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The #1 thing I want in a president is for them to be smart. Issues will come up during the course of a term that weren't anticipated during the election (9/11, anyone?). I need to know that the smartest person with the smartest advisers is in charge. The differences between liberal and...

It said my card qualified (9800GT), but that the driver was having issues.

Considering Photoshop CS4 does use 3D acceleration in some of its features (zooming, etc). Are you sure you don't want some 3D capability? On the other hand, CS4 keeps disabling the video card acceleration on my machine do to "driver issues". Even though I have the latest.

Ah, Lunar beat me, but mine is more direct ;)

Direct ATTO download link (where I got it from)

Right now I'm trying the iReasoning MIB Browser. Not OSS, but free. I've been able to pull data from a 3Com switch, but it is in anything but a user-friendly presentation; just a column of variables and values, with no real way to manage the info.

I have a 1U server with 4 1TB disks in it. It is an X2 3800 with 4GB of RAM. This will be the main fileserver for the company, and will be set up as RAID-10. All the machines are windows, and the store needs to support AD permissions. I'm looking for the fastest OS/software that is easy to setup...

Terminal Man was great. Airframe was the best of his newer ones IMHO. RIP

SNMP - Anyone using it? What programs do you use for monitoring? What things do you watch for? I'm looking at various OSS implementations (Net-SNMP, OpenSNMP) and am wondering what is working for other people. I'm looking at just monitoring my managed switches and VPN connections at the moment...

Just for comparison...

I'm not saying that Dell is better than Lenovo, but a Precision M4400 can be very nicely configured with a Quadro for about $2k.

I could go faster on the CPU, but I can't find 4GB DIMMs rated higher than 800Mhz. The 16GB of RAM is already on the way, and should help CS4 chew on some of my larger images.

Bring it. I have a steady job now ;)

Oh, system specs: Intel Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz (Quad core, 12MB cache) Gigabyte EP45C-DS3R (P45 chipset) 8GB RAM (4x 2GB Kingston DDR2-800) nVidia 9800GT w/slight OC Intel X25 80GB SSD Seasonic 430W Antec P180

The numbers above were from HDTach. The image below is from ATTO with stock settings. Needless to say I'm happy with my new toy.

No kidding. I'm getting 225MB/s average, spiking to 265MB/s :o

I'm currently imaging my "old" VelociRaptor 150GB to my new Intel X25 80GB SSD. They currently have identical builds of XP x64 on them. Are there any benchmarks anyone would like to see?

I completely agree. Typically, just showing them the cost either makes them use the webclient, or I lose the customer.

I haven't used Autopatcher recently, but it was awesome back in the day.

I'm at a safe distance, rage away ;) After my first encounter with Outlook/Google Apps, I now consider adoption of their web client mandatory. Otherwise I show them the bill for a SBS2003 setup and a T-1 line.

For what it's worth, I had just as many issues using Outlook 2003 IMAP with Google apps for domains. Considering how easy it is with Thunderbird, Mac Mail, and the webclient, I think the blame rests firmly with MS.

I don't have any experience with 2008 yet, everything I use is still 2005.

Greg, I don't even remember what type of case you have. P160? P180? What type of drive? Optical? Hard drive? ~David

All I see is a standard Molex, which I never used on this board. I built a dozen or so of these back in the day. IIRC, it is an alternative to the 4-pin ATX 12v.

Getting nothing but full-frame glass isn't a bad idea. With a couple exceptions (10-22 and the kit lens) I've done the same. I have no regrets about going out and getting the XSi, it is a great camera and truth be told is likely not limiting my shots at all. I still plan on getting a 5DII by...

A 300W is borderline doable with that rig. The big unknown from here is the power draw of that video card. Can't be too bad.

As a plus, ESXi seems to not care about hardware at all. I pulled the harddrive from the machine (a Q6600) and dropped it into a spare X2 3800+, and it spun right up. The only thing I had to do was tell the VMs that they had moved hardware, and to not change their install IDs. Very sweet.

I'm still running an array of 12 750GB Seagate drives, but I have my first two RMAs sitting on my desk (one kept dropping from the array, the other with a broken SATA connector). I think I'll be moving back to Samsung myself.

I don't have enough NICs for that. Each ESXi server is pulling 5-8 machines.

For the past 2 hours I've been discovering an issue with virtualization. When the NIC fails, many servers go with it. Time to explore clustering with redundancy.

Huh, I don't have that issue on mine. I imagine FPS gaming would bring it out.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADO3800IAA5CZ - OEM GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 AM2+/AM2 AMD 740G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail HITACHI Deskstar 7K160 HDS721616PLA380 (0Y30006) 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM 2x Kingston 2GB 240-Pin...

Five servers with almost no load, you don't need VT.

Here is the low-end three-core Phenom.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor 4x Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory BOXDG35EC Micro ATX Intel Motherboard Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 3.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (bare drive) Antec NSK4480B Black Computer Case For <$700, that...

I'm actually spec'ing a new VM server right now ;) I assume that you will be testing multiple VMs on the same physical machine? In my experience, you run out of RAM way before anything else. A basic system with a Q6600 and 8-16GB of RAM should be able to manage a mess of machines. If there is...

When I plug my Razer Copperhead mouse into my Belkin 4-port USB KVM, it inverts the vertical. This didn't happen to a bunch of other mice, just this one. Very random.

What do you mean banding? Is this like the rainbows in 1x DLP projectors? 'cause I never saw that, either.

I'm still running a Q6600 at home @3Ghz and it is a great chip. Though the Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz at the office is appreciably better in CS4, XviD encoding, and games.

Nice restaurants have nice bathrooms. The frozen food stuff is for the office, and I have a freezer and a microwave at the office. The vending machine is capable of taking just about anything, but single serving is still a goal.

I have control over what goes in the vending machine, and I have a freezer. I only have a microwave, so oven stuff is out. And why go to the car when the restaurant has a ladies room ;)

Oh, googled it. Heh.

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If it's expensive enough, it moves from "junk" to "equipment". I have lots of that ;)

I just took it to work (also XP-64) and it installed without any issues. I'll try compatibility mode when I get home, thanks for the tip.

If they let you strip out all the crap, I wouldn't be complaining. Even if it was all there by default (to be user-friendly), the option to remove it all would be awesome.

I'm still recommending Dell Latitudes, and I got to play with a precision workstation...very sweet. They may not be the best, but they aren't bad, and everyone knows Dell. I'm happy with my ASUS, but that is a tougher sell.

I'll be moving in the next week or so, and I am very glad I haven't been accumulating crap.

Xeon 1Ghz 2 GB RAM (8x256MB) 5x 18.2GB SCSI HDD (12 hot-swap bays) Redundant power supply Big-ass SCSI card Tape Drive All in a 7-U chassis that weighs 62kg (137lbs).

Storms don't really happen here. We are a client of this company at other locations, and have had a fairly good experience. The thought is that if this is their backbone, they will have better reliability.