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Oooh, what's this the FedEx man has delivered. Eight P4 3.8GHz machines. Dell end of quarter madness. I'll be gentle. I won't bring them all up at once :)

Chili's at ORD would be one that I've experienced. Just madness, people who have one foot in the grave being asked for ID. I guess there's always the possibility that they have that rare disease where you age really fast. :roll: I tend to put my drivers license on the counter when I'm paying...

I have to setup computers before they ship to clients. Often-times, the POS Maxtor Calypsos inside will shit the bed within a few months, and the client has to setup the PC again, using the provided Dell OS CD, and various CDs that we provide. Big headache in terms of support. Ideally, I would...

Also, if you are trying to print a PDF, in the advanced features in Acrobat, set to print "as image", rather than via postscript.

Intel use a lot of transistors to get their 2MB L2 cache (and soon, 2MB L2 cache * 2 for the dual core chips). Personally, I prefer CPUs that don't use L2 to make up for turdy performance :)

Still about 30MB/sec. But I attribute that to the speed of the single drive in the client machines. The problem I will be encountering is when I have 6-8 connections to the server, all wanting data. In which case a single 125MB/sec (theoretical) gigabit connection will be insufficient. No...

Ran Cat 6 all over the place :)

Gbit over copper. Sounds like aggregation is the way to go, there's plenty of PCI Express slots free, so bandwidth in the server is not a problem.

Not to worry Coug, even with Intel moving to 65nm, their power consumption is still piss-poor, no comparison to AMD at 90nm: http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2578&p=4

Had to remove it from quite a few machines. But I have now returned, with I think five P4 3.6GHzs, running the big mama unit. BTW there is now a beta 5.04 client, that allows you to specify -advmethods all the time under advanced options. Also an option to allow you to define how much available...

So our new server at work is humming along, takes all we can throw at it. However, as we add more connections to it, I can see that we are going to max out the gigabit ethernet connection (there's 2 on board, one goes to the lab for all the work, the other to the rest of the offices). I see...

IS can help when you are shooting with a long lens - i.e. Merc zooming in on the bOObies! It depends how wide you want to go. If you regularly shoot wide, then a full frame sensored camera would be more appropriate, as you don't have the FOV crop. If you can find a use for it, the Canon 100mm...

I haven't worn a watch for a couple of years. It's sort of liberating. Tho I have the mobile in the pocket if I do need to check it. It helps that my work hours are flexible. I once had a Buffy watch. Can't find it now *blubbers*

OK. Go to Google Print. Search for "storage". Storage Area Networks is the third one down. Select it. Then, below the search box, click on "More results from this book". Login with a gmail account. The whole enchilada is available, all 324 pages of it. This seems to be the case for any book I...

We have one of these at work (15 hot swap SATA bays): http://supermicro.com/products/chassis/3U/933/SC933T-R760.cfm Only downsides are cost ~$800 And insane noise. Sure keeps the drives cool though.

What concerns me is the opt-out part of the whole thing. It's like someone telling the RIAA, "I'm going to rip all my friends CDs, unless you send me a list of all the ones I cannot specifically copy."

Lunar, you may want to wait till early next year when the Intel dual-core mobile CPUs are released. That way you could run two instances of your RAW converter.

Why anyone who wants a quiet machine would choose dual Nocona Xeons is beyond me. Those things are like freaking cores of molten metal, they can easily heat a room. No worries Will, my Atlask 15K II bests your MAU........in power consumption it has no equal :D

Don't forget, if you install the Microsoft Updater (rather than the Windows Updater), update will notify you of updates to all your MS programs.

"Patent-pending" RAID 6? I believe Intel has had the hardware for a while now, got RAID 6 support in the Areca controllers and many others.

Very nice Tea, makes me homesick *blubbers*

Howell said "The last number in the range is finite but unknown."

Translation: He wants a new, roomier, safer vehicle, yet doesn't want high payments for 5 years. I don't see leasing as a negative if you drive less than the alloted 10-12,000 miles per year. Especially if you only lease for 2-3 years. At the end, you own nothing, but you also owe nothing.

Getting 30MB/sec writing 6MB JPEGs from the workstation to the server. Probably the best the shoddy "Calypso" hard drive can deliver. Next week, time to play with Jumbo frames. Re: NIC driver options, is there a site which explains what any of them do? For example, interrupt priority, which...

I don't know if anyone watches "The Office" on NBC. I pissed my self laughing last week (the sexual harassment episode).

Veritas (Stomp) RecordNow DX came with my old Sony 500A DVD burner. Works great on any modern DVD burner as well (haven't tried dual layer yet). Just does the simple stuff. Audio/data CD or DVD. That turdburger Sonic comes on our Dell Precision workstations. Horrible interface. And that update...

Had a Korean woman teaching us Introduction to Programming (in Java). Her accent was so bad no one could understand what she was saying. Apart from the Korean students. In the lab sessions, they communicated with her just fine, in Korean. You spent so much concentration trying to decipher what...

We are using DFS to make each seperate server appear as a logical folder. Also, some of our clients using SAMBA have had some performance issues.

Actually I've found the 90mm fans on the Super enclosures to be acceptable. Usually quieter than the drives they contain. The Supermicro full chassis on the other hand....

Scrap last post, uploading to one of the Promiseless actually gets me 9.5MB/sec. 9.5MB/sec with Promise 25MB/sec with Areca I'm not worried about management at all. Godamn Windows SCSI bug is probably not helping either.

No, server is back in RAID 5. The 25MB/sec I'm getting is when I upload from a client, to the new server. Scary thing, I just uploaded the same files to a server using the Promiseless controller, got around 45MB/sec! The network is by no means fixed, there must be an issue with how the new...

A blast from the past. I've been partial to the Sleeman beers recently, the honey brown lager in particular. The Bass ale is a little heavy for sustained drinking, Harp is also good, as was noted by Cliptin a couple of years ago :) "Alcoholic Beverages may only be delivered in Texas to those...

I think this is what you are looking for Coug: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M28E1.cfm

Windows XP indicated that the connection is Gigabit. It just didn't give me anything over 10MB/sec. Soon as I changed the cable segment, got the 25MB/sec. Network is a bit of a birds nest, we have a 24 port gigabit Dell switch in the server room, I believe both on-board gigabit connections on...

Looks nice, but at the price I would be getting two 2405s. Also, I already have a Gretag color puck doodad, which works fine for calibrating multiple machines to a single standard. That LED based monitor looks quite interesting tho.

So I did some performance benchmarking of the file server today. 10MB/sec over the network. Not good. I changed the array over to RAID 10 (from 5). Still 10MB/sec. Bugger says me (thinking of the $$$ I will need to reimburse the company). And then I notice the network cabling from the jacks...

Out of around 15 Dell Precision workstations (470 and 370), 4 of them have had a failed 250GB SATA version of the above. Within a year of purchase. Of course they are worked pretty hard, but it's difficult to go SCSI when you need large capacity. Surely Dell must be losing money next daying us...

Mmmm, 1:1 can't be beat. At work we don't have any CRTs on the desks (exceptions being some really nasty ones in the server room). Dell 1704FPs mostly, at 1280*1024@17". Couple of 20" UXGAs, and of course the 2405 in my office :) Even tho the vast majority of our work is digital imaging, the...

I think you may have blinded yourself by running with contrast at 100% for so long. I would find 9300K to be insanely blue. 6500K would indeed look very reddish if you were used to 9300K. Is it possible to adjust the RGB values on your monitor?

We use a Pantone Colorvision Spyder2Pro at work. Easy to use, gives excellent, repeatable results. Cost about $250 from Amazon. Gives you a custom ICC profile for each monitor. We calibrate to gamma 2.2, 6500K.

Good luck Splash. Are you near the coast? *shows complete lack of knowledge of Texas geography*

Win2k Pro wouldn't have any probs with a dual core, it would think of it as two cpus. Only problem you may have is if you have dual dual cores (i.e. Opteron dual core duallies, in which cae it may think you have four CPUs and require you to have 2000 Server.

Christ it would be nice if I could buy a 300-8E. Get a grip LSI! Explorer, are you evacuating your abode in light of the cat 5 coming towards you?

I guess my question would be: why not power the engine with hydrogen alone, and forget about the petrol altogether? I'm assuming that it can't generate enough of it.

Well got everything hooked up and turned it on. Screaming banshee for sure. Definitely not an HTPC :) On a plus note the Supermicro case and mobo get along well together, nice to have one big connector for all the front panel crap.

That's great news Greg.

Those speakers require a four channel soundcard (i.e. two mini plugs). I would say that Merc's card is a bit of overkill in this application, his would be good if your speakers could take a digital signal.

Given the amount of drives you have, perhaps consider building a cheap file server with a ton of internal drive bays? Connected via gigabit ethernet, you may no longer have to play the alphabet shuffle.

You can download a 120 day trial of 2003 Server from MS. It may be the x64 version IIRC.