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The biggest issue I had with one of these cheapo managed switches was a 16 port Netgear ProSafe a couple of years back. It supported only one VLAN and what's the point of a VLAN, if you can't have two or more? They still offer them, so either they are still ripping people off or they fixed...

Sorry to say, but when dealing with managed gigabit switches with lots of ports, the cheapo's generally don't satisfy: There always seems to be a significant issue. That's not to say that they don't have promise but I've yet to have a good experiance.

Off camera shoe is fine. And don't forget spare batteries for the flash.

Your goal is to reproduce memories -- So make sure you get good shots of that which has emotional content for someone (mainly the bride). Examples, will be the beaming bride (and groom); the cutting of the cake; The kiss; The giving of the ring, the dance, ... You should try to get a...

We have now identified a market place lack. I'm absolutely positive there are the skills here to satisfy that deficiet. If people are upset about SF losing members, here is a way for us to grow and potentially grow very big ...

My problem with what AnandTech is doing is that they have been only reviewing extremely high-end power supplies. What is important to computer users are the mid to low end range. What people want/need to know is what power supply they can get away with. Is the free (with rebate) PS good...

No, A connection between two Gigabit clients traveling through a 1000/100/10 router will travel at gigabit speeds, even if there is a 10/100 router on a different port. The purpose of the switche's queue is to deal with the situation when a gigabit client talks to a slower 100/10 Mbit client...

I don't think that is the way it works. Switches do not manipulate or modify packets in any way: That takes a bridge or a router. Switches have RAM to keep keep track of and associate MAC addresses to individual ports, so it can quickly send an incoming packet to the correct port. They...

Yes, I know the Linksys has a 4-port switch and it is perfectly usable, if it is at the end of the chain. I only really specified the switch because you mentioned a switch in your original configuration so I choose to make it explicit. Do not use two DHCP servers on the same network: It...

May I suggest the following: [Telco]->[Modem]->[DLink]->[Linksys]->[Switch] Here all wired machines plug into Switch. set DHCP for both Dlink and Linksys (each with a different network). This is the optimum setup. Second alternative: [Telco]->[modem]->[Linksys]->[DLink]->[Switch] where...

I have one and I love it. I tried it in portrait mode once and I hated it -- It's too tall. I have to admit that if I wanted multiple screens on my desk, I'd probably go portrait for all of them so I could reasonably place them on my desk side by side.

I think that SSD's are a very good thing for HD's over the next few years: There has been a significant complacency among HD manufacturer's for quite a while. There hasn't been any driving need to go beyond 1TB because most people just don't need that much local storage. Further, most people...

Yes, you do have to take into account the 1.6x focal length multiplier for those cameras with a small sensor, when hand holding. So as dawg notes that for a 100mm lens with a multiplier of 1.6 you should have a shutter speed of no slower than 1/160 sec because effectively your lens is a 160mm.

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The general rule for hand holding is to shoot at no slower than 1/focal length. If when you are hand-holding the camera and maintaining that shutter speed, then you don't need IS. That's for the average person, of course you may wish to be conservative, if you are excessively shaky. Don't...

Get yourself a hand-crank flashlight.

I really can't imagine why WD would do that: It is insane. They are going to make their customer-base so angry that they won't buy WD in the future.

Ever thought that it really comes down to your particular style. Some may prefer to shoot raw and some may prefer .JPG and that there really is no single right answer but rather simply one choice of many that a photographer chooses to optimize the vision that he/she is trying to place on paper...

You can also deal with the issue using a Digital KVM: Only hooking up the video/monitor and directly hooking up the KB and Mouse to your computer. Unfortunately this will require at least one more cable and, of course the KVM: So try just getting a second cable first

Yes, A PS3 is a good point producer. Sorry, I have no idea how to setup a PS3.

It sounds like you have a necessary port blocked (I have no idea which ports are needed for that application) via your firewall.

You will need to DL and install the 32 bit compatibility libraries. While the SMP F@H core's are 64 bit, the clients are not. I'd supply you with a link, but the F@H forums are down. Try googling for them. Try the following command: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Your SCSI controller is dual-channel. Correct? If so, may I suggest that you put the enclosure on the second channel (LUN 1) and the internal HD that you want to boot from on the first channel (LUN 0). That way, the internal HD can have a SCSI ID of 0 (LUN 0) and the enclosure can also have...

I really don't care: Either way is fine. For the most part, I just use the new posts link or the search link, both of which make the underlying forum structure moot.

Try looking at Quiet 120mm fan Where Merc compared a bunch of 120mm fan's. His conclusion:

I will agree, that for 10/100 network-file sharing the HD performance is not important, but for that application, reliability is and then you are dealing with WD and a consumer-level drive. Media-storage is a valid application with capacity and cost/GB being generally more important than...

I won't fly on a commercial airplane, period. It's a personal issue: I have a perfume allergy and unless I want a severe asthma attack, they have to be avoided. There will always be someone, in the plane, with perfume, hair spray, deodorant, etc. and recycled air just isn't fresh or clean...

For average computer usage, I would avoid it like a plague. The only rational that I can see for their usage is for off-line backups, where performance is inconsequential and large capacity with cost per GB being the over riding criteria. I'm trying to skip-over the reliability issue ...

I would argue that this isn't a SCSI issue: The card isn't getting that far, if it can't be detected by the MB during POST. I assume, that it isn't being listed with all the devices on the boot-up screen and that any setup message from the SCSI card does not get displayed, so it is a port...

Both work fine. The Dyndns is significantly slower. However, both are acceptably fast.

There is no current folding client for the x2900 or the x3000 series: It is still in development. So there has been no recent change with the x1900 series as the best option. The top performing is the 512 MB x1900XTX which has always been horribly expensive, and very hot. The 512 MB x1950...

I actually went to my local Fry's: It was insane. Their checkout line wrapped around the store and the store isn't small. Regardless, they had run out of the MB's. No rainchecks and no alternative MB's. However, they were offering just the processor for the same price. My reaction was...

What best seems to fit is Microsoft's Advisory service at $210 per hour.

Merc, With a true HD repair, the value depends on the value of the data and unfortunately, that option tends to be really expensive. A HD replacement with a reconditioned drive is the choice that is suspect.

By the way the amount of ram doesn't really matter, performance-wise: F@H doesn't really tend be a giagantic RAM user. It is the cache on the chip that seems to make a big difference. There are numerous possible reasons that it would be running slow. The first and most important, is there...

I still use a Northgate Omni Key Ultra 5-pin DIN plug keyboards on my machines. I have yet to find a better keyboard: What use do I have for the useless Windows key. You can still get inexpensive PS/2 and USB converters. That machine will be slow as molasses on the Internet. For most...

As far as configuration, there really shouldn't be any issues with the default configuration without a complicating factor such as Fushi's extra conflicting client. I thought we had fixed your earlier problems... Since it obviously didn't work, lets start over. What specifically, happens when...

If you look at the FAHlog.txt for each client, it will list the machine ID when the client is started (at least it does for my clients running -verbosity 9). That may help identifying machine ID conflicts. As a simple test for compatibility, simply disable the CPU client with the machine ID of...

Yes, I want it too: I actually don't own a lap-top and occasionally would find one useful.

I know that the v6 beta1 SMP and the GPU console clients will both operate together on the same machine because my quad is configured that way. It really shouldn't be any different than running multiple CPU clients: Make sure that all the clients have different machine ID's; run from...

Yes, these are is slower, but they will (hopefully) compete on price. It is a massive improvement over the 2000 series. We want competition! It keeps prices lower and keeps innovation coming. ATI does not have to win the top performing spot but rather desperately needs to hit the highest...

Don't forget to include the rent cost for the extras square footage needed for all those printers. You will need a bigger room, fewer workstations (fewer paying students per classroom/teacher?), or a lot less elbow room if you have one printer per workstation vs a few networked larger printers.

Try looking into dye sublimation printers. They are expensive to buy and operate; are deathly slow; not particularly reliable; but photo quality is near perfection. The most important feature is that they are not inkjets!

They're smoking HDTV-Weed.

As you get older, you too will need computer/reading glasses. Everyone does, because starting around 40, the lenses, in your eyes, start crystallizing and becoming rigid. Closeup vision slowly becomes non-existent without assistance (Squinting is not sufficient). I'm 50 and just got glasses...

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Ahh, the moral/ethical issue: Your life vs. someone else's. I would argue several points. First, I am responsible for my own life; my families; my friends; and finally others: In that order. Second, I can only control my own actions, not of others and thereby am not responsible if the they...

When dealing with mass vs. efficiency and safety the issue, to some extent, becomes how do you use your car. If most of your mileage is on the freeway, the mass issue isn't a significant efficiency issue because most of your mileage loss is through air resistance. However, in accidents on...

The problem with accidents between small cars and large cars is that the amount of force imparted upon the vehicles is inversely proportional to their mass. In an impact, the car with 1/2 the mass will receive 2x the force of the larger car. The net result of the physics is that the small...

Well, I'm happy with my warranty service for my HDTV: It's never been used and I like it that way ...