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Crazy. I haven't used WS2008 yet. I'm not feeling the need to change from 2003 (I still have a pair of 2000 servers around here).

I meant standard for the machines I build. They are already in 50% of them. The X25-M and a mid-range Core2Duo is snappier for office apps and web stuff than a Velociraptor and a Q9650.

Thanks for the heads-up. These will be standard issue soon.

I have had a few that mounted the motherboard upside down. The main advantage was graphics card cooling; the GPU was finally on the top of the card, with plenty of space above it. I built a duct front-to-back that handled the CPU as it's own unit. It worked quite well.

Latest DPP (3.5.something) running on i7@3.91Ghz. Source images are on X25-E, destination is X25-M. As you can see, it never maxes any of the CPUs, which means the bottleneck is elsewhere. Something tells me the HDDs aren't the limitation either. If I were looking to say a program is poorly...

In the meantime I will placate myself with a pair of 300GB Velociraptors. ;)

Photomerge does a great job with my cores (8, counting hyperthreading) and happily eats up the 10GB of RAM I let it use.

That looks to be my issue, udaman. Excellent research. So it looks like Intel is the only one at the moment, but that better things are coming quickly? Perhaps I'll just run a pair of VelociRaptors until some fast ~300GB SSDs are available. My plan was to purchase by next Friday, but I can put...

I share your dissapointment with the major photo apps lack of multithreading capabilities. Fortunatly, every time I've increased the number of cores, I've also increased the clock speed of those cores. CS4 does do better in this regard; I've started using it over PTGui and Photomatix because it...

No, the performance of the Intel SSDs is fine, I just need more capacity. I'm considering a pair of the 80s, or a 160. Just wondering if anyone else has cracked the hesitation issue yet.

Why did you replace the CPU and what performance were you looking for?

Found them in stock at ZZF for $1k.

That is what it looks like to me. Thoughts? Has anyone found an SSD out there that performs like the Intel X25-? yet? I can't find the 160GB version for sale.

Is that cucumber? I hate cucumber.

You're just being a smartass now. I meant the 10,000-100,000 (who knows?) that we've killed in Iraq that had no way of hurting Americans until we sent American troops within range of their weapons (And weren't pissed enough to attack us until we invaded their country). How stupid was that?

Point them out and I will pull the trigger myself. But targeting those that aren't a credible threat (people with rocks and light weapons on the other side of the world) is just dicking around. Further, I don't believe for a minute that taking off my shoes, being limited to small bottles of...

The OS won't freak out (once you are using the multi-core kernel it is all the same), but it likely will deactivate. That is a 2 minute phone call, nothing to worry about.

1. Israel and the Palestinians are children that cannot play with others. They need to keep pounding each other until it is unpalatable enough that they are willing to compromise. 2. You really believe that we are safer now than 9-10? That all the wars and reduced freedom has made life better...

Just ordered an MH-C9000, some lesser chargers, and an army of eneloops (AAA, AA, and the larger size adapters). It would be great to get the company off disposables, even just for the wireless mice and keyboards would be a significant environmental gain.

I agree that the prices are still absolutely nuts, I'm waiting for a Shuttle SFF to come out, and I can only imagine the premium on that.

I can agree with that.

I'm right with Merc on Heroes. The first season was great, but from the first episode of season two I knew I wouldn't like it. I've only watched perhaps 4 episodes in. Not likely to finish.

FedEx and UPS both have their warehouses near KMRY airport. About 30 miles from here.

That stuff does look neat. The extension/web interface for X10 stuff looks really straightforward.

You also have to be pretty damn good to make a home printer outperform what you get from a shop. I've looked into a color managed workflow (calibrated and cooperating monitor/software/printer), and it is darn tricky/expensive. On a different note, I failed to support my tripod adequately for...

I just hope that nothing goes crazy during the inauguration. I'm supposed to be coming back from Hawaii a couple hours later.

Illegal? Wow. Against policy I can imagine, it's against our policy as well (doesn't apply to execs), but illegal is another matter. Govt. contracts? Classified stuff? And to reply to Uda, there is someone at the front desk from 7AM until 6PM 5 days a week. Even after that, I can see the truck...

I have stuff shipped to the office, that way the receptionist can always sign for it.

This last bit is really important. I remember when the only people in the business were geeks. Now I know a number of people who do IT "for the money". When did that start? When did we start making that much money? When did any decent geek job include 9-5 and a good paycheck?

Be careful using the Beta for actual work, I didn't look into when it expires.

I had a network issue on my install as well. The NIC driver that came on the disk worked fine, but installing the new one using windows update killed it (check device manager). Rolling back the driver and a reboot resolved the issue.

Anything that requires an amount of typing; e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets, etc. Regardless of app availability, the platform itself is unacceptable. If the iPhone had a keyboard, we would have something.

All great ideas Fushigi. The pilot group would be difficult, since nearly all the groups have substantial overlap. I do need to look more into login scripts, what the best kind are, he best way to deploy them, and the tips and tricks that make them work well. I know there is substantial...

1 Fileserver is just going to be easier to maintain and backup. Performance really isn't an issue, as what they have now sucks so badly. Reliability is also not so much an issue, the new server has multiple redundant power supplies, drives, and NICs, and the backup server maintains the structure...

Congrats man! As I'm posting this from my honeymoon, I can speak with some authority. No matter what she says, the wedding is all about her and it is your responsibility to make it work. I managed (just), but remember that it has to be what she wants, not what she says she wants. BTW: How long...

No, I think that means I win. Unless you are doing the Russian "who can suffer more" thing.

It is actually starting to warm up here as well; 70 degrees at 10:30PM. I'll take some more of that...

What happens when I take my camera to work...

Ooh, that does look neat. Thanks for the tip.

Ugh.

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Screw that. I'm going to Hawaii on Thursday.

Bah, I started arguing with myself, I can never win those... Got some sleep between 3PM and 5PM. Now it's back to work.

The plan would be to take the old machines offline permanantly, redirecting their name (via DNS), their IP (by having multiple IPs on the new server) and the share names (hopefully there are no duplicates) onto a single machine. By pulling the old ones off the network, I would hope to prevent...

Most of the servers are within the main campus; all connected by gigabit fiber. If there are any servers at the remote offices, I would want to move them here anyway; the remote sites are too dirty/insecure to actually be holding data. And the point to point T1s can handle the load without...

The total number of people is under 300 in about 18 offices in an area 100 miles long and 50 wide. I would love to start from scratch, but I don't have the resources to handle the aftermath. While I may still end up going that way, I want to consolidate sooner, so I can start getting decent...

As soon as I have a retail copy I will make that comparison as well. It's just that reading the reviews online got my hopes up, so I didn't evaluate it as a beta.

What about adding the other IP to the new server? Wouldn't do SMB broadcasts, but everyone else might be OK...

I'm afraid the news isn't that good. It starts up and shuts down very quickly, but everything in the OS takes a moment longer than it should. Much like Ubuntu and OS X; you are always waiting for your clicks or drags to register. I'm sure it isn't slow, and if you were to benchmark it, the...

The last guy here made a real mess. There are probably thirty major network shares spread out over a dozen machines in the organization. I don't even know where some of them are physically, nor do I have a list of who has or needs access to them. I just put in a beautiful new dedicated file...