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General purpose lighting, but some utility capabilities would be nice. I'll be doing work at night and in attics and crawlspaces, so the ability to illuminate an area would be nice. Something I can keep in my small work bag for when I need it. I'm thinking of a pair of these.

Same here

So what is the latest hotness in flashlights? I find myself in need of one.

It was in the most recent one. It only worked in the newer firmwares, but all the one's I've bought in the last 3+ months have had it.

It works well ;) That super article earlier in this thread explained it pretty well, I'll see if I can find it.

The garbage collection on the newer Vertex drives is great, no need for TRIM.

Seconded. No RAID, just eight ports. Merc should love it.

That is your problem. They do work very well if the drive letter is there.

Just for grins I dropped a PCIe 1x 4350 in next to my 5870. I had to re-install the drivers (didn't have to with nVidia) but you do get 4 in XP x64

Yup. When I went from a fast AMD system to a C2D I was blown away. There is a snappiness there that isn't elsewhere. And the boards/drivers are excellent these days. The only things I buy are Gigabyte boards with Intel chipsets and Intel boards with Intel chipsets.

I'll install a 295GTX in the same system as a 250GTX tonight and see what happens.

There is no such thing as a "sweet spot", more drives=more throughput. Add drives until you saturate the bus and call it good. Onboard controllers use the CPU and RAM, so "fast processors" and "lots of cache" are understatements. With SSDs in large arrays saturating the entire bus, you don't...

Using the new ATI cards with their new drivers to represent all 4 monitors as a single display (in 2x2 layout) would be awesome for larger Excel spreadsheets...

My main reason for wanting a faster CPU was for single-threaded app performance. It's difficult to max out all the cores for very long, but maxing out one is easy. The reason for getting the EE is that you can't turn up the FSB much with that much RAM, it just doesn't like it.

It is better than the rest of the office. The most remarkable thing about it is the lack of glare on my computer monitor, possibly because the color temps are about the same?

I'd submit my build, but it might be over-budget ;)

A 25-pack of the correct bulbs arrived today. They never got back to me, nor requested the old bulbs back, just shipped me the right ones. They are 6000K, which is quite a shock compared to the 3500K standard in my office, but things are easier to see and read. Unfortunatly, the CRI (or...

With SLI, it sometimes required a reboot to switch. Not very happy with the long startup times of a RAID array.

Yup. You don't need identical cards, either. I've even done ATI/nVidia combos...but that is the devil's work. Keep in mind that you can also have a pair of 9500s in SLI driving a single monitor and another 9500 driving other monitors on it's own.

I suggest going with 3 Intel drives instead. I currently have 3 Vertex in RAID-0 and it just saturates the bus. The slightly faster access times of the Intel would be appreciated.

Probably a 90% chance of it not being the user, but rather a compromised machine, doing the hacking. Didn't Comcast recently say they would be contacting subscribers whose machines were likely compromised? Unplug-em is what I say...

Now that I have a wife, my impulsive, impetuous, financially irresponsible traits are thoroughly trampled upon already, thanks. That car only has 10k miles on it, so it still has 40k miles on the original warranty. Getting a car with better mileage isn't a concern, it seems to have much more...

If I ever open a tavern, I'll have to call it the "Humpty Doo Tavern".

FYI: The G2s do ship with an adapter. It's basically just a metal plate, mounting the 2.5" drive from the bottom and the 3.5" from the side. There is no way it is compatible with any kind of hot-swap, as the 2.5" drive is centered in the 3.5" space.

Basically what I'm looking for is an AWD mud-capable station wagon with a decent non-manual transmission. From what I can tell they are only made my Audi. Subaru still thinks that 4 speeds are acceptable. The only exception might be the Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback with a dual-clutch. Crazy thing...

So tempting....

On the golf course all day yesterday working...low-50s with windchill.

Thank you for all the hard work Stereodude, and a very interesting conclusion! Those results are so non-intuitive, that I would have to wonder about their statistical significance. Any insight about the standard deviation of your numbers?

It turns out that none of my Samsung 1.5TB drives have failed; it was the backplane. I like them.

Ugh. Screw that. I'm fairly certain I'm getting better performance with local storage. It'll be a sure thing when I get the SSDs in there.

For the record, it looks like you can get VMWare's Platinum 24x7 tech support on the free ESXi platform. The only thing I miss from the free management agents is the ability to see multiple servers at the same time. I can do migrations with the VMWare converter or scripts, the free VMWare...

Well, as winter is coming in, I'll probably start folding with my two workstations. Both are roughly the one in my sig, one with a 5870 and one with a GTX295.

Thanks for the link. They make LED replacements to my landscaping bulbs....tempting.

Another good point in favor of a VMWare solution; compatibility across their product line. I have migrated VMs from VMWare workstation, onto VMWare Server (the one that runs on another OS), and then onto the ESXi machine. I've then pulled a misbehaving VM back onto my local machine running...

Doesn't look like it's there yet, I need to run ATI's latest beta drivers to get the card to work at all.

My maintenance/backup window is about 3 hours these days. The backup takes about 90 minutes. If I can get what I need done in the remaining time, I just shut it down. This is also my first tier of backups; the backup system has a complete "startable" copy of every production machine that is...

Car prices are crazy across the board. The 2005 Audi Allroads are actually selling for 10-20% more now then they were 6 months ago!

Just my 2 cents: I've only used it once, and the computer was pretty messed up, but the machine wouldn't boot at all afterward.

Both interesting facts. I have a pair here that haven't been allocated yet. I'll have to look into both of those. Thanks.

Hi, and welcome. I have virtualized all but two servers at our company (about fifteen VMs in all). The only things that didn't get the treatment were our smoothwall firewall and our fileserver. I'm using VMWare ESXi because it is: 1. Free 2. Easy to work with 3. Very fast compared to the...

Sounds good. That is what I went with and it is now at 2.8% finished initializing. I went with the maximum (128k) stripe size.

I've been recommending the MSI U123, but the U100 isn't bad either. Can't be gotten with the larger battery, and the screen is 0.2" smaller, but it is lighter, cheaper and the rest of the bits are the same. Still a pain to swap out the hard drive (120GB Vertex Turbo) and it will still only take...

Now setting up an 8-drive RAID6 with a hot-spare. Can someone here give guidance regarding the "Greater Two TB Volume Support" setting when creating the array? The options are "No", "64bit LBA", and "4K Block". I believe "64bit LBA" means support for GPT and is the one I want?

Didn't get an e-mail from them, but I got a new UPS tracking number from their address. That looks promising.

I have a Nextel/Blackberry 8830. The only "smart" phone with push-to-talk. I would love to ditch it. The MiFis are very cool, I have a stack of 25 on my desk right now.

Businesslights.com botched my order and shipped 830s instead, and they just arrived today. We'll see how well they can make it right.

Very cool.

Did the math, and an iPhone would cost me $160/month. I don't have a number to compare that to, as I'm currently part of a corp plan.

I've never had such a hard time finding the pricing and options for something I know the name of on Dell's site. Still looking...

One thing I've noticed is now that I have e-mail on my phone, my taking minutes have been cut by at least 75%. Getting clients to e-mail instead of phone has increased my productivity considerably as well (I don't need to stop what I'm doing or change projects immediately based on the...