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1. One piece of air-conditioning ducting (ribbed tube covered in metal foil). 2. One microwave oven. 3. Attach carefully, ensuring good grounding. 4. Stand well back. 5. Yes, it's half the frequency, but consider the harmonics.

Only if you want to make it more unreliable. I had intermittent problems with a newish Asus board as recently as Friday. :x Why? To make it harder to cool and more expensive to locate? Yep, the power supply rating is what you should focus on, no doubt about it. :P

Well, five days after the fault was logged (including a weekend), an IBM tech finally turned up with a bag of Very Expensive Parts. Merc is going to love this. As I suspected, nVidia's finest had morphed into a dead parrot. The world is officially down one Quadro 3000. I can't say I'm...

ATA devices? In this system? You're kidding - right? We checked all the data connectors and reseated the IBM SvrRAID-4Lx, as well as a few other things. No joy whatsoever. :( BTW, I got the owner to do all this. I literally was not prepared to touch it. Put yourself in my position - I turn up...

After I'd pointed this out to the bemused owner, we noticed that the Windows desktop had frozen. All he had done was remove the side panel. So he powered it down (IBM doesn't provide either a reset switch or a master power switch) and then back on. Uh oh. No video. No beeps. We're talking...

I don't want to comment on this as a value for money proposition, but you may notice that there are actually three SCSI controllers in this box ... For reasons best known to the people who set it up, the three Ultra320 drives are actually connected to the Ultra160 single channel controller card...

Well, I now have a better idea of the spec here. It turns out the monster is actually a customized IBM IntelliStation Z Pro. Note the price tag even four months later. Mind you, this doesn't include the Firewire-B PCI-X card or the DVD recorder, but you get the gist ... Summary: Twin Xeon...

'Writeable' and 'Writable' are supposed to be reversed synonyms for 'Read Only'. Standard Samba.

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Yeah, but a battleaxe just isn't the "in" accessory these days.

Well, we all needed that history lesson, didn't we boys and girls? :) I dunno. I think modern atrocities like dropping bombs that kill 100,000 innocent people are also truly horrible. I could be picky and point out several things here - okay, let's do it! Firstly, there are plenty of...

This is a demonstrably true statement. There haven't been many of these, just mindless wordplays. Although one could argue that in the cities, the need was never there. The frontier's long gone, folks. When will the NRA accept this? (Don't worry, it's a rhetorical question. ;))

Pradeep, with the benefit of hindsight, is it not a good thing that your SUV died? :mrgrn:

I run a Palomino 2400 (2GHz) with 512MB RAM and 80GB ATA on a 200W PSU. AFAIK, your Barton 3000 (2.2GHz) actually uses less power. So 300W should give you at least 100W to share between two drives and a GeForce 4200 (and some RAM, but who cares?). SCSI drives tend to be less of a power...

Why do you assume you will still have a job to go to? I admire the way you have conveyed a warm fuzzy feeling without a single fact to back it up. Have you considered a career in politics? :)

Sorry, I don't read this stuff. I'm guessing you read my earlier link where a professor of mathematics reviews Lott? Fine by me. I definitely prefer my chances of survival after being beaten rather than shot. Yes and no. The increase in gun crime had been worrying the populace for years, but...

Sorry HD, I just couldn't resist goading you into a response. :mrgrn: I'd like to counter on two fronts: 1. The time frame is much shorter than with previous energy source transitions, and the ramifications far more serious. When going from wood to coal, consumers were not running out of...

Bullshit. Even with the drop in US violent crime over the last three decades, rates are still 2.5 times higher than the UK. I checked. The UK handgun ban came about because people were alarmed at the growing popularity. This is blamed on modern cultural influences, i.e. American, that glamorize...

You need the Buck 1000 model for that.

Agreed. However, I'd like to rearrange your priorities: If you have a 'hardware' firewall, I don't think using free PFW software is going to help that much. The only thing it can add is detection of trojan outgoing activity, and no PFW product shines in this regard; as a rule of thumb, the...

My splitter, fairly standard in Oz I believe, is a static 3-way unit, i.e. 1 input and 3 outputs. It lives in the "junction box" with an isolator and presumably drops signal by at least 10dB. Okay, I bought a 7/16 open-ended spanner and undid the wheelnuts - oops, coax connectors - and bypassed...

Sechs, I think you should read the link I posted. It's a real education, and I believe you would retract some of your earlier comments if you did. I could recommend the same to HD, but I doubt he'll bother. ;)

It's reported that Nixon considered invading during the oil embargo of 1973-74. Certainly, the British thought he might. I actually found the 1996 paper by James J MacKenzie even scarier. It offers an awful lot of data and cold reasoning to back up the assertions. It's becoming clear that the...

Well, I went one better than that, actually. I reasoned that there was every chance my neighbour's levels would be no better, so I tried it >10km away, AFAIK on a different POP (or whatever a cable hub is called). Unfortunately, as with my neighbour, the house had cable TV as well and...

Cable data services in my area went out mid-afternoon Thursday, April 29. The problem was fixed about 11pm, but my Nortel CM115 still had no Link light. My neighbour with his <1year old Motorola came back up just fine. Telco tech arrived Saturday, May 1. He plugged in a Motorola 5100, pointed...

Indeed, although it confirms what I think most people already realized. Based on my own limited observations, I would say that ReiserFS feels faster than ext2 more often than the tests might suggest. If he was going to that much trouble, why didn't the reviewer include Reiser 4? Now that would...

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2335 I don't think too much has changed since. Scribe seems more stable now, however - it's top of my list to replace my existing email client if and when I finally change. The appearance is a little bit clunky, though.

The bugs I hate most are to do with remembering passwords. For example, if after submitting a remembered password the page can't be loaded (at least I think it's something like that), it forgets the password. I'm also grumpy about its dropdown address list. Again, if the page you select can't...

Well, considering the integrated mail client and functionality, it's certainly heaps smaller than Firefox and 30% the size of Mozilla. To my mind, that does support their contention that it's better coded. I think the faster bit is starting to look a bit ragged. I haven't checked against Moz 1.7...

I've gone right off Firefox. Too many broken or missing bits for my comfort. Has anyone else noticed how much faster Mozilla 1.7 is compared to 1.6? Or is it just me? This is the first browser that feels as fast as Opera overall, IMO. As for Opera 7.50 ... I've been trying the build from a...

SysInternals has a W9x version of Process Explorer.

The military strongly encourages team bonding and unquestioning obedience. Without strong leadership, this is a derailed train - a disaster waiting to happen. We have the same problems in some team sports. When I created this poll, I just wanted to stimulate discussion - I hadn't formed an...

Very well put, Coug. I was probably agreeing with the thrust of the thread until you made your point.

I'd be interested in your response to that first question, Bill: "Do you feel that these incidents are not a big deal, because this kind of thing happens in a war situation, or do you think they are a big deal, because this kind of abuse is unacceptable no matter what the situation?" 28% of...

I see more problems with spyware, no doubt at all. :-?

Unless you've been living under a rock, you all know what this is about. Have rape, murder, torture, beatings and abuse been sanctioned? A three-star general reported the problems were "systemic", yet it seems the fix has been put in for court martials so far. Is the US military serious about...

Umm, I think you may mean asexual, mubs, not bisexual. The latter has a rather different meaning ... :o

The Nikon 4300 is a very nice camera. I had one for several months. Color was excellent. Resolution appeared to be near the top for a 4 megapixel digicam. Speed was quite acceptable - except for writing TIFF files, but that's usual. I found the flash good for such a compact camera. Red eye is...

Arrr, they be Raptors!

I'm concerned you're even doing this. Can't you just give her advice on something and leave it at that? Okay, maybe you can't, but I'm still worried. Anyway, why use a P4 when an Athlon 64 is around the same price and will probably be more useful down the track?

The DGStation relook-3000 is a PVR with twin digital tuners available in TV, cable and satellite models. There is also a single tuner analog model if you check the website. Advanced FeaturesLINUX O/S Max. Two Channels Recording and one Prerecorded Program Playback Ultimate Trick Play on Real...

A man who cheated death seven times and had four failed marriages has refused to leave Croatia to fly to Australia to film a commercial because he fears it could tempt fate. Croatian Frane Selaks has been signed by Smith's Snackfood company in Australia to star in a commercial for Doritos, but...

The problem is not a new one with HP printers. <sad smiley not inserted in deference to Mercutio's new fetish> AFAIK, the problem does not exist with any Epson photo printer - only the ultra-cheapo basic models are zombies. Why would anyone want to purge their wallet with an HP inkjet anyway?

Beyond Compare does nearly everything (or maybe everything?) that SecondCopy does and then a truckload more. It's ideal for FTP synchronization. Unfortunately, it costs $30. :( I can't recommend this software highly enough - everyone should have a copy. :D

Adware, spyware and advertising trojans are becoming worse than viruses. Like I imagine everyone else here, I have run minor-malware detectors over people's PCs, smug in the knowledge that all sorts of pests will be quickly revealed and quietly removed. Usually, the PC then appears to have a...

This was a young, inexperienced croc (only 2.5m). It hadn't yet learnt how dangerous it is to attack the locals.

A site has three Win2k workstations and a server. The server and two of the workstations have printers hanging off them. The two printers attached to workstations are shared so that all the workstations can access all the printers. On one of the printer-equipped workstations, when you 'add'...

Socket A nVidia nForce2 Ultra400 = 0 found Via KT800 = 0 found Socket 754 nVidia nForce3 150 = 0 found K8T800 = 2 found (1 MSI + 1 Abit) Of the 3 Athlon 64 boards mentioned in this thread, only the MSI K8T Neo is in the Acme database. Given that every major manufacturer has at least one...

I'd have to disagree on the usefulness of the tool (sorry Sechs). I couldn't find any current boards for either Athlon or Athlon 64 (I restricted the Socket A search to Gigabyte).