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The chick and the engineer from Serenity/Firefly. I haven't watched Stargate Atlantis (or SG1 for that matter) but have watched the first episode of Terminator: SCC.

Is your hardware all certified/approved for Vista and are you using appropriate drivers? I now use 1 Vista laptop & 2 Vista desktops and they are all rock-solid stable.

Please clarify acronyms you use if they aren't obvious or common knowledge. PIP in "television language" has meant Picture-In-Picture for the past couple of decades. As that's a function of the viewing device and not the media or player I have to assume PIP means something else in "Blu-ray...

My Core2Quad running the SMP Folding client on Vista Home Basic runs roughly the same speed as my other C2Q running Kubuntu & the SMP client. On my other C2Q system, it was having issues with the SMP client so it runs 4 of the regular console-mode clients (+ the GPU client). My new laptop...

Microsoft's user migration. I haven't used it but it may be worth a try. If you're having to reinstall apps you may as well go with a totally clean XP install. All of that repair stuff will leave turds, for lack of a better word, laying around your system. When I migrate I always do a clean...

dd, what's the screen door effect? I noticed some text 'shimmy/dot crawl' on the 2407 at first, but I switched from VGA to DVI and it cleared right up. Silly me hadn't noticed at first that my 3+ year old docking bay had DVI .. The 2407 is great. I am using it portrait and typically have...

Vista on my new Latitude D830 will gracefully hot-undock. XP on my D800 would get goofy and unstable and require a reboot. That'll make my life much nicer when I move from my cube to conference rooms.

Have you considered re-considering your requirements? 100GB of internal storage is generally fine when traveling and there are external drives and online storage mechanisms for cheaply adding extra capacity. Likewise having an internal optical drive. What are you doing on a regular basis with...

We celebrated at Payton Place. Walter Payton to be exact. First time we've ever gone anywhere commercial for the event; in prior years we've either stayed in or gone to parties at friend's homes.

A note on the D430, my employer has had an on-again off-again affair with the sub-notebooks and they have never proven as reliable and/or non-quirky as the slightly larger versions. I'd do a D630 (of which we buy a couple thousand per year in the US alone) well before a D430. I can't say that...

Got the 2407 in and unpacked it, but I won't actually use it 'til I'm back in the office next month. Beats the heck out of the old 20" CRT it's replacing on desk space & aesthetics without even powering it on. :) With the shelves in our cubes I may not be able to reasonably use the portrait...

Got my new laptop from work. Dell Latitude D830 with all the bells & whistles* including a C2D T7800 (2.6GHz, 4MB L2 cache). It's now running the SMP client. The new machine technically replaces my 2GHz PentiumM but I will likely keep it running and decommission an older P4M 1.6 as it's...

At 4GB capacity I'd prefer a no-moving-parts, i.e. flash memory, device like the Sansa e260. The Sansa has a larger screen and looks like it's physically smaller. Of course, with a Sansa View for me and an e280 for my wife I'm biased, but I'd definitely give pause before buying a drive-based...

XP supports quad core cpus, boots faster than 2K, and it has years of MS & 3rd party peripheral support left while 2K support is starting to be phased out.

Well, I'm half right. My data flow is correct but the reasoning isn't. TCP apparently includes a negotiation to determine MTU. Reference. Other reference.

My impression was that jumbo frames are negotiated at each point in the link: PC <--Jumbo--> Switch <--Regular--> Router and regular out of the router. PC <--Jumbo--> Switch <--Jumbo--> Server The switch would handle packet fragmentation & assembly when moving from Jumbo to Regular and back...

What am I missing about jumbo frame support? Basic GbE switches like the 8-port Netgear GS608 and it's 5-port cousin have it. Jumbo won't help when leaving the switch's environment, i.e. wireless & Internet, but should be fine for the LAN segment hosted on the switch itself.

Got the 16GB View last night as an early Christmas gift. :) Not a surprise gift, but we have an agreement: I don't buy jewelry for her without her being present & she won't buy electronics for me unless I'm there or have provided an exact brand/model for what I want.

If you truly deleted emails you don't need that's fine, but to combat huge PST files I keep one for each year. No one year's PST is more than a few hundred MB so while I have 9 years of emails they are easy to scan and trhe files are relatively small.

You're over budget so make some things more realistic to cut costs. Drop to 2GB RAM unless he has an immediate need for more. Get 1 2GB stick to leave expansion capacity. RAM is an easy upgrade and tends to get cheaper over time. Likewise, stop and consider how much storage he really needs...

I've one of these on order to go with my new work laptop. It should arrive just after the new year.

If he still has floppies, get a 1GB Flash drive for next-to-nuthin and copy all of his floppies to that on the old PC. I haven't used floppies in literally over a year, probably far longer.

Unless you need full local hardware support, this sort of thing makes the case for running VMs instead of images. Run either OS as the native and run the other within a VM Player session. Or run either OS native and RDP to the other running on a separate VMWare server. If you're using Vista...

The A series has that bulk that your right hand wraps around. It makes for a better grip, I suppose, but for me that extra depth was the deal breaker as the camera is no longer suitable to just drop in a pocket. That was a contributing factor back when I went with the SD800is.

And good luck with that.

I have a Cardo Scala 700.

Wow. I hadn't even noticed. 'fraid I concentrate more on Folding contributions than post count. 8-)

Good idea. Most any piece of electronics has a decent chance of survival if you can eliminate the conductive materials (residue) before applying power to it. For that, I recommend rinsing or bathing a device in alcohol, which is a decent cleaner and is non-residual. The 70% stuff that's...

Micron is entering the SSD fray. Volume shipments early next year with entry capacities of 32 & 64GB.

Awesome indeed, although you'd never find me doing that. BTW some of the links on that site are definitely NSFW.

Those 22" LGs were going like hotcakes when I was there as well. I was tempted but for three things: 1. I hadn't researched them at all. 2. I would have either had to try to hide it from the wife (which wouldn't work) or use it on her PC (which doesn't do me much good). 3. I would have had to...

Not around here they don't.

Well, so much for rail. Amtrak admits after yesterday's collision between a freight & passenger train in Chicago that they didn't even know which train should be on which track. As long as they lack even that basic resource scheduling info I'll never ever set foot on a passenger rail train.

Many thanks; that seems to have done the trick. It's configured & running although it seems to only be using about 70-75% CPU at the moment. I'll check back on it in a little while. That get for the 32-bit libs is either not in the doc or needs to be made much more obvious. I certainly...

As noted in the For Sale thread I picked up another C2Q the other day. The machine is built and is running Kubuntu 7.1. I've downloaded the V6 Linux beta client (and have also tried the 5.04 client) but can't get the durned thing to run. I think there's a path or permissions issue. As noted...

Free product. Does backups into an XML 'format'. Has anyone tried this?

If the TV show 24 had occurred last decade.

So what's the current best GPU Folding card? Still the X1960 512MB or is the (more expensive) HD3000 series worth a look?

Ditto the Downers Grove, IL store. No theme.

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Mine was supposedly out of the motherboards as well, but there was a stack of ECS mobos for Athlons in an aisle display and on top was the one needed for the C2Q bundle. Someone must have just dropped it there. So I grabbed it & asked a drone to write up the combo. He was genuinely surprised...

So there's overhead with providing added data protection. Is there news somewhere?

Combo of a Q6600 + ECS mobo for $199, appears to be brick & mortar only.

Isn't it funny that the monitor is 4x the size of the computer?

Mythbusters - yeah, I know it's edutainment & not science - measured the startup & operating power draws of various bulbs types, including incandescent, CFL, and LED. For fluorescent-type bulbs, regular or compact, the "just leave it running" time was just a few seconds. The other bulb types...

House fire? I hope no one was injured.

On my Vista C2Q, task manager reports 2 of my Core_79 jobs at 250MB each; the 3rd is 27MB. Core_10 is at 184MB. GPU-GUI is another 32MB and Core_78 is small at just 14MB. 730MB for 5 jobs.

On this day in 2004, the X-43A scramjet flew at nearly Mach 10--over 3 kilometers per second--becoming the fastest air-breathing jet. Thirty years ago in 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened in theaters. In 1965, the Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe, which became the...

I like the Windows key shortcuts. Win-L, Win-M (or D), Win-F, and just Win itself instead of Ctrl-Esc. Sure, it's not functionality that you can't get with other key or mouse combos, but it is quicker and I've come to appreciate it. Especially since I prefer to use the keyboard more than the...

Ah yes, from the time when 4K of RAM was all you'd ever need.