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You can hard wire ATX power supplys by crossing two of the wires on the 20-pin ATX connector. I can't remember which ones but someone around here has to know. That way you could use the switch on the back of the power supply just like an AT switch. Throw any recent board on the wall with the...

I think hard drive noise will work just fine with MP3. You are going to introduce more noise from the Mic than you ever will with 256 MP3.

Pradeep, what card do you use that has both Firewire and USB2? Does it work well? I want the next motherboard that I buy to have both Firewire and USB2.0 ports on it. Since I tend to keep a motherboard for at least 18 months. Are there any boards on the market right now that have both kinds...

Mercutio is self employed that's how. He has to pay the taxes that his employer would normally pay for him.

This is a used drive. 36GB, 10,000RPM, 80-PIN SCA w/68-pin adapter, U160 SCSI. It is an IBM branded Seagate 36LP. Seagate model # is: ST336704LC IBM part # is: 9N7006-055. Drive works perfectly, no bad sectors, no problems at all. I am not sure if there is any IBM warranty left. The IBM...

That is a great deal. Especially with the 500kbps upload, that is unheard of for cable. I pay around $42 for 1.5mbps down and 128kbps up. What's the website for WOW, maybe I can get it here???

I don't really care that much. I tried the command line version awhile ago and it didn't make a difference.

Ha, I'm in WI not IL.

Check out: http://housecall.antivirus.com Mercutio reccomended it awhile back. Damn, I'm too drunk to be posting. It took 15 minutes to write that and make it look right.

The guys on modems are gonna be pissed.

No he is just training to get his license still....go read his post on it. It's actually not that bad.

Seems better now. Although the B&G seems to have died. With his new helicopter training he doesn't have quite as much time to post on SR.

So Merc, did you ever get around to picking up a copy of Serious Sam?

Snickers Clyde???? No I don't think it would work...

The link isn't on the front page. So here it is: http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200204/20020424ST336938LW_1.html

Ask Mercutio, he's the expert.

It would have cost around $30 to ship it by boat. Which takes 3-5 weeks.

I can't find it on /. Might I trouble you for a link? I want to read the comments on that one.

Reads like a 6th grader had a big part in writing it. This quote is great: "it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans." This is another classic: "Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism." "advertising (i.e. mind control)" Thanks for the...

If you really want to lose weight quick, you need coke. Supresses appetite and you can stay up for days at a time. You've heard the express strung out on coke, right? Speed has similar effects. Neither is reccomended, unless you have a death wish.

Tannin, since you're so old and wise you have to remember this one. :) I worked on it about 2 years ago and then about a year ago again. I think it was the original Compaq portable computer. It had a small green CRT and a keyboard that clicked into the front to cover the CRT and the floppy...

I was asking because it is such a good deal... Anyways, I'll take it. I'll e-mail you about payment and whatnot...

I doubt that I will ever see anything like that. But if there are any recent IDE drives that you need pictures of, I run into most of them working on the crappy computers people bring in.

If I ever see one again I will swipe it and take a few picture for you. I'm sure the pictures won't be nearly as high quality as your outdoor shots. But it's better than nothing. I'll be back working as a tech this summer and I should have a chance to lay my hands on one. (the real summer...

Tony, what about that first-gen Cheetah??? Have you got it looking good in the pictures yet? AFAIK none of the Seagate drives look particularly fast from the outside. The coolest looking drive that I have seen recently was a WD 200BB that was both black and silver. Mickey's post over on SR...

What's wrong with it? If nothing then I want it. Just two questions. How loud is it? I know I can look at the numbers at SR, but subjectively speaking. and why are you selling it?

Do a search for taskbar replacement on google. You will find many, many replacements...you could try them all until you find one that emulates what you are looking for. There has to be one that copied the Taskbar utility better than MS did.

Doesn't WinXP allow you to group applications under one button in the taskbar? i.e. if you have 3 IE windows open it will put them all under one entry. Though I find it to be annoying and confusing for most people, so I always disable it on people's systems when I install XP. I won't run XP on...

Bloody old people, always talking about the past and how much better it was. :)

Just hover the mouse over the top edge of the task bar until you see one of those dual arrow pointers and then click and drag up to the desired height. Here is a picture of my taskbar:

So, what would be a solution if I want to get my video in MPEG1 format after all is said and done? I increased the task priority of the ATI software to realtime and it seems to lose a lot less frames. But is there anyway that I can tell for sure if I have lost frames?

To the best of my understanding, the utility minimizes an application to the left of the clock (system tray), so that it is out of the way. The reason you would want to do this is so that if you tons of different things open your task bar gets cluttered. If there are a couple things on the...

So the app will be out of the way. If it is something that you want open but don't want clogging up the taskbar, the best place to put it is in the tray. Since it will take up less room there.

I tried DScaler and it works well for just watching but it has very limited capture abilities. The biggest problem that I have run into is audio sync problems after frames have been dropped. Here is what I do. 1) Capture in MPEG-1/VCD format. 2) Use TMPGenc to merge & cut the MPG so that...

I'm running 2k.

Is there drive still under warranty? If it is then I would RMA it and get a new one. Why have a time-bomb sitting in your computer? Or if it isn't under warranty then why not sell it on eBay, saying that it might be bad or maybe it's not....

That ATI sofware is kinda flakey. If I'm capturing, I can't seem to bring up the task manager without killing the capture. And then the ATI TV software crashes. So is there any better software that will control one of these ATI cards and allow me to capture?

I already have a TV card that I can use, so I think I am going to keep on using it as long as I can (I just hope my roomate forgets about it). It captures directly to VCD format which is very nice. And then I can cut out the commercials with TMPGenc and burn to VCD. It should work out nicely...

I got the card installed. I tried capturing and it seems to work well except I was dropping a few frames if I tried to do anything else at the same time. So I tried to change the task priority to high but the damn ATI software locked up. I finally got it to run at high and and it doesn't drop...

I have considered a VCR + capture card. But the ATI TV-Wonder PCI only costs about $60. And I want to keep my VCR next to my TV. What I am trying to accomplish here is capturing to MPEG1 and burning to VCD, so I can watch it on my DVD player.

I saw images of both the cards on the ATI site. I was just wondering if you or anyone else knows what the chips on the non-VE card do. I assume that they provide some kind of hardware MPEG-2 compression but I may be wrong.

I just borrowed a TV-Wonder VE from my roomate, he said I can borrow it for a month because he isn't using it anymore. So I will get so see how it performs. The board is a lot smaller than the full non-VE version. What kind of extra chips does the non-VE have that the VE doesn't have?

Thanks for the advice. I will probably go with the non-VE because I want to be able to capture in stereo anyways. I also feel the same way about jack of all trade cards. I had an AIW Pro back several years ago and I paid nearly $300 for it. But as soon as I wanted to upgrade my video card it...

It's got rails. I will never ever buy a case with rails again. I don't care if there is a rail collector on the bottom of the case.

Has anyone used the ATI TV-Wonder or TV-Wonder VE? It seems the only difference is that the VE doesn't have a stereo TV-Tuner or an S-Video input. Would the quality be equal to the AIW cards? Both these cards are supposed to have Real-time MPEG-2 compression, is this processor dependent or is...

I would rather not replace my video card. It is a Geforce2 GTS 32MB and it works fine for what I use it for. I was more looking for an add-on card that has a TV tuner because I don't have room for my VCR next to my computer. And I would like to capture to a fairly standard format. If the...

This thread gave me the idea that I want to start capping my own TV shows. What is the cheapest solution that will give me good results? I will be storing the video is MPEG1/VCD format (352x240@29.97fps). The source will be regular cable TV. What would the experts here reccomend for this?

Tannin, Didn't you ever get ICS working?

Damn that thing is annoying.

I thought you were diametrically opposed to anything with the name Barracuda ATA on it???