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You mean like this little gem with VGA, DVI, and HDMI outputs on it for $80?

Well said Tannin, and in that vein I must recommend a C2D over an A64. Even if you take a hit elsewhere. What used to be 0.5-1 second waits are now gone. Even when I was running Vista it was just better.

I built some super-cheap servers using E4500s and a Gigabyte board with on-board video. The thing seemed much "snappier" than my previous A64 X2 6000+. Was it actually faster in high-load applications? Unlikely, but it felt faster just moving around the UI. So much so that I finally bit the...

I do dual-core for everything these days. Specifically C2D chips; they just seem faster than the A64 X2s. 65W Dual-Core 2.2Ghz for $125

My attempts at lunar photography with a 75-300 have been poor. It will get better with the 500/4 that I will get someday.

Nice shots.

Cloudy here. If I were feeling better I would drive into the hills and see what I can see. Giving up now, better luck in 2010. :(

IIRC, you can set the time zone in your profile?

I'm not that far off ;) Not sure what I could add to up the number that much more...

Low power consumption and low noise are the key to making it practical. If you also need something small it will cost more, and something pretty will be even more. Look for a motherboard with 2 NICs on it and a CPU that consumes as little as possible. Use a CF card (256MB is plenty) with an IDE...

It's all about the SmoothWall ;)

If I were a mod I would be able to move this to the B&G ;)

Damn. It seems everything but CS3 will install, but I don't like having a system that isn't fully patched. Seems like it is time to do another re-install. I'm tempted to do XP just to avoid some of these hassles.

Because of the factors you mention, comparing things that use gas to things that use electricity is too tricky for me, and likely impossible to generalize. Heat pumps work much better if they have an underground heat source. Pipes buried in the ground give it a much larger source of energy than...

Aug of 1980?

Thanks FB. It didn't help (2003 SP2 is only 350MB). But it's a bit scary to know that Vista SP1 is >500MB!

I'm looking into heat pumps for when I need to worry about such things.

I'm still having problems with this. I've already made significant progress setting up the system and would like to avoid re-installing again. Would running a repair install from a 2003 w/SP2 CD help anything?

Yup. I'm looking forward to attempting some pictures of it. Unfortunately, it's supposed to rain here until Monday.

The green boots?

This morning I hated Zoos. The animals are kept in cages and that can't be a good thing. The whole concept seemed fairly barbaric. The SO really wanted to go, so we went anyway. While there, I noticed the number of kids that were loving it. I expected screaming toddlers and other children...

That is the biggest I found as well. An advertised 22.3" ViewSonic. Tannin should be along to rant on the subject of "shallow-screens" soon.

Guys, what type of work are you doing that causes 100+ tabs to be open for multiple days? I'm just curious...

But. of course, Tea isn't a monkey.

Welcome to StorageForum. SATA I vs. II will not cause detection issues; backwards compatibility is not a problem. I would start with verifying that the drives have power and that the data cables are good (try swapping them out). Next I would verify that the BIOS settings are correct (reset them...

I just pulled a 6000+ from my home system, and it didn't seem to run that hot (no official tests were run). I have it sitting around if you are interested.

Only because I believe if you can't do it right, don't try. I know they won't get it right, so I just want them to leave damn well alone.

Macs are a horrible pain in the ass. They are simply a further extension of the Windows mindset. Everything that they think you want is in the front, and everything they don't think you need is buried a mile deep in some illogical hole.

I guess I'm just not a power user. I never have FF crash or even slow down. I've been using it exclusively since 1.07 and it has always just worked.

Indeed. Especially geeks. California is without a doubt the place to be. Houston (where I am now), on the other hand, isn't. At "Bush International Airport" they actually make announcements that if you make rude comments to police they will arrest you. Who didn't figure that out on their own?

256MB? Not much. If it were at least a gig or two I would put photoshop scratch disks on it.

I'm right here, and I feel lonely.

The only way To see more RAM is to use a 64 bit OS.

The trick is, they are all "official" geeks. I'm the only one without at least one PhD in the whole crowd. Does this make me less of a geek?

Everyone in my Tango group is a geek. The instructor is a laser geek, an assistant is a materials science geek, other regulars are AI geeks and robot geeks. But they are also all Tango geeks. We'll get together for a "practice" and never play any music at all, obsessing about a single...

I've recently had great luck with SelfImage. Open-source, very simple, and it seems powerful (though I've only used it in drive-to-drive and drive-to-image modes).

I'm stuck and could use some help. This is a paying gig, but I need some help now.

Wow. I have mine set to max performance as well. Perhaps I should be looking at a firmware update?

I hate SonicWall. Could they have made it any more complicated? I still haven't figured out how to do NAT translation...

My array is about the same size. It maxed out at around 350MB/sec.

Looks interesting. I'll try to play with it while I'm on "vacation". Thanks.

Tony, Why aren't you planning on imaging your 80GB drive to a 160GB one? If the install is good, then don't bother changing it.

Yup. GPT is GUID partition table (IIRC). It works well with larger arrays. Mine uses it and it works really well. How are you liking the 9650SE-16ML? I love mine, it is a beast.

Unfortunately, my favorite Smoothwall doesn't support multiple internet connections. I need the following: 1. Support for multiple WANs (load balancing preferable to fail-over, Static and PPPoE) 2. Site-to-Site VPN tunnels 3. Content Filtering (Dans Guardian or similar) 4. Web interface Help?

Sounds like a plan. How is the used PC parts market there? Here you take quite a hit, particularly with hard drives.

There is no server room, it's under a coffee table in the corridor next to the aquarium. It won't be there for long, the wiring guy is coming tomorrow, but that is where I was working. The whole time I was there the fan from the old server was driving me crazy, it was so loud. Finally the moment...

What part? And why don't you do it anymore?

Yes, in a row on a single project, without leaving their office. The total was 40 hours of billable time in under 48 total, but I took a nap in my car for a few hours.

Nope, just regular old hourly rate. But logging 30 hours in a day will do you good regardless. Furthermore, even on the back side of a 40-hour work stint I was able to sell myself to a new client. I've worked more in the last 3 days than I had in the last 3 months! Business is getting good again!

I'm sure somewhere around 5AM when the hallucinations started I met her near the water cooler ;)