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Making some good money? A very nice rant; and one I 100% agree with. It's not like linksys don't know how to do WPA; many of their products have it. The killer for me is why their range extenders don't support it. They have a "one touch setup" that would obviously not support keying in a code.

...But 754 didn't last as long as 462. Say hello to 939!

The Barton 2500+ was my best friend for a LONG time. Though the Venice 3000+ is looking pretty darn good.

The Neopower ran for about 18 hours before erupting in a cloud of smoke. It filled the laundry room, leaving quite a suprise for me when I got home. Fortunatly it didn't take anything else (like the TB up unbackedup data) with it. I have since replaced it with an Antec TruePower 500W. This PS...

Well, I lay awake last night worried about the temp of all those hard drives in the Silverstone, so I made a run to Frys today and spent too much money. I think I averaged about $1000/hr :(. Workstation: A64 3700+ San Diego Core (2.75Ghz - 250x11@1.5V) Scythe Ninja Gigabyte nForce4 SLI 1GB...

In addition to the measley price difference, it moves the video card closer to the CPU. The only fan I have is a Nexus 120mm @ 5v between the CPU HS and the passive video card making the airflow from the HSF work better at keeping the video cool as well.

Well, here's my NEW new rig... A64 3700+ San Diego Core (2.75Ghz @ 1.5V) Scythe Ninja Gigabyte nForce4 SLI 1GB Corsair XMS DDR550 Gigabyte Fanless x800 PCIe 40GB Samsung SATA 2.5" in a Scythe Silent Box Enclosure BenQ 1620 DVD-RW Nexus 120mm@500rpm Antec Phantom 350W All my storage and...

8TB? Well, at least they didn't contain data.

I took mu second Judo class last night...ouch. Everything was going just fine until I tried a "front fall without arms". This is where you kick yourself around until your feet fly over your head and you land on your rounded back, softening the blow. Either mt back wasn't rounded enough or my...

If you like semi-sweet whites, I need to reccomend Galante Vineyard's Sauvignon Blanc; the finest example I've found. Though my personl favorite wine is their Merlot. Aged in 100% new french oak that's been lightly toasted, it offers just the right amount of spice to go with steak or other...

Yup. This thing was officially sponsored by EA, as a "Battlefield 2 Premire Event". They provided gaming mice, games, and T-Shirts as prizes. It's now 1:30AM on Sunday, and I've had 2 hours of sleep since 6AM on Friday. Every hour in between has been me yelling my head off, organising and...

So tired. Just wrapped up the first 24 hours of our Battlefield 2 Tournament. Now I can sleep for a few before going back to finish it off.

I Think the laptop argument holds the most water. The laptop resting in myleft hand as I type this with my right would be much heavier and harder to manage if it had even half the weight or size of the brick added. I don't mean to digress, but if I could have lost the size/weight of the optical...

That involves integrating the heat as well. I'd prefer to keep that heat behind my desk.

The next PS for my bedroom computer will likely be a brick...silence is happy.

9AM and 14C. The high today will be 20C, the lowest it got last night was 13C. Being 200m from the ocean helps a bit.

I didn't stop to look at it, but it was the original drive in a 440BX-based P2-400/128MB NT system. 8GB in 2 partitions of 4GB. When I installed a USB 2.0 PCI card in this machine and got WinXP Pro SP2 installed (yes, same hardware) the drive works fine. Only guess is that the onboard USB wasn't...

Thanks for the quick response Buck, it does indeed look like some other type of error. I connected the drive to my system via USB and it's reading fine. I think their hardware is just too old.

I just upgraded a user from NT4 to XP Pro. I took his old drive and installed it in a USB 2.0 enclosure so he can access his files. The drive letter is showing up, but it prompts for "insert disk". Is this an issue with the old version of NTFS or an indication that the enclosure is not operating...

Following my logical yet completely baseless and incorrect thoughts; wouldn't monitors that ONLY supported DVI be cheaper than monitors that ONLY supported VGA? Wouldn't it be the same with video cards?

When i lived in San Francisco and Manhattan I didn't have a car and didn't miss it at all. All the good stuff seems to have been covered, so I'll just say "yeah..." and hit post...\ PUI

From what I can tell, there are 2 scenarios that should make DVI superior. 1) Long cable runs: To VGA's credit, on runs as long as 50' VGA still looks fine. 2) Higher res/refresh: This is only in theory, as VGA can support both higher res and refresh...wtf?

I'm currently considering selling my GTI and buying a sport bike. In anticipation of this change, I've started trying to live like it already happened. My car is completely empty, and the only things I let myself carry is a backpack in the passenger seat. So far no issues; I've started doing...

I didn't need any more reasons to dislike Intel, but thanks anyway.

The best laptops to park your Hummer on are certainly toughbooks. I saw a demo of that one, quite impressive.

How embarrasing. Try This one. Sorry about that. I'm thinking our definitions might just be different. I recently had to swap out a Zalman Fanmate as it was producing the slightest whistle while slowing my Nexus 120mm fan to 5v.

Not true. DDR works fine with single DIMMS. However, Dual-Channel DDR requires matching DIMMS in specific sockets to support Dual-Channel mode.

I wonder what the min RPM is? I tried a Nexus in one and the alarm sounded constantly

Just so you know, that SCA box and silent aren't compatible. The fan on the back is quite noisy and cannot be swapped or removed without the very loud alarm going off. Removing the alarm requires a soldering iron or surgical hammer. I'd suggest this:

I don't think you'll see plasmas with that kind of res. They're designed to replace televisions, remember, not monitors. That's a decent resolution for TV (I guess, I don't watch it). If you're looking for a better resolution, you're probably looking for Samsung's 24" 1920x1280 or their 57"...

Antec Phantom 500W. Semi-passive, the fan will never turn on if you have good case airflow or low average power draw.

I'm very interested in this idea for the same reasons, but haven't figured out how to do it just yet. How is your phrased?

Merc, Do you build systems specifically to be sold on E-Bay? Is this a decent market?

I'd just like to throw in a thanks to Merc for this one...it made me look really good at a conference. When the powerpoint presentation's videos wern't being displayed on the projector ;)

I'm just curious what the other low-volume (ok, Tony too) system builders here are putting together and what they're charging. As my systems are oriented towards gaming and I hate building budget boxes, here's my current offerings: Budget: Antec Super Lanboy Seasonic S12-330 Scythe SCNJ-1000...

Yep, it is incredibly hard to justify the 3500+ part over the 3200+. Unless overclocking is the goal (needing the higher multiplier).

Just going with the general theme of 939 boards; I'm really in love with the [urlhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128279]Gigabyte GA-K8NU-SLI[/url] nForce4 board. It has a better feature list for enthusiasts than any I've seen. I've now built 5 servers and 4 workstations...

Indeed, that is quite a respectable box for the price. Throw in a decent video card and a 19" CRT and you have a basic gaming rig for under $500. Wow.

The game is already gold. I can't say I'm having any issues running the latest omega driver for my X800. My game center has been chosen as one of 30 "Premier" game centers to feature this titile, so I'm quite stoked. I can say that my skills with the helicopters are getting quite good.

I'm looking for a computer that will run in the living room and play XviD and MP3 files to the TV and stereo. Is XBoX still the way to go? I've noticed that my roommates older laptop stresses while playing the movies, so some CPU power is required. It won't be storing anything, so a large hard...

I could get it to you if you have an FTP. I have a subscription to Filefront that serves me well ;)

Good point on imaging directly to the writer. Considering the imare will NEVER be larger than 4GB, it makes a lot of sense. Screw the CF card and reader.

Why not? I was doing a server upgrade and these were spare.

The demo came out about 24 hours ago...since then it's been #1 at the game center. Anyone else playing it? The graphics are incredible and I think they've done some nice things with the gameplay.

I'm very interested in this product, and in a CF-based IDE drive to store the backup image. My system already has 4GB of RAM, so a 4GB SSD and a 4GB CF sounds quite do-able. RAID-1 would only be viable if I could dedicate a significant amount of the system memory to caching writes to the CF...

In a P180 with both exhaust fans running at sufficient speed (Nexus @ 7v?) I can't see this beast NOT keeping any A64 cool. When I was first messing with this setup I upped the core voltage to 1.6 and got it up to 2.65Ghz on the first try. Even at this OC/OV a single 7v Nexus leaning against my...

Since I started using Firefox and Outlook 2003 I haven't had any issues of any sort. I do just for fun run housecall (which works fine for me in IE6 with SP2 after I trust the website) and it always comes up clean. :shrug:

The Scythe Ninja (SCNJ-1000)...it's friggin' huge. It's replacing a Scythe NCU-2005 (not a small HS on it's own) and is easily 25-33% larger. 11cm (4.4in) on a side and 15cm (6in) high; this thing weighs 665g (1.4 pounds!) It dominates my new motherboard (Gigabyte K8N Ultra-9) and even...

I've had the opporunity to upgrade my system pretty much every month, running at least one sample of every core of A64 in the process (next up: San Diego). The Venice I have is much better than the winchester cores I had before, and I think that the lowest clocked Venice is a 3000+. Keep in...

Please excuse this sentence. I'm too tired to think up a good excuse right now, but I'll have a good one in the morning.