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We're doing lines? I thought you guys were straight-edge :eekers:

Windows XP lets you log onto the current user session. YOu can bounce the same apps around all day.

Those pictures are really amazing Tony. If I lived in a place as beautiful and open as that, I would also be tempted to spend significant amounts of time without people (a great source of anxiety for me). And with a pleasant travel companion such as Tea, it only makes it more appealing.

I love cooking, but the combination of no time and no company makes it much less rewarding. I look forward to living with my girlfriend, every time we get together we cook something good. Last time it was enchiladas, lasagne, and tequila-lime chicken. I think some Thai food is on the list this...

Anyone know if fax machines play well with VoIP?

21 with a mortgage payment? There's a congratulations in there somewhere...

Re: The cost. I've managed to keep costs relatively low. Most of my regular stuff can be had for under $50 a bottle (except the wine).

Well, with a mind like mine, a drink is downright necissary. Here it is, 7AM on a monday morning, and I haven't been to sleep nor feel like sleeping. But I really should have, considering I have a meeting in an hour. With nothing to stop me I'll easily go 3 or 4 days without really feeling like...

Until I was 15 I had abosutely no taste for it, though all my friends did. I've been "smashed" a total of 2 times in my life. I quickly went through that phase and onto appreciating finer things. Now I stick to "the good stuff", with my base being: Belvadere or level vodka Patron Silver or...

90% of the time, this isn't a problem. But my drinking buddy has been out for the last few days. Self medication? Yeah, that's me. But it is cheaper, and more legal than the alternatives, with less adverse side-effects.

I have the mega-cheap Belkin 802.11B AP, and it's flawless in it's completely unconfigured state. I just plugged it in and went. I haven't even seen what it's config screen looks like. I just bought the Linksys (cisco) WAP54G and a pair of their rage extenders (only need power, not ethernet)...

Just a random question... :eekers:

Re: Easy way to fry your new industrial motherboard, SCSI, e IIRC, this was my first disaster as well. Was the socket 2 the one that supported 486 and 586 chips (therefore not being keyed to prevent a misaligned 486 chip? I remember looking at the top of the CPU when I first fired it up (no...

I'll be getting another 6-7 2Ghz+ systems online in the next few days.

I like that the 16x port is lower on the board, allows more ventilation room for the CPU.

rant. Steam is the biggest POS on the earth. Not only is their registration complete BS; but the fact that you cannot control when downloads (massive downloads) occur, or how much bandwidth they consume, even if they are not for the game you are currently playing! When CS: Source was in beta...

nForce3 250Gb; of course :oops:

I liked my nForce2 systems (running on Asus A7N8X Boards of all varieties). I currently really like my nForce2 250Gb system (running an Asus K8V board). I still mention the concerns of "reputable dealers" (meaning you guys) to my clients, but am pleased with my own good fortune.

Not having to use boot disks was a great improvement to the average user, not having to reboot at all sounds even better to me. My only concern is how they've managed to do this? I'm hoping they haven't gotten all crazy in the OS, like adding an abstraction layer or anything...

Just sampled 3 of mine at random. All were given the OK to DL large WUs. 13.6MB 134.1MB 134.1MB Looks like they are common, but not guaranteed.

For a while I was stuck on a PII 433Mhz Optiplex Desktop. Upgraded it to 512MB of RAM and a 400JB, ran XP pretty quick.

Deplyed SP2 at a friends work. 100+ PCs, mostly random cheap-ass beige boxes, some Dells, some HP notebooks, not a single issue. One of my clients had it and it went on fine, just killed Winfax :roll: I hate Winfax :P

Sounds good to me. IIRC, a 1x card can run in any slot, but I thought a 16x card could run in a 8x slot @ 8x speeds?

So PCI-X is a brute-force kludge that is here to deal with excess demand on current technology, while PCI-E is a new architecture that promises higher speeds at lower costs (eventually). Do I have it right? Will servers eventually go PCI-E?

Why do we have these two formats? Why are servers coming out with PCI-X slots while desktop video cards are PCI-E? Which is technically superior and which is likely to succeed?

IRC, those are 1x PCI-E slots. Wasnt the spec to include different sized slots for the different speed ranges? The one that replaces AGP is clearly a 16x slot.

ex-patriot should read expatriate

I use Outlook 2003, I noticed the "Junk Mail" folder...nothing's gone into it yet. I run SpamAssasin on my Exchange server and about 1 spam per week gets through to my inbox. I have in the last 3 months had 2 false positives. This includes all my addresses and a catch-all box, it deletes about...

Congratulations Merc. Your willingness to help is almost as great as your technical knowledge. I especially appreciate your ability to maintain your presence here despite personal issues.

Best of luck Howell. Every time I'm between girls and jobs at the same time I'm tempted to go somewhere else. Doesn't look like that will be happening any time soon for me, though.

Has anyone tried this yet? I watched the online demo and was also really impressed.

Congrats to everyone listed here, and to those who were (invariably) forgotten but also deserving. One of the things that makes this such a cool place is the contributions of it's "staple" members, and the variety of opinions they represent with skill and carefull consideration. Thanks guys!

Just for the record, the backplate on the MSI K8N boards isn't glued on. It does, however have a layer of very "spongy" non-conductive pad that tends to vacum-seal to the board. All you have to do is start pushing one of the mount points through the board and be patient. There is no residue and...

If you don't already owna mower, it's a fine time to opt into a lawn care service. Especially if you live in an area where a mower won't be used 12 months a year, the mower would take a long time to pay for itself.

Man, this is making me reconsider my current heatsink. Maybe I'll just fab something similar to this?

Excelent. Congratulations Pradeep.

They show a P4 being cooled by a single heatpipe connected to a steel case :o How would that work? The other designs I've seen involved at least 5 leading to massive aluminium heatsinks.

Another A64 3000+ on the fire 24/7

Thirded. Just put one on my new home server. It's not quiet enough to have in the same room, but it keeps the CPU darn cool (7C over ambient).

I'm sure quite a few of you have boxes of comupter parts lying around; either pulled from customer's machines, personal upgrades, or whimsical buys still sitting in their packaging. I have a 10'x10' spare bedroom that I can no longer navigate. I think it's time to start cleaning. I've already...

LOL

Who drops $800 on a gaming CPU anyway? I haven't spent more than $300 on a CPU in the last 6 months. For just under $300 you can currently get: A64 3400+ (2.2Ghz, 1MB) Pentium M 735 (1.7Ghz, 2MB) Opteron 146 (2Ghz, 1MB) Xeon (2.8Ghz, 512KB) P4 550 (3.4Ghz, 1MB) I can think of a dozen other...

*pout*

I saw an interesting film the other day. Fall (1997) was Written, Directed, and Produced by Eric Schaeffer. He was also the star of the film, with him in a role he was very familiar with (he drive a cab for 9 years). There's a very real feel to the film; despite it's slightly whimsical premise...

Is there any concern about some Socket 754 motherboards not supporting all socket 754 chips (ie. only 32-bit versions?). Not sure how the arcitecture/chipset/layout might provide incompatabilities.

Does the albatron not like any 9600s? Or just the Pro version? The 9600Pro Ultimate Edition is my favorite card in this segment, but the plain 9600 is fanless, incredibly cool running and does alright in games as well.

Another 2 years at this rate :roll:

It looks like that person had issues with the Zalman because it wasn't installed correctly (wasn't making contact with the drive). Considerin that a lot of the heat from a drive is easily felt through the sides, I'd think pulling heat from there would make some sense. I've modded the front of...

I'd have to assume that a 90nm chip would run cooler at myvoltage and clock than my current chip.

oh yeah....pui (as always)