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My car is going to let me down sooner than later. It's passed 200,000Km and the engine has been noisy for the last half-year at least. I don't expect it to last another two years, so I'm starting to look for a new vehicle. My finances are precarious these days and therefore, the vehicles I...

When making your resume, under professional objectives, can you write "empty your pockets, fill mine"? I cited "honest" and "sincere" among my qualities and I want to be consistent.

Is that your secret for melting from +320lbs to ~225lbs?

I have the following system that's been running the folding@home client non-stop (except power outages), for the past 7 or 8 months : Core i7 860 Prolimatech Samuel 17 heatsink GigaByte H55N-USB3 motherboard Kingston 2x2GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM (OC'ed to ~14500MHz for the past two or three months)...

I use a Logitech X-230 2.1 kit at home and a Trust SP-3920 2.1 kit at the office. The Logitech sounds better, but both are ok. I only have computer speakers for now. There's also the integrated speaker inside my HTC EVO phone, but it sounds like shit.

Well, back in the old days, elders used horn to listen to people so I guess that at your age, it's normal to appreciate Klipsch ;)

The bastards. He wrote it.

I ended up doing a fresh install on another drive, then installing Outlook 2010 and creating a new PST. I plug the orginal drive as a secondary drive and I imported all the PST I could find. That made one fat PST with the newer format with all the data into it. I copied that PST back on the...

Replacing your drive won't get you your data back, so that's the least of your concerns if that data has any kind of value. I very much doubt Spinrite will be of any help either. There's nothing spinning in an SSD. Good luck trying to swap the chips with a soldering iron. From what you...

Silent PC review got better results with a 12cm Nexus fan than with the 14cm fan that came with the Noctua. So you don't have to worry about replacing the fan with a slightly smaller one.

If money is no object and you have plenty of space, the Noctua NH-C14 is more efficient and can therefore allow a lower fan rotation speed for similar or better cooling results. It's shorter too (105mm) if you only use the bottom fan. It's a 70$ heatsink though.

It is a rare occurance, but LiamC and I have the same daily average at this moment : 77314 points per day.

I admit I don't have a tremendous experience with Outlook and that if I had saved the old PST, then uninstalled Outlook 2002, then installed Outlook 2010 and then import the old PST file, I might not have had any issue. Might. But there's no way you'll tell me that it's normal that a program's...

And I've just used Revo to uninstall Outlook with the advanced scan to end up with a similar result as all my other trials. I give up. Outlook 2010 is a software cancer.

I deleted that entry in the registry (as well as everything I could find in appdata refering to Outlook and Office) and it still kept the old information when I reinstalled. It's like a generalized cancer. Oh and Merc, as I mentioned in the original post, I did create a new PST with the latest...

Thanks Chewy, that's what I was missing. What a shitty uninstaller they have. A proper uninstallation should remove droppings from the registry. I don't think it'll fix the instability issues though. I'll try all that tonight. Right now, I'm not at the office.

It only misses the deadline with the f**king 2684 units.

It would increase the occurance of cancers, but no one will suddently die from a magnetic shield re-organisation. As I said, an inconvenience but not a cataclysm. I'm not aware of any mass extinction related to pole inversion and it happened relatively often in the past.

Check out the size of the ash cloud of the last three eruptions. It would wipe out the western part of the United States. It wouldn't only be a local event. Also, remember the flight restriction that the small Iceland volcano did to Europe last year? Imagine how long and how large would be...

In fact, Silverstone only sells it. IIRC, FSP makes it.

I thought I told you about a Seasonic SFX 300W PSU for that enclosure a while ago. I know Silverstone makes a decent one too.

I thought I posted this in the Tech Support forum. Calice.

I'm stuck with an hopeless Outlook case. I don't know where to begin with, so I'll relate the events in chronological order. First, one customer, for which I did a fresh Windows 7 install a few weeks ago, came back with issues with his Outlook 2002 unable to receive e-mails. I told him it was...

The least of our problems. Magnetic field's strenght has already started to decrease significantly (more than 10% in the last century). When it will become unstable, it will be more of an inconvenience than a life-threatening event. I read that one should hit Earth in approximately 7000...

Lightning bolts travel several hundred of meters in air (insulator) before touching the clouds. I don't think it will matter if a fuse breaks and add another 2 or 3mm to the bolt's trip.

New RAM sticks in 2007 were DDR2. Your new system should use DDR3. You've wasted your RAM by waiting too long.

Oops, my big unit arrived earlier than I expected. Sorry for the false joy you may had.

At least you have a nice monitor hook to your aging noisy PC.

Well, the week will again be won by SDDrueding. It will show in the next point update that he will add another 65K today so that put him beyond LiamC's reach and probably beyond mine unless my big unit arrives at midnight (but I think it will only rack in at the 3am update). Congratulations...

Shouldn't that be 95%?

An i3 21xx should be easily passively cooled by any huge tower heatsink, even with the fan removed. You could use a Seasonic X400 power supply. It's easily feasible. However, I would still put a very low-rpm fan on the heatsink tower for safety. Many 12-14cm fans are inaudible below 800rpm...

We passed the 80 million points mark yesterday and we overtook two teams with our last update so we are now 160th overall. We should be 150th in about a month. After we overtake the Mississipi team, things are going to be quiet for a while as we will enter an empty space for ~2 weeks before we...

SPCR revisited the FT03, this time with a tower cooler and the results improved substantially. It's still no really better than the Lian Li PC V354, but at least we have an accurate picture of its possibility now. And my plan to use it with a Scythe Mugen-2 fell apart. The slimmer Noctua...

There's already 1TB 2.5" drives, except that they are 12.5mm in height.

We no longer have any threat to our ranking. No other team behind us out-produces us. And in the upcoming month, we should overtake eight teams.

I know you don't give a damn about it, but coal must send more harmful particles in the atmosphere than natural gas. And the coal industry is so dirty in so many ways that I don't believe it should be supported.

Wow, without doing big units, the i7 2600, unoverclocked, gave me ~23600 points during the 24 hours period he's been folding. That's more or less the same amount that my i7 950 gives me every day while doing big units. Impressive, most impressive.

Maybe his older brother. At 81, he's only ten year older than Bruce Lee would be today.

Bruce Lee's father?

I'm not sure I understood it well, but I think they briefly mentioned in the news that U.S. troops found the corpse of Ben Laden. Can anyone confirm?

They all have firmware. But it's true that Crucial's SSD had several firmware issues.

Official announcement Big lines : 300GB, 600GB and 1.2TB capacities. Up to 950MBps reads and 1000MBps writes. Uses MLC. Made of four SandForce 1565 controllers. Plugs into a PCI-E 2.0 slot. Does not support Virtualized Controller Architecture. And probably fucking expensive too. One more...

Well, if the walls were flatten, it's somewhat easier to do...

Yep, we are among the top 80 teams by daily output. That's quite an achievement since we are currently only 8 to contribute. In three or four months, we should be within the first 140 teams by total production, a ranking we haven't been for more than two years. The top 100 will take more than...

I've add a Core i7 2600 for the week-end. I run the 64bit Linux client via a bootable Xubuntu 11.4 CD. The first unit it got is a 2684, so I think it's the only one it'll be able to complete until I deliver the system on Tuesday. I'll soon add a Core i5 2400 too. It should add ~8000ppd by...

If China crashes, then I don't know what will happen to the global economy of the planet. Let's face it, there's only two players : China and the U.S.A. The rest of the world simply looks at the parade. About a fifth of the U.S. credit is owned by the Chinese. If they crash and the U.S. no...

Oh and if Mercutio has feelings in his pants just thinking about SandyBridge, I imagine you would have quite a feeling in yours when you would put that 17KW CPU on your legs.

There's been tremendous progress regarding cooling technologies in the world you live in compared to ours.

I received a replacement for a defective MA78LM-S2H last Fall, but I haven't tried an RMA with them since. Honestly, I don't remember how smooth it was, but I know I received the board and that it was good.

Nanandtech made the same mistake too. They were even more evil : they used a miniITX motherboard instead of a µATX motherboard. Why review a computer case that accepts µATX with a miniITX motherboard? Then, he complains that there wasn't enough fan connectors on a board of this size. Moron...