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This crap is why no-one can have any fun anymore. Any time anything gets interesting, everyone either runs for the lawyers, or is afraid someone else is. If no one is offended than it should be cool; if someone is offended, it should be cool for them to speak up. This is, in essence, the same...

I've had a similar experience as those above; when I actually know something about the category they are comparing, their conclusions seem to miss what is important and come to conclusions that make no sense. This makes it difficult to believe that they know what they are talking about in any...

Do you happen to have any Intel or 3Com NICs lying around? This sounds like a driver issue, and nVidia (bless them) are not known for their driver prowess, particularly on the NIC/MoBo side of things.

I hope to some day route all the I/O through the HTPC running Vista Media Center, but my mother is a technophobe (relatively speaking, my father is a software developer). To start, it will need to support the inputs that they have now (DirecTV, basic cable, non-HD DVD player, VCR) and the HTPC...

My guess is there is no reachable limit. If there were, taking a look at the BIOS updates to see whether it has been increased would make sense.

It is a small room, viewing distance would be between 5 and 10 feet. They are coming from a 27" CRT, so it will be big to them. I'm building an HTPC for them, so even if none of their sources were 1080P, I plan on using that resolution for the GUI and other features (games, picture viewing, etc)

This looks like the one to get based on my research so far. SHARP Black 42" LCD HDTV w/ATSC Tuner Model LC42D72U Full 1080P 2x HDMI 2000:1 contrast 4ms response time $1800

If you were to buy a 42" HDTV this week, which one would it be and where would you get it? Which/how many inputs would you be looking for for a basic home theater? My father has finally decided to replace their 27" Mitsubishi CRT with something decent.

Samsung SATA drives appear to be fine...turns out to be an issue with a brand-new Shuttle SFF mobo, thing has been causing me headaches for days :(

That's where I perfected my parallel parking skills. I used to live on Lombard, had to park on the street and I drove a manual transmission ;)

That depends Lunar. Everyone could be up-tight about it, and make a big deal, where people jobs are in jeopardy; or everyone could be laid-back and have a sense of humor about it. That is why I've always loved working for/with small companies; big ones don't have a sense of humor.

Well, if you truly feel that it will be taken well (with humor), than I would suggest sending them images from the monster of cock website. Don't change the rules, just demonstrate your superiority.

How is the HR department at your work? Remember, women are virtually immune to SH prosecution, and you aren't.

Driving around here during rush-"hour" (6:30AM-9AM, 3PM-8PM) is completely impractical. Last night I drove to SF for my father's B-Day dinner; leaving Palo Alto at 4:30PM (GF just got off work). I barely made my 7PM dinner reservation, 25miles/40minutes away.

I agree with JTR's comments about the short work day. My ~100mi/1:15 commute would be much worse if I did an 8-hour shift. As it is I leave around 9AM (when the carpool lane ends) and get home around 3PM (before the carpool lane starts). This combined with how I drive my commute (quite...

I have a pair of Samsung SATA opticals here. I think there is a problem with them, but I'll be doing more testing today. I suspect they are passing corrupted data. I've never heard of the optiarc brand, why are you interested in them?

Well I'm having problems with dynamic arrays above 2TB. Even if I use the GUID method instead of MBR; it still goes offline after a reboot. I settled on creating arrays of 1.5TB (2x 750GB) and distributing the data.

This is an interesting concept...

I didn't see that. I saw an article that doesn't describe how beyond college-age geeks find girlfriends. Considering that was not the objective of the article, I don't find this surprising.

Very cool. Perhaps they know something I don't? I got "skip lunch" 3 times in a row...

It asks what you want to remove, so un-checking the box next to "MS Office" isn't a big deal.

I would connect that hard drive to another system as a secondary disk (not the boot disk) and nuke it there, then reconnect.

For the record; worked flawlessly. As soon as I enabled RAID support for those two drives in the BIOS, the array appeared and booted correctly. And Vista did a remarkably good job getting all the new drivers (chipset and all) with only a single reboot afterwards.

I use Photoshop for screwing around with my own photos; it's unlikely that anyone else ever gets to see what I do, it's just for fun. MS products I use for profit, so I consider paying for them more morally significant.

If you factor in my MSDN and Power Pack subscriptions, I think I'm legit as far as Microsoft is concerned. Now Adobe, that is another story ;) But considering I don't profit from my use of their products, I don't feel as bad.

Nice article. There is still room for improvement (as is argued in the forums by the back-seat, hind-sight drivers), but overall I think it's very well done. I also like the conclusion that as soon as the CFM is enough to match the heat-carrying capacity of the heatsink, additional CFM doesn't...

I agree that solid-state isn't there yet, but I think it's pretty darn close. So close that I would hesitate to design a product that it would practically invalidate. For the uses where solid state is still a ways off (250GB+?) I would still consider 2.5" drives. Even a pair of them are smaller...

I think a straight eSATA enclosure, and a separate eSATA-USB adapter would make more sense. If eSATA is available, it would be the obvious choice, and is the cheapest to produce. For those who need USB instead, a basic adapter could do the trick.

Wouldn't eSATA essentially be a pass-through?

It just sucks for me because I'm about to buy another 5 750GB drives. I'd rather buy 4 1TB drives...

If I ever need USB drives again, I'll either get more of these or use these along with these. I just don't trust the fan-less aftermarket cases to keep the drives cool enough, and I don't trust the fans to survive or be quiet enough.

Merc, Don't worry; my women support multiple plugs as well... ;)

NVidia's official Vista driver installation instructions...

The online resellers that support pre-orders are saying they won't have 1TB drives until July. I was curious, as Fry's is now selling the 750GB drives for $220 each (PATA or SATA) - no rebates needed.

Ha! Just got it back. All it killed was the PS, but in replacing the PS I managed to break off another SATA power connector (it's really tight in a P180). Good thing I'm using WD Raptors, as they also support molex power connections. New motherboard arrived at my office today after I left; I...

Well, it would have been nice to find out, but my GF managed to hose my system before I could test it. She says all she did was blow the fuse, then try to reset it. But from my UPS logs, it looks like the power went on and off at least 6 times, with various spikes and sags along the way. And...

The only power outage I've had to endure for more than an hour was in 1989 from the Loma Prieta earthquake. That lasted about 3 days ;) Oh, and I forgot to pay the power bill once...

:p some friends and I actually had some fun, sneaking around the house at night trying to find a way to approach without setting off one of the lights. We ended up having to use a technique like in the movie Sneakers, where you move very, very slowly. I figured that was good enough.

The good ones have adjustments for duration, distance, and sensitivity. I made sure to set mine just above cat in sensitivity, just before street in distance, and to turn off within about a minute.

UPSs are a wonderful thing.

I did sales for a while. I hated it. Even worse than collecting payments.

I could probably set up some consulting for you via RDC if you really want more work...An exchange migration perhaps?

Got Ubuntu Server x64 7.04 installed Installed their pre-configured LAMP package Installed Courier-IMAP Got the tar.gz for phpGW extracted to my home dir still need to learn how to move files around and start screwing with config files via command line....

So now that they have the added capabilities of AMD, they can be both stupid and retarded. Instead of having to choose. ;) So what is it? If I can't wait more than a month, should I still be waiting to see what R600 can do? Then again, I am playing SimGolf at the moment...

Thanks Merc, that actually looks quite good. Yay, VMWare Server works in Vista Ultimate! Installing Ubuntu 7 now...

Mark, I hope those are all supposed to be MB instead of GB?

Obviously not a solution Problem: Broken arm Solution: Don't have arms? There is no data on this array. Just the OS. It could die at any time and I wouldn't lose data. I'd just have to re-install the OS and apps. I'd rather avoid it, but it isn't a big deal.

I have a client with ~300 office users. They have Exchange 2003 and Outlook 97-2003. They use E-Mail and web mail, some of them even have contacts and calendars, but none of them use shared anything. No one publishes their calendar or to-do list. The only thing they share is the "global list" of...

Hard-ish. It's using the on-board controller. IIRC, it's the same type of controller on both boards.