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The biggest thing to cut down on is booze. Even worst than sugary stuff; more calories and less nutrition. The only advantage is that if you are cutting down on food, and are a little hungry, you need far less booze to achieve the desired effect. The corollary to that is that if you consume a...

I was having lunch in the place referenced in the OP of this thread, minding my own business, when the alcohol vendor arrived with "samples". My wife had to come by and pick me up when she got off work. It wasn't the 6 bottles of wine spread between the two owners and myself, it was the...

Well, I am now pushing 217...so congratulations. I had just started to diet, and intend to begin exercise this weekend, but today was a dark day. More in the Random thread.

This game would be a lot more fun if it quantified my attempts, and allowed me to specify new attempts numerically. Otherwise there is far too much chance involved.

My mail store is only about 5GB, but since it is on Google it makes no difference whatsoever. The search feature is so useful and so fast that I don't bother sorting anything anymore.

It was Win7, but no partition expansion was allowed, even after deleting the "data" partition. Even after taking that drive and moving it to another machine that was also Win7. Ended up using Partition Magic.

I guess. But it came from Dell this way, so does Dell not know how to work disk imaging software?

So the PSU fills 40% of the chassis?

Why did Dell think it was a good idea to sell a computer with a 60GB C drive and a 480GB D drive? Did they think their users would figure this out on their own? Now I have a machine with so many backlogged updates that I can't clear the space fast enough.

The Antec also comes with a stand, but I wouldn't use it as it doesn't decouple the case from whatever it is on. I will go to great lengths to avoid linking an HTPC via WiFi...streaming media doesn't like wireless.

Indeed. Particularly if you've already removed the HDCP from all your content and are trying to do whole house audio. This is awesome and cheap.

It also has to have a go-fast name, like my Kingston HyperX t1.

You never hit the space limits on the Exchange store itself? I haven't run an Exchange server since Exchange 2003, but the limits were draconian in 200 user environments compared to Google.

Just a tidbit. I'm looking at some of these heatsinks to sandwich some arrays of 9x 3TB drives, with the whole shebang acoustically decoupled from a custom wooden cabinet. They were cheaper than I was expecting.

I found some stuff online from some brands recommended here with the features I was after. Not asking for much and wasn't disappointed.

The only specialty bit in there is the PSU, and at least it is an Antec. I have had very good luck working with them directly on spare parts in the past.

Just built the following: Antec ISK300-150 Intel DH57JG Intel i3-550 (Dual 3.2Ghz, 73W) Intel 40GB SSD 4GB RAM Win7 Home Premium Very nice machine. Incredibly small and very quiet. I'm sure the power consumption is low as well. One major problem: The "Power" cable from the front of the...

Disregard, this only works with groups of users in the domain, so it wouldn't work for you. In Google Apps, go to users, then groups. You'll notice a group can have it's own address.

I like my Klipsch desktop speakers, but I don't believe they are the "horn" type that those here are referring to. They just look like normal speakers and sound pretty good.

Google Apps also lets you give a group of contacts it's own e-mail address, so you could have an address "parents@cubscouttroop.com" and maintain the list that way. Though I think the Google Groups is a cleaner solution.

I have had problems with MS mouse wheels in general. With one standard Windows XP machine with no special drivers installed, the wheel would occasionally make the browser go back a page, the rest of the time working normally?

All of my recent attempts to unsubscribe have eventually worked. Many say it may take a month because they outsource their messaging services.

And it's a small state.

I'd love to take it off your hands for only a small discount. Your privacy preferences may require a dead drop and cash, no?

The average windows sysadmin will blow away a workstation as soon as they hit any kind of snag. That is because the MS way provides fixes for 1st tier glitches, and as soon as you get past that you are SOL. The exception to this rule is MS' actual support people. You get absolute friggin' magic...

Ah....I hate those guys.

I've decided I want a Gigapan Epic Pro for my birthday, if I can convince my wife to splash out on it... Lunar, you have one, right? How do you like it? Have you tried it with any really long lenses?

Which guys?

Funny enough, I actually did get some good info from the OCZ Forum guys. Seems they even approved an RMA via PM on their forum?

That is better. With another Biggun hitting in about an hour, that should help considerably.

A few companies have now come out with decent 140mm fans...but you are correct. The best of the best are 120mm max.

Grr...my inconsistencies are preventing me from getting a 6-figures 24hour average.

Wow that is a big unit with both fans going...

Looks like a good unit. I prefer horizontal airflow because the motherboards are mounted in my case such that GPU and CPU exhaust air is all directed upwards.

In the BIOS it is listed as "YATAPDONG BAREFOOT" Googling this shows threads in the OCZ forum where techs actually responded. Not good news, though.

The MKV files play nicely in MPC-HC, which is the same app I use for everything else. MakeMKV, in my experience, is the fastest, easiest, and most successful method of getting DVDs and BRs into single files. No AnyDVD, no special anything.

In device manager it appears as "Marvell 91xx Config ATA Device", not a drive at all.

Microsoft has typically been very good at making things appear easy and clean to the users. They have also been good at making things appear clean on the admin side. However, by making things appear clean and easy on the admin side, they have essentially hidden the nuts and bolts; making it...

Had an original Vertex 120GB go bad. Hard to blame the drive, though, the laptop it was in had a failed fan and the drive was so hot the label blistered. However. This drive contained important data without a backup, and I have been tasked with doing just about anything to recover it. At the...

Yeah, I'd rather just rip with MakeMKV, leave it alone, and buy more drives ;)

So glad I don't have any users on Outlook anymore.

I'm getting good performance with a Zalman tower. Only drawback is that you can't swap the fan. Not that the one it has is bad or noisy, I just prefer having control. i7-970 @ 3.9Ghz including some overvolt, 100% load @ <50C.

Sorry, my post was late. I was referring to all the programs you are using for your compression in the first place.

Yeah, I need to start doing some diagnostic on that machine. I think the RAM is unstable at anything over stock. Just haven't put the time into it.

Frustrating that an i7-860 @ stock misses the preferred deadline for big units by ~4 hours. It might be that it is also handling the GTX570 in the system. And this rig is not stable with any kind of OC.

I'm not. Does it log that anywhere?

Nice astrophotography project.

I just sent an MKV to Handbrake and MPC-HC couldn't render the result? I'll try another preset and try again.

746GB is nowhere near the limits for FAT or MBR. That is due to an incompatibility between the drive and your SATA chipset. I suspect you are running it in AHCI mode? Try IDE.

Wow, that is a lot of work, Stereodude. I was considering just sending it to Handbrake or Format Factory.