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The Radeon 7750 is probably the fastest fanless card you're going to find, but it's not cheap ($100 - $120). If I'm buying a discrete graphics card based on price, I usually look at the following: Is it Low-profile? What's omitted from the low-profile bracket? (i.e. am I losing VGA or DVI?) Is...

Intel will be making boards another couple years. Actually, Intel DOESN'T make those boards. They're made by Foxconn. Which makes me wonder if I should look at Foxconn-branded units more closely. But the reason I've been buying Intel the last few years is the quality, speed and ease of...

At present, my Thinkpad T420 has an nvidia chip in it. I own two other nVidia graphics cards. I have 31 WD hard drives, mostly the WD20EADS drives I got from a customer, but with a few WD Red 3TB drives and a 500GB notebook drive. All of that is of course entirely too much. Also, 31 of a...

Why Workstation and not ESX? Can't you afford to go to vsphere?

As yet another example of stunning inconsistency, Metro Apps can't be uninstalled from Programs and Features or from the Microsoft Store app.

I've considered that, but I'm talking about a roughly 50% decrease. I've not observed that from the other devices I've upgraded to ICS or Jelly Bean. I'm sure my usage habits on that tablet are different just because I carry it around and actually use it though. A couple different outfits are...

Frustrated Linux gamers, mostly in discussions on sites like Slashdot. The idea of driver feature parity comes up a lot when people talk about things like the proposed Steambox. HPC features like CUDA probably aren't as interesting to those people as making sure that water is properly reflective...

I was all excited when I saw that Ubuntu was available for the Xoom, but it turns out that some sick person had ported the desktop version of Ubuntu, rather than the tablet version that I really want to try. Anyway, LG bought WebOS from HP over the weekend and HP promptly began releasing...

In most of those cases the thinking was or is probably that the second server is present for redundancy and/or load balancing. It doesn't appear that those things have been properly implemented, but it sounds like the hardware is present in case it's ever needed. You basically have something...

I've heard lately that nVidia's binary driver is pretty crashy and there's a lot of annoyance in general with the disparity between display drivers for *nix and Windows, but multiple monitors are well supported at least by both AMD and nVidia. Just don't ask for every 3D feature known to man.

You know better than to insinuate that I want any sort of nvidia hardware at all.

I noticed today that a DDR3 Geforce 630 is very literally 3x what a Geforce 210 is by performance specs. I wish it were always that easy.

Yes. That is totally a thing that I would've gotten. ;)

One of my classroom sites is on a 128kB/sec iDSL line. It's a fantastic room. It has an awesome projector and the classroom systems are completely ridiculous. But... 128k DSL. For 24 people, plus seven or eight on-site office workers? And then they bitch and moan because we never want to teach...

I have to say that 8GB is feeling limiting on my T420. I almost always have a couple VMs open at this point and Thunderbird and Firefox probably eat 2GB in total. The RAM is there to be used, but when I see that I'm somewhere over 6GB used on a notebook I do have a momentary freak-out over what...

Well I wasn't quite right (it WAS rather early in the morning when I wrote that). I was thinking of listsvc disable drivername which I'm sure I confused because of course one can stop some network services with the net command, something that still scars me from pre-4.0 Windows NT.

I'm just glad that chip found a good home. It would've been a damned shame for it to just sit around until I tossed it, something that's been known to happen from time to time with my random spare parts.

I promise you that I boot from mine. The only Thinkpads I've bought with SSDs came with Intel 2.5" drives though, so I guess they're all installed as after market devices. Asus is supposed to have fantastic reliability, but that's been counter to my personal experience. Granted that's mostly...

If you can start at least enough to get a command prompt, like through "Repair Your Computer", you can use the net stop command to prevent the relevant drivers from loading. Which is a pain in the ass.

I question the value of doing the "CPU as an add-on to the GPU" arrangement that's under discussion here. Other than game consoles, what needs that kind of configuration? Maybe there's a scientific computing application, but is there a big enough market to drive the billions of dollars in R&D?

I alternate between an ultrabay battery and a third hard drive in my T420. Neither of those things seems like wasted space to me. I really, really like having the mSATA drive but hardly anything supports them besides some Thinkpad models and a few HPs.

It sounds like you want some kind of ultrabook form factor, since you're actually against the idea of having the optical bay. In Lenovo-land, that suggests the T430u or whatever the current X-series. I don't think Dell is doing small form factors in Latitudes and HP's Envy Pro doesn't have the...

So it turns out that a Playstation 4 will basically be a PC, with eight 1.6GHz AMD cores and presumably something ATI-ish and APU-ish in the graphics department, plus 8GB RAM. One assumes it will be locked down so that it can't run Windows and given the architectural differences I'm thinking...

I've never been terribly fond of Ubuntu, but this Tablet demo has all kinds of Do Want in it. Particularly the side screen for multitasking and the actual login screen for differentiating user accounts. I am excited to see that, but I wonder how well it runs on real hardware...

I never learned to write cursive. I just scribble.

I really don't see why the C redistributable needs to be installed with every damned application. Are we assuming that we're installing on a Windows 2000 machine that's never seen an update? It's Microsoft's OS and Microsoft's library file. Why isn't it just being pushed through updates?

Higher-end graphics cards are a lot like Italian sports cars. They're really fast, but they break down a lot. I'm just glad that almost everything now supports onboard video for times when the proper graphics card is crapped out.

Any person in the catholic priesthood at the diocese level or higher has to some degree been complicit in pederasty of some form.

The two things I know can generate that error are using system tools after a pending restart from a PC name change in Windows or Mismatched system libraries for .net or Visual C. Sometimes updating to the latest redistributable for those things fixes that stuff, but I've also encountered .net...

I encounter stuff like that pretty regularly, at least as far as IT spending by nonprofits goes. It's often because they have grant money they're allowed to spend on technology purchases and can't use for other things. I don't know if that's the case here, and yes the consulting firm did take...

It's now Coug's Xeon 5570.

Clear's tech underlies Sprint's older 4G offering. I'm under the impression that reception on it is spotty, mostly on the basis of where I have to be in Chicago to be able to connect to it on my phone. ORD? Yes. Midway? No. Inside the Loop? Maybe. South of the museum campuses? Not happening...

I find faith to be perversely admirable in people I suspect are otherwise intelligent and rational. At the same time, I also think that for the vast majority of believers, faith is the result of youthful brainwashing or a weak-minded reaction to a troubled life. I can't conclude the same things...

Virgin uses Sprint's towers, which does not have 4G service in Ft. Lauderdale.

Granted, there are file trading communities all over the place. The thing that made Demonoid interesting was that it was well-curated and full of otherwise unique content. NNTP and most torrent sites aren't terribly well organized but Demonoid absolutely was, which made it a lot more rewarding...

Apparently demonoid.hk will be a thing. For people who are into that sort of stuff.

Colbert actually did some pretty interesting stuff with that last night as well. His guest was particularly interesting: a person who says he's a practicing Catholic who wants the notion of clergy to be abolished. Religious people are weird.

In the US, your 4G options at present are either AT&T or Verizon (Sprint is still transitioning to LTE and coverage is sparse at best). Verizon is probably the better option since its coverage is almost certainly better in my experience, but Verizon equipment is essentially Verizon-only and not...

It amazes me the sheer number of times that I have the "Oh, you need an access point" conversation takes place.

I also listened to Marketplace last night. :)

I have a new in box Xeon 5570 here. 2.93GHz Quad Core, Hyperthreaded. This is an SMP-able i7 CPU. I'm probably going to try to move it on Ebay but if anyone from SF wants it, I'll sell it for $100. Yes, you need a workstation class board for it. They sell on Ebay for ~$100 - $200. I thought I...

My guess is somebody has proof Ratzy diddled a kid himself.

If it makes compatible discs, it's absolutely worth it.

I've never bothered to try, but that was the gist of Intel's documentation a couple years ago.

You're not allowed to route the same address pool on both the source and destination ports of a router, which is probably what's going on with your setup. You can probably get away with assigning the Linksys to have a static address like 192.168.1.250 and turn of its built-in DHCP server...

The cheapo Rosewill/SiL 8-bay enclosure won't make an array with more than 5 drives, even in RAID1, and Intel Southbridge RAID doesn't offer the option to do RAID5 unless you're using a Server version of Windows for no good reason I can think of. You may be better off with something like Windows...

Baldur's Gate, the undisputed classic RPG, has been made available on iOS and will soon be released for Android with new content added.

OK, it's worth it to hunt down an SVHS VCR that supports S-video output. Those are going to be the Rolls Royces of VCRs in the first place, but between far better tape heads and just generally better output from S-Video, you'll get a much cleaner transfer. You'll need a Video Capture device...

Oooh. That is a good link. Thanks!

It may very well be that the the disk controller's CPU is swamped with the extra parity calculations that come from the 4th drive. JMI controllers are very low cost parts and it just wouldn't shock me if that's the case. Those graphs were from a Perc5 or Perc6, right? That's not exactly an...