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No worries mate. I was just having a sip of it today, what with the snow and all.

The OnStar people were trying to get my FIL to resign for the OnStar pacage beyond the first free period they give. My FIL was potentially interested in the remote unlocking feature. Unfortunately, this is a work truck version with wind up windows and no central locking. So a pretty impressive...

Ack never mind, told Windows to update the driver and it must have found something acceptable via Windows Update or the driver CD provided.

Got the 5770. *Blubbers* Where are the 2003 64 bit drivers? Is there an "unofficial" version of Catlyst that will work? I tried XP compatibility mode on the XP 64 bit driver but it doesn't finish the setup install.

LOL, sorry, to clarify, moving from a Dell 400SC with P4 and AGP graphics to an Intel mobo with three 16x PCI-E slots (not sure what the electrical config is). One slot taken up by an Areca 4 port SATA controller. Mostly will be used for 1080p gaming. Potentially throwing another one in in...

Just ordered a 5770: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131327 Moving from some AGP turd.

The hardest part IMO is having infinite patience. Patience to understand that the kid doesn't know any better(usually). I spank when there is direct defiance, or if they are doing something really dangerous (playing with matches, etc). As my kids have grown (two boys, now 12 and 9), spankings as...

Missed you too buddy *blubbers* *hic*

The problem that I see is this: Kids are told that weed is bad, evil, causes reefer madness etc. They end up trying it anyway, given it is far easier to access than say alcohol. Turns out they didn't go insane with the madness. So now they have learned that the information given about weed was...

Something to warm Merc's heart: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/nvidia_forecast_glitch/ "Nvidia issued some somber news for shareholders today, revealing a financial forecast cut short due to slowing sales, a delayed ramp for new product, and a hefty payout due to faulty laptop chips...

I'll have a bit of that action! Double vision Tea is my favourite :D

9 for the break room, one for the ops monitoring ;) Actually it's a 5*2 array, not sure if we are going to go with a matrix controller for the setup or just run it with a couple of workstations. Was looking at projectors but in a 24*7 environment the bulb cost can be a significant expense. I'm...

uda: The pixel pitch of the 27" 1920*1200 is considerably larger than the 30" 2560*1600 screen. We are talking 0.303 vs 0.25mm Just about to order ten 52" Aquos displays for the vid wall, amazing how low the price has dropped in the last few years.

Would love to go with 30" 2560*1200 but the pixel pitch will be too small for the older operators without 20/20 vision.

Interesting timing. Designing a new 24*7 ops center and will prob go with the Dell 27" 1920*1200 screens, two each per operator. And then a wall of 50" flat panels on the wall a further distance away. Need as many digital outputs as can be crammed into a few workstations.

We got a significant surge of "Russian Spam" in the last couple of days. Produced quite a burden on our anti-spam services/servers.

Frankly 300GB 15K is as big as I want to go without sacrificing IOPS. But looks like this 450GB drive will drop down the pricing of no longer "cutting edge" drives.

Just as a matter of interest, what kind of knife can you carry (legally?) in Finland? Is there any restriction based on blade length etc?

I hope you got the spanking you so clearly deserved and earnt :)

There will be multiple windows monitoring different things. A lot of it is browser based. Actual text work is pretty minimal. Price premium of the 30" is not an issue. From an ergonomic perspective, I would rather have two 30" that are height/depth adjustable, than say four 20" screens, in a 2*2...

So at work I am designing a new operations console for the datacenter. Currently have a dozen 20" Dell LCDs, and three 32" NEC 1280*720 displays up high. My thinking is that the new design will have two positions for the operators to sit, and in front of each I'm going with dual 30" screens at...

Yes cooling is definitely a problem. We are building a new datacenter to deliver more power and cooling. Assuming 1 ton of cooling is enough for 3500W, a rack of four chassis could take 6 tons of capacity. New place will give us additional reliability (dual 1.6 MW generators with an option for...

In total opposition to the green-friendly mini mobo you linked to, recently been working on installing/configuring multiple BladeCenter H class chassis and blades. Each chassis requires two power inputs for redundancy, each of those connects in this case to two L6-30 receptables. That's almost...

Helping build a cluster of 30 machines. Red Hat makes it easy, have a kickstart image on the head node, just set each compute node to boot from network and it will build itself, then just have to set it back to boot from local disk when it reboots.

Certainly anything within 1m of current water levels is at serious risk within the next few decades. Can you imagine having to build a dyke wall to protect your waterside property?

Still a work in progress, looks like they are using the 60GHz band: The idea is to use it where HDMI would be used, i.e. from HD device to display etc. http://www.wirelesshd.org/

Short range wireless now includes devices that can transmit HD video over wireless. Far more performance than USB3, generally to avoid wire clutter in home theatres.

I have started speccing the 2.66GHz quad core Xeon (Core2 based) for our 2U servers. It's significantly cheaper than the dual dual core 5160 @ 3GHz option. Dual quads is almost insanity but the incremental cost compared to everything else that goes in to the end price is insignificant in many...

Mubs said: "I agree with Mark's second two paragraphs 100%. You can make your points without being so offensive. And I am distressed with your attitude towards the East. I am Indian. So am I a scumbag?" That doesn't seem to be a personal attack at all, let alone a sustained one. It's that...

Sweet jebus. Just got off the phone with "AppleCare". It is now clear to me why Apple is certainly not a contender in the enterprise space. Problem: Have an Xserve RAID box with one controller with red light. Powered on for the first time yesterday. Manual implies that this is a failure, and...

CircuitCity has them for $169 http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Western-Digital-250GB-Passport-Portable-USB-Hard-Drive-WDXMS2500TN/sem/rpsm/oid/184239/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

At work we are moving away from our IBM Shark towards Netapp for SAN storage. For applications that were performance critical (such as email), we went with 146GB 10K FC drives to get the spindle counts to meet the required IO/sec. For the lower requirement apps, 300GB 10K FC drives are being...

You can join me in some drinkies.

See Tea, even Tannin approves. Now let's go for another lie down.

And perhaps a cheap half height/performance LTO-2 drive, in the $2K range, for his backups. Tho Dell has a nice LTO-2 autoloader that can take 16 tapes for around $4K.

Only a crazy Canook would be trying to stroke lightning :mrgrn:

I think we need a START III to disarm dd. There is a UPS college? Is that related to Brown University?

You need a meat cleaver to cut off your gonads.

I've got a banana for you Tea 8)

Another option could be a foot pedal, to take the place of the left click or other repetitive functions. http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php

It's not that you are demanding anything. Once you win the item, use the ebay checkout, pay with credit card via Paypal, and you are done. Anyone selling and taking payment via Paypal should have a business account. If for some reason they have just begun selling for example, they will not be...

Coug, you been taking photos of me again? BTW the registration page seems a little knackered, the little image verification thing comes up with an X instead of a piccy. Congrats DrunkenBastard Jr.

Upstate NY already subsidises NYC. Take for example the transfer of debt from NYC on to the whole of NY State for recent example. And let's not talk about the cost of Medicaid.

Surely not on the first date! :o

I'm awaiting the blessed UPS dood who will bestow upon me one of those shiny pda thingymejigs. A Dell X30 with 614MHz processort, 802.11b and Blootooth. A friend told me I will be able to dl pics of upskirt action from Tea, the little tart.

It's the friggin Canadians! They just can't be trusted.

Too bad the baby monitor is freq hopping. Otherwise you could have caused interference on it and perhaps broadcast the audio streams of your favourite vids :) They would have switched back down to 2.4GHz pretty soon me thinks..... EMP devices for the home, Merc needs one now dammnit! Either...

Poor bastards. And no grub for brekkie either!

When I was in boarding skool a while back, there was a chap with serious discipline issues. His mother gave one of the teachers permission to shall we say "beat the $hit out of him". And so he did. His attitude improved markedly. Of course that was in convict Australia, try that in CA and you...

Oops, don't take that the wrong way. I was just poking fun at Buck, not you.