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This looks like it was released some time ago, but 3.5 is available & can be downloaded. Supports Windows 2003.

SBC tries their long distance thing on me every once in a while as well. They say they can offer 5 cents a minut with some monthly fee. I inform them that's more than I pay now. I also inform them that my LD bill is usually only $2-4 per month so even if they were cheaper it wouldn't be worth...

Stupid is right. If that sort of thing flies, I can see the next lawsuits lining up: - sue cities for providing carpool lanes - sue companies who provide carpool and even parking subsidies - sue the average citizen for not using their service

I like Intel NICs as well, but their lack of info on the site coupled with my search results led me to believe they didn't offer a feature I was looking for. I was just trying to confirm what you folks were saying but their site was lacking in details and explanations of their product's...

That may be, but SMC was the first I found to actually mention it in the product literature on their site so they got my business. I ordered 2 of the cards this morning from buy.com; net price after coupon is about $21 each shipped.

The SMC9452TX supports jumbo frames; perhaps I'll pick up a couple of those.

Intel's site doesn't specifically mention "jumbo frame support". It doesn't mention packet size at all. Searching support for server adapters and "jumbo frame" got 1 hit for a 10Gb card. The same search for Desktop adapters got 0 hits. As much as Intel cards have a good rep for reliability &...

Handy - Have you considered moving? So, since come tomorrow I'll have the GigE switch with Jumbo frame support, what NIC with Jumbo support would folks recommend? I'll have to go with a card as the server (as well as my workstation) currently uses the on-board 100Mb adapter.

My PC uses a Tekram DC390U2W with an original 18GB X15. It's still a speedy performer. My wife's PC, with the Atlas 10K II uses a generic LSI U160 card. The media server, FWIW, will boot from a 160GB Samsung.

As I'm finally building my media server, I've realized that my main workstation only really needs a boot drive. Your 10KII still makes for a good boot drive (my wife's PC has the 36GB version). For all of the data beyond 'my documents', I'll use the server. As such, no workstation will have...

My (cable) broadband enters the house at my den, which is on the first floor. The runs being made tomorrow are to the basement, which is unfinished, so it's a fairly easy job. It'll involve punching a hole in the wall where the faceplate will be and using a curved drill bit to drop from there...

I ordered the SMC unit today. Microcenter has it listed as cheaper after rebate, but Newegg had it in stock. I'm picking up an IO Gear KVM to go along with it. Also picked up a few CAT6 patch cables locally at the TigerDirect outlet store. Newegg's price for the cables is fine, but nearly $5...

Try Tiny Personal Firewall V.2, Freeware, very small (tiny) footprint. It's old, and the interface isn't that snazzy, but it works quite well. I've been running it on W2KPro for years.

The 8-port SMC8508 supports jumbo frames and is about $99 from Newegg.

Ditto. I was experiencing this as well around 7:30-8EST. Really, really slow. Seems like it's better now.

Consider a dual-core chip as functionally identical to a machine with 2 CPUs. It really is 2 CPUs that just happen to be on the same die. Dunno what AMD is doing, BTW, but there's no reason why a dual-core CPU couldn't also hyperthread, bringing the number of unique execution threads per...

Diet Coke with Lime. Better than the DC w/Lemon. I don't care for Pepsi cola products. On the alcohol front, I've been making margaritas lately. I use Cuervo Tradicional + a mix I can't find anymore :cry: + some lime juice for extra tartness. Otherwise I'm mostly a wine drinker. I favor...

Thanks, Blakerwry. It is interesting that the 608 has slightly better specs than the 108. The 108, though, has a 5 year warranty (2 years on the AC adapter) vs. the 608's 1 year. Hmm. Dell's tech specs include the chassis color but not the packet latency or RAM/buffer amount. The Dell...

I'm looking for an 8 port Gb Ethernet switch for home. Doesn't need to be managed. I'm considering the Dell PowerConnect 2708, Netgear ProSafe GS108, this US Robotics one, and potentially others. I'm not really interested in Linksys, DLink, Belkin, Hawking, or any of the generics but would...

Try connecting 1 of the PCs directly to the DSL Modem - bypassing the router. If that works the problem is definitely in the router; either a config issue or it's just plain failed.

Just added an XP2900 to the farm. I built the box today so I won't look in to OC capabilities until it's been properly burned in for a few days and even then if it'll OC I'm usually somewhat conservative about it. The source? I got a free Compaq Presario 5900Z from a coworker. An old Athlon...

You're paying nearly $3600 a year for insurance? Ouch. I've got full comprehensive with a low deductible, glass replacement, rental, and towing and my annual car ins is under $750. Heck, add my wife's car and our house and the total for all three is still only about $2K/year. What kind of...

Some AS/400s I've worked on have required quads, or sets of 4 identical DIMMs. One model required octets. Not really a problem, mind you, as when you ordered your RAM it came the right way. Imagine the system board with 64 memory slots. :) The 16GB in my current i5 is 4 x 4GB DIMMs.

Dunno if your clients would ever make it to the 'burbs, but Microcenter in Westmont has the Oki and, I think Samsung color lasers in stock. The ad also mentioned a Brother. I was just there this afternoon to pick up a Maxtor OneTouch 250GB ($140 after rebate). Speaking of Oki, they also carry...

Also try setting the laptop to gigabit full duplex instead of auto detect. Some switches & cards don't play with each other very nicely and a forced speed might help. We've actually had to do that with big buck servers and Cisco switches so I'm not even talking consumer-level gear. - Does the...

Too bad I just heard about this now; too late for the Chicago show. :( I'd have taken a day off work to attend. I'd grab either deal, but the duallie would be my preference. That's quite a bargain.

Have you tried the install with all non-critical components removed; i.e. yank the SB Live & 2nd HD? Also consider, for the duration of the install, disabling mobo fluff that's not needed right away (onboard NIC, USB, etc.). Make sure no printer is attached. And wasn't there something about...

Why not just get a faster notebook HD? Newegg shows 40GB for $70 shipped; 80GB for $106. Both are 5400 RPM with 8MB cache Samsungs. Or consider a 40GB 7200 RPM Hitachi for around $130.

Dell's description of Gold. Ideally, you couple it with the Business Standard plan.

4 hour or next business day on-site, little-to-no hold time when calling, techs who speak English and believe you when you say you've already done something. You can bypass the script. In short, the kind of support you actually deserve vs. what you normally get. In the past, I had a notebook...

My wife's 650VA Belkin started giving the battery warning. A quick trip to Batteries+ and $27 later it seems to be fine.

One of the foundation practices in information security is defense in depth. Take a layered approach to security. That means you defend your perimiter with the firewall/router. You have logons to the PCs. You use secure tools (FF over IE) when available. You only go to trusted sites. You...

a) is also the biggest weakness. Your scans will always be after the fact. Even if Housecall is 100% effective at finding and eradicating malware, it offers no protection against getting infected in the first place. Barring a sufficiently secure OS, which Windows obviously is not, some form...

Giant doesn't exist anymore; it's now the MS product. CounterSpy includes the MS product's database as well as their own. It doesn't seem likely that the MS product would be able to do a better job.

GM to shed 25K jobs through 2008. I'll freely admit that I favor the Asian brands. My experiences with the domestics has been less than stellar, so I feel my bias has been earned. That said, GM does seem to be producing better cars with every generation. However, there are still flaws with...

No reason to be upset, Coug, they're Inspirons.

Definitely worth it in a server, and for several reasons: - Blade & 1U servers need as dense a processor complex as you can get. The densest I normally see is 2 CPUs in a blade and 4 in a 1U rack; a quad-core ups that to 8 cores in a blade, 16 in 1U (imagine one of those running F @ H). -...

Sunbelt's CounterSpy is the highest-rated anti-spyware product. I'm slowly migrating to it at home (it's free for 30 days; then $30 for 2 years). Otherwise I use AdAware, Spybot S&D, and/or the Giant/Microsoft Beta. Counterspy has the same definitions as the MS product + adds their own. I...

But if it'll run on "suitably equipped portable devices" then it'll run on non-P4D chips, unless "suitably equipped" means "powered by Pentium 4D". At that point it's a licensing & codec issue and the software could be written and licensed for Power-based Macs.

Here's an MSI board that will supposedly work on both AGP & PCI-E: http://weblog.infoworld.com/article/05/06/06/HNmicrostarcard_1.html

Yes, I saw that, but I still don't consider it sufficient. What would be sufficient would be the internal battery with an NVRAM backup where, if a power loss occurs, the RAM contents are written to NVRAM. My PDA/phone does something similar; RAM contents are continually backed to NVRAM to...

Doesn't sound too good to me at all. I would be continually nervous about my C: drive losing data after a mere 12 hours of no power to the system. If it had a larger internal battery or, since it's using a PCI slot, a link to an external power pack that could provide a week or more of standby...

On batteries, I've heard several times that normal batteries don't fit the power curve of digicams very well, hence they tend to not last very long. So you still wind up buying NiMH or LiIon batteries. My PowerShot G1 uses a proprietary battery. The Canon battery is something like $35 but I...

CF remains less expensive than SD, but the gap between it and SD has shrunk immensely over the past couple of years. I'm not aware of one format being more reliable or even significantly faster than the other. I have a 1GB SD card in my SmartPhone and a 1GB CF card (replaced a 1GB Microdrive)...

I actually drive by a B+ on my daily commute. I just wasn't really aware of them at the time I had the SmartUPS. The SmartUPS also started to issue alarms when there didn't seem to be any noteable problems so I was wondering if the circuitry was starting to flake out. Not worth replacing the...

Time to evaluate OS (and app) choices, then.

My PC (& phone base station & cable modem, router, etc.) are on an APC Back-UPS Pro 1100 I picked up for $110 at Sam's Club in 2003/2004. My wife's PC is on a Belkin 550 that's also around 18 months old. Both have worked just fine since installation. I used to use an APC SmartUPS 1000XL but...

I prefer PalmOS to WinCE, er, PocketPC. If going the Palm route, go for PalmOS 5.x (better multimedia), a color screen, and as much RAM as you can afford. An expansion slot (typically SD) is good as you can store MP3s or use it for all kinds of other things. If you're looking at a unit to...

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Approaching 2 years later... What products would be considered the frontrunners for defragging now? Still O&O and PerfectDisk? Merc's Ghost backup & restore process? My spare work laptop has a 40GB 4200RPM Hitachi HD and it's slower than molassis at the north pole in January. With under...