Recent content by timmay01

Thanks for the comments! Weeber, some quick replies... Argh. That may be a dealbreaker for me (I use it for power-savings purposes too). Good to know though. Anyone know of an LCD TV that does go into standby when the video is cut? Does the Just Scan mode fill the screen perfectly...

Hey guys, I'm considering the Samsung 46a650, and would be using it purely for an htpc setup. It's surprisingly hard to find out details about this though. A couple questions... 1. I plan to have the PC go into standby when idle, and (of course) cut the video signal to the TV. A normal LCD...

The Merc's got a story up (login required, ugh). They say it's drifting in from the Indians fire in Monterey County: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9581162

[Lurk mode off] Yeah I'm seeing it too. For now, I'm assuming it's a wind shift, and the smoke from the santa cruz mtns fire is coming into the valley. I can't confirm it anywhere though. (There's also a fire in Fremont, but the smoke isn't coming from that direction) It's really weird...

Ahhh, actually this is a known problem on the IBM T series. Basically IBM locked it so that you can only use their "approved" cards, even though most mini-pci cards work fine. There's a known hack for the BIOS to allow it to ignore the 1802 error though: http://jcnp.pku.edu.cn/~shadow/1802/...