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  1. My experience with Win7 has actually been really bad - programs crash all the time, machines hang, data loss. I'm going to stick to the Microsoft rule of thumb - no using a new OS before SP1.

  2. Using speakers, I'd probably agree with you. But I mostly use good quality headphones, and with on-board sound I usually get annoying background static.

    If no one has any insight, I'm going to buy the X-Fi Extreme Audio. The question is, how good is Linux support?

    EDIT: I now see in Wikipedia that the X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E is basically the same card I have now, just more expensive and with surround and compatibility problems. Back to the drawing board.

  3. I need some recommendations for a new sound card. Not a high-end deal, just something better than the on-board Realtek crap. Good Linux support is a must. I also kinda like Creative's EAX and hardware acceleration, but will consider alternatives.

    Right now I have the Creative Audigy Value. Sound quality is just fine in Windows, but it's a really low-end card and it doesn't have an official Linux driver. The open source driver is not so good: volume levels sometime reset (blasting my ears when restarting), constant crackling noises, etc.

    Any suggestions? What are you using?

  4. Remember how "Trust your technolust" appears in the movie Hackers? Well, the movie's release date is September 15th 1995, so this episode predates the movie!

  5. As my signature says, this was my first computer: A Timex-Sinclair 1000. Good for learning BASIC and not much else.

    Zx81-timex.jpg

    My first PC in the sense we use the word today, was some unknown PC-XT clone running at 10MHz and sporting a jaw-dropping 512KB of RAM. Twice the typical amount in those days.

  6. A Python or Perl script would work on any OS, provided that you install the interpreter. Basic C/C++ should compile without change, but of course the binary produced is platform-specific. Compiled Java programs are supposed to work on all platforms.

    In this case I think a script will be the easiest and fastest to do. I suggest adding a random 4-digit number at the beginning of each filename. Makes it easy to de-randomize.

  7. Looks like a classic use for one of the light Linux distros out there. I bet it would be better than Win95, and more secure. And it can read PDFs too...

    Anyone wants to suggest a good distro for 128MB RAM?

  8. Congratulations to Matt for his new role as Chief Technolust Officer!

    Nice show people, the IP telephony segment was interesting, as well as the USB plug which has lots of potential. Reminded me of the good old days of controlling stuff from the serial port.

  9. If you're sure that all your drivers are updated and there are no problematic devices showing in the device manager, it's time to run memtest. STOP 0x8E is popular with faulty RAM (happened to me several times).

    Also, if you can, post the error message and register values that appear in the error log.

  10. Just wanted to comment that at GoDaddy, your SQL server(s) are always on different hosts (localhost will not work). You can see each DB's hostname after you create the DB, in the database control panel. Hope this helps someone.

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