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Put that in your laptop and smoke it ;) Very cool. I was just considering installing a pair of 1TB disks in my workstation for additional space, I think I can wait a while....

It is an electric compressor, but did have me add some oil for something. Not sure what or why.

In San Francisco, when I lived there, there was a major problem with cars killing pedestrians. The city decided that the best way to stop it would be to paint the chalk outlines of those killed permanently onto the street where they fell. There was one on my walk to work, and it certainly got my...

Nope, in America. Having to reach across and shift with the left hand while driving in traffic (signaling, etc) was a challenge. Could be worse, a buddy of mine lost his left leg. He has a hell of a time with the clutch.

I had my right hand in a cast for a brief while, and I drive a manual transmission ;)

I was very close to going with the 920 as well. My move for the 940 was purely insurance towards a good overclock. From what I read, 4Ghz (my target) is more difficult with the 920. Some have dome more with a 920, but few stable and certainly not guaranteed. The RAM is fairly low-latency...

I build and maintain all the computers in the office (I am the only IT guy), so I work on 3-5 systems a day. In addition to doing all the higher-end duties (budget, purchasing decisions, contracts, etc) and the lower end ones (at the moment, reviewing the security tapes).

My i7 board had a metal backing plate under the CPU already (I've read in reviews that other boards have them, too). In addition, the CPU cooler I'm using has its own backing bolt-through plate. A crazy amount of pressure on the CPU and no bending. See my list here.

It has been a while since I keyed one in here, but I'm stoked about the new rig: Intel i7 940 (still at stock 2.93Ghz) Thermalright TRUE Black 120 HSF (with Noctua NF-S12 fan) Gigabyte EX58-UD5 (yes, the expensive one. Some of the features are insane*) 6x OCZ 2GB 1600MHz DDR3 (two 3-packs)...

I'm pretty confident that the HSF popping off was user error. The i7 stock setup looks identical to the 775 kit (but a bit bigger), so I won't be bothering with it. I have a Thermalright TRUE Black 120 and the LGA1366 bolt-thru kit for it. Hopefully that won't warp the board too badly.

People who like to have a monopoly on hardware. You know, idiots.

My first i7 system shows up today. We'll see what happens to that motherboard.

;) It's at my office. It isn't an issue after the circulation fan has been running for a while, but in the morning it stinks. I'm hoping it goes away after a while.

In my office. Its only noisy when it charges, and I have it charge at night. My current complaint is that it smells awful (something about the oil in the motor?).

Because I'm waiting for a file to finish copying.

In the opinion of every corporate IT guy I've read. The fact that some idiot bought one and made his IT department make it work only reinforces the point. It is a fashion accessory, and is only good for listening to music and showing your friends your crappy pictures. That it is capable of more...

See MacBook Wheel.

iPhone is useless for business applications, because it doesn't have a keyboard.

Some people around here are interested, but I'm cautious to buy the first one as well. I will have one of the Nextel/Blackberry smart phones by next week to play with. Considering I'm planning to migrate the whole company to Google Apps/Gmail for domain, Android seems like the obvious choice.

Very close.

Awesome. One of the "auto complete sentences" is "The ass asked for aspirin."

It's actually interesting. Before, Apple actually sucked, and its fanboys tried to say it didn't. Now, it's irrelevant, and the fanboys try and say it isn't.

Anyone have one? What are your thoughts? Anything looking promising?

Not the newer ones I've tried. My wife has a fairly indeniable Russian accent, and the VR in Vista handles it quite well. And it can handle me halfway through a bottle of wine, which isn't bad ;)

Just bought a Technet Plus...waiting for it it go live. Gotta love this warning: Are they sticking some DRM in there or what?

Sweet. I gotta get in on some of that...do you think a power pack would work? Or do I need MSDN?

I've found that the thing that helps me most is change. Sleeping on something different always helps my back. Even too soft/too hard mattresses help for one night.

I don't like beer, and I'm lazy, so I googled it (faster than typing). I favor an ability to search for and absorb information above existing knowledge.

I didn't like the Tempurpedic, so much so that I had them take it back. Ended up getting a Posturepedic instead, but the next will be a sleep number.

I'm faster with voice recognition than just typing with my left (just my right is still faster). Do you think your accuracy will decrease typing with your left? 'Cause I don't think I could handle that...

Add/Remove programs, select Office, Add/Remove Components, pick the stuff you want. I had forgotten about that one.

Then count Google out, it is only online.

You are the second person to compare me to the age of their shoes today. Weird.

There is a big prison, but the primary industry is flowers for seed. The fields are beautiful. You also get to see a rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB from time to time.

Have you tried the Google Docs converter? If you don't have an account, I can try it for you. I also have a newer version of WP on a machine down the hall.

Just wait until next year, we'll see whose older then! ;)

Good point. My only guess would be that default is 12.5 x 200. They never stop you from turning it down, just up.

I follow your logic, but I don't think any of them will be a measurable difference. Even with a kill-a-watt, I don't think the difference will register.

I actually broke my first SD card the other day. Haven't broken any CF cards yet. For the record, my 30MB/s 8GB Extreme III SD card allows the XSi to shoot RAW continuously. Very cool.

I bet waiting will fix it ;)

Up now, Rush Limbaugh...with Sean Hannity up next!

The output from a soundcard will be signal level only; you will need an amplifier of some kind to drive speakers. Honestly, you will be much happier with one of these. Surround sound is a nice thing.

Armadillo Run is very fun. I'm sure the other will be, too. Thanks for the tip.

Meh, I'm really happy with my new workbench. The whole table is angled towards me, is prewired for network, power, and KVM, and has a 2 gallon air compressor mounted underneath. If I can't do a motherboard in 5 minutes (power tools) something is wrong.

From what I understand, this is related to whether they previously had "leave a copy of messages on the server" checked or not. If they left the messages on the server, you get it all. Outlook isn't smart enough one way or the other.

This is weird. Samsung ML-2850ND, connected to the network with two workstations (XP, all updates) both configured the same from the same CD. Both can print and see the full feature set. I can't find a single thing different about them. On one of them, when you try to print an envelope from MS...

They all still work. The only issue I had was when two of the corners popped out of the board and cooked the chip. But considering the number of installs I've done, that isn't too big a deal.

I've experienced the same with the stock Intel HSF (on that motherboard and others). Intel's current mounting mechanism is one of the crappiest to date. I've also had them actually pop out on their own.

I'm still looking for backplanes/enclosures that support the multi-lane connector that 3Ware uses in their RAID cards. 75% less cables is a good thing.