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I was running a 30 second time limit. I'll try again without when I get home.

I got 18 on the first try and 19 on the second. I don't think I'm going to get any better than that.

Not that I know of. I was getting tired of the conflicts, so I disabled the keyboard shortcut and but a button on the taskbar.

Aren't there settings to prevent a users first post from including links or images? I think that would fix a big chunk of it.

Hilarious. Thanks.

I think UPSes are just crap as far as QC is concerned. I've run quite a few Belkin/APC models from the basic to moderate size. They all fail way before I think they should. Even when used to ~30% of their capacity and never experiencing an outage.

Some background on my progress (for the record) and then more questions. Thanks to information here, I switched to pfsense for the firewalls and it is working great. I may begin using it for all my firewalls in the future. I have the new servers in place. They are all running 2003 R2 SP2...

Beijing in the summer reminded me a lot of NYC in the summer. The snow probably did the same thing; hide all the dirt and knock down some of the pollution. Couldn't hurt.

ReadyBoost didn't do much in the first place. I saw so little (no) improvement that I pulled the thumb drive just to clean up "My Computer".

I have 5 of them and they are working fine. Further, and this is the first time I can say this of a Samsung hard drive, they are fast.

They were hoping DX10. And it will become a bigger reason in the future.

In Media Player Classic, you can stretch the screen during playback with the NUM6 and NUM4 buttons. Not what you wanted, but the only way I know of.

I use this combo with my laptop. Works really well.

I like monitoring usage at the gateway, it makes things cleaner. Of course, this won't save you if he is playing Solitare or other non-internet stuff. Smoothwall has an easy to add plugin for DansGuardian and some other reporting capabilities. Probably not the solution you want, just an idea.

Yup, it seems like an awesome lens. I just convinced my buddy (who I got hooked on photography) to buy one. I'll borrow it in a couple weeks to see what it does. I know I want it to be part of the kit I bring to Moscow.

"...and the house." yells the GF as she walks by... ;)

I suppose I should have added: *after the 2x 32GB SSDs, and EF-S 10-22

A great analysis Tannin, but your software list is downright ancient. I'm not saying that it doesn't do what you want it to, likely better than newer software, but your customers won't stand for a DOS-based word processor or Quattro. I didn't switch to Vista for me, I did it for them. Now that I...

Because the day will come that some piece of "must have" software won't run on XP. QuickBooks, Photoshop, Some custom app that requires .Net version 55. Just hope that they have released some OS that doesn't suck before then.

You mean like this little gem with VGA, DVI, and HDMI outputs on it for $80?

Well said Tannin, and in that vein I must recommend a C2D over an A64. Even if you take a hit elsewhere. What used to be 0.5-1 second waits are now gone. Even when I was running Vista it was just better.

I built some super-cheap servers using E4500s and a Gigabyte board with on-board video. The thing seemed much "snappier" than my previous A64 X2 6000+. Was it actually faster in high-load applications? Unlikely, but it felt faster just moving around the UI. So much so that I finally bit the...

I do dual-core for everything these days. Specifically C2D chips; they just seem faster than the A64 X2s. 65W Dual-Core 2.2Ghz for $125

My attempts at lunar photography with a 75-300 have been poor. It will get better with the 500/4 that I will get someday.

Nice shots.

Cloudy here. If I were feeling better I would drive into the hills and see what I can see. Giving up now, better luck in 2010. :(

IIRC, you can set the time zone in your profile?

I'm not that far off ;) Not sure what I could add to up the number that much more...

Low power consumption and low noise are the key to making it practical. If you also need something small it will cost more, and something pretty will be even more. Look for a motherboard with 2 NICs on it and a CPU that consumes as little as possible. Use a CF card (256MB is plenty) with an IDE...

It's all about the SmoothWall ;)

If I were a mod I would be able to move this to the B&G ;)

Damn. It seems everything but CS3 will install, but I don't like having a system that isn't fully patched. Seems like it is time to do another re-install. I'm tempted to do XP just to avoid some of these hassles.

Because of the factors you mention, comparing things that use gas to things that use electricity is too tricky for me, and likely impossible to generalize. Heat pumps work much better if they have an underground heat source. Pipes buried in the ground give it a much larger source of energy than...

Aug of 1980?

Thanks FB. It didn't help (2003 SP2 is only 350MB). But it's a bit scary to know that Vista SP1 is >500MB!

I'm looking into heat pumps for when I need to worry about such things.

I'm still having problems with this. I've already made significant progress setting up the system and would like to avoid re-installing again. Would running a repair install from a 2003 w/SP2 CD help anything?

Yup. I'm looking forward to attempting some pictures of it. Unfortunately, it's supposed to rain here until Monday.

The green boots?

This morning I hated Zoos. The animals are kept in cages and that can't be a good thing. The whole concept seemed fairly barbaric. The SO really wanted to go, so we went anyway. While there, I noticed the number of kids that were loving it. I expected screaming toddlers and other children...

That is the biggest I found as well. An advertised 22.3" ViewSonic. Tannin should be along to rant on the subject of "shallow-screens" soon.

Guys, what type of work are you doing that causes 100+ tabs to be open for multiple days? I'm just curious...

But. of course, Tea isn't a monkey.

Welcome to StorageForum. SATA I vs. II will not cause detection issues; backwards compatibility is not a problem. I would start with verifying that the drives have power and that the data cables are good (try swapping them out). Next I would verify that the BIOS settings are correct (reset them...

I just pulled a 6000+ from my home system, and it didn't seem to run that hot (no official tests were run). I have it sitting around if you are interested.

Only because I believe if you can't do it right, don't try. I know they won't get it right, so I just want them to leave damn well alone.

Macs are a horrible pain in the ass. They are simply a further extension of the Windows mindset. Everything that they think you want is in the front, and everything they don't think you need is buried a mile deep in some illogical hole.

I guess I'm just not a power user. I never have FF crash or even slow down. I've been using it exclusively since 1.07 and it has always just worked.

Indeed. Especially geeks. California is without a doubt the place to be. Houston (where I am now), on the other hand, isn't. At "Bush International Airport" they actually make announcements that if you make rude comments to police they will arrest you. Who didn't figure that out on their own?

256MB? Not much. If it were at least a gig or two I would put photoshop scratch disks on it.