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This weekend, I'm doing some revamping and setting up the 64 bit SMP Linux client on two more machines, for a total of three. According to FAHMON, on each machine I'm getting 1,000PPD for a SMP Linux client as opposed to aprox 300PPD for two Windows clients or even 150+500 = 650PPD for a...

If the problem is before Windows but after post, then Is the network card trying to boot over the network? Is there media in the CD/Floppy/USB that the computer is trying to boot to?

There are also a number of freeware/shareware utilities such as Bootvis from M$ that will analyze the booting process. Now I haven't used bootvis in a great while and M$ has withdrawn the program some years ago: I don't know why. So there may be issues with the program and I would test it on...

Force a bootlog and then analyze the output.

I actually tried the USB Flash-RAM cashing, but unfortunately, all the ones I own are slow (I've been buying them on the cheap) and Vista says that are not capable ...

All I can say, is that on the one machine I've installed Vista on it is slow as a slug. It is outright painfull to run it on a 3.2GHz P4 with 512MB of ram. The pauses whenever I delete or open a file drives me crazy.

It would make me feel like I was on display to others: I think it needs to be tinted dark.

just a hair too spendy for me.

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I doubt it, but I don't really know. Try it and then report back ...

I saw this on Daily Tech and though it was worth importalizing for future reference. If you have a beta, trial, or simply unactivated copy of Windows you can reset its time-out period for an additional 30 day time period (up to three times) by simply issuing the following command from a command...

Lets face it, if someone has the knowledge and capability of bypassing a secure wipe, then the odds are, they also have the knowledge and capability to get through encryption too. But really, a secure wipe is almost always good enough. In situations that they are not, why are you being foolish...

So far my biggest complaint is that Office 2007 won't install on Windows 2000

The standard ATI (6.5, 6.10, 6.11) drivers work on Vista, you just can't install the control panel. The problem with 7.1 is Stanfords fault: They admitted that they were given early drivers and didn't test them or report any problems with them by ATI's deadline ....

Now I do have some interest in Office 2007. From what I've read, it may have some value.

Ditto

Well, I got my copy today: Vista Business with an FPP upgrade cost of $139 to ultimate. M$ UPS'ed it (Signiture required), rather than the ususal snail-mail shipment. I am installing it on a Dell 3.2GHz P4 with XP Home on it. My first observation: My it takes a long time to install

I have a 2407 rev 2 It has no stuck pixels. It's an excellent monitor.

Get yourself a regular phone modem and use one of the many free dial-up ISP's. Then don't forget to fill your machine with spyware. But then again, if you are using one of the free dial-up ISP's then you've already installed a bunch of spyware ....

Well, that explains virtually all outages that I've noticed and they've existed from the very beginning.

You're right the two arrows are a refresh button ...

I prefer 7 over 6 with one exception: IE7 does not have a page refresh button. The fact that I have to choose refresh from a menu annoys me to no end.

All eight of my 45GB 75GXP's are still running or have been pulled from service because they were too small. I never had an IBM drive failure ... Now that can't be said of WD or Maxtor.

They are more reliable than floppies.

Welcome to GPU folding Coug. I assure you that I don't have any immediate plans to upgrade any further. While, I could add GPU's to all my machines, it makes no business sense and other than folding, I can't imagine a personal need. Matter of fact, as summer rolls around, I'll probably shut...

Then you are missing a mighty fine addiction...

Surely, you can look at the screen and determine what looks good and what doesn't without a colorimeter. If you are just looking at the screen, then you can see if it has a blue tint and is too dark ... Perhaps I'm missing something, but as I understand it the whole point of calibrating a...

Sure you can play. All you need is the right toy. At the moment, GPU folding is rather limited to ATI x1900, and x1600 series cards. Still interested?

Graphics processor unit or commonly called a video card.

If he's that interested in fantasy-land performance, What about 15K SCSI/SAS drive for booting and then extra SATA drives, if he needs more space. He obviously doesn't care about the cost ...

One possible reason is that she plays much more frequently than her boyfriend. As a WoW player, I've noticed that if the DL's are early in their distribution then there will be few people seaded with most of the file and thereby you will be competing with everyone else for the same Blizzard...

After lots of Diagnosis, I've determined that the PCE-e socket was damaged by the vibrations of the video card, even though it was bolted down, when it was moved. What a pain. I've moved the GPU to another machine and it is now happily whiring along...

My immediate reaction is that an inplace reinstall should work just fine, using the new CD and key: I haven't tested it though. There are undoubtably hacks that swap the keys, but I wouldn't trust that that would be enough. Even if it works now, that would not guarentee that M$ won't change...

Have you tried an inplace reinstall?

The only time I've experianced it was on a machine with many drives. So many, that I had to use molex splitters. How ever, it wasn't just one drive, but a random drive that would power down and back up. This was a problem because it kept breaking my Raid-5 array. I found that the problem was...

No, I have a video card that seems to like sending EUE's. I moved the machine so I could vacume and it seems to have been an unhealthy move. I've been slowly decreasing the OC'ing. It doesn't EUE immediately so it take a while to see if the modification has been enough ...

look at the number of WU's that are being returned in Clocker's stat's. There's really only one reason that you coulld be returning 3000 WU's yesterday for 700 points and that would be lots and lots of EUE's.

The Catalyst 6.12 Doesn't work with the GPU client. You need to downgrade to 6.11 ... To check for bad WU's, look at the FAHLOG.txt file.

Your furniture choices depend much upon your children (or expectations of children). If there are no plans for children, buy whatever you like because in general you'll take care of it and it will last a reasonable amount of time; at least enough time that you will not be sorry for the...

After giving it some time, I've found that the Linux system clock, inside VMware, runs much slower than the Windows clock, on my machine. It's messing with my frame times and PPD calculations. From my current calculations, the Linux clock is running aprox 1/4 the rate of true time and that...

If people want to have some fun: Try the beta SMP x64 Linux client. I just tried running it on one of my x2 4600+. To complicate matters, the machine is running Windows x64 (you can use a regular 32 bit Windows at a slight frame time cost) and I'm running Ubuntu x64 linux from inside a free...

There are multiple products like Ghost that will image the drive and restore it to another HD. The first you may have will be if you need a add-on SATA card that needs drivers. the solution is to add the SATA card and its drivers to the current installation, before imaging so that Windows...

One of the issues, that I see is that if you don't recalibrate your odometer/speedometer then you will be subconsiously thinking that you are going slower than you really are and there by increase your speed to what you've trained yourself to be 100mph and thereby be goinging even faster...

There are issues with using recycled parts: It's against the law unless you sell the machine as used. That means, you have to be very clear to your clients, that the machine is not new and my history is that most people, unless they aren't looking for a new machine, tend to backoff the...

Wireless keyboard and mouse == non reliable. PS/2 Cable versions are cheaper and much more reliable. Do they actually need -- speakers; a full GB of RAM; A floppy?

I'm sorry, But I'd be taking a different tack than above; Not because it won't be a fine machine but rather, I don't think it needs to be that good. 512K RAM is all that will be needed, and a generic 17" LCD should be sufficient. Agreed, that 1GB is far better, but what is that extra 512k...

In a way, this is an interesting thread. You've got the pro and the anti Dell groups and really, they are all mostly correct in their statements/opinions. I don't think you will make a mistake regardless of which camp you fall into. You can buy into a low-end custom built box and you'll do...

Merc, I'm with the other guy on this one: Dell's have a vaild useful purpose for some. Especially if you can get the right price. Now, that right price seems to be getting very much harder and harder to find. I personally have three, and I don't have any real complaints. I wouldn't want to...

First, why are you 98% sure that it is software; when you are never here when it happens and there are no signs of the cause? Have you been doing things with the software that is abnormal? Have there been any recent spyware or virus activity that would indicate damage to the software? Without...

Andromeda? I actually liked it at the start but but once the cast went through the "Route of Ages" it went far far away from good. The plot lines started becoming unintelligible... Now, I really liked Babylon 5. It's plot lines produced a good SciFi soap opera. Unlike most of its genre...