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I won't call you a wuss, don't need to. Apparently you hear me thinking. ;) Just joking. 16mph is not bad for a place with a lot of hills.

If you can wait until the week-end, you'll have your French translation ready. I could do it right now if you absolutely need it for yesterday, but I'm already sleep deprived and I'll probably be for the next two days. Fb is visiting quite often since yesterday. I suppose he could give your a...

Another customer called me about an hour ago to tell me he would buy a new computer too. Now I'm at almost 5000$ confirmed orders. And the guy with the 1600$ gaming computer hasn't replied yet... I'll closely follow the weather network to see when money will fall from the sky next week...

Two different customers ordered me some 4000$ of stuff today and another one is looking for a 1200$-1500$ gaming computer. Combined to the other computer I sold yesterday, I have a different puzzle than usual : too many orders for my buying capacity. I guess I prefer that to "not enough orders...

I don't find it on their web site. If it exists, I'm certainly interested, depending on the cost.

It's preferable if it's there anyway, be it only for not receiving the "Java required" message that pops in LibreOffice when it's not installed. Average users tend to have panic attacks when windows pop up with error messages they don't understand (which they never do).

I often install LibreOffice and it needs Java.

I just like bigger numbers. Also, most of the computers I setup aren't touched by a technician for many years after they are first configured. It doesn't matter if nothing uses Java 7 now. In two or three years, it might be another story. I'm not sure the Java update will update the platform...

I wish I had 20$ that often... I can't complain about today. Three service calls plus one new computer sold. Better than average.

You won't. Not that Ccleaning isn't good. Just not spectacular.

There's a sale on the Silverstone FT03 enclosure I've wanted for a long time. Too bad no one makes a dual-socket µATX motherboard. And why are things I want always on sale when I have no money. Probably because I never have money. Except for the few times I have. Which is rare.

So it's a go? Great, so I'll install it on my systems. If it crash, I'll just blame it on you (because someone other than me has to take the blame). I'll be sure to try it first on production machines and not to take backups prior to the installation, like usual.

Java 7 update 2 is out (as well as Java 6 update 30). Is it finally ready for primetime or is it still a developper toy? Chewbacca wrote that the terrible bug should be dealt with by update 2. Well, is it?

I'm confused. On Intel's product page is written : When I look at the card, I see only six. NewEgg says six too.

You've filled 15TB within 3.5 months??? I thought that at some point, someone would end up being bored watching asses and tits.

There's no long term warranty for the beta projects, but a dual E5620 is plenty fast to complete the big beta units well within the prefered deadline. Even a dual Opteron 6128 (8 cores each at 2.0GHz) is able to complete a Project 6904 unit in time (the fattest unit there currently is).

Ok, I screwed up again. It's the Xeon 5645 I wanted to compare to the Opteron 6172. It's a 6 cores/12 threads, 2.4GHz CPU. It cost ~550$ per CPU. Two of those plus an EVGA Classified SR-2 would cost ~1700$. Less than two 12-cores Opteron Magny-Cours with a dual-socket motherboard. It might...

I don't know if two Xeon E5620 would be faster than two Opteron 6172 for running the FAH client. The Xeon solution would actually be cheaper. Of course, there's less real cores with two Xeon 5620 (4 cores/8 threads, 2.4GHz per CPU), but the IPC should be higher. It would be an interesting...

Nevermind my previous post. It was a pre-morning-coffee post.

Have you done a disk cleanup (right-click on the C: -> properties -> disk cleanup)? On the second page, you can remove the old system restore points. It usually saves a lot of space. This one is obvious, but I ask anyway. Have you done the SP3 removal that Ddrueding wrote about a few weeks...

Probably from Hatichi, certainly not from Seagate. Uses the same platters as the 7K1000.D (1TB-per-platter). I'm pretty sure that it's WD that pacmanned HGST and not Seagate (which swallowed Samsung's storage division).

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I don't know where my mind was when I wrote that it was 21.5"...

I read a few reviews about the LG IPS226V monitor and they were all quite positive. Since I'm in the market for a new monitor due to some recent unfortunate events, this is the one my budget hates the less among monitors I consider to be acceptable. I can't find if it's a 6-bit or an 8-bit...

Both SDBardwick and Santilli should pass their previous month's production today and it's only the 9th of the month. We haven't seen numbers like those SDBardwick produces since the glory days of SSDdrueding, when the bonus for big units was 50% instead of the 20% they give now. And...

I won't punch a CRT because the implosion might send fragments and seriously injure me. Plus the several thousand volts applied on the tube... I only have a webcam to take pictures. I gave it a punch and when I saw I killed it, I decide to take a hammer for another two hits. Now there are...

Yeah, from the tales you shared about the state of your computers, maybe you should look for a heatsink with replaceable fans. This one might not be for you.

I did not follow his career much. What's the link to Dan Quayle for?

You have to take gaming laptops like potatoe chips. None are good for you, but some are less bad than others. Make that clear to your clients.

AnandTech's review of the G74SX laptop. The conclusion is positive.

There are several games that require rigs like your to get fluid gameplay when enabling all the visual effects. Crysis 1&2, Metro 2033, Lost Planet, Aliens vs Predators, Rage and certainly some others.

No Asus, no Alienware, no Nvidia, no this, no that... You're making this quite hard, harder than it has to be in fact.

From Ars Technica's review : At least that's one classic that did not disapoint. Somewhere in the review, he warns gamers that the level of difficulty might become frustrating at times. He's right : I punched my Dell U2410 and it's now unrecoverable. It took me three punch to kill my...

What about the Asus G74SX-XA1? 1300$, 1080p 17.3" screen, i7 2630, GeForce GTX 560M 3GB, 12GB RAM and 750GB HDD. No idea about the battery time (it's an 8-cell battery). The keyboard is illuminated. Only weights 4.28lbs if what I read on a merchand's site is true. The only thing that's...

75$ for a Bluetooth dongle??? Come on! No Bluetooth adapter should cost more than 20$. This is a rip off.

With two designs based on the same process : yes. But certainly not on two designs on different process. Every time they move to a smaller process, adjustments needs to be made and yields usually tank at the beginning of the move. I would be very surprised if the yieds of Ivy Bridge were...

Some big-black-eyes-Chinese look like aliens. ;)

At 100$, I expect it to last more than two years. However, even the cheapest fans have a rating of 30,000 POH. That's almost 3.5 years of continuous operation. Those used in that Zalman cooler are rated for 50,000 POH (5.7 years). I wouldn't worry too much.

Did you read the beginning and half of the thread? I would probably go for a Dell XPS myself. Alienware has been bought by Dell several years ago, but the Dell XPS laptop seem to be better compromise between 3D performance, battery life and price. Try to chose one with a low screen...

Xbit Labs reviewed the CNPS12X and, oh surprise, it's very, very good and relatively quiet. Quite a contrast with their previous circular designs. However, it costs 100$ and weights a kilogram, but you don't get that kind of cooling prowess with a cheap and light cooler.

I'm happy with the way it turned out. Being small and weak is no excuse for acting like a piece of shit. And if you lack the common sense not to attack someone bigger than you, don't blame the big guy for smashing your head. I hope the one who had her skull cracked gets permanent sequels...

The desk the police uses in the TV show is much like that Samsung table.

Since AMD's Magny-Cours cores are about as fast as Intel's Core 2 Duo core, I thought : "Why not get a used 4-sockets server?". Hélas, even oldies like Dunnington and Tigerton servers are still several thousands dollars nowadays. No luck on the used/refurbished side. It's cheaper to get a new...

Even if I had the money for it, I'm not enough of a Hawaii Five-0 fan to buy one.

It looks like everyone who works there is a teenager who never did sports in their lives.

Unrelated to your problem, but why build a Server 2008 system when Server 2011 is out? You still have an MSN account, right?

There's no ice here, so I would be very surprised if there was any in NYC.

Unless Mark produces 836957 more points than I do in December, I'll be the one who'll have contributed the most in the team for 2011. Leading the team was easy at the beginning of the year, but some of you guys have given me quite a run since. SDBardwick will certainly be hard to outproduce...

Uncle pigfucker, that's a good one I'll be sure to remember :-D I like the guy about as much as you do. You're no jackass to me.

I'm pretty sure that if you would plug the system in a power meter, you would not see it taking much more than 300W. It still is good that it lasted 8 years. Not a bad unit for sure.