Does anyone know where I could get a blue version of the plastic duct for the HR-01? Preferrably in Canada? I can get the orange one, which I'll use if needs be but would prefer the blue :) You do know they're different lengths, right? The orange duct is intended for LGA775 setups, and the blue duc...

Can't help feeling it was partly due to Scan though advertising it as "RF/in" (otherwise I wouldn't have bought it). Yup, fair comment. So you think I should go for the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1300 then? I think Hauppauge cards are a reasonably "safe bet," if there is such a thing - they seem to work we...

AFAICT that is a satellite (DVB-S) tuner only, so, yes, you've bought the wrong card if you want to receive UK DVB-T/Freeview broadcasts. :wink: Assuming you're in a Freeview reception area (check here ), what you want is a DVB-T card like this or this , and if you want to watch one channel while re...

Firetech wrote: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9878/univ ... index.html

Amongst others, yes.

I haven't read that article all the way through, as TweakTown keeps ordering me to disable Adblock, which annoys me intensely (TweakTown, that is, not Adblock).

Ok, been waiting for Abit's IP4x Pro motherboards for about three months now! According to the jungle drums, Abit are not far from going tits-up - apparently some of their top engineers have left for Biostar and Foxconn, and they've moved into low-rent offices in Taipei. I know we've heard these ki...

Is this of genuine concern? Most people I Ask who don't own the drive say it's a SMART error, and therefore I should RMA the drive. However, there seems to be widespread discussion about a possible misdiagnosis due to unrecognised information via certain chipsets. Does anyone know anything about th...

sigh... do you really have to dig this wretched thread up again? It's not even as though you have anything original to say, it's just the same old ranting...

What you say is true - separating system files from personal data can have merit if there is only a single drive in the system, but installing programs and games to secondary partitions is completely moot point, and in many cases causes the system to run slower than it would otherwise. Large progra...

If you have a single physical drive, there is zero reason to partition it unless a particular program refuses to run without it. If a drive fails, it doesn't matter how many partitions are on it for the most part. Securing your data by using a second partition on the same drive also doesn't make mu...

VelociRaptor sheds the IcePack for enterprise.

Wonder if/when they'll be available to the great unwashed...

I dont doubt that Democracy is the best option for everyone, but in theory alone a pure-of-heart dictator who is perfect in every way will be better than the vast majority of democratic governments ignoring the obvious fact that none of the persons within that country have a vote. Apart from "pure-...

You might be interested in monarchy since you like "dictators". Most of the ancaps like it. WTF is an "Ancap".? Andy That one went over my head as well. I've googled, but the best I can come up with is "Australasian New Car Assessment Programme, " although "African Network for Chemical Analysis of ...

andyb wrote:If you have ever read any of the Diskworld novels you might know where and whom I am thinking about.

You are aware that Diskworld is a fantasy world, right?

andyb wrote: with the clear thinking of just one person, and no one to get in their way

"shudders" ...

To say that he screwed up the country (which he has, royally) BECAUSE he was a leftist (whatever that means?), is way too simplistic. I think this is the point, and we may just be seeing different conceptions of "leftist," which is an undesireable label simply *because* it's so vague and subject to...

It is soo annoying to have to maually choose the other partition every time you want to load or save a file if you don't change that. I never use the default user profile folders for saving data files, either in their original locations or moved to another partition. Badly-designed software always ...

Tzupy wrote: If nick705 and jaganath happen to be significantly more to the left, then obviously we'll never agree on this.

What is it you think we'll "never agree" on? If you're looking for my agreement that Mugabe is A Bad Person, then, yes, you have it.

Exactly what point are you trying to make?

Looks like you felt offended by the 'leftist' label. I don't see it as offending, as much as I don't see 'capitalist' offending. "Leftist" per se isn't offending, any more than "capitalist," but your crass and simplistic implication that "leftist" == "supporter of stupid communist dictator" isn't p...

As I understand it, partitioning a single (physical) HDD won't help performance in the slightest, and may in fact cause a performance hit as you're forcing a greater number of long seeks as the heads jump backwards and forwards between the partitions. On the other hand, it's definitely an advantage ...

I think this is a minor problem with what is arguably the best case ever, for under $100. I agree it's not a major problem, but the fact is it shouldn't be a problem at all. It's just bad design, pure and simple, and the Solo's merits in other respects just makes it all the more annoying. Don't get...

Beautiful case, but I hate cases that provide direct way for noise to escape. Yes, that could be a problem unless you're very careful with your choice of components - there's also the Lancool K10 , which is the same internally but has a heavy aluminium door which should go some way towards blocking...

If I were specifically trying to avoid the Solo, but wanted something with a similar layout, I'd probably try and get hold of a Lancool K7 . It's Lian Li's "budget" range, but IMHO it's nicer than the more expensive models, which have always left me cold from an engineering viewpoint. Depending on w...

Given that it's a Scythe, it's probably attached with pushpins...

Sorry but that is simply a lie. I'm sceptical as well, but many people do genuinely believe they can always hear a difference between a lossy compressed file and the source. However dubious their claims, calling someone a liar without a very good reason is inflammatory, rude and is unlikely to take...

You simply can't expect miracles there, and it's access times what really counts for most applications (well, at least for me), and not the linear transfer rate. Firmwares also do get improved, but then again, you'll need a very specific load to notice that certain algorithm has changed. So my advi...

The Samsung T166 drives are quieter than both the WD 320/640 and the F1 drives. Are you speking from experience? I'm asking because I was thinking of maybe switching from my T166 to an F1 for the added performance. I have a couple of T166s and an F1, and I can absolutely confirm that, at least wher...

Opera had URL filtering (not your standard ad blocking, but good enough) since version 6 (released in 2001) and a friendly user interface is available since Opera 9. Firefox still has nothing. Oh, and I see they've stolen zoom as well, another thing present in Opera for more than half a decade :) I...

Making _all_ exe files three steps harder to use (find, open, delete) is not the most brilliant approach against viruses. Even if a user wants to run an exe file that is a virus he will still do it, it will just take 10 seconds longer. Maybe so, but I suppose they're just trying to lessen the chanc...

I don't think the L & R side panels are interchangeable. I've never really checked, but I've taken both side panels off on mine several times, then forgotten which was which, and they've always both gone back on OK at the first attempt. I guess I could have got lucky on every occasion, but it seems...

croddie wrote:-ability to disable virus checking of downloads (holds up downloads significantly)

in about:config

browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone = false

croddie wrote: -ability to open exe files directly (now you have to save and then open in explorer)

Not sure that would necessarily be a good thing...

Ah, of course. I'm just waiting for Firefox 4.0 to include some kind of ad blocking, and for Mozilla and their zealots to proclaim they are the first browser ever to have that. Actually, for a very long time (until version 9x) Opera refused on principle to implement any sort of integrated ad-blocki...