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If you want something that is really low-power yet high performance. Why not try a mini-itx solution Psile 10A case MSI GM965 motherboard Passive CPU cooler Then use the upcoming [Aug 2008] quad-core mobile penryn; your pico PS; and your SSD Or just get yourself a notebook.

I'm sorry, but I think you are screwy: An SSD is rediculious in a machine like that as a pure waste of money. Hard drives are not that power hungry and if you must just use a notebook drive. I also disagree that you should be able to call that a workstation. While the definitation of a...

I really believe that this is the wrong time to be buying new car. It is too soon for the truely high efficiency vehicals to be inexpensively common and it is too late for cheap gasoline prices. As much as I dislike leasing, I believe it is the right thing to do because your car choices will...

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Dell Sent me another E-Mail canceling the order because of a "pricing error". Oh well.

I don't know but it really can't get much worse than what it was for bit-torrent users. The only difference is that it is now split amoung all the high BW users, rather than just bit torrent. I liked it early in Comcasts history, when all they did was block the default ports for p2p and all...

Don't forget moving costs, if you have to move more than 50mi

Also check out their Anti-Virus software. I've found that some (Kaspery specificly) drasticly slow down outlook with large PST's. As a test, Just turn it off and see how that effects outlook ...

Archive! Another solution is to break up the single PST into multiple smaller ones which is just another form of archiving. Have them go though the Email and delete, delete, delete ...

It is my understanding that because of the power-outage, their servers were overwelmed. So they suspended the statistics servers untill the backlog could be fixed. I don't think the problem had anything to do with smp. However, if you are more comfortable with the regular WU's then that's OK...

Dell sent me an Email saying that they had recevied an unexpected demand and that they have revised the ship date from 8/19 to 8/26. At least they didn't cancel it. Which was what I expected.

Mine fixed itself last night.

The main value I see with having multiple machines having access to the same physical drives is as a fail-over machine that really only accesses the drives when a heartbeat fails on the primary machine and then it simply takes over. The likelyhood of a cache coherency issue is far less likely...

I don't know that SAS will operate the same way as SCSI. I don't know that SAS allows for multiple controllers or even device to device operation. I'd have to do a bunch of research and testing. I have similar doubts with SAS as I did with the SATA that was mentioned previously. I have...

No there is a big power-outage at Stanford. Untill it clears up, nothing's going through. Same thing is happening to me ...

It was but as long as you can complete by the deadline then everything is good. SMP has a 100% bonus compared to the uniprocessor clients so it is far more efficient than two convential clients.

Perhaps you need to be dealing with UPS's and redundent power supplies. If you are that scared, perhaps you should just pony-up the money to buy truely redundent drives ... Also, you are going to be very hard pressed to find TB SCSI drives.

One thing that may matter to you since you plan on using 15 drives. The SCSI bus only allows for 16 unique SCSI addresses and two of them will have to be Contollers which leaves only 14 addresses for the 15 drives. You can however, do this with two seperate buses.

It shouldn't be a problem. Concurrent reads and writes to the same device is not a problem with SCSI because the devices typically queue data requests so that they becomes sequential. The controllers themselves won't write data to the bus unless it is free unlike Ethernet So there really isn't...

I have no idea, haven't tried it. I do have significant doubts though.

All of them will. Just connect the two servers via the each controllers external interface and make sure that nothing is sharing on the SCSI bus has same SCSI ID (Including the controllers) and of course terminate the SCSI bus properly and the two machines will see each others drives. The SCSI...

You can share HD's between servers with SCSI with controllers that have both internal and external interfaces. But whatever you do turn-off all forms of caching because otherwise you will get scrambled data because each application server has no knowledge of what the other server is doing with...

Unless you have video cards that can fold, SMP is the next best. With my 2008, I run Linux under Hyper-V with the -advmethods flag to get the A2 Core WU's.

As far as I can tell, Dell has closed this offer. Next is to see if Dell honors my order or if they cancel it.

As far as I can tell, Dell has closed this offer. Next is to see if Dell honors my order or if they cancel it.

I don't buy recertified/refurbished drives no matter what the price. If they were new, that would be an excellent price for a 750GB. But, they are not. Perhaps, the problem is that you are buying used drives ...

I did say it was a very good price, didn't I.

1TB Seagate for $109.99 shipped from Dell is a very good price for this drive .... Expires 8/31/08 I just ordered two ...

Also, sometimes wireless routers have issues with microsoft networking crossing the barrier between the Wireless and the Wired machines.

Go to each computers active network connection. right click and pick properties. Make sure that they all have "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and Printing for Microsoft Networks" both exist and are checkmarked.

You also need to make sure that all the machines have either the same Workgroup name or all belong to the same Domain. How that is done differs between different Windows versions but invariably it starts with right clicking Computer/My Computer off the desktop and choosing properties.

In response to increased privacy concerns of directed advertising many of the major internet advertising companies have created an Opt-out policy. I have no idea if it actually does any good, but you may want to try it if the issue matters to you. http://networkadvertising.org/ I do note that...

In response to increased privacy concerns of directed advertising many of the major internet advertising companies have created an Opt-out policy. I have no idea if it actually does any good, but you may want to try it if the issue matters to you. http://networkadvertising.org/ I do note...

What I miss is GoBack. I found that to be invaluable for those intractible persons that insist upon playing roulette with their computers.

The people that cause me to be caught up are friends and family: They don't pay, so taking a long time isn't a problem for them. ohh, the horror stories that could be told about relatives that just won't learn because it just doesn't cost them enough but it costs me plenty.

I try to be forthright and honest with the client and get them to decide. As a bias, I try encourage them to nuke early and then use the saved time to apply preventatives for the next installation.

I agree that a recall isn't going to happen and that is the correct reponse. What HP did was release a new BIOS that runs the fans faster. All that does is delay the inevitable and from their perpsective hopefully beyond the warrantee period. To me, that repsonse just reeks of no recall...

Well, its my understanding that you like to do passive CPU cooling and that's a whole different beast than what I'm doing.

With Real Temp, you can go to the effort of calibrating the sensors to give accurate numbers. However, according to the creator, it really only matters at low temps... What I'm using to cool both my main machines is a Noctua U12P in a push-Pull config inside a P180 Case. The vertical 120mm...

My choice of 20C distance to TJ Max is entirely arbitrary. I have nothing to back it up ...

The first thing I observe is that there is a lot of variability between the different cores. Assuming a level load, that means your thermal greese isn't spread out evenly and you can do better by re-applying. Mine don't vary more than 2 degrees between each other, but it took about 10 times...

It will be good for AMD/ATI. A company sorely in need of lots of very good news. It will also be good news for the 3rd party warrantee repair sub-contractors.

Almost all the beta SMP/GPU2 clients expire 8/2/08. Please download new clients as needed. As long as you don't shut off the client, it will continue working even though not updated.

I'm going to try to incorporate energy costs. I scoured the internet to get aprox system energy usage on the various cards while loaded. I'll also assume a $0.10/KWh cost (your local cost may be different) and then extropolate all PPD and costs over a two year lifetime...

I take a hammer, and make sure that the case is well dented so that anyone looking at the drive has no doubt that it is trashed.

Just to clarify. at 82W if you operate it at 24x7 if will cost only $72 per year at $.1/Kwh. So if you just turn off the machine saving all the energy you will save $72. year. If you save 10W of power, then you will save only $8.70 in an entire year of continious operation. If you operate it...

I agree, you probably can reduce significant power by using a high-efficiency PS, around 250-300W. Something like this -- SeaSonic SS-300ES. However, I really don't know how long it will take to repay. You need to do some calculating with a kill-a-watt; your local power rates; and a...

There are ton's of windmills in S. Oregon and the've been there for years. I've never seen even one actually turning. As far as I can tell, they were built to get the Tax credit but not to actually generate electricity.

But you can't get the data off, if all you do is return it and get a rebuilt unit. The data is typically worth far more than the drive itself. so doing a modification, so as to get the data off and then not being able to return it is still a massive win.

It took quite a while, but my EOC stats are starting to approach my FAHMon stats. All those running Linux SMP: It is worthwile to manually replace the FAHCore_A2.exe by deleting it (the new 2.0 version will auto-download when folding restarts). It is also good to add the -advmethods parameter...