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I'm sorry, but I believe that high risk endeavors should be an adults only activity. Parents should do their utmost to protect their children from such experiences. It is my understanding that one of the last portions of a child's brain that develops is that which deals with risk and...

Interesting MB. I didn't think that there were any dual socket 1366 MB's in the ATX form factor.

Mercutio, I'm sorry but I'm not feeling the same as you. It is possible that you and they have had different experiences but they are a lot bigger than you, so I lean towards the bigger sample size. Then there is that you said they were using Ebay and reconditioned machines to support your...

I quote the appendix: "SquareTrade randomly selected over 30,000 laptop and netbook computers for this analysis. We included only items that were purchased brand new (i.e. not refurbished or used)." So where did you get the idea that it was using ebay/refurbished machines?

Competition for the Ga-X58a-ud9 -- EVGA - Classified SR2 Dual Xeon 1366 sockets 12 RAM slots SATA III (6.0 GB)

Laptop reliability

I don't know, in that I've never used Eyefinity but here are some guesses. Wowngrade the ATI drivers to Pre-Eyefinity? I thought there was a configuration process that determined details such as the bezel width. If so, simply reconfigure it.

I've never once had a problem with waiting at an emergency Room or Urgent Care facility. I've never had to wait to be seen by by a triage nurse. Paperwork has never taken more than 15 minutes and twice, I didn't even have to deal with paperwork until later. After completing the paperwork...

With DDR2 you could get RAM with water blocks built in. Can you do the same for DDR3? Checkout www.koolance.com. They have RAM water blocks for DDR3.

Yes, regardless of the communication method for crossfire, both cards need to be detected first and that is not happening. My first suggestion is to pull out one card. Can you detect the remaining? Repeat for the other card. Next, obviously there are multiple PCI-E buses so using just one...

I would say yes, except that power boost is supposed to only last a relatively short while and this was lasting throughout the entire download and upload which were aprox. 7GB each and taking many hours to complete.

I must be missing something. How can crossfire work at all when the cards are not adjacent? All the crossfire bridges that I've seen are fixed in length and only reach to an adjacent PCI-E card slot. I will correct that in that most MB's allocate two slots for adjacent PCI-E slots to...

As far as I can tell, yes. Consumer's use cable, DSL, and satellite all of which typically have slower uploads than down. Further, the normal pattern of internet usage for a consumer is that there is far more data downloaded than uploaded. Consumers consume the data, businesses generate...

Last time I looked at VirtualBox it was highly unstable with very limited capabilities but lots of potential. Have they fixed it to make it a usable product worthy of another look?

That will only compress the bits on the surface of the silicon. To compress all the deeper bits, you need the force that a hammer can supply. :lol:

Actually, I find with My Comcast that the DL/UL testers are not doing a good job. They tend to be single threaded but Comcast seems to be BW limiting a single stream. I can triple my tested and stated BW by simply running three independent threads. I found out about this by simply uploading a...

What makes you think that these bays prevent the notebook that use them from having a normal internal notebook drive? It would seem very peculiar, to me, that Windows would keep on running for long if you needed to remove the only hard drive to watch a Blue-ray or CD-ROM movie. At the very...

Where to get the $5K from!

and you too can choose your poison

If you don't like their pricing, then buy it elsewhere. It's a commodity with the same product everywhere. Just note that theres generally a reason why Newegg is extremely popular.

I'm sorry, but how is that any different than any other modular bay system for a notebook and as such I don't see it as a game changer. They've had modular bay systems for notebooks since the very first notebooks.

Avoid Seagate LP as a rather unreliable drive.

I suppose you could write a script and attach it to a schedule but to my knowledge using the native tools you are correct that it must be done manually. Doing a google search I did find this: http://www.petri.co.il/event_logs_archiving_with_gpo.htm

No, I actually think of it as prudent but somewhat inconvienant mainly because occasionally you way want to download something and then you may need to transfer it to the host machine. That transfer typically can't be done directly and if it could/can (Like Windows XP mode) you effectively lose...

I can't see how 7% of all monitors are offered in 1920x1200 matters to your original premise. All it takes is a single available monitor to make your original hypothesis total BS. As long as there is even one available for purchase then that resolution is buy-able if you want it bad enough to...

Total BS. You can buy higher resolution displays if you are willing to pay the price. You just don't want to pay the price. There are lots of 20"-24" 1920x1200 and then if you want higher there are several 30" 2560x1600 They just cost more than the cheaper 1920x1080 ones.

Save the logs in pieces. You can save logs, import saved logs, and you can clear logs whenever you want. So you are no longer constrained by size. The limit becomes how many pieces (how often you save/clear them).

It's called caching.

We really are getting a ways away from recommending a specific laptop. Perhaps glasses are worthy of a separate thread.

Progressive works fine for normal use. For a monitor, not so much. It is a question that only a small portion of the glass is allocated for computer/reading. You really want more than just a single icon on the screen in focus at one time.

Reading glasses are only the start. I'm told that everyone, if they live long enough, eventually gets cataracts and end up needing a lens replacement. Just the normal aging process that we all get to look forward towards. Live long and prosper.

Yes, 1 file at a time == sequential and few seeks. 5 files at a time == no sequential data transfer, with lots of seeks. Seeks kill transfer rates. Much better to do the file transfers sequentially than to do them in parallel.

I too have computer glasses. Progressive doesn't work at all for the specific application. Far to narrow of a field. Reading glasses are designed for closer work than a monitor but even beyond that each eye will have a different prescription and Walmart reading glasses won't. The real...

If anything they are too fast. The UDMA-2 drive should max out at 33 MB/s and the UDMA-3 should max out at 44MB/s. See: UMDA Transfer rates Unless you are doing some form of RAID I would never expect any better than 80-90MB/s and these are older drives on an older machine.

OK, I'll eat my words. You can definitely rack up some money quickly with $3-$5/sheet.

Duhh, $200 in paper cost is a very large amount of paper to go through in just a few hours.

Not a chance, try $400-$500. They will probably drop to below $250 eventually but not at an initial price. They need to collect all the $$$ they can from all the non-price sensitive customers first.

I'm sorry, as good as that is, I would contend it won't really take off till they produce an equivalent 100W bulb for even less money (~$10). They have to be competitive with CFL's. My minimum bulb standard is 100W. The only time I use less are in light fixtures that have heat restrictions...

toe nails or tonsils: I vote no toe nails :lol

Yes, I have observed the same syndrome from newegg many times before. They produce a sale, and if it is successful then the price changes upward quickly.

Never even heard of it before. However at $1500 per storage node per year it isn't exactly cheap.

No, the SilenX fans were not server-certified. The brand is well known for moving lots of air relatively quietly. Really, I didn't even consider that they would all fail simultaneously without the normal screeching warning. Redundancy is almost always better than long MTTF's and I had...

Today is not a good day! About a month ago I switched out all my120mm fans for SilenX on my server: 2 for the processor, 1 case, and 2 for HD's. About a week ago, I noticed that the case and one processor fan had failed. No big deal, there is redundancy. Today, I found that the machine had...

How about taking this issue to PM's. I do not see the need for a public trial.

Or it might not. I don't know what makes an HPTX and there are things like where the mounting holes are matter. The fact is that it is not using any of the standard mounts such as EATX, SSI-CEB, SSI-EEB, or SSI-MEB because those are not mentioned. All that needs to be said is XXX compatible...

Just to make sure we are all on the same page, I am complaining about the EVGA classified SR-2 motherboard and not the Asus or Gigabyte motherboards that were mentioned above.

I had to look up folding. Do you mean folding@home? no! My point is that it really isn't something so special that it is worth having to hand-modify a case. Theoretically, you don't need a case or can hand make/modify a case but the number of people that do that are very small. Then there is...

What is the point, when it uses a non-standard mount that will require modifying a server case (larger than ATX) to make it fit? Just get a dual processor workstation board that fits a standard server case.

I thought people here might be interested in this Q&A concerning the House Finale being shot exclusively using Canon 5D Mark II's http://www.petapixel.com/2010/04/09/house-season-finale-filmed-entirely-with-canon-5d-mark-ii/

They still all run on smoke: When the smoke leaks out, they die. I'll be even more impressed when they make electronics that doesn't depend on smoke running through everything.:rotfl: