Posts by hyc

Why do you want to disable it? You don't like having power management enabled? I believe without ACPI, shutting down the OS will not turn off the laptop's power, among other things.

Besides the surround effect, what else is there that DD offers that you aren't getting? Quality-wise, it's just 48khz 16 bit audio, heavily compressed. Virtual-Dolby headphone support will let you get the surround effect when...

I used to use Norton, but last December a Trojan got onto my system while I was travelling through Europe using local dialup networks. After I found out about it (after several of my accounts and passwords got sent to Russia, and some...

It's not worth worrying about. Despite the rapid speed that new technology comes out, old technology dies off very very slowly. You'll still be able to put an IDE drive into a firewire case and use it as an external, so it won't be a...

Well, a program like this needs to work on an older system if it's going to be useful. My old laptop is on Win98, and it looks like Multiplicity needs WinXP, so I won't be using it there any time soon.

It's doable on some laptops, but the improvement is negligible. On my Asus M6Ne I can use ClockGen or CPUcool to raise the FSB, to increase the memory bus speed from DDR333 to DDR400, and then use RMclock or CHC to limit my CPU...

y'know, the kinds of people using a laptop for that extended period of time probably weren't going to mate or produce offspring anyway...

re: portable surge protector - make sure you only plug it into the voltage it's designed for. I brought a cheapo plug-strip/surge protector with me on my trip to Europe last winter, promptly fried the power on my hotel floor when I...

There's a good selection of coolers discussed in this thread http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=75275 I just ordered a Bytecc cooler. I have a Targus chillpad but it's falling apart now. It's held together by six...

Right about the lack of preloading, although Windows XP does try to guess what can be pre-fetched for a number of applications. The big problem that doesn't have a fix is that there are a number of core Windows services (i.e., you cannot...