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Flat Eric. The artist is Mr Oizo. You can see the cool 35MB video clip for Flat Beat (the track) here.

Sorry, I have one nForce and two nForce 2 systems here - three different brands - and none of them exhibit that problem. :(

Sorry, I don't have any recent info, but here's the last three 'On Demand' performance tables from their website: June 2003 - Win XP Pro November 2003 - Win 2003 Server February 2004 - Win NT Unfortunately, their test collection was months behind for the February test. I notice that NOD32...

NOD32. Twice as fast as anything else, yet more thorough (according to the detailed Virus Bulletin subscriber-only reports). And fuss free. However, there is no such thing as perfect A/V software. While I was disinfecting a machine just a few weeks ago, NOD and Housecall both found one or two...

I think you're just a little out of touch. The FX5900 Ultra was a high-end card, but as far as I can see it's effectively obsolete (thanks to the 6800). The FX5900XT sells for around $300 and therefore fits your own definition of mid-range. Most incarnations of the FX5700 are relatively poor...

Since the FX6800 came out. :) Seriously, the latest pricing I've seen lists the FX5900XT at 53% of the cost of even a base FX6800. An ATI X800Pro/256MB is a whopping two and a half times more expensive. BTW, anyone contemplating a Radeon 9550 needs to watch out for the dreaded 64-bit memory...

Looks like AMD wants us to buy Celerons ... :(

Although it doesn't include Doom3 benchmarks, I found this roundup that compares 28 graphics cards to be particularly useful: http://www.digital-daily.com/video/vga-roundup/ It confirmed what I suspected - the low end belongs to ATI (R9550) and the midrange to nVidia (FX5900XT). And Radeon...

Thanks, I was looking for something like that. However, this companion link has cards other than high-end: http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0

Yes Buck, this thread is for you. :) An associate has been unable to establish (and keep) a VPN with a D-Link DI-808HV (804HV with 8 ports). The other end-point is either an identical D-Link router locally, or a more up-market Netopia model overseas (USA). Six months ago, he had limited...

Try this tool: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/tdimon.shtml Or install personal firewall software and configure it to prompt you whenever there is internet access.

Yeah, I happened to see that. It looked apalling and the audience (many of whom are involved in the sport) booed for ten minutes. So the guy who was very obviously best ends up in medal-less fifth place. :x Meanwhile, letting Hamm keep his medal while upgrading Yang Tae Young to a gold sounds...

At a guess, the "Auto" option is a botched attempt to allow 802.11g and Super-G to co-exist. If a Super-G device is allowed to utilize 100% of the available bandwidth, it will severely impact on any 802.11g devices (essentially, they are locked out while it is in operation). So I'd speculate...

I'm trying to work out how they're supposed to work at all. Given that the 802.11g spectrum only supports three concurrent channels, surely these devices create almost as many problems as they solve? To be a useful repeater, each needs to rebroadcast on a new channel - which likely will...

Yes. I don't recall having this problem with Gigabyte nForce2 boards (SI controller) when I tried one with SATA, but my memory might be playing tricks ... In any case, I haven't noticed any issues with DriveImage instead of Ghost on Gigabyte KT600 boards.

Thanks for sharing, Merc. I note that the entry level Sonicwall device is 3 to 5 times the price and has less features, so I guess it depends on the application.

Gimme a break, Buck - the site renders the same in Moz and Opera. :P Try the UK or Australian sites if you want something more aesthetic (the link to a dot-US site is dead).

WooHoo! A response! :) Now that I look more closely, I can only find a couple of places to buy Draytek stuff in the US, and it ain't cheap: https://www.bestsystemsdirect.com Of course, cheap is relative when considering Cisco ... The newer models double the number of VPN tunnels, add VOIP...

NZ's per capita GDP is a third higher than Australia's, but I digress ... Sechs, I meant why would US companies feel the need to do this as a result of a new bilateral trade agreement? The Sydney Morning Herald Economics Editor just penned a piece that reflects my opinion. If you want to wade...

From Australia, Jeremy Howard runs an international email provider. FastMail.fm has servers in the US and Europe, staff in Australia, the US, Europe and India, and customers in 168 countries (Australia only accounts for 6 per cent). At 11 o'clock one Sunday morning in Melbourne, he received a...

IMO, it's likely to hurt a lot. The economic fortune-telling I've seen seems to be based on current trade rather than the situation a few years down the track. That is, it assumes that Australia and the US will be trading the same goods they are now - but favoring each other a little more than...

I've been looking around to see what's available for networking small businesses with more than one site. In other words, which low cost routers have internal VPN endpoints. DLink, Linksys and Netgear surprised me with their lack of real VPN support. Many of the products don't even have VPN...

1. Note that you don't need Super G products to get WPA-PSK. The exception was Netgear's standard PCI 802.11g adaptor, the WG311v2. They finally released WPA-SPK support for this two days ago: http://kbserver.netgear.com/support_details.asp?dnldID=770 The complete Netgear WPA-PSK support list...

I've been waiting to see if anyone else said anything ... Didn't The Jojo stipulate +/-R media, not RW? If so, how will you mount the disc to be accessible to Xcopy?

Well, I don't. :) How about this entry level plan from TPG: $129 setup + $19.95 pm, dynamic IP, 256/64kbs, 200MB quota with 15c/MB excess capped at $40. Can't be routed, BTW. If you look at it carefully, you will realize this is another way of describing a $60 pm plan - you only need 467MB to...

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I agree with most of what Mangy Dog says, but I'd have to suggest you avoid TPG like the plague. Misleading plans, pitiful support, wrong-headed DSL infrastructure and invisible proxies (although this last most probably won't affect your client). In some ways, they're worse than Telstra BigPong...

This latest generation of Kyocera/Yashica digicams has some nice features. I was hoping to try one last year, but they were too expensive locally. The main feature is fast continuous shooting (3.5fps). Perhaps uniquely, the display keeps working in real time and you can keep going until the...

That would be the WG602 Wireless Access Point, which is neither a router nor a firewall. As it would not be directly connected to the internet, the security breach isn't terribly serious. The weakness doesn't apply to the current version 2 of the product. The Linksys WRT54G, on the other hand...

No, you don't. A router like Clocker suggested (I have two of that model in front of me right now) already includes a 4-port switching hub. Unlike DSL, Cable usually needs a separate modem, although there are integrated units available. You don't want to buy NICs until you have decided whether...

They used four 512MB DIMMs to get to 2GB. I'd guess that there was a major timing issue filling all four slots on the tested motherboard with these particular DIMMs. However, that doesn't negate the review findings at all. If it won't work as expected, most people would rather know in advance...

Thanks for sharing, Sechs.

This one's big. From the deluge of infected emails I've received in the last 24 hours, I'd say at least one major A/V vendor missed it.

Aces Hardware compared the nForce3 150, 250 and Via KT800. The networking results were indeed terrible when this feature was provided by Realtek. I know that one sample does not count for much, but I have a client with an Aopen P4 board that displays alarming problems; specifically, after a...

Yes. In my experience, it is much better than using one of the PCs as a gateway with ICS (Internet Connect Sharing) or Sygate Home Network. Note that you do not want a combined DSL modem and router. I think it's good enough. Personal firewall software can be defeated by some software, plus it's...

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0yNzE= With a score of 1534 on 3DMark2001, I'd have to agree. A cheap and humble Radeon 7000 also delivers good 2D quality - and would blow the G550 off the desktop.

Okay, I picked up a Sapphire 9600SE 128MB (at US$67, it was cheaper than the Gigabyte, although it looks identical). Dropped it into an nForce 2 with Athlon XP3200 and Win2k that was running a GeForce FX5200 (and before that an MX440). I didn't bother uninstalling the Detonator drivers (although...

At 6'4"/225lbs, it'll be hard for him to claim it's a case of mistaken identity ... Clocker, how does the US justice system work? Is it okay for you to say what you just did in print, where search engines will guarantee zillions of hits when this guy comes to trial?

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Okay, I can get real 9200 and 9600 in Gigabyte. But now I've read Coug's really excellent link, I'm confused. :( BTW, good catch, Coug - I was sniffing around XBit for something like that but missed it completely. It looks like the 9600SE might perform better than expected with new games...

Now I know why your head's spinning ... :) Congratulations, Clocker. Sounds like a great career move.

Unfortunately, I can only get Sapphire 9600SE and 9200SE - when I can get Sapphire at all. :( And around here, that seems to be a trend; the original chips replaced with castrated ones at only a slight discount. :x

Ummm, my shortcut key examples should read Ctrl-Alt-X etc. :oops:

Photoshop is far too cumbersome to quickly and easily correct lots of photos. Paintshop is a little more focused and has reportedly the best red-eye removal in the business, but I've found purpose-built tools to have an edge for most people. For an easy to use but effective package, I haven't...

Okay, what does everyone favour in the bottom end of the graphics adaptor market? I'm particularly interested in sub US$70, but under US$120 is also interesting. So far, I've noted that: o A Radeon 9600SE is roughly comparable to a Radeon 9200 o A Radeon 9200 is roughly comparable to an...

Not sure what Merc means exactly, but certainly, the 'Windows' keys are redundant. If you just want to bring up the Start menu, Ctrl-Esc is an exact equivalent. Win-Tab is a poor substitute for Alt-Tab and Alt-Esc. As Blakerwry points out, the best way to lock your desktop is Ctrl-Alt-Del +...

I can't imagine why anyone who's about to delete an entire database would want to check very, very carefully that they're not logged into a live database with three years of unbacked-up data. Heavens, I'd do it with my eyes closed - that's more than enough due care. My career in the military...

I don't mean to be insulting, but IMO that article is mostly drivel. Two years ago, he said this. UWB is just baseband, i.e. it is not encoded on a carrier. The FCC is understandably concerned about interference and reluctant to permit usage at any frequency not above the currently reserved...

Why in God's name would you want a Windows key? :o

Whoops! I must have been asleep for the last couple of years. How exactly were US interests challenged by Iraq (pre invasion)?