Yuck!

I have one of those sitting on a wish list... thanks for the heads-up. I wanted to use it to shove air into my quiet workstation- for that sort of noise, I might as well use a Sunon.

About "playing with Linux"... I usually just people a live CD (Knoppix or Ubuntu) to play with. If they're game after that, I show them how to fold, spindle, and mutilate an install in a virtual machine. Aside from play, the best way to learn is to break it and learn how to fix it- with the Virtual ...

One set of ungrateful millionaire societal parasites will defeat the other set.

Fox will run a 100 annoying ads per inning for bad television shows capable of shaving 10% off your IQ every time you watch them.


They'll do the same thing next year.

When all of your product lines are late and/or not meeting projections, marketing slime does announcements. When they're out of actual products to announce, they start announcing dead on arrival, silly, standards. I doubt they're even going to get anyone to produce a board, and if they do, it'll jus...

One thing I didn't see discussed- how do you mount drives in the case?

Do optical drives and floppies use the P180 style rails?

How are 3.5 inch drives mounted in the case?

What would happen to them when they come into contact with the microbes that we use on oil spills that eat petroleum? Executive summary. Nothing. The organisms that were mentioned by the articles live under conditions that wouldn't be very good for the oil eaters, and vice versa. The (oil eaters) P...

I'm building a quiet(ish), low availability, home server for someone, and am looking at Antec cases- is there a significant difference between the Solo or the P150, aside from the included P/S in the latter? I don't really see much difference, but was wondering if one was quieter, better built, easi...

I'm kind of surprised that you needed SCSI drives for your host system, given the load you described. Did you already have them sitting around? I wouldn't think you'd need that kind of performance unless you were serving a couple of hundred simultaneous requests at once. P.S. One more vote for virtu...

Que es mas macho? Lightbulb or Schoolbus?

Why would anybody choose the A10B over the P182? Possible reasons include, but are not limited to: 1) Weight 2) Durability 3) Ease of Assembly 4) Construction Quality/Attention to detail 5) More drive mounting/alignment options 6) Personal taste/aesthetics 7) Lian-Li case accessories 8) Ease of mod...

I'm using a Fujitsu 2.5 inch drive in one for my HTPC. Completely silent.

No temp problems after a couple of months of use, not doing anything special to cool it. I stopped monitoring it after a couple of weeks.

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses of people with enough disposable income that they could blow server board money on an extra-pc for their water ski boat... All kidding aside, I didn't quite extract why this board is "for the masses" from the article. What exactly makes it a mass ma...

Thanks for the review- since I went with an AM2/690G based GigaByte Mobo for my HTPC, I've been curious as to how it would have turned out if I went C2D. In my case, undervolting (~1 volt/1200 MHz stable) a Brisbane 4000+ which is passively cooled with a Rev B. Ninja results in CPU temps 25-30 C in ...

If newegg had been hacked, they are required by California Statute (since they are domiciled there) to notify you. The particular law has some teeth to it, so they'd have to comply just to stay in business. If nothing else, the geek community would be all over it, and you'd have thousands of slashlo...

I have a RAID6 box that would probably give some of the minimalist zealots here apoplexy. Aside from using a controller with a proprietary multiplexing connector , making the cables neater is just going to put stress on the connectors, and won't really help airflow that much. Some times you just nee...

Ever give any thought to building a CCD camera instead of a computer case?

Good attempt, but alas he wont get a "Darwin Award", but he might get an honoUrable mention for being a twat but not topping himself. http://darwinawards.com/stupid/ Andy It's not a darwin unless he's killed before reproducing! :D Brain : "Promise me something Pinky, never breed." Pinky : "I'll try."

OK, I'm scratching my head on this one...

I had no idea people watched their routers. I thought they were just buried and forgotten, at least for folks who don't live in 2m x 3m dorm rooms.


Is this something people do after a few blunts?

What exactly makes this a HTPC?

You didn't say what you were using for a tuner, if any.

The reason I ask is that the main knock I've seen on the ML02 is that the riser cards are 'picky' and don't work with Hauppage Cards.

Hello, And the screen is glossy-black -- yuk. If it was matte, I'd love it, but glossy is lousy. The glare off the glass is insane. There's no way I could sit at one of those for a whole day. I don't even want to think about what that glare does to color correction. I'm a mac fanboy for the most pa...

God forbid some facts actually get injected into a discussion in the Off-Topic forum, but there's a nice discussion of the subject in the AAAS publication, Science News. It is written for laypeople, and has reasonably complete coverage on the weaknesses and strengths of a half dozen or so possible e...

Why not just get the Airport ? I know its out of spec by $29, but it beats the living daylights out of any other router out there for range, ease of use, and stability. ( source: David Pogue article in NYT ) I'm using it right now for all the functions you mentioned, and the only time I've even look...

I´m sure they will be... :) "Tin drum"... LOL I´m surprised with by the fact that you chose to put both fans as intakes. Did you tried to create an inverted flow? (I mean a traditional one, front to back) And what about your graphics card? Do you think it would accept an 8800 without problems, co...

1) Install a mesh bay cover in the top front 5 inch drive bay 2) Install an Antec slot cooler at the top of the case 3) Swap both case fans with Nexus 120mm fans that blow inward 4) Throttle all fans with NMT3 (thermal) controllers. 5) Orient the ( Seasonic S12-430 ) power supply so the fan points d...

If my computer is too loud, I can't hear the voices in my head.

After I silenced the plants in my office, the computer was logically next.

Why unpredictably ? Prior to MikeC's comment, I hadn't considered resonance- I'd expected something like a linear or parabolic function. That would at least give the same ranking to the same devices. I had considered other things, like large standard error resulting from a low number of samples bei...

I was reading LGA775 CPU cooler reviews on another website, and the numbers they reported for noise were quite different than what I've seen here. When I see radically different dba numbers on e-commerce websites, I usually ascribe it to the e-tailer copying and pasting the manufacturer's lies, er u...

I'm using ASUS BIOS to run a Brisbane 4800+ at 1.1V. (Hasn't been stable at lower voltages).

Video editing? Graphic Design?