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I'm having difficulty with level 4. I need a theta control, not X and Y!

It's pretty annoying, especially since 99% of the time I don't actually want to print anything. It slows down loading files since it waits for the damn printer to warm up before showing my document. Is there a way to stop Office from caring about my printer at start up? I feel like this is...

Thanks CSIXTY4! That's exactly the information I was curious about.

Oh, yeah... those meters. They're available from any surplus electronics shop for about $3-5 each. They're alright if you aren't a serious user, so getting one for free is ok. Personally, I found that the $30 I spent on one from Sears was well worth it. They're great bang for the buck in...

How does a USB to PS/2 adapter work? As far as I can tell USB is a vastly more complicated mode of communication than PS/2. Does the mouse or keyboard detect that USB is not functioning properly when they are plugged in and switch over to a different communication protocol? Does anybody know off...

I'm not looking for something for a baby. I'm looking for a real seat for a car. I'd like it to be as lightweight as possible. Anybody know where to go for such a thing?

I'm in!

Does anyone know if these laptops have synchronous rectifiers on the power supply lines to the CPU? At these sorts of low core voltages a diode drop on the output of an SMPS would be killer to efficiency.

Read the paper on Nature Nanotech. The associate professor doing the research only has preliminary results, not packaged product. Don't expect this stuff to hit the market for another 3-4 years. I'm an undergrad at Stanford with a particular interest in battery technology (I lead the solar car...

There are also some filesystem tricks you can do if you're using something like XFS, ie, setting the minimum preallocation size to 500MB.

The statistic I think you'll most be interested in will be non-sequential writes. Since you have four streams going at once, the data will be splattered all over the drive. Just make sure the new drive is close to your old drive, or better, and you'll be fine.

I got a silver bezel DVD drive and the color match is pretty good. A real aluminum panel would not match so nicely. Also, I feel VFD's do nothing useful on computers and are just bling. I really love my NSK-2400, but I had to get rid of the horrible blue leds on the power button. I replaced...

I really enjoy this screen a lot. For the office work that I do, it's fantastic. The contrast is really good, almost as good as my IBM CRT. The only time I notice any ghosting is if I move around a solid white box. So for what I do, it's entirely acceptable and was a fantastic bargain.

Dammit. No 12/13 standard? :(

Build a server! I did it and will never go back. I NFS boot my HTPC. It has no hard drives in it at all. Only the LED on the front tells you that it's on. You can also hear it if you're behind it, and less than six inches away. All storage both for boot and media are on a RAID5 file...

But let's take this to a different scenario. What if my friend and I are watching the same original copy of the movie at the same time, ie, he's sitting on my sofa? Does everyone that's watching a movie at home require a copy? If I have a family of four, do I have to buy four copies of a movie...

I feel that when I buy a copy of a movie, I buy that copy. I have the right to play it back however often I want to whomever I want, and loan it out to whomever I want. I feel it should be like a floating software license. It shouldn't matter how many people have that license, so long as it can...

It would be technically illegal to loan them the originals. Doing that violates the EULA/TOS which you were never given the opportunity to author. You would be operating similarly to Blockbuster, which is outside the rights given to a residential license. Of course, nobody enforces that...

I have a T41p from a few years ago and I use it as my only computer nowadays. It's been great. I only use an external mouse.

I use an Arctic Freezer 64 in my NSK2400, but I modded it to fit. I removed the top three fins and folded over the heatpipes (CAREFULLY!) It works nicely. Yay passive cooling.

You can get 1080i acceleration through XvMC if you have an nvidia card I have an Athlon 64 3200+ (2GHz...I think?) on an nforce 6150 board with component out. It handles 1080i content just fine, and I won't be home until the second week of June to try it with this 1080p video.

French breeder reactors use far more of the total energy available in a mixed oxide fuel than our own designs. Their reactor design can utilize many of the byproducts of uranium fission and can get away with less fuel reprocessing while using a greater fraction of the total available energy...

The best coal plants are about 40% efficient. I don't know about the nuclear plants, but I'll point out that their safety is fairly good. Mixed oxide fuel pellets expand as they heat up, creating a built in safety system. As they heat up their nuclei get further away, so the percentage of...

If you run mythtv, you'll have no need for any of the glitzy window managers. It runs fullscreen. I use fluxbox.

I'm using Arch Linux and MythTV. It's not the easiest way to go, but it's much more customizable than just about anything else out there. If you know your way around linux, it's the best solution available. If you're not quite so savvy, I'd say go with MCE.

Ah, thanks for reminding me about that feature. I totally forgot about it, not giving NTFS any credit whatsoever (I'm used to random mount points and symlinks from the linux world). Kudos!

I have a Thinkpad T41p, which I realize is a "portable computer" and therefore windows won't let me convert its local drive to a dynamic disk. That's not a problem. But I do have two external hard drives (connected via USB, one partition each, formatted NTFS) that I wish to convert to dynamic...

I'm looking to buy some 3 pin fan header on Digikey or Mouser, but I don't quite know what to search for. I found something that looks really close, but it has a minimum order quantity of 4000 - well beyond what I need. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Do I have a problem with advertising in general? Not exactly. I understand that companies need to make themselves known in order to survive. What I don't understand is why they feel that they'll have more market success by plastering every flat surface on the planet (real and virtual) with an...

My game time has been falling off precipitously in the last few years, not so much because big things are going on, but because the passion is gone. My dorm mates and I wanted to play a game (starting spring break! Hurrah!) and were quite surprised to find the game different than the last time...

I first got into serious gaming with Unreal and Halflife. It was a pleasurable pastime; it was a way to let go of the world and have honest entertainment for a few hours at a time. Times have changed since then. Back then, a user would walk into a store, buy a game, and use it forever with no...

I don't mind my HTPC yelling it's a computer... so I have an NSK-2400 with a silver drive. I wouldn't want to sacrifice the minimalist appearance for useless doodads like an LCD. I may even stealth the drive (except that I wouldn't want to confuse the non-technically inclined).

Hey, I didn't say it was legal! The banhammer comes free. Getting it to go away costs extra.

http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=FM35BWT Become a pirate radio station! This'll cover a solid 5 mile radius. :)

RAID5+LVM+NFS = win! Put everything on a backend server so the drives don't make noise in your living room. RAID5 gives you great speed and reliability. LVM gives you excellent expandability. NFS gives you fantastic portability. You can't lose! I have my mythtv frontend netbooting off of...

I have an MSI K8NGM-FIB motherboard that has built in component out. It does just fine with 1080i and 720p output, even when the processor is downclocked via Cool'nQuiet. Get yourself a 2+GHz A64 and an appropriate 6150 or equivalent motherboard and you'll be set for very quiet and very high...

Is that 0.20 cents, or 0.20 dollars? :p :p ;)

Too bad this is probably not going to be linux friendly. I have a 10mbps pipe and would probably be able to comfortably stream movies at rather high quality. And the above posters are right, this is all going to boil down to interface and netflix's capability to deliver the bits.

I'll third the 1080i output! I'm using an A64 3500 on linux.

Another vote for daemon tools. Alcohol is great for making ISO's, but it's a little big for an emulation program.