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Ugh...the gy next to me won't stop trying o convince me that global warming is "a bunch of hooey". This is so annoying.

"Product currently unavailable" :( Shame, I could use about 6 more. Merc probably bought them all :-P Still, this is the first sign of them becoming more affordable. I'll probably hold off buying more big'uns until the 1TB drives ship.

...but they make the smallest USB thumbdrive I've ever seen! My pinky above the first knuckle covers it completely! 1GB! How cool is that! Who needs a computer business, anyway?

Battlefield 2142 is the essence of suck. Not only is there in-game advertising. Not only does it retail for $70 anyway. But your CD-Key is mapped to a single account. No more having multiple accounts, or having a friend create an account for when he's at your place. $70 buys you one account and...

...and if Tea had tried a bit harder, she would have seen that the link I posted will change the browser's behavior 4 different ways without any additional downloads, extensions, or anything else.

I'm actually guessing it was an original LanBoy...let's see if I can find a good picture: Ahh...here it is: And yes, it is IMHO the worst case they ever made. I was able to swap the PSU without removing the MoBo, however. IIRC it slides forward, so removing the optical maked it easier.

I saw a great bumper sticker at Stanford yesterday: Militant Agnostic: I don't know and neither do you.

Yep. Quite a few times actually. Which version of the driver are you using? Are you 64-bit?

Merc, Here is the fix to your tab-closing woes

"HDA XPLOSION 7.1 Audio Device" is selected and is the only option. DXDiag shows card detected and audio accelleration at full. Changing acceleration level has no change.

Yep. Analog, 2-channel.

You might actually be better in Phuket, Thiland...scary as that is...

Should read: "of course, I will be commuting" :(

Yay! I'm moving again! I will be leaving Salinas and moving to Palo Alto on the 1st of next month. This will put me within walking distance of some of my dancing hangouts and a nice Margarita bar. Of course, I'll not be commuting south on 101 about 70 miles for work, but at least I'm awake for...

I've finished the build for my new rig. Details on the spec follow: Antec Aria SFF Chassis w/300W PS Gigabyte 6100 AM2 Mobo A64 4200+ (65W low-power version) 2GB DDR2-800 RAM 2x 750GB Seagate SATA HDDs AzuenTech X-Plosion Soundcard I'm getting no sound. I've installed Server 2003 x64 R2 on...

I'll second Handy on this one. Even when I was at my most promiscuous, and drunkest, at a sorority house, I still new better...

Hittin' up the hippo with IE... It's kinda like having unprotected sex with a really ugly stanger at a frat party...

:-P Meh, the FTP site is swamped anyway. So here I am on my new machine still using IE (64-bit(!)) because I want FF2.0 and can't get it :(

I'm sorry, it wasn't wrapped in a pretty HTML interface and linked directly from the homepage; nor was it on a google search. Thanks.

Merc, obviously I'm not looking in the right places...help?

I agree completely. I had a client approach me on this subject a while ago. He started asking about software that could make the internet "safe". The first thing I touched on was that no matter what he did, his kids would be able to see anything they wanted (and likely stuff they didn't). I said...

I find that media player classic (using ffdshow and ac3filter) are able to do what I need, but I havent screwed around with the vendor-specific stuff or HD.

Ugh....time to remember how many smoothies I've installed....why can't they do automatic updating? 8:30AM....time to go to bed.

They do 939 great, and every other socket I can imagine, but Newegg was a bit enthusiastic when they also said AM2...

Replace #2 with both 250GB drives. Put #2 in a removable tray and alternate weeks with #3, so you have one in a safe place all the time.

Correction: Scythe Katana Cu does not support AM2 :( Anyone want a couple of them?

Good point. I should be able to look at the wire locations on the ATX connector of the two wires and compare to verify voltages. Thanks (this is what I get for playing with large capacitors late at night). I should get back to the high-powered metalworking tools...

I need to do some pretty serious modding on the power supply for my new system (airflow, cable lengths, connector count, fans, etc). Part of this will be a new wiring harness. Are the voltages/colors of the wires (red, yellow, orange, white, black, blue) an industry standard? I'd like to use the...

I can contribute some other things..."home movies" perhaps? Though they would really fit in with Merc's stuff...

comics?

Very cheap 500GB File Server Very cheap 2TB file server

And there is the rub. There is no way I can justify the cost, considering that Server is free, and behaves the same when everything is working correctly.

I just got a haircut. It was almost down to my elbows, now it barely covers the dents in my skull. Feels nice ;)

...porn.

That is exactly why I'd like to try ESX. I have a bunch of servers where 2003 and VMWare Server are the only things loaded on them; they aren't even a member of the domain and don't have network access. What they do have is a several dozen VMs spread accross 20 cores, 20GB of RAM and 20 spindles...

But the lower heat would be really nice...

Seasonic makes a nice 350W with a 12cm fan.

As is mine? (This is a statement.)

And considering we haven't heard from him since, I'm guessing he got a BSOD. :rotfl:

Agreed...I'd really like to play with ESX and vMotion. I have many production VMs on a number of multi-core servers; moving those around and doing better perfomance tuning would be a dream.

That sounds relatively secure?

Just short-stroked the first 10GB of a 750 for the OS....that should move ;)

I agree. It is klunky, slow, has a poor AI, and doesn't work that well. Setting up something similar yet different would be nice.

AMD shuips their typical aluminium fin cooler with a decent-sized fan on it. I suspect I'll be able to run without the fan by undervolting my 4200+ 65W. I purchased some Scythe Katana CU coolers what work with AM2, but it won't quite fit in my Antec Aria :(

Wow...it's still slurping. What kind of bandwidth is that thing using?

My thoughts on opticals: what I want: SATA Slot-load DVD-RW with 8MB cache (not 256k).

The 65W 3800+, 4200+, and 4600+ were all available at newegg; but I wanted the 35W 3800+...nowhere to be seen :(

Thanks Merc....3 days after I order my new system :roll: I don't buy opticals that aren't DVD-RW though, there just isn't any reason not to (until now). The Plextor SATA DVD-RW is still $100+

I'm actually considering getting another 750GB in there, just because 2.25TB in a toaster puts a big grin on my face.

No guns...but he's a Russian doctor; who knows how many ways he could kill me ;) And I hear he has quite a temper...