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What OS is your primary, and what is the secondary?

$24k when I stopped looking, about a day after posting here.

I stopped watching, it was too painful. I can't buy a car until we buy a house, and we're just getting pre-approved now.

Good at the moment, though there was some time in-between that I'm still cleaning up after.

My question was actually based on a true story. At one point (and only one point), I was dating a fairly religious girl. At the time I was a very good, upstanding, and law-abiding individual. She was obsessed with "saving" me, yet the only thing she wanted to do was get me to church.

For the record, the onboard video on my ASUS board was unable to drive the DVI and HDMI ports simultaneously, so it now has an ATI video card in it that can.

Mainly QuickBooks, but VPN to work and PowerPoint would also be appreciated.

uda, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but there is a remarkable signal/noise ratio in other people's posts here. Have you noticed that yours are a serious outlier? I'm not saying there aren't tidbits of useful information in there; you've brought bits of knowledge on SSDs and cameras to the...

At the moment I'm looking into a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu setup.

I actually think that that is too integrated. I'd bet that a virus could infect 7 though the VM.

Nothing. It just means that they move all their other activities to another computer. It's already what I've told them, I was just looking for easier choices.

So sandboxie and the like aren't up for it? I already told them I would be taking them to Linux as a worst-case.

I think the shackles are the "or else" part of any structured religion. It's the part you have to do for no other reason then belief in their claims. If I am a good person, always acting generously, etc, basically doing everything that the christian religions ask except believing in god or...

This is someone's home computer. They have teenagers that do the myspace / facebook thing. As unfortunate a situation as it is, a presence on those sites is more important than having a phone number for that age group, and denying them access really would be a "punishment". These places are also...

I have some users that insist on browsing unsafe sites. They know the problems, and are looking for a way to do what they want without getting hurt. My backup plan is running a VM with Firefox, but are there better tools out there? Are they effective? Sandboxie? What is the least-intrusive...

UT and Quake3. Specifically that space map from the demo where the railgun is out on the platform....ducks in a barrel.

Mercedes Benz SLS is making speed runs past my office all morning. Sweet.

Assassins Creed was actually really good. I should replay that at some point. I still have a 295GTX sitting on a shelf here...

Looks like a very useful tool indeed ;)

In case you like it, World at War was more fun than Modern Warfare, IMHO.

Sweet. Thanks Handruin!

I use them regularly, even on my higher-end builds. If the motherboard supports smart fan speed control, I wouldn't think twice. The copper-bottomed ones are better, so if you have one of those, use it.

The retail one is actually really good. Are you looking for better cooling or lower noise? Do you think the cooler also needs to cool other motherboard components?

I did enjoy that game, though certain sections were frustrating, with luck being the deciding factor. My favorite was the bonus scenario you get to play after you beat the game, played that many times.

A high failure rate was my experience with the original raptors, but the VRs seem to be OK.

Err....no. Not in my case anyway. Having to worry about what software in what configuration is on which machine does my head in. I regularly ghost the machine at home from the machine at the office just to maintain some consistency.

I've always found more real-estate on one screen better than two...

Dell 2209WA looks good.

I think I would take too big a hit repurchasing all my glass if I went Nikon...

RAW, uncorrected. 1600 looked better on the 7D, 3200 was not good but break-even. Everything above that was too bad to use, so I stopped looking.

An interesting idea, though I am nervous about buying used camera gear...anyone have any experience?

Yup, just didn't have time to mess with it.

Following up on this issue, even after I switched back to XP it only showed 8GB of RAM. Removing even one stick (any one stick) brought it down to 4GB. So I tried upgrading the RAM, and it works fine! Old memory: Corsair XMS3 1600MHz 12GB (6x2GB) 9-9-9-24 1.60V ver8.1 HX3X12G1600C9 New...

Do you feel that there is better high-ISO performance somewhere else in the sub-$2k EOS line? I looked at a comparison with the 50D and preferred the 7D.

What are people's thoughts on the 7D? Mainly looking for better high-ISO performance than my XSi and to play around with video. Also looking into a long-ish macro lens.

This is a big thing. I managed to prevent all my clients from going Vista, I never had to support it in an office. Even before 7 had come out I had clients asking when their conversion date was. That is when I get to sit down with the owner of a business and explain to them what a "business...

Depending on your OS and update level, your computer may not know about the changed times for DST changes. You can correct it now, but you will need to correct it again when it is actually time for DST.

Great looking board, Merc. Good find. Right now I have it, a rackmount chassis with 900W redundant PSU and 2.5" bays, a pair of quad-core 2.33Ghz Xeons, 6 4GB FBDIMMs, 5 60GB Vertex SSDs, and a 750GB 2.5" drive for backups in my cart. All this for $3500. Insane. I'm still coming out way ahead...

I like having all my eggs in one basket, and having two identical baskets. It seems the simplest system to work with.

Agreed. 5 would probably be enough, we get the occasional "Hi" post before the spam, but 5 should be good. Just 1 or 2 people with mod privileges would be enough, just give them the ability to delete new-ish accounts and all their posts.

My parent's first date was it's grand opening ;)

I do 50 in my driveway. Have you seen the parking lot at Disneyland? I could go really fast there...

IIRC, those regenerated on Vista as well.

I was just giggling at the SSD RAID capabilities of this.

Kingston is the plan, they are just cheap and seem to always work. Crucial is good as well, but seems to be more expensive. It made sense when they were the best, but they share that rep now.

That isn't bad, actually. Just spec up the CPUs a bit, add the second PSU and the support for all the drive bays that are all already there (can't believe this isn't standard), and that is only at $3k. Not bad at all.

Dammit, I had a great response that got eaten, so you'll get the short version. 1. If you don't have the expensive licenses (vMotion), having one big pool is the most efficient use of your resources, and makes it much easier to manage. 2. If you do have the expensive licenses, you are paying...

The amount of memory I can fit in a VMWare ESXi server is the bottleneck to how many VMs it will run. What is the cheapest way to get a machine with 24GB+ of RAM? I can find non-ECC/Buffered 4GB DIMMs for $150. I usually don't bother with that stuff, but 24GB is quite a bit of RAM. The ECC...

I know enough. I don't have a lesson plan, or a structured way to go through all the features, but when she looks at a picture and says "I want it to be more/less this/that", I can show her how to do it. And since she isn't working from a skill set of any kind; she thinks not in terms of what...

Seconded. Even if you were able to do it without any major stability or compatibility issues, I'm sure the result would be appreciably slower than a clean install.