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I found the Antec 3-position fans in their P180 cases have a tendency to wear out early. I don't like them but I still use them as acceptable till they start wearing out i.e. make lots of that annoying fan noise.

Merc searching for the best 120mm fan I think he concluded he liked the SilentX brand other than they "smelled funny"

Yes I had a cake this year. The first since 2000. two of three of my brothers appeared to surprise me for my 50th birthday (I'm 52). That should give you all a concept of my family/social life.

Yes, they sold a lot of them. Great marketing...

Not that I know of -- Doesn't M$ have a patent application for the multi touch technology?

Of course if it really your DSL carrier, I would immediately change ISP's for you are not getting any benefit from the internet: Why pay for something you can't use.

Are you sure you are not accidentally blocking the ports yourself? I have noticed occasional very weird firewall activity from people with Zone Alarm or other outgoing firewalls where the customers (or their children) have answered no to an application wanting to access the internet after the...

The last time I let my Action pack subscription lapse, I gave all my accumulated CD's and keys to a the professor at a local community college with the condition that they not get activated so they can't get me or them into trouble. Technically, educational institutions aren't allowed to...

My guess is that AT&T had problems with customers sourcing spam from within their network and decided to put a stop to it.

One of the few here that still folds. Hint, everybody come back into the fold ... Birthdays are not a big deal to me. I've had enough that they are no longer special and young enough that I don't feel lucky to have lived one more year. Thanks all for your thoughts and well wishes.

Web mail as a solution?

I don't understand. If they block outgoing 80, 8080, and 443 they are blocking the web. Are you saying that if you belong to your DSL carrier that you have no access to the web? or that they are only blocking incoming so you have to ability to run a web server? It is normal for most carriers...

Yes, though theoretically, at some point M$ could change the system and actually keep track and kill them. At the moment they do not, and you can reactivate.

Do note that technically, these are subscription services and as such you are obligated to remove anything gotten via Technet or the Action pack if you ever stop subscribing. You don't actually own the licenses but are only leasing them. The Family pack is different, as it is not a...

no, but I thought the warranty was 1Y.

Too late.:x

I would really expect the 6-core chips to use the 1366 socket for the additional RAM bandwidth. The more cores, the more BW is needed and it isn't linear. I'm actually tempted to buy the WD black 7200RPM drives in spite of them being WD. Other than that, I'm not seeing much difference between...

I did check mine and they were all the style you didn't want.

Yes, there was a time that I had frequent problems with that. It kept breaking my raid set. I ended up abandoning my 3ware controller in favor of Microsoft's software raid.

Nothing wrong with what you've chosen. Depending on your budget, I'd go a bit cheaper with some of your components and get an SSD too. Specificly, I think an i5 750 with an 4870 just to decrease the price a bit to pay for the SSD. Even without the SSD, I'd carefully examine ATI 4870/4890...

I've been using paradigm cinema speakers and have been impressed with the sound for the money.

Look at Consumer reports. They list both good and bad (for reliability) models of used cars for particular price ranges. so start there. Since you are at the bottom of the normal price range, seek private parties from classified adds. Dealers go through a process of categorizing the cars they...

From what I've read, I like the i5's and dd's correct that it is totally bogus what Intel is doing to separate the i5 from the i7. It is so much simpler for the consumer to keep the same platform and for Intel to release the chips and scale the price points accordingly. It is also confusing to...

They were not out, when I posted the link last night.

If someone needs or wants to, the instructions are detailed enough that it would not be hard to modify to produce speed. Just replace the cheap SATA controllers with RAID controllers. Then add more controllers, the more you separate the drives into separate ports, the more total BW and the...

Hey folks, this is not a design for a super fast raid setup. It simply shows the ability to have super large storage, relatively inexpensively. As to slow, it will be no slower than a single drive which is plenty fast for network access or normal file storage. As to redundancy, I'm sure...

If you don't insist that newegg is your supplier -- Techonweb has them in stock for $238.78 shipped

Both G1's and G2's are avail and both at $349. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150636%201421445225&name=80GB

The beta 4.xxx version of Chrome does not seem to have the incompatibilities that 3.x did and it seems to be significantly faster too..

I saw this and decided it was interesting and potentially useful enough that it was worth posting a link here. Petabytes on a budget BackBlaze is supplying detailed instructions on how to build a 67TB (45 drives using 1.5TB Seagate HD's) server in a custom 4U case for aprox. $8,000 in HW costs.

I haven't lived in a house for 8 years. My father owned it, he died and during probate my brother wouldn't let me actually buy it, so it got sold and I moved out.

Wireless sucks, but not having anything sucks worse. I live and work in an apartment and am not allowed to string wires to where all the computers are. Wireless solves that. And yes, the opportunity to steal BW is ever present. So far I have resisted temptation. Yes, I have secured my...

I would suspect that the vast majority is simply an amateur trying to steal some free bandwidth from their neighbors. It isn't going to be a pornographer -- They are going to be amateurs and steal from an easy source that is unprotected or simply a public hot spot. I have no idea about the...

Wireless encryption has always been a joke. A determined individual has always been able to break it. In my mind, The real point is to prevent amateurs from grabbing your bandwidth and even the worst of the encryption forms (WEP) does that. So I'm not particularly worried.

I'm not sure if that is a feature or a bug. It sounds like a bug being converted into a feature by you. I suppose that It's simply a question of whether it was intentional or not when it was designed.

Free copy of Windows 7 pro: Windows 7 launch event All you have to do is suffer through one of M$ launch parties. Just note sign up soon, in that they tend to fill up very quickly.

No CPU's, but I've had multiple sticks of RAM die from overclocking and more specifically the excess voltage needed to OC.

I'm sorry, but I can't conceivably see you testing it as throughly as AMD and they rejected two cores (It didn't even qualify as an X3). I think you are taking an unacceptable level of risk that I wouldn't take on a product I sold. That being said, I would have no problem with you telling your...

I think that is a good analogy.

and it won't be for a while: Intel pulled the product because of a bug in the firmware that potentially caused catastrophic data loss. Note under normal circumstances you would not have a problem. From my reading, to get the loss you had to password protect the drive and then change the password.

I assure you, there are a lot of things to collect far sillier than collecting camera's. for example: http://www.willchatham.com/nails.php

If your goal is manual focusing, why not simply get an Ec-B manual focus screen rather than an entire camera for that purpose. The Ec-B works with an EOS-3. The other reason for getting the EF-M, that I can see, would be if you were trying to collect all the EOS system camera's.

A quick google search gave me this site: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html It looks useful.

Isn't that rather anti-auction behavior? The point of an auction is to get the maximum amount for the item auctioned. The more people involved typically means a higher the price. Again, we run into the question - What is wrong or unethical about bidding at the last moment (sniping)? Why...

I must be dense because I just plain don't see what is wrong or unethical with using such a tools. The person that bids highest always wins the auction regardless of the use of sniping tools. Anyone that wants too can bid whatever they want and the upper limit of the bid is hidden till it has...

I've used Auction stealer successfully for years.

Congrats to LiamC for reaching the 5,000,000 mark!

Go through an external anonymous proxy server like: http://vectroproxy.com/

Has Hell frozen over creating a land bridge between Linux and Microsoft? Microsoft is supplying kernal-code and Linux drivers for Hyper-V.

I really like it.