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I don't think RAM requirements will do it at all. For instance, when my wife & I were shopping for laptops a couple of months ago, every consumer machine that was higher on the computing scale than a netbook had 3 or 4GB of RAM standard. Even among the business-oriented laptops that came with...

DD - What you need is a thermal receipt printer like a lot of POS terminals/cash registers use. Some of them spit out about a foot a second for print speed. This Epson does 53 lines/second. Separate from that use a traditional laser for the big print job. Merc - My wife was talking about...

VIN numbers can be used to order spare/replacement keys from a dealer. In theory you need to supply the registration or title but in practice not always. http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/vin.asp As noted in the article, for casual theft this is too cumbersome, but when you're listing a...

I realize I'm compromising with myself, but I play the hold off game a lot as well. Often times I hold off on a tech purchase until the price/performance suits me. Such is the case with SSDs; I want one but am willing to wait for the price to drop another 20-30% before I take the plunge...

Will, from an identity theft perspective, you might want to blur or mask your license plate number. I'm still @ 152K on my car. I just don't drive that many miles anymore. Still, I'm looking to trade it in. Maybe this year if I find a good deal. If not, then next year.

1.3.1 just came out. :cat:

Yeah, at work we're dropping about $40K on 36 282GB (300GB) 15K SCSI drives to replace 36 70GB disks. After RAID5 we should go from 2.1 to 8.4TB in that partition. Going SAS was out of the budget as it would require new RAID controllers and even more install effort.

Different VSS.

I agree that compression overhead is minimal but I'm not seeing where the performance gains would come from. Music files are probably already in MP3 or another compressed format so there's no gain there. Many pictures will be in JPG, which is also already compressed. TIFFs or other raw...

Opinions vary on real v. virtual keyboards. I won't go virtual myself but they do have an advantage in being able to rotate portrait to landscape. Try before you buy is my best advice. Type a sample email or text message on the display units to get a feel for the devices before commiting to...

Re: price gradient. The case & electronics don't change; you're just adding a platter so the incremental cost is less.

If you used Google online storage in the past, the $/GB ratio just got better by roughly a factor of 8. This is for space that exceeds the free space granted by Picasa, Gmail, etc. $5/yr for 20GB is the baseline ($20/yr for 10GB was the old minimum) and it ranges all the way up to $4096/yr for...

And Pixi, which should run $100 after rebate at most places, will only cost $30 @ Walmart. While I generally avoid Wally World like the plague that price would make it worthwhile to visit.

Most don't; where you set it in the installer is where it goes. However, some do. IIRC I documented some time ago how my wife's PC wound up with XP installed to G: (during the XP install the USB card reader got C:-F: ). It was a minor PITA for most things; just change the drive letter when...

If you liked the Pre's capabilities but want something a little less expensive, the Pixi comes out on Sunday.

Gmail does both POP & IMAP; IMAP is preferred. Make sure the email client supports POP/IMAP via SSL as well. AFAIK all of them do, but then my knowledge beyond a small handful of handsets is minimal. For Exchange/Outlook, you really want ActiveSync (EAS) if your Exchange host & phone support...

DB2/400. The query optimizer will recommend temporary indexes to the SQL engine, which will create them as needed and, with the latest OS release, keep the temp indexes around for a while in case they are reused. Historical data from the query optimizer can also be used to create permanent...

Don't forget to compare the carriers/plans. Make sure the carrier's coverage is good, including data, where you anticipate being most of the time. And compare plan features. Sprint's Simpley Everything, for instance, includes unlimited mobile-to-mobile calls regardless of the other party's...

It was a .it domain but I never went to it.

To me the first thing that comes to mind is running reports out of our ERP systems at work. You have files for which the individual indexes can be several GB in size and an overall DB size in the hundreds of GB range. Some reports absolutely destroy disk access and can take millions of IOs to...

Sounds like an insulation layer to prevent shorting, but I've no idea where they'd be used.

It should be installed by this time tomorrow. :cheers: I love free tech.

Apparently they're finally addressing content streaming. I just got an email from Dish wanting me to participate in a trial with Sling. I get a free Slingbox Solo w/installation in exchange for answering some surveys.

I don't believe it compresses the backup but because it does data deduplication, each file is only ever backed up once on the server. The de-dupe extends to all machines it backs up so for my 3 Vista machines there's arguably only 1 backup of Vista on the server. The daily incremental...

I use wireless mice exclusively and have for several years. Always Logitech. But I've never seen the need for a wireless keyboard in my environment. A wireless keyboard - with decent range - on an HTPC I could see but I don't have that in my environment. The battery life estimates are...

I decided to blow away my Win7 Beta build & restore it back to the original Vista install. I booted from the WHS Restore CD, put in the admin password for the server, selected the machine name & backup date to restore from, and off it went. It noted that some machines may need network drivers...

These folks aren't necessarily stupid; I haven't read anything to indicate that condition. However, they are being willfully negligent. Stupid would be not understanding that there are "dangerous" sites on the net. These folks understand that but want to hit those sites anyway. On a PC...

Sure, until there's a breach.

At a minimum those users need an education. Failing that, tell them to buy another machine for their bad habits. Put the onus of action and the expense on their shoulders. Personally, they're the kind of users who really piss me off. They have no understanding of risk. Financial software...

Facebook doesn't vet the FB apps for security. They can, and have been, subject to Cross Site Scripting attacks. My wife was hit by one a few months back. This guy has done tests for instance.

Dunno if the replacement trans were fixed or not. All I recall is that I think Acura extended the Tranny warranty to 100K miles. I'd suggest reading the Acura forums at Edmunds or another car site or search the recall/TSB database to see if there was a fix or just replacement. I had a '93...

Our cat's litter pan & food are in opposite corners of my den. It's the most convenient room we have on the first floor for shutting her off when needed as the rest of that floor is an open plan. No fur issues to date and so far she has wandered around the PC but not really stayed or tried to...

Dogs think they're human. Cats think they're God.

2:05, so just over two hours, to do the upgrade including migrating the existing apps like Office & Firefox and data. System tray stuff like AVG, Logitech for her mouse, and the Xmarks widget for IE are all behaving normally. WiFi worked out of the gate. Everything seems to work OK & critical...

It's an Upgrade DVD, not OEM or anything else although it is co-branded with Sony & MS. There's a separate disc for the Sony-specific stuff. Their instructions say back up the machine & run the upgrade and that it will prompt to uninstall a couple of things on it's own. Time permitting I'll...

Good point. My employer has had good luck buying Kingston RAM for Dell servers in the past. I'm not sure what we do nowadays but we are buying servers with 16-32GB standard since they are almost all serving as VMware hosts.

I should have been clearer; the HP in my post was Home Premium and not Compaq's pimp. The laptop is a Sony Vaiaiaioiaoaiaoaiaio. It shipped with minimal crapware; just Sony tools for the webcam etc. which I kept and Norton which was promptly removed. If Sony mucked with the Win7 DVD...

The answer to your second question is Yes. As to your first question, IMO it's the wrong question. You're going to be running multiple server images; hardware reliability is of higher importance than for a single server as there's more impact to the business if the platform goes down...

The Win7 copy arrived for my wife's laptop yesterday. If you don' recall, the laptop was bought when you could get the upgrade free. So, she's on Vista HP 64-bit and the Win7 is, of course, also HP 64-bit. While I'm always a fan of doing a clean install, what are the opinions on doing a...

If you like the Pre conceptually but don't want to pay as much, the Pixi is coming out in a couple of weeks. A few things like WiFi have been stripped to make a lower-end unit. But on the plus side it's even thinner & lighter. THinner than the iPhone, even. Specs & announcement.

Makes me wonder if it's a 32/64 bit thing. My laptop is 32-bit Vista Ultimate. I haven't access to a 64-bit Windows install on a work machine to test. We aren't allowed to load the VPN on non-work machines without special approval from IT Security. Which is me for these things, but I cannot...

Interesting. I wonder if the carrier (Verizon, I presume) will enable that feature. The carriers - all of them - like to have their strangleholds.

I've been running Cisco's VPN client on my Vista laptop since I got it nearly 2 years ago. Version 5.0.02.0090. What's the problem?

I didn't see a "New Posts" link in the iPod template. Did I miss it or is it not there? I rely on that function every time I visit.

A Palm Pre (webOS / Webkit) template would be nice, but in all likelihood the iPhone template will work on it.

Yeah, we know. We escaped Chicagoland just before the forecasted snow.

My Pre & Sprint seem to be working fine here in Maui. :sunny:

No other parts remain but I do still have an IBM XT motherboard with socketed CPU & RAM in my basement. It's right next to my copy of Microsoft OS/2.

True, but who would buy if the sales pitch included "up to 20% dropped calls, or maybe more!"? Because that's what some people are reporting.

It might help us to know the operating systems & kinds of applications that will be run. Also the relative size or number of users so we can gauge the expected workload. For instance, while David has virtualized his database servers, my employer cannot as they fail to adequately perform (we...