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Canon's slr's have similar limitations on focus. You can focus while making a movie, but it's more of a one time focus adjustment and not a tracking type of focus you might expect. If you're the creative, manual control type it is fine. If you want something you can just set on auto, wait till...

For what it is worth, I was going to suggest a look at a Rebel T1i. If you're already used to the rebel options and form factor, you might as well see if one will meet your needs. It has the distinct advantage of being compatible with your existing XT lens(es). Though to agree with LM, It has...

what about disk management? Can you use the Intel Matrix Storage manager when not in RAID mode?

SATA reminds me a lot of USB... A device can be USB 2.0 compliant and only support 1Mbit/sec transfer rate... Similarly, you can call something SATA II, but it may not support any of the optional features of SATA - NCQ, Port Multiplier, Staggered Spin Up, Port Selector, External SATA, Hot...

I have had 4 sets of wireless keyboards and mice and I can say that after the last one being MS I doubt I will buy another logitech. I was really impressed with the build quality, precision, and battery life. I've never had a battery problem with either brand, but expect to change batteries...

You can get reconditioned Cisco 2950 10/100 (gbit uplink) switches for under $200. Literally pennies on the dollar compared to new. It's not unless you need gigabit to the desktop where you have to worry about price on a managed switch... If you need full gbit, a 2960G will likely set you back...

The diagram on page 8 shows that the second PCIe has a dedicated x1 lane and the other x3 lanes that go to that slot are switched with the 3 PCE x1 slots. If the manual is correct, then you can use four x1 devices (or one x4 device). Other combinations may (wouldn't bet on it) be possible.

page 10 of the manual (http://america.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/Manual/motherboard_manual_ga-ep35-ds4_e.pdf) definitely states that the 3 PCIe x1 slots are shared with the second x16 slot (electrically an x4) The diagram on page 8 seems to indicate that if the device installed in the second PCIe...

I was under the impression that if there only X number of lanes then only that number of lanes could be implemented (physically via slots). I thought this was the reason that many dual vid boards initially used two x8 slots. It seems surprising that gigabyte would make a board that would turn...

Excuse my ignorance, but how to do get infected from facebook? myspace?

btw, I would stick with Kingston or Crucial. I've had trouble with other brands - Corsair, Buffalo, etc

Don't forget that you can also buy a BrandX server with a boat load of DIMM slots and load them up with 3rd party RAM from someone like Crucial where the memory is validated for use with the server. I know many big box manufacturers would price gouge memory upgrades. I used to find that it was...

That's one of the reasons I prefer managed switches - port security and access lists prevent the majority of problems. It becomes incredibly easy to track down any remaining problems when you can see what machines are attached to each port. Now if all of my switches supported 802.1x I'd be in...

Thanks for the tip. I just installed VMware ESXi on a test station and tested installing different OS's and making snapshots, etc. I was going to test conversion functionality tomorrow. VMWare has a tool for this already - http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ but i'd be happy to try both...

In the cisco world I would recommend a L2TP v3 tunnel (VPN) between both offices' routers - will work over any IP network (including the internet). Since you mentioned low power requirements Cisco is probably out though. I thought you could do similar with m0n0wall/pfSense, shorewall, or just...

We are already comparing two popular manufacturers - why not throw in another?

How does the Perc5 compare with the 3ware in your applications? I always had acceptable performance out of my 7500-4LP in RAID5 (linux file server), but a 7500-2 RAID1 (Win2k3) that I installed really sucks. I attributed it to some limitation of the 2 channel cards. I wouldn't recommend the...

FYI, I use MoneyDance - http://www.moneydance.com/ I like that it easily connects with my online banking accounts (Checking, Savings, Credit, Retirement, etc) so that I can easily add up all of my and my wife's expenses without needing to keep every receipt. Each month, I'll go through and tag...

I have a 1000BaseSX Intel PRO/1000 (82542) PCI-X card that came with one of our dell servers. Dell sells it as the Dell 1561E. Basically looks like a Cisco GBIC on a PCI card. Can be found in quantity on ebay for $25-$50. Unfortunately, I don't know that it is any faster than the onboard...

Asolo 535's have been good in my experience with a couple pair. Looks like they still make them, although they have gone through a couple revisions since I bought mine. I bought a pair of Meindl heavy backpacking boots two seasons ago at Cabelas, and while they seem constructed well and are...

Netperf sounds like what you are looking for. http://www.netperf.org You can get some windows binaries here - ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/benchmarks/netperf/binaries/2.1/win32/x86/ Runs as a CLI program, sending traffic between two hosts - one as the listener (server) and the other...

lsmod will tell you which drivers are loaded. insmod will load a module/driver on demand.

Might try the clonezilla live CD - I use it with 2k/XP/Vista to make/deploy images to a network share ghost style. It's linux based, so supports a range of hardware and destinations (sshfs, SMB, etc).

I second IIS on windows. In linux there are several good FTP server choices - vsftpd, proftpd, pureftpd. I've tried ~ 6 FTP servers in windows and have not been happy with any of the free offerings, including filezilla. Of the commercial offerings: IIS is pretty bulletproof, comes with...

It sounds like you already have a good understanding of SANs in general and anything I can give you is already stated in the wikipedia article on SANs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network The details you're asking for are largely implementation or vender specific. You can follow...

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M That should write zeroes to the entire disk.... including partition table (which installers typically just edit, versus wiping and recreating)

How is that fatpipe working for you? And what exactly is the benefit of multiple fatpipes? The website's description seems to indicate that 'one is all you need'. Also, I though you had a lot of interest in pfSense... what is Tomato/DD-WRT or FatPipe, for that matter, offering that pfSense...

I think the Dell specs stated PCI v2.3 - but the pictures look like the slots are keyed for 5v...

Wow, guess I have my history backwards... I'm thinking of universal cards... bummer, I think you're right about the optiplexes and the LSI card...

I think you're smoking crack Merc... when's the last time you saw a non-universal 32/33 PCI slot on a new motherboard? ... I think for me it's been almost a decade... Now, if we were talking about PCI-X slots, that'd be a different story.... that might be 5 years... ;- )

why not leave task manager or better yet process explorer open in the background, play a little bit and close your game (or alt tab between game and task manager) to see your history. You can adjust the update speed or the width of task manager as necessary. Some ways to get a more complete...

I think you'll gain more performance from file system optimization here... disable last access, disable 8dot3 names, set cluster size to 16k. I would think smaller stripe sizes would work better for your workload (random access of small files), this allows multiple spindles to be used to lower...

The last two orders I've placed for HDD's through newegg were REALLY well packaged. The first was a laptop drive. I figured that the smaller drive size fit better with whatever boxes and packing material combination they had on hand. However, the second was an order of two 3.5" SATA drives...

I don't believe that is a need that I have. The hardware RAID controllers we use will rebuild over a drive whether there is data on it or not... Though I do keep it simple in these setups... In the two situations where I've used RAID 1 as a backup mechanism we've used Windows and have 1 array...

HDD's write from the outside inwards, as can be illustrated by a sequential transfer rate test's degradation in speed from the beginning to the end of a drive. The defragger in 2k/XP has two steps. First, consolidate files into contiguous blocks. Second, consolidate data towards the beginning...

You're right that the drive could have been partitioned to achieve the same effect... but the way the reviewer "shorted" the drives was by lowering their LBA count in the drive settings. To the controller and OS, the drive now appears smaller and any extra capacity the drive had is now...

Yep, we have a few systems with RAID1 as a backup in addition to availability. We pull a drive and set it on a shelf. Insert a new drive and let the array rebuild. The drive on the shelf becomes our backup. This type of backup can be performed online or off, and the rebuild rate can be set so...

Typical Tom's article... As one of the comments mentions. You'd likely achieve the same benefit by simply defraging and consolidating the data at the beginning of the drive. The synthetic benchmarks used don't in any way express the benefits (or lack thereof) of short stroking the drives...

I think that one belongs in the fud category. Nvidia touted their workstation class cards and CUDA support, stating that CUDA was used in CS4. When in fact, the only specifics I can find from Adobe are the CS4 uses OpenGL (and possibly Shader Model 3.0) for acceleration. However, if that were...

Yup, seems to be a lot of FUD regarding the current CS4 suite and Cuda/OpenGL acceleration. I haven't seen a list of the hardware/software/driver version/OS version/etc that has been qualified for its use... so at this point I've just written it off as beta. And adobe beta typically is not...

Something that seems obvious to me... but perhaps not a layman, is that HDD's have a cache and firmware that allow it to behave optimally for a range of applications/operating systems/file systems. Why the complete reversal in position? Why should operating systems now have to tune themselves...

Unfortunately, I've found the 2 channel stuff to have some serious performance limitations compared to their multi channel stuff. And the 8xxx series is quite old now. Stick to a 9500 or 9600 4 channel unit if you consider 3ware. Like Merc said, on Intel based PC's the Intel matrix raid should...

Indexes can do some amazing things, and if you write the queries you should be manually indexing your tables. MS SQL's auto index feature looks at the query log and indexes the columns that are most often used to select data. As Handy said, this isn't necessarily a good thing. But without...

Yup, registered and buffered are synonymous in the RAM world. Unbuffered (non-registered) is the typical RAM used by most PC's and one can safely assume if neither is specified that only unbuffered will work. It is rare, in my experience, for a PC motherboard to accept buffered memory, though...

Merc, I'm assuming you're aware of this, but MS SQL can auto index columns if you setup a regular maintenance plan to do so. On a busy server, this can have a large effect. This assumes 1) that your queries are not optimized and 2) your server is actually busy on at least 1 CPU. I've seen...

I've never heard of ECC memory being slower. The data path is wider to account for error checking/correction (72 vs 64 bits). So, running at the same frequency and timings should result in the same speeds. Now, what I have seen being slower is registered memory (which is often associated with...

Have you compared a self made server to one of Dell's 2950 or 2900 servers? I just spec'd out a 2900 for under $2000 - 2x E5205, 8GB ECC DDR2, 2x80GB SATA on HW SAS RAID, Dual PSU, Remote Access, 3yr warranty. If you call Dell, a sales person can usually start by giving you a 25% discount off...

It would take a Matrox TripleHead2Go or 2 identical cards with crossfire/SLI turned off and game support for a FOV and resolution that works across your 3 monitors. The matrox solution is guaranteed to work, but it's kind of ugly for anything but full screen apps and cannot support the full...

We use Axis cameras at work. They are stand-alone IP cameras. We use them with linux based centralized collection software, but Axis also sells its own software. I believe all Axis cameras run on linux, and access to many of the internal functionality of the cameras either through...

We monitor hundreds of network devices and servers... cacti - http://www.cacti.net/ http://cactiusers.org/