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I didn't even know what telecentric meant before. When you say 100% telecentric, do you mean double telecentric? That was really a requirement?

IIRC, Powerboost is calculated from a running average. If your average used bandwidth for the last x seconds was less than your rated speed, you will get a boost up to y MB/sec until your average speed is the rated speed.

I've never used the /3G switch, so I can't help. Any system I work on with more than about 3GB of RAM runs a 64-bit OS.

CERN will have the largest collider when it is operational. The current largest collider is at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

Time to install NoScript again...

Even if it oscillates a few times, the video would still be fairly accurate. We don't see the far side, or the black hole itself, until pretty far into the video.

In order to load something into memory and execute it, the system needs to already be compromised. I considered those features to be semi-useless anyway. Sure, it allows rights escalation, but there have always been a hundred ways to do that on Windows.

Can't do it. If I or my client are worried enough to physically destroy the drive instead of just formatting it, it will be destroyed by one of us in front of both of us.

Strike that. I tried it with a thumb drive, but it doesn't work with GPT disks.

Nice find Handruin, it works perfectly.

Very neat concept. Relating to the highly unlikely possibility of the LHC causing a black hole.

But what about the hookers?

Thanks for the suggestion Greg, but that heatsink design really won't work well for my configuration. Imagine a motherboard mounted to the wall with the USB/PS2/etc connectors on the top and the expansion cards aligned vertically. The airflow is all vertical; from well below the motherboard...

I'm now tempted to plan a trip out there to photograph it. Perhaps I'll take the train. Is there a stop somewhere convenient? Or is it the middle of nowhere?

I know for my dad it was his target audience. He was writing payroll software, and companies started doing away with their mainframes in favor of workstations and servers. Proper support for an AS/400 server is stupidly expensive (queue fushigi).

My dad did something similar. He went from Xerox PARC to AS/400 to Win 3.11 programming. Now he is solidly in the MS camp, dual-booting Vista Ultimate and XP. He uses Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Windows Defender. After explaining that I refuse to support clients who behave like that, and...

Now we are talking extreme measures. If I get called back to the same box a second time, after the nuke and pave they get to purchase Acronis Trueimage and they get a bootable restore DVD with the image on it. For some true insanity, a few of the users kept restoring the image and then "getting...

I give it one pass through the registry and startup files and one reboot. Total time less than half an hour. If that doesn't do it, I start preparing them for a complete nuke and pave. If they insist on me trying to fix it (don't have installation media for apps, etc). I do it right there while...

I think their official stance is just damage control. Many sites have jumped on this, and it isn't a slow news day.

There will always be a market for shipping many copies of static data to lots of people cheaply. Granted, online delivery will replace many of the traditional uses, but there are many it won't. What will kill disposable media won't be hard drives, it will be 500GB USB thumbdrives for <$10. That...

Yup, I agree. And I also agree that if noise isn't an issue, your configuration makes the most sense. I'm still aiming for that "silent" thing.

I've put in three calls in the last week. The only questions asked were "Is this your first time activating this product" and "How many machines is this installed on?".

Thanks Mark. In my case...er...situation, the fans are farther away. There is plenty of air velocity, but it is more important for the fins to be farther apart so that the lower pressure air can still move through it.

It is cooler this morning, so all the temps are lower, but the discrepancy is significant. Speedfan 4.35b24 is reporting Core0 to be the hottest at 67C, while Real Temp 2.7 is reporting the same core to be 62C. The coolest (Core2) is at 57C and 52C respectively. Any ideas?

Considering the numbers I was hearing started with a "B", that will buy a lot of lawyers. I don't think a recall will happen.

P5-133XL, it shows my TJ-Max as 95C in Real Temp 2.70 (new version BTW). I'll keep an eye on it next time I load up the system and see what happens. Mercutio, When I'm gaming the system sends way more power to the 8800GTS, but fortunately, that has a separate air supply to the CPU (there are...

Playing with her while she is trying to sleep means you don't get to keep her. We both have to work tomorrow. Crap.

What I read said that the mobile parts were failing first because they thermally cycled more often and had less competent cooling solutions. That just means the desktop boards will take longer to fail. If it is long enough to exceed the average lifespan, than that is fine too.

Mercutio, which CPU temp sensor hits 62C? Because my "CPU" sensor gets about that hot; only the core sensors go over 70C.

Yeah, I'm not really happy about it. Right now the HSF is a Zalman 9700 with the fan removed, I think a Scythe Ninja would work better with the more general airflow I have in the case. Is there something better than the Scythe Ninja Plus for passive cooling?

I'm running some stress testing at the moment (Encoding a movie using AutoGK while running one copy of RTHDRIBL on each monitor and a 100GB file copy from the Raptors to the large array. Power draw is around 600W sustained. Now that things have stabilized, here are the load temperatures: CPU...

I'm redoing the cooling for my system and am hoping for some feedback on my setup. Speedfan 4.35 Beta 24 is giving the following temps at idle: CPU: 40C Core 0: 49C Core 1: 48C Core 2: 42C Core 3: 43C HD1: 39C (this is actually from some part of the Seagate RAID-5 array, not sure how) GPU: 50C...

I actually read that the Inq was predicting bankruptcy for nVidia. That wouldn't be good for anybody (except Intel).

Oh, I had forgotten to turn on the "performance" mode. Make that 170MB writes. Reads are the same.

Tannin reported the same result 8+ months ago on these forums. I wouldn't be surprised. Unless a key is used hundreds (thousands?) of times, I'm sure it won't go invalid on WGA. I have experienced a single key be used 110+ times without issue.

Loving the new 10-drive RAID-5 array. Only 100MB/sec writes, but 280MB/sec reads. I'll take it.

It is still missing from mine, though I had to do a forced refresh of the page for it to take effect.

Interesting, I've eaten from roadside stands and street vendors in just about every Asian and eastern European country, but there is no way I would trust food in Mexico. ;)

That sucks. Where did you go?

I'm getting a super-speedy 4Mb down and 512k up...exactly what I'm paying for.

The only minor/permanent injury I can think of is what I deal with (my teeth). What did you manage to do?

That I didn't know. I haven't driven through there in years, and hadn't heard of any new projects.

No idea, but it did. I always have task manager running on one of my other screens to see what is using what. I wasn't watching the processes screen, but when I closed Photoshop, it dropped back to 1.2GB used (some other stuff I had open).

I'm running CS3 on Vista x64, so...maybe?

That one was very, very overprocessed in Photomatix, I kind of like the effect. The second one is more subtle.

I got your shadows right here ;) Full Size

Yup, I really need to work on queuing things for the night and then going to bed. I don't have the workflow sorted that well yet. And Photomatix choked on the 75MP image (even in "preview mode"). I'll look into working around that when I wake up. Oh, I really like this one. Or check it out...

Sure does. Stitching 32-bit Radiance images into a 76MP image burned through all 8GB and then started attacking my Raptors. It was undoubtedly disk-limited.

Sorry Handruin, I didn't know about this place when you were out. A friend just showed it to me tonight. Sweet.

I need more than 8GB of RAM; Photoshop is kicking my butt.