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No one on in the middle of a Sunday night? Darn... I know! I'll create a second identity, and have conversations with myself! What an original thought... Meh. Back to work.

Pulling another unanticipated all-nighter. 1. Came in here this morning to troubleshoot a slow connection. 2. Notice that the workstations are full of spyware/viruses. 3. Notice that the server is the most hosed SBS2k3 install I've ever seen. 4. Notice that there are no backups. A. Build new...

Winter ended here on Friday. 72F and sunny ever since. I'll be leaving for Houston, TX on Wed. Why couldn't the relatives live in the only decent city in Texas (Austin)?

I tried once and it was down. An hour later it was back. Dunno.

That I don't know. I haven't tried it in years, and I only have 2 logical drives ;)

Another interesting idea.

Here is an SATA to CF adapter that I am looking at. I still have 6 free ports on my RAID card...24GB and decent speed....hmmm

I would guess it is the same one. I haven't looked at 3rd party defraggers in a long time, but last I checked O&O was the one to have.

Native restaurant? You are in Japan?

I just used the Server 2003 defragger to chew through an ~92% full 4TB array in about 8 hours. Am I silly in considering that good?

Sweet ;) I don't have a PATA RAID card or I would try it right now.

I got it, thanks Greg.

I use the one built into Vista. Can't compare it to others, but it works really well for me. The important thing is to get a good headset microphone, any that aren't fixed to your head are too vulnerable to inconsistency.

<guess> Land, and the manpower of herding, branding, rotating fields, etc. </guess>

Everything above that looks good, I think. Here is the whole thing: [2003sp2.log] 3.563: ================================================================================ 3.563: 2008/02/08 08:51:01.109 (local) 3.563: d:\b8813b4a7d7c0eb318\i386\update\update.exe (version 6.3.4.1) 3.844: Service...

Here is the last bit of the log, I'm still trying to read through it. 200.797: DeRegisterUninstallProgramInInf: No Old UninstallDir 200.797: FileInUse:: Detection disabled. 206.313: CheckRegistryValue: Registry - Inf integer values mismatch 206.406...

For the record, to have a log created, you must use: /log:fullpath

Congrats. Don't forget to stop in every month or so and let us know you are still alive.

Some CF cards and adapters don't support DMA, so make sure it is off. Also, some have a jumper to choose master/slave/CS and a jumper to source power (either IDE pin 40 for VIA EPIA systems or external for everybody else).

oops....my bad.

I've tried this either through windows update or by downloading the file directly from the site. I've tried reboots and it never appears in add/remove programs. Significantly into the SP2 installation it pops up the following error and goes away. Help?

Thanks for starting me on the right course... DirectShow Video: "Old Renderer" It will even split screens if I ask nicely...

It is appreciated, thanks. I'll leave any successes here for the record.

Media Player Classic is awesome. And it can output video to any display hooked up to your primary video card. But it goes blank or crashes when outputting to a screen driven by another video card. Has anyone else run into this? Is there another player I should be looking at?

I decided to go Server 2003 Standard, still getting drivers for all this crap installed. Unfortunately, the G15 keyboard drivers and NOD32 won't install. Isn't there a way to trick them into going?

Stereodude, I know Memtest is less fussy than others, but all I'm looking for is basic stability at the moment. sdbardwick, I knew about the overvoltage; it defaults to 1.9v and 800Mhz. That is where I am running into the stability issues. When I up the voltage to 2.3V, the system crashes...

Apparently my new motherboard doesn't like my RAM. I didn't even bother to check it, since the same 4 1GB sticks ran in my old system flawlessly for about a year. Sure enough, trying to track down some instabilities has me running memtest where even single-sticks in certain slots is...

My general interest is now back to low. I'm not particularly interested or afraid of any of these options.

Meh. That is only 2,592,000 total pixels. My monitors are: 2,073,600 (1920x1080 - 42") 1,920,000 (1600x1200 - 22") 786,432 (1024x768 - 132") I think I'm alright ;)

Amazingly my soft-RAID-0 array survived yet another motherboard swap, this one to an XFX 780i SLI board. (Semi)unfortunatly, Vista didn't like it as much. Even after re-booting into safe mode twice for the addition/removal of drivers (which completed succesfully), a BSOD was all I got. I didn't...

Because it won't be another month. I suspect it will be another 3 months before they are available. And after the process is matured, I'll probably buy one anyway.

Meh. I finally got some work, so I've been leaving at 7AM and getting home around 9PM. I'm currently preparing to do a brain transplant on my current workstation; anyone want to take a guess as to whether the Vista install survives going from a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 + A64 6000+ to whatever Fry's...

Back when I considered myself a Democrat, I registered Republican so I could have a say in their primaries. I figured that steering the potential alternative was more useful than choosing between a group of people I mostly agreed with. Now I label myself a pessimist and don't vote at all.

So here comes another debate...a pair of 73GB 15K.5s and a SAS controller or a pair of 64GB SSDs....

She is a little old lady that likes to inconvenience other people because it makes her feel important. She is the owner of this 100+ unit complex with average rent in the $1500+/mo range; she could live anywhere, but she lives here on the ground floor. She has owned it since the 60s. She even...

I'd never heard of it before, but it works great. Includes the ability to close the running OS both to a file or to another drive. I'm running a clone right now from one 1TB Samsung drive to another, and it is maintaining over 100MB/sec. Website

It is indeed a part of the property, but I don't want it back. The issue is that she doesn't know about it. All changes are significant improvements and are to code, but she doesn't like me and would evict if she had a chance.

Indeed. I'm looking forward to getting my own place, so I can make worthwhile improvements without throwing my money away.

There is no way a cow could survive standard feedlot conditions unless it was pumped full of chemicals. So I'm guessing the organic beef is decently humane. Whole Foods has excellent meat, but at 4-star restaurant prices.

Our possums aren't nearly as cute, and they are quite vicious. I almost lost a pet cat to one. Attrib. Link

Good idea. Windows (and some programs) don't like not having a page file, regardless of how much RAM you have.

Rebuilding the kitchen sink today. The faucet is so cheap that it can't be serviced; must be replaced completely. The threaded gasket on the back of the p-trap had essentially dissolved and disintegrated in my hand. The apartment manager should take care of these things, but I've violated the...

My personal domain is hosted by google...for free ;)

Still called spudger. Basically a long pointy thing.

I run commit charges higher than that, but not because of Firefox.

Yup. I'm used to the Grey ones as well.

I like squirrels. We have one that hangs out around the complex that is much darker than any I've seen before, almost black. I finally got a picture of him with my new 75-300.

Yup, me too. About 90% of the time now.

It seems random enough. How do you "protect" tabs?

That sucks.