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I strongly disagree with this. Marijana is a relatively new problem and not nearly at the scale of alcohol or tobacco. My goal is to keep it small by discouraging it. If you leagized it, it would almost immediatly become a similar scale problem and would then be totally uncontrolable...

No, I'm not saying that penalties are too low. I'm saying that there should be some penalties, but they should be scaled appropiately so as not to be unduly harsh. On the scale of penalties UI shouldn't rate worse treatment than burglery, for example. A fine of some kind works; taking away a...

I assume you want details because I really don't know wuat UI? stands for. US marijuna laws For example in Oregon, posession of less than 1 Oz is a misdemeanor with a $500-$1000 fine. Now selling it or growing it, has significantly greater penalties ...

At a public policy level, I have absolutely no problem with government outlawing pot: society does not need another problem on the order of tobacco, or alcohol. I also see no problem with governments using some social engineering, in their attempt at convincing people, or society, that it is...

As long as the government is paranoid, then things like that will happen. It is just one small example of the insanity that pervades the society. At least, it isn't so great, that we started a war or something -- Oh, we did, two actually ... I can only hope that with the new administration...

I got my figures from a seminar by IBM promoting chipkill around 10 years ago. They were saying that regular ECC has a 15%-30% penalty while chipkill was producing a 3%-5% penalty. Doing a google seach, I could not confirm those numbers

It really depends on how reliable the system needs to be. For anything in the normal range, I would say the additional cost and the additional slow-down (ECC RAM is always 15-30% slower than non-ECC at the same speed) is not worth it. However, if you really need the additional relibility, then...

I really can't even imagine what would have happened to our (the USA's)financial system if that logic bomb had not been found before it had executed.

Microsoft hires a mole Contractor indited for Logic bomb

That's not my interpretation. It says that warming will occur regardless of if we totally stop pumping out CO2. What it does not say is that if we don't stop, it won't get far worse.

But we are changing the earth's orbit every time we send something outside its gravitational control and everytime something comes back. Newtons Laws still apply! That energy is subracted and added to the earth. We just haven't done it to a noticable level (yet). Hopefully, our children...

I too have a D-Link 655. It's been good to me for a couple of years which has supprised me because I had always thought D-Link, as a brand, had poor reliability. Originally I bought it for the QOS for folding while gaiming and it had Gigabit switch: It helped with the hogging of BW by folding...

That was one quick month.

Well, I dug up an old pre-release copy of WS2008 X64 beta and its restore worked fine. It is impressively fast.

It appears that this is a well known issue. Microsoft's suggestion is to DL a x64 trial/beta and boot to that. On the other hand, as far as I can tell, Microsoft only supplies dual-media versions for DL. what a pain...

I have a X64 WS2008 install on a Hd that has developed bad blocks and has become unusagble. I have an image backup of drive C: (from X64 WS2008 backup); WS2008 x32/x64 original media; and a replacement HD. The problem seems to be booting to the repair option of the original media boots to x32...

Yes, I've seen the 9th and 10th Doctors. The shows are much better in terms of the special effects and of modernization. There are instances where the acting is better and worse; I really don't think the plot lines have improved: For example Turn Left has one of the most disjointed, hard to...

I'm a true fan of Dr. Who, though I have to admit, I'm not of the level of dressing up as a character. And yes, "the plots were cheesy, the acting was terrible, and the prop and set budgets must have somehow involved very unsuccessful panhandling" are all true and I still liked it, alot. I...

I must be extremely lucky, if podunk Salem, Oregon (Pop. 150,000) beats Illinois: The farthest I have to travel to get to any of the major carriers is 3 miles. Even the lesser carrier (freight) companies ship to the airport for pickup and that is less than 3 miles too.

Nope: If you look carefully domestic mail service you will see that "All pieces undergo a primary and secondary sort prior to induction into the USPS®". So what they are doing is pre-processing the mail and then delivering it to the USPS. There have been bulk mail preprocessors for a very...

According to Tech Report Seagate is now offering the public replacement firmware to mitigate the damage to drives with this problem: Seagate tech support At the very minimum, Please check your Seagate drives against the list of affected drives so you will know if your drive needs the help...

If the powers that be can get holographic storage mass produced, it will be a very long time before SSD's will be able to compete at those capacities. All these technologies have their own benefits and drawbacks. My point is that there is room for all types and it is best to simply let the...

If the driver is not included in Vista, the first thing one does is look to the manufacturer. In this case HP. I just went to www.hp.com and searched for their X64 vista driver for their color Laserjet 5 driver.

Don't automaticly add the printer driver, but rather choose from the list: Vista x64 should come with the PCL driver too...

I use Hyper-V for folding (the beta version). I actually like it because it did what I needed done and It is very easy to setup and use. The documentions sucks. The number of client OS's officially supported is very limited. Performance of the clients seems good and stable but I would wish...

For Vista x64: Turn printer on; Since the printer is using a network card on the printer, you need to be using add network printer rather than local printer. then if it is not seen then click the printer I want is not listed; then click add printer using tcpip address->next;insert ip address...

Having such a problem can happen to anyone. What is truely destructive to their reputation is not accepting responsibility and not providing the public a fixed firmware, so that they can have an opportunity to mitigate their damages. As bad, to their reputation and bottom line, as supplying a...

LiamC: Cudos for reaching 3,000,000 Congrats Liam for getting to 3M!

Some raid controllers really don't like optical drives...

Those "idots" are laughing all the way to the bank.

Yes, but again, the amount of gain will undoubtably negligible if the processor and RAM are stay at the default speeds. All you will accomplish is to heat up the chipset slightly. If you are not going to actually OC then just deal with the default settings.

If you call up the ISP, they can often reset the message pointer to the top and thus prevent the DL'ing of any new messages. I've done this successfully before under the circumstances where the machine was repeatedly DL'ing a Email virus and secondly, where the message counter gets messed up...

My guess is that you have an application that is trying to continiously access the drive. Does the same behavior occur when in safe mode? If safe-mode helps then try using msconfig to temporarily eliminate what is being auto-loaded, one item at a time, till you can ID the specific cause and...

I think using pico PSU's are a great idea for low-end machines. However, I've never had a way to deal with the hole left by not using a convential PS. I really think the Pico company should be selling Blanking plates with fan mounting holes in them (maybe even a small mounting bracket for the...

Where do you get them?

What do you do to cover the PS hole in the case?

Don't forget all the old machines that don't have Vista sound-card drivers ...

I added a part-time 4670 to Dan e Shearer's machines. That's what is causing his recent increase in PPD.

I personally like Geil as a value brand.

Contrary to the reviewers out there that promote the best. High performance ram has never been a good value proposition. Typically the most you can get is around 5% overall performance and you can spend 3-5x or more than cheap reliable RAM.

Exactly my sentiments. It certainly isn't an i7 killer and that is what AMD needs.

Problems like this may just be caused by defective RAM. On the other hand, it can also be caused by the slow deterioration of your motherboard causing signal degredation, or timing issues. That kind of issue is not limited to Gigabyte, or any specific brand. All you need to do is look at all...

Regardless understanding, I have observed it. I have compared 720p vs 1080p sets, the 1080p TV's will consistantly have brighter screens.

I disagreee, a higher resolution on my TV gives a brighter picture, even though I can not distinguish individual pixels.

You can use series 5000 Processors with Series 5100 chipset motherboards and end up using ECC DDR2 instead of FB-RAM. You just need to pick and choose: Some 5100 chipset motherboards use FB-RAM and some use ECC DDR2.

The Tyan example you linked to was a dual-socket 771. I was just giving an alternative to your Tyan by supplying SuperMicro equivilents. The Intel series 3000 processors are Socket 775 and will only work in single socket applications with tend to max out at 8GB. So if you want 32GB dual...

There are similar Supermicro 5100 servers as an alternative to Tyan. And unless you have a much higher budget, I would stay away from any Xeons higher than 33xx and FB-RAM. However, dual q3350/q3360 using a 5100 chipset that uses standard DDR2/ECC DDR2 are relatively cost effective. I'd still...

I think security is going to be a bitch. It is an interesting thought.

If you are dealing with servers with high I/O and reliability requirements then would it not be appropiate to be using SAS drives and controllers rather than consumer-oriented SATA drives? Depending on how many servers and their uses for a specific client, I believe I would over specificy the...

See the original link that I posted on the X25-E and they go through the lifespan analysis.