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IMO UAC doesn't break software. It exposes poorly written software for the crap that it is. Software that stood a decent chance of failing on a properly hardened XP system. That some of that software would come from MS is no great surprise considering their heinous past (and Great Plains was...

IIRC Indiana banned driving-while-headphoned in the late 70s/early 80s when Walkmen first became popular. In essence you're ability to hear emergency vehicle sirens, honking horns, and any other audible indicators of changing traffic conditions is greatly impaired.

They are VMs. IBM has even implemented a virtualized x86 instruction set so POWER can run x86 Linux.

I've got to leave for a bit, but compare that Renault to a Chevy Aveo. The Aveo still only gets about 70% of the MPG and I can't see the Aveo being that different in size/weight.

Yeah, I was just thinking of the new Pontiac G8 which is a Holden. But the more amazing thing is that a government reduced a tax. My father drove a Renault in the '80s. I won't claim it was the most spacious or safe thing but he got 50MPG consistently. With over 100K miles he gave it to me...

I don't think anyone mentioned Google's April Fools Day for the year. I present to you, Virgle.

I haven't read the article, but my first thought is F*** the cost. While I firmly believe the MPG desires of both the EPA & California are achievable, I would not do so at the cost of reduced (or not increased) safety. Increases in purchase price will be at least partially offset over the life...

Microsoft: Let's talk about trust I was sitting about 100 feet from Mr. Mundie when they made the announcement yesterday. Honestly, Bill was a more personable speaker. Mundie has a certain :zzz: thing going on.

IIRC Merc used to do that. As long as the logic board is from the exact same drive it should work. Ideally it would have the same firmware level but that's probably not mandatory. In the future, beware that some drives, and Seagate is the first one offering this, will do on-drive encryption...

Its definitely possible. IBM does it on their POWER hardware (POWER5 & 6 CPUs). Assign a partition to have an exact whole number of cores and it becomes essentially dedicated. But then that partition can't take part in dynamic movement of CPU between partitions. There is a minor performance...

Intuit is evil. Try TaxCut ($) or TaxAct (free) instead. Sorry, just had to say it. Anyway, it does sound like your connection is hosed. Have you tried a speed test?

Congrats! My wife & I were just realizing that we've been together as a couple for nine and a half years and married for five and a have. No 'seven year itch' for either of us. :) I touched down in San Francisco a couple of hours ago. I'll be at the RSA Conference for the week.

Not knowing anything about the apps myself, could you have them stage their output to a non-array drive & later copy the files to the array?

That's the Advanced Columbus Method. I'm a practitioner as well. Standard Columbus Method is "find it and land on it." I've used microcomputers, minicomputers, and the odd mainframe since 1981 and have never learned to be a touch-typist. I can pluck out 45+ WPM but have to look at the...

Time, I presume you're considering the 19" runs at 1440x900, in which case I agree the pixel density is about the same as a 22" @ 1680x1050. But 1440x900 @ 19" is not sufficient pixel density for me. For me, 1440x900 is also simply not enough resolution. Not enough data fits on the screen...

Somewhere around here you'll find some rants about the various types of display panels. Many of the inexpensive flat panels use a cheaper panel type-PVA I think it was-that has a more limited viewing angle when compared to TFT. Possibly other drawbacks. Also, the inexpensive panels tend to be...

Sounds like a short somewhere or a color gun is going out. As to a replacement, if you have $600 how about the Dell 2408WFP?

Frankly it doesn't matter what the rags say. Ford burned me badly & earned my disloyalty. I cannot in good faith do anything that would add to their bottom line. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I don't feel like being shamed. I don't doubt that the various brands...

Volvo is owned by Ford. Been there, done that, ain't goin' back anytime soon. Least reliable car I've ever owned. Once I've owned, experienced, or otherwise eliminated all of the other manufacturers for the segment I'm in at purchase-time, I may reconsider. But Ford & the various Ford brands...

My PC audio needs are trivial right now so motherboard audio is sufficient. That'll change if I ever build a real HTPC.

On this day in 1981, the USSR adopted daylight savings time. In 1976, respected astronomer Patrick Moore first reported the "Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect" (later found to be a hoax); and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed Apple Computer. In 1969, the Hawker Siddeley Harrier entered...

Bozo - That's true. Especially in commercial settings where fluorescent lighting is already the norm. But if people start thinking about cutting power consumption, maybe it'll lead them to turning off the TV when not in use, adjusting their thermostats to reduce heating/cooling demands, and...

So you call a 1000 megawatt reduction - the amount reported in your link - for the period not a success? WTF would qualify? That's almost enough to power this! Seriously, some people traded home electric consumption for gas consumption - driving to an observation point. Those folks didn't...

For the hour compared to the same hour the prior week. Which is what both the WWF & ComEd predicted and what ComEd observed (as reported by NBC Channel 5 in Chicago). Five percent may not seem like a lot but this was an awareness campaign and not a "let's radically cut electricity usage for an...

The anticipated 5% drop in power consumption was achieved. No power plants died. Media attention was given. Overall a successful event.

Ninja Star or Throwing Star would be more appropriate. I've never heard them called Kung Fu stars. Probably because it's totally wrong. For one, shuriken are Japanese; Kung Fu is Chinese. Well, it's all Asian, so I guess they're close enough. :rolleyes:

"Kung Fu star"? If they know the name of a ballistic knife (which I had to look up just now), why don't thy know that throwing stars are called shuriken?

Link. Nice, simple idea to raise awareness. In Chicago all of the major high rises have joined in. Street lights will remain lit for safety but even some retailers are turning off the lights for an hour. It will be a dark skyline. My employer has joined the effort and has asked all of our...

Yeah, I thought the wording was awkward as well. But hey, I just cut 'n' paste 'em, I don't write 'em.

That's correct. And if the test bed had included as much then it would be important to note them. As part of a system, the power draw of the CPUs & FB-RAM would be trivialized by the power draw of the storage array making the power analysis of less relative value compared to, say, using 10K or...

On this day in 1990, President George H. W. Bush posthumously awarded Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. In 1910, Henri Fabre became the first person to fly a seaplane (the Fabre Hydravion) after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. And in 1802, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus...

They were inconsistent. The storage subsystem was only partially quoted. Storage Adapter: Quoted. Storage Itself: Not. If the performance tests included the external storage it should have been accounted for. If the tests didn't the storage adapter should have been eliminated. If you're...

The RAID card & case fans were common to both systems and their power was quoted. Again, they were not consistent.

What dd said. And other species would likely survive a nuke-fest.

"RAID Storage LSI Logic 8480E MegaRaid Controller Promise VTRAK J300s SAS Chassis 12 x 146GB Fujitsu 15,000 RPM SAS Drives configured in RAID 0" Sorry, I was mostly just skimming the specs and saw the above. I didn't fully read the paragraphs of each system. Considering they didn't quote...

Interesting review. While the CPU numbers look reasonable I call into question how a dozen 15K RPM drives can suck a total of only 9 watts of power. And the drives must be internal or the power consumption would be zero.

Well I already have 3 Q6600s so I could just bring down one of those machines. But I agree with the chicken & egg dilemma. I suppose worst case you buy the cheapest 775 Celeron, like this, and use it for the build. Then either return it or leave it on the shelf as a spare in case something...

And what would be a recommended motherboard for a Q9300-based system? Do current 775 boards need a BIOS update for the new CPU?

Other than heat/power, I don't know that the 9300 will be different from the the 6600. The 9300 is .1 GHz faster and has the faster bus but it only has 75% of the cache of the 6600. I'm guessing it's close to a wash.

On this day in 1992, Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station. In 1979, the first fully functional space shuttle orbiter (Columbia) was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. In 1958, Canada's Avro...

Paugie - Dodge has these Sprinter vans. I believe they're re-badged European delivery vans from Mercedes. They have a 3-position switch for angling the headlights down in case the back of the van is so heavily loaded the rear springs are fully compressed (causing the headlights to shine up).

Does the video card's fan blow towards the card or away? If towards then you may be starving it by having the squirrel blow away.

You're welcome. BTW, after a recent reboot the old GPU beta wouldn't even work with the date change trick. The new system tray one still doesn't run for some reason - it starts but never processes anything - so I switched to the beta console GPU. That's running fine. FWIW, my current Folding...

Four Million Points for Mark!

GrITs. Watch the video.

Very slow.

Picked up one of these LED strips a couple of weeks ago. Pretty bright for what they are & the energy consumed, but not near bright enough for general purpose/reading or to replace CFL/incandescents. Planned use is either backlighting behind my monitor or TV, bookshelf lighting, or above my...

Thanks for the link, LM. I've forwarded it to some friends. That was a decent write-up.

How many cup holders does it have?

I try not to run much beta code nowadays and Firefox handles about 98% of my browsing needs so I don't think I'll look at IE8 until it's official release.