Recent content by mattgyver79

Beware that audio racks tend to be shallower than racks for computer equipment. Make sure to pay attention to the depth of your gear. You could probably build your own rack. The standards with the threaded holes can be purchased and all you have to do is build a box. I build myself a six...

ditto for my job. I tried the IE8 beta. It seemed alright but didn't have anything that blew my socks off.

another vote for Pan. I have had good luck with it. It seems to be very stable.

I have been using Suse 10.3 for my torrentbox. I installed it to try it out and left it as is but any distro will do however. My client is currently azureus which i would like to get rid of because it has been royally pissing me off with that Vuze bullshit. Lately i have been trying Deluge and...

No thats just implied.

Actually no. Microsoft just makes the OS. Someone else builds the computer. Its up to 3rd parties to make it work on whatever configuration. For example microsoft doesn't make video drivers. Ati and Nvidia do but MS will sometimes include those drivers in the installer cd.

32X Pioneer slot load CDROM. Because of this POS I will never buy any slot loading optical drive ever again.

No i think he needs a stiffer punishment like the chair.:D

I think they are referring to dumb terminals but they are still off the mark because for some uses a dumb terminal makes sense. For instances cash registers.

They do exist but are hard to come by and seem to be a little expensive. I too am am in the same boat as you and curious about the reliability of them.

Wow a computer that actually has balls.

Could you possibly have a faulty power switch?

Ditto. Words can't describe the hatred i have for that annoying paper clip and that fucknut dog.

I still have that case. The Q500 version. It's very solid. I houses my HTPC currently. Does the job and is fairly quiet. The only drawback to the case as stated above is the drive cage can be a pain in the ass.

Okay is the unit 110V or 220V? you should be able to tell by the plug or one of the labels. If its 110 you should have a hot(usually a black wire), a neutral (white wire), and a ground( green or bare) If its 220 it would be two hots(black) and a ground You should be able to see where the...