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At some point, I should have a boatload (60+) of 18GB 15K drives, both IBM and Seagate, available. They'll be coming out of an AS/400 we're upgrading (going to 140GB 15K drives on the new model). They've been running 24x7 since installation, but would certainly be good when shipped. And since...

LSI single-channel U160 for $101: http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?sku=5501381&SourceID=k15506 You'll still need a cable & terminator, though.

My WD experience is too dated to be relevant anymore. In the early 90s, WD drives were great, then they seemed to fall to the bottom of the barrel. Over the last few years, I couldn't say how well they're doing. I have a WD 160GB and a (less than 2 month old) 320GB drive. Both work fine, but...

As long as you NAT and have a decent firewall, it would appear the only real threat would be from those who already have access to your LAN. Otherwise, they can't route to your PC as your IP address is hidden, and even if guessed, can't be routed to.. And you can work around it by disabling...

If doing code development, a dual is helpful when debugging. The debugger will get affinity for one thread while the prog being debugged gets the other. Or compile in one thread while continuing to develop in the other. Or a multi-threaded compile if doing a multi-module build. A secondary...

If 1.8TB usable is adequate, get 2 RAID5 arrays, each with 4 300GB drives. Add 1 cold-spare drive and use hot-swappable enclosures. Buy 2 4-port RAID cards or 1 8-port; whichever you prefer. Over-buy the PSU or buy redundant. Put at least 1GB RAM on the system board; 2GB if you can. It's...

Considering she hadn't had any problems with space on the 36GB drive that just died, I think 250GB is plenty. XP is installed, as is FireFox and some basic apps. I'll do Office, AV, etc. tomorrow. At least the thing is functional right now.

Microcenter had it for just $2 more than ZZF so I picked one up on my way home. It's formatting now. XPPro with SP2 doesn't seem to have any problem formatting a drive >137GB.

In general I agree, but for a basic PC (like my wife's with the now-dead SCSI drive) this seems nice. Only 2 platters so heat shouldn't be much of an issue. Probably quiet too.

I prefer the no default gateway approach. Least system overhead and apps, like malware, that wouldn't necessarily use proxy settings will still be blocked. Also, if your router/firewall appliance does MAC filtering, disallow that MAC address.

No time. I will be going here, Actually, I do go to 3+ conferences a year. No DEFCON so far; maybe next year. My local ISSA chapter will probably have a report on DEFCON at a future meeting. For some fun reading, try Bruce Schneier's blog.

So, has anyone tried Samsung's 250GB disks yet? ZipZoomFly has the PATA version for $118 shipped.

I think you need to isolate where the problem is occurring to see if it's the drive, the enclosure, the enclosure's power supply, the USB cable, or something on your PC. Things to try without spending any money: 1. Plug it in to a friend's PC to see if it has the problem; if so it's the drive...

This is my wifes PC, so it's not a fun time at home right now. :cry: The drive spins up, goes ka-thunk 5 times, each ka-thuink taking about a second, then spins back down. :hurl: I moved it to my PC to see if it could be a power issue but the same sound effects were heard. Any thoughts...

While I personally haven't had problems, many people have. I stopped using it a long time ago as I don't really do anything with eBay. eBay, BTW, owns PayPal. From what I'v read PP is not responsive when you have problems, like if a buyer reverses charges even though you sent the goods. No...

Motorized: '99 Mitsubishi Galant LS, 104K miles. Human-powered: Miyata TripleCross from around 1994. With our heat wave, it hasn't seen much activity this year.

Yeah, I saw the trailer when we went to see March of the Penguins. Very funny. MotP is very good. Funny, sad, and real. It's amazing what those birds go through.

Anyone used Media Player Classic?

For 1, a 1GB NVRAM solution is plenty. And I'd highly doubt retaining a vehicle's entire service history in the vehicle itself would be ideal. I'd think you'd want it to auto upload the data at each service interval instead. For 2 & 3 you're talking data delivery to the vehicle; the only...

Maybe it's all virtual. :lol:

The coffee mug warmer on my desk is a Westinghouse.

What do you do for off-site storage?

I don't think that operating temp range is useful to automotive applications. -30C is -22F. I've driven cars several time in temps below that. The 85C/185F temp is probably fine as long as the HD isn't in the engine bay. And as LM said, I would be highly suspect of the HD lasting anytihng...

An LTO2 tape drive is about $1700 and does 200GB native; 400+ compressed. Cartridges are under $100 each. Add a SCSI card and backing up a TB should cost about $2200 + software. Backup speed is around 275GB/hour. I think backup software can be had for a tad less than $2800. And it doesn't...

I find MapQuest and Yahoo Maps to be correct only about 85-90% of the time. The remainder, they're not only off but off spectacularly. By miles. This is not good when getting driving directions that your need (vs. just want for verification). I've only been playing with Google maps for about...

And also consider I installed mine and have had no problems whatsoever. It has been running full-tilt (Folding @ Home at 100% CPU utilization) since I built the machine. I'm not dismissing the problems that others have had, but I would have to don't think the combo itself is to blame.

Single or dual CPU? How heavily utilized? I don't have the numbers offhand, but don't Xeon's burn upwards of 100 watts or more each? Throw in 11-18 watts per hard drive plus extra for the mobo (maybe 70 watts?) and the various fans. I'd imaging a single-Xeon 1U server can pull 190-240 watts...

Well, I can round out my configs: The final 2 PCs are old Dell Latitude CSx P3/500MHz laptops. One runs XP Pro; the other is 98SE. Their sole purpose is a small contribution to my Folding cause. They each have 256MB RAM and a 10GB drive. One of the drives was flaking out so I picked up a...

I'd say leave it in Computers or just expand the title of the Toollbox Reference section to be 'Toolbox & Recommendations' or 'Preferred software & hardware' or somesuch.

I used to buy boards based on ungradeabliity, but I don't any more. Modern CPUs last long enough that an upgrade will likely be to a whole new environment/socket. I also used to buy the 3rd fastest CPU that was available as it typically offered near-leading-edge performance at a much better...

OK, so it's the now-dead Socket A. And you'd have to wait on a rebate, but I purchased this recently and it's humming away quietly as my AV server. The rebates came in about 3 weeks. It will need a HSF, but I think it's a pretty decent deal for mobo/CPU/512MB RAM. With Socket A 'dead', the...

They keep threatening to replacing our workgroup 5Si with some fancy crapola Xerox thingamabob. Luckily, the Xerox dohickies are large and the space we have isn't. Also, the HP just refuses to die despite a few hundred thousand pages being printed and being 6+ years old. We haven't even...

Actually, there is a market for old & small hard drives. It's the same market that might still be running 386ish class CPUs. Manufacturing control systems. The equipment is often around for 15+ years and parts availability can be a serious issue for the PC side. The PCBs/controllers may...

5.8kg weight with battery. Are you sure that's a portable?

Me? I've no reason to try and I am ethics-bound to not do so unless it is for ethical hacking purposes. The statement was made at a security conference I attended earlier this year by a wifi engineer. Without even Googling I found that these guys did it in 5 minutes.

And now it's just under $500.

Looks like Ahnold is losing the love. Nice idea on mating congressional salaries to teacher.

If you're torn, do both. Build the desktop with the components that Merc suggested and remote-control it from a new laptop. After building, the desktop can run headless or with whatever leftovers you have lying around. The remaining $1300ish will get a pretty nice laptop nowadays. The...

"Left turn, Clyde."

Ah yes, plug and play. Maybe that should be revised to read load bloatware, drivers, reboot, plug, pray, fiddle, reboot, unplug, fiddle, regedit, reboot, plug, pray, play, wait 3 weeks, hardware failure, start over.

I agree with Merc. Buy an LTO drive (used is probably fine; or use whatever tape format you already have in-house) and use it locally. Do a full backup once a week and append daily incremental backups to the same tape throughout the week. Each week, swap out the tape and FedEx it to your main...

Not so sure about Word, but Outlook 2003 has some nice improvements in an Exchange environment. For instance, I now connect via RPC over HTTPS for Outlook/Exchange. That means I get full functionality of Outlook - email, calendar, etc. - delivered over HTTPS so it doesn't matter where I'm...

I'll say it again:

Whenever you open a doc it creates a temp file in the same dir as the .doc file. That temp file creation and subsequent deletion when you close the doc is what's triggering your folder's change date update. A glance through Tools - Options doesn't reveal a way to change that. However, on the...

The temp at which coffee or any beverage is brewed is unrelated to the whole discussion. What matters is the temp at which the beverage is served. McD's has a history of serving coffee at a temperature markedly higher than pretty much everyone else. That higher temp, be it from microwaving...

While in a liquid state and under 1 atmosphere of pressure, this is correct. But how hot water can get doesn't really matter at all. What matters is the appropriate serving temperature for a substance that is going to be consumed by a human being. At what temperature does the human tongue...

It has been demonstrated that WEP can be broken in about 10 seconds using a modern PC. If you care about keeping your WLAN to yourself, WEP cannot be considered secure. WPA is not perfect, especially with PSK vs. Radius, but is far, far better. Besides keeping your WLAN to yourself, also...

Sorry, but for once I'm not even finishing one of Tea's long posts. I buy coffee; I make coffee. I can tell you with a 100% degree of certainty that the coffee I used to get from McD's was at least 20-30 degrees F hotter than I would get from 1) my home coffeepot (a Bunn), 2) the coffeemaker...

And how about suing file distribution/P2P networks for people using them to distribute copyrighted materials, despite the many legit uses of such technology? Oops, that's already happened.

I trial-wared PerfectDisk, thought it was mostly just OK. I then tried Diskeeper 9 Pro and felt it was the better product, or at least it seemed to produce better results. So I purchased it for my main workstation this past week. At this time I've no plans on purchasing a separate defragger...