Yeah, I have to agree with this one. The EPCR link has been "top news" for long enough, especially considering that the EPCR page hasn't seen any significant updates for a while.


PS. Just got home from a party, please disregard typos

Don't think acoustic technology for PC cases has really advanced much mainly because people want silence but don't want to pay for it. Premium brands like Bang and olufsen or Bose do not yet exist for PC cases. Well, 6-7 years back it simply wasn't possible to get a "silent" case, it simply did not...

A couple of things to check: run cmd and from command line type "ipconfig /all". Does your wireless connection have valid IP address, gateway and DNS addresses? Also, it might be that the problem is with your encryption settings. This may cause the Windows wireless service to think that you're assoc...

Speaking of Razer mice I have a Razer Pro|Click and I've been very happy with it. It is extremely lightweight and glides easily as it is basically a less fancy and understated version of Razer's gaming mice. It's less audible than your average mouse but more importantly I haven't had any pains in my...

I have an NSK2400 (low-end AMD64, seasonic PSU) doing the same tasks (no R@H though) in a very cramped shelf but with an open backside that is close to the wall. With low airflow the temperatures are quite ok, relatively highest is probably the HDD at around 45C. Closed-back shelf may be different s...

I wrote this in the HX520 buzzing thread, probably relevant here too: ------------- Buzzing indeed seems to be a common problem these days. After an old Antec power supply broke in an even older TBird 1,4GHz machine I replaced it with a S12II-430. Works fine otherwise but it has developed a buzzing ...

Buzzing indeed seems to be a common problem these days. After an old Antec power supply broke in an even older TBird 1,4GHz machine I replaced it with a S12II-430. Works fine otherwise but it has developed a buzzing sound that intermittently goes away when some activity is going on. Really annoying ...

This thread is really old but I think this update might be relevant: I just replaced a broken power supply in an old TBird 1,4GHz computer. The power supply fan went to max RPM and there was a smell of burnt electronics although the computer still could be shut down normally. Not too surprisingly, t...

Judging from changing pages in the BIOS screens, the board feels "slow". I don't think it is possible to judge the performace of a computer by the snappiness of the BIOS. At work I use CPUs ranging from old 233MHz Geodes to 1,4GHz Pentiums and the BIOS speeds fell more or less equal. Which is of co...

...metal circles that were not attached to any of the little lines that make up the arteries runnings through the circuit board... Even if there are no tracks connected to them on the surface, there are layers inside that could be connected unseen. Yes, but it would be kind of daft from pcb design ...

Seconded. That kind of a setup means that anyone on the inside can access your email without you knowing. Probably the username/password -combination is also stored in plaintext somewhere on the server so when it gets compromised it is trivial for the attacker to get lots of good username/password i...

This could have saved me alot of hours and several hundred feet of CAT5! What about network security? Is it possible for someone in a neighboring home/apartment to plug in an adapter and be behind your firewall? :( Actually, no--that's one of the best things about powerline stuff. It has built in e...

...or perhaps because you were shouting and cursing in your posts most of the time? Venting steam and advocating things should be kept separate.

Yeah, Openfiler does have iSCSI support (via http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/) but it is imperative to remember that iSCSI is a SAN solution, not NAS. In practise, you can only have one initiator connect to a target LUN at a time or you will get file system corruption on the target. Havng >1 init...

I've never even had to call MS, as long as the OEM XP installations are not done in a short period of time the automatic activation will work just fine. I don't know what the exact time limit is, maybe around 6 months or so.

Well, that is a server system and not really meant for an environment with humans in it. That case is probably not bad at all compered to a couple of 1U 19" rack cases considering that those are basically flat wind tunnels with n (n = ~10) small fans and large areas of undampened metal chassis. Over...

Well, actually you can boot from a removable disk but you probably won't be able to put the virtual memory on one. This is my experience with win2K, might work differently with XP.

You need to have a Samba server running on the Linux system and share a folder that the relevant user has at least rights to. The easiest way to handle samba is (at least for me) to use the Webmin web interface. Both samba and webmin can be easily installed (if they are not already) from the package...

I'd say that you well might get an improvement in the noise or cooling, depending largely on the fans and how well they undervolt. Anyway turbulence noise should be quite minimal with low airflows. I replaced my two undervolted 80mm Nexus fans with a single 120mm Scythe that is still undervolted but...

I'll be bying the Aego M set for my bedroom Squeezebox setup, hopefully it'll be a good purchase. At least it has gotten a good review: http://www.trustedreviews.com/multimedi ... peakers/p1

I'd say that most if not all VGA cables are have protection shielding wrapped around the signal leads. This comes from opening quite a few different VGA cables for modification for use with some prototype devices. Ferrites simply diminish some frequency bands (depending on ferrite model), they canno...

As nightmorph said, you really need to get the on-die K8 temperature sensor support compiled into your kernel. A couple of months ago it was not yet integrated into the released kernel but it was possible to patch the most recent kernel sources and then compile to get the support working. I'm not qu...

The built-in support for multiple monitors is quite poor in Windows. I would recommend trying UltraMon, it's not free but works great. I tried several multimonitor handling programs about a year ago when I got a second 17" LCD and UltraMon came on top because it looks unobtrusive and has nice config...

As far as I know there are three types of CF IDs: removable, fixed and automatically sensing. Fixed and autosensing should be perfectly ok with an IDE adapter. The problem is that only few manufacturers clearly state the ID type. Thanks. Do you know how I can check the ID types of my CF cards? At l...

There could also be problems with the CF disk identifying itself as a removable storage device. This causes problems on some operating systems (WinXP at least) as the OS does not want to put the swap file on a removable disk. As far as I know there are three types of CF IDs: removable, fixed and aut...

The Zalman 9500 heatsink fits, if just barely. You have to bend the topmost fins to each side to shave a couple of millimeters from the net height of the heatsink. It was a pain to get the fanmod done after bending the heatsink fins as there was not much tolerance left for the 92mm fan to fit nicely...

Be careful with the CPU selection. As far as I know no AMD AM2 socket CPU with actual CPU freq below 1800MHz supports C'n'Q. I was considering the same CPU for my own file/backup/VNC/SSH server and ended up using an A64 3200+ instead due to lower idle power consumption.

SSD is technologically already here, you can get 128GB in 2,5" form factor (a bit thicker than usual though) with IDE interface, 5 year warranty and pretty nice read/write speeds: http://www.m-sys.com/site/en-US/Products/IDESCSIFFD/IDESCSIFFD/Products_/IDE_Products/FFD_25_Ultra_ATA.htm Higher capaci...

As it seems that you can wipe out the hard drive I would recommend using "Darik's boot & Nuke" ( http://dban.sourceforge.net/ ) to wipe the HDD clean. After that it is guaranteed that there is no data on the HDD that could interfere with reinstallation of XP. You can also try the formatting, the cor...

So my problem with the conspiracy theory is: A ) it insults his intelligence B ) it insults our intelligence for thinking that we will fall for it and/or that we would not be appropriately sceptical of new information. Put it another way: can you disprove that the Cell will have the characteristics...