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Dynamic disks do work, unless you are looking for *nix compatibility (tried it with mixed results). But everything from XP x64 forward (Vista, 2003, 7) supports GPT...so it isn't that big a deal.

Thanks sechs, that was the one I meant.

I am just finishing a Vista-XP upgrade as we speak. The SATA ports were in AHCI mode and not detected by the XP SP3 CD. After switching them to "compatibility mode", it worked fine. I downloaded the Intel file called "AllNetworkAdapterDrivers_13_5.zip" and installed that. That got the NIC...

I found that going into the BIOS and setting it to "legacy" or "compatibility" mode allowed XP installs without slipstreamed drivers for all but that really annoying period when the SATA ports were on an expansion card.

Fixed that for ya.

Fail. For that, you'll want to stop pretending you are using a competitive platform and just get the real thing.

Eh...oh, yeah...haha... ;)

Yup. I'm the only one with access to the whole thing. I think I'll make our offsite server a "pull" system that isn't a member of the domain and requires different credentials. That way it can pull the data it needs to backup, but no other machine can access/control it.

I have multi-site redundancy, and many-copy archiving, but all the systems are online and connected to the same network via VPN, Fiber, wireless, etc. A virus or malicious user with admin access could kill it all, in theory.

I know that RAID is not a backup, but now it seems that online backups aren't enough, either. Time to go back to a copy powered off in a fire safe.

I won't be buying any of these. SSDs are high enough capacity for my mobile needs. The only spinning-platter disks I'll be getting will be the largest for major storage.

Actually, I have 8TB of data that I would like another copy of. Working (RAID-10), backup (RAID-5), off-site (RAID-5).

Limit 1 per customer....dammit!

The very fact that we don't know what the result will be, and are changing the entire planet in a way that we can't easily reverse should be enough. It's not like we have a backup. You are arguing that the uncertainty means we can continue. I'm arguing that the uncertainty means we have to stop.

But we can regulate CO2 emissions. Just not as easily. I was looking at the 10-year schedule for our truck fleet. Based on the newly regulated schedule, 50% of our fleet gets scrapped within the next 3 years and 75% in the next 10. That is a massive, massive cost to reduce CO2. Nevertheless, it...

Nope. Home Premium, Business Premium, and Ultimate IIRC support this. Hence my earlier post.

You could touch bases with with tech museum out here (biggest of its kind, IIRC)...though they will probably just take the rare stuff.

It is the same as Vista; you can't control it and Vista defrags when idle. I prefer to have control.

Recode is useful, as is Burning ROM. I don't install the rest. It is a lot like Winamp in that the basic functionality is sweet, but you can't accept a default install or it blows.

Oh, yeah. ;) It's OK, the computer purchases will stop soon. The sailboat racing season starts in a few months, and I need to get my boat ready.

I typically don't have a problem getting people into a higher budget after something has failed. I just phrase it as "what you had obviously wasn't good enough, here is something better". This means Seasonic power supplies, Intel NICs, and Auzentech sound cards. If someone has a desktop, I will...

Focusing on elements that we can't control (like our distance from the sun) is a waste of time.

Well, when XP came out, and MS wasn't entirely evil, they had a way to make most of it look like 2000. When Vista came out, and MS was entirely evil, they didn't. The only way I know to make Vista look like XP is the above method. And I don't mind Inspiron laptops; they are cheaper than...

Hey, I did wait 3 days...give me some credit ;)

If it were USB 1.1, that would be brilliant. This is merely humorous.

I'm certainly not going to argue that fossil fuels aren't necessary today, but not working toward reducing our dependency on a limited resource is stupid anyway.

They dropped the price...I couldn't help it. At least I didn't buy two...RAID-0 was very tempting.

The public can download the Beta right now (the link is further up this thread). It will be available to buy in the Q4-09/Q1-10 range.

1. Download the relevant XP drivers for the laptop and burn them to a CD 2. Erase the hard drive and install XP 3. Install the drivers onto the machine Simple ;)

That is true, but it is a seperate issue. Which one of the following do you disagree with. 1. That combustion of fossil fuels produces CO2, Methane and other gasses 2. That humans are using more fossil fuels and producing more of these gasses 3. That our increased production of these gases is...

Just bought the Intel 160GB for $799 from Newegg. ;)

No, I just don't believe that an intelligent person still doesn't understand the concepts behind climate change. This only leaves 2 options, and I'm assuming you are intelligent. The alternative would be that you are intentionally taking a false stand for some other reason. Trolling would be the...

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I suppose you could build a bubble around your area, if you feel it is too cold. Mythbusters actually did this, BTW. The temperature in the bubble full of CO2 got much higher than the temperature in the bubble full of regular air.

Before I was thinking that there is no way I can skip Windows 7 as well, and stay with XP for another 3-5 years. Now I'm thinking I can. Or at least ride XP out until we can go Linux.

I have a USB optical here if there is something you want to test...

Samsung has always done well for me, though I will buy a Seagate/WD if there is no comparable product (1.5TB/10k RPM).

I thought they had been calling it climate change for a long time now.

Crazy. I haven't used WS2008 yet. I'm not feeling the need to change from 2003 (I still have a pair of 2000 servers around here).

I meant standard for the machines I build. They are already in 50% of them. The X25-M and a mid-range Core2Duo is snappier for office apps and web stuff than a Velociraptor and a Q9650.

Thanks for the heads-up. These will be standard issue soon.

I have had a few that mounted the motherboard upside down. The main advantage was graphics card cooling; the GPU was finally on the top of the card, with plenty of space above it. I built a duct front-to-back that handled the CPU as it's own unit. It worked quite well.

Latest DPP (3.5.something) running on i7@3.91Ghz. Source images are on X25-E, destination is X25-M. As you can see, it never maxes any of the CPUs, which means the bottleneck is elsewhere. Something tells me the HDDs aren't the limitation either. If I were looking to say a program is poorly...

In the meantime I will placate myself with a pair of 300GB Velociraptors. ;)

Photomerge does a great job with my cores (8, counting hyperthreading) and happily eats up the 10GB of RAM I let it use.

That looks to be my issue, udaman. Excellent research. So it looks like Intel is the only one at the moment, but that better things are coming quickly? Perhaps I'll just run a pair of VelociRaptors until some fast ~300GB SSDs are available. My plan was to purchase by next Friday, but I can put...

I share your dissapointment with the major photo apps lack of multithreading capabilities. Fortunatly, every time I've increased the number of cores, I've also increased the clock speed of those cores. CS4 does do better in this regard; I've started using it over PTGui and Photomatix because it...

No, the performance of the Intel SSDs is fine, I just need more capacity. I'm considering a pair of the 80s, or a 160. Just wondering if anyone else has cracked the hesitation issue yet.

Why did you replace the CPU and what performance were you looking for?

Found them in stock at ZZF for $1k.