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Photoshop, and other image processing programs. Mainly just for not having to worry about open applications, ever. 7 is stable enough that I reboot only for updates and hardware changes. At the moment I have Photoshop (half-dozen images), Google Earth, Pandora (their local app), Light-O-Rama, A...

A degree is certainly an investment that pays off over time, so the more time spent with one, the better. I'm also hoping that universities there are more reasonably priced than here. Unless you are in a field where certification is mandatory (doctor, lawyer, etc), it has been argued that you...

So long as you stick to the slower clocks, the Xeons won't kill you. Only Xeons make the price ramp of i7s look sane.

Indeed. This seems to be overlooked quite often. Sure, the third memory channel doesn't get you much performance in most stuff, but those extra slots sure are handy.

ECC is massively overrated even for non-life-threatening server stuff, much less workstations. I run 12GB in all my machines. While OC'ing is limited, there are no issues. Running off to server hardware is the path to madness (and bankruptcy).

Best of luck. I don't have a degree in what I do either, but I managed to score some management roles without it, so I don't think it will be required. It's good to hear that your financials are in a good enough position to afford the opportunity. The one thing I have heard about people going...

When I lived in Boston, the street I was on was upgraded in place from the buggy track, which was upgraded in place from the cow path. That was one drunk cow. SF I found much easier than either, but I lived there longer than Boston and NYC.

Do people still do CPU-only upgrades? GPUs, memory, storage, optical maybe. But in my experience, most people do the CPU and Mobo at the same time, usually with the PSU and chassis.

The last time I drove in Manhattan wasn't as bad as everyone says. Parking sucks, but you just adjust your aggressiveness to match the other drives, and it works out OK.

My disk score wasn't a VR ;)

Yeah, doesn't seem to like 8-bit PNGs...whatever. I fixed it now.

I'd never heard of this benchmark before. This is for the rig in my sig. It looks like the board is taking my nice PNG and turning it into an illegible JPG?

I couldn't find a dual-socket on that website, either. That was just a single 5590.

Headlock Gyro malfuntion about 15 seconds in. Doing alright in all the low altitude calibration/testing, then spun it up for some high speed/altitude goodness. Once it was about 30 feet off the ground the tail rotor locked hard left, and I was unable to keep it level on the way back down. When...

Just spec'ed it out, $10k the way I would want it. I suspect I'll just get a Shuttle instead.

Thanks for all the feedback. I was afraid of that. Any of these can at least do stereo off HDMI, no?

I suspect that it is an additional input to the SAS RAID card.

From what I understand, the H57 is one step down from the top-of-the-line Q57. Unfortunately the only Q57 on Newegg is ASUS, which I think has an extra "U" in it.

Yup, that video quality sucked. The CA was really awful. My flight on Saturday lasted 27 seconds.

My deductible is as high as they would let me (~$10k?), it would be foolish to do otherwise. Paying an extra $3k every year to have them pay for a $2k fender bender, should it ever happen, is nuts. Insurance is for catastrophic, unaffordable, highly unlikely scenarios. To use it otherwise is...

We were able to find companies that cost that much, but it's amazing what some shopping around will do. I also find it funny that your first post listed a bunch of good things about living in a giant city, and your second listed a bunch of bad things ;)

From a Newegg review:

Not sure where you got that auto insurance number, JTR. We insure a pair of cars, and my wife's record has some points on it. One of those cars is covered with every bell and whistle available. I just got the insurance bill yesterday: $462 for 6 months. Two people, two cars, $924/year.

Right now I'm looking at one of these that uses the Intel H57 Express chipset. Will this (or any) onboard HDMI port give me all the video and audio capabilities necessary for BlueRay? This system won't have room for any expansion cards.

I leave everything stock. Those drives are currently blank, but I've never seen it change for an SSD either way.

With some funky settings. Note: This benchmark doesn't show the better IO performance of the X25-M due to lower latencies.

ATTO does give much higher numbers ;) I wonder if it is a compatibility issue with an old benchmark on a new OS?

I was actually going to start playing today...that OCZ Z-Drive has an exposed SAS connector on the back side. I'm going to see what I can plug into it ;)

VMWare Server 2? I think it's working for me...

Thanks all for the info. I'll inspect the existing fiber on Tuesday, and come back with better information.

I can see that. Having additional requirements reduces your financial flexibility. I feel very stable at the moment, because only about 20% of our income is firmly committed. Once we buy the house, it will go up to about 50%. After my new car, it may hit 70%. That will indeed make me nervous...

Thanks for the bits, Uda. Looks like I'll only be able to do Gb on the short run. Looking into getting a pair of 3Com 1000BASE-SX SFP Transceivers (Part# 3CSFP91) to plug into the GbE switches on either side.

In case anyone was curious what a RAID0 of 4 30GB Vertex drives on an ICH10R looked like...it looks like there is a bottleneck somewhere. These numbers agree with a windows file copy test I ran as well.

The fiber is already in place. Currently I have some standalone 100Mbps units in place, and they are operating fine. The short run is to some of our other offices, and the long run is to my offsite backup location. Both could use some more speed. IIRC it is 62.5mm multimode fiber, 6 strand.

Looking for some multimode fiber to GbE media converters. I can either do standalone or stick some thingies into the ports on my 3Com Gigabit switch. One of the fibers is only about 300m long, but the other is about 1300m. I don't work with these very often, so I'm not entirely sure where to...

Didn't pull the trigger on that one. Got the OCZ Z-Drive instead.

Just a guess: father in law?

Bong Olympics? Sounds like something that is more fun to compete in than spectate. Those days are behind me by quite a ways...

Then I would check your cabling, including both data and power. I had the data cable to a raid card go out a few days ago. It was causing a drive to fair every couple days. Replace the drive, new drive fails in 4 days....bah.

Funny, I was thinking of mentioning the same.

I actually really like the toasters. I have a pair of 2-drive units hooked up to my file server for quick, unscheduled, off-site backups (audits, recovery to another location, etc). I also have one on my desktop to read from people's laptop drives, etc.

I would also point out that this is a lot easier if all your drives are in hot-swappable enclosures. Of course, even in my more extreme cases, rarely do things happen often enough to warrant the added expense.

...so long as the 48 is seconds and not minutes, you're fine.

;) I like when the fix is easy.

There is usually a setting in the BIOS that makes USB key/mouse look like PS/2. I forget what it is called.

I would probably look into an enclosure that takes SATA SSDs and converts them to FC. The other option would be to connect the SSDs locally to your system if possible.

Any BIOS updates available?

I just got the new version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, so we'll see how it does over the next few days. I haven't tried voice recognition software for a few years so I still have to get used to speaking my punctuation and not babbling.

That does look like a heck of a unit. $1k+USD seems like quite a lot for what it is, though. The built-in iSCSI target looks pretty cool.

Not mine, that would be dave1980 ;)