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So long as the power supply keeps the hard drive spinning, it shouldn't be a problem.

Digital OTA (over the air) is still alive and well. Depending on how close to a major metropolitan area you are. If getting stuff over the internet wasn't so much easier, that is what I would be doing.

Olga really likes Heroes, I have BSG but haven't watched it yet. The others I haven't checked out. 99% of my TV time is us watching together, and I don't think SciFi will pan out that well with her.

This computer is getting fairly insane. I wish I could do something useful with all this heat (400W idle, 700W+ load). It never gets cold enough to need it, and when it is hot I wish I could just duct it outside. Wherever I build, it will have the option to intake/exhaust from/to outside.

I feel guilty watching TV as it is, so I don't enjoy things that aren't at least slightly informative. Shows that I wish they made more of: Grand Designs Top Gear Mythbusters Good Eats The West Wing Does anyone have suggestions for similar shows?

I've had two failures out of 16 for me, and none in the bunch more I have deployed. I used Samsung until they weren't offering in flagship capacities, and I never switched back. The fact that my two failures were both operating at high temperatures (one in an unventilated external enclosure, the...

Wow, that is $60 lower than Newegg...

;)

Nope. But it being Vista is typically enough.

IIRC, it is the same as the OEM version. That means that it is tied to one motherboard. You can't move the license to another board/machine. They may also make you buy it with hardware, a pencil sharpener or SATA cable is enough.

No prob, glad you got it figured out. I keep a 250' CAT5 in my work bag for just such occasions ;)

This is why I hate wireless ;) Step one should have been: Plug each computer into the router directly and see if they can see the network. Don't know why I forgot that one...

FIOS...so lucky ;) I assume that all the machines can access the internet correctly? I'm doing this from memory, so it might be a little off: Test one would be to make sure the server's firewall is set to allow file sharing: Start->Control Panel->Firewall->Exceptions Make sure that "File and...

None of your tasks or network are in any way complex. I would put Windows XP MCE on the server (for your XBox goodness) and leave XP on the rest. Those fundamentals are fine and will do all you need to do. Changing them will just make fixing your issues more complex. Now, about fixing your...

Likely. The site JTR linked to has these @ $4 each. Still several hundred dollars for 50....

That slide shows the X25-E with a 170MB/s write, 240MB/s read and 35K IOPS. That is really friggin' fast.

From the bits that I have P2P'ed, it looks like the BBC has awesome coverage. Many channels and all the events, and it's all available online via iPlayer, if you can prove you paid your TV tax and live in the UK :(

Not so much. But Google impresses once again.

It is and they do.

Some level of complexity is required to keep the files in the right places. If you want to help people find files in the structure, consider getting a Google search appliance. Of course, if the current organization sucks, that needs to be fixed regardless.

Did you really post this twice? Why is it in news?

Just reading up on it now, and I can't really see what a FAN is. I support companies with 300+ users in several locations, and I just have multi-terrabyte file servers in each with replication and backup. Permissions are tied into the user management system (Active Directory). What are you...

Please allow me to defend my only "sport" hobby ;) 1. It is a race with a clear winner. 2. It involves physical strength, endurance, and intelligence at levels much higher than other sports. 3. It doesn't involve motors or (at most levels) technical wizardry that isn't apparent to the...

From what I understand, many of these sports have an annual national competition, and the athletes are constantly training, essentially just so they can compete in the Olympics. And their cheering sections aren't that big; mostly family members and those that didn't make the team. Even the...

Exercise is one of those things that stops us from dying, like eating and sleeping. That we no longer have to do it as part of survival (farming, hunting, running from bears, etc) is great. Now we can pick what we do, and try to have fun while not dying. I can understand preferring some sports...

Exercise is one of those things that stops us from dying, like eating and sleeping. That we no longer have to do it as part of survival (farming, hunting, running from bears, etc) is great. Now we can pick what we do, and try to have fun while not dying. I can understand preferring some sports...

Just to make sure it isn't hardware, what happens when you boot to an Ubuntu LiveCD? I don't think it is hardware, but good to rule it out. After that, are there any peripherals you can detach/unload? With a new OS their might be major driver issues?

If you just want data, why not hook up the drive as a secondary in another PC?

I think I am right, because this lens says "field of view: 10"" and it couldn't otherwise.

I've been reading a lot about telecentric lenses this morning (no work, sucks). And I don't understand how one would be able to view something larger than the diameter of the lens. It strikes me that if all the light entering the lens is normal to the lens, and if objects do not get larger or...

Thanks for the info, Gilbo. Are there any lenses in the Canon world that are telecentric? Something I might know or have?

I didn't even know what telecentric meant before. When you say 100% telecentric, do you mean double telecentric? That was really a requirement?

IIRC, Powerboost is calculated from a running average. If your average used bandwidth for the last x seconds was less than your rated speed, you will get a boost up to y MB/sec until your average speed is the rated speed.

I've never used the /3G switch, so I can't help. Any system I work on with more than about 3GB of RAM runs a 64-bit OS.

CERN will have the largest collider when it is operational. The current largest collider is at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

Time to install NoScript again...

Even if it oscillates a few times, the video would still be fairly accurate. We don't see the far side, or the black hole itself, until pretty far into the video.

In order to load something into memory and execute it, the system needs to already be compromised. I considered those features to be semi-useless anyway. Sure, it allows rights escalation, but there have always been a hundred ways to do that on Windows.

Can't do it. If I or my client are worried enough to physically destroy the drive instead of just formatting it, it will be destroyed by one of us in front of both of us.

Strike that. I tried it with a thumb drive, but it doesn't work with GPT disks.

Nice find Handruin, it works perfectly.

Very neat concept. Relating to the highly unlikely possibility of the LHC causing a black hole.

But what about the hookers?

Thanks for the suggestion Greg, but that heatsink design really won't work well for my configuration. Imagine a motherboard mounted to the wall with the USB/PS2/etc connectors on the top and the expansion cards aligned vertically. The airflow is all vertical; from well below the motherboard...

I'm now tempted to plan a trip out there to photograph it. Perhaps I'll take the train. Is there a stop somewhere convenient? Or is it the middle of nowhere?

I know for my dad it was his target audience. He was writing payroll software, and companies started doing away with their mainframes in favor of workstations and servers. Proper support for an AS/400 server is stupidly expensive (queue fushigi).

My dad did something similar. He went from Xerox PARC to AS/400 to Win 3.11 programming. Now he is solidly in the MS camp, dual-booting Vista Ultimate and XP. He uses Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Windows Defender. After explaining that I refuse to support clients who behave like that, and...

Now we are talking extreme measures. If I get called back to the same box a second time, after the nuke and pave they get to purchase Acronis Trueimage and they get a bootable restore DVD with the image on it. For some true insanity, a few of the users kept restoring the image and then "getting...

I give it one pass through the registry and startup files and one reboot. Total time less than half an hour. If that doesn't do it, I start preparing them for a complete nuke and pave. If they insist on me trying to fix it (don't have installation media for apps, etc). I do it right there while...

I think their official stance is just damage control. Many sites have jumped on this, and it isn't a slow news day.