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I need to find a reason to play with one of these. Considering I aim for 18dB on my desktops, this made me laugh. Other than DivX-ing movies really quickly, or VMWare-ing an enterprise in a suitcase, what could I do to justify the price of one of these?

I'll do what I can to up the average ;)

I use Nod32 in all my business enviroments. It really is awesome and has a really small footprint, but it does cost some money. I am capable of selling people on things, but it's that much easier when things are free.

I just got my first VMWare server in, just for testing. It's a Tyan B2865 Transport GT20 which features a S2865 Toncat K8E motherboard. I also threw in a 3800+ X2, 3GB of RAM and a pair of 300GB Seagate HDDs. I'm very impressed with the hardware so far, it went together very nicely and all seems...

Wow. That was remarkably easy. There is no configuration to speak of, it seems to just, um, work. And with a footprint thats only a fraction of NAV. Thank you so much to all who helped on this thread and the other in tech suppot (Merc, Tannin, Sol, and all those who read but had nothing to...

I just used their web-based removal tool and it worked perfectly. I'm nearly certain that there is nothing still running on my PC. The system on a reboot is using 90MB of RAM (compared to the 160MB+ with NAV on it). Right now, even with FF and AVG running it's only using 130MB of it's...

Not much of a deal at all, considering I can get a 300GB SATA Seagate HDD w/8MB cache for $105. I think the better brand, better interface, better warranty, and better cache are worth the the extra $5

Great. Any great tricks for making it act in a bullet/fool proof way?

This is stemming from a thread I just started in the tech support forum, and expands the matter. I have a friend who is not the easiest to work with - Beating my head against the wall for half a day trying to work with Norton AV is easier than trying to explain why she should switch to a better...

Well, complete removal of all reg keys and program directories didn't fix it. I'm beggining to suspect that it's an incompatability with the version of the MSVCP60.dll file that is part of the OS. Doing a search for the file on my computer shows the following locations: C:\i386...

I would, unfortunatly this customer has a payed-up licence through next year, and won't switch in the meantime.

That's my problem, in a nutshell. I get to the machine, and it's showing an error message on startup: Then norton shows that it's "Intrusion Detection" component hasn't started. When I try to start it, an error appears telling me to re-install. After re-installation, nothing has changed. Help?

yep.

Interesting question. When I first opened, I made the decision to allow all food and drink at all the machines. I have never had an issue in 2 years of operation. The keyboards more often fail when the "w" key gives up the ghost. No matter, $5 keyboards (about one a month) aren't an issue. The...

My GF gets back tomorrow and I leave on Wed, in between I think I'll take her to Shadowbrook...

At least I'm inconsistently inaccurate :P

I was just reflecting that when I first posted that a couple years ago I lived about a mile from the resteraunt in question. Since then I've lived in 5 cities and 2 states with quite a few changes in my life. I just got back from walking to the same resturaunt (about 4 blocks). Crazy.

And yes, I love slashdot's new color scheme.

I do certainly believe in better living through chemistry. Of course, the key elemet here is better living; using all available rescources to get the most out of life. Of course, the line between this and acutal abuse/addiction is quite a fine one, and something that I'm pretty careful about. It...

I've been looking at a Treo 700w, primarily for it's ability to integrate with outlook, but I'm also exploring other purposes. It seems I'm always picking up new clients in hard-to-reach locations, or driving up to the bay area to dance. I've found this nifty GPS unit with a Bluetooth reciever...

No. Nothing has changed permanantly. She's just away for awhile. Depression and social phobias seem to be the issues in our line of work, just as models have to deal with poor self-image and bolemia. The advantage of being a geek with social issues is that we are too far from the spotlight to...

Why I need a girlfriend: To keep me from indulging at home (like tonight): In front of me: My computer (of course) Bottle of Galante Blackjack Pasture (Cabernet) Can of Coke Bottle of water Bag tortilla chips Fire-Roasted Salsa 2 Boxes "Thin Mints" girs scout cookies (well, one is empty)...

I actually got a computer in this kind of state while working at CompUSA in SF. I wasn't the tech, but was called down to the repair shop when they found it. I called the customer and told them to pick up their machine. I didn't say it was fixed, just for them to pick it up ;)

I've been thinking of getting a small air compressor for a long time now. What is the smallest/cheapest you can get? Obviously I only need around 30-50 psi, and a very small tank.

Well, if the whole point is trying to go above mach 5, than it's less of an issue. A regular ramjet will get you to there, and a regular jet engine will get you to the ramjet range. See? Simple ;)

I build and work on quite a few industrial machines. The nursery is pretty bad, especially their landscape supply division. They seem to always need me under their desk any time I wear black slacks. The absolute worst is the redi-mix contcrete plants. Two of the materiels they work with (fly ash...

Awesome. For the first time in a long time the scientists in the field are moving faster than I would expect them to. The previous that comes to mind was the Ansari X-Prize...or maybe the DARPA grand challenge. ...all of which the US govornment weren't in charge of the research in. Hint, hint...

Quite so. I've been working full time for 8 years, 80% of that self-employed, 70% of that with permanant on-call duties. I've now had 2 proper vacations, this picture was one of them, but it wasn't exceptionally relaxing. Hopefully the next one (Italy) will be more peaceful.

:P I still have to try to look older. In most of my work enviroments, I suspect I'd loose some credibility/respect if they knew I was born in the 80s.

Thanks for sharing guys. I know it's silly but I like to have a better feeling for the people I spend so much time chatting with. Damn..that means I better find one as well.... I'm seem to always grimace when I'm outdoors, even in China's...erm...filtered light.

Only if he lives.

OK, so everyone I've talked to says that this car will be great for towing, just get a trans cooler. Well, Subaru doesn't offer one. Does anyone have a suggestion? Any idea what an aftermarket one will do to the warranty?

Here's something I don't know much about. (again) My GF recently totalled her work vehicle (a 1994 Ford Windstar). It was modified to hold all her work gear and had uprated suspension and transmission to handle the additional weight. Unfortunatly, she'd never had the brakes uprated, so now it's...

This has been true for me in the new LOTR: BFME II. You can now create your own Hero unit and use it in the RTS game. It really is a lot of fun. I remember spending hours developing characters in Neverwinter Nights, and still create characters for friends in DDO.

I doubt it. I'm still; using 3.47 with this mod. Works for everything.

There is a nifty trick to make SecuROM not detect Daemon Tools. Do a search of their forums, it involves changing the permissions on some files and registry keys. It does work.

That's quite an exciting drive as well. Not as fast, but just as quiet, and with low power consumption as well.

Yep. I think I NEED one. Or two...I might want to install something ;)

Heat and space are big issues for this type of thing. It will be replacing a Linksys (or similar) router and I've told them it is "better" and it 14x the cost. So it needs to look really shiny. OK, OK, I give up! I just looked at my most complex smoothie build (T-1, 200+ local users, 5 VPN...

For the first client it will be just a simple point to point VPN. I know if I'm goinng to be using proxy or caching services I'll need to use an actual HDD, but a 40GB 2.5" HDD would only be a few dollars more. I'd just rather avoid any moving parts and keep heat/power to a minimum.

Guys? Did you notice that 512MB of RAM is $35? 256MB is about $25. What is the point of saving $10 and getting half the RAM? I am going to be building quite a few of these. I like smoothwall and have been deplying it at a number of my locations. I imagine I'll have an initial order of 10...

I'm building a bunch of machiens to be used as smoothwall routers. Here is what I've come up with so far: VIA EPIA PD 6000 - Fanless 600Mhz, Dual Ethernet - $170.00 pico PSU-80 - 80 Watt tiny PS - $45.00 VoomPC Enclosure - Aluminium Chassis - $80.00 CF-IDE adapter - Allows CF to connect to...

John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!" That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night! He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night" She said, "Aye, did...

I'm interested, some of my friends at the game center are already working on their second level-10. On another note, I spent an entire night the other day playing the new Lord of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II. It's very fun, much better than the first, and quite beautiful.

Yup, this is worth dropping a client over. In a letter to the owner, I would point out that you would require that business communications be made using a technology that provides a record of those communications. Trying to track a paper trail through saved IMs sounds like absolute hell.

Paragraphs isn't really the way IM communications go. Perhaps you would be more comfortable using a MySpace account? Would she go for it?

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Going to the Flickr pages and skipping directly to page 4 shows a P180 in all it's thermal goodness. It also shows what having too much TIM can do and why putting 2 high end graphics cards on top of one another is a bad idea. :roll:

When sensative people ask me questions about color I begin with my Crayola disclaimer. It all depends on how many colors you're working with. In the 8-color box, it is certainly purple. In the 48-64-color box, it is likely indgo. But I bet the 96-color box uses a more elegant description...