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Maybe the slow-motion fully nude re-enactment of the best part of Black Swan with Kat Dennings in the Mila Kunis role will be an extra on the Blu-Ray. In 3D.

I have metric shitloads of experience fixing Outlook. From my perspective as an Admin/Tech, Outlook causes more problems than it solves. There's value in being able to set up a user profile in such a way that it already includes E-mail configuration and I won't dispute that, but I've fixed too...

I need to figure out what I want to do about cooling my 2600k. I'm given to understand that they should be cooler than previous i7s, but mine seems to have stabilized at about 41C at idle, and I'm not doing any overclocking on it yet.

Maybe you should look at Event Viewer instead?

Fixing almost every normal problem with Outlook comes not from mucking around with the registry, but deleting and recreating a user's Outlook Profile, and/or doing database maintenance on their .PST.

You don't think it would have any sort of deleterious effect on the electronic systems we depend on every day?

It's hard for me to say that the ML03 is worth $60 without a PSU. At that point, it's really no different from an Antec case in terms of price, and I'm not getting an Antec PSU for ~$30. This is why I generally say screw it and buy an Antec case when I have $80+ in the budget for a case.

I installed my new 2600k today. A few quick thoughts: 1. Asus has a GUI BIOS that I found more than a little annoying. Award and Phoenix have been the same for years and there's no reason to show me moronic little gauges. 2. The 2600k has a tiny, weak fan and average temperatures on my 2600k...

That's part of Norse Mythology, actually. And the comics. Did you not watch the little after the movie clip?

It tells me that it has incomplete items in its queue if I restart it after a crash.

Not being shielded from the full spectrum of solar radiation for some period of time would pretty much suck, Coug.

There was one sentence referencing Tony Stark and one oblique reference to the Hulk. And maybe 30 seconds of screen time for Hawkeye that was kind of edited in. I'll say it again: Loki was surprisingly sympathetic character given how much of a bastard he is in the comics. I suspect that this...

The problem disappears for data files created in Office 2003, actually.

I don't remember. I haven't had one die in a while.

I haven't had any problem with the Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks Applet. What is the basis for your objection?

The objection I have to the Minuet is the nonstandard power supply. They did that on the NSK3400, too and as a result I have to track down a particular Silverstone PSU every time one of my classroom systems craps out.

Go to Control Panel > Mail. Go to Data Files. Create a new data file. Make it sure you pick whatever the newest kind of .pst file. Copy everything into the new file within outlook. Tell your customer to delete old mail and move old crap to archive files.

Are you sure Handbrake didn't just crash before it finished? That does happen sometimes.

If the only thing that is wrong is that the drive is partitioned as an MBR drive, that procedure will fix it. If it doesn't fix it, then there is something else wrong, like maybe your disk controller can't see drives that big.

As of today, the optical drive on that unit has failed and if the machine has been in a power saving mode, sound does not function until it's rebooted. Go Asus.

Handbrake is what I use. I've been very happy with it. I do two passes at constant bitrate and most of the options bumped way, way up. File size is a judgment call. 6GB for short, animated features and 10GB for long visual spectacles like Return of the King.

3TB drives need to be GPT drives rather than MBR drives to be used to their full capacity. You can fix the problem you're having my using the diskpart command line tool. cmd diskpart select disk X clean quit That should do it. Substitute X for the drive's number, which you can see in Disk...

I have a ton of Windows 7 x32 machines here in my office but they're all old C2D machines. I have a Server 2003 x64 system but the hardware isn't close enough to anything else be meaningful for this kind of comparison. Looking at how my classroom machines perform under XP, Vista and 7 is...

Hey, I *like* making new sysprep images.

I have three Windows Vista Home Premium x32 OEM licenses and one Vista Ultimate x32 OEM license. The product keys are unused. Anyone have a use for them? I'm willing to consider any reasonable offer from SF members. Cash, trades, free to less fortunate but inferior-OS desiring members are all...

I'm always tempted to look at SFF and desktop designs when I build, just because I'd rather have a machine that's up on a desk than underneath, but as unappealing as minitowers are, I can find even less to recommend either of those.

HEC power supplies have always been decent for low-cost PSUs. Some vendors (Newegg, actually) don't provide HEC PSUs with HEC cases.

That doesn't mean that the 64-bit version of that program couldn't have much better optimization.

For typical desktop applications I'm sure that's true. You're doing something that's entirely CPU bound and Microsoft has been screaming and stomping its feet for years that Vista and 7 are faster than XP due to kernel-level improvements that typically don't mean crap when there's tons of extra...

I love the NSK3400-series cases and its bigger brother. I use them whenever budget allows me to do so. My budget case of choice is a HEC 6K28BB8F, though I usually buy them with the HEC power supply.

The 20 pin header will become more common over time. I'm not fond of the alternative arrangement, which seems to involve putting a hole in the back of a chassis someplace so that a USB3 cable can be passed from the inside of the enclosure to a rear USB3 port. That just looks idiotic, even if I'm...

I really dislike the Coolermaster tower. First, it's not terribly well finished on the inside, or at least the six I bought weren't. So I sliced up my hands working on the damned things. And that was a callback to the end of the 90s, which is the last time I put up with that shit. Second, it's...

I generally re-encode BDs down to somewhere between 6 and 10GB.

One of my favorite webcomics is Axe Cop, written by a five year old.

I was kind of surprised, as a huge comic book reading nerd, that Loki wasn't played as a straight up bad guy. He has a sympathetic point of view. I thought the direction and acting were spot on, too. Kat Dennings only had about a dozen lines and stole the movie.

Holy crap. Are you still using that A7N8X?

I admit that I haven't tested it, but it's pretty easy to roll things up using the Server 2008 automated install toolkit.

Newer versions of Exchange are 64 bit only. Exchange is also incredibly disk intensive for anything but the most trivial installations. I'm sure that if you throw enough hardware at it, it'll work fine in a VM, but it's a very different thing from running an XP guest under Windows 7 so some 15...

Thank you Sol and TheSwede. That is very helpful, actually.

Honestly, if the differences are that big, I'll probably just buy another one and find a home for the older one. I doubt it will be that big or that the discounts for the older stuff will be meaningful. Older i7 motherboards are still plenty damned expensive.

To answer a question that absolutely no one here was asking: the Seagate Momentus XL is a speed boost over a standard desktop drive but the value doesn't seem to be linear with the cost. I found an excuse to expense a couple of them and stuck them into my desktop at work and the Thinkpad T61 I...

Proper dev environments put that stuff in .rc files where they belong!

I would think that depends on exactly how deep the hole is.

I believe all the 2.5" 1TB drives are taller than the 9.5mm standard so they may or may not work for typical 2.5" drive applications or enclosures.

The deluxe one has more SATA 6Gpbs ports as I recall. And some spiffier heat sinks.

It is not possible to upgrade a 32-bit Windows system to a 64-bit Windows installation. The installer doesn't support it even if everything else does. You're essentially going to have to do a clean install of Windows 7 x64 and then migrate user profiles from one machine to another. Windows Easy...

Who says he wasn't?

I'm updating my gaming rig. I don't particularly want to stick an expensive disk controller in that machine but it has three 3-in-2 3.5" drive bay adapters in it that I can use for occasional bulk storage in case I'm doing something silly with my file servers. The math going on in my head is...

Does having a thin client solve anything? Even assuming that it's a fanless SFF machine of some sort, it still has to be ruggedized for the environment.

Sudden shift of magnetic poles, mondo-EMP, gamma-ray burst from undetected celestial object, Yellowstone's epochal mega-eruption, Tunguska-like event, zombie apocalypse... We'd have bigger problems, yes.