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  1. Re:"Causationally"? on Interview With Gary Gygax About Game Violence · · Score: 1

    Causation: the act or process of causing
    Seemed pretty self-evident to me.

  2. Re:Not that powerful on Microprocessor Forum · · Score: 1

    That all depends on what your definition of "fine" DVD playback is!

    The higher the quality you want, the higher the strain on the CPU. For hardware-quality DVD playback, a K6-2 500 would be quite on the LOW end.

  3. Re:Upgrade? on Red Hat Linux 7 Released · · Score: 1

    According to the website, if you're running Redhat 3.0.3 or later, you can do an upgrade.

  4. Good lord do you people ever read the article??? on Intercontinental Real-Time Surround-Sound Full-Scr... · · Score: 1

    The musicians are all in one spot. Broadcast to a location elsewhere in the world. Cripes.

  5. VIA is HORRIBLE! on ABIT KT7 With Built-In CPU Multiplier Adjustment · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I think that VIA is the bane of AMD's existance. If you want an AMD CPU, you're pretty much forced into a VIA chipset, which IMHO give AMD a bad name. Incompatibility issues, stability problems. It's a shame.

  6. Gravis Ultrasound! Any others?? on Encrypting Digital Music With Multiple Keys · · Score: 1

    My Gravis Ultrasound PnP had a neat option for selecting the recording source. One of them was called "Master". This recorded whatever was being *played* by the Ultrasound. Sooooo... Select Master as recording input, play your encrypted audio, and bingo! You've got a .WAV of it to do what you want!

    Are there any more modern cards that do this?

  7. Kryotech computers will NOT make your room cooler! on Computers And The Noise They Make · · Score: 1

    Kryotech makes computers which keep cool *inside* the case. The cooler the inside, the hotter the outside. It's just like your refridgerator... the coils on the outside get HOT.

  8. Re:How will this work? on CD-R In A Digital Camera: The Ueber-Mavica? · · Score: 2

    Flash memory for temp storage would have no effect at all on mechanical disturbance.

    First, the camera has to have at least enough flash memory to hold a picture before it's written to the CD. Second, if the camera is jarred during writing to the CD, if the laser is bumped off of track when writing, you're SOL, buffer or not!

  9. Re:My Gnutella on Napster Wars · · Score: 1

    Depends on if it's pre- or post-breast-implant, silly!

  10. C'mon now! on 'The X-Files' Returns For 8th Season · · Score: 1

    The URL above is taken from within a frameset. You link to it directly, and references to other frames don't work properly.
    Silly.

    -WD

  11. Only started now?? Too bad on 'The X-Files' Returns For 8th Season · · Score: 1

    The earlier ones were much better, IMHO -WD

  12. Re:Wow on Another Hole in Hotmail · · Score: 1

    I use mine only to sign up for anything online.
    Basically, all it ends up being is an online junk mail repository! (which I rarely ever bother to check)

    -WD

  13. Try PowerDVD on ATI Radeon 256 · · Score: 1

    I read your article, and I couldn't agree with you more! You hit the nail right on the head. I love the features of the AIW 128, but the driver support (and lack of non-Intel support) is HORRIBLE!!

    As for your DVD issues, though. When I upgraded to a KX133-based motherboard, (Yes, non-intel to another non-intel), my DVD playback got messed up. (jerky picture, flicker). I tried PowerDVD, and the playback is better than ever! Give it a try. -WD

  14. Re:Mozilla and offsite cookie refusal? on DoubleClick Workaround: IDcide · · Score: 1

    Mozilla has a GREAT cookie management feature:

    You can (as with Netscape), refuse cookies not sent to the original server. Plus, you can edit a list of servers you flat-out refuse to accept cookies from. You can create a similar list to refuse loading images from servers, too. Check it out!

  15. Auto download & install of Mozilla for Win32! on Netscape 6/Mozilla Beta Release in 25 Days · · Score: 1

    Really nothing that fantastic, but I put together a script to automatically download and install Mozilla on a Win32 system. Put this in your system scheduler to run every night, and you're ready for testing!
    This script assumes that it runs from c:\mozupd, and that Mozilla is installed in c:\program files\netscape\seamonkey

    It's available for download HERE

    -WD

  16. Re:PLEASE stop the hype on Netscape 6/Mozilla Beta Release in 25 Days · · Score: 1

    Cripes! Somebody please moderate that comment down.

    This guy has the mentality of "Gee, Mozilla has bugs in it. . . why even bother trying it" Mozilla is a work in progress. See a problem with mozilla? Use Bugzilla to report it! Doesn't have a feature you would like to see? Use Bugzilla to report it! The future of Mozilla is in your hands!

    I have contributed to Bugzilla on several occasions, and I think it's a great thing. It's a good feeling to be a part of something like this.

    -WD

  17. Re:Tight coding contests in history on Design a Web Page in Under 5k · · Score: 1

    One of my favorite old demos is from a 64k contest. It's called Stash
    Anyone still owning a Gravis Ultrasound will enjoy this one! (no ultrasound = no sound, but still amazing)

  18. L0phtCrack a valuable tool.... on Busted for (L0pht)Crack Possession · · Score: 1

    L0phtCrack is a very important security auditing tool! I used it in my last position to determine the strength of the passwords (or lack thereof!) used by the users of our network.

    Just sort of an eye-opener as to the state of our organization's security. . .

  19. About Cyrix. . . on Cyrix's 'Joshua' announcement · · Score: 5

    Don't get me wrong here. . . I'm very glad Cyrix is here. As we've learned from AMD, more competition = better products at better prices!

    BUT, Cyrix has a habit of over-hyping products that seem to fall flat in the end. I was a 6x86 owner, since it was all I could afford at the time. The Cyrix name has been tarnished by chips with incompatibility and performance issues from the beginning.

  20. No, it's voltage on Bug in Pentium III Xeon Processors · · Score: 2

    From www.news.com:

    The flaw crops up when 550-MHz Xeons, with either 512KB or 1MB of secondary cache memory, are used in an eight-processor server with a Saber motherboard, which was designed by Intel. The voltage from the processors in this scenario can exceed the recommended voltage limits and cause a server go to "blue screen," or crash, according to Pijkper.

  21. Re: async DNS on Netscape 4.7 Arrives on the Scene · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have found the DNS implementation in Netscape to be problematic.

    If you have multiple netscapes open, one of them doing a DNS lookup can freeze up all the others until the lookup is finished.

    Also, one way to almost for sure crash netscape... Type in the name of a non-existant web page. Before it finishes looking up the page, type in the name of a real web page and hit enter. CRASH!

    I sure hope this gets fixed!!!