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  • Updated Guides

    Some late breaking changes to the August guides are pretty relevant. For the “high-end”:https://richtong.net/guide_to_pcs/2004/09/01/high_end_system_recommendations.html systems, First, taking into account the Silentpcreview.com information, I changed some of the components in the guide to the high end particularly the power supply and the case. Switched the motherboard recommendation to the DFI Lan Party UT Nv3 250 Gb…

  • Feinleib is a god!

    VC MBA. Well our buddy Dave is off to business school. Makes me feel old that it is decades since I enjoyed the warm sunny Palo Alto area. Got a great URL too. Hope we can buy him lots of drinks. Good luck, Dave!

  • Digital Multimeter

    Carl Electronics. A great example of what the web can do, need a digital multimeter to measure things and they are $20 from Radio Shack, but a quick google search reveals this little store has the third ranked site for DMMs. Only Fluke and Agilent (two huge companies) have higher hits. Wow. $10 and I’m…

  • Washington Primaries

    . It’s time once again to vote. I lost my election guide, but everything is now on the Internet, if a little hard to find. Here’s the Washington State official election guide, they actually have a website called “vote.wa.gov”:http:/vote.wa.gov

  • Best Video Drivers

    Who would have ever thought there was going to be a bunch of debate about this, but in the world of high performance gaming, everyone tries things. “Guru3D”:http://guru3d.com is the site I use for much of this, but here’s the quick guide: * Guru3D.com Forums – Which nVIDIA Drivers Are For Your Video Card?. This…

  • Guide to Silent PCs

    OK, here is my first guide to Silent PCs. I’m going to change the way I do the PC guides to have essentially three guides: * High-end guide for very fast full systems that are great price/performance. These are gamer and video editing machines mainly. Basically what I like to do and it will have…

  • PC Reference Sources

    Ah for the days when you just read PC Magazine and that was it to find the best computer hardware and software, now its all about the web. Since I’ve been buying a bunch of PCs this month, here are the sources I’m using in stackranked order of quality IMHO. Its sad, but I basically…

  • Audiotron Reloaded

    I’ve had one of these “Audiotron’s”:http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/feedback.asp forever but have never really used it much. Spent a little time hacking and realized it doesn’t work because it needs a magic user name and password to access a file share. Aargh. How is anyone supposed to remember this stuff, let alone that there is a web interface…

  • IP Scanning

    IP-Tools. Need to figure out what’s on my network. I should have written it down but I forgot. Here’s a tool that will scan for me. Here are some utilities: * “SoftPerfect Network Scanner”:http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/. A high google hit. Freeware and seems fast too for finding systems. * “WinPCap”:http://winpcap.polito.it/. Free network analyzer on Windows. Watch the…

  • Videos on the Road

    Well it used to be incredibly complicated to backup DVDs to your hard drive for those long trips with the kids. Things have gotten much easier though with: * “AutoGK”:http://autogk.net. Gordian Knot is certainly the most powerful of the utilties out there, but super hard to use. AutoGK is the simplified version. The stable release…