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192.168.X.X is, I think, actually defined as a set of 256 private class C subnets. So I wouldn't be shocked if a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 didn't completely work with that range. You should probably use one of the class B private subnets which are 172.[16-18].X.X or a chunk of the class A...

Does it actually stop you using the last 1/8% or does it just show the wrong figures?

I found the best way to talk someone through anything on Vista or 7 is to figure out exactly what you have to type after hitting the windows key to jump right there. I guess that doesn't work as well when you have an unknown nested folder structure that you'll know when you see/hear (Although...

Given that 1Gb ethernet is actually 1Gb each way (Although most monitors I've seen tend to display utilization as though it's not so maybe I'm wrong) I would have thought that a pair of bonded 1Gb PCI-E NICs would give you give you roughly a full drives throughput each way. You'd probably have...

I'm not a fan of Steam but my gaming machine doesn't generally have any information on it that I'm worried about having collected and I'm willing to compromise occasionally for really good deals. I hope you weren't looking forward to playing Civilization V though, it seems that even the retail...

Mad Catz (Who bought saitek) RAT mouses look interesting. Much more adjustable than the average mouse so you should in theory be able to make it pretty comfortable. For the price I'd really want to see one in person before buying though.

How many people are you talking about here and what kind of capabilities do you need? (Internal transfer, external transfer, voice mail, least cost routing, conferencing?) Have you considered getting an external provider and just connecting your handsets to them via a proxy like OpenSBC or...

From your link you can also get one from lensmate. They seem to take paypal, a number of other cards (which may or may not be done through paypal) and personal cheques. Worth a try at least...

I always have a look at AMDs E series CPUs when I'm looking for efficiency, they are mostly 45W TPD parts, newegg doesn't seem to stock them. It's hard to know how much difference it really makes though. CPUs are much better at keeping power consumption down while idle these days so is it...

Actually I think it's even more different than that when it comes to drivers. OS X drivers are written in C++ and Linux, and I think BSD, drivers are mostly written in C. I can't really answer the original question though. I can't think of any good reason why 2 cards wouldn't work if you just...

For people who like keyboards and live in the US I think Sprints version of the Samsung Galaxy S looks pretty drool worthy. A landscape slide out keyboard on a 4" phone has got to be pretty spacious compared to most phone keyboards. I'll probably be grabbing a regular, keyboardless, Galaxy S...

You could reroute the cold water pipe that goes to the hot water system through the roof, first use it to cool the leds and then run it through a solar hot water system before dumping it in the heater. Super efficient. You could even extend the idea to your PC and build a heat exchanger on to...

Just curious, would you not let employees access their work email on a personal device, or would you just not let them do it via exchange? At work we're pretty much allowed to access our work email (through google) on whatever we like, but that obviously lacks the potential to screw up an...

If Apple hadn't shut down the OS X ZFS project then getting a Mac (Or more realistically just installing OS X on what you have) would have been the ideal solution (Apart from the cost and the fact that Apple are now evil etc.). Given the comparative state of ZFS on Linux and OS X, and your other...

My RouterStation Pro arrived today. It's a nice bit of kit, although the POE injector I got with it was 18 volt rather than the 48 it needs. Fortunately the adapter Netgear sent me when they replaced my switch fits it so I didn't have to wait to get it up and running. I chucked the latest...

I totally agree, I just think a constitutional convention is needed to contravene the constitution, no matter how out of date it's gotten. I honestly don't know how I'd deal with that situation and I really hope I never find out. I don't have a particular problem with guns, I currently own 5...

I agree with the 4 cat6 runs, that seems about right when you take computers, phones, media players and other devices in to account. I'd probably run some fiber as well. Not that I have any real use for it now, but it seems pretty inevitable so why not do it while it won't cost much more... I'm...

A co-worker once accidentally backed his car over his thinkpad. The screen had to be replaced but he used it for a week or so with an external monitor before it was sent off and there was no other damage.

I always thought the US second amendment was about the right to have guns so you could overthrow the government. On that basis I think the law was pretty clearly unconstitutional and needed to be slapped down, you can agree or disagree with the constitution but you can't just go making laws...

Yeah, I looked at those too but all the cheaper ones I could find were no good in some of the fittings I have. In any case the LEDs cost about 3 times as much and are supposed to last 50,000 hours so it's roughly a wash price wise and the LEDs use a bit over half the power. (They're probably not...

My flat is mostly lit by GU10 bulbs, at 50watt each and up to 10 in a fairly small room they were obviously chosen for style more than efficiency. I replaced a bunch of them with 4 and 4.4watt LED bulbs (I'm renting so I'm hardly going to replace the fittings). There is definitely less light...

Actually I got the basic aim of the project I just failed to mention how that product would help at all... It has, expandable capacity (add a drive or replace a drive with a bigger drive) obviously you're not going to pack in as many drives as your stacker case but there are possibly larger...

In theory using something like NFS over udp might work better for what you're doing. (It just seems like it should intuitively so it seems worth a go but I have nothing to really suggest it would be) Would an eSata (Or even usb3) external raid enclosure help solve this problem? [this one would...

I don't know, the bumper case seems to be awfully coincidental if it isn't a deliberate fix for the antenna issue... Apple could make this whole controversy go away if they took a leaf out of Nintendo's book and just included one with the phone. (Hell make it a slightly ugly clear one that...

The Crucial RealSSD was just announced in 64gb, looks like it's about $40-50 more than that Intel one. Half as much space again and right about 2x the speed (both read and write) seems worth the extra cash assuming it performs as specified... (Although you need sata rev3 to get full read speed)

I hadn't come across Ubiquiti before but I've been looking for a good router which I could use for running OpenVpn and this looks like a good option (and costs only slightly more than the WRT54GL I was thinking of using and a lot less than some of the other options with gigabit nics. No...

Well it might stop them breaking the computer in the short term, but it'll generally just keep them quiet for an indefinite period of time. Eventually they'll start whining again and the worry that they'll screw up and break the computer is back and in the end you just have to bite the bullet...

It didn't seem that impressive to me either but apparently Jeopardy has lots of word plays and cleaver questions that would be hard on a computer. Of course I've still never seen an answer where the question didn't start with "who is" or "what is" so the original concept seems to have completely...

I've got a couple of games on Steam when they have their insane specials, and I got the black box with my last video card, which came on Steam (The games obviously, not the card). Generally though I find that I can either, get the games cheaper by ordering on line, (and generally get them...

Maybe it's you who has a large font size... I'm at 1440 wide with everything at Ubuntu default and I get the little guy puking on the the last "the" (Or actually the word computer as I type this...) so 1600 sounds about right for a direct hit. On the other hand maybe you're just reading more in...

If you can find a reasonable price on a 45 watt AMD chip that's what I'd go with... Newegg have a grand total of 1 option there though and it's a single core Sempron. (Although that is probably enough grunt for what you want the money you save could get you those extra 2 sata ports... But then...

Perhaps the point is that anyone who commits suicide is in breach of contract and no benefits need to be payed to their families or something. (Of course I'd be surprised if the families got benefits anyway but who knows) More likely though it's much the same as the nets. I saw a quote from...

I think you'll find that everything has trial and error. (Although some things do limit you to just the one error).

The OSS encoders/decoders aren't inherently slow but the gui front ends do tend to do a poor job of configuring them to use multiple cpu and system resources efficiently. I'd definitely have a look and see if you can find a small, cheap, standalone media player that you can just plug in when...

Handbrake is hard to beat for brain-dead easy. Mencoder, VLC or ffmpeg if you need lots of options. Virtualdub is also entirely capable of functioning as a pretty full featured trans-coder. I've played around with a few trans-coders that make use of the GPU but generally been pretty...

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that consumers demanded wide screen and shitty resolutions and manufacturers delivered. I'm saying consumers demanded bigger, cheaper screens and didn't concern themselves with what else they were getting. I totally agree that wide screens were mostly or...

What were you trying to achieve here again? You could get a DVD player or set top box that can play xvid encoded avi files from a thumb drive for the price of most of these packages (For the $80 NCH plus costs you could get 2)... If you're making dvds to play on a lot of players then I guess it...

A whole OS seems a bit heavy weight just for a browser. You could just use a minimal headless Linux install (DSL or something) in a vm and then use X11 to run Firefox with a local UI. In theory that should be a lot faster because your X server could use hardware acceleration. (I'm not sure if...

I think it's a combination of economies of scale and maximising profits. 1080 is a headline number, it lets you stick "Full HD" on your product and let's face it you can't get any more HD than Full HD right? So anything over 1080 is a niche product for the people who realise that full HD still...

At this point I would expect esata to be a slightly cheaper option.

Both of those solutions would be much more expensive and have the potential to cause condensation on the motherboard which is a similar worry to a leak but, IMO, harder to guard against. Phase change uses a compressor which is louder than a pump and peltiers need either major air cooling (loud)...

Personally I use Skype, it's just easier to set up, especially when you're not physically at all the sites. Other solutions give you conferencing with video but are more of a pain to set up, and more trouble to fix if something goes wrong. When you're buying web-cams make sure you get at least...

I think "Family values" are more about moral absolutism than actual families so it's not necessarily as related as it may seem. I'd be pretty unsurprised by a correlation here but I'd be quite surprised if "Family values" were actually found to be a causal factor in the breakdown of marriages. I...

Isn't progressing fast enough, or isn't adopting the sort of power management code required to stop Moorestown flushing batteries down the toilet? If Ars are right then Moorestown isn't likely to have great battery life on anything that isn't running Meego, at least in the short term. That said...

The specs are very nice, but what's it for? Limited portability and battery life. Maybe for semi-portable gaming but do you really need that fast a CPU to keep that GPU fed?

Maybe you should look at the 2209WA as well. I just got one about a month back because it was about half the price of the 24" and not that much more than the 20". If I'd felt I had the money for the 24" I probably would have just bought 2 of these...

You need a .308 caliber target rifle. If you want to get one for under $800 you'll need to go second hand. If you can stand slightly smaller holes a .22 target air rifle would be better for indoor use (And should also create nicer holes with greater accuracy). If you don't need the range a...

Do you have an appropriate sharpener? Blu-Ray disks are generally shipped blunt for much the same reasons DVDs. You can use a DVD or CD sharpener but a proper HD sharpener will give you a much better edge...

I think the primary difference between your link and Handys Uda is that his appears to be referring to a real issue where as yours was just some guy drawing parallels between a medical paper and some guys in his office for comedy value on a slow news day. If you'd presented it as comedy maybe it...

You're assuming they're actually there to shop and not just to take advantage of the free parking... This seems to be really common given how stupid it is... I mean do they think it's some sort of intellectual property infringement (Copyright, trademark or one of the many "all rights" that are...