One month after the HL2 source was leaked there was some kind of pirated-alpha/beta released. There were some people in Poland selling these pirated versions on market-places which are the main source of illegal stuff here. I haven't seen one but I've heard these were kinda playable except they ...

MSI nforce chipset > MSI via chipset

A lower CAS timing will generally be faster than a higher timing when the modules are running at the same speed. So if you aren't overclocking, I would go with the four sticks with the lower CAS timing. However, many people have stated that running your last timing in the series of 3-3-3-7 (don't ...

So I have a K8N Neo and am about to take the plunge to get this bad boy ready to go again (have ran gentoo for awhile just not on my A64 box, and not with RAID before at all) so that I can do my C coding for my computer science classes (had been coding in Scheme up until now.....blech). Anyways, I ...

I ordered one of these (K8N Neo Platinum) this week and my 3200+ 1MB L2 should be here soon as well...I am hoping that I won't encounter too many problems but it looks like I am going to have to find a NIC to borrow from someone or dig through my closet.

Is it difficult to install Gentoo to a WD ...

With XP I had no problems doing this....actually, for some reason my installs weren't going smoothly until I tried this method, for some strange reason....but yeah, I installed Gentoo, then Windows XP, then booted into Gentoo using the liveCD and installed GRUB to my MBR again; worked like a charm.

I emailed w1zzard (the guy who came up with the software hack in windows) about the feasibility of this driver hack in linux, hopefully i get a reply sometime soon. I have the card that this hack works for, and it works fine with no problems. I use drivers from www.omegacorner.com, but its pretty ...

why is that? my friends have been telling me that for awhile but i didnt worry about it since i am behind a campus firewall. I've been using my system for awhile as root and while I want to switch to just being a reg user, will I have problems since I have been using my system as root for awhile, i ...

Im pretty sure I have OSS enabled, but I want to make sure I did this correctly, because I have sound w/ xmms and if i wine RTCWMP.exe on my windows install the game comes up and i have sound. In the kernel I built in support for my Ensoniq onboard sound, and also built in OSS support. Is this the ...

I've unemerged and emerged winex plenty of times, but it still gives me the same error:

"wine: lstat /root/.winex/wineserver-Drk/socket : No such file or directory"

wtf is this? Drk is my hostname, as set in /etc/hostname
the directory exists, but the socket file does not.

Ive been using Gentoo ...