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I'm still imagining all the neat stuff I can do with tiny $200 computers. Granted, they are snail-slow (AMD Geode 500Mhz, 256MB RAM), but cheap and really low-power. I'm temped to replace my VMWare linux test environment with a bunch of these; imagine an entire server room in a lunch box ;)

I seem to recall from the old SR days mention that drives were designed to release their heat through conduction of the two long sides to the chassis. Is this correct? If so, if a drive was thoroughly insulated on all sides except the two long sides, where significant cooling was available...

Really high-speed PCI-E based SSD ETA: "Q4/Q1" Price Target "$30/GB" 100,000 IOPS 900MB/s+ 80-640GB capacity

I'm looking at getting a second 7950GT for SLI when I get my new screen (Samsung 305T). But I'm hoping to keep my current monitor (Viewsonic VP2130b) as a secondary screen for work. Will SLI handle that? Further, I have my projector hooked up as well. I'm pretty sure that the two video cards...

One of my clients has 10 offices, all connected via point-to-point VPN. Each office has been given a class C (192.168.0.xxx, 192.168.1.xxx, etc) The main office is outgrowing it's class C; 50 servers, 40 network printers, and 125+ users. I'd like to get the Servers and other static-IP stuff...

Ideally, just the circuit board with connectors. Everything else would be discarded for this project. I currently have my eyes on Supermicro part # CSE-SATA-933, but I can't find a decent-looking vendor to order from. It doesn't have to be new, just functional. If anyone here has one with 8-16...

There were quite a few threads about specific topics, but not really a "something random" for cameras...so here it is ;) Now that I am the proud owner of a used Canon 20D (Thanks Tony!); I, too, feel the need to spend more money. ;) I have the Body and the kit 18-55mm lens; more than enough to...

I'm setting up another domain for an existing client. tomssiteservices.com (horribly long, I know, I didn't pick it out) At present all I want is e-mail, directed to our exchange server. For easy maintenance, I keep the exchange server at donchapin.dyndns.org and redirect all the MX records...

Wooooo! Congrats on the milestone. Hope to see more of the same ;)

Has anyone else played around with this? I picked up one this afternoon and it was perfectly plug-n-play in Vista. Now I'd like to get the movies I bought onto my HDTV. Anyone have suggestions?

I don't know if anyone else has been looking at these things, but I think they have real promise. Tablets and convertibles were just too big/bulky for handheld use, but these work really well. I presently have the cheapest one as a loaner, and I really like it. Below is the comparison sheet I...

I had no idea a RAID-5 array could be this fast. Currently I have the following in my system: (Driven off the onboard SATA RAID controller) 2x 74GB Raptors in RAID-0 for the OS (Off the 3Ware 9650SE-16ML) 3x 36GB Raptors in RAID-0 for games 6x 750GB Seagate in RAID-5 for data Each of these...

What motherboards offer the best onboard video? What are they comparable to? I've been out of this game for too long now, I really don't know what is out there.

The Netopia 3346 modem/routers that PacBell (now ATT) provide really suck. They crash regularly, brick often, and just don't respond the rest of the time. It's even worse now that Motorola has purchased Netopia, support is down the tubes. I need some replacements. I need a single DSL connection...

I have a fairly large collection of video and audio files. The reason such a large audio collection is still useful is because of the ID3 tags, and comments that I add, being searchable(sp?) and easily modifiable. I would love to be able to add words / descriptive fields to my video files. Are...

3 Drives in a 3 Drive Stripe are showing status as "UNCONV DCB". The 3Ware manual only mentions that this could be the displayed status, without giving any indication of what it means. It shows as a warning, not a failure; and the drive is part of a striped set that is still fully functional...

Any experiences? Good/bad combinations? I've got a Samsung SH-S183 DVD-RW connected to a Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2. Vista works fine, Feisty works fine. XP crashes in the GUI part of the install with an IO error, both MSDN w/SP2 and TinyXP.

This might be a browser issue, or something else me-related, but I can't tell. After reading all the posts in the computers forum and returning to the main page, it still shows the orange "new posts" icon until I go back into the forum, see that there are no new posts, and go back to the main...

Intel's C2D chips seem to be the way to go for the foreseeable future, and Merc has turned me into a believer of Gigabyte's combination of stability, features and price. Newegg.com currently features 19 motherboards made by Gigabyte for the S775 platform. GIGABYTE GA-8I865GME-775-RH-AS LGA 775...

A thread for misc iPhone stuff. Does anyone know where to find the MAC address on one?

This is my 4th system in the last month with this issue. System boots normally, and no errors are encountered. Within 30 seconds of startup, system becomes unresponsive. The mouse still moves, and the numlock light still changes, but nothing happens. Safe mode boots fine, NOD32 doesn't detect...

With 4GB thumb drives now super cheap, I'm looking at building all my software tools into one. Goals of this project: 1.Bootable Ubuntu WinXP Anything else useful 2.Recovery tools Antivirus Data Recovery Anything else useful 3. Hardware Testing Memtest Hard Drive Error Checking Anything else...

Does anyone know of a program that can take raw SMART data like this: 0A 00 01 0F 00 77 5C 68 62 06 0C 00 00 00 03 03 00 60 5E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 64 64 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 33 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 0F 00 48 3C 44 34 F5 00 00 00 00 09 32 00 64 64 9C 00 00 00 00 00...

I've gone nearly entirely to Vista. All my own systems run it or Server 2003, all my new client machines run it (or Ubuntu). Here I will try to explain why. 1. I like it. I like the new UI. Yes, it is different, and requires a whole new learning curve, but I was trying to be open and accepting...

I'm looking to set up a small private p2p network. I saw these guys and it looks pretty good. Thoughts?

If you were to buy a 42" HDTV this week, which one would it be and where would you get it? Which/how many inputs would you be looking for for a basic home theater? My father has finally decided to replace their 27" Mitsubishi CRT with something decent.

I have a client with ~300 office users. They have Exchange 2003 and Outlook 97-2003. They use E-Mail and web mail, some of them even have contacts and calendars, but none of them use shared anything. No one publishes their calendar or to-do list. The only thing they share is the "global list" of...

I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard from a Gigabyte 6100-based AM2 board to a Gigabyte 570-based AM2 board and would like to keep my OS array (Raptors in RAID-0). What are the chances of this happening successfully?

Since when did Handruin pass 5k? How many Hairy Aussies are we going to have around here? Congrats ;)

I'm getting rid of my 2TB TeraStation in favor of returning to local storage; it's too slow even over GbE and has a disquieting rumble on a ~1s interval that is most annoying. I have 2 Raptors in RAID-0 for the OS (yeah, yeah...) and at least 4 750GB hard drives for data to start, probably at...

Hi. I'm looking for a tool that will ping all the IPs in a subnet and return machine names if possible. Any suggestions? ~David

Since this topic was threatening to put my "Something Random" thread on a track (where it doesn't belong), I figured this would be a good place for some ranting.

I just got an e-mail from Seagate that says: Now that Maxtor is part of the Seagate family, we help you satisfy an even broader range of customer needs. Did I miss a memo?

One of my clients uses nothing but Macs, even their server is an iMac. I have 7 USB thumbdrives, one for every day of the week, that I want to set up overnight backups to. That way, any- (or every-)one can check that the correct drive is connected before it does a backup that night. I could do...

A buddy of mine is going to Africa and needs to rent a sat-phone. Does anyone have any suggestions?

http://www.agloco.com/r/BBCB9405 I know this is a bad idea, my geek sense tells me so. Can someone help me find proof that I can pass onto my client who thinks it's a good idea?

This is what I can build for under $2000 (charging about $3000) as a gaming PC. It includes things I would not put on my own system, but that "gamers" traditionally like (windows, 4-disk Rapor RAID-0 arrays, etc). Let me know what you think. Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower...

PCI-Express X1600Pro card with IceQ cooling Well loved but fully functional. Card only. Best offer? Might throw it in with one of the other things I put up.

GIGABYTE GA-M51GM-S2G Motherboard with latest (F8 BIOS) AMD X2 4200+ (65W) low-power dual-core CPU (2.2Ghz, 1.2V) 2GB (2x 1GB) OCZ DDR2-800 (2 modules of OCZ2SOE8001G) $450 Shipped OBO

3Ware 9650SE-16ML Still in retail box, still shrink wrapped. Connects 16 SATA II drives PCI-Express 8x connector 256MB DDR2 533 onboard Uses Multi-lane SATA cables RAID levels: 0,1,5,6,10,50,Single, and JBOD MSRP: $995 Newegg: $909 Best offer.

Just installed 2007 Ultimate onto Vista. Slower than whale snot, and the only work I can use to describe the UI this late at night is "gross". I'll come up with better words later. Oh, and a full install of the "ultimate" edition is 2GB.

I've been meaning to learn Linux for quite some time. In fact, I have started a number of times without success. I am of the firm belief that Linux proficiency will be a prerequisite for employment in my business somewhere down the road. Ideally, I'd like a certification of some kind as...

If you had to install a point-to-point wireless bridge, which hardware would you use? Is 802.11n the way to go? It's offices full of Macs, so my PC tools are useless.

A client wants to check his e-mail via cell phone. He has his own exchange server. Suggestions?

My new apartment has no in-ceiling lighting in the living and bedroom. That's great, as I hate the ugly fixtures usually stuck up there in apartments. This is my opportunity to do something I've always wanted to do; install dimmable indirect lighting into a picture rail around the entire room...

One of my laptops is a Gateway Tablet: Model CX2726 After restoring a backup image via acronis, it boots to the screen right before the login screen; a blue one that has the "Microsoft Windows XP" logo (you've all seen it before) and stops. Occasionaly, if I let it sit there, I will see the...

Here's a new one... I need to buy furniture. IKEA is about a mile away, and we were there for a few hours last night. I'm not happy with their designs or build quality. I've been checking out some sites online (e.g. furniture.com) and am not sure what I'm doing. Considering I've never put much...

I think I'm doing this right, but could certainly use someone to check my math. Wheel sizes are in inches, and are the diameter of the wheel. Tire sizes come in the format x/y-z where: x = width of the tred pattern in mm y = height of the sidewall as a percentage of the tred pattern width z =...

I'm getting the GF a new car stereo for her "new" car (1997 Ford Escort). I want it to support USB thumbdrives full of MP3s directly. Is there anything on the market that does this? I've been looking on Crutchfield and can't see anything promising.

I'm looking for a low-power, PCI-E video card with 1x DVI out. If it was low-profile as well, that would be great. Video quality of VGA @ 1600x1200 just...sucks. I'd would be great if it was an nVidia chipset, as it needs to play well with the on-board 6100 (driving the projector @ 1024x768)...