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  1. P5-133XL

    Folding@Home

    I don't know of one, mainly because i've never needed that capability, but here is a Complete FAH tool list that you can examine to see if you can find what you need.
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    Music

    Recently, I've gotten into Martina McBride.
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    AM2 - Let the Games Begin

    LCD TV's don't have the resolution I'm looking for in a monitor. Perhaps you like your monitors to be low resolution while being incredibly large: I don't. My previous monitor an IIyami Pro 510 would run at 2048x1536@80Hz in its 22". Care to find me a TV that will do that and properly scale...
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    I really dislike the look of the home page: It is far to busy with useless stuff like calenders, online user lists, stats, birthdays, etc. It really looks like simply a link to the forums with lots of junk added. The middle news section, simply looks like selected forums posts, rather than...
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    AM2 - Let the Games Begin

    My main 22" CRT monitor, after over 10 years of service, this week went tits-up and I started searching for exactly that. I agree, Grrr
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    AM2 - Let the Games Begin

    Low end -- Your component selection Mid-range -- Shuttle form factor (Smaller is better) High End -- Laptop form factor (Hard to justify for a lab though) You can also work on increasing reliability to increase price -- redundant PS's or super high quality PC Power and cooling PS's, mirroring...
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    AM2 - Let the Games Begin

    If you need to spend money, may I suggest large SCSI drives, and/or server components. But the ethical reply, is to give him multiple quotes: One where you give him what he needs, and a middle one, where he gets some extra benefit for the extra money, and a third one, where you spend the budget.
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    PCs for WoW

    I have played WoW. I use a Radeon 9600 at 1280x1024, 3.2GHz P4, 1GB Ram; My estimation is that the video card is very much the limiting factor. It's not silky smooth and I have to turn off many options for it to be tolerable (30-40fps) and occasionally it will drop down to 6-10fps. With that...
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    Gigabyte goes down the tubes

    CougTek has not posted since his raciest post: I'm afraid that in my desire to remove his post, he got offended too. We really don't have that many that post regularly, that we can afford to lose many.
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    Dual-Core Opteron Revision "F" on 15 / Aug

    Not originally, they are going the DDR2 route: the same as the X2's.
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    Dual-Core Opteron Revision "F" on 15 / Aug

    You forgot more $$$
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    Preferred firewall for Windows?

    Generally, the routers start out quite locked down: by default, virtually everything incoming is blocked unless it the packet is responding to an internal request. Try Shields up to test the firewall.
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    Preferred firewall for Windows?

    Nope.
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    Preferred firewall for Windows?

    Really the only reason, that I can think of, to get a seperate software firewall is to detect unauthorized internal -> external communication. A situation where a machine has already been compromised by some some unauthorized software that is trying to report back can be effectively stopped. To...
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    Free Tickets to "An Inconvienient Truth" via Fandango

    All the theater's in Salem, Or are Fandango-enabled (They are all owned and operated by the same person). It just isn't playing anywhere here anymore: I checked.
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    More Vista nonsense

    To Microsoft, sure: They need to force people to upgrade every few years to get a new influx of cash and to prove to Software Advantage consumers that they are getting something for their money.
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    Free Tickets to "An Inconvienient Truth" via Fandango

    You are assuming that it is still showing. At least in my city, it has come and gone by now -- i.e. no theatre's are still playing this movie.
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    Seagate Evaluation Units

    I have the distinct feeling that you had to answer their profile questions "correctly" to qualify to see the evaluation page. I suggest that you reapply, answering their questions differently, to artifically boost,Seagates interpretation that you have a need to evaluate units...
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    Car RANT

    All I can say is my 96 Honda Accord has yet to give me any problems. The only money I've had to place into it is brakes; tires; oil changes; and regularly scheduled maintenance. I have never had a domestic car do nearly as well over a 10 year time period. Matter of fact, most, that I've owned...
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    More AMD price cuts

    Only that most retail MB's won't operate headless without generating errors: One actually has to search to find error-free headless MB's.
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    More AMD price cuts

    My plans are similar -- Replace my aging XP 2500'sand 3.2GHz P4's with fewer dual cores with lots of ram and then use vmware with terminal services to eliminate the need for KVM's/mice/keyboards/video cards/monitors. The only real difference is that I have not decided upon Woodcrest; Conroe...
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    CNN: AMD + ATI = Pure goodness

    I see this as a good thing. I believe it will give ATI access to smaller geometry production facilities faster than the current method of subcontracting the graphics chipset. If AMD does it right, on-board graphics technology will leap-frog Nvidia and Intel. Further direct access to smaller...
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    Why Antivirus Software sucks

    They have a good point! Though, I'm not sure of the value of running multiple different AV programs. Not for their reasons, but simply performance and incompatibility. AV programs have historicly been very incompatible with each other and even causing problems with other programs: There's...
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    Full R/W NTFS support under Linux

    This is a big step forward! I actually considered putting this up as a news item early this morning, but I reconsidered after reading the bug list and comments. I started getting worried about the potential data and file struction corruption when the drive gets full in the middle of writing a...
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    Intel strikes back

    Sure in a perfect world without any other limiting chokepoints like RAM bandwidth, I/O limiters like HD speeds, or even graphics processing for gaming. In the real world, you only go as fast as the slowest component (very often, the human operator) but in a batch processing setup, that would...
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    I actually went to www.storageforum.net, the home page, and there are lots of red X's everywhere.
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    Windows Server 2003 R2 questions

    Windows fundamentals for legacy PC's is supposed to be avail. only to Software Advantage subscribers. Seems to me as simply another way of selling/using terminal services, since that is effectively what it is -- A remote terminal session with most software running on another machine.
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    Boxes for storing bare hard drives?

    Don't forget, for long term storage, that regardless of the pretty foam and custom box, they still need the anti-static bag!
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    How to tell which type of key I have for XP Pro?

    Yes, he needs to tattoo his new motherboard. Normally, when a tech does a onsite repair to replace a motherboard, they are supposed to tattoo it. If they failed, then you need to contact your warrentee company to schedule a visit, so that they can finish the job.. If you just replaced the MB...
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    Thanks, I didn't know it was there. That solves my issue.
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    Forum complaints / problems to fix master list

    I would like a "mark remaining threads as read" button/link from the new posts screen. There are certain popular threads, that I never bother reading but because the new BBS lists all threads with unread posts in the new posts screen, they never go away. Thanks
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    Force a scheduled service to launch minimized

    Compression in a modern machine can often be done faster thean uncompressed. It is a question of how much data is read/written to the HD. HD's are relatively slow and CPU's are quite fast now days, so if the CPU can compress/uncompress the data faster than the amount of time it would have...
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    I made a few changes...

    Lets give him time to adjust the user interface: this is a major change and everyone was used to the way it was...
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    Fry's has 400GB PATA Seagate at $109. (shipped)

    For anyone that ordered a retail Seagate drive (That includes $25 for the 400GB drive) between 4/1 and 6/30 there is a rebate: Rebate Form and Rebate Amount. Net Cost for the 400GB 16MB buffer ATA drive is $109 - $25 = $84
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    Room heating solutions...

    I don't use any heat in winter; It all comes from my computers folding. However, in the summer, it can get hot and if necessary I just shut off any unecessary machines and open up the windows, for a few days, to keep comfortable.
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    Laptop 7200 price drop:? Why?

    I don't understand the question; The process where drives increase capacity and decrease price has been going on since the beginnng. I remember my first HD a 45MB rodine at aprox $3000 and I was amazed when the priced dropped and capacity increased to one dollar a MB for 650MB drives; Then it...
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    Terrestrial Engineering. Objections?

    That's no different than now. We already have a classed society with an elite and a worker class (another word for slaves) and it's too much. The point of killing people off is that they no longer use any of the earths resources -- i.e. no Co2, no food, no water, no coal, no Iron, no...
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    Terrestrial Engineering. Objections?

    Everybody can't be generals: Those top 5% earners are not going to want to pick the crops ...
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    AT&T's new Privacy Policy

    It's all a question of ownership vs. custody. AT&T claim ownership, while everyone else simply have custody of your data...
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    Terrestrial Engineering. Objections?

    If 90% population decrease is necessary for the earth to survive, then 95% gives a little margin for error. If you need a 26:1 kill ratio, then who am I to complain as long as I'm not in the list. However, If everyone, used their entire hate-list, then soon, only the last two people on earth...
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    AT&T's new Privacy Policy

    The phrase "While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T" Virtually all other privacy policies state that the data is yours, not theirs. This as severe consequences with a persons rights as well as recompensation if...
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    AT&T's new Privacy Policy

    AT&T privacy policy overreaches, lawyers say from the Register The revised language, appearing under the heading "Legal Obligations/Fraud" and only accessible to AT&T customers, states: While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are...
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    Terrestrial Engineering. Objections?

    So, you prefer blinders, than real feelings? In my world, there is nothing wrong with feeling, thinking, or questioning. Matter of fact, there is a lot of good that can come from such because then you can get involved and help with a solution. (You've got 9 other people to kill, if you want...
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    Irony at its finest

    The biggest problem with consolidating drives: Microsoft products have decided that they need to re-validate...
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    Irony at its finest

    With that level of storage requirements, it might be considerably cheaper to invest in large scale DVD changers as your prefered storage media and a DVD/CD duplicator to create DVD/CD redundancy. It won't have the cool factor of 120TB of storage but it won't cost as much either.
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    Irony at its finest

    I don't see any problem with PATA -- They are just as reliable, just as fast ... Now I will agree that perpendicular recording will speed things up, slightly and newer drives tend to be slighly faster than older drives (regardless of interface) but the gains are really not signifigent. When...
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    Irony at its finest

    It's a shame you didn't buy five $109.00 400GB Seagates when fry's was offering: It would have replaced 2TB relatively inexpensively. Regardless, if you wait long enough, HD prices always drop and capacities always rise.
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    Did someone (handruin) change the board styles today?

    Did someone (handruin) change the board styles today? I logged in today and it was a horrible experiance. I fiddled and noticed that my board stype was fiplain. I don't believe that that was my earlier preference (I don't know what it was) because it sucked big time. I tried all the choices...
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    Fry's has 400GB PATA Seagate at $109. (shipped)

    SEAGATE 400GB PATA ST3400632A-RK I think this is a really good price, for this drive. But then, as time progresses, HD prices keep going down... The question becomes, how low can they go
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    WinFS canceled Permanently?

    Microsoft Axes WinFS, Cancels Beta 2
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