Oddly enough, caffeine's effects on people vary greatly and has a pretty high correlation with how introverted or extroverted a person is... Extroverts respond to coffee, introverts to alcohol, generally. It's not perfect, but a very statistically significant correlation.
The ALC650 may not the be the greatest of sound cards, but it does serve its purpose quite adequately. I've used mine as an mp3 mixer (the 5.1 audio and dj software allows you match beats rather easily) for dance parties without significant problems. You should know, however, that getting the sound to work in Linux requires a great deal of fiddling; i.e. using different AC 97 ALSA drivers made for other cards, and once you finally get it working, you find that your browser sometimes hangs when it tries to play certain flash media while you're running XMMS, thus I've had to turn off flash in my browser. If anyone knows a workaround for this, please post a reply.
There are also some other properties of shuttle systems worth noting.
The network card is NOT IEEE compliant... i.e., they never registered their MAC address and so, the LAN I am on refuses to recognize it, so I had to use my only pci slot for a networking card.
Other than that, I love my little machine. I bought it because I do a bit of research in graphical programming and a good deal of modeling in Maya, and it handles batch renders quite quickly with a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4. Since I am a student, I often need to take my work home over breaks and I didn't want to comprimise power by getting a laptop. It's one of the most portable desktop computer I've seen and has met my needs quite reasonably.
Overall, with the exception of a few sound issues in Linux and the network card, I have few complaints. XP runs quite well, as does Slack 8.0, and there's nothing better than building a machine that is twice as fast and one quarter the size of your roommates' massive towers.
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I've got VS 7.1 standard... the non optimizing compiler. If I get this toolkit, can I essentially "upgrade" my compiler?
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Oddly enough, caffeine's effects on people vary greatly and has a pretty high correlation with how introverted or extroverted a person is... Extroverts respond to coffee, introverts to alcohol, generally. It's not perfect, but a very statistically significant correlation.
I'm posting this on my sg51 as we speak.
The ALC650 may not the be the greatest of sound cards, but it does serve its purpose quite adequately. I've used mine as an mp3 mixer (the 5.1 audio and dj software allows you match beats rather easily) for dance parties without significant problems. You should know, however, that getting the sound to work in Linux requires a great deal of fiddling; i.e. using different AC 97 ALSA drivers made for other cards, and once you finally get it working, you find that your browser sometimes hangs when it tries to play certain flash media while you're running XMMS, thus I've had to turn off flash in my browser. If anyone knows a workaround for this, please post a reply.
There are also some other properties of shuttle systems worth noting.
The network card is NOT IEEE compliant... i.e., they never registered their MAC address and so, the LAN I am on refuses to recognize it, so I had to use my only pci slot for a networking card.
Other than that, I love my little machine. I bought it because I do a bit of research in graphical programming and a good deal of modeling in Maya, and it handles batch renders quite quickly with a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4. Since I am a student, I often need to take my work home over breaks and I didn't want to comprimise power by getting a laptop. It's one of the most portable desktop computer I've seen and has met my needs quite reasonably.
Overall, with the exception of a few sound issues in Linux and the network card, I have few complaints. XP runs quite well, as does Slack 8.0, and there's nothing better than building a machine that is twice as fast and one quarter the size of your roommates' massive towers.