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You can use "Internet Connection Sharing" to take an internet connection into the wired LAN port and broadcast it out the wireless PCI card, but it isn't worth it, IMHO.

That is a favorite movie from my childhood. I like the next bit, where all this wood is being ripped out and is falling around him: "It sounded cheaper to say no."

I had no construction skill whatsoever a few years ago. Since then I've had two big things on my wish list; build my own house and build my own car. The house is going to be easier, so I'm starting my studies there.

...or NorCal for that matter.

Every once in a while I think it would be nice to have a basement, but it adds quite a bit to the cost of a house vs. building on a slab (or even normal footings).

At least it is vibration isolated. I'm a big fan of the foamy double-sided tape for this, it works really well.

Yup, the guide/files I was using use 5eraph's update pack, but also include IE8, .Net, Silverlight, WMP11 (I don't use them, but they are better than the old versions, and I may as well have them) and support silent install of many other programs directly from the disk (Firefox, JRE, 7zip...

Sounds like a straightforward approach. Try to get some pictures for us?

My strong-man days were from 16-20; 6'2 230lbs, great shape. I do miss it, but not badly enough to do what it takes to get back there.

I've had it. Using this guide to build my next install of XP x64 now...

Nope. Most of the time it pages out bits that don't need actual RAM. It also only uses certain bits of RAM once across multiple VMs. I do go fairly crazy with my memory allocation (my current VM servers all have 12GB), but it really isn't necessary.

I have had good experiences with Ubiquiti stuff (Bullet and PowerStation), but they don't do routers. Their hardware is compatible with DD-WRT, so you could combine it with a switch and get the same thing.

I've only used them in combination with SSDs, so I could cheat and tape them onto the caddies. If I had to worry about vibrations and cooling, not sure what I would do.

Neither of those look to be plasma? All the links I see say LCD... Looking at one of these for a client, but the question is whether it will send source A to receiver 2 and source C to receiver 4 while simultaneously sending source B to receiver 1. I know it will make any of those connections...

I'll work with whatever I get, but for my rig, the one I spend ages in front of, sometimes under serious time constraints, I start to get fussy.

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Exactly ;) All this tells me is that there are fundamental flaws in their UI. How many things does it need to look at before it can give me the right context-sensitive menu for right-clicking a .jpg? What crazy statistics is it gathering on my app usage that it takes time to show me the start...

I've almost had it with Win7, the fact that the system in my sig hesitates when I right-click an icon or press the start button and that it's GbE isn't fast enough to stream 720P AVIs is purely unacceptable. Who would have thought at the release of XP that it would be the last good OS from...

The X25-M and OCZ Vertex are the closest thing on this side of $750. A pair of X25-M in RAID0 made my i7 the bottleneck for most operations. What task are you trying to optimize for?

The keyboard shortcut that makes widescreen monitors useful is Win+left/right arrow. It makes a window take up either the left or right-half of the screen. That or setting them to portrait mode makes them much better.

I've standardized on 1920x1080 with HDCP for all my screens (monitors, TVs, projectors). That way I can easily re-purpose/mirror them as needed. My most recent monitor purchases were some ASUS VW246Hs.

Something that is so much less complex (at least mechanically) and therefore cheaper to manufacture will beat out spinning disks at some point. The only question is when.

I'm quite confident that SSDs will beat platter-based drives to 750GB, and that 1TB 2.5" spinning disks will not even be a mainstream consideration.

When was the last time you contacted XP support? When they end critical security patches I'll worry, but IIRC they just did that for W2K not too long ago.

It is better than Vista, but there are many steps between a turd and pizza. That they managed to find an improvement that still wasn't edible isn't suprising.

Ugh, that sucks. I'm getting better at realizing that I'm too tired and doing more harm than good.

Congrats Chewy!

The OCZ Vertex work great. There is no way I could tell the difference between them and an Intel "M" SSD without benchmarks. The larger capacity at each price point has caused me to switch to them over the Intel drives. The Kingston "M" series is exactly an Intel "M". The only thing different is...

Although faster than Vista, it is still slower than XP x64. The network issues are still there, too. Transferring a 1GB file takes 17 minutes over GbE from a very fast source. I can't even play 720p video over the network without issues.

Damn, that looks pretty good. Let me know if you like it.

Just a bit more performance and the same pricing as the Vertex. We'll see when the benchmarks come out.

Both. Quite a few of the Vertex (8? 12? something like that). And I did get some of the Kingston rebrands as well.

Perfect. And it even runs on Win7 RC. Don't know about BR support, but that was a tough one. Thanks!

All I want to do is burn files to CD/DVD/BR. Nero seems to be getting way too bloated. Any other suggestions?

The X-Fi Forte is a 1x PCI-E card. I was out of regular PCI slots.

Nope. I used that before I switched to ESXi. Both worked fine.

I would go with the OCZ Vertex. 60GB for $229 or 120GB for $355 both my i7 workstations are running a pair in RAID-0 at the boot drive. The 30GB for $149 is too good to pass up.

Sure thing. I have 2 DCs and an Exchange server virtualized. No problems at all. You may want to manually control the boot order, so that the DC is up when the other machines start up, but if the DC is only a DC it should boot quicker than an app server anyway.

I'm looking for a smartphone as well, but it needs to be on the Nextel network and support direct connect (for work) and it needs a keyboard (or it wouldn't be very smart). I believe that leaves me with exactly one option, and it is a Blackberry. Crap.

The projector arrived, but the screen hasn't yet. This is a much narrower throw than my last projector; even narrower than the online calculators led me to believe. I'll need to re-arrange some stuff.

I think even my latest X58 motherboard has some USB1.1-only ports on it.

My floor has moved from $1500 to $1200. Below that and I throw them to Dell.

Because some people don't understand that SSD means solid state? Interesting that they are using the acronym DOM (disk on module) as a name? It is nice to not need a data or power cable...

Looks about the size of the drive in my Acer Aspire One.

...and make it out of something that doesn't insulate heat or conduct electricity ;)

How does Hulu work with dialup ;)

Yeah, I'm not running 192GB yet. I wonder if that RAMDisk software I got a while ago will let me use it...

My wife and I are really enjoying "Burn Notice".

I was reading an interesting article about this. That CAPTCHAs have actually advanced OCR tech considerably, and it's now to the point that computers are better than humans at it. They went on to discuss what the next test should be, with an eye towards getting the spammers to work on some...

I get to order one this afternoon for a friend. He would like one with a built-in cellular card, at least a 6-cell battery, and a decent screen.