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Bringing back the A-10 would be a pretty obvious move IMHO. Significantly more ordinance on target than an Apache, for less money and with better survivability.

But then you are giving up the option of quad 5970s for the equivalent of 8-way performance ;)

I have one and really like it. They say to use it regularly, but I haven't seen any appreciable adjustments after the first.

Party pooper ;) C'mon, they kept building until they could saturate a 16x PCIe Gen2 slot. That is pretty awesome.

Anyone else drooling over the ioDrive Octal?

I haven't tried two of the same cards in the same machine (would be too confusing, IMHO), but I know 3Ware's software supports up to three cards at a time. I currently have an Areca 24-port and a 3Ware 16-port connected to a machine with another 10 onboard SATA connectors. This is temporary of...

I'm becoming such a wuss when it comes to drinking. A couple shots and I'm ready to sleep.

So did you watch it? Did you disagree? BG hasn't been part of MS in quite a few years...

I appreciate you doing the homework, but I just don't trust those stated specs very much. That Cisco looks interested (though it is likely just a Linksys underneath). I hear great things about DrayTek, but I recall them being difficult to source here.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

I'm not even using the wireless bits. I could use a computer, but there are no machines in these locations, so it would have to be dedicated hardware. These are also industrial sites, so fanless low-heat solutions are favored. I do feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole; as soon as I fixed that...

At the office I'm running 1.5TB Samsungs. At home I'm running 2TB WD Greenpower drives mainly because I'm paying for the electricity, don't appreciate the extra heat, would have to put up with the extra noise, and don't have the SATA ports to spare. There are many reasons besides $/GB to go for...

I suspect that I am pushing these harder than most. They are running both ends of a PPTP tunnel that is handling a very large number of relatively small transactions. The aggregate throughput averages 300KB/s but spikes to 6MB/s, but that is a lot of connections. Now that I've thermal-epoxied...

I'm getting pretty desperate looking for some semblance of reliability from WRT54GLs these days. DD-WRT adds some reliability, under clocking it gets you some more. I'm now stripping the cases and mounting a heatsink on the main chip, and I'm considering using more reliable power bricks if I can...

A relatively new Onkyo receiver. Should have been able to handle it. I just took delivery of some Gigabyte H57M-USB3 boards and some i5-660 and -670 chips. I'll let you know how it goes.

You know, footbook.

Tannin, I'll need to agree with Handruin here. The Prius isn't a plug-in hybrid. It does get all it's energy from gasoline. Besides, all my power comes from a natural gas power plant, with carbon sequestration put into the production of cement.

I was only getting stereo out of my 5790 via HDMI in 7. The video was great, though.

I thanked you for making your posts respectful; never made any promises about my own ;)

Special thanks to the designer who thought that the Intel DG31PR motherboard didn't need a heatsink on the southbridge. It now has my fingerprint seared into it.

You went out of your way to make your post less readable? WTF?

Congrats to Lunar for 4k posts! All respectful and much appreciated!

That depends on how it is associated with all the other bits about you. I would consider any information given to any of these companies (even under their promise of "private") as posted on the web. The current privacy threat is from the combining/mining of all the little bits about you all over...

I believe that MLC is the way of the future. Need more reliability? Put in better error checking and redundancy in the controller.

Some people think ASUS is OK. Same $400.

Because fans are easy to replace, and 7 PCIe 16x slots could do some very neat GPU processing stuff?

I think so. But trying to convert those files to some other format is sometimes a pain. I'm currently having issues with "Up" and "Angels and Demons", as the movie itself is broken into multiple m2ts files. My normal workflow doesn't know what to do with this.

Anyone play with one of these yet?

Ugh...been troubleshooting busted hardware for hours, just identified the culprit. One of the modular SATA power cables. Of course, I tested 4 motherboards, 3 CPUs, 6 sticks of RAM, and a pair of PSUs before I found it. Now I get to go back over everything.

I'd like to take this opportunity to curse Intel for not using open-ended PCIe 1x slots. That is all.

Tying a few bits of the last few days together, my old boss once said: "People in NYC drive like assholes because they have to, people in LA drive like assholes because they are. ;)

I only have about 10 in use here, but have deployed at least another 50, probably more. I have also stuck a pair of 120GB Vertex and 160GB X-25M in a very heavily used VM Server for several months and they are holding out nicely.

I've never had one fail, so I guess their RMA dept. is out of practice.

400GB...holy cow! Going onto TPB and searching for "1080P" and "HD" returns maximum file sizes of 99GB and 125GB, respectively. I think the biggest single torrent I've ever gone for was about 10GB.

An interesting add-on to this is that the largest SUVs and trucks are exempt from almost all regulation, as they qualify (by weight) as commercial vehicles. I remember reading somewhere that most large SUVs (Escalade, etc) are so heavy, that they shouldn't be allowed on residential streets...

DVI+Sound for me...I strip the DRM as soon as I get the disk.

I can (and did), but all the online video hosting sites suck for this kind of thing.

Clients suck sometimes. I hate realizing after the fact that I was representing someone that didn't deserve it.

That is indeed cool, but as they said, the video compression of web video kills it. I'm downloading the app now, and I'll see if I can do better ;)

Photoshop, and other image processing programs. Mainly just for not having to worry about open applications, ever. 7 is stable enough that I reboot only for updates and hardware changes. At the moment I have Photoshop (half-dozen images), Google Earth, Pandora (their local app), Light-O-Rama, A...

A degree is certainly an investment that pays off over time, so the more time spent with one, the better. I'm also hoping that universities there are more reasonably priced than here. Unless you are in a field where certification is mandatory (doctor, lawyer, etc), it has been argued that you...

So long as you stick to the slower clocks, the Xeons won't kill you. Only Xeons make the price ramp of i7s look sane.

Indeed. This seems to be overlooked quite often. Sure, the third memory channel doesn't get you much performance in most stuff, but those extra slots sure are handy.

ECC is massively overrated even for non-life-threatening server stuff, much less workstations. I run 12GB in all my machines. While OC'ing is limited, there are no issues. Running off to server hardware is the path to madness (and bankruptcy).

Best of luck. I don't have a degree in what I do either, but I managed to score some management roles without it, so I don't think it will be required. It's good to hear that your financials are in a good enough position to afford the opportunity. The one thing I have heard about people going...

When I lived in Boston, the street I was on was upgraded in place from the buggy track, which was upgraded in place from the cow path. That was one drunk cow. SF I found much easier than either, but I lived there longer than Boston and NYC.

Do people still do CPU-only upgrades? GPUs, memory, storage, optical maybe. But in my experience, most people do the CPU and Mobo at the same time, usually with the PSU and chassis.

The last time I drove in Manhattan wasn't as bad as everyone says. Parking sucks, but you just adjust your aggressiveness to match the other drives, and it works out OK.

My disk score wasn't a VR ;)

Yeah, doesn't seem to like 8-bit PNGs...whatever. I fixed it now.