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A friend of mine is a hard-core root beer drinker; he has 20+ kinds stocked at his house and has tastings all the time. All ordered from distributors on the internet. I forget exactly what was his favorite but I do remember that my local brew was in the top 3. I believe it was 2nd, having a tad...

Great work Doug, it's much appreciated. After seeing the site down for as long as it was, my first thought was "Man, Doug is having a bad day right now".

That's strange, I blame mine on lack of alcohol and drugs.

Nice Rig, Groltz. I have a pair of P180s on their way with Phantom 500 PSUs and quite a few Nexus 120mm sitting around. Glad to see the stuff go togeher so nice. Have you tried running without the front fan? What difference would it make?

Wow, I've never heard of them making you check a laptop before. That really blows. I've also never been booted from a plane after getting on with standby. I've done more than 50 flights in the last 2 years, and I still haven't seen it all. Sweet! :roll:

Every once in a while, we need to brush up on our umlaut.* *If anyone can fill in some of the rest of the quote from this film, I'll buy them a drink. My GF was born and raised in Bonn, and found it quite amusing.[/url]

For the record, I didn't even have to import the disks...it just worked. Sweet.

Wow, I guess I shouldn't ask unless I'm ready to get the whole answer. I did a double-blind listening test today and couldn't tell the difference between the latest version in "xtreme" and the "reference" version... ...that's it. I fail the audiophile test....

CDex? EAC? Something else? Why?

;) Well it's already longer than any since Oregon, and it's coming up quickly on that. The last time I lived with a girl for this long was in 2001-2003; and before that 1997-2000. I think this one is good for at least that long.

Worse, these days I've moved in with my GF in high-tech central Salinas...I'll have t take my chances... I'll let you know how it went in the morning...my netflix might be on high-speed for a while.

...of course the PCI Radeon 7000 probably won't do so well.

My A64 is running @ 2.48Ghz....

I have a fileserver running XP Pro with a JBOD array of dynamic discs. I want to remove the OS and install Server 2003 and import the array (and all it's data). Does anyone see a problem with this? I know backing up would be a great idea, but frankly I don't have the spare drives to backup ~2TB...

I use 3D Mark in a different way. After someone buys a $2000 gaming rig, the first thing I do is show them the latest 3D Mark test. I don't do it to show them the result, but to show them how darn pretty it is. "See? This is what you paid $2000 for." During gaming, they all turn down their...

Thanks for all the info guys, I think this has beena very informitive thread. I think I'll be going with my build quoted earlier for this project, but look into CougTek's A8N-VM/CSN on higher-end builds.

System build: Gigabyte GA-K8VM800M AMD Sempron 64 3300+ BUFFALO 1GB PC 3200 Seagate 7200.7 80GB SATA Antec SLK1650B w/350W PS LITE-ON SHW-160P6S DVD-RW Right now $399.42 at Newegg. I keep looking over the build thinking I must be missing something. This is a pretty tight little box that I can...

One question: Is a floppy disk required to install the OS onto a SATA drive?

Thanks Merc, I'd been looking at that and some other boards on Newegg. All of them seemed to have complaints in the customer feedback. I know they are unqualified whining, but they scared me a bit nonetheless. As I'll be building about 15 systems all at the same time, a bad choice would be...

It's really crazy for me to still be using add-on video for basic office machines and low-end servers. What do you guys use? S939 is preferred, but A64 is a must. DVI is preferred, but VGA will do. TIA

Weren't we talking about meauring speed where it doesn't matter somewhere else? Ah, and I like this part: Almost like testing harddrives using multi-GB datasets and 4+ queue depths...

Quite the difference indeed. I'm lucky in that I have a white-to-black gradient background that I can consistently shoot against. I may get the cards anyway, help clean up some of my shots.

If they made it to 7200RPM i'd be really impressed.

"This computer is cactus!" ???

Just for reference Merc, can you give me the rest of your HTPC specs?

Thanks for the link sechs, I really liked this article. Revised Specs: Case: SILVERSTONE SST-LC11-B Black CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice MB: ASUS A8N-VM CSM GeForce 6150 Micro ATX RAM: Mushkin SP3200 1GB 184-Pin HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB Audio: BlueGears/HDA Digital...

Case: SILVERSTONE SST-LC17-B CPU: AMD Sempron 64 3000+ Palermo MB: DFI nF4X Infinity Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce4-4X RAM: Mushkin SP3200 1GB 184-Pin HDD: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB GPU: AOpen 6200TC DV128 Geforce 6200TC 128MB PSU: SeaSonic S12-330 ATX12V 330W Audio: BlueGears/HDA...

Oh, well. I'll give VIA another try when they have better product in the channel. In the meantime, I'll go with my old favorites. I've dialed back the budget for the machine, as I need to upgrade my server as well (running out of capacity). Final Spec: PS: Antec Performance One P150 w/NeoHE...

Exactly what I was thinking. Who needs a 30" LCD when you can have a 55" SED? What kind of resolution are we talking? :roll:

I'm looking at the HIS Hightech H160XTQT256GDDN Radeon X1600XT video card. I believe it supports dual-link DVI.

There are a few people here whos opinion I respect that reccomend VIA motherboards (Tannin and Mercutio primarily). I've ignored their suggestion, preferring nVidia nForce4 options until now. I know nothing about VIA's products, haven't read anything about them in ages, so your suggestions are...

Very nice link, thanks mubs. My current light tent is working for my project, but that is a neat idea!

Um, how about pouring it diwn the sewer? Wasn't it going there anyway? Along this vein; what baout adding power-generation capabilities to sewer treatement plants?

Very cool. I like the "Flo Watch" website that logs all entries/exits in realtime and posts a very easy to read report to the web.

...sodomized by a marine...in hell. Don't forget that last part, it adds color ;) Great joke.

Cases: Antec / Silverstone Power supplies: Antec / Seasonic Motherboards: Gigabyte RAM: Geil Video cards: Sapphire, Gigabyte, Asus - Always fanless. Keyboard & Mouse: Logitech Cordless Desktop Floppy drives: No Hard drives: Samsung / Hitachi Opticals: Lite-On / BenQ Speakers: Altec-Lansing at...

My favorite takeoff so far was on the run to China. Fully loaded 747-400 out of SFO; he's taxiing fast and doesn't stop at the ramp. He just makes a hard turn onto the runway and goes full-throttle. Very nice and fast. I wonder if traffic control told him to hurry up or if he was trying to save...

Meh, it's fine....after stripping the keyboard and ram and running a hairdryer over it, it booted right back up with a fully functional keyboard.

My girlfriend's Powerbook G4 just took a cup of coffee to the keyboard...we'll see what I can do for it.

In this vein of practical speed, we should put together a list of SCSI cards and how much of a delay they introduce into the POST sequence. Or which motherboards pass you off to the first boot device sooner. Or how to code firefox to be pre-cached during the startup sequence...

My favorite so far is: "matrix synergistic relationships" Also known as screwing with a good thing. Common practice while I was doing the dot-com.

Thanks for the compliments guys, I really appreciate it (and the suggestions)! I'm currently using 2 250W 3200K bulbs in 12" lamps diffused to within an inch of it's life. I think I'm going to take some more advice and set up a light tent to be lit by these two and use a point source (perhaps a...

That Rebel is so tempting. Here are my latest attempts (warning: 5 really big images). I have a feeling I'm getting close to the capabilities of my equipment. I'll leave the decision of whether it's good enough to the jeweler. Any more suggestions would be more than welcome.

I'm currently using some frames with really heavy diffusion paper in front; basically turning 6000 lumens of point source into 3000 lumens of 12"x12" panel. It seems to be dropping the color temp a bit in the process. What is a good materiel to bounce light off of? I'm thinking of white glossy...

I don't want to think about how much you had to spend to to get that much back; but I'll go read up on the offer if it's still valid.

I've been spending some time at Cannon's EOS site, and you guys know how much I like toys...is there an online retailer in the US anyone would recomend? (Just for pricing at the moment) I notice they have an entire line of macro lenses, what would be best? Would the differences between the...

Oh yes, that's definatly something I'm considering. But I want to make sure that it's not the human element that's holding me back. I'm also futzing around with technique, placement, lighting position/color, and of course, my photoshop skills.

New Chinese SUV gets lowest safety rating ever: A perfect zero Besides simply scoring it, aren't unsafe vehicles actually banned?

RAW files....wouldn't that be lovely. ;) This project is business related, but it's just not feasible to send it all out considering the number of pieces we need to shoot. The photographer we have been using charges $50 per piece, and I've got shots almost that good already. The pro others in...