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First off, don't ask how I dug up this post (I really stumbled upon it while searching for other stuff), but I actually bought their record Foc after watching them perform on Grafton Street in Dublin about six years ago. I was absolutely mesmerised!

Very nice. IIRC, that's from "Blues and Roots," which is a good place to start with Mingus. "Mingus Ah Um" is the logical next step (and, according to many, his best non-long-form work). It's mostly comprised of compositions inspired by Mingus' heroes-- "An Open Letter to Duke," "Bird Calls" (Parker), "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (Lester Young), and another tribute to Jelly Roll Morton which I believe is just called "Jelly Roll." A less well-known Mingus album that I really like is "Charles Minus Presents Charles Mingus," which features a smaller group with some amazing work by Eric Dolphy (and the vocal-included version of "Fables of Faubus"). I own "Blues and Roots" and I agree that it appears to be a good place to start (I only have three records; one fusion record and then the awesome one where he plays piano and drinks whiskey). Mingus FTW!

Kula Shaker - Govinda (Live at the Plymouth Pavilion)

Why wasn't I there? WHYYYY?

I have now ordered these little things: CPU Intel Pentium D 820 2.8GHZ 2X1MB Dual Core S-775 Mobo ASRock 775Dual-VSTA PT880PRO S-775 DDR/DDR2 AGP/PCI-E ATX PSU Zalman 460W APS Silent I went with an apparently very good and silent 460W power supply to be on the safe side and in case I wanna upgrade my video card in the future. It was hard finding a mobo that met my very specific requirements, but this one did it reasonably and at a cheap price. Now let's hope these things arrive, I actually manage to put them in, and everything actually WORKS. Pray for your Schmarthilissimo!

Hahaha!

Dunno. I don't think it says anything, really. All I know is that this piece of information in the manual seems to have gotten me one step closer to a solution. I need to get some new stuff.

Actually, this is what I found in the motherboard manual (I thought I'd already posted this, must be the forum being sickly earlier today): PC2100 (DDR266) for 3 DDR DIMM slots , Max. 3GB PC2700 (DDR333) for 2 DDR DIMM slots , Max. 2GB PC3200 (DDR400) for 1 DDR DIMM slots , Max. 1GB (bolds by me) I'm not entirely sure how to interpret that, but I understand it as the mobo only being capable of handling one DDR400 stick at a time, and that one can only be at a max of 1GB. I've been using THREE DDR400 sticks at a total of 1.5GB. No wonder it's been unable to sustain that... I didn't build this thing myself; it was just one of those fairly cheap pre-made packages, and I suppose the first things they make cheaper are stuff like mobo and PS, since they don't expect people who buy them to do any upgrading anyway. Well, I did some upgrading recently and it obviously got too much for the heart of the system to keeo up with.

Yes, sorry, it's 350W.

I actually think it might be down to insufficient power supply. I took out a couple of RAM sticks and suddenly everything worked fine. I put in one more and things kept working fine. I installed video drivers. Things stopped working fine. At first I naturally thought my video card had taken damage, but now that I think of it it's been having these issues without the drivers installed, but with three memory sticks in place. Now it starts getting problems with two memory sticks and graphics drivers installed. Any power supply experts out there to help me with my problems? Specs: P4 Celeron 3GHz ASRock P4VT8+ socket 478 mobo 3x 512MB DDR RAM Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA HDD (with another one due to be connected once I get this under control) GeForce 7600 GS Some plug-and-play sound card that I kinda like

It did work with a similar problem in the past, albeit on another computer. The difference then was that the system froze only when I was playing games (then again, this system worked fine for nearly two weeks and initially only froze in Eastside Hockey Manager, so given more time that system might have started freezing in Windows as well). I don't know what setting it could be, but I wouldn't be surprised if the solution could be that simple.

The thing is that the mobo *shouldn't* have any issues with these things. That's why I'm thinking a simple change in the BIOS might do the trick and save me the hassle of switching mobos.

I've been thinking of getting a new mobo, but I suppose that means a new processor as well (it's a socket 478 mobo and from what I can gather they're a bit dated). I do need an AGP slot (because I recently bought a GeForce 7600 GS card that I won't be throwing away anytime soon) and I have 1.5GB worth of DDR-RAM that I need to be able to use. I simply don't know what to get or what to do with it once I get it.

I've been thinking about this too, but the thing that worries me is that I'll end up with a bunch of parts that aren't compatible.

Help a poor man, please! I'm having the worst time ever with my computer right now. It started with a hard drive crash a couple of weeks ago. My IDE PATA drive died and I got myself a Western Digital SATA drive instead (I also have a Samsung Spinpoint SATA drive for storage that I bought about three months ago). The SATA drive was surprisingly noisy, sounding like a small propeller plane and entertaining my DVD drive with vibrations that women across the globe would have envied. That's why I thought my Windows freezing problems were because of the hard drive. They weren't. Now, apart from the annoying vibrations, my SATA drive seemed to get on really nice with the rest of the little technical forces of untamed evil disguised as computer hardware connected to my (probably pretty unspectacular) ASRock motherboard. That's until a few days ago, when the computer suddenly just froze during an intense session of NHL Eastside Hockey Manager '07. After this it started freezing more and more frequently until it basically just froze almost immediately after Windows (XP Pro SP2, that is) had started. The problem was present in failsafe mode as well. I tried repairing my Windows installation, but that proved undoable due to an apparently quite famous little full stop (not 'freeze' in the sense I'm talking about, though, where everything just hangs) with 34 minutes left (something to do with USB drives I've been told afterwards). Soon enough even the installation attempts started to freeze. I wiped the drive and went for a clean install this time. No dice. Naturally I blamed my aggravating-all-living-organisms-within-earshot-to-the-brink-of-insanity-with-its-constant-humming SATA drive for the debacle and decided to go for a refund. It was successfully obtained and I got a new Samsung IDE PATA drive (despite asking for a SATA drive, but I only noticed once I got home and figured "what the hell"). I got home and installed Windows onto my new drive and felt jolly good about myself. Then the thing froze. Now, I do remember having a somewhat similar problem in the past that could be solved through a simple BIOS change, but sadly I'm no BIOS wizard and also this problem isn't identical. What puzzles my brain, admittedly limited in comprehending these magics, is that the freezing problems waited two weeks before appearing and then proving ultimately non-related to corrupted Windows installations or broken hard drives. At the same time, can I really blame my motherboard when I've had the problem using both a SATA drive and a IDE PATA drive? Please, any help from people in the know on these things would be greatly appreciated. I'm in danger of going bald from pulling my hair over here. :'(

They were also the most intense band of their time. K blows me away to this day, if you catch my resum

Yeah, I thought this was about Sixpence None the Richer.

Somehow I can't seem to stand Phil Collins. Maybe it's the whole eighties thing, but I just don't appreciate him either as a composer or a singer.

Oh if you're a Floyd fan you ought to check Kula out. Just got the Revenge of the King EP off iTunes. Opening track sounds really neat! :joy:

Well "K" entered the British charts at #1, but that was, as you say, over ten years ago. They were really big for a while, but I don't know about their following around Europe. I'm probably their greatest fan in Sweden, but I reckon they're fairly big in the UK after coming back. We'll have to wait and see when the album arrives. Ask Launchie, though; she might have the scoop. She's an old fan as well.

Kula Shaker are back working on their third album! Jay is obviously not with the band, but I definitely get some good vibes outta this. Apparently this has been known for a while, so why didn't anyone drop the bloody bomb already? Best news in ages! Kula Shaker website

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

I'm too young to remember her in her prime years, but I just can't seem to understand what's so special about her. I guess drugs and age weren't very kind to her...

He's okay. I think he'll go far. I had the chance to watch the game against the Hawks, but I blew it... <_< Anyway, they won, but I have a hard time seeing this team make the playoffs. I reckon we've got a bit of a Catch 22 going on; Lowe won't be making any deals unless it looks like we'll make the playoffs, and we won't make the playoffs unless Lowe makes a deal. With GMs knowing the hole he's in regarding D, I don't think there's a ton of deals around waiting to be made.

That would be 1866 I think. Does the EU3 timeline get that far? I read somewhere it only goes ~1800 or so. Anyway, after the Austo-Prussian War in 1866, Italy united as a nation, as Prussia united Germany. Actually, the Kingdom of Italy was united in 1861 following the work of mainly Camillo di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi.