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It was an absolute blast. It wasn't hard to do; it just took a long time (replacing the bits frequently) and made an awful noise. The precision of the machining was the finished product, there really wasn't much else to do.

Just talked to the g/f, and she has no knowlegde in the Ti stuff. She works in the more traditional metals (silver and gold), that are soft enough and melt at a low enough temperature that you can have more fun with it. I, however, do have some experience with the stuff. I helped my...

So long as it can be turned off in firmware, that's fine with me. I wouldn't mind such a feature in my server room, but my desktop must remain silent! (one more reason for local storage to be solid state).

So when is AMD joining the party?

300GB and 320GB? What the hell? The difference in price couldn't be more than a few bucks at the retail level (those are likely $80-$90 drives). It can't possibly justify the added complexity of the supply chain. Perhaps one is a 8MB and the other a 16MB cache?

What would a woman need a 15k drive for? <ducks>

Yay! A new hard drive that is actually faster in a significant way! Now, where's the SATA version? Seagate doesn't make SCSI controlers or cables, so just put on a cheaper interface and charge the same amount.

IIRC, it is still lower power, just not by as much. And I think "successor" is more apropriate than "alternative".

I feel your pain; I've done similar in the past. That's why I don't add crap to my system anymore. No expansion cards, no break-out cables, no small fans, no optical or floppy drives. All that stuff is on another pc that I don't care about (e-machine) that sits in the closet. In my box their...

Pretty pictures. I wonder how hard it was to generate them? Windows puts a lot of effort into making their product easy to use and have lots of features (and it is), and then attempts to secure it. Apache puts a lot of effort into making their product secure (and it is) and then attempts to...

I used the link at the bottom to save it, then opened it up with Media Player Classic.

My complaints aren't about Dell hardware, it really isn't that bad. My complaint is about Dell users; these are people that for the most part really aren't smart enough to own a computer. Dell makes computing accessible, therefore making these people feel empowered, and that is dangerous. Job...

Oh, yeah...forgot about that ;)

These will be wall-mounted and used just to watch DivXed video. They won't be used as monitors per-se. There will be no tuning at all, just video from a basic machine that is attached directly to it.

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-4720.html

Oh, and widescreen format of course, if you please. TIA

Back to looking at small LCD TVs. I'd really like a ~20" and a ~26" that has VGA in and no speakers. Anyone seen any?

Just got back from a trip and in my joy at being on my own PC, I just spammed the computing forum...sorry. :mrgrn:

Nice board. I have the ASUS-equivalent (also DVI) and it worked quite well after some BIOS issues (I blame ASUS).

I need to find a reason to play with one of these. Considering I aim for 18dB on my desktops, this made me laugh. Other than DivX-ing movies really quickly, or VMWare-ing an enterprise in a suitcase, what could I do to justify the price of one of these?

I'll do what I can to up the average ;)

I use Nod32 in all my business enviroments. It really is awesome and has a really small footprint, but it does cost some money. I am capable of selling people on things, but it's that much easier when things are free.

I just got my first VMWare server in, just for testing. It's a Tyan B2865 Transport GT20 which features a S2865 Toncat K8E motherboard. I also threw in a 3800+ X2, 3GB of RAM and a pair of 300GB Seagate HDDs. I'm very impressed with the hardware so far, it went together very nicely and all seems...

Wow. That was remarkably easy. There is no configuration to speak of, it seems to just, um, work. And with a footprint thats only a fraction of NAV. Thank you so much to all who helped on this thread and the other in tech suppot (Merc, Tannin, Sol, and all those who read but had nothing to...

I just used their web-based removal tool and it worked perfectly. I'm nearly certain that there is nothing still running on my PC. The system on a reboot is using 90MB of RAM (compared to the 160MB+ with NAV on it). Right now, even with FF and AVG running it's only using 130MB of it's...

Not much of a deal at all, considering I can get a 300GB SATA Seagate HDD w/8MB cache for $105. I think the better brand, better interface, better warranty, and better cache are worth the the extra $5

Great. Any great tricks for making it act in a bullet/fool proof way?

This is stemming from a thread I just started in the tech support forum, and expands the matter. I have a friend who is not the easiest to work with - Beating my head against the wall for half a day trying to work with Norton AV is easier than trying to explain why she should switch to a better...

Well, complete removal of all reg keys and program directories didn't fix it. I'm beggining to suspect that it's an incompatability with the version of the MSVCP60.dll file that is part of the OS. Doing a search for the file on my computer shows the following locations: C:\i386...

I would, unfortunatly this customer has a payed-up licence through next year, and won't switch in the meantime.

That's my problem, in a nutshell. I get to the machine, and it's showing an error message on startup: Then norton shows that it's "Intrusion Detection" component hasn't started. When I try to start it, an error appears telling me to re-install. After re-installation, nothing has changed. Help?

yep.

Interesting question. When I first opened, I made the decision to allow all food and drink at all the machines. I have never had an issue in 2 years of operation. The keyboards more often fail when the "w" key gives up the ghost. No matter, $5 keyboards (about one a month) aren't an issue. The...

My GF gets back tomorrow and I leave on Wed, in between I think I'll take her to Shadowbrook...

At least I'm inconsistently inaccurate :P

I was just reflecting that when I first posted that a couple years ago I lived about a mile from the resteraunt in question. Since then I've lived in 5 cities and 2 states with quite a few changes in my life. I just got back from walking to the same resturaunt (about 4 blocks). Crazy.

And yes, I love slashdot's new color scheme.

I do certainly believe in better living through chemistry. Of course, the key elemet here is better living; using all available rescources to get the most out of life. Of course, the line between this and acutal abuse/addiction is quite a fine one, and something that I'm pretty careful about. It...

I've been looking at a Treo 700w, primarily for it's ability to integrate with outlook, but I'm also exploring other purposes. It seems I'm always picking up new clients in hard-to-reach locations, or driving up to the bay area to dance. I've found this nifty GPS unit with a Bluetooth reciever...

No. Nothing has changed permanantly. She's just away for awhile. Depression and social phobias seem to be the issues in our line of work, just as models have to deal with poor self-image and bolemia. The advantage of being a geek with social issues is that we are too far from the spotlight to...

Why I need a girlfriend: To keep me from indulging at home (like tonight): In front of me: My computer (of course) Bottle of Galante Blackjack Pasture (Cabernet) Can of Coke Bottle of water Bag tortilla chips Fire-Roasted Salsa 2 Boxes "Thin Mints" girs scout cookies (well, one is empty)...

I actually got a computer in this kind of state while working at CompUSA in SF. I wasn't the tech, but was called down to the repair shop when they found it. I called the customer and told them to pick up their machine. I didn't say it was fixed, just for them to pick it up ;)

I've been thinking of getting a small air compressor for a long time now. What is the smallest/cheapest you can get? Obviously I only need around 30-50 psi, and a very small tank.

Well, if the whole point is trying to go above mach 5, than it's less of an issue. A regular ramjet will get you to there, and a regular jet engine will get you to the ramjet range. See? Simple ;)

I build and work on quite a few industrial machines. The nursery is pretty bad, especially their landscape supply division. They seem to always need me under their desk any time I wear black slacks. The absolute worst is the redi-mix contcrete plants. Two of the materiels they work with (fly ash...

Awesome. For the first time in a long time the scientists in the field are moving faster than I would expect them to. The previous that comes to mind was the Ansari X-Prize...or maybe the DARPA grand challenge. ...all of which the US govornment weren't in charge of the research in. Hint, hint...

Quite so. I've been working full time for 8 years, 80% of that self-employed, 70% of that with permanant on-call duties. I've now had 2 proper vacations, this picture was one of them, but it wasn't exceptionally relaxing. Hopefully the next one (Italy) will be more peaceful.

:P I still have to try to look older. In most of my work enviroments, I suspect I'd loose some credibility/respect if they knew I was born in the 80s.

Thanks for sharing guys. I know it's silly but I like to have a better feeling for the people I spend so much time chatting with. Damn..that means I better find one as well.... I'm seem to always grimace when I'm outdoors, even in China's...erm...filtered light.