The dialup ISP I used to used let me maintain my connection indefinitely. I managed 1037 hours for a single connection, once (that's like 6 weeks and one day). They let me multilink free of charge, too. For $13 a month.
My mental image was of some admin on their end looking at my pair of 14.4 connections saying "let the poor bastard stay connected, he deserves it."
My understanding is that black inmates in penitentiary began adding the "iz" and "izzle" to their speech in an effort to make it more difficult for guard-types to understand what they were talking about.
At least, that's what one of my students told me when I asked him the same question (having heard him do the same thing).
The whole set-up cost a hair over $20,000, which is doesn't strike me as unreasonable. That's what a mid-size car costs, or a high-end motorcycle, or a bass fishing boat. I don't have or want those things, but I do want to have an awesome experience when I'm watching movies or listening to music.
Besides, one of my brothers is a nutball audiophile. I think his last pair of speakers cost twice what my whole AV setup did.
My HTPC is an Athlon 2800, 1GB of RAM, an all-in-wonder 9600 Pro and a 3ware Escalade 7506-12 with 12 200GB Maxtor drives (two RAID10s of 600GB each) and 2 160GB Samsungs. It's in a 4U rackmount case with a 550 Watt PC Power and Cooling PSU. I use an Asus A7N8X Deluxe for a motherboard, with its support for Dolby Digital 5.1 on digital outputs. The PC is connected to an Integra DTR-8.2 receiver (that's its name, not how many speakers it supports) which itself can be controlled with its own radio frequency remote, and whose video switching and AV zone support I make full use of.
The whole thing is sitting in 19" rack in a closet, so I don't have to listen to it be all noisy.
It runs 2000 Server, mostly because, at the start of its life, I was working with 2000's soft-RAID features, and "Pro" versions of Windows don't do redundant RAID.
I use Snapstream PVS for TV-watching and recording, primarily because it integrates nicely with my ATI RF remote, and because it supports tuning my DirectTV receiver via a serial connection.
The PROBLEM with Snapstream is that it's not the paragon of stability that it should be. Every few days it flies off the deep end and takes my poor HTPC with it. I have a 35-hour DirectTivo for a back up and second video source, just in case.:)
I also have three 400-disc DVD carousels of varying ages that I use to house my collection of movies. The DVPCX985V is the newest of those, and the one I appreciate the most, since it support SACDs. The 3 jukeboxes are connected to each other and operate as a single logical unit.
Regular daily viewing is done on a 32" 16x9 Princeton display. It can handle HDTV signals but I haven't coughed up the cash for DirectTV HDTV reception or a video capture solution that works with HDTV. I also have an ancient, 800lumen, 800x600 Sony projector that I plan to replace when its bulb dies, probably with an NEC HT1000 (3000:1 contrast ratio).
How about not throwing an xmas party at all? Not everyone believes in xmas. I think most people would rather have a day off than spend time with co-workers anyway.
The place I work right now, if I don't show up for the xmas party, where people sing religious carols, drink (I don't do that either) and basically make asses of themselves, I have to wait two extra weeks, because anyone who could give it to me will be on vacation.
I don't know how much they weigh - easily 100lbs. - but one of my customers had an old 3812 line printer that he wanted to get rid of, on the grounds that no one printed from his AS/400 any more.
Fair enough.
I was working alone that day, and the dollies were all locked up, so I ended up carrying it out to the loading dock. It was unbelievably bulky and awkward, and by the time I got to the edge of the dock closest to the dumpster, my hards were all sweaty. It slipped right out of my hands, straight down between the dumpster and the dock, probably 8 feet all told, and onto concrete. It went "CLANG", and I could tell it was the printer that was ringing, not the dumpster.
The dumpster was almost as tall as I am. I knew I wasn't going to be able to safely lift it up over my head by myself.
So I put it in my car, figuring I could just set it out with my trash.
When I got home I noticed the thing had a 5.25" floppy drive in it, and the worst thing I could say about it was that it looked scuffed from its close encounter with the ground. It didn't have a parallel port, but it did have a DB9, token ring and twinax interfaces.
I hauled it out of my car and under my garage workbench, plugged it in and ran a modem cable to it from my workbench PC. Added some paper...
OK. It didn't print.
But it WANTED to. There just wasn't any toner in it. I snagged a toner and a fuser kit for it from my client the next time I visited, fed it to my printer and...
It's a line printer. It doesn't do fonts or any other stupid crap. But it prints text at an amazing 12 pages per minute, probably faster if I had it hooked up through token ring. Perfect for big jobs, like printing out man pages and email and stuff.
My other IBM example? I stepped on a T20 a couple years back. The keyboard, not the display, fortunately. Some keys came off. I put them back on, everything was fine.
Ye gads did IBM overbuild their hardware.
Not really "durable" in a classic sense, but one of my clients also has a Netware 3 machine with just over 3000 days of uptime, an ancient Zeos machine with 4 2GB SCSI disks and UPS that's probably been dead five years, that a half-dozen Windows 3.1 machines still connect to and use every day.
I see a strong correllation, yes. Of course, I'm from the state that elected Dan Quayle and Dan Burton to congressional seats, which might have an impact on my opinion. While I'm at it, where's the right-wing equivalent of a Paul Simon or Daniel Patrick Moynihan? I don't see a lot of intellectuals on that side of the aisle, and frankly, what I do see isn't exactly possessed of a scintillating wit.
I really do believe that the interests of the American people don't even make "W's" top-ten list when he assembles his list of presidential priorities. I believe that he's been criminally bad for our country and for its interests, and that the sitting, invisible vice-president has committed prosecutable felonies related to his notes from meetings on US energy policy. I note with some derision that "W" ALWAYS speaks from prepared statements and almost never takes reporter's questions (i.e. his handlers don't think he can hold his own with the press), and that the media has played soft-ball with this administration almost from the get-go. Scroll up or down inside this thread, click on some of those links others have helpfully collected (like the Atlantic Monthly article), and I think it will be very easy to see how I arrived at these opinions.
And yes, your original comment simply begged for an old-school flame. I'm glad you're one of the lucky elephants who can form multi-syllabic words into coherent sentences, but if you raise your head up out of the sand in November of next year, I think you'll be the one looking for the special fairyland where there are WMDs in Iraq and US energy policy isn't the verbatim will of Exxon-Mobil, while the rest of the world celebrates its freedom from the petulent behavior of the present administation.
Most people I've met don't revel quite so much in their own stupidity. I'd certainly say that's odd.
If you develop what doctors call "cancer" in the near future don't worry too much, it's probably just the last remaining goodness in your body trying to escape. You won't miss it much. Just, you know, stay away from sunlight and garlic.
Also, the grandparent poster was refering to "geeks" in the sense of someone who is comfortable with technology, not sideshow attractions - an important Republican voting bloc as I understand things - such as yourself.
Which must explain how the blaster worm manages it.
OK, seriously, I don't have a clue how my (grandparent-to-this-one) comment got modded to +5. I don't think it should be. It's offtopic for the discussion and at best only mildly interesting to someone who regularly has to fix PCs with parasite software problems.
There is no porn-ware I have not conquered. One of my clients in a hard-core freak (it's his business, only guys work there, and his PC is largely private anyway. The man has Voyeurweb for his home page, for crissakes) who keeps falling for variations on "Porn Dialer" installers.
The really vile stuff tends to hang a piece of itself in win.ini, where it'll get re-collected into the registry on every reboot. You smack it out with the registry editor or msconfig and it comes back because a little installer that's loaded up because of unpreventable 16-bit Windows compatibility crap.
I've also seen pornware smart enough to modify system DLLs AND the copy in dllcache. sfc.exe fixes that sort of thing, and packages that pull a new.net and redirect DNS requests. Evil stuff.
I don't know where those programs come from but the guys who make those programs are just showing where mainstream spyware will be going next.
Almost none. I found a site, once, that was stealing its navigation buttons from another site, and on some forums that I visit, I don't see some inline images. It's absolutely worth it to not see ads. That's all there is to it.
I used "Block Images..." on Moz builds for two years+ while I was on a ~14.4ish internet connection. I moved, got DSL, thought I'd finally get to see *everything*, realized that "Holy Shit there are a lot of banner ads" and turned it back on again.
Moz/Firebird image permissions mean never having to look at ads. Somehow, the internet is just better that way.
I've found Opera [3,4,5,6] to be intolerably crashy. That and the fact that some silly person expects me to pay for a browser are all I need to write it off completely.
Why do that when you can show them Firebird instead?
Firebird (and thunderbird) both run natively from their home directories as well. Unzip and run the.EXE. Or just run the.exe. Whatever.
Firebird + Linky + Magpie + "only show images from originating server" for fewer banner ads + no stupid flash plugin. A damned near perfect browsing experience.
One of the things that made the intellivision so fantastic was the numeric keypads on the controllers. Combined with the plastic overlays which described what the buttons did in each game, it made for some very satisfying control options.
For example, in "Swords and Serpents", the player using the wizard character could cast 10 different spells from a single button press.
How the heck would that translate to the standard controller on a modern console?
Atari's console was first and Coleco's might've been faster, but IMO the best game experiences were found on Intellivision. A bit like the situation Nintendo is in today. If you've never seen Intellivision games, there are a lot of good ones that really are worth checking out, like "Utopia" and "Discs of Tron".
Sadly, that's true. This country is far less literate than it once was. Comparing old periodicals (for example, Time magazine) to new ones, I notice a vast decrease in the standard vocabulary when I move from old to new.
Still, given the choice between the crap I can find on my local newsstand, I'll take a Playboy, pictures or no.
Have you ever actually READ the parts of a Playboy that aren't all sticky?
Now, if you had said FHM or Maxim or Gear or Stuff or Penthouse, you would've had a valid point. But not Playboy.
Playboy has content that's on much the same level as Vanity Fair, just with a few more nipples. Vanity Fair is of course a fuckload higher on the intellectual food chain than "Entertainment Weekly" or "People" or "Cosmo".
At this point I don't think I need to go further. But in the interests of science, let us see how much worse it could be:
Freddy Prinze Jr. as Tanis Julia Roberts as Kittiara Jeff Goldblum as Tasslehoff - not because he's freakishly tall, but because he plays the same dweeb in every fucking movie he's ever been in. And all the Apple commercials, too, and that dweeb is thr anti-fucking-kender. Ashton "can't act" Kucher as Riverwind Jenna "she fits in the costume" Jameson as Goldmoon And while I'm at it, Ron Jeremy as Flint. Any two of the guys from "American Pie" as Raistlin and Caramon
Look for the 64MB ones. Allstarmicro.com had 'em a couple weeks ago for $56. The 64MB one has DVI and analog video, the 128MB version is analog only.
They work beautifully. The biggest difference between a VIVO and an AIW is the tuner. If you have sattelite or digital cable or something, you aren't using the tuner anyway, you're using Svideo or composite, which the VIVO supports perfectly. The other difference is that the AIW cards have audio inputs. The fix for this is a $3.29 stereo-RCA-to-mini-headphone adaptor from Radio Shack. You were planning to use your sound card's line-in for something else?
The 9200 uses the old Rage Theater chip found in the AIW 7500 and 8500DV (and for that matter, the ATI Rage Pro VIVO and AIW), not the Theater 200 found in the 9600, 9700, or 9800. Newer versions of MMC have a little bit of extra functionality with the updated chip - basically engaging the vidcap chip for some readtime processing on your input, for cleaning up noise and so forth. I prefer to do that sort of thing after the fact, when I have more control and the source video on-hand for comparison.
If you aren't interested in 3D, and you don't need the tuner - and to be honest, the tuner in your VCR is better anyway - the 9200 VIVO is a bargain.
One argument in favor of the 9600AIW is the fact that it doesn't draw NEARLY as much power as its bigger brothers. I have 9600, 9700 and 9800 (all Pro models) AIW cards.
The 9600 doesn't get nearly as hot, doesn't need a power connection from the PSU, and has a less noisy fan. Heck, mine is passively cooled, even.
If you're only interested in capture features, the 9600 has the same Rage Theater 200 chip as the other high-dollar ATI cards, without all the gamer stuff that goes with it.
ATI capture cards obey Macrovision, yes. This is trivial to circumvent, however. From time to time someone releases a circumvention patch that works in software, even.
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The dialup ISP I used to used let me maintain my connection indefinitely. I managed 1037 hours for a single connection, once (that's like 6 weeks and one day). They let me multilink free of charge, too. For $13 a month.
My mental image was of some admin on their end looking at my pair of 14.4 connections saying "let the poor bastard stay connected, he deserves it."
I dunno. I'm a snob and I'm into SACDs.
My understanding is that black inmates in penitentiary began adding the "iz" and "izzle" to their speech in an effort to make it more difficult for guard-types to understand what they were talking about.
At least, that's what one of my students told me when I asked him the same question (having heard him do the same thing).
Good thing I didn't mention the speakers then.
The whole set-up cost a hair over $20,000, which is doesn't strike me as unreasonable. That's what a mid-size car costs, or a high-end motorcycle, or a bass fishing boat. I don't have or want those things, but I do want to have an awesome experience when I'm watching movies or listening to music.
Besides, one of my brothers is a nutball audiophile. I think his last pair of speakers cost twice what my whole AV setup did.
I use Snapstream PVS for my media center needs.
:)
My HTPC is an Athlon 2800, 1GB of RAM, an all-in-wonder 9600 Pro and a 3ware Escalade 7506-12 with 12 200GB Maxtor drives (two RAID10s of 600GB each) and 2 160GB Samsungs. It's in a 4U rackmount case with a 550 Watt PC Power and Cooling PSU. I use an Asus A7N8X Deluxe for a motherboard, with its support for Dolby Digital 5.1 on digital outputs. The PC is connected to an Integra DTR-8.2 receiver (that's its name, not how many speakers it supports) which itself can be controlled with its own radio frequency remote, and whose video switching and AV zone support I make full use of.
The whole thing is sitting in 19" rack in a closet, so I don't have to listen to it be all noisy.
It runs 2000 Server, mostly because, at the start of its life, I was working with 2000's soft-RAID features, and "Pro" versions of Windows don't do redundant RAID.
I use Snapstream PVS for TV-watching and recording, primarily because it integrates nicely with my ATI RF remote, and because it supports tuning my DirectTV receiver via a serial connection.
The PROBLEM with Snapstream is that it's not the paragon of stability that it should be. Every few days it flies off the deep end and takes my poor HTPC with it. I have a 35-hour DirectTivo for a back up and second video source, just in case.
I also have three 400-disc DVD carousels of varying ages that I use to house my collection of movies. The DVPCX985V is the newest of those, and the one I appreciate the most, since it support SACDs. The 3 jukeboxes are connected to each other and operate as a single logical unit.
Regular daily viewing is done on a 32" 16x9 Princeton display. It can handle HDTV signals but I haven't coughed up the cash for DirectTV HDTV reception or a video capture solution that works with HDTV. I also have an ancient, 800lumen, 800x600 Sony projector that I plan to replace when its bulb dies, probably with an NEC HT1000 (3000:1 contrast ratio).
If you had to attend a mandatory Tet or Vaisakhi celebration every to get your paycheck for December, do you think you might have a different opinion?
I bought both in a retail package at K-mart about 6 months ago. I think it was $8.
How about not throwing an xmas party at all? Not everyone believes in xmas. I think most people would rather have a day off than spend time with co-workers anyway.
The place I work right now, if I don't show up for the xmas party, where people sing religious carols, drink (I don't do that either) and basically make asses of themselves, I have to wait two extra weeks, because anyone who could give it to me will be on vacation.
I don't know how much they weigh - easily 100lbs. - but one of my customers had an old 3812 line printer that he wanted to get rid of, on the grounds that no one printed from his AS/400 any more.
Fair enough.
I was working alone that day, and the dollies were all locked up, so I ended up carrying it out to the loading dock. It was unbelievably bulky and awkward, and by the time I got to the edge of the dock closest to the dumpster, my hards were all sweaty. It slipped right out of my hands, straight down between the dumpster and the dock, probably 8 feet all told, and onto concrete. It went "CLANG", and I could tell it was the printer that was ringing, not the dumpster.
The dumpster was almost as tall as I am. I knew I wasn't going to be able to safely lift it up over my head by myself.
So I put it in my car, figuring I could just set it out with my trash.
When I got home I noticed the thing had a 5.25" floppy drive in it, and the worst thing I could say about it was that it looked scuffed from its close encounter with the ground. It didn't have a parallel port, but it did have a DB9, token ring and twinax interfaces.
I hauled it out of my car and under my garage workbench, plugged it in and ran a modem cable to it from my workbench PC. Added some paper...
OK. It didn't print.
But it WANTED to. There just wasn't any toner in it. I snagged a toner and a fuser kit for it from my client the next time I visited, fed it to my printer and...
It's a line printer. It doesn't do fonts or any other stupid crap. But it prints text at an amazing 12 pages per minute, probably faster if I had it hooked up through token ring. Perfect for big jobs, like printing out man pages and email and stuff.
My other IBM example? I stepped on a T20 a couple years back. The keyboard, not the display, fortunately. Some keys came off. I put them back on, everything was fine.
Ye gads did IBM overbuild their hardware.
Not really "durable" in a classic sense, but one of my clients also has a Netware 3 machine with just over 3000 days of uptime, an ancient Zeos machine with 4 2GB SCSI disks and UPS that's probably been dead five years, that a half-dozen Windows 3.1 machines still connect to and use every day.
I see a strong correllation, yes. Of course, I'm from the state that elected Dan Quayle and Dan Burton to congressional seats, which might have an impact on my opinion. While I'm at it, where's the right-wing equivalent of a Paul Simon or Daniel Patrick Moynihan? I don't see a lot of intellectuals on that side of the aisle, and frankly, what I do see isn't exactly possessed of a scintillating wit.
I really do believe that the interests of the American people don't even make "W's" top-ten list when he assembles his list of presidential priorities. I believe that he's been criminally bad for our country and for its interests, and that the sitting, invisible vice-president has committed prosecutable felonies related to his notes from meetings on US energy policy. I note with some derision that "W" ALWAYS speaks from prepared statements and almost never takes reporter's questions (i.e. his handlers don't think he can hold his own with the press), and that the media has played soft-ball with this administration almost from the get-go.
Scroll up or down inside this thread, click on some of those links others have helpfully collected (like the Atlantic Monthly article), and I think it will be very easy to see how I arrived at these opinions.
And yes, your original comment simply begged for an old-school flame. I'm glad you're one of the lucky elephants who can form multi-syllabic words into coherent sentences, but if you raise your head up out of the sand in November of next year, I think you'll be the one looking for the special fairyland where there are WMDs in Iraq and US energy policy isn't the verbatim will of Exxon-Mobil, while the rest of the world celebrates its freedom from the petulent behavior of the present administation.
Most people I've met don't revel quite so much in their own stupidity. I'd certainly say that's odd.
If you develop what doctors call "cancer" in the near future don't worry too much, it's probably just the last remaining goodness in your body trying to escape. You won't miss it much. Just, you know, stay away from sunlight and garlic.
Also, the grandparent poster was refering to "geeks" in the sense of someone who is comfortable with technology, not sideshow attractions - an important Republican voting bloc as I understand things - such as yourself.
Which must explain how the blaster worm manages it.
OK, seriously, I don't have a clue how my (grandparent-to-this-one) comment got modded to +5. I don't think it should be. It's offtopic for the discussion and at best only mildly interesting to someone who regularly has to fix PCs with parasite software problems.
Bah!
There is no porn-ware I have not conquered.
One of my clients in a hard-core freak (it's his business, only guys work there, and his PC is largely private anyway. The man has Voyeurweb for his home page, for crissakes) who keeps falling for variations on "Porn Dialer" installers.
The really vile stuff tends to hang a piece of itself in win.ini, where it'll get re-collected into the registry on every reboot. You smack it out with the registry editor or msconfig and it comes back because a little installer that's loaded up because of unpreventable 16-bit Windows compatibility crap.
I've also seen pornware smart enough to modify system DLLs AND the copy in dllcache. sfc.exe fixes that sort of thing, and packages that pull a new.net and redirect DNS requests. Evil stuff.
I don't know where those programs come from but the guys who make those programs are just showing where mainstream spyware will be going next.
Almost none. I found a site, once, that was stealing its navigation buttons from another site, and on some forums that I visit, I don't see some inline images.
It's absolutely worth it to not see ads. That's all there is to it.
I used "Block Images..." on Moz builds for two years+ while I was on a ~14.4ish internet connection. I moved, got DSL, thought I'd finally get to see *everything*, realized that "Holy Shit there are a lot of banner ads" and turned it back on again.
Moz/Firebird image permissions mean never having to look at ads. Somehow, the internet is just better that way.
I've found Opera [3,4,5,6] to be intolerably crashy. That and the fact that some silly person expects me to pay for a browser are all I need to write it off completely.
Why do that when you can show them Firebird instead?
.EXE. Or just run the .exe. Whatever.
Firebird (and thunderbird) both run natively from their home directories as well. Unzip and run the
Firebird + Linky + Magpie + "only show images from originating server" for fewer banner ads + no stupid flash plugin. A damned near perfect browsing experience.
One of the things that made the intellivision so fantastic was the numeric keypads on the controllers. Combined with the plastic overlays which described what the buttons did in each game, it made for some very satisfying control options.
For example, in "Swords and Serpents", the player using the wizard character could cast 10 different spells from a single button press.
How the heck would that translate to the standard controller on a modern console?
Atari's console was first and Coleco's might've been faster, but IMO the best game experiences were found on Intellivision. A bit like the situation Nintendo is in today. If you've never seen Intellivision games, there are a lot of good ones that really are worth checking out, like "Utopia" and "Discs of Tron".
Sadly, that's true. This country is far less literate than it once was. Comparing old periodicals (for example, Time magazine) to new ones, I notice a vast decrease in the standard vocabulary when I move from old to new.
Still, given the choice between the crap I can find on my local newsstand, I'll take a Playboy, pictures or no.
Have you ever actually READ the parts of a Playboy that aren't all sticky?
Now, if you had said FHM or Maxim or Gear or Stuff or Penthouse, you would've had a valid point. But not Playboy.
Playboy has content that's on much the same level as Vanity Fair, just with a few more nipples. Vanity Fair is of course a fuckload higher on the intellectual food chain than "Entertainment Weekly" or "People" or "Cosmo".
If you're doing nightmare casting...
Hugh Grant as Sturm
At this point I don't think I need to go further. But in the interests of science, let us see how much worse it could be:
Freddy Prinze Jr. as Tanis
Julia Roberts as Kittiara
Jeff Goldblum as Tasslehoff - not because he's freakishly tall, but because he plays the same dweeb in every fucking movie he's ever been in. And all the Apple commercials, too, and that dweeb is thr anti-fucking-kender.
Ashton "can't act" Kucher as Riverwind
Jenna "she fits in the costume" Jameson as Goldmoon
And while I'm at it, Ron Jeremy as Flint.
Any two of the guys from "American Pie" as Raistlin and Caramon
Look for the 64MB ones. Allstarmicro.com had 'em a couple weeks ago for $56.
The 64MB one has DVI and analog video, the 128MB version is analog only.
They work beautifully. The biggest difference between a VIVO and an AIW is the tuner. If you have sattelite or digital cable or something, you aren't using the tuner anyway, you're using Svideo or composite, which the VIVO supports perfectly. The other difference is that the AIW cards have audio inputs. The fix for this is a $3.29 stereo-RCA-to-mini-headphone adaptor from Radio Shack. You were planning to use your sound card's line-in for something else?
The 9200 uses the old Rage Theater chip found in the AIW 7500 and 8500DV (and for that matter, the ATI Rage Pro VIVO and AIW), not the Theater 200 found in the 9600, 9700, or 9800. Newer versions of MMC have a little bit of extra functionality with the updated chip - basically engaging the vidcap chip for some readtime processing on your input, for cleaning up noise and so forth. I prefer to do that sort of thing after the fact, when I have more control and the source video on-hand for comparison.
If you aren't interested in 3D, and you don't need the tuner - and to be honest, the tuner in your VCR is better anyway - the 9200 VIVO is a bargain.
One argument in favor of the 9600AIW is the fact that it doesn't draw NEARLY as much power as its bigger brothers. I have 9600, 9700 and 9800 (all Pro models) AIW cards.
The 9600 doesn't get nearly as hot, doesn't need a power connection from the PSU, and has a less noisy fan. Heck, mine is passively cooled, even.
If you're only interested in capture features, the 9600 has the same Rage Theater 200 chip as the other high-dollar ATI cards, without all the gamer stuff that goes with it.
ATI capture cards obey Macrovision, yes. This is trivial to circumvent, however. From time to time someone releases a circumvention patch that works in software, even.
Try a SapphireTech Radeon 9200 VIVO. It's maybe $60.
You have to do things in the proper order. The order goes like this:
Catalyst, ATI WDM driver, ATI DAO supplemental files, ATI DVD decoder (if you don't have it), MMC.
If you follow that order, nothing breaks. That's the order on ATI's site. Guess what? It works.
I believe I've had noe of every model of ATI AIW. They do work very well. I'm not a gamer though, so I guess your milegage may vary.