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As we had app compatibility issues with IE7 we blocked the download when it was released (GPO? SUS? I don't know what we used to stop it). I don't know if we ever relaxed that & let it be installed but so far I haven't had any IE7 issues on Vista.

Our servers are in a locked cage. The cage is in a data center. The data center has a locked door. The locked door has another locked door which required password + biometrics. Outside of that is the armed guard. He/she has to hit the button to get you into their area. To get to that point...

The interesting thing about the FW exploit is that a drive by is sufficient. Walk up to an unattended but "protected"-by-passworded-screen-saver box, plug in the FW device, give it a moment to auto-deploy your malware, unplug it, walk away. The malware would have unfettered access & could...

If you haven't heard about it already, there's a threat vector for PCs that have Firewire ports. Basically a device can be connected to a PC and use Firewire's access mechanism to bypass Windows authentication services. As this access is part of the FW spec, I doubt a true fix will be...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of someone important.

You'd think they'd paint the keycaps from the inside so it'd never wear off. Oh well, Saitek's out & Logitech's still in the running. I didn't really want the extra side keys on the Logitech as it'll make the keyboard just barely fit my drawer. I'll watch for a sale or rebate on the G11 or G15.

While I do see indexing keeping the HD busy at times when I am not using the system, I've not really noticed any slowdowns from it. I suppose it'd be extra drain on a laptop's battery but then MS probably throttles it back when not running on AC. Dunno. Anyway, you can search for PCs. I just...

I'm not qualified to answer that question as I don't have anything close to recent experience with the ThinkPad lineup. That said, my employer, who BTW is a service provider to your employer ;-) , buys thousands of Latitudes each year, almost all are the D6xx series. We wouldn't buy them if...

Dell Latitudes still have both the pointing stick & the glide pad. Mine also has a fingerprint reader built in to the glide pad. Well, my Vista laptop (Latitude D830) will happily hot-undock. My previous XP laptop (D800) would get unstable & have to be rebooted. I don't know if it's the...

I recognize most of that. :) How do you like the G15? I've been considering a backlit keyboard & the G11/G15 or the Saitek are the ones I've been leaning towards.

WTF are you talking about? It's Bush who's doing the Spend Spend Spend thing. Not just the couple of billion he's dumping into our deficit each week to cover the invasion of Iraq that he started. It's also the moronic, er, economic stimulus package that is adding what, about 150 billion to...

Book Smarts != Street Smarts. Personally I think she's reasonably attractive. The linked shots over-emphasize her slightly large nose. Pages 1, 2, and 8-10 show her in much more favorable circumstances. She's not really my type, but she's more attractive than Heidi Fleiss & I could easily...

If only the election was held on St. Patrick's Day ..

I picked up the drive Saturday & installed it this morning. Used Acronis True Image Home 11 to migrate my Vista install to the new drive & enlarge the partition. Totally painless. One power cycle to install the drive, one warm boot for the partition migration, one final power cycle to...

Clocker, I know what you mean on the flat panel. I was quite happy with my Samsung 204B at home but then I had to go and spec a Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC for work and now my home display is tiny. Puny. Minuscule. For me, 1200x1920 is just about perfect.

Ours are MFCs as well, although I used to have straight-up DJ9xx series printers that were just fine. I have an OJ5510 and my wife uses an OJ16xx (something). Of course the ink is way too expensive but we don't print that much so it works out fine. If print volume ramps up I was thinking...

Fujitsu 80GB for $60. If I can I'll stop by Fry's tomorrow & pick it up.

Maybe uninstall/reinstall? Should only take a minute & any WU in process is preserved.

I moved away from Canon & Epson because of ink clog issues. I've never had such an issue with HP ink jets. They can go weeks at a time between print jobs but are always ready.

In the past when I look at my Vista & Ubuntu machines side by side Vista is slightly slower, like a couple of seconds per percentage point of the work unit. Both machines are Q6600s with 2GB RAM on el-cheapo motherboards. But the main reasons for Vista were 1) at the time no experience or...

uda, performance & capacity don't really matter. I need about 20MB (not GB) more than the OS takes to hold the Folding client. My preference is for a single-platter drive due to heat/power, but anything 16GB+ is sufficient from a capacity standpoint. Micro Center has 120GB Toshiba & WD...

The mobo in question supports PATA & SATA and the current drive is PATA. SATA has more future life so I'll likely get a SATA drive. Hmm. I think I'll put this aside until I can peek @ the mobo again and confirm things. Thanks again for the help. Any suggestions on drive partition...

SSDs cost about 2-5x more. Maybe I'll wait a while after all. Another option is to move the Ubuntu to CF/IDE and move it's HD to the Vista box, but that's effort I'm not so willing to undertake at the moment. The Folders are supposed to sit there & crunch; I want to spend as little time as...

Micro Center has the Q6600 for $199 in-store. As I drive by their store on my daily commute I am sorely tempted. Any word on a ship date & potential price for non-Extreme C2Q Penryn? Some casual browsing so far hasn't revealed anything.

Thanks. The machine in question is running Vista Basic, so I don't think 8GB is enough. If I do the same to my Ubuntu Folder then a smaller footprint would be fine. And for 16GB the total cost w/shipping is still under $100. That's in the 'yawn' category right now for expenses. Now, any...

First, as to the state of the SSD market, SuperTalent is shipping a 256GB SATA SSD. Although at $8600 (with free shipping!) it takes pretty deep pockets. Can you recommend any particular CF-IDE or CF-SATA bridge adapters? I'm thinking of making a more proactive change since 1. my annual bonus...

On this day in 2006, Apple Inc. was granted the patent to the iPod. And in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for an invention he called the telephone. Happy Birthday actresses Rachel Weisz (1971) and Wanda Sykes (1964), singer Taylor Dayne (1962), former tennis champion Ivan Lendl...

Also, as long as the RAID card supports it you can add additional 500GB drives over time to bump the array's capacity. And 5 drives will consume less power & generate less heat & noise than 9. If I were building an array, I'd go with mirrored TB disks and add a second mirror when I needed...

I don't know if it's true today but in the past Brother and some of the other smaller players had nice inexpensive printers but the consumables were quite expensive. I think the toner & fuser were packaged together or something. Cheap to buy, expensive to operate.

Kinoma has made multimedia apps for Palm for years. Looks like their Producer will do conversions for you. Not sure of the formats, but they do concentrate on conversions for portable devices. $30.

Forgot to say it a couple of days ago, but congrats to Pradeep for hitting the 500K mark. Will is approaching that milestone as well & should hit it in the next few weeks. About that same time Mark should surpass the 4 million point mark. I use the ExtremeOverclocking stats page and noticed...

I admit to being tempted to replace the HDs in my dedicated Folding systems with small (8-16GB) SSDs for the heat/power savings. Neither seeks nor STR matter all that much since drive access is only when the system boots and then periodically when it writes Folding results.

Every situation where the drive is powered but isn't being used 24x7 would benefit. That includes almost every file server out there and a fair portion of web servers (they mostly operate from cached content). Database & app servers probably won't benefit much from the savings, though. And...

On this day in 1977, the first Cray-1 supercomputer was shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. In 1962, the United States Atomic Energy Commission announced that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica was in operation. In 1954, Peter Bent Brigham...

Gilbo, one of my three Vista machines was in the group that got SP1 during the recent slip-up. To my knowledge MS is still on track to release SP1 via MS/Windows Update this month. And it should be available now to some or all MSDN subscribers. Other than improved performance - my Windows...

I just bought a pair of those myself to replace the batteries in my BackUPS Pro 1100. 2 for about $90 was more than I wanted to pay but still cheaper than buying a new UPS, not to mention it keeps the old one out of the landfill for a few more years.

She mainly surfs & does light-duty Office docs & prints photos so any modest PC is adequate for her needs. But as we leave them on 24x7 to Fold I would like to build the machine that will produce the most 1. points per week followed by 2. points per watt. And I'll leave her on XP Pro. The C2Q...

I've known a number of people who have use a couple of forms of rental assistance called "family" & "roommates". For the most part it seemed to work out OK for them. A few others have been "dual income"; that seems to add to the table as well. Sure, these non-government subsidies won't work...

My wife's PC has been mildly unstable ever since it got a static shock. I've no immediate plans on replacing it but might in the next few months (my annual bonus will be paid shortly & I just got a decent raise). For Folding performance, how does the Phenom compare to the C2Q?

Did you know that the Gregorian calendar was designed to keep the vernal equinox on or close to March 21? The idea is for Easter to remain correct with respect to the vernal equinox. But the vernal equinox year is about 365.242374 days long (and increasing), whereas the average year length of...

I still have my HP 15c that I purchased used back in 1985. Long Live RPN! Batteries are better than 15 years old but it still works. As to lasers, a friend has, IIRC, the HP 2600 Color LJ. We haven't really talked about it but he seems to like it well enough.

No optical drive, but otherwise doesn't seem bad for the cost. Don't buy it as a cheap workstation; Dell servers have a bad history for supporting add-on graphics cards. As to Dell servers in general, we buy dozens if not 100+ PowerEdge 2950s each year.

Here's a site with lots of batch & scripting info & samples. Using the description of NT's FOR command I came up with this batch file: CD /HOME/X9 FOR %F IN (*.JPG) DO MOVE /HOME/RAW/%~nF.RAW /HOME/RAW/X9/ CD ../X8 FOR %F IN (*.JPG) DO MOVE /HOME/RAW/%~nF.RAW /HOME/RAW/X8/ etc. to count your...

Of course the developer's revenue might be roughly the same if 8x as many people buy the product @ $149 v. 1x $1200. Where I work we're about to start to undertake a process of upgrading the underlying tools for an ERP package we run. The version number will go from x.x0 to x.x2. For a ".02"...

Maybe they choose to support the OS only while the OS developer offers mainstream support. W2K is out of mainstream support and is in the extended support phase where only critical security bugs are addressed. No design changes or enhancements are being developed. MS support lifecycle.

Why only 512MB? Because I didn't set the spec. More RAM can be purchased easily enough but people do have to put in a statement justifying it.

I don't see that the cache file is encrypted. I'd be worried about that. Also there's no mention of how deep the integration is or what the risk would be if the cache device is yanked suddenly (there's no risk of data loss/corruption in Vista).

So an update that enables other updates, including SP1, has been pulled. But SP1 has not.

So there are some issues with old software. For almost all of the items listed newer versions that don't have the problem are available. Looks like a non-issue unless you're still running Novell. Do you have a source that says the SP was pulled? Other than The Enquirer's un-sourced assertion...

Our current corporate minimum specs: Processor – Intel Duo 1.66 GHz RAM - 512MB Hard Drive – 40GB Operating System - Windows XP Office - 2003That applies to both desktops & notebooks. Desktops get a 17" flat panel.