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Done a bunch of the advice listed above. The plan was for 10% down. We have the other 10%, but need that for house repairs (new roof, insulation, etc). Currently pushing for a 30-day extension of escrow and re-filing for an FHA loan with 3.5% down. So long as the house passes the more stringent...

Less than 24 hours before we are scheduled to close (and the close of escrow deadline), my mortgage broker came back saying that they need an additional 10% down or it was off. Crap.

Thanks for the explanation for us slow folks...

Lunar said it. Any drive will do. I wouldn't reccomend it for long-term use, as there is n active cooling.

As did I. The post of yours that I didn't understand was the most recent one.

Sweet. Thanks for the heads-up.

Indeed.

One of these combined with one of these. Any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA drive will work.

The size of the screen doesn't matter, only the resolution and input. Three 1920x1080 monitors with HDMI inputs? Sure, no problem at all.

I'm sure it's fine, but it doesn't matter, as I'm not using it with 7.

This is on a Server 2003 machine. Further, the OS has no idea what RAID level it is, or that there is RAID going on at all.

No benefit whatsoever. The ideal casing would be a "thin in the middle" heatsink-style aluminum enclosure with flanges on the sides for the mounting points, where all the chips made contact with the aluminum for heat dissipation.

I rose this morning, too. Hip, hip, hooray! ;)

Scroll to the bottom of this page and marvel at the Carbon Fiber SSD casing! Dude!

Areca ARC-1280ML connected to 12 Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB drives. These drives are configured in two arrays; a RAID-10 of 4 and a RAID-6 of 8. Before I rebooted the system, I verified that both arrays were showing "healthy". Upon reboot, the BIOS declared only 1 array. In windows using the web...

I am looking forward to Portal 2. Portal kept me stuck for amazing amounts of time before I learned to think in the ways it required.

Just got off the phone with his superior. The CTO will be calling me tomorrow morning so we can go through a manual repair of their database. Yay.

At 4:30PM yesterday, tech support from a vendor told me it was OK to delete a log file. I've now been on the phone with his superior for 7 hours trying to put it back. Blah.

After playing the Supreme Commander series of RTSs, all the rest suck. Not being able to zoom out as far as you like is a major limitation. Not to mention running two active and independent screens.

That is utterly nuts. I was convinced he was already halfway through a spin when it hooked back up.

Not me....can we have the link? I'll fix it.

Check your link there...

You can do water cooling for much less, but I wouldn't want to trust my system to cheap WC components. They say "sealed, no maintenance" so I wonder if they are just heatpipes and some exaggerated marketing...technically that is phase-change cooling ;)

Indeed. I'm hoping that one of the vendors releasing a 5970 E6 will have factory waterblocks on it. My motherboard already does, and I can get a CPU waterblock when I switch to the i7-980X

That is a really great list.

LOL. Wrong government.

Quick game review: HAWX A flight simulator where the throttle is a button (on/off). Massive fail. The more games are designed for consoles the more they suck. Their UI and menu systems particularly. Dirt2 was a pretty game, but while playing it straight through I was waiting for the UI and...

Intel i7 940

If AHCI is disabled, no drivers are required. No F6, nothing. If it can't see the drive, reset the BIOS to defaults (and make sure AHCI is off again), and double-check the drive cables.

Polish amateur photographer Miroslaw Swietek, taken early in the morning, when the dew is still out.

I'll be ordering one of the 5970 E6 cards when available. At the very least I'll be trying it for myself with 5 Acer B273HU 27" monitors. 23.5" high and 65" wide at 5760x2048 will fit nicely on my desk.

Fantastic. That is exactly what I'm after. Buying several of those is going to hurt....

That is why I was looking at the 5-wide in portrait mode. The center is a single screen.

That's what I was thinking, but it was just a hunch. Do you have any info?

He is right, you know...

Just talked to the simulator client, and 42" screens would be too big for the install. 37" might work, but I might retreat all the way to 32". For the day trader I might go to projectors so it can be larger and not have any seams at all.

I actually have two different customers who would be interested in such a thing. One is a day trader who is looking for a wall of monitor for all his graphs. The other would be for a dedicated driving simulator.

Looks like the Eyefinity 6 cards are finally shipping. The solution I'm looking at specing will use 5 42" 1080P LCDs side by side in portrait mode. That should be pretty awesome (3ft (93cm) high and 8.6ft (263cm wide) - 5400x1920). Now to look for a reasonably priced LCD TV with a narrow bezel.

development, a product code-name.

Ouch, 2300mAh should be good for a while...

The name of a place (a city, river, mountain range) can't be copyrighted, so they use them as dev names to save money on legal filings.

On the pano head? Isn't there an external power connector on that thing?

They aren't French, they are based in Sunnyvale, CA. Everybody is using place names as dev names so they can't be copyrighted.

For some strange reason I'm not worried at all about the insurance companies making money...

That is a fantastic read. I love rally racing.

I've been thinking "Mangy Coors" kind of like "Mangy Dog", but with beer.

Where do I sign up?

RISC doesn't count ;)

I did stop by and visit when the iPod Touch came out...some interesting people were there. I'm sure there are blogs about it.

Virtualization is your friend. Get any hardware you like, stick linux on it, install vmware player, install NT4. The ultra-generic drivers will make your life much easier.