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So you can get an E-mail and have no idea what the fuck context or even element your correspondent was replying to? Why not just handle all your communication through IMs or SMS text if you're going to do that? I'd also like to point out that every forum program we've ever used for...

I have a problem with e-ink displays, which is that they update too slowly to be useful for thumbing through a e-book. A LCD/OLED screen is better and more versatile, but then you lose out big-time on battery life. I actually do a huge amount of my reading on-screen but as yet I haven't found...

All your users are on Gmail, which is wrong by default. When I first got on the internet in the early 90s, the standard for quoting text was to reply beneath quoted text and if necessary to interleave quotes with replies. This establishes context and is vastly preferable to the way Outlook...

Microsoft's Courier tablet hasn't gotten much in the way of press, but in my opinion it might be a much more interesting product than the iPad.

I'm really, really, REALLY pissed at Antec right now because I can't find suitable replacement power supplies for the NSK3800 and they've basically said I'm SOL. I have 40 of the stupid things and right now I'm looking at cutting up the backs of three cases somehow because I can't find a PSU...

I use Thunderbird. I keep all my mail in my inbox with no folder structure at all (every non-spam message I've gotten since 1993 or so, around 13GB of messages). My mail is pretty much all forwarded to a Gmail account (for spam-handling and backup in a proper, universal format) and then...

Passmark is a benchmark. It has very little to do with the day-to-day reality of operating a computer. I'll glance at benchmarks when I'm evaluating a purchase, but most of the time I'm far more interested in subjective performance, which comes down to the simple question "Is this machine...

I wound up installing a two-port PCI Adaptec SATA controller and doing a repair install using that as my disk controller. Had to use a USB floppy to ideal with the install time driver. The setup as it is now might not be ideal, but it's better than whatever the hell is going on with the...

You have to take Tea's age into account.

If you do it right, she should be satisfied with six. :P

3m cables should not be hard to find.

I have a solution that works for myself, but I'm not trying to store anything of personal significance (I doubt I have 50MB of personal photos) so much as being able to quicky locate the correct set of naked women. A couple small hints: I make extensive use of symlinks so that there is always...

Porn in technology: Today I was able to download a full-length stereoscopic porno movie.

Affecting disk access and nothing else? You think? CPU utilization is in the range of 1 - 2% every time I look and commit charge is fixed at only about 450MB, which is pretty much exactly what I'd expect on an essentially idle Windows file server. I haven't pulled this thing out of its rack yet...

There was a long thread on Slashdot about a week ago about the possibilities presented by long-distance consumer-class devices like this. It devolved into a discussion by gun nuts over what would be needed to shoot one down and whether or not those things could carry a meaningful payload over...

Apparently not on the 7K1000, but I did try an second set of 80GB 7k250 that are SATA I anyway.

I got this E-mail today. It's in bad Chinglish, and I'm not sure now if I'm getting a keyboard or not, or how much they're going to charge me.

I just tell people to buy decent power supplies in the first place.

Hey while we're at it... I recently became responsible for an Intel OEM Server. I don't know what model it is, but it's about six years old and uses an integrated LSI SATA controller instead of ICH* or IDE-emulated SATA. The machine has a hardware RAID1, but they way I came to be involved with...

OK, yeah, that's pretty sad. Truly, as an instructor I really do appreciate the demands of the certification process, in that it tests what should be knowledge specific to the subject matter. Too many people just study the answers they need to pass the tests, sometimes without even minimal...

It made a very sensible recommendation of 400W for the configuration of one of my game machines, within about 10W of what I thought I needed.

Between 3.33 and 3.8, no. Unless I'm transcoding movies from disc to MP4 or MKV. Which I do a lot. Mostly what I notice is that those two machine are WAY faster than the boxes they replaced.

I'll admit that I don't know much about the ramifications of implementing IPv6. It's not relevant to reality unless you're an ISP. Routing protocols on the level you're describing are subject matter for the Network+ exam, and as I said in an earlier post in this thread, there's a reason why we...

No mention of top speed on that jet pack. And it weighs over 100kg. And it costs as much as a modest home.

Solution: Next time order four 1TB drives instead.

Do you not occasionally need to dial a phone number?

My latest shipment of drives from Newegg, four $44, 250GB Samsung drives, arrived double boxed with the entire interior volume of the inner box occupied with bubble wrap individually surrounding each drive. Yes, the camera on my phone sucks.

Internet only. No bandwidth cap. Static IP. Rights to run servers. Supposedly no traffic shaping. At the time that I signed up, 12Mbit was twice as fast as consumer service.

As far as I know, 256bit AES is still considered secure.

Indiana state law caps that sort of thing at six months of credit, and I'm not sure I qualify since service WAS delivered. Also, I'm not sure what "package" I'm in now for future billing purposes. I have nine months of service that I'm obligated to pay for.

Congrats on Fixture status. Finally. :P So a funny thing happened to me today. My $150/month Comcast "Business" service has been crappy for a long time, and after finding that a connection to my neighbor's wireless network resulted in generally faster data transfers, I called and complained. I...

That's the weekend after the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, which already has me missing two days I normally work.

XP might not have activation because the version of Windows you're using doesn't have activation.

No bluetooths makes my Server 2008 machine happy. And it can sit on my nightstand. I went ahead and bought one.

Epic screwing around

nForce-based systems have some general weirdness with storage, as I recall. My standard practice when I was building nForce-based systems was to never load nVidia's storage drivers, and I recall that there were some data corruption issues with those boards as well. Not that saying so helps...

How do we know that's not what they're doing?

The WLAN adapters in netbooks are replaceable. I say buy the netbook you want and pay $25 to get a supported card.

My least-favorite customer finally saw the light and agreed to move the Exchange server I'm maintaining (on a Comcast dynamic IP, so like half his emails don't go through. Which is my fault) for him alone to a single-user Google Apps Premier domain. I feel oddly buoyant.

All you need is a 1kW PSU and a BUNCH of USB cables...

Is the power arrangement the same for USB as it is for eSATA in your enclosure? Do you have another system with eSATA that you could try your enclosure on?

When USB 2.0 was released, it was ultimately revealed that there were multiple specifications that the USB people wanted to call USB and USB Hi-speed. Any number of products shipped with "USB 2.0" support that did not offer USB Hi-speed, which was touted as the principle advantage of having...

I don't remember exact BIOS settings. All told I probably spent five or six hours screwing around with voltages and timings. I read a Newegg reviews for tips and then went afield for discussions specific to overclocking with the board I'm using (Gigabyte UD5 or UD6P - I have one of each for 1366...

You can download an .ISO for essentially any Microsoft business software, as long as there's no legal restriction on that software (Windows 2000 is no longer available, for example, because it shipped with Microsoft Java Virtual Machine). There is a button you can click that will generate a...

Perhaps the thinking is more that AMD is binning perfectly good quad core CPUs as 2x or 3x models?

What are you using for a chassis?

1. Would not bother unless I saw a commit charge over 2GB on a regular basis. 2. Onboard video is generally fine. A gamer might think otherwise, but chances are very low that your dad would run a fullscreen 3d app if he spends all his time in a web browser now. 3. USB 3.0 is kind of a joke...

Microsoft is offering Technet Plus for $250 with coupon code TNWIN7L right now. That pays for itself approximately the second time you install Win7. Very good deal.

Gives me lots of room to pad prices. :D

It's kind of amusing to me that if I configure that T100 with a reasonable selection of hardware (2.6GHz Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2x250GB drives, SBS2008 license) I wind up about $1200 cheaper than if I set up the same machine on a rackmounted platform. Yes I know it's a different series of Xeon. It's...