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It took me 3.5 years to hit a million points. In the 5 weeks since then I'm already 10% of the way to my next million. These C2Qs and the GPU Folding do wonders for point generation. If all goes well I'll have my second C2Q up this weekend. TigerDirect has the OEM Q6600 for $290 (in stock)...

What I've been doing is, besides the PCs my wife & I use, running the client on the old 'clunker' PCs I come by. These are hand-me-downs or other old boxes. Like a P3-600 & a Duron 850. To eliminate their power draw, though, I'll replace several of them with another quad-core shortly. Once...

While I hope to not need to buy a car for the next year or so, the Azera is on my current short list.

Microcenter still shows the Q6600 for $299. If the price doesn't change tomorrow I'll pick one up & use it to replace my slow Folders like Mark did.

The parking itself is likely to be real. I've seen that sort of 'stunt parking' before. That said, for safety and cost reasons they probably filmed the parked cars & the Audi separately & then overlayed them for the final. If you want a movie effect try this scene from Shaolin Soccer.

I agree with DD. Vista is here. I need to know it for when my employer and our clients start talking about using it. My employer has no immediate plans for it but that only means it's not being deployed today. Tomorrow is another day. And we have no control over what our clients implement...

$299.99 @ Newegg

There are reasons to disallow USB/external/removable drives. A lot of malware enters corporate networks through these devices. Someone gets an infection on their home PC, connects their thumb drive to it, and then brings in the drive to transfer data to their work machine. In a school...

Search your HD for *.PST & *.PAB. Or if you're writing a batch file, C: CD\ XCOPY *.PST E: /S XCOPY *.PAB E: /S For Outlook 2003 my PST is in Documents and Settings\me\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. where E: is your backup drive.

Free AVG...

I'm using Office Enterprise 2007. Cost was $19.95, about $22 shipped, through the Home Use Program. If your employer does Software Assurance you might qualify. Regular Office @ retail is just too expensive considering my usage pattern. If I didn't have access to Office so cheap I'd probably...

I assume this means that starting with 2007 contacts are stored in the PST file along with everything else. Building on what Bozo said, write something that will back up the PST/PAB file on a scheduled basis. I'd suggest SyncToy; it can be scheduled and is pretty easy to set up.

Task scheduler: run SHUTDOWN /T 60 to give yourself time to close your documents.

*Sigh* Possible new VOIP woe: SunRocket looks to be dying. I'll wait it out as I like the service & the price, but if they do shut down, I'll need to transfer my home line to another provider. Skype doesn't appear to have a gadget that would allow me to connect my DVR & home phone for outbound...

Exactly. I'd add that its thanks to the people who buy tech when it is still expensive that the companies can eventually bring the price down. Which is exactly what's been happening in the HDTV arena where prices for any given screen size have been falling 20-30% per year while the tech inside...

More from InfoWorld: iPhone: The $1,975 iPod iPhone delivers more misses than hits

How does CAFE limit choices? In the 70's people had a wide range of sedans that got what, 7MPG? In the 90s people had a wide range of sedans that got 22-25MPG. It seems reasonable that in 2020 we'll still have a wide range of sedans but they'll offer 35+MPG. CAFE is an average. There will...

udaman, I'm partial to Namie Amuro myself, although her latest music has too much hip hop for my taste. I'll have to check out Jeon.

Also standard Comcrap. The only good thing is that while it costs $57.95 a month, work reimburses me.

So the GPU client expired as well as the SMP client? I didn't know that.

InfoWorld's reasons to not get an iPhone are pretty similar to mine.

Nero 7 Ultra Edition Enhanced is at Fry's for $20 after rebate so I'll pick it up tomorrow. It'd be free if I had a product to upgrade from. Thanks.

Luckily the current WU doesn't appear to have corrupted. It picked up where it left off at some 63% done and is up to 89% now. Uninstall-then-reinstall in the same directory seems to have worked despite the CoreStatus errors. But a note about that requirement on the Stanford page would have...

And in case anyone else runs in to this, on my workstation I had to uninstall the old client before installing the new. Otherwise I was stuck with "CoreStatus = 63 (99)" messages and the client would terminate. I didn't notice until I had to reboot to finish applying some Vista updates.

I haven't heard of any functionality it has over my existing smartphone and in several ways its a step back so I can't see any reason to buy one. Not to mention it requires AT&T as the service provider and Satan will have frost bitten nipples before I'd willingly do business with them.

Aveo carries a Chevy badge but is a renamed Daewoo from Korea. Anyway, Handy's point about the mileage is a good one. I average 24.5-25MPG in my 8.5 year old V6 midsize sedan. New midsize V6 sedans get maybe 2-3 MPG more. So in 8 years, two complete automotive generations, fuel efficiency...

I'll grant there are smaller & lighter phones, but I've never found the form factor to be an issue. I slip the phone in my front pants pocket; it's never been a bother. And with BT you don't have to hold it to your head when on a call. Of course, the Treo still looks better than that average...

Any recommended apps? While I can drag data files to a CD via Explorer or burn music to a CD with WMP, I'd like a straight-up disc copier. For instance, I've an audio CD that also has some data tracks (music videos). Neither of the above ways seems to work for that. OSS v. buy doesn't...

How about a notebook with a 20" widescreen? BTW, I take exception to "shallow". Shallow refers to depth. A shallow screen is thin. It has nothing to do with width or height. Widescreen, Thinscreen, Tallscreen, and Shortscreen more accurately describe the difference in screen shape. One...

Sprint's coverage map. Uncheck National Network, check Mobile Broadband, start zooming. Basically you'll see broadband coverage is quite good but not as pervasive as voice alone. I've heard that Sprint now has roaming data coverage but haven't bothered to check. I've been a Sprint customer...

Sprint's coverage map. Uncheck National Network, check Mobile Broadband, start zooming. Basically you'll see broadband coverage is quite good but not as pervasive as voice alone. I've heard that Sprint now has roaming data coverage but haven't bothered to check. I've been a Sprint customer...

How about building power rails into the drive bays & eliminating the cables altogether?

Is it possible that the systems that claim to support Oracle etc. are actually using MySQL as the SQL engine and Oracle as the storage engine? IBM & MySQL have rolled that out on the System i where DB2/400 is the storage repository for MySQL.

I'm more familiar with SLS.

With mirrored disks I'd think bad clusters wouldn't be an issue. Clean installs shouldn't have file system errors.

I've got a DisKeeper license to transfer from my old PC one of these days. This morning's AVG update prompted a reboot and for some reason the CHKDSK-at-boot flag hadn't been cleared. It appears the problem isn't fully resolved as it went through the CHKDSK/reboot thing several times (*5 or 6)...

As my recent Gigabyte experience showed. In my long history they have a 50% failure rate .. one board was DOA but the replacement has yet to fail. That said my bad board was a simple defect in the assembly process and it isn't enough to keep me from buying them in the future.

Not to blow my own horn but I passed a million points over the weekend.

Security Center is always red because I have UAC turned off. I may set up a user-level account later and turn it back on just to experience life as a non-admin. More to see how it'll be when we roll it out at work than anything else as I trust my computing habits (maybe I shouldn't?). Even if...

Re: Wavemaker's 'conclusion': I don't have any buyers remorse. I don't tend to upgrade CPUs without also upgrading the motherboard and unless there's a significant performance difference I won't feel bad about using the 965. But it is good to keep in mind for the next round.

Well then I won't wait to upgrade another box in my folding farm.

With the VX I haven't noticed any real lag. The MX700 had horrible lag and the MX1000 has some, but the VX Rev seems pretty good about it. Maybe it's because it is a 2.4GHz device instead of IR or RF. I'll have to check out the keyboard; I've been wanting something with backlit keys...

With the VX I haven't noticed any real lag. The MX700 had horrible lag and the MX1000 has some, but the VX Rev seems pretty good about it. Maybe it's because it is a 2.4GHz device instead of IR or RF. I'll have to check out the keyboard; I've been wanting something with backlit keys...

Initial loads may be slower; I haven't really clocked them. Re-loading, though, when it can pull the contents from cache, Vista flies. Full Outlook 2007 loads sub-second as does Firefox. Even with Areo Glass amped all the way up. I'm speaking of my new desktop and not a notebook, though...

I still use mouse pads. Considering I buy $40+ mice a couple of bucks for a mouse pad isn't unreasonable. I don't always have one around, like when I travel with the notebook, but my main home & office areas have pads. The VX Revolution's feet are fairly large. There are five feet and they...

Sorry; I don't follow CPU roadmaps anymore. With the 45nm chips, what's the expected time frame and will they be Socket 775?

The Gigabyte did it in the BIOS. So the machine was unusable for 3 or 4 hours while it rebuilt. That's a minor annoyance at best as far as I'm concerned when it comes to a workstation. For a server it's intolerable.

Or bloat. :) The 965P-DS3 I just started using has the Gigabyte RAID on it. I am using it to mirror 2 Samsung 500GB SATA disks. Seems to work fine. I only loaded the RAID drivers when installing Vista; I haven't bothered with any utilities or anything. Only gotcha was when after building...

Four days a week it's 23 miles each way (35 minutes AM, 45-55 PM). One day a week it's 23 feet to the den. I'll probably move to telecommuting two days a week if gas continues to go up.

We usually go to Maciano's, but then it's walking distance. Good pizza, decently cute waitresses. Their double-dough is a good compromize between thin crust & deep dish. Good Calzones. The local Giordanos is OK. I've never been too much of a fan of Connies. Home Run Inn is fine, but I...