machine probably isn't adding his forwarded packets to the stuff it's passing through the VPN, it's just blindly throwing them out on the interface. Brainfried at the moment. I'll look and see what I can see when I get home tonight and have books...

Only one of your machines should be running ICS, first of all. The other should be configured for automatic assignment an IP address.

What is it you Aussie chaps do on the football field again? I mean, the way things normally work, there needs to at least some sort of courtship period prior to any testicle-biting activities.

My rule of thumb is 4 - 5 years for a 17" display. 14" displays usually don't age very gracefully at all; after three years or so, there is a really noticeable deterioration. I've not had a 21" monitor for long enough to really tell, but 21" displays tend to be overspecified anyway. I'd expect...

Audiophiles usually love to talk about why their electrically-isolated, vibration controlled, no-digital-components stereo systems are superior to one another. Peons using anything so simple as an SPDIF are clueless at best. It's a bit like winesnobbery or us talking about the noises hard disks...

Adriel, have you done a listening test between DVD-A and SACD?

I have tons of expensive consumer-grade stuff. If anyone cares. :) Now we need is Stereodude and we can have an audio pissing contest. Which might also be a fun thing to record. :)

I've no doubt it's complicated. I use multilink PPP at home; no idea what that does to server logs. I'd think most of the other IPs would be AT&T cable... which is probably 64.something, or through the local Purdue campus's IP block, 205.215.103.x (Amy teaches there on Wednesdays and I usually...

Laid back? I barely have a pulse. Still, I'm uncomfortable taking words from the mouths of friends. Which is a good thing, in a way.

Remember, Doug, IT contractor. I move around a lot. Although most of my hits are probably from either 208.154.170.something, which seems to be the address block the Livingston Portmaster I dial into allocates. Mostly I use the modem on my laptop or mulitlink at home, though.

Well, actually, we've roughly tripled in number of users since the site became open to the public. Not everyone is active, of course (heck, I probably STILL spend more time here than Doug), but we ARE growing. How cool is that?

You're the one who can look in last night's backups, right Doug?

[sniff] I believe there are at least five more x's. I'll bet that link points to something really dirty now. Actually, Coug, I thought it would be the most evident sign that I modded; I litterally crossed it out. Maybe I should've used "t"s? Also I resent the characterization as porn...

Well, as long as you aren't upset about it. I've been uptight since I made the change. :|

This evening, the first editorial moderation was made on SF. In my heart, I'm not a censor, and I hate changing the words of other people. James posted a direct link to a site that gave the appearance of being a warez site. This isn't a referendum on James. We like James. James is cool. But I...

Oh, and DECENT ATX power supplies have a hard switch on the back for shutting things down.

The last quality board I'm aware of in AT form factor was a Tyan BX model. I don't remember the model number. Probably didn't support more than ATA66. An ATX switch is a tiny little guy that just hangs off the board. Being what it is, it actually represents less of a bulk of cabling less than...

Well, since the goal is fidelity to what are admittedly just a bunch of semirandom "white noise" elements, I still can't put my back behind MP3. As an example, given a real image of static such as that on a TV screen, if you wanted something true to life, could you really trust that JPEG could...

MP3 is a bad choice. It's a compressed, lossy format, after all. I can hear the difference between MP3 and CD Audio with only slight problem. The other problem that's presented is volume gain. You really need to record every drive at a quantitative, reproducable volume level, with a quality mic...

On a given night I'm probably using at least half of my machines full-out. Netflix keeps me happily crunching away at new video. :) Among the rest, two are laptops, the faster a Celeron 433, the slower a P5/233. One is an HP Unix workstation, one a Sun (which is getting on in years, now). The...

Now we know what you do with that DSL line. James, I should probably mod you for the above. Illegal link in a public forum. We're really looking for an excuse to moderate something anyway. :) Anyway, I'm really happy with Ghost v5. the one I paid for. I use it all the time and so far, I...

If I wasn't encoding video much of the time, I'd have some machines to throw in as well. Maybe I could throw in some of the machines at the training company where I work instead. Would 16 K6-3/450s crunching for 12 hours or so a week actually be helpful, though? I wouldn't run it when I wasn't...

I have a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP with USB2. About half the shipping KT333 boards seem to have it. Firewire is undeniably cool; being able to do cool stuff like video editing directly between two cameras is really awesome. I'd feel a lot better about 1394 if it was an onboard standard. The other...

The motherboard in my game machine has the 1st-generation NEC/Via USB2 chip. :( Yeah. I'm waiting for Clocker to ship his 10GB DM40+ out to me so I have a good spare drive from which to run tests. Although, now that I think about it, I don't have a copy of Winbench, either. Never much cared to...

Had to buy a USB2 enclosure today. Well, I didn't have to. But I got an expense authorization for one, so I did. So I have a USB2 enclosure and a USB2 controller. I stuck an old 13GB 5400rpm Maxtor drive I had laying around in it. Let me tell you: It's fast. Fast enough to make me forget I'm...

RE: Screwing up ghost. Well, it's been done. I noticed today that there are now three different versions of ghost. Ghost Personal edition, which, among other flaws, won't write an image to a network drive. There's also the latest OEM release, which is Ghost Personal Edition spread across two...

PPPPPPPbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt. I don't use SuSE. I never have. Nor KDE3, although I have it installed (just a couple days ago, in fact). There are folks on SR (Hungarian) who swear by it. Personally I stick with RedHat. KDE is a very comfy place for beginners assuming you have a pure KDE...

Which is different for me... how? Even if your tax laws are as goofy as those in the states, 50% is 50%.

Plain text is always an improvement. What happened to Hercules was a damn shame. At one point, I swore by Hercules cards as surely as I swear by Matrox now. Their stuff was the best you could buy. Now they're an undifferentiated nobody. Speaking of "undifferentiated nobodies", did anyone else...

We don't all have broadband here, either. As I understand things, in Canada, every tiny little town has some kind of broadband PoP. Universal free healthcare, good beer, broadband everywhere. Oh. And anyone working overtime in Canada gets paid for it. Even those on salary. If I could handle the...

Yes. I put whatever comes with the motherboard on the machines I build, but I don't enable it. Instead I have a nice HTML document that shows them step-by-step how to enable it or remove it. Lately I've taken to adding a Housecall quick button on IE and Mozilla (I install both), too.

My standard link is www.diydatarecovery.nl Lots of good stuff there. If you're really desperate, you can find copies of Lost and Found or Ontrack's product if you *ahem* look.

One of Amy's friends from school was having problems with her iMac. Stupid problems, as in she didn't know to work OS X. So I had to show her how to get the OS9 personality going so things looked more familiar to her (once I figured it out). Anyway, she let me take the bottom off the base. I...

Time to break out data recovery software, i. You might also try using a non-retarded fdisk. Disk Manager in 2000 works, so does the fdisk from Linux. Other than that, the best you can do is try data recovery software.

Couple of years ago I was on a job moving servers from one location to another. Lots and lots of servers. 70 or 80, I think. We could only move a couple machines at a time, and only on weekends (no interruption in service). At first we were just taking the machines down, unplugging everything...

So where is your residence for the purpose of taxation?