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I ended up getting the CPU noted in the first post -- the Phenom II X3 720 BE. IronChefMorimoto

I ended up selecting the DDR2 1066 (4GB total) and the Gigabyte motherboard. Looking forward to finally upgrading from Socket 754. Just wish the CPU wasn't shipping from CA -- I'll be looking at all my parts this weekend waiting for Monday's delivery. ;) Thanks for the input -- it was all...

Given that I can save $20 (without having to do rebates) on DDR2 800 anyway, would it make more sense to just buy 2GB x 2 of DDR2 800 and then get 4GB more later on and let it run at the native dual channel speed on the board? Also -- between the two motherboards that I mentioned, would you...

I'm planning on using it as a middle range microATX gaming machine. Mostly Steam games and EVE Online. I spend most of my computer budget on Mac hardware/software for work, so I don't have $800 to drop on a new build. Hence why I'm sitting with a Socket 754 PCI-E motherboard setup now. ;)...

I'm looking at the following components for an update to my existing Socket 754 rig (yeah -- I've stretched the mileage): Asus M4N78-EM or Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-UD2H AMD Phenom II X3 720 BE 2GB x 2 Corsair DDR2 1066 Western Digital 500GB SATA2 Black HD When I look through the approved...

Thanks for the replies. I'm curious, though -- since there aren't any AM3 microATX boards out there that I'd consider just yet, would I be OK getting the Corsair or G.Skill DDR2 1066 for, say, a 780G board like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128379 I'm...

I'm debating a Phenom II X2 550 CPU for a long overdue upgrade from a socket 754 computer. However, I need a microATX motherboard solution, and there's not much in the way of AM3 (DDR3) motherboards out there just yet. If I were to use the 550 with an AM2+ DDR2 board, would I be wasting...

The reason XAMPP looked more promising than MAMP is that it would work by default off localhost (without the weird ports in MAMP). Now, I don't know if XAMPP is just overriding port 80 on localhost or what, but that seemed preferable to MAMP and having to remember to include port 8888 or...

OK -- I've also found this option: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html XAMPP for OS X? Anyone used this? Does it alter anything in the configuration of a fully updated OS X 10.4 Tiger install? Such that removing it would cause any issues? Thanks, IronChefMorimoto

This is a question for any of you closet Mac owners out there. ;) I just bought my first Mac -- a refurb Macbook Pro, and I'd like to set it up with a local server to do PHP/MySQL/ActionScript development. I'm reading through PHP5 for Flash (Friends of Ed book) now, and their setup...

Thanks -- that's where I'm sort of at now. Here's what I'd LIKE to do AFTER I store the anonymous user's score in the quizScores table: If user's score is in the top 10 or 20, capture that fact and notify them (pretty easy) If user's score is out of the top 10 or 20, find, out of all scores...

Each quiz has a unique ID in a quizConfig table. This table stores the basics of the quiz - title, credits for those who researched it, etc. Each time I store a score in the quizScores table, I tie the score to a unique quiz ID from the quizConfig table -- the quiz ID can appear 100s of times...

Good questions. I didn't explain myself very well, now that I think about it. Here's what the quiz does: Admin user interface will allow creation of unlimited # of Flash-based quiz instances For each quiz instance, a unique ID -- the quiz configuration ID Need to associate, in a quizScores...

I'm finishing up a Flash quiz that's powered by PHP/MySQL, and I'm trying to figure out the best method for storing the high scores in the database. Here's an overview of what I had in mind: User finishes quiz and has a total points score stored User fills in 3-letter initials (arcade...

Unfortunately, these are free trials. I'm looking for something that is pure freeware or open source. Sure there's something with a decent GUI that can ghost an NTFS drive and restore it to a new drive...right? Bueller? IronChefMorimoto

I will mention that I DID try out some sort of LiveCD rescue CD, but I wasn't sure if it could ghost an NTFS partition or not. IronChefMorimoto

Recently, I had one of my 200GB Maxtor SATA drives just...well...not start up. It was actually used once, I think, as a 2nd drive, and then I stored it. Never worked again. Anyway -- I'm running on the 2nd such drive, and I want to upgrade to a SATA2 drive. Problem is, I'd LIKE to not have...

Who's going to tell the guy he can get about $1000 of his purchase back if he'd just spent his money on the same items at Newegg.com? What a moron. You don't spend $3500 in CompUSA unless...well...you're an idiot. He should give anyone who finds out about his stupid camera story $300. As...

OK -- called Patriot and spoke to Eeyore (???). That wasn't his name. That's what he sounded like. Couldn't have been less happy to help. He had me turn off ECC in my BIOS, and set my timings to 3-4-4-8-2T. Haven't been able to find a spec on the 2T vs. 1T, but that's what he...

Bought a 2GB kit of Patriot Signature Line PC3200 (2 x 1GB) for use with my ASUS K8N-VM (microATX) motherboard. I'm getting random reboots and, if I'm in WinXP too long, program crashes and BSODs. Here's some questions/other information: I see that ECC is turned on in the BIOS (this is...

I'm working on building a database-powered Flash interactive -- a quiz. I'm at the point where I need to build out the back-end database (MySQL and PHP) to power it. This would seem like a simple setup, but... ...there are about 10 question types/variants in the quiz design/requirements...

OK -- this seems to be working now... <?php $submitConfigID = $_POST["rank_config_id"]; $submitRawData = $_POST["rank_data"]; $submitData = explode(",", $submitRawData); $submitDataLen = count($submitData); $submitCon = mysql_connect("dumbasscentral.org","xyz","xyz"); if (!$submitCon) {...

M'k -- when I add mysql_real_escape_string() calls to the end of my mySQL queries, I get errors. Is this the proper syntax? $submitQuery = mysql_query("UPDATE cxn_RankConfig SET master_count = master_count + 1 WHERE id = '$submitConfigID'", mysql_real_escape_string($submitConfigID))...

I am a damned idiot...now I have a lot of work to do... IronChefMorimoto

Thanks to everyone who chimed in -- I'm a Flash developer -- well -- shit -- I don't really know what I'm "best" at, but right now, I'm integrating a Flash project or three w/ PHP and MySQL, and the security precautions you noted will be acted upon. For a "newb" -- is there a good...

I'm having trouble accessing the row that I'm updating via the SQL update statement below. I'm parsing the results with mysql_fetch_row($submitQuery) and trying to access the 'master_count' field via $submitQueryRow['master_count'] -- it comes up empty. How do I access the row data that I just...

Well -- now I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and get the Panasonic I was looking to buy when I thought my Toshiba was outdated. It seems to be hit or miss for folks on these Sony titles, including those with Toshiba DVD players about the same age as mine. IronChefMorimoto

Oh please -- this was not a post about biased media. I'm seeing this sort of silliness on ALL stations -- not just CNN. I feel badly for the families, and I cited the CNN mess as an example. I worked at a university for 6 years out of college, and I will tell you that, right now, the finger...

If it's two different people, then the VA Tech cops just had a really really g'damned bad day. Plain and simple. 'cause if they were tied up dealing with a murder -- which probably doesn't happen much for campus cops -- in a dormitory, I seriously f---ing doubt they had the resources to canvas...

I just watched Paula Zahn CUT OFF THE KID WHO SHOT THE CELL PHONE VIDEO. She asked him, live, if he was "outraged" that authorities didn't do a better job to inform students of the first murders. He TRIED to respond -- "I think the cops -- the VA Tech cops -- did the best job that they...

I never posted my model # 'cause it's so old I couldn't remember it -- Toshiba SD-3900. Was working perfectly until I tried to play Casino Royale and Stranger Than Fiction. IronChefMorimoto

I'd be interested to see if NetFlix gets enough "returned" or "defective" complaints on these "new" format discs that they have to post something to inform consumers, assuming this is a valid issue. I'm going to try The Good Shepard tonight to see if I still have a problem. Granted, I'd like...

Excellent -- now I can go home and watch that. Stupid f---ing Sony...

I meant to say -- I've had a few from Netflix of late that didn't work -- these two specifically. In fact, Stranger Than Fiction is sitting useless at home. Is The Good Shepard also a Sony release? IronChefMorimoto

Yep -- neither Stranger Than Fiction NOR Casino Royale worked in my 5 year old Toshiba progressive scan DVD player. I have been having fits with them from Netflix of late. It was weird -- I couldn't figure out why some worked and some did not. Now I know. IronChefMorimoto

I bought the middle tier 120mm Scythe fluid dynamic bearing model fan (see the link I posted above for models) on Newegg.com for about $19 shipped. Stupid rates on Newegg.com are going up and up. Anyway -- it only slightly quieter than the Vantec. The Vantec had a "hum" going on that was...

Again -- if I "live test" the other software and find that Vista runs better with IE7 and MS Office, what have I learned? That I have to use Microsoft's stuff in Vista to get it to run smoothly and blame the developers of Firefox and OpenOffice for not getting their stuff updated? Yes -- it's...

Firefox -- it's a web browser. It works fine with XP (yeah -- it crashes occasionally -- stupid restore session and auto update). And Vista isn't too much different, behind the scenes, right, from XP? My point was, and still is, simple cross platform things like a web browser that the...

First off, I preface this comment with the statement that I have not touched Vista more than 5 minutes thumbing through it on demo machines at Frys. I also went from being a 100&#37; PC guy (home and work) to an OS X guy (100% work, 50/50 at home) when I started my new job about 2 years ago...

So, from this product list, you're referring to the model # ending in B19-EB1? http://www.scythe-usa.com/support/support_temp/002/fan_spec.html 'cause the other guy in the thread just noted that the 2nd model # ending in B19-E51 wasn't very quiet. IronChefMorimoto