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Antec doesn't make cases. Their products are rebadged and come from more than one manufacturer, such as Chieftec. Compucase (HEC) manufactures cases and power supplies (in different factories).

That's actually a Compucase (now under their HEC brand) 6919 in black. I normally use the HEC 6A19: Despite being shorter, it adds an extra HDD bay (4xCD+2xFDD+5xHDD) and replaces the twin 80mm intake fans with a second 120mm fan. On the downside, you do have to lift the front very slightly...

Lunar, I agree with some of your comments about Ken Rockwell, but there are two points I'd like to make: 1. He is apparently a highly successful professional photographer. His impressions, subjective or objective, are like gold. This most certainly is not the case with the major camera review...

From what I've read so far, I think the Nikon D70 is going to be a killer camera, and I think I'd feel pretty foolish if I'd just bought a 300D Rebel, given Canon's blatant attempt at castration. Here's an interesting review, made more so by his constant disparaging references to...

Why not ask NASA? The HyShot test achieved scramjet hypersonic operation for six seconds. The X-43A managed 10 seconds. By way of comparison, this article points out the first flight by the Wright Brothers only lasted 12 seconds, and Robert Goddard's first rocket flight in 1926 lasted just 2.5...

A local magazine recently published profiles of six contenders for Lord Mayor (the Lord is a carry over from when there were multiple cities making up Brisbane). Here's one of them: So, I now have no problem working out who I'm going to vote for.

Merc, your political posts lately are beginning to sound like Coug's. He freely admits he has a problem with his temper. Despite what you seem to think, your arguments would have more power if you refrained from going "nya nya" quite so much. IMHO. Does this help?

You weren't here for many months, Tea. :P Sorry, I must have missed your moderation in action? No, please don't take me out of context. I have no objection to the majority of hijacks - I think it's the first time I've ever grumbled about one. It's just that the creator and others obviously...

Unfortunately, I think that pithy comment sums things up all too well, although it might be more relevant to the admins ... Howell, I find your question troubling on two levels. Firstly, because I reiterated what moderation meant in an earlier post, and secondly, that as a moderator you had to...

Well, it sounds like what you're looking for Bill, is moderation of content, where the excesses are reigned in to stop the train derailing. Of course, we'd need moderators for that, so perhaps that's a topic for the feedback forum? Tannin's inclusion of me in the left wing conspiracy makes me...

Play lots of Acca Dacca and annoy the neighbours. Congrats!

I'm pleased you took my delicate swipe in the spirit it was intended. :) Unfortunately, I'm going to have to point out that while my eyeballs certainly rotate, they do not bob up and down inside my skull. Which they would need to do to maintain the same angle relative to a point. If you check...

Did I miss something, Bill? Did someone 'have a go' at you? I know Mercutio's an angry young man these days, and I'll admit to being in a really bad mood the other day, but I can't recall anyone attacking you personally. It's clear that you always put a lot of effort into political debates...

Relax Merc. I've got two of the Samsung 80GB SATA drives running together here and they're effectively silent - absolutely NOTHING like the dreaded WD JB's (mind you, some of them are ok too, it's just that others develop an incredibly obnoxious noise).

It's for the glove compartment.

This really invites a bitingly sarcastic comment, but I'm going to restrain myself and assume that reading skills in LA are limited to clothing labels. :) The color shift as Handruin describes is obvious without glasses. Please read my post earlier in this thread. FWIW, my wife has almost no...

I don't wear glasses. :-?

I was a bit dismissive of jtr there, Tea. No, you weren't - you were diplomatic! Whoops! Wrong persona. Got to remember Red Hill Corp is apolitical. ... The hornet NEST analogy typifies the ongoing mistake that the US has made with foreign policy. Terrorists are part of us, they're amongst...

Look, here's a radical tip: Skip the movie ... Read the bloody book! Or, wait for Merc to summarize it and spoon-feed it to you. If that stung, it was meant to. Sheesh! (continuation of bad mood)

And that's a response to both Howell AND jtr, having had my post overtaken. NOWHERE, does the new PM indicate in any shape or form, that he is SOFT. This is just more BULLSHIT. Yes, I am shouting. It's time that someone did.

Read the bloody quote and stop trying to put a half-assed spin on it. 'Rule of law' means 'not illegal'. You know, like nations used to manage. All readers can take it from this little outburst that I'm in a bad mood and not gonna take it any more. :x There's a growing worldwide trend against...

I was ambivalent to the surprise election result in Spain - after all, the winners are Socialists. Mind you, as an outsider I've never really noticed whether a European country was 'socialist' or 'conservative'. Either way doesn't seem to have done the Scandinavian countries any harm, given...

My comparitively limited experience with Asus has been uninspiring to say the least. Practically a 100% hassle rate, in fact. In the past year alone, that has involved: Motherboard with faulty I/O. Waited 6 weeks for replacement, which turned out to be worse than original - couldn't boot any...

A huge issue with LCD is the horizontal 'polarization' (?) that means that merely tilting your head changes the entire appearance of the displayed picture. You need to keep the perpendicular of the surface aimed at or below your eyes to have any chance at all. I'm afraid I'm with Tea - I think...

What sort of caps are on the Epox, The JoJo?

IMHO, that power connector is complete crap. I'd guess that the designers had some idea of a single cable carrying both power and data for a drive, but that concept isn't even on the horizon. In the meantime, how many subtle faults are going to be down to unreliable power to the drive, either...

Sorry CGB, it's to minimize broadcast. Perhaps you're confusing digital and analog design issues? "millivolt-level signals" are of little interest in a digital application. And no offense, but "permeable noise filtering, in that the signal permeates the filter" is gobbledegook. That's what a...

Found this definitive answer: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm Practical application is described here. Method 1: o Copy Bootpart.exe onto the partition you will be booting NT and DOS off. o Install DOS as per normal. Boot into DOS. Run Bootpart: o bootpart WINNT BOOT:C: (to turn the...

Beyond Compare is one of the best tools on the planet. The extra things I would like it to do, it probably already does but I haven't yet worked out how. For all those who think good software should be free: :P :P :P It isn't. But I've yet to find anything else even close in capability...

Any cable plugged into the outside of a case is a potential broadcast antennae. The ferrite rings are probably supposed to minimize this effect; can one of the true electronics people here clarify this? I'm stumbling around here, but perhaps the fact that there's an internal cable to the front...

Just yesterday, the system administrator at one of my clients was cursing the 2002 version of Powerquest's DriveImage. He was trying to store the image on a NTFS partition, but it was being corrupted. I took in a copy of Paragon Hard Disk Manager and everything went as smooth as silk. The...

Why do I get the feeling we've been here before? :)

Biodiversity is important. So is political diversity and technological diversity. :wink: Congratulations, jtr.

Spotted this item in the news: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm Feel free to watch the video clip. :) And for those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the 'original' in action: It's well worth while renting this 30 minute film from your local video store if you've...

RAR is a very good archive format if you know what you're doing. It's unfortunate that like all modern formats, it's proprietary. I don't know why anyone would buy WinZip in this day and age, though. WinRAR (or WinAce) can manage the zip format just as well or even better, and is every bit as...

Yeah, but that assumes he didn't sell his soul to Mick.

I'm interested in this as well. The only thing I can think of is to boot from a DOS disk, SYS C drive, then run a Windows repair (assuming we're talking about 2K/XP). In other words, I don't know how to get a bootable DOS setup without allowing it to overwrite the boot loader.

It sounds like there's no love lost here. Would you mind telling someone who has managed to evade the entire Martha phenomenon why she's no unloved?

And here I thought PW was a sock-puppet of CougTek. :o Of course, I'm actually yet another creation of the Red Hill mob. Tony is planning a new hybrid personality called "Teatime". *** Mercutio, you are like a brother to us. Your knowledge and wisdom light up this little nook on the web and...

Exactly so, that's the sort of thing I'm wondering about. Although mainstream PCs were capable of 32-bit operation for some years before Win95 went 32-bit. But then again, OS2 went 32-bit in 1992 and most PCs didn't have the RAM to properly support it (or even more so NT a year later).

You have a serious problem with your relationship. Sucker ... :bow:

Okay, enough messing about. Try Drive Backup from Paragon, or better yet, the Hard Disk Manager suite. The latter has countless features, including the ability to defrag non-standard block-sized NTFS parititions under Win2k (as well as the MFT), full write access to multiple Linux partition...

That's impressive, Mark and Merc. Now, see if you can find replacement mouse feet - preferably Logitech. Now that optical mice last forever, their feet don't. :(

Please be aware that the linked article has been written by a pulp magazine computer journalist, i.e. someone who doesn't read technical literature and writes what they please. I'd better not go on, or I might say some really derogatory things about such people, such as the practise of writing...

So far, only one person - Blakerwry - has actually offered an opinion on this topic. It appears that hardly anyone is interested. :-?

I wondered when someone would point out that Ghost is (these days) a Symantec product. :) I was then going to smugly suggest you try DriveImage. Imagine my shock and horror when I noticed the new company logo at the top of the page: :(

I'm assuming that DVI connections will become standard on LCD monitors rather than an expensive option. The fact that all except the cheapest new graphics cards are now DVI equipped will change the whole landscape in the next couple of years. I have some trepidation about buying current budget...

Here's some sample configurations, all with Gigabyte motherboards, because everything else sucks. ;) The drives are Hitachi (purely because they were the first prices to hand), and the optional display adaptor a Leadtek A340TD 128MB FX5200 twinview with DVI. Celeron GA-8I845GV mATX with...

On with the spec: o SATA. Already, nearly half the drives available are SATA. It's clear that in six months time, ATA drives will be in the minority, and in twelve months, expensive and hard to get. I feel that in most cases now, it would probably be unethical to sell a motherboard without it...

I've been thinking about what spec to recommend for PC purchases as we move deeper into 2004. I feel that a number of "emerging technologies" are on the agenda and need to be taken into consideration. My main interest is small to medium businesses (corporates will do their own thing anyway)...