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And we all know that happy cows come from California ;)

The paint looks pretty good to me. They even included a little black cloth to dust the thing with ;) But I am careful with "piano black" cases. And as my workbench was full, I assembled this one on a rug on the floor.

Finnished assembly. My only other complaints would be that the motherboard only came with one IDE cable, and that the location of the IDE ports prevented 2 devices from being used on a channel - they barely reached at all. The system is fairly quiet considering the completely stock cooling...

Well, I've actually had 2 true relationships in my life. The first we got engaged our second year together and halfway though the third she called me to let me know she was leaving for Brazil with another man. I never saw her again. This was the original trigger of my crash, exacerbated by a...

Merc, Thanks for sharing a certainly difficult part of your life. From where I stand, it seems you did everthing the way I would like to say I would have done it (the "right way", IMHO). If I were to be way too bold and offer some completely unqualified analysis, it would be this: Perhaps...

I was thinking of commenting on this, but I just said "screw it" and closed the window without even reading the reveiw.

That depends on whether they ever intended to upgrade their system. While the Opteron might add another 50% to it's speed though it's lifetime, I doubt Xoens will get much past 3.4GHz.

Yep, considering the performance is close, the added benefits of the Opteron make it a clear winner IMHO.

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Indeed. Don't think that I'm complaining, though...I'm only using the first 5GB of each of my raptors in RAID0 :D Seeks and transfer rates are pretty darn good.

Blake: Yeah, I got the reson behind the outside being faster. But by doing head switches across all the heads to keep the "beginning" of the drive all in the outside is intentionally making the outside of the drive significantly faster. If you were to allow all the tracks on head 0 to be read...

Well. sounds like you've done better than me. Although "hitting bottom" was a fairly effective kick in the ass. If you were to commit to something huge, then burn some bridges behind you, you might be able to spur some motivation. It sounds like a big change may be necissary.

So it's specifically designed to have better thoughput at the beginning of the disk? Are there specific applications where this helps?

Depends on what you're doing with the system 90% of the time XP Pro will be fine, 70% of the time XP Home will be fine. I used to live on the corner of Euclid and Virginia (north side) BTW...

So taking this a little deeper... If changing tracks is faster than changing heads, why isn't it faster to run though all the tracks before changing heads?

I think the local talk radio got it right: 1. It's fu*king Iowa, who cares what they think?* 2. If it's that close, does "winning" mean anything anyway? 3. If it's that close, does that mean they are all above the bar? Or all a big dissapointment? *Another point made by the host was that a...

Although I cannot say I have felt the way you feel, I can say there has been a time in my life where I agreed with everything you've said. What did I do? After leaving the home that I had bought with my fiancee with 2 bags of clothes, I consumed over $200,000 worth of high-end drugs and...

Well, I'm still quite satisfied ;) An author who is his own toughest critic produces the best stuff. Mixing backstory/plot in with the action is a great way to maintain the pace of the piece.

This board has a nForce2 chipset, though I would have preferred one with soundstorm.

Alright, the case is incredible, I couldn't ask for anything more...but: The motherboard I chose is a complete POS. MSI K7N2-V, this thing shows some really amazing design flaws. 1. ATX Power connector between CPU socket and PS/2 header (the power cable goes OVER the CPU fan intake :() 2...

Yeah, we've got overcast here

I wish, it was actually a Tri-tip, the knife was a little too sharp and cut off a piece of bone for me to chew on. That was about a month ago.

Well, I ended up doing this anyway; after explaining the potential difficulties of working within the budget. I also had to explain to him that if he were to go to a traditional home theater rig, he'd need to replace his TV (it only has a single VGA input). I decided to stick it in an Antec...

Man, I cracked a tooth a while back and it started killing me last night. Couldn't sleep, can barely see straight right now. Time to go find a dentist that discounts for cash and is heavy-handed with the morphine...

I don't think it will lead anywhere but up. Considering where the average consumer is now, anything would be an improvement. It will still suck, but the direction is up IMHO.

...or not enough ;)

:P I was going to say "every word", but that wasn;t exactly true. every 5 or 6 words, maybe.

Damn that's an awesome paragraph....every sentance I read made me smile a bit more.

Suggestion? Handcuffs ;)

Sorry if I re-railed the topic, I was replying directly to the OP... i was pretty spot-on...and me has a good idea bout the ferret...

Lots and lots of sex. ;)

Well, one of those "always on" connections is me. I leave the browser open on my home PC and RDC to it from my client's offices. Actually, I always have 2 tabs open (computers and P&B) so that probably counts as 2 connections.

Yopu know, this ASP.net + SQL server + web services this is pretty cool... :P I'm currently in the middle of a half-dozen projects using this combination.

Nah, Fresno serves a very important role. Any time you are having a bad day, all you're buddy needs to say is: Could be worse, you could be in Fresno right now...

Another 62 and it can bump :roll: out of the #9 spot!

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Since we're talking about proper credit here.... :roll: :wink:

Well, pathetic in an awesome sort of way... :mrgrn: I just had time to read it, it is absolutely great! Good luck on your new home, and I hope the storage article goes well, but I (and I'm sure others) will be harassing you for more of this later!

Well, although I am more of a social animal than merc, that's not saying much. 1. I'm self-employed, without employees. No co-workers, I try to avoid clients being around while I work (usual reasons) 2. I don't watch television. I have a few episodes of a few shows on my PC, but the comercials...

not that is wan't high before, of course ;)

Yes! My estimation of you just went way up. I just heard about this thing on newstalk radio the other day...

Yeah, sometime they do it right...but not always. I like "Dead leaves and the dirty ground" and "Fell in love with a girl"

Interest? No kidding. I have 2 dozen potential customers right now, if you could swing it for under $1k.

Holy cow! That's a lot of pr0n! What's your drive array look like? 3Ware I assume...

Yeah, they referenced a MS KB article. But the article is talking about the drive's sensor being broken, and this was happening to BOTH drives (unlikely).

Merc, Looks like you are pioneering this stuff. When you get a stable solution please let us know! In the meantime I have the following parts incoming: Athlon XP 2000+ MSI K7N2-V (nForce2) ATI Radeon 9000 OEM WD800JB 256MB PC3200 (cheapest) OPTORITE DD0201 (DVD+/-RW) Antec Overture Total...

Well, the nearest City with a 30-year history on the NOAA site is San Francisco... Average Temp? 60.5F Standard Deviation? 5.56F This is the 5th most stable in the US (#1 is Hilo, Hawaii. In fact, all the higher ones are in Hawaii) Hell, yeah.... 8) And for those interested in my complete...

Well, we got the system back from the techs...and when asked to provide an answer they said the following: The IDE cable used in the machine had a broken wire, this wire controlled the disk insert notification. Therefore the system never bothered to scan the disk. I think this is BS*....any...

Well, the thread is called "something random"...so try this on... I found this really interesting. I'm not at all educated in the field, but it's informative and easy to read. http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~bodob/pubs/p34-billerbeck-presentation.pdf *PDF DOC!