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Maybe RW's point is that the millions of $ that get spent on tickets & player salaries, etc. would be better spent on items that would improve the economy instead of on pointless entertainment. While I don't wish death to sports fans, I will say that I don't really care about pro sports...

There's an update to Spamihilator that adds new filtering capabilities. Use the "check for updates" function to d/l & apply or go straight to http://www.spamihilator.com/ .

You know, I could easily see that one on an ep of South Park. Very funny. :lol:

After the reg tweak, in the service's properties the "Path to executable" should say something like: C:\Program Files\FoldingAtHome\V5\FAH502-Console.exe -svcstart -advmethods -local -forceasm The other setting I make is to change the update interval to 30 minutes from the default 15 (in the...

Here's the direct link to the article: http://windowssecrets.com/050127/#story1 Yeah, I read Windows Secrets as well (so far I've been cheap & haven't paid but if Brian & gang do more articles like this I'll pony up some $). This was probably the best wake-up call article they've written in a...

I'm starting to average over 10,000 points per week. Thanks, guys, for the help in boosting my production.

I've absolutely no experience with Linux to date. But, in general: - Is write caching disabled on the server? - Is the server's RAM usage high / is it busy managing a swap file? - I'm assuming no RAID since you say it's a 20GB drive & not some kind of array. Otherwise I'd mention RAID5...

Madison is only 2.5-3 or so hours from here, a smidge further to Timwhit's Homewood, and maybe 4 hours to Merc. Snow amounts varied here and there were/are lots of small drifts. I think we managed 8 or so inches overall. I shovelled twice yesterday and again this morning. Really, it's not...

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A friend was writing a media manager. Indeed it was based on a mySQL engine with a VB front-end. He stalled his development work, though. Realistically, any decently designed single table with multiple indexes should work fine for each media type. Heck, it's just our personal media...

I think you're due for a re-watch. It was the dreaded fax machine that Mr. Bolton always had problems with.

I picked up one of these for work. I don't see it mentioning jumbo frames, but at $129 SLP for 8 full GbE ports & full-speed (16Gb) backbone, maybe you wouldn't actually need the jumbo frames? It's also fanless and comes with rackmounts.

True. This does limit the value on the Dell solution as I'm sure I'd wind up with 8+ drives in the long run. I'll check the case out. I've used PCP&C PSUs for along time and have no problem with them other than price. Of late I've used and liked the Antec TruePower series, although I...

OK, it's been some months since this was last discussed. If you were to build a storage server using technology available today or expected within the next 3 months, what would you consider? My requirement: Enough storage space for 1000+ DVDs, 200+ CDs, a few hundred GB of downloaded AVIs...

Or maybe something slightly more affordable from the same company.

No vote from me either. My sampling size is not significant enought to matter. That said, I've had decent luck with most of the brands. My PC is currently running a Seagate X-15 Mark I, Samsung, and a Maxtor with a WD in an external enclosure. My wife's PC is fine with it's 36GB Atlas 10K...

I had sold my 624 and replaced it with the 634 to gain the USB drive support. The latest 634 firmware boosted signal strength and connection stability for my wife's PC, which used the 311T PCI card. My coworker is still using the 624, but it only gets used for wireless when her daughter is...

A friend pointed out that the 2 USB port limitation is pretty bad. Add your keyboard & mouse and you're out of connections w/out adding a USB hub. And adding the hub ups your footprint unless you buy one of those keyboards that has a built-in hub. But then the additional desktop cables might...

OK, I'm now doing -svcstart -local -advmethods -service and have the two invocations running under different machine IDs. After a reboot, both services are starting just fine. Thanks for the assistance. BTW, my point production seems to be reflecting the large WUs now.

They are, of course, in separate directories. I've never used the -local & -service switches. I just have -svcstart -advmethods. I've also never changed the machine ID. All the systems I use that have duallies have both instances as machine 1. Since it's installed in a different dir, what...

So how fast would that Fold? :D

Last week I installed W2K3 Server on a pair of 2GHz Xeon cards in my new i5. They are single-CPU cards but a Folding instance only shows using 50% CPU. I'm assuming they're HT-capable so I added a second instance to each. Total of 4 clients running, all are set with large WU support &...

Had to re-install the Bluetooth driver on my laptop. Same version as was already there, but the old install just wasn't working. Anyway, now I can hotsync wirelessly. Nice. I'll probably pick up this to use the SD card as a bluetooth-attached mass storage device.

My Treo 650 finally arrived on Thursday. I was ill Friday so I didn't really mess with it much. Spent Saturday morning manually migrating apps so I'd get a clean install and then finally called Sprint to activate it & de-activate the Treo 600. Said activation could take up to 2 hours but it...

Coug - I saw that as well, although I missed the first half or so of the show. Interesting stuff. Makes me glad I live in the midwest, where we have more practical things to worry about, like tornadoes. :lol: Tea/Doug - The Red Cross is saying 92% of all tsunami donations are being used for...

I was just about to build my AV server with 400GB drives. Now I think I'll have to wait a couple more months.

First, once you've got them in a room, close the door. If nothing else you've restricted their movement. Bathrooms are good as they're smaller and don't have things like beds that are hard to get a feline out from under. Second, 'pre-treat' the carrier as Will mentioned. We keep an old towel...

Re: Fry's The brick-and-mortar version of Outpost.com, although prices and product availability can differ. Add the square footage + product selection of the typical Best Buy/Circuit City, CompUSA, Radio Shack (they carry circuit components), and StarBucks (the IL store has a coffee shop in...

Apparently this one listed at BensBargains is $30 + S/H and has the Oxford 911 chipset.

Thanks, Clocker. My PC (Athlon XP 2800) & my wife's (Barton 2600) have been converted to 5.02/service/large-WU-enabled. I'll work on the other systems probably on/before Tuesday. 5.03 is out but not in the console/service version.

Quick question: If I use the run-as-service option on XP Pro on a PC with multiple user accounts, will the service start at system boot or must one or another account actually log in for it to load? Right now, on my wife's PC the F@H system tray icon version runs when I log in under my name...

Alright, alright already. I'll start migrating as the current WUs finish.

As I mentioned, my employer is setting up a fund that I can contribute to. That should qualify for their matching gift program so the $100 or more my wife & I will kick in will be doubled by my firm. Yes, US aid is ultimately from tax revenue, but isn't the aid a far better use of our tax...

I heard the total is up to 114K this morning. And the disease issue hasn't really been brought up as much of a factor so far. Even with the mass burials this can still get a lot worse. There are entire small islands that are uninhabitable. My employer, a global firm with offices in the...

Shouldn't that be "Curse you Sony, for releasing it wrong"?

20K+ dead, up to 1M homeless as of about 7AM CST today. Pradeep, I'm glad she's OK. I've got a co-worker from southern India. I'll be emailing him to see if he's heard from his family.

Will - I haven't seen Select Comfort beds at discount so far, but they do offer sales once in a while. They mostly sell through stores in local malls so you can (hopefully) easily try before you buy. At the time (early 2002), our king size model 4000 bed above cost something like $2700...

I use a phone to IM people. That way I'm not dependent on their online status. :) Spent an hour IMing with dad last night.

Congrats, JoJo! I feel your pain about trying to get your employer to pay for the training. I'm very lucky my current manager and employer believe in professional development, but I have worked places before where the training opportunities were close to non-existent.

This got rid of my back pain.

Dellf is just for the holidays, but there are always Dell coupons & sales at bensbargains.net. Maybe not as good, but probably close.

Even if it dropped to that in Feb, buying it now you will get to use it now. It's a technology device. Find the price point at which you're comfortable and jump in once the product hits it. Playing the 'will it be cheaper soon' game is a (minor) stress point no one needs.

Driving it I wouldn't worry. But you can imagine how pissed I'd be when it got a door ding.

Just finished the first benchmark on the i5. With compression, we achieved an average backup speed of 276GB/hour, or 76.7MB/s. That includes the overhead for setting synchronization checkpoints on all 5000ish objects to allow them to remain in use while being saved. You gotta have something to...

Moving away from the pr0n discussion for a moment... The just-released LTO3 tape drives can supposedly sustain 80MB/s. Those tapes are 400GB native. I'd imagine the TB+ native drives would have comparable if not superior speed. Apply compression to the data stream and you could probably...

I've been using AVG on the non-work systems I use & support. No problems with it.

For the Escape, gas 4 cyl gets 22 city, 25 highway, gas 6 cyl gets 20/25, and hybrid w/4cyl gets 36c/31h (from Ford's site). For those city miles, that's an 80% improvement in mileage over the V6 while maintaining comparable power. Why or how is that dumb? City mileage doesn't benefit that...

Slightly misleading. Ford & Nissan licensed Toy's 1st gen hybrid technology from the original Prius. The current Prius is Toy's 2nd gen. And obviously an improvement since the car is larger & heavier but gets even better mileage than the original Prius. Otherwise, the vehicle to watch on the...

Well, I asked to renew the 'next platform' poll over at the folding forum. While waiting on a response, I've already implemented the SETI client on our new i5. 2 instances; one for each CPU. Any suggestions on a team to join for SETI work?

So, how long until: 1. People bungee-jump from it? 2. Someone jumps off to commit suicide? 3. 1 + 2 combined? :eekers: