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Controllers (or their drivers) can make a bigger difference than the disks or the RAID levels themselves.... so while the data in this comparison may be valid, it is valid only for this setup and the results do not necessarily translate to a general hardware vs software comparison. I'm glad to...

I'm one for Cisco as well. But for a layer2 switch, HP and Adtran's offerings probably should also be considered if you're looking at 3com. I've had mixed results with Dell's managed switches, but for what you've specified I think a switch from their layer2 line-up would work fine. --Blake

1600x1050 and 1440x900 are relatively new resolutions and many divers (and some hardware) don't support it... especially anything over a year old. I'm guessing this is both of your guy's problems. Whatever default driver your OS came with for your video hardware, it didn't include proper support...

Thanks guys, we ended up finding a lot on ebay that took care of our needs.

http://professormoney.com/wonderlic%20sample%20test.htm Pretty fun actually. Took me about 15 minutes to complete the test... most of it (perhaps 5 minutes) was on questions 11 and 13. I received 14 out of 15 correct answers... though I still contest the answer to number 5 (present/reserve) can...

I was thinking a site was posted within the last 2 months as a source for generic power adapters, but I cannot find it. I'm looking for some (~ 25-50) wall-wort style AC/DC power supplies, 12v 500mA. Right now I'm looking at close to $300 on some sites, if anyone has some suggestions it would...

This site explains some of the pros and cons to the /3g switch... http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/03/23/memory-management-demystifying-3gb.aspx Perhaps you're running into one of the cons... Never used it myself, but I don't have any Windows systems with more than 2 GB of RAM.

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It seems that while group policy is applied OK, there are too many changes in the folder names/locations/namespace that Microsoft gave up and decided that vista profiles were not compatible with 2k/xp profiles... as such, you need to create a .v2 profile for vista clients and a non .v2 profile...

The drive mapping part is already one - I actually have this scripted into the user's profile when they are created. I've thought about deploying a startup script to make vista machines do what I want... but then I would have to set that only on the Vista machines (can I do that per machine?)...

I use DBAN - http://www.dban.org/ Then, if it's really important I take a hatchet/hammer to the drive.

I manage a domain at work that consists of a win2k AD server, win2k, WinXP, and now Windows Vista clients. There are about 50 PCs. Roaming profiles are enabled only for a couple people. All users have a Y: drive as their home directory mapped to a share on the domain controller. The default...

That description has been used forever, but it isn't necessarily (or even often) true. With DSL your modem connects to a DSLAM where dozens or hundreds of other subscribers connect to, from there it's typically backhauled to a network core. That backhaul link may be an OC-48/12/3, or it may be...

I noticed the local SBC DSL network having more lag than Time Warner cable, but it simply depends on your local carrier and how their network is setup. Cable vs DSL doesn't make nearly as much difference as what you will find between one carrier and another.

I noticed the local SBC DSL network having more lag than Time Warner cable, but it simply depends on your local carrier and how their network is setup. Cable vs DSL doesn't make nearly as much difference as what you will find between one carrier and another.

I saw a TV spot for this the other day. It didn't go into the details of his plan (at least I didn't catch it). Just that we spend a shit load on oil and a lot of it could be replaced by wind. Any direction off of oil is a good one, and I'm glad that he's not advocating increasing natural gas...

actually, IPv4 itself supports QoS... and I'm sure you're all using IP packets if you're using the internet. However, I think the original suggestion of using Tomato to prioritize traffic is the best solution, and the only one that a single entity can implement. Using IP's TOS (Type of...

I've recently started processing my photos in Adobe Camera Raw - Part of Photoshop. I generally let it adjust the white balance and then apply a vignette to most of the photos. A little exposure/contrast adjustment and use of the clarity (sharpening/contrast) slider goes a long way. Camera...

RAID50 involves no more parity calculations than RAID5. You simply have more raw disk speed to work with. If your bottleneck is your controller at all times, then there's no point obviously. RAID5 (or 50) advantage over RAID10 comes with the overhead needed to maintain redundancy. RAID5/50 only...

oh, I thought you had concluded that he was a unix user... unix user accounts are in /etc/passwd, and on newer systems also /etc/shadow

I've never seen that user and I administer a lot of Fedora/CentOS boxes... can you tell when the user was added ? (/var/log/secure)

I'm going to guess a timeout and retry on the part of php

I really only did click submit once... Any double posting is an error on the part of the forum software.... no. really.... but seriously...

just FYI, I tried to submit a post and it took over a minute (likely 2 or 3) to complete... pages are now also loading slowly (although not as slowly) at around 30-60 seconds per page. ------------------ E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping storageforum.net -n 10 Pinging...

just FYI, I tried to submit a post and it took over a minute (likely 2 or 3) to complete... pages are now also loading slowly (although not as slowly) at around 30-60 seconds per page. ------------------ E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping storageforum.net -n 10 Pinging...

That's an important point to make... many of the soft-raid/driver assisted raid cards (ala promise, highpoint, etc) required (and likely still require) rebuilding/replacing drives via the BIOS. This necessitated 1) a reboot of the OS and 2) that one sit on the BIOS screen for an undetermined...

Though I think a good review and double check to ensure you've covered the basics (indexing, optimization) should be done before considering making something more complex and error prone.

Unfortunately, dealing with separate tables or databases (or potentially servers) based on date can be a little tricky. First, it requires some additional logic on the front end to be able to detect where to look and second this logic must be in sync with the back-end storing the data. If...

Partitioning does sound right up your alley. But before you get to that point... How many tables and rows are you talking about, what data size per row, and what data types? Have you optimized your queries and indexes? Are you using any queries that pull data from more than one table, etc? Have...

This looks like a decent piece of software for tracking inventory and tickets... http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=204920

Handy, I can provide free hosting on an underutilized web hosting server at work. We typically only offer FTP access (no control panel or ssh), php, perl, MySQL, via Apache 2.x, but maybe I could setup a VM if you want more control. Alternatively, I could turn an unused desktop (pII/pIII) into...

The SB Live was a decent card, but I think that was there last generation of decent hardware/software. The X-Fi series were expensive upgrades that offered little improvement in audio quality or functionality.

13669... how awful

If the UPS can't run at least 1 minute on battery power, then it sounds overloaded. You never mention what UPS you had, so it's hard to tell what a reasonable expectation is.... For example, APC makes a single PC (office, soho grade) smart UPS ~220, 250, 500, and 550.... they all use the same...

I'm currently re-writing a trouble ticket/account provisioning script for my employer... Every solution that I've seen out there is pretty poor for what we do (Internet helpdesk, ISP account provisioning) so we've always written our own. Most of the stuff available (free or commercial) that...

virtualdub has some simple resizing filters if you want to re-encode the files. Otherwise you're looking at a playback filter like dd mentioned. Perhaps some container formats (mkv, avi, ogg) might allow the specification of aspect ratio on playback that will 'fix' the issue by means of a...

Last night I could not resolve www.storageforum.net when I first tried. Worked fine ~ 1/2 hr later.

Actually, win2k couldn't schedule a defrag with the built in tools(defrag and task scheduler). XP was the first that could do it natively.

Congratulations pops!

In general, S-ATA (or any other hardware that came with your mobo) drivers can be found at the manufacturer's website... http://support.asus.com?

I miss those days...

Bozo, btw, I'm using one of these startech CF adapters just fine with a PII class monowall firewall setup. Worked great, but I believe I did need to set some of the jumpers... don't know if I had to adjust the BIOS settings or not.

"Super Talent" .... I could see how that might apply.

You can mount the partition read only (-o ro), in which case no files will be altered, not even access times. I've had this happen when there is partition table corruption, possibly fs corruption. It may be possible, but I doubt something as common as an unclean shutdown would foil the windows...

You should be able to hit ctrl+alt+- (yes, that's a minus) or ctrl-alt-+ (the plus this time) to cycle between X windows resolutions. I would try mounting manually from the console... the command for partition #1 on IDE primary master would be: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o...

I'd try this as well as resetting the BIOS to factory defaults. I know Dell BIOS apps are pretty limited, but does either the BIOS or POST screens provide any information about what modes the hard drives are capable of or running at prior to the operating system starting? Some Dell's also have...

sysoft sandra may also be used for comparison to determine if the CPU or memory bandwidth has decreased. Running upon a fresh boot and then re-running when you notice the game problems.

I wouldn't think a memory leak would be responsible either. Low memory would lead to choppy, stuttering type problems whereby the hard drive would show activity while things are loaded in and out of memory. The reasons for low FPS would be slow processor, slow memory, or slow graphics card...

Gilbo, I would check out the gparted live cd. I've used it before to copy partitions from one disk to another as well as shrink and grow partitions and file systems. As for file system types, ext3 probably has the most support since it's the most commonly used.

Looks like they did include 5 cupholders