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So, I'm about ready to pull my hair out here. I see in the 10 years since I last tried Linux nothing has changed. It's still completely unusable. Nothing is documented. Nothing works as expected. It may be free, but you clearly get what you pay for. I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 8.04...

I think several of you have the DIR-655... D-Link issues fixes for router vulnerabilities

I'm potentially looking at building something small, quiet, cheap, & low power machine to sit tucked in a closet or basement as a remote rsync target to serve as an off site backup. I would want to do RAID-1 with two SATA drives. Beyond that I don't have much preference. I assume some sort of...

I'm looking to get a good quality laptop back for work. I'm sick of the cheap-o bag I have now plus it's falling apart. I like what I've seen of the WaterField Design Medium Cargo. It's not at all cheap, but I am aware that sometimes you get what you pay for. Though I'd probably like to...

Our office here has ~10 laptops (one assigned to each person). There is currently no backup solution. The folks in corporate IT want us to manually copy the important stuff to the network drives that are located in the corporate office. We have a cable modem with 7Mbit/sec download and...

So my car got rear ended a few weeks ago. It had about $1500 in damage done to it. I picked it up from the body shop yesterday. Here's what the body shop apparently thought passed for good work. :eek: They replaced the rear bumper cover and some stuff under it. There's a sharp edge at the...

So, back in March of 2008 I bought a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 motherboard from ZipZoomFly for $169.99. Much to my surprise over the weekend (20 months later) I noticed that I actually got a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard from them. *sigh* I guess I should have paid closer attention. However, I...

:erm: Is it possible to run out of PCIe lanes? I installed a PCIe Intel Pro/1000 PT server card in my desktop and it doesn't appear in the device listing during boot sequence, nor in Windows. I tried it in two different PCIe x1 slots with the same results. It works in another system just...

So I built up my new HTPC yesterday. It works surprisingly well. :bow: This morning I was checking the temperature of the CPU using Real Temp and CoreTemp. They reported the same thing, but core-0 appears to be stuck at 40C regardless of the load on the CPU (though the other core never got...

So I went to power up the HTPC tonight and it was dead. It wouldn't POST. No beep codes. I tried clearing the BIOS nothing worked. I pulled it from the case, stripped it down to the bare minimum and still nothing. I tried another power supply with no luck. Tried it without the RAM, etc...

So, I created a 2 x 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 RAID-1 array on the Dell Perc 5/i in my desktop. I benchmarked it with my IOmeter ATTO imitation clone pattern and got the following odd results. 2 x 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 RAID-1: I was expecting something more like this. 2 x 750GB Samsung 7200RPM...

So I built a backup server that is turned on every night at 2:00AM via Wake on Lan from my main server. That all works fine, but the backup server also turns on at random times as well. I made a few batch files to allow me to log when Windows starts, when the shut down starts, and when the...

For some reason I wasted most of my day running iperf tests on all my Gigabit cards and every possibly combination of them. I ran three 30 second tests in each direction for the following TCP window sizes; 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k, 64k, & 128k. One NiC (in the chart title) was in my Windows XP x64...

Gear:8 x Samsung Spinpoint F2EG HD154UI 1.5TB 5400 RPM 32MB cache Dell Perc 6/i PCI-E x8 SAS RAID controller with 256MB cache & battery 2 x 32pin SAS to 4 SATA cables The array is a single RAID-6 volume with a 512k size stripe. 8 x 1.5TB Perc 6/i RAID-6 Array IOmeter benchmark (ATTO...

Does anyone know if these TCP tweaks for Windows XP and Server 2003 (aka XP x64) actually speed up file transfers using Windows file sharing? I can't find any benchmarks showing what improvement occurs by increasing the window size or any suggested values for gigabit ethernet. Am I wasting my...

Anyone have an opinion on PCIe x1 gigabit Ethernet cards? Some people on another forum swore that a good NiC like a gigabit Intel add in card (even an older PCI one) offer better performance than the cheapo Realtek stuff found soldered onto motherboards (even though the Realtek's are PCIe x1)...

The system clock on my server loses time like crazy. It's always behind. It's a lot worse in XP x64 than it was in XP x86 (32-bit). Any ideas on what could be causing this? It seems like heavy disk I/O causes it to get worse. Just to give you an example the system is set to sync to...

So, I've got quite a few PCs in my house. All are running XP. I'm interested in Win 7 (though I haven't tried it yet). A friend of mine told me I should join MS's Technet for a year ($349) as a relatively cheap way to effectively get 10 copies of just about every OS and program MS makes...

Anyone have any Intel Socket 478 HSF's from the Prescott era lying around they'd be willing to part with? These are the ones with the copper slug in the center and radial aluminum fins, not the all aluminum variety. I'm looking for one of these two versions: 1) 2) I'm not looking for...

So back in July of 2003 I bought a 3ware 7506-8 for a storage server. I put 6 200GB 7200RPM drives on it in RAID-5 and 2 60GB 5400RPM drives on it in RAID-1. Over time the RAID-1 array turned into 2 320GB 7200 RPM drives, the RAID-5 array turned into 5 500GB 7200RPM drives, and the card moved...

I'm after the ability to automate the back up of a large amounts of data where very little of it has changed or is new on a day to day basis, but the sheer size of the data set vs the network throughput (even with gigabit Ethernet) makes it extremely impractical to copy the entire thing over...

What budget ATX mid-tower cases are you guys using / recommending these days? (that holds at least 6 3.5" HD's internally)

So, I'm looking to buy something cheap that has at least 1 66MHz / 64bit PCI slot or PCI-X slot for an experiment. Socket A or Socket 478 using DDR preferred unless it comes with a processor and RAM. Thanks!

Here's why you can't trust ATTO on a RAID controller or disk with a very large cache. The 256MB data length is just too small to get accurate results. Here's 5 back to back runs with ATTO v2.41 on my 6 x Samsung 5400RPM 1.5TB RAID-5 array on a Dell Perc 5/i with 256MB of cache. First...

Gear:6x Samsung Spinpoint F2EG HD154UI 1.5TB 5400 RPM 32MB cache Dell Perc 5/i PCI-E x8 SAS RAID controller with 256MB cache & battery 2x 32pin SAS to 4 SATA cables The array is a single RAID-5 volume with a 512k stripe. Single drive benchmarks for reference point: ATTO: HD Tune Read: HD...

Anyone have any recommendations on where to buy 32pin SAS to 4 SATA breakout cable for a Dell Perc 5/i / LSI 8408E card? I see they're pretty cheap on ebay if you buy 'em from China or Hong Kong. Are there any state side inexpensive sources for them?

So, my Dell Inspiron E1505 just assumed room temp. I was using it in my lap while watching TV and I glance up at the TV and glance back down at the system and it was off. I did some basic trouble shooting, but it's completely dead. So, I just spent the last 45 minutes returning it to as...

So, I just need to vent, and I guess you all can learn from my mistake or laugh at me. Apparently, T-MAX P3200 film is susceptible to cosmic radiation which causes the film to become fogged over time. As a result it can't be stored long term, even if frozen. Unfortunately, prior to knowing...

I'm going out of the country to the other side of the world next week and won't necessarily have internet access at the right times, or won't be up at the right times to snipe myself, and I'm not a fan of bidding before the end and giving others a chance to react to my bid. So, does anyone have...

So, uh... we need a thread for the non digital variety... Yeah, that's it! :D Here are the results of shooting Kodak T-MAX 100 Professional (not to be confused with the newer and similarly named Kodak Professional T-MAX 100) that expired more than 11 years ago and was not kept in a fridge or...

I bought a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 (Canon) after seeing the Photozone.de review which praised it's high uniform sharpness compared to the other similar lenses. The downfall of the lens is worse CA than other similar lenses. However, everyone always glosses over CA with the ol comment of, "Well...

I finally decided to put a roll of film through my EOS-3 to make sure it's working correctly. I took it to a local Costco and had it developed and decided to get their $2.99 Pictures on CD along with my prints. I had read online about the great 6MP scans people got back from Costco. Of...

Anyone have suggestions for a 700VA (or more) UPS with pure sine wave output that has long battery life (>90 minutes) under a ~100W load? The most cost effective option I could find is the APC Smart-UPS XL 750VA which is rated to run a 100W load for 2h 52m.

So I got this today from Yahoo when I tried to send an e-mail. What!?!?!? :bibber: Needless to say I failed it. :owneddnce:

I'm looking for two 2.5" external enclosures. One SATA and one IDE. This one seems to be the one to get for a SATA drive with USB 2.0 interface. This one looks like a good possibility for a SATA drive with a USB 2.0 and eSATA interface. However an eSATA cable can't supply power (per...

I've got a few 1U and 2U items (switch, CAT6 patch panel, F connector patch panel, etc) in my unfinished basement that I want to put in a rack instead of having them sitting on top of a box, but I don't want any sort of large floor standing unit. Wall mounting into the concrete walls in my...

After I got my netbook I wasn't super thrilled with browsing the web on it's 1024x600 resolution screen. I ended up finding two very useful plug-ins that greatly improved the experience. The first is Autohide. With if you can turn this small screen disaster into move your mouse to the...

Anyone here have any experience with U-verse and / or Dish Network? I've had it with my local cable company, Bright House Networks, and their repeated price hikes. My bill for internet and cable TV with 1 HD-DVR, a 2nd HD receiver, and no premium channels is almost $130. I only need a few non...

So I put a SSD in my HTPC that runs XP (32-bit), and I would prefer to keep the pagefile off the SSD. From what I've read online in XP it's not actually possible to completely turn off the pagefile, so that basically leaves me with the idea of creating a RAMdisk and putting the pagefile on it...

Am I the only one who finds SF slow? It seems like no matter from where or when I get on the site it's very frequently quite sluggish to respond. Today seems even worse than normal. As an example of what I'm talking about it can take anywhere from 5 to 10's of seconds after I click a link...

So Buffalo makes these killer quad channel SLC USB flash drives. Unfortunately due to legal action they no longer sell any flash drives in the US. :( European Link (English), Japanese Product Link (Translated to English) I've bought one of their 4GB dual channel SLC drives before they bailed...

What exactly is WHS? I read the Wikipedia entry on it and the MS Page, but I still don't really know what it is. Is it a full blown OS that you can install any program to, or is it solely for the tasks they advertise? The reason I ask is because my server in the basement runs Windows XP Pro...

So I have a few year old Dell E1505 with a 1.83gHz Core Duo (Yonah) and I'm trying to figure out if I can upgrade it to a Mobile Core 2 Duo (Merom). From what I I can tell they are both Socket M. Dell also continued to sell the E1505 well into the Core 2 Duo era, so I think BIOS support is there...

So my wife wants a webcam so she can video chat with her family via Skype. I looked a bit online, and saw lots of praise for the Logitech QuickCam® Pro 9000 link Thoughts? Suggestions?

So, I put together a new computer that's going to be my server in the basement that has a E5200 in it. I can run the CPU basically at stock clocks in any of the following configurations... 12.5 x 200, 9.5 x 266, or 7.5 x 333. The RAM will be at 800MHz in all three cases. Is there going to be...

Anyone tried any of those adapters that will let me use SATA drives on a PATA controller? I want to put a few larger drives on my 3ware 7506-8 to replace the 2 320GB drives I have now in RAID-1. 500GB IDE drives are still available, that isn't much extra space, and the 750GB IDE drives are...

Here's an odd one. I went to bed last night with my Q6600 PC running working fine on a download. When I woke up this morning it was locked up (which hasn't happened before on it). Hitting the reset button caused it to enter an endless cycle where it would reset, power up, try to POST, and...

I came across this utility today (HotSwap!), and thought some of you might find it useful. It's very handy for hot swapping SATA drives. The SATA drive I have in my eSATA enclosure shows up under the normal Windows XP eject hardware icon, but a bare SATA drive plugged in to the Intel ICH9R or...

Anyone have a Netbook? I was perhaps thinking about getting one, but there are so many different models from so many different companies that all seem similar it seems like a crap shoot. :confused:

I don't know how else to say it. AVG is a complete and utter pile of crap. I just uninstalled it from this computer and will be uninstalling it from any other computer of mine that it's on later today. The program forces you to restart after every update and is just a big fat performance hog...