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Uda, you want to dial back the insults? Your post was quite disrespectful and outside the standards of the forum, IMHO.

Gah...I didn't know Lotus was owned by Proton!

Bought an 8800GTS and 20sq.ft. of Dynamat Extreme for my project. At the moment, none of my displays are initializing. I'm writing this from a remote desktop connection to the machine while I re-install drivers.

Sometimes it stops at 0%. That is when you are screwed.

Wow, that is a cheap chip.

On the way to one of my more obscure job sites, I ran across an interesting problem. The road had been demolished; there was now a 30' hill of dirt where I used to drive. I needed to find a foreman who could give me new directions to the project site. The really strange part? I was here...

I was ready to stop the test @ 85C, but long term I want the temp to remain under 70C. I'm happy with that and no errors.

I haven't dialed in my cooling or voltages yet. Right now I am @ 3.4GHz, 1.5v CPU, and absolute silence fan speeds. I just downloaded and ran 4 copies of CPU Burn-in 1.01 and it stabilized @ 81C! Wow. I really need to finish tuning this rig.

With a voltage bump my month-old Q6600 is quite happy @ 3.5Ghz. But I do feel your pain, Stereodude.

Awesome. What clock range are they hoping for in this series?

As I suspected, a truly kick-ass 2.5" drive just in time to watch SSDs walk all over them.

I assume you have tried holding the reset button while power cycling the switch? http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/storage/san_switches/mds9000/hw/9124/quick/quide/9124QSG.html

Firefox 3 Beta 4 and the current nightly do a great job scaling the entire page not just the text, for us blind people.

I suspect that the pace of SSD development will have them available at all price points quite soon. They should be cheaper to produce than platter-based drives, once the factories get up to volume.

IIRC, the Mazda CX-7 has a manual knob for adjusting the angle of the headlights.

A number of times I've been tempted to have some "brights" in the back, for just such an occasion.

I think 2 of these would be enough to blind everyone in front of you.

Headlights!:diablo:

I might believe that the RAID controller is the bottleneck, if it weren't for two things: 1. This isn't a cheap RAID card, MSRP is ~$1k 2. My other arrays put out faster numbers At some point, I'll try putting them on the onboard RAID controller and see what happens. But to be honest...

Well, I have 3 drives in RAID0 that are each capable of 80MB writes and 100MB reads; so something isn't right.

In all of my quiet cases, the CPU doesn't get it's own fan. Depending on heat load, it either gets air from a downward-facing 120mm power supply fan or a rear 120mm case fan. In my current rig, the closest fan for it to get airflow from is about 8" away.

Dunno. I haven't really done any performance testing with it in different configurations. Once I get my major project under control (see sig), I'll play with it some more.

The Accelero S2 looks like a nice choice. Do you have much airflow in the rest of the case?

dupe

Even if it doesn't, I can see fiber-optic light distribution systems taking advantage of single high-efficiency light sources.

...except that there aren't any electrodes.

The fins are simply too close together to work in a low pressure cooling system (like most computers have). That is why it takes two fans to force the air through. Amazing they tried to make this sound like a good thing...

Wow. 140 lumens per watt, 250 watts per bulb, and full spectrum capabilities? I'm so in.

Wow. 50 hours is one hell of a backup.

Thanks Gilbo. Once I added the SSDs I had no choice; just too much stuff for a normal case layout.

I built and installed a new computer case which is fairly unusual. Click the link in my sig to take a look.

At a place where I used to work CFLs were thrown away, and regular fluorescents were intentionally broken so they would fit in the trash. I remember watching the maintenance guy breaking more than a dozen and sweeping all the fragments into the trash.

Good comment from slashdot:

If I were to wire a house with the intent of lighting with LED, what would be the best option? 12V DC? 120V AC? IIRC, LEDs need very stable and precise voltage and are dimmed via amperage changes? Is converting from AC to DC better done in bulk or per fixture?

That is really not a bad price for a DVI KVM. When I was last looking they were $300+

Interesting Uda and thanks for the explanation Gilo. Trying to dissect the focal plane is fun! It seems to me that the focal plane is very narrow and following the row of holes in the top shelf most closely.

Dupe.

Low energy efficiency vs. Mercury....where are my cost equivalent LED fixtures? If energy efficiency is better than incandescent, that is enough for me to switch.

Good to hear. Thanks for the mini-review MaxBurn.

Finally got the last of my old CDs copied into my system. For grins I put on Green Day - Platypus (I Hate You) from their Nimrod album, and suddenly, my stereo isn't loud enough.* *Alright...headphones. It's late and I live in an apartment.

Linking to something that is in the "Public Relations" folder of the manufacturers website is about as biased as you can get.

Yup. I like it. It has that F-1 inspired Enzo look with more sanity. Though I would take a Ferrari 430 Scuderia instead...

Too true...

I would think automatic updates would make the uptake rather fast, as soon as it hits...

Interesting. I think the industry may have jumped the gun a bit. Everyone was marketing SSDs as unbelievably fast, but the first ones available were only directly competitive with their traditional counterparts. This is going to hurt the reputation of the product and slow sales in the future.

Thanks to the master planner, Handruin, for choosing a BB package that wasn't compromised. Hurah!

But this "drive by" isn't the same level of physical access as previously required. I no longer have to steal the machine, or even have 5 minutes at the keyboard. Their sys admin or security could be in the room and not see me plug and unplug a device.

I think a cage is the best thing. I already have full drive encryption on all workstations and servers (using the latest TrueCrypt). The password policy is sane but capable, and every employee goes though a decent screening policy and security talk by me before they are given a username and...

That is what I keep telling my clients. Any suggestions for physically securing a server in an environment too small for a server room? There are 4 servers in the supply room, and I'm investigating chain-link fence...

You are correct! Zalman Hard drive cooler ZM-2HC2. That is where the Raptors are. Behind them in the black boxes are 5-in-3 hard drive cages with 120mm fans in the front, they are full of 750GB drives.