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Pay/subsidize the development of the games on Intel hardware in the first place.

That is the impression those sources left me with as well. That the unregulated incoming connection and the large number of open connections (common with BT users - correctable in some firmwares) can mess things up regardless.

I have a Linksys 350N that is flashed with the DD-WRT firmware. I have the MAC of the Vonage box set as high priority in the QoS.

Based on where I'm looking and the basic design, solar or wind would be enough; I'm planning to have both. The primary concern is sizing the battery bank. Water gathering/storage/filtration is another issue. And the one I know how to deal with but don't want to is septic.

Yup, I suspect that one of those will be phasing out my Raptor RAID-0 for games...maybe two in RAID-0 for all the OS/Apps/page...no wonder I don't have any money...

I suppose they mean for the low speed SSDs in cheap computers (like the Eee and such).

I'm still very much interested in building my own house. Off the grid. Kind of an experiment, albeit a very expensive one.

Seconded. I could understand that a standard disk needs a certain access pattern to optimize it's cache, but an SSDs primary advantage is the near-zero access time to anything on the disk! This means that no optimization should be necessary!

I know you could with the previous generation, but I don't think you can with the new ones. But now that they are providing that functionality themselves, I don't think it matters as much.

We have no shared walls (one place per floor), but we do have someone above and below us. They don't like my subwoofer.

So what are the good PnS cameras with RAW? Powershot G9?

Nice. I'm totally enjoying the 10-22. I'm finding that it is the best, most expressive lens I have...unless the object it too far away. And by too far I mean more than a couple feet away for most things and about 20 feet away for large buildings. But other than that, I love it.

Nice. I'm totally enjoying the 10-22. I'm finding that it is the best, most expressive lens I have...unless the object it too far away. And by too far I mean more than a couple feet away for most things and about 20 feet away for large buildings. But other than that, I love it.

That is with the 135/2? I like the third one best...

Uda, is Apple paying you? All those links are directly to fanboy sites?

If you are investigating splitting internet with someone, you will have to do it on the ethernet side of things. And (if you care) that would be them violating their TOS.

My place is 1000 sq.ft. with 1bed/1bath. But it was a steal for the area at <$1.50 per sq.ft. per month.

With small companies, things tend to go "fast and loose" with regard to backups. Congrats on trying to get a handle on things. There are two 2 methods that I can see working in this scenario: 1. Have a server in the office store a backup of everything, have the laptops sync to it during lunch...

Nope. As long as the machine the hard drive is connected to can read the file system, it will handle passing the data to the other machine. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a mac person, so I can't walk you through sharing the drive, but this looks pretty good.

Congratulations. A spammer has chosen to use your e-mail address as the "from" address in a spam campaign. Considering 99% of the addresses they are sending to don't exist, the mailer-daemon at those domains is letting the sender (you) know that the address doesn't exist. I suggest setting up a...

Sounds like you need a duct and a fan to get the air circulating from the 1st to the 3rd. That or set the 1st floor AC to 60F.

I'm loving the new racing game GRID, as it can keep my quad core at 75-85% full at all times, and suck up 1.5GB of RAM on it's own. It's good that games can take advantage of modern hardware.

I would go with option #3. Sharing on the network should be really easy and it gives you access to the data from both machines at the same time. Is one a desktop? If so I would share it from there. What is the OS of any desktop machine (or least mobile laptop) you have?

With Action Packs I have, with MSDN I have not. I haven't had an MSDN since I found out about Action Packs.

I thought the main difference was that an MSDN included the development software.

Darn...too late to be helpful. I just read about that today. Glad you are all set.

FAT32 is simple and easy and LOTS of people do it, so any future troubleshooting will be easy to find help with/for. It will be a little (5-10%? barely noticeable) slower, but still plenty fast for streaming videos, etc. HFS is common enough on Mac stuff, but trusting the product of a company I...

FAT32. The performance difference isn't significant and minor filesystem corruption from removing the drive improperly is a minor issue.

74F today, 73F tomorrow. But it's going to hit 75F on Monday...

You don't want an MSDN sub, you want an Action Pack. You have to pass a stupid written test first, but it is $300 instead of $1200 (IIRC).

No kidding. It isn't too bad until the the 500W amplifier, the 700W projector, and the 500W computer are on for a couple of hours. Then it starts to cook. 'course, all I have to do is open the window...it's 60F out there :razz:

My MSDN expired right before Server 2008 :( otherwise I would be all over it. I would still be on XP Pro, but for needing >4GB of RAM and >2TB partitions.

They are for the OS and most commonly used apps. Currently on the array are: Vista x64 GRID (driving simulator) Photoshop CS3 Firefox PTGui Photomatix Canon DPP Winamp With the exceptions of the top three, everything else is very small and loads very fast. The rest of the heavy apps (Office...

For those curious as to how I can add power supplies without worrying about space, just check my sig. timwhit, just show your GF the last picture on my sig...it looks pretty!

In essence, that is what the cable Bozo linked to does. The only cables that cross are the ones to power the PSU up and down (take a look at the zoomed picture). All other rails are not connected.

Interesting tidbit. I couldn't find a way to directly disable Hibernation in Vista (and save the 8GB of hard drive space). But when I ran Disk Cleanup, it let me delete the Hibernation file and disabled hibernation for me. Sweet!

Excellent find! Thanks Bozo!

That was my thought, I was even thinking of experimenting with powering off the 12 750GB HDDs and 3 120mm fans that drive them when I don't need the data array (gaming, surfing, whatever). Not sure how the OS would like it, but it's worth looking into.

Tempted, but I really want to avoid this. I need 15 SATA power connectors, only 4 Molex, 1 6-pin PCI-E, 1 8-pin Motherboard, and the larger ATX connection. What I had to do with the Seasonic was order more SATA modular power cables; if they are wired in I don't have that option.

See attached image. I currently have a Seasonic 700W PSU that I am very happy with. Except for the fact that my system is currently maxing out at 699W while behaving in a slightly unstable way. Event manager is showing random drive spin-downs and IO errors. I suspect I have pushed this PSU too...

It's sure doing something; power consumption is 60W higher than at idle...

Yup. About 30 minutes to download the 179MB file. Another 10 in windows before the reboot, and another 10 in Stages 1 and 2. Stage 3 is absolutely crawling; I suspect it is due to the fairly complex hardware configuration (can't think of another reason). Now at 58% after about 90 minutes.

Vista SP1 is doing the slowest install I've ever seen. My machine isn't exactly a dinosaur, but it is taking 7-10 minutes per percentage point of "Installing Service Pack: Stage 3 of 3" after the reboot.

Vista SP1 is doing the slowest install I've ever seen. My machine isn't exactly a dinosaur, but it is taking 7-10 minutes per percentage point of "Installing Service Pack: Stage 3 of 3" after the reboot.

If you mapped them all to the same machine, it would look pretty impressive.

A Windows Dynamic Disk that wouldn't re-mount. Not only was it dynamic, but it was also GPT and had a JBOD of two different partitions. I made a mess of it and Power Data Recovery Pro fixed it for me. And it only took 2 days to copy the data one way! Looks like it will go back to it's original...

Yup, I concede. But I bet his is much louder. My Movies looks great, like something I was trying to write a while ago...

One at a time the RAID card can handle it fine. Having two in RAID-0 nearly doubled performance, but adding the third only increased another 15% or so, so I think I then hit the bottleneck. I'm fairly certain I'm getting the most speed I can, I just don't think the drives are the weak link.

My data recovery saga continues...

I agree. Even if it does do something crazy that destroys the Earth, that would be cool, too.