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That sounds accurate. But one of the times I noticed was immediately after logging in, and another was when opening Firefox for the first time. Tough to avoid those. But once you know what is happening, it's almost worth it to get the snappy performance the rest of the time.

A friend got an Eee 9" running XP and it is a dog. That is the limit of my experience.

I can back this up based on stories from my grandfather. He talked of owning a stock as owning a piece of the company, and of dividend payments as them thanking him. The only time he would consider selling a stock would be if he needed the money for something.

I did notice that having several in a RAID off a hardware controller with some cache helped somewhat, but not all that much.

What I noticed with my cheaper (not less expensive, but less good) SSDs (all but the Intel, perhaps 3 makes) is that they were faster in everything until they weren't. And when that moment hit, you were painfully aware of it. Everything would be quick and happy and then...nothing...for a...

Hilarious and frighteningly accurate.

Not a chance. He was a crappy businessman, and demonstrated it as president.

While a senator with a pornstar name would be awesome, and her views do look pretty solid, the actual snow is a deal-breaker.

I'd say that McCain's campaign was toast before they picked Palin, and that they knew it, but what were they thinking?

Well, with the softraid-10, it doubled the speed of the winraid-0 (160MB/s). That'll do.

I slipstreamed the ICH7R into the 2003 Web disk, and we'll see if performance is any better. It shouldn't be, but we'll see.

Sorry, I changed the hardware during the build. 1U Tyan Tank GT20 Tyan S5191 Mobo (Intel Toledo i3000R chipset with ICH7R) Q6600 4GB RAM 4x 1TB SATA in hotswap

Stranger and stranger... When I go into gparted, it sees the array. Only the installer has issues.

That is a great article. I've always believed that the country needs to be run more like a business; with a balanced budget, making progress in efficiency and setting out achievable goals and performance metrics.

That is indeed very funny. On the talk shows this morning it reflected the reality of that. So many people were calling in saying that they had worked for his campaign and were now "willing to serve" if only he would give the order....damn.

Sweet.

Grr...looks like dmraid doesn't support ICH7R? Or ubiquity is somehow blind? Instructions I followed: 1. Configure array in BIOS 2. Boot Ubuntu 8.10 live CD 3. Install dmraid 4. Verify that dmraid sees the array 5. Launch ubiquity 6. Ubiquity sees 4 independent drives...WTF?

I just noticed that the SATA controller supports RAID as well. Any advice whether to use that or the Linux SoftRAID? BTW: A RAID-1 in windows did...80MB/s.

I had decided to go the safe, familiar route and installed Windows 2003 Web edition. Install went fine, and I started taking some performance measurements. A single 1TB disk clocked in at 80MB/s. Striping all four? 80MB/s. Mirroring two? I don't know, as it's taken over 24 hours to "ReSync" two...

The #1 thing I want in a president is for them to be smart. Issues will come up during the course of a term that weren't anticipated during the election (9/11, anyone?). I need to know that the smartest person with the smartest advisers is in charge. The differences between liberal and...

It said my card qualified (9800GT), but that the driver was having issues.

Considering Photoshop CS4 does use 3D acceleration in some of its features (zooming, etc). Are you sure you don't want some 3D capability? On the other hand, CS4 keeps disabling the video card acceleration on my machine do to "driver issues". Even though I have the latest.

Ah, Lunar beat me, but mine is more direct ;)

Direct ATTO download link (where I got it from)

Right now I'm trying the iReasoning MIB Browser. Not OSS, but free. I've been able to pull data from a 3Com switch, but it is in anything but a user-friendly presentation; just a column of variables and values, with no real way to manage the info.

I have a 1U server with 4 1TB disks in it. It is an X2 3800 with 4GB of RAM. This will be the main fileserver for the company, and will be set up as RAID-10. All the machines are windows, and the store needs to support AD permissions. I'm looking for the fastest OS/software that is easy to setup...

Terminal Man was great. Airframe was the best of his newer ones IMHO. RIP

SNMP - Anyone using it? What programs do you use for monitoring? What things do you watch for? I'm looking at various OSS implementations (Net-SNMP, OpenSNMP) and am wondering what is working for other people. I'm looking at just monitoring my managed switches and VPN connections at the moment...

Just for comparison...

I'm not saying that Dell is better than Lenovo, but a Precision M4400 can be very nicely configured with a Quadro for about $2k.

I could go faster on the CPU, but I can't find 4GB DIMMs rated higher than 800Mhz. The 16GB of RAM is already on the way, and should help CS4 chew on some of my larger images.

Bring it. I have a steady job now ;)

Oh, system specs: Intel Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz (Quad core, 12MB cache) Gigabyte EP45C-DS3R (P45 chipset) 8GB RAM (4x 2GB Kingston DDR2-800) nVidia 9800GT w/slight OC Intel X25 80GB SSD Seasonic 430W Antec P180

The numbers above were from HDTach. The image below is from ATTO with stock settings. Needless to say I'm happy with my new toy.

No kidding. I'm getting 225MB/s average, spiking to 265MB/s :o

I'm currently imaging my "old" VelociRaptor 150GB to my new Intel X25 80GB SSD. They currently have identical builds of XP x64 on them. Are there any benchmarks anyone would like to see?

I completely agree. Typically, just showing them the cost either makes them use the webclient, or I lose the customer.

I haven't used Autopatcher recently, but it was awesome back in the day.

I'm at a safe distance, rage away ;) After my first encounter with Outlook/Google Apps, I now consider adoption of their web client mandatory. Otherwise I show them the bill for a SBS2003 setup and a T-1 line.

For what it's worth, I had just as many issues using Outlook 2003 IMAP with Google apps for domains. Considering how easy it is with Thunderbird, Mac Mail, and the webclient, I think the blame rests firmly with MS.

I don't have any experience with 2008 yet, everything I use is still 2005.

Greg, I don't even remember what type of case you have. P160? P180? What type of drive? Optical? Hard drive? ~David

All I see is a standard Molex, which I never used on this board. I built a dozen or so of these back in the day. IIRC, it is an alternative to the 4-pin ATX 12v.

Getting nothing but full-frame glass isn't a bad idea. With a couple exceptions (10-22 and the kit lens) I've done the same. I have no regrets about going out and getting the XSi, it is a great camera and truth be told is likely not limiting my shots at all. I still plan on getting a 5DII by...

A 300W is borderline doable with that rig. The big unknown from here is the power draw of that video card. Can't be too bad.

As a plus, ESXi seems to not care about hardware at all. I pulled the harddrive from the machine (a Q6600) and dropped it into a spare X2 3800+, and it spun right up. The only thing I had to do was tell the VMs that they had moved hardware, and to not change their install IDs. Very sweet.

I'm still running an array of 12 750GB Seagate drives, but I have my first two RMAs sitting on my desk (one kept dropping from the array, the other with a broken SATA connector). I think I'll be moving back to Samsung myself.

I don't have enough NICs for that. Each ESXi server is pulling 5-8 machines.

For the past 2 hours I've been discovering an issue with virtualization. When the NIC fails, many servers go with it. Time to explore clustering with redundancy.

Huh, I don't have that issue on mine. I imagine FPS gaming would bring it out.