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by Genghis
Tue May 15, 2007 5:44 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: well, I have (another) confession to make ...
Replies: 13
Views: 1084

It's OK, there's a completely legal way to turn your DRM'ed .m4p files to unrestricted .mp3 files. Itunes itself will let you burn the .m4p's to CD, and then you can re-rip them to .mp3. Admittedly, this is a hassle if you buy a ton of music through Itunes, but I've only bought a handful so it's no ...
by Genghis
Sun May 13, 2007 2:47 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Lost
Replies: 27
Views: 2149

Re:

I like the Sawyer character on Lost. By far my favorite. A lot of people tend to dislike him when they first see him (probably not so much anymore) because he acts like a jerk all the time. But he has his reasons for it. And he is pretty entertaining in the way that he acts like a jerk. :) You just...
by Genghis
Sat May 12, 2007 11:51 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Lost
Replies: 27
Views: 2149

Lost started out great, but after season 1 it became apparent the writers had lost their way. They're making it up as they go along. They're leaving loose threads that even if they were wrapped up they wouldn't be believable. They're introducing more and more random crap without providing many answe...
by Genghis
Thu May 10, 2007 8:32 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

OK, everything seems to be running OK now. It was indeed the old 930D CPU, and the new Core 2 Duo works fine. I don't think I did anything wrong diagnostically; you've got to assume a bad mobo before a bad cpu. I had a brief hiccup when the HDD would boot XP but I couldn't get any optical drive to b...
by Genghis
Mon May 07, 2007 4:33 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Re:

did you remember fresh thermal paste? I cleaned off the old paste with alcohol and applied some more from the tube I bought 1.5 years ago. Is it possible for thermal paste to "go bad" in the tube? My temps seemed fine in my BIOS. Dumb question, but how large are the power supplied you use...
by Genghis
Mon May 07, 2007 7:01 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Re:

Try one stick, swap sticks. Tried that (see above) There's a slight chance that the optical drive is bad and the HDD is corrupted (kinda unlikely IMHO tho). The HDD can boot my other machine just fine (or could for 3 days...until Genuine Advantage said to screw off). Did you even try a different CD...
by Genghis
Sun May 06, 2007 5:16 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Re:

fliptw wrote:take the board back, its a dud.
So you're saying both motherboards are bad? That seems unlikely, but not impossible.
by Genghis
Sun May 06, 2007 3:37 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Crap! I've tried a different PSU and a different video card. Still crashes during boot. I also tried just one of my memory modules at a time, i.e. 1x1GB stick in slot 1. I tried each of my two sticks in this position, and both times I crash on boot. SuSe says \"kernel panic - not synching: unco...
by Genghis
Sat May 05, 2007 6:26 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

All I've got is:
- motherboard
- cpu (with cooler)
- memory
- video card
- PSU
- keyboard, video, mouse
- one storage device (IDE DVD or SATA HD)
I'll try another power supply per your suggestion, thanks.
by Genghis
Fri May 04, 2007 10:31 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Roger that; I'll try a new video card. It'll take me a couple of days to get my hands on another PCI-E one, though. I'll see if I can get borrow some RAM, too.
by Genghis
Fri May 04, 2007 9:44 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Well that didn't go so well. Maybe it wasn't the motherboard after all. Neither the new board nor the old one will successfully boot an OS. I've tried a Knoppix Live DVD using an optical drive on IDE, and Windows XP using a hard drive on SATA. Memory has passed memtest on both boards. I don't see ho...
by Genghis
Fri May 04, 2007 7:01 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Re:

Perhaps we should sticky this so we don' thave to anwser this next time somebody asks for mobo advice? That wouldn't be helpful, unless you mean just keep one long-running thread instead of lots of short ones as needed. If there was only one motherboard that worked for everyone then OK. But there's...
by Genghis
Thu May 03, 2007 10:19 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Too bad I was in such a hurry or I could've benefited from some of this advice! Thanks, though.
by Genghis
Thu May 03, 2007 7:09 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: HERE SHE IS!
Replies: 51
Views: 4243

They also used some metal from the WTC to build the mars rovers. And there's Mobi's sculpture. Makes me wonder how many other places WTC wreckage has been \"reincarnated.\"
by Genghis
Thu May 03, 2007 6:41 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

Turns out Grendel is right; there's just no avoiding ASUS if you want all the good features. I forgot to mention that I use eSATA as well. I ended up ordering an ASUS P5B-Plus. Even so I had to sacrifice my pair of old IDE drives. Maybe I'll make them into external drives. We'll see how long this AS...
by Genghis
Tue May 01, 2007 5:06 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: New Motherboard Advice
Replies: 33
Views: 1842

New Motherboard Advice

My current system seems fried and I'm pretty sure it's the motherboard. I usually enjoy doing the research on this stuff, but I'm way too busy right now and I need my computer back pronto. I'm hoping you guys can give me some advice. Here's what I have: Pentium D 930 Asus 975X motherboard 2x1GB DDR2...
by Genghis
Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:06 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Should I drop out of law school
Replies: 10
Views: 922

Don't give up! First year is the hardest, and you're almost past the hump. Despair always looms around finals time, but you can do it.
by Genghis
Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:32 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Super VF-1S and Jetfire alike?
Replies: 6
Views: 685

Should we just get it over with and spin off an anime/manga/mecha forum?
by Genghis
Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:12 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84
Replies: 5
Views: 920

Re:

TIGERassault wrote:hmm...

Never heard of him. Sorry.
Failure of the education system?
by Genghis
Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:19 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Ohio State is..............
Replies: 5
Views: 659

Darn I lost money. That's what happens when schools from 2 swing states play each other. Swing states tend to disappoint me.

I hope those stupid cancer families liked taking my money.
by Genghis
Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:47 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Tower Defense flash game
Replies: 9
Views: 1021

I've seen a ton of versions where the maze is already provided for you and very few where you have to build your own maze. I think it's much more interesting with the added element of maze construction.

And yes, in both cases, it's a very cool game.
by Genghis
Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:21 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Evolution of Mosquito
Replies: 10
Views: 802

If I'm not mistaken, this is a case of Intelligent Design and not Evolution.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
by Genghis
Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:56 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: A convenient lie
Replies: 91
Views: 6383

After seeing the Al Gore movie, I remember thinking \"wow, he really overdid it.\" Unfortunately, it's a double-edged sword, or a Catch-22, or something. Globabl warming is happening, and it's extremely likely that it's due to human activity. However, the public en masse doesn't do so well...
by Genghis
Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:28 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: BattleStar Galactica (WARNING:SPOILER)
Replies: 13
Views: 1420

On another forum someone said that you could see her cockpit intact when her viper exploded, indicating she didn't eject. My first assumption was that she's a cylon and will be resurrected. In any case, I'm sure she'll be back. This is science fiction. Probably they'll write their way out of it usin...
by Genghis
Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:15 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Hosting a Website
Replies: 9
Views: 1048

Re:

Did you buy the domain? I'm trying to host a DNS server. It shouldn't be necessary to buy a domain. What did you think step 2 of your linked tutorial meant? 2. Get a DNS hostname for your home Internet connection. How did you "get" negatratoron.com ? Your DNS server needs to be pointed to...
by Genghis
Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:21 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Movie Quotes
Replies: 249
Views: 12140

Re:

whuppinboy wrote:--the greatest trick the devil ever played was making everyone think he didn't exist--
"The Usual Suspects"...or as Arnold Schwarzenegger once called it, "The Unusual Suspect."

Here's an easy one:

"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow"
by Genghis
Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:11 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Congratulations - you are 9th on the list
Replies: 41
Views: 3376

Other applications of the RHR:

http://xkcd.com/c199.html
by Genghis
Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Just got fired at bennigans.
Replies: 45
Views: 2601

That's OK, you wouldn't have worn enough pieces of flash at Bennigans to express yourself anyway.
by Genghis
Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:13 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Out with the old
Replies: 15
Views: 1320

Re:

If you're not doing anything wrong (and use a little wisdom on the net)... you have absolutely nothing to be worried about. I really don't want to make you defensive, but I think it's important to expose this all-too-common false argument whenever I encounter it. I think I do this because it's both...
by Genghis
Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:47 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Out with the old
Replies: 15
Views: 1320

I've seen this news item in a few places, so it's not being entirely ignored. It's well known, however, that programs like Carnivore don't go away, they just get dropped from the public view and shortly thereafter quietly revived under new names. I do wish folks were more upset about this, but I sus...
by Genghis
Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:45 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: i want to touch an iphone
Replies: 16
Views: 998

I agree; this is nothing new, we already have all this functionality out there. If this things succeeds, it will once again be due to the mysterious pull of Apple's branding and marketing. With a little help from the clueless popular press. Aside from the comments so far, I would add these two obser...
by Genghis
Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:55 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What would you prefer to lose?
Replies: 17
Views: 1619

If you add \"a leg\" we could make it into a pirate poll. People could decide whether their favorite accessory is a hook, a pegleg, or an eyepatch.
by Genghis
Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:44 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Mr. Deity
Replies: 9
Views: 1125

Mr. Deity

I'd have posted this in the Cafe because it's for fun, but there's a good chance it'll end up in here eventually:

http://mrdeity.com/

I like them all except episode 3: \"Mr. Deity and the Light,\" which I found unclever and boring.
by Genghis
Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:43 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Reboot fixes ethernet
Replies: 6
Views: 683

Well Linux sees the nic that Windows doesn't; I'm currently posting through it via Knoppix. So I guess I've got a borked Windows install.

One thing to try tomorrow morning will be booting cold into Knoppix to see if that requires a double boot as well.
by Genghis
Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:24 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Reboot fixes ethernet
Replies: 6
Views: 683

I've been doing the double boot thing for a couple of months, not wanting to deal with fixing it. It happened as part of a \"blowup,\" when my machine blue screened and I had to reset the BIOS to defaults to even get it to boot. It wasn't due to any new hardware or software, just one of th...
by Genghis
Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:25 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Reboot fixes ethernet
Replies: 6
Views: 683

Reboot fixes ethernet

Every time I cold start my computer after a number of hours, Windows comes up without the ethernet detected. So I reboot the machine and this time ethernet is there and working. My only guess is a physical problem with the ethernet hardware on the motherboard that requires it to be warmed up. Any ot...
by Genghis
Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:16 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Vote for Descent 4!!!
Replies: 42
Views: 2953

I voted twice and was about to use some of my other accounts to vote more, then I realized I had come up with a useful application for a botnet: the ability to control thousands of votes!
by Genghis
Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:11 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Linux and Wifi networking ...
Replies: 3
Views: 510

Nice work. After a few more frustrating experiences like this, you'll turn around and realize you've actually become a Linux guy!
by Genghis
Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:36 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: buffalo wings cooking - help plz
Replies: 19
Views: 1218

The median quality of an area's wings degrades linearly with distance from Buffalo, NY!
by Genghis
Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:45 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: When Orlies Attack
Replies: 0
Views: 437

When Orlies Attack

I was checking out the new comic by the guy who does Order of the Stick (which is great), and LOL'ed at something rather unexpected. You can start on the first comic or skip to comic 8 where a flight of orlies is ordered by the commander. They do OK against ground forces in the next episode, but not...