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Yes but if you want 16 CPUs and 48GB RAM for all your virtual machines, that's the sort of thing you want to have.

Kind of. It's the result of improvements to OneCare Live, which I think came from something they bought or licensed from Panda Antivirus back in 2004 or 2005.

Full quality sound from BluRay discs requires HDMI. I don't spend enough time watching BDs for it to matter to me yet, and none of my receivers do HDMI anyway, but I'm aware my setup is less than optimal for that.

Security software changes rather more quickly than that and you know it. Right now, MSSE is free and good. It's lightweight, unobtrusive and seems to be bug-free. It's well worth the time needed to evaluate such a thing, especially when you have tons of customer machines, undoubtedly many with...

Locally, Verizon provides Westell to subscribers and AT&T provides a box made by Motorola. That's essentially all I ever see. I think I've installed one third party DSL modem because a customer had one break, and that was a Netgear something-or-other that just happened to be the first box I saw...

I have an i7/920 and an i7/860. I buy Gigabyte boards. I think I have a UD5P and a UD6P though right now I can't remember which one is which. They both overclock well and offer massive performance gains for movie ripping, gaming and running VMs. That said, they're more than most people need, and...

Just having to support PPPoE in the first place is more work than I'd actually want to do.

I've seen it actually catch viruses. Which, compared to some security products I've tried, is a marked improvement. Also it seems to be very light on system resources, which is almost more important. Really. Give it a try.

So do a $100 set of Logitech speakers.

What platform? Do you need standard retention or is it OK for the thing to need some kind of special bracket?

They're also the only ones with "next generation" malware protection, so that must be good.

I said YOU KNOW MICROSOFT MADE SECURITY ESSENTIALS AVAILABLE FREE FOR ALL THEIR CLIENT OSES, RIGHT?

You probably can get decent speakers for $750 if you're willing to buy used ones off ebay, ddrueding. That requires a bit of a leap of faith that the person who owned them didn't abuse them, but even at that, expensive speakers can be repaired. I'm slowly working on getting a set of...

You guys know that Microsoft made Security Essentials free for all their client OSes, right?

What does antivirus software have to do with firewall functionality?

My choices for 7200rpm 2.5" drives were Seagate and Hitachi. I bought Seagate 'cause I've not found 2.5" Hitachi drives to be terribly reliable. Some of those 500GB drives have wound up repurposed as external disks. I didn't buy them for that.

On the contrary, it means I added a dual band card to replace one that was not. It's a... 4965AGN? Something like that.

XP had 3rd party stacks because it didn't ship with BT support. Vista and 7 technically do, so they don't need 3rd party stacks. Anyway, my latest irritation: data transfer rates on 802.11n. I have both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless and I can connect to either on my Win7 notebook with an Intel dual...

All of the drives I'm having this issue with are Seagate 7200.4s, but I see it as surely on desktops as notebooks; they almost never spin up until I either add a third USB connection or go through an excessive amount of unplugging and re-plugging. It doesn't seem to be an issue on my 160s and...

Apropos of nothing in this thread, one problem I have with 500GB 2.5" drives is that they are a lot more finicky about starting up off a pair of USB connections than, say, 160GB drives are. I was really hoping I could move all my sysprep images and virtual machines to one drive, but I don't...

IIRC AMD doesn't have anything that can touch an i5 based on performance, though it's certainly an attractive buy based on price.

We also recently tried to beat some sense into Fushigi for his inclusion of S*ny notebooks in the list of what he considered an acceptable portable computer, but S*ny isn't much of a software vendor (Vegas and Acid Loops aside) and is not particularly germane to this discussion.

At this point, I have to say that Adobe's shitware is at least as bad and possibly worse than Symantec's. I'm essentially positive that the largest single contributor to browser and OS instability at this point is Flash, and Adobe is positively retrograde in terms of addressing security concerns...

I suspect the 5000-series cards were a teensy bit rushed into production.

It will be faster than a top end C2D.

That's a decent computer and a huge step up from what you have. I'm not a big fan of Cooler Master cases, but that certainly doesn't impair the function of the underlying hardware.

Thunderbird can import the PST only if Outlook is installed.

Nope. Though at the moment I'm very happy for my SSDs and TrueImage, which made finding out and switching back a lot easier.

I've never - NEVER - had an issue with ATI's drivers on Windows. Certainly nothing like this. It seems to be specific to the 5870; I'm not having these problems with my 4870x2.

2003 x64 should use XP64 drivers. I used the Vista/Win7 64-bit driver. Now, here's the NEW weirdness: Everything was fine after my initial reboot. My display was perfect. Then I rebooted again, and my 2D display started tearing like there is some sort of vertical sync issue. I had eight...

It needs to come down a bit more before I could entertain a change.

Also, it's trivially easy to change a MAC address.

Basically, nothing can interact with a PST unless you have Outlook installed. Things that import PSTs into other programs all require that Outlook is present on the system in the first place. So install Outlook (and I know you have licenses), and then you can use the Gmail uploader or just the...

In the end I decided not to do it, because I'd be bored in fairly short order and because it would be a step down in terms of my independence.

I installed the newest set of ATI drivers (dated 1/27/2010), which did not end my problem with ATI CCC on Server 2008R2. However, removing the drivers in Device Manager and rebooting seems to have taken care of whatever weirdness it was having, because ever since then I've been able to access...

... and that's coming from an M.D.

I doubt it. And the only thing they'd get out of having my passphrase is access to my internet connection, which is kind of pointless since mine is being used quite heavily and my neighbors mostly have open APs. I guess if I didn't have security applied to my shared files, I'd probably have...

Mine is only 19 characters long. I doubt I'm particularly insecure.

It's really easy, when you're writing code that handles strings like that, to mess up the string length someplace. I wouldn't think somebody working on a driver like that might do it, but I know I screwed it up enough times when I was an undergrad. Also, how many people actually use a 63-digit...

Try using a shorter key. See if it works.

I've set up targets on Centos for my Windows machines to use, but it doesn't sound like that's terribly helpful for you, ddrueding.

TrueImage Backup and Restore Server. Only $900 a copy. :P Most disk imaging programs are either going to be open source, which means they might not support a full range of operations, or they'll be commercial software targeted to desktop machines. DriveImageXML explicitly supports backups under...

When you install Server 2008, there's a default configuration that actually has a whole, whole bunch of stuff turned off, and that support is only enabled through the addition of a server role called "Desktop Experience." Once Desktop Experience is installed, the machine becomes eligible to...

Some people use Windows Server as a workstation, and it's certainly useful for certain devices such as keyboards and mice. It's rather silly to restrict hardware support simply because someone can't see a need for it. I can't see a need for Western Digital Hard drives, but I still expect that...

Yes.

Figured out what's wrong with Bluetooth on Server 2008R2. Server 2008 R2 flat-out doesn't support Bluetooth. So that answers that.

It has a higher contrast ratio than my other TVs, but that particular set doesn't have the black level that's supposed to be the big improvement for going LED over LCD.

My parents are moving away anyway. I never see any of my friends in person, either, I know internet people in all three of the possible locations I might move. My biggest doubts come from the fact that I'd be giving up my private contracting, which I've come to think of as a safety net (these...

32" feels just about right for a desktop monitor to me. Also, some people don't want a room that is utterly dominated by a television set. I don't understand those people, but they're out there. I have a 32" Samsung LED TV. It's a nice display, though I'll admit that I could have gotten away...

The 6.5 upgrade isn't all that interesting, and IIRC the Touch (I have basically the same phone) is missing some of the external buttons WM6.5 is expecting. I like the fact that Windows Mobile and Android pretty much universally run on the same platform. It's nice to have an open system and a...