12 years ago, i stole this nickname from the bassist of a now defunct band called "furnaceface"...

this looks promising as a prebuilt HTPC... http://www.asus.com.tw/news_show.aspx?id=10836 and since this is SPCR we'll all be paying attention to the following. Mighty Quiet – Low-noise Computing Experience Through the world's first 2-in-1 thermal module that insulates heat from the cooling fan, t...

wow... the drawer thing is a GREAT idea! maybe you can post a little tutorial on how to get it done...

"talula... sound like a two dolla hooker!" i hope you've all watched the movie cool runnings... or else a lot of people might be offended...

it IS pretty cool... but i'm really not that impressed... you can train animals to do almost ANYTHING, if you're smart/patient/extremely cruel...

how do you think they get those bears to ride little bikes around at the circus?

i wonder how many times a day they beat the elephants to make them do this...

waiting for those PETA terrorists to jump all over this... if they haven't already...

you'd think audiophiles would be technical people for the most part... Does that answer your question? i'm not quite sure i asked a question... but your post was informative none the less, :P. unfortunately, i hated everything to do with waves in physics, so most of the stuff about "harmonic distor...

you'd think audiophiles would be technical people for the most part... after all, they have to read all kinds of things about SNR, resistance, frequency ranges, THD etc... and you'd imagine that people with that kind of knowledge would have enough common sense, or at least enough grasp of basic scie...

just a note about m-audio's envy24 based cards (revo 5.1, 7.1)... i recently found out that they don't support S3 sleep state... so if you put your computer to sleep, you get no sound when you wake up... i believe the same is true of the chaintech AV-710... it probably has something to do with the e...

i looked it up once in my area... if you look hard enough, you can probably rent one...

well.... now that this nonsense is over... is anyone more aware of our planet's plight? did anyone have a great environmental epiphany that will inspire them to live more sustainably? is energy consumption going to be curbed in any kind of long term way? or was this one big marketing exercise to giv...

earth hour is the biggest load of BS in the world... people say that it's just for awareness... awareness? you'd have to be living on pluto, not to know that we're supposedly up the environmental creek without a paddle... we're bashed over the head with this climate change stuff EVER DAY... and we n...

i've always wanted to have a daughter just so i could be the crazy dad...

i loved that scene in bad boys 2 with martin lawrence and will smith grilling the boyfriend... i think it's a lot more fun for the dads in the states, since they have guns...

After they heard it they all looked at me like I was some kind of a freak and sad that I had a problem. your friends are cruel... my friends think i'm a weird nerd... but they don't think i'm a sad freak, haha... sometimes my girlfriend catches me under the desk listening to my computer... she roll...

Melluk wrote:Do you remember where you bought them?

it was some bakery that sold them at an open air market on lindengracht in the jordaan district. don't recall the name.

i just came back from amsterdam last week and now i'm completely and hopelessly ADDICTED to stroopwafels... i sat here and ate half the bag i brought back in less than 5 mins. now i want to buy some more REAL stroopwafels from the netherlands, but i can't figure out which online stores sell the good...

if it is a driver issue, i'm SOL... after 4 years, the revo 5.1 is still using driver version 1.0.0.0 ... either m-audio is lazy, or they created the perfect driver to begin with.... i think i'll give them a call and see what they have to say... i've tried using via's own drivers for the envy24 chip...

i've decided that it's not really worth leaving my HTPC on 24/7 just to fold... so today i set it to go to sleep after 10 mins of inactivity... now the problem is that when i return from sleep, the sound is no longer working. anyone else ever encounter this problem? i've searched the forum but found...

while i agree that the easytune utility looks ugly as sin, i can't really see the resemblance to a uterus.... you should really lay off the red bulls or whatever it is that gets you through these tests, :P. i smell an HTPC upgrade this summer! :D well... if/when they hammer out all the little bugs. ...

i think these taiwanese marketing departments have no CLUE about the culture in north america... what they think is clever, or EXTREME!!!! like the monster trucks and naked silver robots, looks ridiculously cheesy to us... that's also why asus comes up with lame slogans like "rock solid, heart touch...

since microsoft and toshiba had so much at stake in this venture, shouldn't they have done what sony did? flood the market with hardware? what would it have cost them to include an HD-DVD drive in every xbox360? $20? the only thing i really dislike is having to call movies "blu-rays" from now on... ...

*purchase a $200 swath of Indonesian rain forest, so the locals can't (legally) put up a farm. Carbon offset. i find this initiative quite funny... in a sad way... who started it? they should really change that one to "*purchase a $200 swath of north american farmland, so the locals can't (legally)...

looks nice...

i did the same thing with my radeon 8500LE... slapped a zalman NB heatsink on it... the pushpins worked perfectly.... easiest heatsink installation EVER!

with all this talk about ATi and nV's new dual GPU products, i've always wondered... why don't we have dual core GPUs yet? dual core CPUs have been around so long... yet i've heard nothing about dual core GPUs... putting two separate GPUs on the same PCB has been done before, and is now being done a...

i've always wondered... why don't they use a diesel motor in hybrid cars? wouldn't you get way more out of that than one that uses gas?

re: loremo
20hp seems a LOT more sensible for moving a few people around, than the current standards...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... -pc-energy

good to see more exposure for green computing... even if the true motivation is cost saving. hopefully a big push for green computing at the enterprise level will trickle down to the consumer level...

here's a tip: draft big trucks on the highway... the lower drag actually makes a huge difference... might be dangerous though, :P Another tip which wasn't immediately obvious to me was to keep the car in gear (high gear) when decelerating and braking until you almost stall. I had naively presumed th...

Think of every time you stop or slow down and money thrown away. Anticipate lights and drive accordingly. Frankly people waste a lot of gas on the highway tailgating, because they are on the brakes so much. I routinely drive over 80 miles without stepping on the brakes even once. The added bonus is...

The first two, the 2300 and 3500, are the Cooljag Falcon in aluminum and copper. They've been around awhile. Badge engineering is a wonderful thing, isn't it? that's some good sleuthing... are they modified in any way? like how nexus modifies yate-loons for their own purposes? is there any value ad...

has anyone else seen these? i searched the forums and didn't find any discussion about them... http://www.nexustek.nl/NXS-silent_intel_cpu_coolers.htm Xir-2300 LGA775/AM2 Xir-3500 LGA775/AM2 HOC-9000 LGA775/AM2 they're slated for release in february... so far, only the HOC-9000 has detailed info on ...

i installed the folding@home application on facebook... it's quite a neat little app... even shows you other members of your team on facebook...

maybe we can all add this app and promote f@h on facebook...