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I personally favor Fedora, but Ubuntu is known for being the most user-friendly distribution of Linux available. I've installed it a couple of times and had it run beautifully right out of the (metaphorical) box... plus, as Sup3rkirby said, it has a pretty large community support base. These...

The 9600's performance is supposed to be comparable to the 8800 for a smaller price tag. In fact, the 9600 even boasts a slightly higher GPU clock speed over the 8800GT. The GTS still comes out just barely higher, though. The GTS has slightly higher GPU and memory clock speeds. Yeah, you'll...

Team Fortress 2 is a really good one, and it's free to play this weekend only. I'm pretty sure as of this post, there's 11 hours left before the offer's over, and you can get it through Steam. Pretty hefty download, though. Neverwinter Nights 2 and any related expansions are also good games...

Unless you're on a tight budget, just get the 800MHz. If you do have 333MHz sticks in already, your motherboard should just underclock the 800 sticks to match.

Seagate makes some excellent hard drives. I have two of them in the machine I'm using to post this, and neither have ever given me problems. I also have a Western Digital external drive that works fairly well, though I don't know how much that would reflect on their internal drives.

It would actually be trivial to implement, considering there are already ISPs that inject ads into web pages as you browse. All that needs to happen is for code to be injected into the page that registers when a user navigates away from that page or closes the window. Got a smartie who disabled...

Short answer: It would be better to get a new cable than chance it with either of the cables. Longer answer: While it seems fairly obvious that a 6 volt cable would fry the thing, not giving it enough voltage (as with the 4.5volt cable) could damage it too. Even if the wattage is the same, it's...

That would would be easier to install than the other one just because you don't have to worry about overloading any of the rails - it's only got one, and that one should provide all the juice you need and then some. Corsair is also supposed to make some good quality power supplies from what I...

It basically means there are two separate +12V rails that can each individually provide up to 22 amps. You have to be careful if the power supply doesn't balance the load between the two rails, though - each cable only goes to one of them, so you can easily put too much stress on one rail while...

Wasn't trying to lump everyone in one group. I was just saying, most everyone I know who has Comcast service, between the 24/7 hindering of BitTorrent traffic, service cut-off notices for using too much bandwidth on an unlimited package, and other related practices, would only be too happy to...

While it does make them more vulnerable, you have to acknowledge that companies like Comcast are consistently rated average at best by their customers and horrible at worst... but they have yet to lose their monopoly position in areas where they hold it. It's easier for them to buy up any...

Feel free to prove me wrong, but... I think you're assuming that everyone has a choice over who their ISP is. Thing is, I know many people in the US who would grab another ISP if they could without a second thought, but Comcast happens to be the only broadband provider in the area. There simply...

Looks pretty good for the most part. If it doesn't end up working when you try to do something graphics-intensive though, get a power supply that can deliver more amperage over the +12V rail - if memory serves, one 8800GT calls for a minimum of 26 amps for it and the rest of the system (add 10...

Send me a PM and we'll talk. I would be interested, but we would have to see if it could work out well enough to be worth it - I'm not exactly up to date on next-gen consoles.

I've heard of it, I use it, and I love it. In a nutshell, OpenDNS is good for filtering the content others on a network or single computer can view on the internet - you can block porn sites if you have kids who use the computer, or you can also tick the boxes for adware and phishing sites if...

Norton is a virus. I personally use ZoneAlarm, haven't regretted it yet.

I can certainly try. Send me a PM or IM or something and we'll work something out.

Glad I could help. Still taking offers for anyone interested.

Actually, it would seem that Yahoo is making a deal with AOL, of all companies.

Might just be me, my eyes tend to get a little wacky when it's this late... ... but it looks to me like you misspelled "localhost"... :)