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Done and done. I am now open to suggestions on what to do with them when they come back.

:mrgrn: Yes, I will accept all the "I told you so"s now....the ones that come most quickly to mind are Mercutio and Tea, but there were others. I find it really amazing that the systems that have been swapped with 120GB/8MB Samsung SATA drives have no performance decrease at all.

Gilbo, Thanks for the links. The conclusion of the mini article is hilarious, though the image may be disturbing.

I'll second that.

Please forgive the misunderstanding on the mouse, my recent knowledge of Macs comes from my GFs Powerbook...only one button there, and it slows my surfing significantly. Re: WinXP, I'm not a hard-core gamer, but I do enjoy some from time to time...your own beloved COH won't run on it. As a...

I have 8 of an original batch of 25 Raptors sitting on the shelf waiting for RMA. Can I put in a negative vote for them?

I found that through my overclocking adventures, MBM5 started to give really inaccurate results. The latest version of speedfan still works great, though. It also does temp reporting for my GPU, and would do fan control for it if it had a fan :P

It needs to either: A: Use at least 2 mouse buttons B: Run WinXP I love the form factor, though.

The only modern game that has me really interested is Theif: Deadly Shadows. Nice gameplay, nice graphics, good plot, and playable @ 1280x1024 on a 6800...very nice.

Ever since getting strong reccomendations here and elsewhere, Samsung has been my drive of choice. Especially now that my Raptors are beginning to drop like flys :(

Looks like a different type of game to me. I'm not into the MMORPG scene, just not enough time. But I certainly enjoy RTSs and the occasional fling with an FPS. Currently LOTR: BFME is my favorite (not counting Transport Tycoon and Sim Golf of course).

Just one more reason to run some kind of spam-blocking software yourself. Just be sure to NOT send auto-responses, you've seen that it does more harm than good.

Sounds like someone decided to use your address as the "from" in a batch of spam mails. The mails you are getting are likely from mail servers that are blocking the spam "you" sent.

I actually put in a registry key (basically the same as the start-up folder) that includes arguments to start minimized. I haven't played with overclocking yet, but I think I'll start now that my 6800 has show up and I'm doing a lot more DIVX encoding...

Mine doesn't, I've had the CPU in the mid-60s for extended periods without issue. What is the northbridge temp? Might it's heatsink be incorrectly installed?

I'm digging the 8 SATA connectors...

Complete system specs as follows: Antec P160 Case (heavily modded) ASUS K8N-E Deluxe Mobo (undervolted/modded) A64 Mobile 2700+ (undervolted/underclocked) Thermalright SLK-948 with Panaflo 92mm "L" @ 4v 2x 512MB PC3200 DIMMs (Mushkin) Gigabyte 6800 (fanless) Samsung 160GB/8MB SATA HDD with...

I certainly have the Silent computing bug, but have found Nexus fans at low speed to be a more comprehensive solution than a fanless PSU/alternative exhaust method. I was obsesing about noise, but I am now finnished, my system is as fast as I will want for a while and inaudible from 2 inches away.

But I will take issue with the electoral process in general. We have the technology to make direct elections possible, so why don't we? Also, we could weight people's vote based on their financial staus! :P

Seconded. I also had an interesting debate about the value of only having presidential elections, and having second place end up as VP. Of course, we'd need to get the VP position more responsability. One of the interesting propositions of this system was requiring both to agree to a war...

Move "family values" to the Conservative party (if you mean the republican definition of the word) and sign me up as a New Republican. But that is just dreaming. The current electoral process can't support more than 2 major parties unless something really crazy swayed a bunch of voters at...

Well, I'm off. I'm surrounded by the 12 boxes I've managed to condense my life into, and am about to break down my system. I'll be driving first to Santa Barbara to visit with family, then from there straight to Eugene on the 26th. I'll be ordering broadband once I get there, so you may not see...

Discovered a new wine? Mmmm....Primativo....

Almost? Nevermind, Merc is good enough reason to drink through a hangover!

I'll drink to that!

I actually still use "net send" and the messanger service for interfacing with a POS foxpro app....

Oh, god......the SNR is astounding....perhaps I'll just expirament on my own. :(

According to Spacemonger: 50% of my storage is MP3 20% is Video (non-porn - TV Shows and movies) 15% is ISOs 10% is porn 5% is misc. downloads

I've been out of the overclocking game for a long time, but as I'll be installing a 3D-accelerated GPU to my machine for the first time in over a year, I'm tempted to look into getting some more power out of my box. Any favorite websites for this kind of thing? I currently use CrystalCPUID to...

It's not that much if you stick to high-quality video; DVDs and...erm...home movies :mrgrn:

-fNI didn't work for me. It just freezes on the splash screen. I think I need the newer version that works from within windows...

SPCR was hacked overnight, could have been due to this. I can't think hacking an enthusiast site would be a wise move, considering geeks have teeth

Yes, 9TB would be an unwieldly amount of porn. I'm only sporting a Hedgehog myself... :eekers:

Also not what you were after, but I know my 3Ware cards have activity lights for each channel, that could be very festive on a RAID-5 array...

-fNI? Never heard of that option...interesting. I've had good luck with Ghost 2003 using PCI-based SATA controllers in the past, but this time it really freaked out, I had to assume it was the fact that the controller was part of the chipset.

...that can handle chipset-based SATA ports, like those on the nForce3 250Gb I have now. Let me now state for the record that everyone here is correct, and that Norton Ghost 2003 blows major chunks. Also, that having spare hard drives sitting around, parralel installs of XP, and partition...

Indeed, a day for anyone to be jealous of. Happy Birthday, BTW.

I'll have to second the Merc ruling part...but do share!

That is the plan.

Tell me about it. What am I doing on the 25th? Driving from Santa Barbara to Eugene...alone :cry:

The athlon64 is darned efficient. That's why my desktop can spend 90% of it's time at 800Mhz.

I won some pants!

It's not the falling that kills you. It's that sudden stop at the end...

I think that's one of the most beautiful bridges I've ever seen. And I had the Golden Gate out my living room window for a year. I agree that the area is beautiful, but I don't think this bridge negatively impacts it.

Yeah, I'm afraid I'm out of the mix for a while. Not only does the client negatively impact the gaming systems, but my home system is now a fanless box that can't handle 100% CPU usage. I still have a number of servers and other workstations, but not the big iron I once was.

I'll third NOD32. I got it on reccomendation from here a few weeks ago. and now have it installed on a bunch of machines, I also am using their remote admin package and their MS Exchange plugin. All are working very well and without hassle. I was quite amazed at the simplicity of their MS...

Interesting...the OS installed on the drive was "Windows Whistler Professional" according to the boot.ini file. I always wonder why this survives a format...

Only if he takes me with him. There's no way I'll be down there before next August otherwise...

I have flash click-to-view installed and it crashes for me too. WinXP SP2, FF 1.0

That's one of the reasons I'm posting it here, Mark. Unfortunatly, I need to put the drive into production tonight, so I'll be destroying the evidence. Any util that can check SMART data can tell the number of times the drive was spun up; that would be enough.