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Well, she actually decided that she didn't want a Benz at all. Too much of a status car. Now she is looking at a Yaris. About the same price actually (CPO vs. New). And it looks like 6 years and ~200,000 miles will be the end of mine as well. I actually like the MazdaSpeed3, but with the SO not...

The fact that we are printing industry standard text and still need drivers at all is a sign of how much suckage and lack of innovation there is in this market.

I'm afraid Matrox isn't up to this sort of task. For reference, I currently have 1795MB of video memory. I rejected the triple-head-2-go a while ago, they don't support 3x 1920x1080. When they do, I will be all over it. I'm actually considering putting the 9800GTX back in to drive my other...

I think the problem is you are having a hard time acclimating to reality WRT pricing and size. D3X beats a camera 3x less expensive? D3X is too expensive, buy one that costs 3x less. Seems pretty simple to me. If I didn't have to drop $20k real soon I would have a 5DII already.

Yup. Too busy with work to post much. Buying a used C230 for the wife...that should be fun.

Won't be for a couple weeks at least, 32GB seems to be fine for my OS/Apps, minus games (2TB) and docs(160GB) for the moment.

I don't have any specific complaints about RMS, really. It is the system that it is tied into that seems so incestuous. Special protocols for receipt printers and cash drawers, proprietary interfaces for credit card processing, very little transparency or documentation anywhere. The worst was...

Blades only make sense if additional rack space costs a lot of money. Even if you are renting space by the unit at a super-secure datacenter, it doesn't cost that much anymore.

My money would be that it is the software falling over itself. It just sucks. You might even be able to swap out that server and network for a laptop and token ring without seeing a performance difference.

Maybe switching platter count? Cache size? Or just too many failures?

We are currently using an older version of Microsoft Retail Manager (1.2 or 1.3) Frankly I am fed up with the lock-in and distribution chain maddness. Does anyone out there know of a good POS/RMS system? We have two retail locations and admin/reporting is done at the central office. Looking for...

This very much sounds like an ACT problem. I haven't had to deal with ACT for at least 3 years, but I built a similar bad-ass server and had similar performance issues. No bottlenecks, no processing issues. The CPUs were never over 2% utilization and the RAM was completely unused. Nothing going...

How does that even happen? I just tried to do it on purpose and got this: "This post is a duplicate of a post that you have posted in the last five minutes."

Nah, that is worth losing some hair over. But I already have some make-up on that count.

Act is never a good idea. Ever. The only thing worse is PageMaker, or...ok there are things worse, but it still should be an offense worthy of losing your nuts.

Act is never a good idea. Ever. The only thing worse is PageMaker, or...ok there are things worse, but it still should be an offense worthy of losing your nuts.

I don't know what that is. My system certainly doesn't have one. I would login as administrator, disable the account, and see if it affects anything.

That review didn't show it, but the first ones I saw (can't find it now) actually showed the single X25-E outperforming the RAID-0 in low load scenarios.

The only thing I remember about The Giver is that they like to speak about themselves in the third person...

uhhh...what was the question? ;)

Here is a review, though I'm not sure if it is the same one.

Not sure yet. I've been looking online for ~$200 amplified 2.1 speakers that can take SPDIF as an input. Klipsch had a little box that went from SPDIF to 1/8" line out a couple years ago, but I can't find it now.

I would be running HDMI for the video, but being able to pull the SPDIF out without needing a receiver saves space and money at the remote locations (kitchen, living room, etc). I didn't even know that HDMI audio was better than SPDIF, time to read up more.

I don't think doing something once in your life makes you a druggie. And I suspect that way more than half the population has tried marijuana at some point.

Shame you are so far away, I have a stack of them sitting here. I don't pay attention to brands or performance, they all seem to do what I need.

Sounds about right to me...

How many members apply per day? Perhaps we could require that new members request via e-mail? I could handle some of that load.

I'm thinking HDMI is good enough to use as a home video distribution system. The non-amplified cables are good to 50' and that will handle most of the runs. The repeaters and other wizardry will work for the outliers. Now all I need is a good HDMI splitter (1 input, 4-6 outputs).

Thanks Handy, should have looked there :study:

Then you don't have enough job security. Quick, make a bunch of changes and don't document them anywhere ;)

I agree with all the comments above, but I have to add a couple things. 1. This is really friggin' far from a performance enhancing drug; it actually damages your lungs (kind of important for a swimmer). 2. How dumb do you have to be being caught smoking weed? I mean, even for a famous person...

A year ago it would have had a 10k SATA drive in it, possibly even a stock 7.2k drive. But the SSDs are getting amazing reviews. I'm not even telling them what is in the box, and they can tell the difference. I recently replaced a P4 3Ghz/2GB/7.2k machine with a 2.66Ghz C2D/4GB/X25-M machine and...

This one looks interesting. HDMI into the monitor and then SPDIF out to some decent speakers. What is the max length of HDMI, anyway?

So if I were to order tomorrow, and wanted something as snappy as an X25-M that was at least 30GB, the best deal is still the X25-M 80GB? I'm building a low-end (for me) workstation and that is a little steep.

There is no way that any administration will give up the control that comes with a paranoid populace, they will just change the tune. At least all the money poured into welfare programs and clean energy aren't killing people.

Yup, I read about that. The crack in the system that makes it unworkable is that the Amtrak corporate security are actual cops. The rules for dealing with private security are quite straightforward, and your options for recourse are much larger.

I'm actually looking for smaller 1080p screens, so I can mirror my main display to other rooms in the house without scaling issues. 1080p projectors are still steep, though.

I vaguely recall something about a fire ax and a misbehaving computer. And a steel-toe boot to the reset button...

I heard that he liked to eat puppies, too.

You have that many independent drives? I have 4 (X25-E, X25-M, Velociraptor, 2TB) standalone and the array, and it is already messy. When I read the review of 4x X25-E drives, the part that struck me was the complex controller slowing it down; I would stick the quick drives on the local bus and...

I would hate to see the carpet in your place ;)

Seagate and WD...the two companies I don't want to buy HDs from at the moment. WD's reputation is getting better, and Seagate is getting worse. Hitachi and Samsung just cruise along, staying out of the headlines.

They are technically compatible both ways, an 8x in a 1x slot and a 1x in an 8x slot. Unfortunately, no one told the motherboard manufacturers; they are putting an end on the slots and locating caps in the way of a larger card.

Someone did a review of 4 of the X-25E in RAID-0 on a high-end controller, and it actually showed performance loss in low-load scenarios. Otherwise I would be all over it. I may need to do it anyway, I only have 10GB free of the 32GB.

Wow, that was a long time ago. IIRC, only XP was limited to GPT/64-bit. Server 2003 supports it in all versions, and I think Vista/7 does as well.

The only systems I've run ECC memory on are those that require it. I've never had system instability/file system corruption/etc that could be attributed to memory issues. I don't think ECC is worth much of anything.

Nope. The last few times I have used ATI cards in more complex configurations, things haven't gone well. Then again, I haven't used one since the 9800GT. My last few cards were a 9800GTX+, 8800GTX, 7950GT and a 6800-something.

A GeForce 295GTX showed up with my X-25M 160GB today ;) So I read that this card supports 2 monitors while in SLI mode and 3 when in non-SLI mode, perfect for my needs. However, it seems that both displays need to be identical resolution, which won't work for me (1920x1080, and 1200x1600). I...

So this is just everyone being bitter that there actually IS a reason to upgrade an 8 year old OS? All my systems with >2TB arrays run XP x64. Also, this drive is at the limit, not above it. So we really haven't hit this issue, yet.

GPT is the easy and painless fix. It isn't a workaround, it really does just solve the problem. It is compatible with *nix and (I think) Mac. No performance penalties or funky drivers. This problem has been solved for at least 6 years.