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I also have an invite....anyone?

We went with Mushkin Blue PC-3200 and Athlon64 3000+ retails. I have tested these boards with 3 of these DIMMs (1.5GB total) and had to put the CAS @ the stock 2.5 to be stable. With only a single DIMM 2.0 was very possible. I ran a 3200+ for a while on mine without issue.

User opposition to having to learn new stuff for no good reason? Go figure.

As soon as we switch administrative client software. The current app kills all processes that attempt to run in the background.

I can reccomend chewing on your own foot...it does wonders for me.

Seconding what everyone said...don't do it, you won't like the results. If you are as anal-retentive as me and NEED a "C" drive, remove the other drives and re-install.

Damn, sorry for the typos....severly PUI :mrgrn:

Well, my 30+ AMD 64 3000+ and 30+ MSI K8T Neo FSR motherboards are working beautifully. I love these boards, their driver update app and ability to flash the BIOS from Windows are happy things for me. Not to mention flawless support for the low-power "mobile" (or "desktop replacement") chips...

I think the most boring thing about baseball is that 90% of the time, 90% of the players on the field aren't moving. If you were to put just one sniper in the bleachers somewhere, that could liven things up a bit.

Sorry if I've been ignoring anything of late here or anywhere else. Just got back from another week in Oregon; planning to spend a week up there every 2 weeks. Between this, my new company, and my consulting business, I should be posting far more experiences in the no sleep thread. Spent 4 days...

The coast starlight is a beautiful train, I've taken it many times. Even the fact that it only runs once a day isn't that big an issue. However, the fact that it has been (with me on it) over 8 hours late for a [b]4 hour trip[b]. I've heard of it being over 12 hours late.

My craziest was SFO-Denver-DFW-Houston-Austin. Progressively shorter legs, spiraling into my desination. Though this one is pretty stupid...

Yup, nevermind, XP caused exactly zero issues on all my machines. My DynDNS client was the culprit after all. I don't run antivirus software either, and a simple checkbox removed the warning after the first occurance.

Leaving tomorrow for Portland again. But this time I'm flying. Due to the late purchase time of my tickets and the lack of funds a long-distance relationship leads to, I'll be flying out of San Jose to Portland via Los Angeles with a 3-hour stopover. This makes a 1.5 hour flight take 7...

LOL, but I have been sleeping about 14 hours a day the last 2 nights. I usually get 4-5 a night and operate well.

I gave it to a new customer plain and simple the other day. They have a T-1, but he still had AOL installed on his machine and used that to "get on the web" as he was familiar with the process. When I built him his new $2500 PC, compete with Office 2003 and Firefox, he asked "why didn't you...

No, Merc....I heard of the olympics...I think it started a few days ago. How do I know? Haven't watched any of it. I used to enjoy it, particularly the winter ones, as I live in a place without snow.

About to go to bed...so here's the current tally.... 65 hours without any rest at all; no laying down, very little sitting down besides a few hours of driving. About 7 hours of sleep in the last 7 days. This includes a series of 30-minute naps 4 days ago. Being marginally manic has it's...

@5k, IIRC.

To be honest, I've never seen the popups either, but there is a thread over there where someone noticed. Eugene even states later in the thread that he hadn't noticed before. I wonder what percentage of the users of a technical forum actually dodn't have popup-blocking software?

About that "no issues" thing I said earlier.....nevermind. I'm pretty sure it is to blame for my remote desktop failure. Though it's enabled in the firewall; perhaps it just changed the IP/name enough to confuse my router...we'll see when I get home.

I'm a big fan of the SATA cards based on the SiI 3112a chipset (or 3112r if you need cheap RAID). The retail raptors used to ship with a card that had this chipset, and countless motherboards (including those from ASUS) use this chipset as well. They also have a 4-port version (3114) that is...

SR just lost major points for implementing pop-up advertisements :evil:

Would one of the more insane coolers support 35W passively? Thoughts?

I'm seriously debating it. If I could find a way to underclock it to ~2500+ (1.4Ghz) @ <1v, that would be near certain passive capability. The ones I'm using are stock @ 2800+ (1.6Ghz) 1.2v and 35W heat dissipation. Not quite into the passive range, but really frickin close. I'm so tempted to...

Looks like I may be moving in the coming months. My new girlfriend will be moving from Oregon to the silicon valley doing biotech stuff (molecular biology). I think I really want to live with her...

Not I. I don't think there have been more than a half-dozen links from SR to SF, though there have been many times more going the other way. I can imagine 2 reasons: 1. They were here first. Stealing their traffic to become just like them would be wrong. 2. Being like them isn't what SF is...

SLK-947U PUI

I've been using the heatsink mentioned in the thread above, IIRC a Thermalright SLK-9047U. This HS requires no mods to use a mobile chip. If you feel it isn't on firmly enough, it's easy to shim the screws with washers.

I think I've built my last non-64bit system. I just built a basic office machine based on a MSI K8T Neo FSR motherboard (I love these things, used about 40 of them) and a A64 2800+. The price premium is so negligible, and I have no problem selling the "future-proofing" capability of an A64...

I've heard rumors of a mod that makes the single-player campaign of Doom3 a coop mission. That sounds really sweet.

I just got an e-mail from them letting me know that the "Pro" version of SE is out as well. It looks like those of us who bought thew Pro version the the upgrade free? Sweet.

Sorry, I didn't pay attention. My OS has it's own raptor...

If we're logging SP2 experiences, it installed on my machine without any issues and without breaking anything. I think it upped my ram consumption at desktop from 80MB to 110MB though...doesn't matter as I have a 'couple gig in there....

For the record, the Gigabyte board above was actually destroyed by the mobile chip (it worked before with a regular 3000+, even worked after a flash to the latest BIOS, then hasn't worked since the chip was installed, enen with the original 3000+ in it). I was then foolish enough to try it in a...

For systems more powerful than the XP2500s I use for basic workstations, I've switched to A64 2800 and 3000s.

I still have 2 tabs of SR on my startup, along with 3 tabs of SF, slashdot, and GMail. But 90% of my time is here. I scan for new posts, and occasionaly jump into a thread with a descriptive and relevant title, but I no longer check out the ones called "Scsi Raid 0 @low Speedz?" or "Get...

Looks to me from the PR that this is just for the campground areas anyway. Too bad, I always wanted to check my e-mail from the back country. Otherwise, how could I justify the 12 pound, 17" laptop in my 45 pound bag of provisions?

Very nice, and much faster. It scanned my 150,000+ "objects" in about half the time.

This might let me run it on all the PCs at work, that would be great...

For the record: No it doesn't, at least it didn't for me.

LOL...beat the game in 2 days of spare "work" time. One of the guys ripped through it on "normal" in about 6 hours...now he's cruising through "nightmare". The biggest difficulty to nightmare being a stable health level of 25 (instead of 100) through the whole game.

Those systems look like they could have a good time with some better video. And if they're already running the latest catalyst drivers, the swap to some 9800XTs would be very simple. Gaming for everyone! :mrgrn:

I'm so glad I'm in this industry at this time, it's a pretty exciting place to be.

I'm not super happy about the performance increase. I was running it quite well at 1024x768 medium before, and even with this set to 256 I still can't get high to run at an acceptible frame rate.

If I could swing it, a bar would definatly be part of the picture....

Good find, I'm checking this out now...

eh, whatever, too tired. Paste this in your address bar and save it: ftp://ddrueding.dyndns.org/Nicole Barrette - God Damn You.mp3

This is a great song from a local in Eugene, OR. I'd love to get music from her, but she isn't on the internet at all. I'd be interested to know what you guys think.

Well, we ended up staying in Eugene and the vicinity. We ate at all 3 McMenamins resturaunts; a classy one near the river, a trendy one near the UofO campus, and a neat one secluded in an alley. Apparently these guys are famous for making their own liquor? Anyway, I'm in love...go figure. I'll...