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You are missing out on something absolutely fantastic. Though I am kind of impressed that you've held on to boxed software this long.

Two for each, if not 10 (all mine are 10). And International variants sometimes count as unique; Windows 7 "N" has different keys from the standard products.

Technically, yes he is, but the product keys really do continue working, just as ddrueding said. My standard practice is to go ahead and claim all the product keys when I get the sub, then dump them on a web site I have access to. I download new .iso files as they become available, and I use...

I'd have to need to do that repeatedly before I'd seriously consider the discs to the disk. A 500GB 2.5" drive costs around $50 right now and can probably be shipped for $7 or so.

As I understand it, the licenses can be used for educational or demonstration purposes. The language doesn't specify the amount of time a pre-sales demo can last though.

The one in my living room just has three ethernet cables and one power cable coming out of it. Nothing in there needs a display, but there's a KVM in there if I really need to mess with something. I'd set the monitor on top of the machine, do what I need to do and then put the monitor back where...

Unfortunately, I'm not where those discs are today so I'll have to get back to you.

For $60, a 1TB hard drive makes a lot more sense. I just don't see an application for BD burners.

I think it's the thing that comes before Fixture.

Actually it looks like my discs top out at SP2. Which is weird 'cause the last notebook I got with discs I purchased less than a year ago.

Home or Pro?

Mine just has a lamp on top of it. And usually a cat. And my rack systems really are not loud.

I have a lean, stable configuration for my file servers that's based on Fedora. ZFS is quite tempting but given the volume of storage I'm dealing with I really don't want to go messing around with my set up, especially with the current uncertainty about the direction of Solaris. I figure that a...

I've been quite tempted to try the Seagate 500GB Hybrid drive but I can't quite justify it for myself.

APC Netshelters make good coffee tables.

Generally yes but compatibility is not assured. I've not had a problem sticking Radeon 4000-series cards on ancient LGA775 motherboards.

My rack systems really aren't loud at all. They're not as quiet as my desktop PCs but they're bolted in their racks with the door shut. I can only hear them when I'm standing right next to their enclosures. Swapping the factory fans makes a huge difference though.

Something something something MSDN can be used for pre-sales something something.

I don't like the layout of Antec's rackmount chassis. Not enough drive bays.

That would be a spiffy tool for a modest backup system, but I haven't seen a rackmount machine with a 5.25" drive bay in ages.

Say, Stereodude, you want to buy a computer system from me, don't you? *whistle* *cough*

I've had problems getting proper drivers from Toshiba's web site for years, Coug, but in that regard at least they aren't Acer.

I hope that guy spent some money on an LTO changer to go with all those WD drives. 'Cause I'm sure he'll be getting some use out of it.

Onboard RAID1 should be possible with anything that supports a modern (ICH7 or newer) Intel southbridge.

Absolutely. You'll find your solid caps that way for sure.

I usually shove SSDs between the drive bays and the right side panel of the chassis. They're cushioned by all the other cables and crap I stick back there so they aren't moving around. That beats screwing around with 2.5" to 3.5" adapters.

After all the times I sent my 8800GTX back, I'm not taking any chances at all with $300+ graphics cards and warranty issues. Current ATI software is fine. It took me a while to get it all straightened out on my 5870, but I suspect that was a combination of new card + platform they don't test...

Basically anything that's new enough to use DDR3 should have a modern SATAII controller.

My file servers are ancient C2D E6300s on solid-cap Gigabyte boards, though I don't remember specifically which model (IIRC, they have 12 onboard SATA ports and DDR2 and DDR3 DIMM slots, so whichever one that was). They each have 700W Seasonic PSUs, 2GB DDR2 and use a pair of 250GB drives in...

One thing about XFX and its warranties is that they're really, really serious about making you register your card when you get it in order to qualify.

Let me know how much you want for 'em.

I really hope that's a typo 'cause a 4% better 3DMark score and less processing geegaws in trade for lower idle power consumption doesn't seem that interesting

I can at least see the point to having Sharepoint, though I suspect that in larger corporate settings implementing it is just an extension of the office-peon tendency to do absolutely everything in Excel so they don't have to learn some other tool.

They're comparing last year's $250 card to this year's $325 card.

Lots. I carry five drives around in my notebook bag. I seem to find new reasons to have them all the damned time.

Parallel ports use IIRC 17 pins in standard operation so you'd need three cables and possibly a dumb repeater as well for a run of that length. I have to imagine that the bulk of 3 cat5 strands has to be comparable to a normal parallel cable.

Does anyone have any smallish, working 2.5" drives they're looking to part with for some reasonable price? I'm looking for 30GB+ drives, IDE or SATA.

That doesn't look like an apples to apples comparison to me. In fact, it looks kind of underwhelming.

Don't use those things.

Sadly, Foxit Reader is also getting rather bloated. I think the installer is up to 6MB now and it spews crap like browser toolbars on your computer, too. I'm giving serious thought to moving to Sumatra. The Foxit Reader installer that's available on ninite.com doesn't install the extra crap at...

It's basically using the IE embeddable component inside your Firefox Window, so it's using whatever IE is on your computer. There are options to let it inherit settings from Firefox as well. The only place I use IEtab is to pay my power bill. Even MSDN subscriber downloads don't require IE any...

This is why there is value to occasionally paying attention in those liberal arts classes they make you take when you get a real degree instead of going to a glorified trade school.

I think the word "fun" in the headline might also be inaccurate, since no one in the history of time has ever had fun with Office. ;)

I want to know where LM is getting lesbian video cards. Some of my friends would be very interested in them.

I'm sure he did, but in this post he sounds like some of the less clueful folks I help, e.g. "What version of Windows do you have?" "It has Word!" "Um..." "2003 Word!"

Newegg has the very nice Antec NSK 4482B with a nice Antec 380W PSU for $65 +$3 shipping with coupon code EMCZYZX86 right now. Great case, good styling, solid if not fantastic PSU.

What is a Windows Office 2007?

I just bought some back in August and got 10. I redeem all the keys and save the list first thing.

Also, given that the system is in China, give the guy some credit for using any kind of legitimate license. He probably could have obtained a pirated copy of a fake license even more easily than one that really can pass Activation and Genuine Validation.

The least expensive sub that allows access to Windows and Office is US$200. You get 10 keys for each product, with some international editions counting as different products (Windows 7 N and K have different keys for each edition). Each key can be re-activated a certain number of times: Vista...