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That is getting to silly sizes now. I'm sure there are applications out there, but I don't think I'd want anything larger than a 128GB for my stuff. Exchange has a 100GB cap, none of my other databases are larger than about 60GB. Even running an army of VMs on a machine only takes up 10-25GB...

The point difference was actually 1104 points (16*69)

My advice depends on your brand of social issues. I only really stress when I will have to work with this person again. If I don't have to worry about it, then I can be quite rude without feeling remorse. Besides, it is very rare to have such a clear and deserving target. As such, I would simply...

I was looking at the various Linux/BSD-as-firewall appliance things, and none of them did all the stuff this does. I could have set up a machine myself with IPTables up the wazoo and BIND and the rest, but since I don't know how to do that, I would be hiring someone to do it. And then I have a...

I was looking at the various Linux/BSD-as-firewall appliance things, and none of them did all the stuff this does. I could have set up a machine myself with IPTables up the wazoo and BIND and the rest, but since I don't know how to do that, I would be hiring someone to do it. And then I have a...

I haven't had an issue installing the demo, and I've tried it on a few different machines.

I've just ordered a FatPipe for the office. Based on the demos I received, it should be pretty amazing (better be for $13k). It will be merging a pair of T-1s and a 5/5 wireless connection. Does anyone have experience with these things?

News to me. I've been running CS4 on the Intel SSD since it came out. Perhaps they are just trying to avoid the performance issues with the cheap ones?

I really like this one. Where is it? I'm in the same boat. People at work and friends like my stuff and have even purchased some of it, going so far as to say i should be selling it online/wherever. All the pros make it clear that my work isn't there yet, without necessarily saying why. :dunno:

I have a few here that are inkjets, and one that is a laser. I haven't seen one that used a pen since high school.

Adobe Reader will to it, I think FoxIt will as well. File > Page Setup > Choose the correct paper size > OK. File > Print > Scale to fit media. I was doing it with PDFs to a 48" wide laser printer all day yesterday from Acrobat Reader.

Boobs...boobs are good.

Boobs...boobs are good.

I wouldn't consider a move from Samsung to WD an "upgrade". I'd consider Samsung's lower price a bonus and get them regardless.

I have a hard time taking advice from a site that rates Norton so highly.

I just placed a bid on an item on EBay. No reserve, no starting bid. Buy it now is $350 and I bid $50. It showed as the winning bid for a couple hours, but now it says that she "has declined your offer of US $50.00." WTF? That is not how bidding works. Can I bid a massive amount and then decline...

I hear that. I'm about a decade younger than most of my friends, but I'm falling apart much more quickly. Just like my car; it's not the years, it's the mileage.

Today I get to replace the fan in an HP 130 plotter power supply, rebuild a projector, and I just finished stripping the 6-disk DVD changer from a Land Rover HSE so I could clean the DVD pickup. Despite all the manual labor, I am really enjoying myself. Is this a geek thing? I also got to go...

One of the things I like about the new gig is that I work for them. I'm putting into place all the systems I want, can approve all the bits I want, and can set the policy any way I like. I'll have them off Exchange/Outlook and onto Google Apps within the month. I've already begun locking down...

It's great how candid they are about the performance limitations, and the workarounds. When I started reading, I expected them to blame XP; but they did a good job explaining stuff.

I think Merc was commenting more on the chipset being limited to 1GB, so adding more wouldn't do any good.

Yup, the 3x SSD got broken down and put into a bunch of cheap workstations. Even with the lagging it's faster than a 5400RPM dog all the time and a 7200RPM dog some of the time. The Intel is the only SSD that hasn't had lagging of some kind. I suspect that it will stitch much better, but I...

The move went well, and it was awesome to walk to work this morning. The walk to the office is about twice the previous walk to the parking lot! Waking up at 6:30, having a shower, and still being in the office by 7 is an amazing thing.

Glad you are still intact, Bozo. I'm breaking down the computer in prep for our move today. Of course it's raining, and I've found a leak in the uHaul, and they got me a 17' instead of a 26'. But I'm stoked to not have to commute anymore. I should be online by this time tomorrow.

It would need to be something that supported transparency. From memory, ICO doesn't.

I'm not saying that it was purely HDD bound; I'm saying that it was a dog, and exhibited the performance freezes that we discussed in the SSD thread. I'm not saying it was a rocket the rest of the time, a 1.6Ghz Atom is not a rocket of a CPU.

At least everything you have a key to doesn't have to be re-keyed. A past place made you pay for it if you lost your keys more than once, it was over $1k.

At work we use RFID sensors. Useful, but still very easy to forget/lose.

That looks very neat. Thanks Blake. Merc: $15/device for monitoring! Holy crap!

Actually, it seemed to be HDD-limited most of the time (see the notes about cheap SSD performance in that thread).

I local place does french fries and gravy...I'll pass on the cheese curds...

That sounds accurate. But one of the times I noticed was immediately after logging in, and another was when opening Firefox for the first time. Tough to avoid those. But once you know what is happening, it's almost worth it to get the snappy performance the rest of the time.

A friend got an Eee 9" running XP and it is a dog. That is the limit of my experience.

I can back this up based on stories from my grandfather. He talked of owning a stock as owning a piece of the company, and of dividend payments as them thanking him. The only time he would consider selling a stock would be if he needed the money for something.

I did notice that having several in a RAID off a hardware controller with some cache helped somewhat, but not all that much.

What I noticed with my cheaper (not less expensive, but less good) SSDs (all but the Intel, perhaps 3 makes) is that they were faster in everything until they weren't. And when that moment hit, you were painfully aware of it. Everything would be quick and happy and then...nothing...for a...

Hilarious and frighteningly accurate.

Not a chance. He was a crappy businessman, and demonstrated it as president.

While a senator with a pornstar name would be awesome, and her views do look pretty solid, the actual snow is a deal-breaker.

I'd say that McCain's campaign was toast before they picked Palin, and that they knew it, but what were they thinking?

Well, with the softraid-10, it doubled the speed of the winraid-0 (160MB/s). That'll do.

I slipstreamed the ICH7R into the 2003 Web disk, and we'll see if performance is any better. It shouldn't be, but we'll see.

Sorry, I changed the hardware during the build. 1U Tyan Tank GT20 Tyan S5191 Mobo (Intel Toledo i3000R chipset with ICH7R) Q6600 4GB RAM 4x 1TB SATA in hotswap

Stranger and stranger... When I go into gparted, it sees the array. Only the installer has issues.

That is a great article. I've always believed that the country needs to be run more like a business; with a balanced budget, making progress in efficiency and setting out achievable goals and performance metrics.

That is indeed very funny. On the talk shows this morning it reflected the reality of that. So many people were calling in saying that they had worked for his campaign and were now "willing to serve" if only he would give the order....damn.

Sweet.

Grr...looks like dmraid doesn't support ICH7R? Or ubiquity is somehow blind? Instructions I followed: 1. Configure array in BIOS 2. Boot Ubuntu 8.10 live CD 3. Install dmraid 4. Verify that dmraid sees the array 5. Launch ubiquity 6. Ubiquity sees 4 independent drives...WTF?

I just noticed that the SATA controller supports RAID as well. Any advice whether to use that or the Linux SoftRAID? BTW: A RAID-1 in windows did...80MB/s.

I had decided to go the safe, familiar route and installed Windows 2003 Web edition. Install went fine, and I started taking some performance measurements. A single 1TB disk clocked in at 80MB/s. Striping all four? 80MB/s. Mirroring two? I don't know, as it's taken over 24 hours to "ReSync" two...