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Darth Willis

I just went through doing this just last week. My beloved 21" Trinitron finally died on me and I needed a new monitor with excellent color reproduction for image editing for $200. I've been hesitant to make the LCD jump, but I finally had to. After digging through the Anandtech LCD guide for a ...

Darth Willis

Sorry, from the renderings, it looked like the drives were right up against the walls. Shouldn't have assumed.

Darth Willis

Splinter, I had a thought about how you could go about grounding your motherboard if you wanted to. Run a strip of <a href="http://www.chomerics.com/products/chofoil.htm">conductive metal tape</a> from a mounting screw on your power supply to a mounting screw on the motherboard. Heck, if you had eno...

Darth Willis

Yes, I know I post rarely, and usually when I do post, I want something. Here's to not breaking the trend. Any help would be appreciated, as always. I'm looking for some skilled C/C++, PERL & Python programmers with Linux, KDE & Mozilla experience. Custom Knoppix, Morphix and Gentoo build experience...

Darth Willis

I doubt it's a legit Joe Job, Gleek... probably just a coincidental harvest name to use for spoofing, but it's damaging none the less... is there any real means of redeming the account, or do you think it's a black hole now and not worth attempting to fight for and keep (keep in mind, I'm 90% sure I...

Darth Willis

These aren't virus messages, either... these are genuine, honest to God filthy spam pr0n messages. I know the address can be harvested, but I've never heard of this happening to anyone else before on a user level... though I have been a bit out of the loop the past couple years. Again, I might have ...

Darth Willis

Nordo, first let me remind you that it is a hotmail account and inform you that I keep all my web based mail accounts strictly to the web and won't set up mail accounts on my system for them. Second... I won't dignify the virus comment. I'll just snigger and grin and hint at the fact that I run a pr...

Darth Willis

I'm curious to find out if this has happened to anyone else, yet... I got up this morning to find a message flag for my hotmail account (which almost never happens) and discovered something from Microsoft telling me that I was almost out of room and needed to purchase more space, which honestly surp...

Darth Willis

lllama, I appreciate the advice... I've been looking over Snort actually. Might do what I need, however it requires putting up a new box. I'd heard of ettercap as well but was a little wary due to security issues. Speaking of a new box... Despite, I'm much oblidged for the smack around with reality ...

Darth Willis

Despite, it's for my home network. I'm open to doing either or, whichever is quickest to push into service. I've got some ancient K6-233 guts kicking around, but no case at the moment (although in a pinch, a cardboard box can do to keep the cats out). I'm basically looking for a quick and dirty solu...

Darth Willis

Four boxen, Win2K sp2 on all (two directly in my control, two indirectly but should really be more active in now), Linksys broadband router, static IP config. Anything else? Forge, I appreciate the restraint. I do still want to convert to Linux one of these days, but I can't as long as I work...

Darth Willis

Well, I thought I ran a relatively tight ship with my network at home... at least tight enough to not really need the hardcore networking security tools. I just found NADAEMON (stupid spying digital rights management bozos) on a box in my house that was having problems with using IRC/IM/WindowsUpdat...

Darth Willis

I've actually heard grumblings from *cough* somewhere that Danger, Inc. (danger.com) may be absorbed into the Apple fold with possible reintroduction of the Woz back into Apple's upper management. Fascinating gossip that makes the mind think, but I somehow doubt it.

Darth Willis

On the bright side, at least the video is covered, too.

Darth Willis

On a more serious note... I've never worked with the chipset or manufacturer so you'll have to get opinions from others, but the only board that I could find so far that fits the bill in both cost and integrated parts is the Leadtek WinFast 7350KDA using a SiS 735 chipset. It's about $100 and may no...

Darth Willis

I think you're screwed.

Darth Willis

There's always the "What's gonna pop out of Steve's Reality Distortion Field this year?" We could give Resteves a good crank instead of Adi for a change...

Darth Willis

Granted I don't do much business with them due to most of their prices and ad tactics, but I've gotten a couple of refurb monitors and a few Samsung laser printers through them and haven't had any problems. As for the quality on a refurb, it probably depends on what manufacturer it is and who does t...

Darth Willis

I've found refurb monitors to usually be a safe purchase. Try going <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Refurb/display.asp?category=Monitors&id=12">here</a> and poke around a bit. It looks like Tiger Direct has some good ViewSonics available.

Darth Willis

Done and done.

The system is now more stable than it was before the Voodoo3 died in it a few months ago. Thanks again, Ryu.

Darth Willis

Just tried it. Solid as a rock! Thanks Ryu.

Darth Willis

Here's the situation: I'm working on this older system with the following specs- TMC TI5VG+ rev.D SS7 mobo w/VIA MVP3 chipset AMD K6-III@450 (not overclocked) 192MB PNY CAS3 PC100 SDRAM ATI RADEON VE Creative SB-16 PCI 300W Antec PS good ventilation and temps running Windows 2000 DirectX 8.1 ATI dri...

Darth Willis

*checks watch* Yeah, what you said.
Actually, I don't really have a set schedule anymore... just surf when I have the time. It just usually happens late at night.

Darth Willis

I'd love to do the IRC thing, but IRC is busted on my system until I build the new rig and reformat everything. Feh.
If anything solidifies and I get back online, count me in.

Darth Willis

I'm just sitting at home enjoying some Tenacious D after an evening of Criterion madness... wheeeeee! Nice to have a day of screwing off and doing nothing. I need a new job so I can do more of this.

Darth Willis

From what I understand it is mainly a latency issue, but there's always a potential for curruption with latency issues on a grand enough scale. But I may be wrong. Considering the file sizes and the amount of work being done with these video files, I'd honestly rather err on the cautious side until/...

Darth Willis

wtburnette, I'm actually referring to the VIA northbridge PCI latency issue. I'm going to be shuffling around 5-30GB vid files on a RAID-0 array, and the potential file corruption has me nervous. I'm sure VIA will likely patch and fix the issue in the future with a new 4in1, but I'm a pessimist by n...

Darth Willis

Well sir, I can't really comment yet on the Dragon+ myself since it's still waiting patiently in it's box for an xp1600 and a couple Seagate drives. Was planning on using it to do some vid editing, but mildly concerned about performance issues now. I do however have a EPoX 8K7A with a 1GHz T-bird OC...

Darth Willis

I'm a lightweight modder myself. I do well on the hacking and wiring bit, but when it comes to painting... I've discovered that painting is my enemy. I've currently got a dusty Antec SX1030 sitting and waiting for me to strip and sand off the train wreck that is the blue pearl coat that I tried on i...

Darth Willis

<table><tr><td><img src="http://dsch.8k.com/russcomp/strav.jpg" width=109 height=151 alt=""></td><td>If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Igor Stravinsky.Known as a true son of the new 20th Century, my music started out melodic and folky but slowly got more dis...

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heh.

hooray for spoofing.