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Chewy, $215k is 5% of the price: $4,300,000. Yes, two commas :( With a 6% 30yr: ~$24,000/mo This is why I'm not happy. Our postal code has the lowest average house price in the area: $1.45M. That is because it includes East Palo Alto; a serious crime center on the other side of the...

A Seasonic 430W should be enough for that system, but it would be my #1 focus as well. Do you happen to have a 500W+ unit sitting around? A reseller with a friendly return policy (Frys)?

Dell XPS desktops

Fantastic post, got my first smile of the day ;)

They are bad. "That bad" is a relative term. Would I put non-redundant data on them? No. Do I run a RAID-0 array of them for my OS? Yes ;)

This is where things get complicated. In addition to us, we'll have her mother from Moscow and her handicapped 16-year old brother. And we are talking about (2) kids. And since her family is from far away, they tend to come and visit for 2 weeks+ at a stretch... So granted, that house is very...

Or the spelling polizei? ;)

What are your favorite songs from the 80's? Just looking through my list, the bands of choice seem to be: Beastie Boys Metallica Aerosmith Guns n' Roses and of course: Escape Club - Wild, Wild West!

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I've been thinking of a house; the girl I'm with now is really awesome, and I'm thinking it will work out long-term. So on our walk today (prepping for backpacking: 5 miles with a 60lb pack) we went by the nearest house to our place that is for sale (2 blocks). It has it's own website...

Ah, yes. That was so long ago that I'd forgotten. Seems that they have finally decided to let the marketing drones announce it.

I just got an e-mail from Seagate that says: Now that Maxtor is part of the Seagate family, we help you satisfy an even broader range of customer needs. Did I miss a memo?

Seek times for even a slow SSD are in the ns range, right? not the ms range?

Merc, I read your whole post and I hear what you are saying. The part that stuck in my head is this: So our problem is immoral/corrupt management and lazy/corrupt government inspectors. Fine, let's fix that. You don't need a labor union for that, you need efficient government and effective...

Nice blakewry, those must've been some hot systems! The most RAM I've ever stuck in a box was 12GB...

The big problem for the big 3 at this point is their reputation. I haven't even gone to their site to look! Meanwhile I've been to every European and Asian manufacturer's site and checked their line. I know they don't deserve this much abuse (I'm sure they can rival the Malaysians and Koreans...

I'd like to take this opportunity to blame the unions. They shouldn't have been given the power they had, and even if they were, they should have been smart enough to not screw themselves. So in effect, I'm blaming the government for sticking it's nose in and supporting unionist crap in the...

Vista sux. But I do think it's better for day to day users than XP. Then again... XP sux. Having never spent serious time in Linux, I've always known large numbers of small files to take a long time. Copying large files always seems to be disk/network limited to me. :shrug:

Interesting. I get the response "this update does not apply to your system"...

Considering my USB drives just got delivered on the other side of the country, it'll take a while for me to run the tests ;)

My suspicion would be that the problem was one of the north not liking the arrangement and deciding to force the issue. (stupid, IMHO, who would want the south?)

People who choose the hard way without good reason are fools. I'm not saying there isn't a good reason, but I can't think of one that makes it worthwhile.

I think you could save some money and get crazier with this motherboard: 12 SATA ports onboard and 4 16x PCIe slots.

'course, so long as you are OK with the "good" part being put into question from time to time ;)

I assume that when you say DNS server above, it's really also a DC (the DC?) I've found that sometimes I need to manually set the DC as the primary DNS on other servers for the AD to resolve correctly.

Vista + TeraStation = Wierdness? I had to perform this hack to get the permissions to work at all. Now I can write and change files, but I still can't delete anything. I'm currently using FireFTP to connect and delete stuff, but it is quite odd. I don't have a non-vista machine to test with at...

Sechs, I agree with all your arguments, but how do you overcome the problems I mentioned? Make everyone 'see the light' and think like you do? That seems like a lot of work.

I'd agree with MaxBurn; a brownout is likely just to fry the power brick, but a surge protector (a good one) is a good idea. IIRC, Belkin makes a mini surge protector for laptops...just one plug and very portable.

3Ware RAID cards also have LED headers for each drive...

As far as "what is wrong with the country" is concerned; I believe the primary issue is that we're just too darn big, trying to represent too many people with one government. Furthermore, the rewards of screwing the country are simply too large. If the country that I lived in only represented...

Nice. And why are you looking for 250MB/sec+?

Psh, I'd be happy with 10Mb at the moment...

The 5-in-3 enclosures have 5 SATA ports on the back, so you can use them any way you want. The stock fans are loud, but move a crapload of air. If you are the OCing type, your system is probably not quiet to begin with. Perhaps including a complete system spec would be a good thing, so we can...

As I'm sure you've noticed, going to an external array gives some crappy choices in terms of connection and RAID card (as well as costing quite a bit). Considering the cost of just the enhance enclosure alone, I'd look at getting a larger computer case and doing it internally. Based on my...

I never take home left-overs from restaurants for this reason; they always become science experiments. I also only try to keep a few items in the fridge, that way nothing is forgotten for too long. This would be a good use for the LCD-screened refrigerators; forget building a shopping list, I...

Of course it's disturbing. It's lazy, self-protecting, and shows a lack of caring for the customer's best interest. Traits very common to MS-only tech houses. I don't like it; that's why I keep screwing around with Linux.

Merc, It was good to read your post. Well spoken views, that are relatively centrist, that I disagree with ;) I was a republican before they made religion, reduction of personal freedoms, and monumental corruption part of the package. If they would get rid of that crap and go back to a small...

Ditto. As it is, I'm about to deal with the Silicon Valley traffic again, so make mine a double ;)

Thanks for the link...my chinglish was getting rusty. And that is good news.

Finished copying all the data to the drive. Considering it is my multimedia storage, read speeds are what is important. With the drives in RAID-5 and GbE with 7k jumbo frames, I'm getting 9MB/second; plenty for my needs.

This reminds me of some things my old couple's therapist said. Even if a couple start by nearly agreeing on a topic, they will slowly change their views in an attempt to make the average between them represent where they actually stand. Of course, since both people are doing this at the same...

My bad. It was the "K" edition that I was thinking of, and it's for Korea.

This is the version for some Asian country that I can't remember. They refused to get WMP IIRC...

That sounds like the winning ticket. Shame there isn't an easier way...

Nope Nit, you did the right thing in providing a work-around to a possibly annoying and undocumented issue; we're just giving you a hard time ;)

I understand that that is true of 90%+ of the US population (aka. morons, unwashed masses, sheep, etc.); but if one were interested in starting a conversation with intelligent people, it would make more sense to get the common ground established, so it could be used as a basis for debate. No?

...but that is more than their web store. Why bother? Did you happen to notice the combo Newegg is currently offering with NOD32? Vista Business Edition!

Dunno. But the performance pressure in the kitchen can be amazing. I've spent a (very limited) amount of time in some 4-star kitchens...there is no way I could cope.

I've bought hundreds of licenses for NOD32, but I've never even seen a CD...I didn't even know it was available anywhere but their website.

Yay! More polarizing input! Why can't we ever start with what we agree on and go from there, instead of picking the most off-center voice we can find just to start some shit.