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  1. Imagine how many games you could get on... by Sevn · · Score: 1 · on GBA Movie Player Plays NES Games From CF Card

    This sucker. Probably all of them. Great price also. Just picked one up for an Ipaq running Opie.

  2. $53 Shipped @ bananapc.com by Peeet · · Score: 1 · on Upgrade Doubles +R Speed For Some Lite-On Drives

    https://www.bananapc.com/products/productInfo.aspx ?category_id=1120&product_id=11180

  3. ATI = Absence of Test Instruments? by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2, Interesting · on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External


    I've got a good answer to ATI driver problems. Buy a card with a Radeon 7000 chipset. $34.70, DVI out, TV out, and they don't seem to have any driver problems. The card is so bottom end that ATI tech support seems to hate to admit they even exist. Plenty good if you don't run games.

    Reading these posts about ATI driver problems is an experience for me like listening to people complain about mosquitos or athlete's foot or getting a cold. People have been doing that for centuries, and in equivalent computer years, it probably has been that long the world has been experiencing ATI driver flakiness.

    Suppose ATI is not really a video chipset maker. Suppose the company's real purpose is to make faulty drivers? Maybe the company is run by some rich guy who doesn't need to make any more money, and likes to annoy people.

    Maybe ATI stands for Absence of Test Instruments.

    Do you ever wonder about the sociology of ATI driver quirks? Matrox released drivers every few months, and rarely had problems. nVidia has been the same, in my experience. What conditions exist that ATI sometimes, in the past, released new drivers every few days? After releasing faulty drivers every few days for weeks, wasn't there anyone at ATI idealistic enough to decide that they needed to do better?

    Anyhow, I agree with a comment above that they seem to have gotten better.

    ATI and drivers have been one of the mysteries of the universe. Sure, it's not on the level of a short guy with black hair telling tall blond Germans that they are the master race, but it is a mystery nevertheless.

    You can probably tell from the tone of this comment that I too am an ATI rakee, as in being raked over the coals several times by ATI drivers.

  4. Re:MS seems to be doing a lot of this lately... by LetterJ · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft
    While still not free, XP Home can be had for $85 in a full version, not just an upgrade. And that cost only exists if you didn't already buy a computer with 2000 or XP on it. Obviously, you either bought a computer with Win98 on it or bought 98 by itself a few years ago.

    Your complaint sounds like someone griping that some piece of free software (could even be Linux-based) isn't really free because it requires a 600Mhz processor and 128MB of RAM and your old 133/16MB will require a CPU and RAM upgrade to run it.

  5. Re:What is the point? by LetterJ · · Score: 1 · on Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs

    While you have a point in the abstract, if you think that there's actually a full $189 worth of Windows in those PC's, you're nuts. The last copy of XP Home I bought was $85 and NOT an upgrade.

  6. Re:Good for them by t0ny · · Score: 1 · on Novell's Certified Linux Engineer
    The official release from MS (not the specials for corporate customers or MSDN subscribers) is bare.

    And I care about the home user why?

    Note that the Spb release I saw was from the local pirates. I know this because who else would bundle Office-XP on the same disk?

    Um, ya, its really hard to copy the OEM cd and put the office install directory in there. Also, just as an example of what of a know-nothing you are, I found this for you. So you can quit spreading your whiny stuipd "M$ doesnt bundle the SP, the hackers do" FUD.