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The number of people I see with 1-year old computer that never extended their subscription and still insist they have anti-virus protection is insane. I don't even ask, I just uninstall it and then ask if they want virus protection. If they say they don't need it, I run housecall. As a side...

I think the only true way to protect users from the ills of computers is to cut off both their hands....

Yup. Hwy 101 between San Francisco and Monterey; about 95 miles.

I use Firefox for everything except windows/office update. I use Outlook 2003 for 3+ each POP3 IMAP and Exchange accounts. I use Spybot and Ad-Aware, neither with their respective TSRs.* I use Housecall, no other antivirus. *I've found that no matter which spyware app I use first, the other...

I went to Jack London's Square in Oakland for a few years for a rather large boat show., and I go to Laguna Seca raceway fairly often for events. I've never been to a golf show, and COMDEX....well, that was work ;) For the longest time I was (guess I still am) considering buying a nice yacht...

I drove about 42k in the last 12 months, and about the same in the years before that. I used to be one of the faster cars on the road, all with complete safety and consideration. This includes signalling, waiting for cars to get out of the way without tailgaiting, and passing on the right only...

It's amazing what fiction writers can drum up based on reality. I remember a Clancy novel at least a decade old where the primary plot point was terrorists using passenger jets as bombs in Washington DC...

Who, me? Nah, I'm just PUI as usual...and too chicken to start a real bar room brawl :oops: (actually, I just have it on record that the guys who skip the brawl get the chicks...as she's already in bed, I can afford my parting shots ;) )

The image is completed and has been deployed for 2 days now. More than enough time for a WU to complete per machine. But my stats are still only 2 active CPUs? Am I missing something?

I don't really see where logic applies here, seems more like a problem with english.

Seems pretty straight-forward to me. sechs said 2 things: 1. That FF was unstable 2. That FF lacked a clear upgrade path from Mozilla BooST made it farly clear that he was addressing only the first issue (although rather crudely).

er, either 44th or 42nd.... :oops:

My first is .38 Special 11th is 3 Doors Down 22nd is 311 36th is Aaron Copland 39th is ABBA And 44nd is ACDC 2,080 Folders total in the organized section. I was thinking of using one of the many tools to publish it to the web, not sure which one though.

I'll second that..

I know a few people at the other place are actually cable techs...don't remember who and don't remember if they come here. Cable is still theorectially faster in my neighborhood (low saturation), but I won't touch such a clearly inferior technology. DSL/Frac. T-1/ISDN for me in that order.

Agreed, shutting down hub or ring based networks used to be a cinch. It wasn't until switching tech got good that networks became even remotely reliable.

Doesn't look too special to me. I wonder how they did it? <param name="newegg725techreport" value="newegg725techreport.swf"> <embed src="http://65.119.30.151/UploadFilesForNewegg/onlineads/newegg725techreport.swf" width="725" height="75">...

Something else random; my latest mix CD: CougTek: Drip/Piss sound Sublime: Saw Red Rage Against the Machine: Vietnow Puddle of Mudd: Control Dieselboy: Invid Aphex Twin: Film Crystal Method: Name of the Game UNKLE: Eye 4 an Eye White Stripes: Fell in love with a Girl DJ Shadow: Building steam...

Bloody brilliant ;)

Technically, I'm not supposed to be open past 10PM. I normally just have a few regulars hand around until midnight or so. I continue to work until 3 or 4AM, just getting things dialed-in. If I were to server alcohol, I would lose my primary clientele (under 21).

Unfortuatly, my system image has been delayed due to the destruction of my activation-free copy of XP Pro....once I get another I'll be able to deply this beast. In the meantime I'm still running one machine 24/7...

Unfortunatly, county regs prevent bars from being open past 2AM.

:oops: Actually, I've never looked at the front page of SF... I just googled for my username and came up with those.

Wow, there are some cool stat pages out there: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=10047 http://statsman.ww-testsites.co.uk/folding2stats/html/10047.html

Had 10 people in for 8 hours tonight, all playing a massive game of COD. Then we went online and spanked a server full of americans playing BF: V My Saitek X45 and a stolen Huey Gunship are unstoppable. Esp. with my wingman (sitting 32" to my left) covering me for the theft and doing bad things...

Never had a problem disabling it, but I don't bother these days...

Tell me about it... Here you aren't getting more than 2 baths for under a million. You'd have to drive away from the ocean at least 50 miles before you found crappy homes for that price.

I liked this part: "Three-Hundred-and-Sixty Thousand dollars ... You can buy a pretty nice house almost anywhere in America for that kind of cash." Haha :eekers:

My mother's 2L Golf gets pretty close to a hybrid in terms of milage...I thought everyone knew they weren'y ready for the big-time yet.

Thanks sechs, that's definatly a good start.

I had been keeping up with that thread before and just re-read the first page. It sounded to me like you'd pretty much already made up your mind going in, that's why I stayed out of the conversation.

Yeah, I figured it would be possible though policies or reg hacks...just hoping for a pointer to a guide or something...

I'm trying to best secure my gaming systems from happy hacking hands. The things I'd like to do: Disable all the nasty keyboard shortcuts Disable File downloads from IE The "internet options" panel is disabled using my client software, so a setting in there would work. I'd like to offer...

The body is a 10D with a 1Gb card, the lens is in fact a 100-400, and we were taking pictures of a motherbord in low light from ~5' away. I am not a camera guy (as you can tell from the pic above) but some of the results were quite impressive. I'll be trying to post more pics when I get the...

I'm tempted to bring take some of th audio gear from the other rooms and hook it up to my PC. If I want loud, I can grab the 15" stage speakers and 1500W amp out of the garage. Too bad the baseline hum is louder than comfortable listening volume. I guess I could take a pair of the Bose...

You are talking about 2.8Ghz @ $300 each while saying AMD is overpriced? With Opteron 242s going for $225 a piece, I'd say Intel is hurting now more than ever (from a tech/perf standpoint, we all know they're still making $$$).

And yes, that is my game center in the background. The game is COD.

The lens is a 400mm, but the camera is digial...

From the benches I've read, they lose about 30% on the second CPU and 60%+ on the quad...due to FSB bus \ memory bandwidth limitations, IIRC. I don't know if this would fix that problem, or make it worse

Just for fun... And for bonus points, what game is being played in the background :P

Yeah, I'll be using it as an archicve of sorts. Who cares if google can read my resume. It's a classic case of TMI; considering the amount of information they will have, mine will be of little interest.

I too think using system memory would be better. Considering they are requiring OS support, the OS could simply stop using the cache when the battery drops too low. Or have a small reserve battery to handle wrting the data back to the drive.

none of mine do, but they are all relatively new.

Well, dual-core'd CPUs will bring parallel-ism to the masses. This will lead to much more development focus in the muti-threaded area and will help those with multiple-CPU systems take better advantage thereof. That Quad-Opteron board from Tyan is calling my name... :D

I'm guessing you'd be massively right. Unless your que depth spends lots of time above 1, this will help 0%. The better seek time on a raptor, however, helps..um...everything.

Can't blame them, the Pentium-M is an awesome CPU. Give it 64-bitness and 2Ghz and they'll be competitive again.

The mapping just works better for my rather unusual setup. Every machine has it's own Ghost image, that is only restored to that one machine. Therefore going though the process of setting up and running a different ghostcast session for every machine is more difficult than just letting the...

At first it was going to be a ghost console partition; currently it is a ghostcasting partition. I was trying to set up a drive mapping version; it doesn't even need to have ghost on it, or have anything to do with ghost. So long as it can map to a network share where the ghost images and the...

I recently upgraded an HTPC from an old Destination system to a new one using an AIW, keeping the screen, Amp, and control devices. The mouse is basically a remote control with a trackball on the top. What would you guys suggest? TIA

My clients have no floppy and no CD-ROM. I'm currently configuring a "console partition" that will be at the beginning of the drive and contain the neccisary stuff. Then I'll install XP into the main partition and use the boot.ini to manage both of them. Does anyone see a reason why this won't...