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Yes I am and yes, I did the same thing that you did too. While there is no label, one of the paper sheets has the returning number for UPS shipping (same sheet as the one with the returning address IIRC). But the last time I returned a drive to them, I forgot about it and returned it via...

Player's rulebook, second edition. Around 1992 IIRC.

I think I still have that book, somewhere in a forgotten box. I thought it dated from the very early heighties, but you were more than five years old by 1981. My memory must be bad. I know I was a lot older than 5 when I've had it.

Yes. If you're willing to give them your credit card number, they'll ship you a replacement drive within a few days and ask you to send back the defective unit. The drive they send is well packed in a kind of plastic/foam shell. I sent back the defective units I've had in the same package...

That makes Mark our only wizened sage.

New cooling solution for the latest RAdeon 9800XT card from Sapphire : Absolutely ridiculous IMO.

Have you tried PowerMax to detect any possible problem not seen by Windows' scan utility?

Reminds me someone who used to roam at SR, can't say for sure, but... The Giver! Tony, obviously. Gary doesn't pretend to be several different folks, unlike Tea and Tannin. Doug It's fubar on a bad day Honold (who is also an undead slayer) Greg and his SCSI fetish... Me (Boards with only...

What is the deep meaning of "d20"? Haven't found an answer on the linked site. If it's D&D related, I figure it stands for a dice with 20 faces.

A script that goes haywire is a software problem. Adding a second CPU is only a kind of patch to a software issue, as the machine remains responsive only because a second CPU takes care of the remaining processes while the first CPU is busy because a rogue process has entered an infinite loop...

2 gagabytes of RAM on an i875P mainboard? Is it supposed to be a high traffic server? IMO, most of that RAM will never be used and will actually slow down the system rather than speeding it up. And +500GB of storage...for a web server? Damn, I never thought Frontpage could produce such...

Félicitations Merc. Slash another few hours from that amount on a regular basis and you might stop being an insane workaholic. ;-)

I've said a while ago that SiS' PCI bus was better than VIA's but a tad slower than Intel's. I think it's Blackberry would wrote that SiS' IDE driver was the best thing that ever came to world since sliced bread. I didn't refute it, but I asked for proof/source of claim. Glad to see SiS...

I don't see an nForce2-based motherboard with only dual-phase VRM inside a server either. It's a nice SOHO board, both IMO, it has no place inside a server.

I'm rarely on a hurry when I compress things and WinRAR has a superior compressing ratio than Winzip.

No information on the response time, contrast ratio and brightness. The screen has a native definition of 1680x1050. Not too many games should support this format, but hey, who would be crazy enough to play games on a MAC? Here are the spec of the rest of the system : All this for the low...

I don't think we'll ever have a consensus here. Many have vocalized their opinions and views on the matter, so anyone writing the article should have more than he'll need to make his choices on what and what not to put in the server(s). Mercutio seems to have the most experience in small...

Exchange, not at all. I've never used it. Every time I hear about Exchange, it seems to be mummyfied in "unsecured" bindings. MySQL 4.0x works well enough not to wonder about SQL Server. I wouldn't use Microsoft's software for security (firewall) unless I have no other choice. IMO, this...

Well, maybe. It's still unclear which one people would prefer to see in the article. #2 would have my favor. I suspect #1 will be the most popular. While it might be powerful enough, I still believe we should use more recent (and easily available) components. It can be mentioned in the...

Ok, it's not that big of a news, but I had nothing else to do this morning. Ace's Hardware also tested the performances of Apache 1.3.26 in both 32bit and 64bit modes and the latter shows a nice boost. Especially with the speed bump announced today, AMD's Opteron is looking more and more like...

It would only cost ~2900$ for the SATA RAID array and ~3200$ for the scuzzy one. Hey, Christmas' coming.

BTW, the 615$ scuzzy RAID controller I mentioned above was a dual U320 channel LSI MegaRAID 320-2. So it would be 4 drives per channel for an 8 drives RAID array. I would really like to see objective benchmarks comparing a LSI MegaRAID 320-2 versus a 3Ware Escalade 8506-8.

I haven't seen numbers, but I would almost be ready to bet money that an U320 SCSI channel is way, WAY more efficient than an ethernet hub for packet arbitration.

Yes but each scuzzy drive transmit its data by packets at the speed of the interface. When mulitple drives have to transmit data simultaneously, each drive transmits no more than what's in its buffer and then the arbiter switches to another drive. Overall, contrarily to ATA, a scuzzy bus isn't...

what?

With Ultra320 scuzzy now relatively mainstream for scuzzy RAID controllers, I don't see that as a particular disavantage, at least not until a few more drives generations.

I withdraw my comment about RAID 10 with SATA drives would be cheaper than RAID 5 with SCSI. I thought the Raptor WD740GD was cheaper than its SCSI relatives, but a visit on Pricewatch told me that 73GB 10K U320 SCSI drives cost about 300$-325$ for the latest generation, just like Western...

If SATA RAID controllers were all like the Promise and HighPoint models, this rant would be deserved. But a 3Ware Escalade compared favorably to any similarly priced or slightly more expensive SCSI RAID controller. I would dare to put 8 Western Digital Raptor WD740D hooked to an Escalade 8500...

7 ou tof 10. The first one is very tricky.

Contrast ratio seems to vary a lot according to the spec. Can you return the display if you're not satisfied? For the price, it looks like a good value, but it's always better when you can try the monitor first, especially for LCD.

The Viewsonic VP201s seems to share the same panel as the new Dell 2001FP. Yours features a slower response time and is only compliant with TCO'99 instead of the VP201s' TCO'03, but is otherwise similar. A monitor close to the Dell 2001FP that Anand praised so much must be excellent indeed...

New and improved "fat burner".

After my last visit at SR's forum, I still notice the abondance of perhaps the thing that annoys me the most on a computer-related forum and I would like to submit a new addition to our rules of conduct for my own sanity : You agree to never, ever, write about RAID 0 in this forum, especially...

About as much as 15Krpm SCSI drives, rackmounts, dual CPU systems and Windows 2K Advanced Server. If you don't have all the above, God knows how you'll ever be able to use IE and check your mail.

You have strange ideas for winter cars.

It's nothing new. Supermicro makes something similar. Enlight too.

A Scandinavian making frequent trips to U.S.... Does It's FuBaR! = Linus Torvald? Some people told me that several years of programming could affect mental health, but that much?

It might interest some of you. PHP seems quite popular around here. News source

I've never seen such a thing as an SiS chipset beating an Intel one for PCI bus efficiency. They aren't bad, but second to Intel. As far as disk benchmarking results, most I've seen were made by people with questionable computer skills using questionable testing methods and questionable...

And of course, I suppose that American companies pay a lot of taxes too... I'm not in favor of people paying taxes a lot more than corporations, but I don't think Canayan and Québécois companies are worst on this chapter than U.S. ones. The problem of the low contribution of corporations is...

Even if it would be fast enough, wouldn't we be accused of recommending an obsolete platform - ie : one that's about to be phased out?

Without knowing what this is, it looks like the idea I have of a coal electric plant. The only I've seen were those in old SimCity games.

And please someone fix that annoyingly long url.

From the second link you provided : Pretty good ratio for a country that supposedly "prevent research" As for your first link, it looks like poor PR by some US pharmaceutic lobbyist. I didn't read the last two. Believe what you want, but consider that drugs' prices haven't been problematic...

Looks like a nice place. I hope you're not too far from Lake George as it seems there are a lot of parks around it. Should be a relaxing environment at this time of the year, which you should be able to enjoy since the allergy period should be over. US is a third world country with regards to...

IMO, Linux folks can forget the 20% market share they told was their target in a few years if their OS doesn't work out of the box someday. Most admins are too lazy to spend time to fix something that just doesn't simply "work" by clicking next-yes-yes-next-ok-yes-next-next-reboot. The average...

But we can't tell our readers to buy their stuff on eBay for their server or many of them will write something like "They used second-hand parts, pardon me while I point and laugh". Some advices that are sound for individual recommendations are simply inapropriate for serious articles...

Ah Tabarnack! I hate it when I make such mistakes. I meant "than". Sacrament.

Then scratch the 660$ of Samsung drives and replace it by 1210$ of Western Digital WD2500JD. Add another 100$ for a boot drive (or as low as ~60$ for a PATA WD400JB). Sub-total now is roughly 2675$. Still no OS. I do believe at least an optical drive should be included (a 20$ CD-ROM would be...

The problem isn't with Canada having lower quality drugs (it's not the case, Ottawa's regulation is just as tight as yours and I would dare to say, probably more impartial towards rich pharmaceutic companies), but with the outrageous prices the US drug companies ask for their products within US...