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Know what you mean. Young couple; we attended the wedding. Guy is 28. Diagnosed with acute leukaemia. Had chemo and has relapsed. Prognosis not good unless they find a marrow donor. A whole bunch of us have registered, but no match yet (he needs a 6 out of 6 match). Time is running out...

Those magnets are strong! I found out the hard way the first time I took apart a drive. Makes you wonder that a stray bit here and there doesn't fly off the spinning platter to stick to the magnet.

That gal is Indian. Be interesting to know if she's based in So. CA (where Newegg is) or India. Next time you talk to her, ask.

Perfect timing - thanks, guys. After sitting on the decision for as long as I could, I ordered two Sammys from Newegg Sunday night. And then this thread!

I picked up a small quantity of goat's milk from a big grocery chain acouple of years back. My wife taunted me that I wouldn't drink it, and I swore I'd prove her wrong. I bravely had some about three times, and then ate crow and tossed it out. Couldn't stand the pungent odor. Gandhi used to...

Pray provide some links. Besides, I said "without meat". There are billions who are lacto-veg, and their health is not any worse off than the non-veg population. The protein thing is a myth. Milk is not good for you (yogurt is). Governments actively promote bad "science" for shortsighted...

You carnivores are bizarre. You think one can't be healthy and strong, let alone survive, without meat. Coug, for a guy with a supposedly awful temper, your sense of humor is impeccable.

So, WM, are you who I think you are - another avatar for the one that already has many? You're style and language lead me to believe that.

Thanks, Corvair; I saw an ad in a CompUSA flyer a couple of weeks back. The model they had wasn't listed on Sammy's web site and I didn't know if it was gray market stuff. If I buy a 320GB 16MB Sata II retail drive, I hope I'll end up with the HD321KJ. If so I don't mind paying a premium for...

Well, we all know what Merc had stored on his flash drive...

Well, you do have to wash the bits from time to time 'cause they get dirty, don't they?

Can XP & Vista use the same swap file? If not, if individual swap files are defined, does one OS mess the swap file of the other? IF nobody knows, I'll probably post the answers in a few weeks. :-D

Been doing it for years - since W95 was released in, well, 1995 :-D. Never had a problem.

You'll need a 3rd party boot manager to do it. like V-Systems' System Commander, or BootMagic, or BootIt, etc. These present a menu on boot; when you pick the OS you want, they hide all other primary partitions (there's an option not to hide, of course). I don't have Vista (yet) but have found...

Thanks, all! Max - very informative. That tip about creating the NTFS partition first with PM and then installing Vista on it is very relevant to me. Thanks. Bozo, I have never used System Restore and never will. I use an imaging utility when I need to. But thanks for the tip; that could be a...

Thanks DD. I won't be using GPT, just NTFS. I guess there's not a lot of interest in Vista at the moment.

Are there any incompatibilities between NTFS in XP SP2 and Vista? In other words, if I were to dual boot XP SP2 and Vista, and they wrote to the same NTFS partitions, would there be a problem? Thanks.

No, God didn't. It's hellish using them. I bought two (different sizes), used one only once, then switched to using a Dremel and a cutting wheel. Yeah, the holes aren't perfectly round, but as long as they're functional and not visible, who cares.

Which place is that, Merc? I'm looking to buy the 64-bit Home Premium. Directron has the OEM version DVD for $105.

Till a few years ago, Sherwood (actually it's Korean parent) used to build the stuff for HK, and some other well known brands.

That's because some USB ports provide the max juice the USB spec allows, and some don't. Notebooks typically don't provide enough juice in USB ports for obvious reasons. Lunar, I think the first link I provided works off of one port. Again the caveat is what Sol and Max said. You can check...

Sorry Merc :( I think I'll go with the Buffalo. They even have an office in India and sell these same models there, so I hopefully will have some service in case of a problem. I've been holding off buying a bunch of stuff waiting for Memorial Day prices, but so far have been disappointed.

I'm not clear which internal interface you're looking for. If you look at Newegg, you'll find some (you may have to read the comments to be sure). Many will require a second USB wire just for power, though (not sure if you're referring to this issue). Sata --> USB & eSata, bus powered (off USB...

Thanks for your patience, Sechs. That would be nice, wouldn't it ;-) XP, 32-bit or 64-bit, is dead, isn't it? Whether it makes sense or not all further dev will happen for Vista. So maybe I should buy Vista 64-bit (the upgrade version and do the inplace install Fushigi alluded to in his post)...

If I understand you right, then, this combination should work? 4GB physical RAM, Photoshop CS2, Windows XP 64-bit with the 3GB switch, an 8GB page file will allow Photoshop to see & use 3GB, and the OS won't barf? I'd be interested in Server 2003, but it's way too expensive ($600+). The money...

So help me out. Will 4GB physical RAM, Photoshop CS2, Windows XP 32-bit with the 3GB switch allow Photoshop to see & use 3GB? I've read though, that this will wreak havoc with the OS, especially the video driver, because there's only 1GB of address space for the OS (Page tables, page...

I'm beating this issue up because reliability is paramount. I'm taking it back home, and a dead router is no good to me, and there will be no warranty to speak of. I need a router (WAP, actually), and for clients, 1xUSB and 1xdesktop adapter. It makes sense to buy everything from one...

Le'Egg somes to mind immediately. But you folks used to complain in the past that Newegg didn't ship HDDs properly and the DOAs were quite a large number. Has this changed? Is is safe to buy HDDs from Newegg? I'm taking these out of the country and so longevity of the drives is more important...

Thanks for the link, Maxburn; I had forgotten about that thread. I agree with you; I don't want to overclock, just use all the DIMM slots in my motherboard. My board is supposed to have special circuitry, power and Nichion caps to enable the memory to work well. It amazes me that we still have...

I checked Adobe; Even Photoshop CS3 is only "Certified" on 32-bit Windows. And Adobe programs can use only 2GB address space - Adobe "hasn't tested" with IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE. So screw it. I don't think it's worth adding another 2 GB to my system. It's 2007 and we're still fighting RAM...

The Transcend 4GB is supposedly vellllly fast. How's the 8GB speed and reliability wise, Merc?

Are you sure your optical is ok? Many installation problems go back to bad opticals, bad optical cables or bad media. Could be just a coincidence along with suspected motherboard problems. I've had too many such coincidences to be skeptical.

I finally located the motherboard manual. They clearly state that 4 DIMMs will drop the speed from DDR400 to DDR333. They don't state it here, but elsewhere state that timing also has to be increased from 1T to 2T. The real issue is how much a real-world performance hit there will be. Sigh...

Still researching! Will post in a day or two. Thanks everybody for your input.

I have Photoshop Elements that'll do it; I'm just wondering if there's something better. Elements doesn't seem to want to use virtual memory. I couldn't stitch one large photo that was scanned because it kept borking with "There is not enough memory". I fiddled with Elements' settings, giving it...

Do these Core2 Duo systems suffer from speed degradation if 4 sticks of RAM are used?

Which is the best stitching sw? I have large old originals that I cannot scan in one pass. So I'm scanning each half separately with enough overlap and stitching them. I read somewhere that Autostitch is the best. They don't appear to sell that program directly, so it looks like I have to buy a...

The time has come to buy (The March deadline came and went). Should I buy n or stick with g? I will pretty much be going with one mfr for the router/access point and the client devices. I was hoping n would be ratified by now, but it still seems to be in limbo. The n standard would perhaps work...

You're in very good company. I'd at least 90% of the people on this planet are in the same boat. Including your's sincerely.

Crap. DDR RAM is so expensive compared to DDR2. I'd hate to buy it and have to pull it out. I'll have difficulty selling it if I'm not going to use the extra RAM. I don't know what rev my CPU is. I'm away from home and will have to call the wife and walk her thru running CPU-Z. According to...

I won't be going anywhere near public computers! These'll be corporate desktops or laptops (most likely) running whatever the corporate standard is for firewall, av, etc.

I think he meant cost of a Windows server OS for 4 servers. There are obviously a lot of client PCs.

Initial power draw (inrush?) will always be higher than steady state. These significantly higher loads, though much shorter in duration, could be deadly to power equipment.

Well, it looks like 4 sticks will slow things down. Anbody know about #2?

I have 2 x 1 GB of dual-channel RAM on my NForce 4 motherboard (DFI Lanparty UT SLI DR Expert - I hope I got that mouthful right). CPU is a Socket 939 X2 4400. 1) If I add 2 more sticks of dual-channel RAM, will memory speed slow down (because all slots are full)? I vaguely remember reading 2T...

Adcadet, not true from my understanding. If Truecrypt is installed by an admin with execute rights for all, a non-Admin can execute Truecrypt and work with Truecrypt encrypted stuff. Alternatively, if one has Admin rights, one can run Truecrypt directly without installing it and access...

AFAIK, that's been hardcoded like Merc said in the workstation version of NT, 2k and XP since the NT days.

Thanks Chewy. MS would be my first choice, but I've heard NTFS encryption is very fussy about moving between systems. Truecrypt looks good, gentlemen. Thanks very much.

Is this possible? Or is the encrypted data tied to the system (GUID) that created the encryption? I'm traveling a bit these days for my consulting gigs, and miss my data. Clients provide laptops for use. I'd like to put my data on a high-capacity flash drive or a 2.5" HDD and encrypt it on my...

I read Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression, which led to Countdown to a Meltdown. Depressing.