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I'll be building a computer for my wife for Christmas. The specs are tentatively MSI K7N2 Delta-L (Nforce 2) or MSI KT6-Delta LSR (KT600) XP 2500 or 2600 333MHz FSB, Barton core 2*256 MB Crucial PC3200 ATi 9600 Pro 128 MB sound is onboard the motherboard WD2000JB (just got it as her old HD is...

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oh, and no, she doesn't need a superfast drive, but since it will be her OS drive and Photoshop scratch drive I think the speed will be appreciated.

I gave my wife the info, and she decided that the best bang for her buck (price/GB) among the better performing drives was the 200 GB Caviar Special Edition through Hypermicro. And it has a 3 year warranty. Some day we'll go SATA, but not for now I guess.

so my wifes 75 GXP started making clicking noises tonight. I got everything off of the drive, though it took multiple forced reboots. She needs a new HD anyway (and a whole new computer, but that will wait until Xmas). So....it looks like the Hitachi 7k250 is a pretty nice drive...

like he said: "prove it" As far as notebooks go, I'm a total believer now in "less is more." Sure, my Dell 8200 with a 2.0 GHz P4-M and 512MB of RAM and 15" screen 5400 RPM HD outperforms the Dell D600 (Centrino 1.3 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 4400 RPM HD) that my school gave me, but the D600 weighs...

ah, that makes sense. Now, who had the bright idea of making the commands the same? It will be a shame if Linux gets a bad name over this.

anybody else playing around with iTunes on a PC? On my machine it seems to use more CPU cycles than Winamp 3, and it's not as responsive. But I do like that I can create "song lists" on the left for every folder (I sort MP3s into folders by artist). Haven't found a way to do this in Winamp.

can somebody explain how a software program can physically kill hardware? I can almost imagine how a video card could kill a monitor. But a CD-ROM drive?

I'd like to second B4RSK's approval of Tight VNC. At school the machine that captures our lectures has Tight VNC installed that lets me and my fellow tech geek control it remotely. Very nice for when we have review sessions that aren't officially scheduled with facilities management and we end...

good place to find feeds: http://myrss.com/ I'm in awe. This is sweet. I threw on JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine (the later I can get full text since my university gives us their logon/password) - this is so much easier than going through my school's biomed library.

definitely cool. Does anyone know if there is a comprehensive list of sites that have news feeds? I'm having trouble finding a nice list of URLs. Thanks for the link Doug!

Windows enables autorun by default, right? And they don't warn the user. Is MS liable for damages if a malicious CD damages a PC?

the little boy who can also has an article on it http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1893

Crashguard....<think>.....did Symantec (maybe under the Norton name) ever release a version of Crashguard? I think I once ran that back in the bad old days of Win9x on a 486 <shudder>

I want to be able to go to my school webpage with my browser, and edt it if I see anything that needs changing using a WYSIWYG interface. After editing it, I want my browser to login and edit the HTML files for me.

hey all - does it really matter what program I use to defrag? I used to religiously use Norton's Speed Disk, but now I wonder if it's worth the hassle of installing it. IIRC, Norton's claim to fame was (other than the pretty moving diagram it drew) that it put frequently accessed files at the...

mental note: return that copy of WinAce that I got for Merc for Christmas.

Merc - are you suggesting that I use Window's compression rather than Winzip? As I was right clicking on files to compress them I saw that option, but was afraid that they might be unreadable on older Windows installations.

if I've got a bunch of files in a folder, can the folder info on the HD become corrupted, making all the files inside of it unrecoverable? seriously, back to cranial nerves now! Adcadet

sorry for the delay. I decided to just ignore the problem for a little while, and I just got around to it. When I open command.com, then killed off explorer.exe, the command window would disappear. Ug. Logged off, logged back on (which worked same as a reboot and saved time). I had two...

ok, I'm totally out of the loop here. I remember Creative writting some really sucky software, but my old Live card seems to be running just fine in my dual Athlon MP system with both WinXP and Win2k3Server. FYI - I mostly just listen to MP3s with headphones....

ok, so the two major drawbacks are CPU speed/time to open them (not a problem, since I rarely use these files and it seems my old and slow dual 1.2 GHz machine opens them fast enough), and risk of corruption. Can anybody elaborate on the corruption issue, especially vs. a bunch of files stored...

Hey all - I'm running out of disk space :( So I started rumaging around, and found a ton of things that I want to keep but rarely access. Out of curiosity I tried zipping them with Winzip, and have found that some things can be incredibly compressed. My old Outlook folder was 232 MB, and is...

for about a year I've been using an HP PSC750, and never had a problem with it in WinXP. I simply don't have room for a scanner/copier and a printer. Never needed a fax machine, though efax.com is very nice for receiving faxes.

Yup yup. Definitely nice. Now if only I could get this damn file off my machine.

OK, explorer is still at 50% CPU utilization (I'm running a dual machine). I suspect it may never fall back down to normal levels. I suspect I'll have to delete the file using the command prompt or recovery console. Hmm....in Windows how do I type in a file name with spaces?

yup, explorer.exe is sucking up 50% of my CPU power when I single click on it (as shown in the task manager). Damn explorer.

oh, I can't even rename the darn thing.

ok, so I FTPed a file from a school server that contained a humorous 2.6 GB movie (.avi) last year's class made. Windows Media Player can't play it, even after downloading a codec, so I assume I got a corrupted download. But now I can't delete the damn thing - when I do Windows asks me if I'm...

Doug - dual monitors is really addictive. Way back when I went to dual 19" monitors, and I've never looked back. The lack of dual monitor support is the only reason my main machine runs Winbloze and not Linux as it's main OS. And after playing around with a 22" flatpanel, and after using my...

Isn't that why we use multiple computers? Personally, I've got my desktop and two laptops on my desk, partially so I can segregate tasks on different machines.

uhhh...am I missing something here....a chip costing >$3000? What gamer can afford that?

my wife has used Club photo, ofoto, and Shutterfly. This is a summary of her experiences: Club photo is her favorite because of the shared albums that others can see. She's had good experence with all of them. Club photo may be the only place that gives matte copies, which is what my wife...

If I were a lawyer I would at least be charging a heavy hourly rate or a get a nice cut. But then again, my wife does give me priviladges...... uh, nevermind.

with nforce (1 or 2) boards it's best to run with two banks of RAM rather than just one, right?

hey all - thanks for the advice. I'll definitely shoot for ~$400. My wife's brother, parents and grandparents are coming over tonight, so hopefully I can feel them out and get them to commit to a number. It would be very nice if I only have to arrange things then built the machine, and get...

Tea - thanks for the response. But I must ask....why does your picture look like a fat balding ape? And why does your post include so few typos? Is that really Tannin logged on as Tea? Damn memory prices have gone up! I was thinking I could get 512MB for ~$50. Question: should I insist...

I should be in bed by now as I have class at 8 AM....damn, why did I have a Churchill-sized Cuban cigar at 10 PM with my bud. Oh well, what are best friends for? a few thoughts: -she loves WinXP, and would scream if I loaded a Win9x or 2K on her machine. The install is old (about a year old...

hey all - I haven't been around much with med school in full swing and all. My wife's old P2-400 is really getting too slow for her to use these days. She really wants it rebuilt, probably around Christmas. I'm going to talk to her family and mine and encourage people to just send me a check...

City - I'm so sorry. This past Labor Day was the 1 year anniversary of when my family euthanized our dog (a dachshund). He too had Cushings and had slowly deteriorated. 12 years before that (minus a few weeks) we put our first Dachshund down after a slipped disk and hind limb paralysis...

ah, cool with the Greek encoding. And no, I wasn't joking. OK, so how do you refer to somebody who is a president of a research foundation, has an MD, PhD, is a professor and has a master's-level degree? Herr President Professor Doctor, guy-with-a-master's XYZ?

gee, thanks Merc.

hey all - I just picked up my wedding video from the videographer. The only problem is that the DVD versions are burned onto DVD-R disks. My Dell (Inspiron 8200) DVD player can see the files but not access them. Anyone know of a work around? Thanks, Adcadet

Any language in which it is acceptable to refer to somebody as "Mr. Doctor Professor XYZ" (English translation) is cool. How common is it to hear somebody say (excuse the spelling, I've never taken German) Herr Doctor Profesor XYZ around the universities? And in that case, does "Doctor"...

I didn't spend much time looking at the monitor in the store, but it seems to look much better running of the DVI out from my ATI Radeon 8500.

so the news crew did show up, and did film the place, and did interview the staff. It is set to air this Wednesday. And in the mean time, I'm enjoying this monitor - perhaps it's not the absolute best, but it still is very very nice to my eyes.

Pradeep - I never said this beast was the best bargain I could get, or even that I'd buy one for myself if I was seriously on the market. I had three real criteria: it looks cool (which I think it does), it was available to me in 2 days (which is was), and that I could buy it and return it...

PW - Scrubs? Oh nice! I'm rounding with a maternal-fetal medicine specialist today and don't have time for much, but why don't you shoot me an email in the near future so we can set something up- acalvin@med.umn.edu. Thanks! Andy