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  1. ddrueding

    Politics 2008

    I'm right here, and I feel lonely.
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    The 3,5 GB RAM limit of Windows

    The only way To see more RAM is to use a 64 bit OS.
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    I'm mystified about geeks

    The trick is, they are all "official" geeks. I'm the only one without at least one PhD in the whole crowd. Does this make me less of a geek?
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    I'm mystified about geeks

    Everyone in my Tango group is a geek. The instructor is a laser geek, an assistant is a materials science geek, other regulars are AI geeks and robot geeks. But they are also all Tango geeks. We'll get together for a "practice" and never play any music at all, obsessing about a single...
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    Speed of a 2.5" 7200 rpm drive

    I've recently had great luck with SelfImage. Open-source, very simple, and it seems powerful (though I've only used it in drive-to-drive and drive-to-image modes).
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    Anyone with SonicWall experience?

    I'm stuck and could use some help. This is a paying gig, but I need some help now.
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    Large RAID arrays

    Wow. I have mine set to max performance as well. Perhaps I should be looking at a firmware update?
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    Something Random

    I hate SonicWall. Could they have made it any more complicated? I still haven't figured out how to do NAT translation...
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    Large RAID arrays

    My array is about the same size. It maxed out at around 350MB/sec.
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    Linux-based firewall that supports multiple WANs

    Looks interesting. I'll try to play with it while I'm on "vacation". Thanks.
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    Speed of a 2.5" 7200 rpm drive

    Tony, Why aren't you planning on imaging your 80GB drive to a 160GB one? If the install is good, then don't bother changing it.
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    Large RAID arrays

    Yup. GPT is GUID partition table (IIRC). It works well with larger arrays. Mine uses it and it works really well. How are you liking the 9650SE-16ML? I love mine, it is a beast.
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    Linux-based firewall that supports multiple WANs

    Unfortunately, my favorite Smoothwall doesn't support multiple internet connections. I need the following: 1. Support for multiple WANs (load balancing preferable to fail-over, Static and PPPoE) 2. Site-to-Site VPN tunnels 3. Content Filtering (Dans Guardian or similar) 4. Web interface Help?
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    can't use my PC in windows

    Sounds like a plan. How is the used PC parts market there? Here you take quite a hit, particularly with hard drives.
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    Where's everybody?

    There is no server room, it's under a coffee table in the corridor next to the aquarium. It won't be there for long, the wiring guy is coming tomorrow, but that is where I was working. The whole time I was there the fan from the old server was driving me crazy, it was so loud. Finally the moment...
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    Where's everybody?

    What part? And why don't you do it anymore?
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    Where's everybody?

    Yes, in a row on a single project, without leaving their office. The total was 40 hours of billable time in under 48 total, but I took a nap in my car for a few hours.
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    Where's everybody?

    Nope, just regular old hourly rate. But logging 30 hours in a day will do you good regardless. Furthermore, even on the back side of a 40-hour work stint I was able to sell myself to a new client. I've worked more in the last 3 days than I had in the last 3 months! Business is getting good again!
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    Where's everybody?

    I'm sure somewhere around 5AM when the hallucinations started I met her near the water cooler ;)
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    Where's everybody?

    No one on in the middle of a Sunday night? Darn... I know! I'll create a second identity, and have conversations with myself! What an original thought... Meh. Back to work.
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    Where's everybody?

    Pulling another unanticipated all-nighter. 1. Came in here this morning to troubleshoot a slow connection. 2. Notice that the workstations are full of spyware/viruses. 3. Notice that the server is the most hosed SBS2k3 install I've ever seen. 4. Notice that there are no backups. A. Build new...
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    Something Random

    Winter ended here on Friday. 72F and sunny ever since. I'll be leaving for Houston, TX on Wed. Why couldn't the relatives live in the only decent city in Texas (Austin)?
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    Why was the site down today?

    I tried once and it was down. An hour later it was back. Dunno.
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    Defragmentation

    That I don't know. I haven't tried it in years, and I only have 2 logical drives ;)
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    CF as a hard drive

    Another interesting idea.
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    CF as a hard drive

    Here is an SATA to CF adapter that I am looking at. I still have 6 free ports on my RAID card...24GB and decent speed....hmmm
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    Defragmentation

    I would guess it is the same one. I haven't looked at 3rd party defraggers in a long time, but last I checked O&O was the one to have.
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    Something Random

    Native restaurant? You are in Japan?
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    Defragmentation

    I just used the Server 2003 defragger to chew through an ~92% full 4TB array in about 8 hours. Am I silly in considering that good?
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    CF as a hard drive

    Sweet ;) I don't have a PATA RAID card or I would try it right now.
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    My new system

    I got it, thanks Greg.
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    voice recognition software that works...

    I use the one built into Vista. Can't compare it to others, but it works really well for me. The important thing is to get a good headset microphone, any that aren't fixed to your head are too vulnerable to inconsistency.
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    Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

    <guess> Land, and the manpower of herding, branding, rotating fields, etc. </guess>
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    Server 2003 install of SP2 failing

    Everything above that looks good, I think. Here is the whole thing: [2003sp2.log] 3.563: ================================================================================ 3.563: 2008/02/08 08:51:01.109 (local) 3.563: d:\b8813b4a7d7c0eb318\i386\update\update.exe (version 6.3.4.1) 3.844: Service...
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    Server 2003 install of SP2 failing

    Here is the last bit of the log, I'm still trying to read through it. 200.797: DeRegisterUninstallProgramInInf: No Old UninstallDir 200.797: FileInUse:: Detection disabled. 206.313: CheckRegistryValue: Registry - Inf integer values mismatch 206.406...
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    Server 2003 install of SP2 failing

    For the record, to have a log created, you must use: /log:fullpath
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    Somebody New Pt.2

    Congrats. Don't forget to stop in every month or so and let us know you are still alive.
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    CF as a hard drive

    Some CF cards and adapters don't support DMA, so make sure it is off. Also, some have a jumper to choose master/slave/CS and a jumper to source power (either IDE pin 40 for VIA EPIA systems or external for everybody else).
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    Server 2003 install of SP2 failing

    oops....my bad.
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    Server 2003 install of SP2 failing

    I've tried this either through windows update or by downloading the file directly from the site. I've tried reboots and it never appears in add/remove programs. Significantly into the SP2 installation it pops up the following error and goes away. Help?
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    Multiple Video Cards and MPC?

    Thanks for starting me on the right course... DirectShow Video: "Old Renderer" It will even split screens if I ask nicely...
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    Multiple Video Cards and MPC?

    It is appreciated, thanks. I'll leave any successes here for the record.
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    Multiple Video Cards and MPC?

    Media Player Classic is awesome. And it can output video to any display hooked up to your primary video card. But it goes blank or crashes when outputting to a screen driven by another video card. Has anyone else run into this? Is there another player I should be looking at?
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    My new system

    I decided to go Server 2003 Standard, still getting drivers for all this crap installed. Unfortunately, the G15 keyboard drivers and NOD32 won't install. Isn't there a way to trick them into going?
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    My new system

    Stereodude, I know Memtest is less fussy than others, but all I'm looking for is basic stability at the moment. sdbardwick, I knew about the overvoltage; it defaults to 1.9v and 800Mhz. That is where I am running into the stability issues. When I up the voltage to 2.3V, the system crashes...
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    My new system

    Apparently my new motherboard doesn't like my RAM. I didn't even bother to check it, since the same 4 1GB sticks ran in my old system flawlessly for about a year. Sure enough, trying to track down some instabilities has me running memtest where even single-sticks in certain slots is...
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    Politics 2008

    My general interest is now back to low. I'm not particularly interested or afraid of any of these options.
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    My new system

    Meh. That is only 2,592,000 total pixels. My monitors are: 2,073,600 (1920x1080 - 42") 1,920,000 (1600x1200 - 22") 786,432 (1024x768 - 132") I think I'm alright ;)
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    My new system

    Amazingly my soft-RAID-0 array survived yet another motherboard swap, this one to an XFX 780i SLI board. (Semi)unfortunatly, Vista didn't like it as much. Even after re-booting into safe mode twice for the addition/removal of drivers (which completed succesfully), a BSOD was all I got. I didn't...
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    Where's everybody?

    Because it won't be another month. I suspect it will be another 3 months before they are available. And after the process is matured, I'll probably buy one anyway.
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