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That looks like a good layout.

Tower of Goo....20.4 Meters so far. Great game in 1.8MB

I can thank trying to learn linux to my finally learning to type. Working on a command line for a week straight and it just starts happening.

I suspect the architecture has more to do with it, Bozo. Even going from a higher-clocked A64 X2 to a C2D made for a snappier experience. I've been keeping my task scheduler on my second monitor for about a month now, just seeing what uses more cores and what doesn't. 99% of the time, those...

Thanks Chewy, I would love to get them ACT!, but she had a bad experience with it in a past life, so I can't make the sell. WorkgroupShare looks very promising. I may just roll that out.

Welcome beksteentje! Good to have some fresh blood around here. I will be sure to take a look at that in the morning, thanks for the tip.

Like all things I've seen for LDAP, it goes something like this: LDAP is easy! Configure a big load of it manually like this ...and if you want any data in it, you can add it manually as well...somehow It also doesn't look like it allows updating at all; only adding entries in text mode and...

Looking at the pricing, it requires MDaemon as well. 6 User MDaemon - $130 6 User Outlook Connector - $120 Not bad compared to Exchange, but they have exchange already. I was hoping to get them off a server completely. I'm even using Jungle Disk for their backups.

When I took over this client, it was a single user. The local PC company had taken her to the cleaners with a Dell PowerEdge running SBS2k3R2 and every service running, a top-of-the-line Dimension for herself (including 2 hard drives that weren't even configured!) and a PIX 501 firewall. All of...

I actually have them on Google Apps for mail, connected via IMAP into Outlook. It it supported connecting contacts and calendars into Outlook as well, that would solve all my problems; but I haven't seen that functionality yet.

Antec NSK6500 w PS

Other than the WD drive and the proc, Bozo's list looks pretty good. The faster-clocked single-core will likely do better for a basic user (35W!) Samsung makes a much faster drive (16MB cache, higher density) for $20 more.

3 users. All they need to do is share a contact list (all have it open at the same time) in Outlook. It seems a really stupid reason to install an exchange server. Please tell me there is an easy way to do this.

Perhaps this is what happens when you outsource the final design to people who don't speak the language the keyboard is designed for? If this happened on a Cyrillic or Hebrew keyboard, I would have no idea. Still a pretty big design screw-up, laptop keyboard designers have been taking too many...

An interesting comment to a Slashdot post. An interesting take that I haven't heard before, and it seems to pass the smell test. Anyone care to comment?

Not entirely sure about that. Although it seems likely that we will get new members, or that those members will be a good match to our interactions, we could at least hold out some hope...

Ugh...good point. I was really tired.

I have 726 posts in this thread, this will be my 727th. Crazy. I sent a client to the Geek Squad today. She has a Sony Vaio laptop with the stock install of Vista, but her previous employer loaded it with crap; including 2 VPN programs, remote printing software, McAffee BS, and tons of other...

That sounds like a good idea, e_dawg. Non-permanence makes it much easier to swallow.

Taxing poor people doesn't work because the government is giving them money to start with. Would we take some of that money back? Sterilization before receiving welfare seems like the only way, but even I don't like the idea, and I'm a cold-hearted bastard.

A wonderful idea. Except that poor people are able to evade all taxes completely, so it wouldn't be a disincentive.

Thanks for the insight, mubs. That certainly sounds like a problem. I don't think any government-mandated population control will be effective unless it involves forced sterilization (which will have the problem described by mubs) or forced abortions (which won't go over well, either).

I agree e_dawg. I also agree with JTR that, in theory, given enough technology and money to implement it, and enough political will to see it done, we could have a global population in the tens of billions. But I really wouldn't want to be there. In order for people to live that densely...

Confirmed. Pictures included.

I strongly suspect it is just screwed on. I haven't seen it, but to do otherwise would be massively stupid.... <teasing Merc to comment>

Also, as prices increase, more resources become cost-effective.

I have, but it was out of a large sample (at the game center). For the 20 machines over 3 years of being used for gaming 12 hours a day, I replaced about 100 keyboards and 4 mice. MX500/MX510, for the record.

You mean other than a fixed amount of land, water, and air?

I agree that not having more people is better than killing people, but this is a more slippery slope. I can't imagine a socially acceptable way to restrict people's ability to have children. And if it is optional, the ignorant and poor will outpopulate those that are needed to support them!

No. Less women is not what we need. Less people in general while giving those left a reason to live ;)

Can't comment, as I hardly ever shoot with flash. (oh, wait. I can comment, it just isn't useful.)

lol

Not unlimited food. Just adequate to meet demand while maintaining a reasonable profit margin. With the recent hike in food prices (partly due to it's new multi-use capability), new supply is scrambling to come on-line (even in 3rd world nations). After the market has a chance to adjust to this...

Open to suggestions.

Assuming an unlimited supply of food, what do you do about the pollution? About urban sprawl's effect on natural habitats? Traffic? The common denominator is people.

It isn't a terrible idea. The fact that supply is really short, causing demand (and price) to increase is a separate issue (and potentially a temporary one). It would be a terrible idea if we assumed that supply for energy will never be satisfied, therefore the price of food would continue to...

Sources for info and discussion: Wikipedia: Population Growth US Census Bureau: International Database With all the talk of global warming and food shortages, I have yet to hear talk of this as the source of our problems, but I suspect that it is. Even if we are able to cut our emissions per...

Prices simply aren't high enough to cause a change in behavior yet. Algae seems to be technically the best source for bio-fuel, but I'm afraid that the political capital of places like Iowa (where massive amounts of corn are grown) will cause this to be the source of choice for the foreseeable...

I'm adding a new drive to my data array using online capacity expansion. According to it's current progress (at 2%), it will take 12.5 days to complete. I should have added 2 drives.

Tea, Tannin, and Merc being missing really slows the place down as well. I do miss them.

I've been trying to get work. Not having work and needing it keeps me more busy than having work.

Haha.

I'm really enjoying "Assassin's Creed" despite it's obvious console heritage. It is the spiritual successor to the "Thief" series, IMHO.

So you are saying you have too much gear, but not the right gear? If anything gets too "not right", you can just pass it over here ;-)

You are listing average rotational latency, I was listing maximum. To accomplish a full revolution in 0.1ms requires 600k RPM. I do cede that the average is a more useful value.

I'm running the MSD-6000 series. (MSD-SATA6035-016) Difference? I didn't really look. My thoughts were that: 1) They all have the insane access time that I wanted 2) I was going to use at least 3 in RAID-0, so STR would be fine regardless

That is something that I've been thinking of as well. Olga's been trying to get me on an EKG for months. It would be pretty simple to have a program on your computer that sent something if you didn't use it for 2-ish days, but how long would it be before someone turned off your computer? I have...

Not necessarily a lost customer. Once I can double my capacity for the same price, I'll buy again. If they can get the transfer rates to ~200MB/s per drive that would tempt me as well. Hell, I'm likely to add another drive to my array for more capacity sooner than that. I would have liked to...

<doing maths> 600,000 RPM would do the trick, if you could get seek time to zero.

Yup. I went from Raptors in RAID-0 to SSDs in RAID-0 and the difference was night-and-day. There is just no way a spinning drive will compete with a 0.1ms access time. Edit: I wonder what RPM would manage a rotational latency of 0.1ms.