Search results

Not a computer story but I used to service big UPS's for a company on the left coast. We had a relatively small 30KVA 480 3 phase unit in a SUGAR mill, I think it was C&H sugar and they had a belt going right over the machine transporting sugar to a different part of the factory. Now as you know...

Check and see if the auto trans in that model car has a line that goes through the radiator. Lot of cars do that as a more cost effective way than adding a whole seperate cooler for the transmission. If it does have this than adding a seperate cooler is not too difficult either, BUT: the car is...

Trillian pro user for a long time. You can set it up so that the enter doesn't send the message and merely adds a line and you have to click send to send. There is a way to trick it out to do a mobile install on a memory key and use that anywhere, only windows that I am aware of though. Mine...

Blue with some purple in it.

Stolen from dictionary.com: Socialism: 1. Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. 2. The stage in Marxist-Leninist theory...

Congratz, that's pretty sweet. Having a job you like does wonders for your psyche.

USB issues: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5398 Never solved, used up one of my two PCI slots with a USB card. Werent the IDE issues pretty much limited to Maxtor drives and, now that they have a new firmware for those drives, solved?

I had a couple enlight 7237 towers (why the heck do I remember that and I can't remember the name of whom I am working with?) and I don't think the airflow was that good or bad, average case. Had a good vent to let in air on the front but the plastic cover looked way restrictive. I drilled out...

Spiral compressors are out there in lots of AC equipment: http://www.mehk.com/mehkwww_20050602/mehk/p&m/MAR/others/spspec2.jpg

Price drop: Price is $75 + shipping of your choice

Let us know when it hits, I need a reminder to go get it. I will definately check this one out. The last one I tried wiped out my system when I installed daemon tools, wouldn't boot. So that whole vista trial lasted about 20 minutes.

+1

-Ten USB 2.0 ports I do that typo a lot. The audio is replaced with Intel High definition audio whatever that is.

Interesting find: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/02/20/intel_ich8_southbridge/ http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=554791 -No PATA -Six SATA -No AC97, I didn't see what's in it's place -Six PCI Express x1 -Ten UPS 2.0 ports

Back when I had my 2x4 ranger I had an auburn put in, I didn't think it was enough for when you really needed it. On my current truck I tried a lock-rite but with my standard transmission there was just to much clanging and banging going on back there, really need an auto for those. Best thing...

Wow, so thats another reason MS continues to hate consumers and hobbyists. They really bend you over if you build your own machine and want to be legit.

I run some cheapo all terrain tires on my 4x4 all year round. Stock size they don't make much noise and have plenty of grip. Only rated for 30k miles but I would rather have soft grippy rubber and change the tires more often, you don't really want to be stuck with the same set of tires for 60k...

No way they will drop the price that low. XP Home OEM through newegg is $94 and Professional OEM is $140. Retail Pro is still $220. Does anyone know what kickbacks MS gets from Dell or Hcrap to bundle an OEM version of the operating system with their PC's?

This only effects OEM copies of windows right? If we have a full Retail box version of windows we can continue to do whatever we want with it correct?

Dead link and some browsing didn't find the article, was it pulled? I haven't bought or played a CD that I haven't burned myself in years, but this stuff on DVD's caught my attention as I rent/buy DVD's a LOT.

If you are in an area that freezes you might want to go deep to get below the frost layer. Below that the temp stays nice and stable. Samsung listed a non-operating temp of -40C so it shouldn't be a problem. I think I read somewhere that if you go down 15 feet or so the temp is around 50F and...

The scratch drive is for doing video editing and other stuff that uses a lot of space. Very interesting, I will give that article a read. I have an AC clamp some where so in the interests of science I could butcher an electrical cord and see what the thing draws. My UPS says it's drawing three...

http://www.2cpu.com/images/reviews/SX1030/backsx1030.html Doesn't look like anything special to me, remove the motherboard and whack the heck out of it in the prescribed manner as Tannin has outlined.

Here is the vitals on the computer I am using as a file/web/ftp server: P4 3.0C Northwood Supermicro P4SCT Matrox G400 max PCP&C TURBO-COOL 510w 3ware 7500-8 Four Samsung SP1614N - Archive Two WD600LB - OS One WD800JB - Scratch drive Liteon CDRW Sony DVDRW Calculator says 363/384 (80%/100%)...

I wish we had more diesels in the US. They have come a long way.

Yeah I was on the fence post about Steam, I do view it as spyware / spamware with its popups on machine startup and reporting your configuration and usage to them. Whatever, you also get updated ASAP. Also I was going to install HL1 and I took a peak into Steam, entered my HL1 CD key and it...

Warez? I admit I delve into usenet more than I should for games (thank you verizon for unlimited free downloads even if retention is the suck), but I paid full price about a week after release for HL2 and the same for the original. Not many games are worth my dollar. Doom3 for example would have...

Take a look at the fakefactory cinematic mod for Halflife 2, lost coast with everything maxed was impressive as well. I also was never able to get games at a playable frame rate on the 9700 with any FSAA. AF was there on the 9700 but at lower levels. Now I can turn all the games detail settings...

What's the chance of expanding the budget to $290 or thereabouts? The 7800Gt's are below the $300 mark now when you find deals. Most are a single slot solution and won't vent outside the case though, but you don't block slots either. MSI Geforce 7800GT...

I think you will find it will be less painful than you think. Go with any dual head video card you want plus something PCI. I used a Matrox Millenium II for a while to get triple head.

I wish: Headhunted

http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/mouse/mouse_skatez/ http://www.slicksurf.com/ http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/201/1 This one makes a bit of a mess on your mousepad if you use a plastic pad like I do (such as a Func pad or Ratpad). A fabric pad would probably not wear out the tape...

Because it's a sustained transfer, just reading and sending data instead of reading file information, looking for the file etc. The job files I work with have hundreds of 1 or 2k files in them, much faster to zip it up and shove it onto a USB device than to copy the folder with all the files in...

Seconded, or thirded, whatever. Relax.

Man I'm not that old am I? Hmm, 1997 was how long ago :o

:P That's great, about five years ago that was a good site.

Heh, I would. But I haven't bought any in recent years with the exception of the 74 raptor.

Kingston Hyper-X KHX3200AK2/1G 1GB (512MB 64M x 64-Bit x 2 pcs.) PC3200 CL2 184-Pin DIMM Kit. Has fancy blue heat-spreader. Two DIMM's like new, original packaging, mfg lifetime warranty. Interesting thing with the timing on this stuff, Kingston lists it at Timing Reference: 2-3-2-6-1 at +2.6V...

Found an interesting update on penny-arcade.com today: This sucks, but I don't doubt that it happens.

I don't suppose you have a 15k.3 and HBA to compare it to? SR seems to think it was a step back in performance, but cooler/quieter and sucks less power.

Actually to be fair I was asking for stable operation with four DIMM's at the memory's stock rated speed of DDR400 and it couldn't do it. The Supermicro does though, with the same memory modules. I am beyond my overclocking days, now I just want stable operation and the performance I paid for...

Isn't there an external power supply involved too? Or isn't that the super high end one only? Whatever, I rather like nvidia at the moment for 3D. At least they can deliver product to people (for the moment anyway).

They do, just not something I would want in a desktop computer to game on and stuff. I don't get why they hide it on a separate site though, looks like OEM only? http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/

Brings to light the hard work that comes from running this place, thanks for doing it. Which makes me think about the hows and whys for this forum. I don't see any corporate connection or adds to support it, so even if it's a labor of love the hosting has to be paid somehow? Also I remember...

Just an update: Using the Value Ram at DDR400 on this board was a no go. It was close enough to pass memtest86 for over nine hours, but corrupted data in windows caused lockups etc. I thought that was a corrupted install from running the memory at the wrong timings etc but it did it immediately...

Well now I am curious, this is what's on the CPU: AMD Athlon 64 ADA3700DAA5BN KABQE 0547DPAW 1374429L50028 Google results seem to suggest this is a: 1MB 90nm Rev. E San Diego Thank you, yes good reading.

Tannin and P5-133XL: You are making sense to me but I just don't see why this can't be addressed in good hardware design or perhaps the BIOS can relax some timings instead of taking the easy way out and dropping the overall speed. This isn't a server with 4gig or more memory in it. We are...

I sincerely hope that's what I have as this is what I ordered: Is the OPN on the retail box for the CPU? I don't see it... It does detect as a 3700+ and I only see one of those available and it's a San Diego. I also don't want to speak to soon but I may have this solved. My friend found some...

Tanin: Using this argument method is like my saying it's OK to steal a couple of spark plugs out of your (insert favorite fast car here) because you aren't using the power on legal driving anyway. I am not buying into that. You are correct the automatic settings work perfectly, if not up to what...

It would have been nice to have this in the motherboard manual. Shame on Gigabyte, and props to Kingston: Maximum Memory: 2GB using 400MHz DDR Modules 4GB using 333MHz DDR modules...