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Just to underscore/highlight this more, I actually bought both. I had both a X58/i7EE and that crazy ASUS dual-proc board with a pair of Xeon 3.06Ghz chips in it. Both were sitting on my desk, both had a RAID-0 of Vertex SSDs in them, and both had an identical build of Windows 7 installed. After...

Where does an X25-E fall behind a spinning disk? All the benches I've seen show them extend their lead under heavy I/O.

Yeah, I was being cheap. I have access to the companies construction crew, but (of course) they don't have specialty parts.

Nope. We are out in the boonies. Septic systems and propane tanks.

Sears was able to find/order it for me, though it isn't on their website. Thanks for the help.

You friggin rule. I've been googling for about an hour without success; I even submitted a bunch of stuff to Samsung... ...but it looks like I can't order that part? I can order a new dryer and include that part, but it isn't available on it's own? I'll keep looking...

This has nothing to do with computers, but you guys are a resourceful bunch. ;) I just purchased and had delivered a new washer and dryer (Samsung WF448AAW and DV448AGW, respectively). The dryer is gas, and my local handyman found notes in the install guide that a LP conversion kit needs to be...

Acronis has finally jumped the dolphin. The new version of their software not only has massive bloat, but hasn't worked properly for me yet, and has the "normal" tasks hidden. I'm looking for a simple app that can copy a drive or RAID array to a file or another disk/array. If it can do it while...

I haven't done any "studio" shooting in over 4 years. Studio is in quotes because it was with a PnS, but one of my pictures did win an award and was published.

I would comment, but this thread has remained remarkably on-topic ;)

Option a is also the best option. If it was also cheapest, that is a win-win.

Because all the writing would be backwards? Because the lighting would become even more difficult? Because alignment of the photo would be more difficult?

I figured as much, so my response was in the same vein (I actually copy/pasted it from something I send o the new users.)

I haven't had that many issues with the 10-22. It isn't exceptional, but challenges me ;) There is no ca correction in this one.

You could take a picture with your phone ;) Or buy some Nikon kit to photograph the Canon stuff...

That looks very cool. I haven't played MechWarrior in a really long time.

It is an online office suite. E-mail/contacts/calendar, documents, spreadsheets, presentations all online as webpages. Including the storing of documents. Whatever machine you are using doesn't need to have your data or any apps (other than a decent browser) and you can do all your office work...

You are a stick in the mud sometimes. How would you write a Google Apps equivalent?

I treat them as a direct replacement, only depending on price.

Wait...it messed up the video drivers outside the VM? That is inexcusable.

Yeah, that looks pretty slick.

I'm interested in the answer. Chrome browser isn't good enough for my needs, but getting a super-thin OS behind Firefox interests me.

If it is based on Linux, I don't see why not. I may take some tweaking, though.

Could be great for the TechCrunch Web Tablet. I would be suprised if they weren't already collaborating.

Nope.

I played with it for a while, but I stopped once I had VMWare ESXi servers lying around.

I only have one on the 75-300 (came with it, bought it used). The rest I am shooting bare glass.

I'm running SSDs on Win7 at work and the same SSDs on XPx64 at home. XP is still faster, the TRIM command doesn't give you as much as MS has taken away.

It wasn't solid shade, so there was quite a bit of over/under exposure going on. The filter seemed to tame that down a bit.

I've never had any kind of filter before, and wanted to see what effect it had. It also seemed to help when there was a lot of mixed shade.

Looks good. I shot all day yesterday with just the 10-22, and a new 4x medium density filter.

WinXP x64 loves SSDs, particularly the fast ones. Vertex or X25 are still the way to go.

Got it. I suspected as much, but felt like being a smart-ass (beats the alternative).

I doubt Chicago tastes very good.

The author of that article seems confused. He showed benchmarks that said one thing (Summit sucks, particularly hard if dirty) and then recommended them at the end of the article...WTF?

The slow down over time issue won't be resolved. It is a fundamental performance characteristic of flash-based storage. The only "solution" I can think of is to have partially-used pages consolidated and wiped during idle time. Otherwise just consider the "dirty" speed as the actual speed of the...

One of the dogs was huge. I'd consider it a pack animal.

My econ teacher used to spend every summer riding his bike non-stop. He said the objective was to drink as much beer as possible and break even.

Walked out to where my wife and I got married yesterday (Capitola Beach). There was a guy sitting there with his dogs and a 1DsIII with 70-200/2.8. No camera bag, just out for a walk. I'm really not a jealous person, really ;)

A single SSD will give you around 200mb/sec. My secondary system has a RAID-0 of SSDs in it, but that is because the ones I had weren't large enough.

Ahh...thanks. Didn't even think to search for a phrase without the quotes.

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An extra 140GB? What is the point again? That isn't even one platters worth.

I don't think it was anything that serious. I don't go to the doctor, just ice and exercise (if possible). I couldn't walk on it at first, but it is mostly better now (still bruised, and I can't run on it, but better).

Yes. This is probably the easiest approach to take. Asking you to prove that you didn't remove it would be the shittiest (and most likely) approach that they will take.

Letters sent certified mail, return receipt requested, should get their attention.

Pretty slammed at the office. I'll be testing a Verizon MiFi with the pimped-out MSI Wind U123 compared to our previous solution (Compaq Craptacular $800 15" laptop with Sprint USB cellular card) for the afternoon.

I think small LED-based projectors will beat the roll-up displays to this market segment.

That is the biggest sacrifice with netbooks IMHO. 600 pixels isn't really much for anything. I expected the CPU to be really lame, but so long as you avoid doing CPU intensive stuff (like converting RAW files), you don't even notice it. The keyboard is fine and the touchpad isn't bad, if a bit...

Just finished voiding the warranty on my own U123. 2GB of RAM and a 30GB Vertex with a customized (nLite) build of XP Pro. Thing absolutely flies.