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Modular cables are a must-have for the P180; there really isn't anywhere to hide the octopus.

This motherboard does not have native SATA support. Drivers will be needed during the boot-up phase for the OS to boot properly. I'm not sure if these are the same drivers with the same config as ones in the OS that allow basic drive access. I also suspect that serious fooling with the boot.ini...

Which motherboard are you going to? If it's a newer board with native SATA ports you should be fine. If its an older board with the SATA ports as an add-on controller, you will have too many issues to be worthwhile.

Agreed. That is an awesome tool.

To be honest, I'm not that worried about the spedo at this point; my GPS will give me accurate info no matter what. And it's not like doing 100 instead of 110 will keep me from a ticket ;) I drive whatever speed feels safe; generally from 85 to 110, but once I hit the rev limiter in the 120+ range.

So any hints as to how to recalibrate the spedo? Should the place that I have install the tires be able to recalibrate it?

Mark, If I were driving in those conditions I would drive much slower. Typically, I'm driving at 10AM or 3PM on a straight highway of at least 3 lanes. There are no cars in front of me within 2-4 miles and no one even in adjacent lanes. Visibility is often over 10 miles. Other cars on the road...

It a regular 2003 Golf with a 2.0L gas engine. It has 123k miles on it, and it essentially had an engine rebuild last month.* Because it looks to have a fair bit of life left in it, I'd like to make it more fuel efficient/quieter when I'm driving at speed. I've already gone from the stock...

IIRC, it would be Vista Business. (edit)linky

My main issue is that at 100mph my engine is running at near 5000RPM. Considering my commute is about 100mi and I drive about that fast, my engine is running at 5000RPM for nearly an hour; I know that can't be good. This strikes me as the simplest/cheapest way to get the revs down a bit...

Thanks jtr, it is good to have you around again.

As an extension of this, if I increase the diameter from the current 24.97in to 26.74in, the circumference will increase from 78.44in to 84.00in; which is 7% more than the factory stock of 78.47in. I'm also assuming that this would have a direct impact on the accuracy of my spedometer and...

I think I'm doing this right, but could certainly use someone to check my math. Wheel sizes are in inches, and are the diameter of the wheel. Tire sizes come in the format x/y-z where: x = width of the tred pattern in mm y = height of the sidewall as a percentage of the tred pattern width z =...

If you want to use XP and play with Vista, this is the most affordable way to end up with a licence for both. Do not actually "upgrade" from XP to Vista (or from any MS OS to any other for that matter). Do a clean install every time.

I love outspec'ing Dell for servers...the money just comes rolling in. ;)

Monte Cristo are my favorite. There is one place in monterey county that serves them (the Monterey airport), and they are fantastic.

Seconded. Grado SR60s are the best headphones I've ever used. They blow away my $200+ Sony "DJ" headphones.

My doctor has been dead for over 10 years now. Taking health advice from him seems...ill advised ;)

Monte Cristo Sandwiches are better deep fried. Just be sure to use enough cheese to hold it together first.

If you were to fill them with pictures of your cats, you wouldn't need to travel ;) Those are, of course, taken to the max. But having 2 systems, each with a non-redundant array on them,is a pretty reliable storage system.

Lunar, Both arrays are JBOD (no redundancy), but are in seperate locations with scheduled backups between. This is plenty reliable for anything shy of a datacenter IMHO (no single point of failure). Bozo, I like quiet computers. Not just quiet when idle, but quiet full-stop. Therefore...

That was really good, but I want a barbeque. Now soliciting advice. I want one that can handle 4 large steaks simultaneously. Is there a particular brand I should be looking for? What do you think of this Ducane 688-Square Inch 2 burner?

Just did the steak recipie for the second time. 4 big ribeyes on a huge (24"x18") cast iron skillet. Worked great; just as advertised. Only problem was that there was so much smoke I had to pull the battery from my smoke alarm.

Just because I felt like it, I just threw together the following: 1 Cooler Master Stacker $145.00 4 Supermicro CSE-M35T-1 SATA Enclosure $520.00 5 Scythe S-Flex SFF21D 120mm Fan $75.00 20 Seagate 7200.10 750GB SATA - OEM...

The best way to backup a large array is with another large array. My primary array is 6x500GB, and is backed up to a 4x750GB array. I'm still convinced that my server chassis (Coolermaster Stacker) full of Supermicro SATA hotswap enclosures (5-in-3) and a pair of Seasonic 600W Power Supplies is...

Interesting. I have my onboard graphics enabled AND an X1600 (multiple monitors and my projector). Does it see the MyHD as a video card?

Can you change the BIOS to non-plug-n-play mode, where it assigns system resources instead of counting on the OS? I forget what this mode is called.

The kitty requires batteries? That reminds me of a cartoon I saw somewhere...

I looked at the price difference ($12) and couldn't help myself. Will the user you just described tell the difference? No. But, if they look at the spec, and compare the big number at the top (3200+) to the big number at the top of other computers (e.g. 3.0Ghz) that $12 makes it look like a much...

Interesting. Does it halt and wait to tell you? Or does it run by and you managed to notice? I don't think I've ever seen that.

I must admit I don't know what that means, so I can't really comment.

I suppose a differentiation should be made between "office computer" and "workstation". In my mind; an office computer is the computer in a small/home office. It needs to be able to handle everything a small business needs; including file storage and a backup mechanism. A workstation on the...

Sounds like your tuner card has issues...

I've een using wireless keyboard and mice for years, they have only let me down once. The lack of desk clutter and significant additional freedom of movement in a wireless mouse is certainly worth it. 1GB of RAM is absolutely worth it for anyone; even just Windows XP and Firefox run better with...

I have a JBOD array of 4 750GB with ~960MB free in my backup server...the whole reason for JBODing them was so I could fill them more and not mess up my filing system.

Jail and prison are places where I don't plan to be again, TYVM. And you can still use your laptop in the hospital during visiting hours, but they take it from you at night. (At least that's how it worked for a friend when he lost his leg).

Buck, WRT Floppies: I know what you mean, and I spec a USB floppy drive for every office (I have each client buy a "toolkit" from me as part of support and maintenence). Believe it or not, the latest version of Primavera Expedition (released a few weeks ago and costing 5 figures) says it...

That is a nice little system, Buck. I must admit, I rolled my eyes at the mention of a floppy drive. Considering I can get a 256MB thumbdrive for the same $8, there is little use for such things.

I doubt you are alone in this category; I know its true for me. I spend more time here than I do working, more time than dancing, more time than...well, everything but driving and pleasing the woman. ;)

:crap: My bad... I agree that 80 is probably enough, though I'd likely spring for a 160GB for a few dollars more. Just in case they get iTunes crazy or something similar.

An excellent suggestion Mark, and to confuse the situation further, I'll submit what I would build. Gigabyte GA-M61VME-S2 - $63 AMD Sempron 64 3200+ - $56 GeIL 1GB DDR2 667Mhz - $93 Antec Solution SLK1650B w/350W PS - $60 LG DVD-Burner 18X - $31 Samsung 720N 17" LCD - $180 XP Home OEM w/Vista...

On the 3Ware cards I have, it asks for the SMTP server and the e-mail addresses to be sent to/from. You could set up a rule in Outlook to forward e-mails from the card to multiple people, or (IIRC) you can type the name of the distribution list into the "to" field.

Buck, What you basically just said is that a $350 computer can't do what I $700 computer could (run everything quickly at once). But that's not really a point, is it? I have had a number of users (particularly older ones) who have refused to upgrade their system because they paid "good money" a...

Sechs, That is a lot of stuff. No wonder you suspect it to be software! The first thing I would do is kill off BOINC and get your CPU useage down to something normal. I run Speedfan myself, but have known it to be unstable in the past; it's the first thing I kill when instability arises. Start...

Dells do install quite a bit of crap, but uninstalls work. Also, their business class machines (Optiplex) come with much less crap. Optiplex - $600 3Ghz Celeron, XP Home, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, DVD-ROM, X300 Graphics, 15" LCD I could do better, but I wouldn't unless it was a favor. A similar...

Dell's cheap business boxes are a lot like Schrödinger's cat, in that they work fine so long as they do, but as soon as you try to fiddle with it or look inside, it will never work again. For the price (with 2 year warranty) you can't do much better.

I'm sorry you're having such trouble. I haven't had any issues with similar hardware (other than 64-bit windows driver issues). You said it didn't detect your memory correctly? Could it be crap RAM?

Tannin is indeed on another long photography trip. The others I'm not so sure about. Lost6200 (Eric) has mentioned a few times of interest in a post-after-death arrangement of sorts. For me, if you don't see me for more than a month, it means I'm dead ;)

Then I guess a place to start would be a list of processes that are running on the PC, including their rescource useage numbers, and how they are triggered (registry, start menu, device driver, service, etc.)

Adcadet, you have just identified the primary good use for Dell. Get their cheapest PC, and their cheapest 15" LCD. The keyboard, mouse, and monitor will all match; and "Dell" means "professional" to most customers.