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I was going to comment that thermal epoxy might be better but I just figured you were kidding about the whole thing... Seriously the chipset on an NForce4 shouldn't need that much cooling, the gigabit ethernet is the hottest thing it has in it. And stuck or not I don't think putting that much...

You might try disabling the onboard ethernet and chucking a seperate card in. I know on my NForce3 based board the gigabit ethernet is the largest contributor to heat production. Swiftec make a gigantic solid copper chipset coolers and thermalright make a large aluminium one which is aparently...

Well I was thinking you'd take it one (or a few) step (s) further than Vista. Anything that isn't on the white list as a non-virus is deleted or quarantined as soon as it is detected no ifs and no buts as it were. If you want to keep a file not on the white list you need to get it added by your...

In the current climate of distrust and paranoia (which is not necasarily wrong) about computer security I think we need to move virus and malware scanners over to a whitelist model... Everything is a virus or malicious program until proven otherwise and thus the computer is a safer place...

Coolermaster make a cage that allows you to fit 4x 3 1/2" drives into 3x 5 1/4" bays which has a 120mm fan for cooling. That at least doesn't seem like a complete waste of drive bays if you have a few extra hard drives (and should provide pretty good cooling with not a huge amount of noise.)...

Well sure there's no need... But you may as well...

I'm all for tax deductible charities but not for tax deductible religions. This gets to be a problem when many, if not most, charities have religious affiliations. As far as I'm concerned religious groups should not be intrinsically grouped with not for profit organisations (especially since...

The sky is pretty cloudy here today but that's one up from yesterday when there was enough smoke floating arround to make my eyes sting pretty constantly. There was a fairly large bush fire about 20 minutes drive out of town on Sunday afternoon through most of Monday so I actually had ash and...

Well I've no evidence but I'd always just assumed that Apple must do something right to garner thier pack of rabid zealots... With lacklustre hardware for insane prices poor compatability and only relatively recently even a reasonable OS I just couldn't see Apples "hip" image accounting for it...

I figure when I'm dead I'm dead so I won't care... My friends and family will probably only outlast me by a matter of decades at the longest but my grave could be arround for much longer... So if I was writing sometthing fo my own headstone I'd want it to be something that would still be funny a...

I think part of Liams post was aimed at my implication that he his comments were unjustifiably anti-socialist. Which is a position I would pretty much stick with... Despite sig I think that stating that Welfare etc are not socialist because they are part of a humane society does imply that...

Why not? I have no problems with that. Socialism and communism were an attempt to design a social and governmental structure based very much on those type of aspects of a "humane society". The fact that socialism and communism don't actually work very well and the fact that they have been used...

It's probably less grey right now since there is only one version of OSX for X86 and that comes with all X86 Macs so you can't buy a boxed copy anyway. You could always buy an X86 Mac and put a linux distro on it then put the copy of OSX onto your white box but that's a lot of effort just to...

moving a little off topic (or on topic perhaps...) does anyone else find it odd that Apple didn't wait for Conroe before moving to Intel chips? They've now moved backwards to a 32bit system when they could have waited a little longer and had a really nice 64bit system instead... Which they will...

I'm still far more interested in getting OS-X to boot on a PC... or better yet DirectX to install on a linux box...

I really can't remember what it's called but your probably quite right about the IDEs they use. What I'm talking about is just a set of utility classes to ease the portability of code by abstracting the GUI (and possibly some other functions) one more layer. It shouldn't really make the...

I usually use telnet to test ports. ie. telnet 192.168.0.14 1433 If you don't get a connect failed error pretty much straight away then there is something happening on that port... If you get a connection rejected then it's probably firewalled or something... It more an art than a science and...

Sadly all the next generation CPU designs do seem to have missed the P4s intergrated sstove-top advantage... It's worth remembering when looking at these benchmarks that Shania Twain would not be greatly impressed... (O.K so it wasn't really...)

Adobe have thier own cross-platform development kit (Which they licence out to third parties). I think it's better on the PC than the Apple one is but it's probably not going to be as good on the Mac as code written specifically for OSX... At any rate I think Photoshop mostly loads slow because...

That and the fact that the architechture for the Core Duo is so much better than the P4 that a 1.866Ghz Macbook is probably just faster in raw terms than a 3Ghz Dual Core P4... I think a major factor affecting performance is that when apple ported quicktime over to windows they ran into a few...

The movie serenity was based on the series Firefly, the comics were written to fill in the gaps between the two. The series was axed before the end of the first season because it was pretty expensive to produce and Fox aired it at bad times and actually swapped arround the order of most of the...

I have a PocketPC based phone for one of the accounts I work on... It's a thing of horror, it crashes occationally, syncing is a matter of luck as much as any other factor and if the battery goes flat you have to reinstall everything from scratch (or your last backup... Although my last backup...

Incredimail just looks like it should come chock full of spyware and horrible crap (I mean seperate horrible crap). The first time I saw it I gave it a serious look over in an atempt to prove it did but I couldn't find anything... That said I saw that particular customers computer on about a...

Looks like the linux NTFS driver is a lot more stable for writes these days, a live linux distro on the P4 and a SCSI adaptor seems like the best option to me.

I was surprised at how good 40 year old virgin was as well but later I realised why. I expected the plot to be really bad, and it was actually as bad as I expected. What I hadn't expected was for the plot to have virtualy no importance to the movie. It was all about the dialog and that was...

I don't know... I think WD drives more than 4 or 5 years old are just old... only thier newer stuff is truely evil...

I remeber once having a cusomer with a hard drive failure on the machine they used for all thier accounts. We got thier backup disks and started to restore data only to find out that they ha been backing up the completely wrong data for over a year. They had a couple of zip disks full of copys...

Well it's a great proof of concept but I think I'll wait for the pump price of soy based biodiesel to drop a little before I invest in a conversion kit...

I don't think so. I believe that due to the bios you'd have to wait for the release version of vista or for some serious modifications to XP, but I don't think anyone will bother with that in the short term.

The inclusion of a half height backplate threw me... Can you really get a case with a half height backplate and room for 8 hard drives?

A baseball card being just a bit of cardboard with a couple of pictures printed on it wouldn't scanning them all for an ebay listing be kind of like posting an AVI of a movie when trying to sell the DVD? I mean obviously cards a somewhat more of a collectors thing but I still think I'd just...

I'm with Handruin, there is no point letting iIQ define what you look at... Rationally speaking it's not like romantic entanglement is an option anyway, you may as well sit back, enjoy the view and feel superior...

It seems like peoples heights are a measurement I'll never get used to, the idea that Charlize Theron is only 1-3 inches taller than Tom Cruise doesn't seem to ring true to me, but I'm hardly an authority since there isn't a single other thing I would ever measure in feet and inches so it's...

I don't know if it's the women of hollywood getting taller or the guys getting shorter... I know I'm often surprised when I see actors of either sex standing next to other people an realise just how damn short a lot of them really are... I suspect this could also in part account for the aparence...

In theory of course if the major buyers of wide screen LCDs are the HD home entertainment crowd looking for an extremely high res display for watching movies on we should start to see a really big second hand market for wide screen LCDs in the next year or so. When the next generation of video...

I've always assumed not. There isn't actually any copyrighted material in the torrent itself and since even downloading the program would not constitute a criminal act there is no legal way that your computer can be searched to determine if you ever actually did so (Or at least not without a...

Has anyone had any experience with corsairs flash memory? I've been looking arround for an SD card to play movies on a palm pilot (if I get bored enough) and for a 1GB card rated for a ~20MB/sec I can find Corsairs for $135(AUD) and Sandisks for $231(AUD). Can sandisk really be that much better?

I remember one time it snowed so hard the snow actually settled on the ground... By pooling all the snow from our front lawn with a couple of neighbours we managed to make a snow man as high as me knee... Snow chains can still be handy for getting your car out when it's bogged though...

Virtual dub is a nice free program for capturing and encoding in various formats. Although you won't need it for just chucking the contents of a video tape onto a DVD it is handy if your going to want to apply filters in an intermediate stage and it has some basic editing capability.

I work on a university campus. A couple of the guys go swimming at the uni gym at lunch times which is aparently quite picturesque... I should probably go over a couple of days a week... To get in shape you know...

There are several different panaflo ranges, some are quieter than others.

I'm using a couple of panaflo 120mm fans for my opteron. They're just about totally silent.

I somehow ddon't see that working out for them quite yet... Maybe if they buy a half dozen judges to go with thier politicians...

I have to agree with Tony, if these measures and licence changes are in fact designed to prevent piracy then they are singularly inefective... I know there is the argument that a determined individual will always be able to circumvent copy protection and it's just there to stop everyone else...

I was pretty sure that a SYS C: from a win98 boot disk would do the job... But obviously the copying option is a little lower risk...

I don't remember there being any difference between 98 and ME in the root directory department... Or none of significance anyway... But then I have always avoided the latter pretty vigilantly. At worst I can't see your batch doing any more harm than has been done.

I kinda have a feeling that most people on this forum would rather do it themselves... I've yet to see evidence that any tool can do as good a job of determining how best to compress something as I can... And as for encyption isn't half the point so that you don't have to trust the company to...

Wow seems like they are expecting some fairly massive interstellar colonization in the next couple of millenia. Either that or people thousands of years from now will each have thousands or even millions of multimedia devices. Either way I don't really see any industry sustaining a 95% growth...

I find Cyberlink powerDVD to be pretty much the best for DVD playback.

My picks of the crop TV wise are (in no particular order); Veronica Mars My name is Earl Family Guy American Dad and The O.C (Yes it's basicallly a soap but it's a very well written soap) But there have indeed been many a less desperate time TV viewing wise... Be thankful at least that your...