Search results

Those a Textronics Phasers, man. You agree to buy the, um, crayons (little under $600 to fill one up). Finding out about that program actually led me to purchase an 850DP for myself.

Oh. And printers. $21000 for 25 PCs, printers, monitors, Windows and some training. That's $300 for the actual computer hardware, nearly as I can tell. Called CDW. No one has gotten back to me. Their charity hamster must be broken.

See above. Waiting to die. That's it. I sincerely doubt that I have the force of will to maintain any kind of exercise regime. I used to walk with Amy, in the morning, but then I had a single motivating factor (ie Amy's company).

Anyone ever dealt with this before? I got "volunteered" to specify and purchase computers for a US 503(1) charitable organization just a moment ago, and unless the discounts for software licensing for charity are a LOT better than the ones for academic software, I don't know whether I'll be able...

Really, honestly, 210 and 215 are practically the same test. 218 is kind of hard. Administering Network Infrastructure is a total PITA 'cause it asks about a ton of stuff you never have to mess with. Anyway, I go back and forth about how valuable certs are. Right now I've got a couple of...

1. I can't imagine being envious of vitriol, but thanks, I think. 2. For the other part, I only wish I could see things that way. honold, I don't know if there's any truth to what you say. I am depressed in a way that requires very very careful choice of words when I talk about my feelings at...

Well, I had kind of hoped that posting my weight would help me somehow. I don't think it has. I'm the sort who terminally abhors physical activity of any kind (when I lived in the country, my father used to punish me by driving someplace and making me walk home). I used to lift weights. Haven't...

I've decided that I supremely dislike spring. Spring is when my allergies kick in. Spring brings thunderstorms and lightning and the annual "You're going to bill me for flipping the switch on that surge protector" complaints. Spring is when other people open their windows, and when their lives...

Tumesence of the male member.

Vee prefer tha rock. Pop ups, pop downs... vee get zhem mit computermonitors oder mitout.

If you freeze frame in just the right place during "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", you'll find that Mrs. Rabbit is not wearing undies. The first video boxes for both "Alladin" and "The Little Mermaid" were pulled because some stupid housefrau decided that the minarets+towers of the castles in the...

So no duplicable errors with Nero-made DVDs except playback on Xbox (doesn't Xbox need a playback kit, anyway, or is that the other thing?) I've seen anti-Nero DVD stuff a few other places as well. It's really going to bug me, 'cause sure enough I can't find it any more.

Pradeep, what is it, exactly, that you do? Months in the states, visits to Tokyo, an Aussie location... Seems like you move around more than any of us.

I prefer "circumfrentially challenged".

I've read in several different places now that DVD Video discs made with Nero are not highly compatible discs. I've done several now without any problem, using Nero 5.5.10.20 and 5.5.10.28, mostly Disney movies that happened to be below 4.5GB on-disc (e.g. 101 Dalmations). Is there a basis...

330, actually. Or thereabouts. Normal bathroom scales don't weigh things so heavy. I used the scale on the loading dock at the building where I work. LunarMist, mubs, the short version of the last year of my life is that my long-time best friend and fiance woke up one morning and realized she's...

I know it'll be fixed and everything, but it absolutely stuns me that something like that could make it through QA. MS code is supposed to reviewed and whiteboarded before being committed to the product. Something like that would be basic error checking.

... and tonight I came home and found my 2003 Server happily hard-locked, utterly at idle (TMPEGenc having completed the night before), and without any clues to indicate the source of the problem. Nothing in the event log, even. This same hardware ran 2000 Server stable for weeks at a time.

Well, Nero tells me that this thing can't read a pristine DVD-R at anything more than 6.8x. That tears it. I'm sending this POS back. After playing a bit today, I'm pretty sure this drive is a Sony. I've got a gen-u-ine Sony 48x CD-RW sitting here, a DRU500AX, a LiteOn 52x burner and this...

Drat. I was hoping one of the folks here who have actually RMA'd a CPU would be able to help without my having to make that call...

That's the problem. I don't know, either.

I have in my hand an AthlonXP 1700+ that appears to have failed. The problem: No stickers or markings indicating retail or OEM status. This is a very old chip. It's from a time when I was buying retail only (I started buying some OEMs again some few months ago for my personal use)? Markings as...

The only time LiteOn drives seem to make noise is if they're reading a data disc, and when you first put a disc in. Mine seem to be fairly quiet if I'm just watching a movie. The other 16x models I have are LTD163s. They're cosmetically identical to the newer model.

Since Amy left my life, I've gained almost 100lbs, and I wasn't skinny to begin with. Since I don't leave my apartment except for work, it isn't like there's a compelling reason to develop better habits. Eating more junk food and practicing assal horizontology are sure ways to gain weight. The...

Is this thing on?

Just thought I'd let everyone know that new Lite On XJ-HD166S 16x DVD-ROM drives appear to be locked at 2x for DVD ripping, just like Toshiba drives. The last drive I have that does fullspeed rips was made in January. The two I got today were both made in early March, and both hover around 2x...

Just goes to show how subjective speakers are. I can't stand Klipsch speakers, particularly not when I think about how much they're charging for them. IMO, the sub that comes with Klipsch speakers tends to overpowering even at low volumes.

I've been beating on my 2003 server just about as hard as I can for the last two days. I popped in a pair of GigE NICs and added it to my backbone, I've added a couple of USB2 drives to it and I've been bulk-copying data from those to my fileservers, running an InstantCopy transcoding job and a...

I tend to think of my left-handedness as an advantage in computing. I type a larger portion of the keyboard with fingers of my left hand than my right, so I don't "miss" my right hand on a trackball as much as a right-handed person probably would. The Quill people are still spouting crap. Just...

Thanks mubs. I don't particularly have an outlet for writing other than here. re: MSI. I don't see them very often. In fact, I've seen five MSI boards, ever, outside retail packaging. The one I own, A K7T Pro ARU, is basically the template for the above rant. If nothing else is accurate about...

S'OK. He wasn't using it anyway. The lab machines I maintain ALL have an attached printer. Mostly color inkjet, more HP 932s or 945s, with some dreadful 620s, 670s and various $30 Apollo Inkjets as well. There's one fairly high-end Epson and a couple of LJ 6Ls. The Ls seem to give more more...

My rule of thumb is that if it looks like a photocopier and doesn't say Lexmark on it, it's probably fine. Just about every office I go in seems to have a 4500N, and I don't know of anyone who has a problem with a 4500N. Those big printers are probably the last thing HP makes that's any good...

I don't know. They both feature UFO-like objects on their retail packaging... Gigabyte experience: Smartly packaged, solidly packed motherboard, along with a detailed user guide, a large poster with step-by-step installation instructions, and case sticker detailing DIP switch and front panel...

And it's only $100! Frankly, the thing looks CHEAP. Circa 1994 $5 mouse cheap. Certainly not $100. This page really sets off my bullshit detector. Frankly, I'm not seeing anything on that site, say medical or scientific study, to back up claims of benefit.

It's the 600ABs that inspired my rant. Not that I haven't RMA'd 1200ABs, but at least with those I haven't exceeded 100% replacement yet. WDDIAG reported an error on one of my 600ABs just a moment ago, in fact. Lucky me.

While we're talking about HP... HP's Deskjet 930/940-series has been substanially better than most of their other products. Does anyone know if that product line has been continued with the current models (the swoopy-looking silver UFO-type printers), or if it was dumped during the changeover?

In december I posted something about a set of Z340s (2.1s) in the Sale forum, saying they were a fantastic buy at $25. They are. Several others followed that recommendation and responded postively. Logitech makes a very nice sub/sat setup that just can't be beaten - some reviewers say the...

That's been posted here for 10 minutes. I saw it 10 minutes ago. Omnipresent, remember? ;) I've got a (1) WD2000JB. They're hot. Or mine is, at least. I'm talkin' SCSI-type hot. Barracuda III hot. Mine has an 80mm case fan in front of it and still makes a warm spot on the case in question.

Promise Ultra TX2. ATA100 with 48bit addressing. Nothing special.

The retail one does..

No there aren't but er, what were you doing with it anyway? Main benefit is to move your sound hardware out of the EMI-hellstorm that is your case. Secondary benefits are providing more receiver-like functions (extra inputs and outputs and digital decoding and such) and ease of placement for...

I mentioned them in passing; my audio needs are a little bit different from your average gamer, too. Yamaha and Creative both make decent-ish external receiver-like products that handle audio extremely well, but at the cost of USB-bus bandwidth. The Creative Extigy goes for $125 or so, and I...

I've got a couple at work, too, remember? The ripping/DVD reader limitations of the Sony represent a real deficiency, particularly since all my DVD burners are installed in USB2 enclosures and may not be paired with machines that have fast DVD drives (or other DVD drives at all, for that...

Tu Chiang is of course correctly translated as "generic graphics chipset whipping boy for satisfying unsatisfying requirement performance " Those Chinese really have an economy of words. :)

Er... why? OK. Backups, maybe. Why else? If it's a choice between a $300 drive and a $350 one, well, I've only made one DVD+RW anyway. I was actually hoping that someone would pipe up and say "oh yeah, it doesn't have the stupid 2x ripping limit" about the LiteOn. Hope it's not a complete...

Justdeals.com has a refurbed set of Logitech Z640s for $35. Those things are a bargain at $100, let alone under $50. Logitech makes great, inexpensive computer speakers. I swear they're good stuff. Honest. At the $300 price point, I'd start looking for something that's, no offense, more in...

LDW-400D. Anyone heard of it? LiteOn multi-mode DVD burner? Identical to the Sony? Is it? I noticed it on pricewatch today but haven't heard/read anything about it.

The sonata is a really nice case. I worked on one last week. I really appreciated the way the 3.5" drive bays are laid out in them, so that the jumpers n' stuff are visible. I might also mention that Newegg sells a Compucase full tower that is identical in every way to the Antec Performance...

That can't be SR. There was no mention of RAID0.

Also, notice the poll on newegg's front page. "Best Motherboard". At the moment, Asus and Abit are tied at about 35% of the vote each, which a bunch of other brands (Soltek, Epox, Gigabyte, Intel) in the 1 - 2% range. That's the kind of thing makes me fear for the future of humanity.