Recent content by kleptophobiac

I'm having difficulty with level 4. I need a theta control, not X and Y!

It's pretty annoying, especially since 99% of the time I don't actually want to print anything. It slows down loading files since it waits for the damn printer to warm up before showing my document. Is there a way to stop Office from caring about my printer at start up? I feel like this is...

Thanks CSIXTY4! That's exactly the information I was curious about.

Oh, yeah... those meters. They're available from any surplus electronics shop for about $3-5 each. They're alright if you aren't a serious user, so getting one for free is ok. Personally, I found that the $30 I spent on one from Sears was well worth it. They're great bang for the buck in...

How does a USB to PS/2 adapter work? As far as I can tell USB is a vastly more complicated mode of communication than PS/2. Does the mouse or keyboard detect that USB is not functioning properly when they are plugged in and switch over to a different communication protocol? Does anybody know off...

I'm not looking for something for a baby. I'm looking for a real seat for a car. I'd like it to be as lightweight as possible. Anybody know where to go for such a thing?

I'm in!

Does anyone know if these laptops have synchronous rectifiers on the power supply lines to the CPU? At these sorts of low core voltages a diode drop on the output of an SMPS would be killer to efficiency.

Read the paper on Nature Nanotech. The associate professor doing the research only has preliminary results, not packaged product. Don't expect this stuff to hit the market for another 3-4 years. I'm an undergrad at Stanford with a particular interest in battery technology (I lead the solar car...

There are also some filesystem tricks you can do if you're using something like XFS, ie, setting the minimum preallocation size to 500MB.

The statistic I think you'll most be interested in will be non-sequential writes. Since you have four streams going at once, the data will be splattered all over the drive. Just make sure the new drive is close to your old drive, or better, and you'll be fine.

I got a silver bezel DVD drive and the color match is pretty good. A real aluminum panel would not match so nicely. Also, I feel VFD's do nothing useful on computers and are just bling. I really love my NSK-2400, but I had to get rid of the horrible blue leds on the power button. I replaced...

I really enjoy this screen a lot. For the office work that I do, it's fantastic. The contrast is really good, almost as good as my IBM CRT. The only time I notice any ghosting is if I move around a solid white box. So for what I do, it's entirely acceptable and was a fantastic bargain.

Dammit. No 12/13 standard? :(

Build a server! I did it and will never go back. I NFS boot my HTPC. It has no hard drives in it at all. Only the LED on the front tells you that it's on. You can also hear it if you're behind it, and less than six inches away. All storage both for boot and media are on a RAID5 file...