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I've had good luck with electronics on the lowest possible setting in an oven. I've rescued cell phones and music players that way. Of course, those things were dropped in fresh water, not salt.

Thank you, all.

I'm giving her the comic books and pixie stix (powered sugar in a straw), not the cornucopia of massage oils and condoms. That's my ex's idea of a joke. Truthfully I have no idea what's going to happen, but from asking the very small number of women in my life the overall consensus is that you...

Since we're dealing with Vista, you could just set up Parental Controls to prevent his default account from running Windows mail while using the Secondary Login Service (right click, run as) to launch the program with a different set of credentials. Or you could set NTFS permissions such that...

Didja try this yet?

I must say that I haven't seen an error 5 on the Windows Firewall, but I'll raise a glass to the sentiment of Norton's vacuum-induction abilities.

My client has a configuration that works (through a demand-dial VPN), which is all he cares about. I've talked to AT&T several times now and gotten a different and contradictory reply each time as to the existence and nature of the blocked ports. I suspect it's a local issue only, but I'm not...

Well sechs, what would you suggest I do?

It's by far the best of the choices I have.

She's not very interested in flowers. I might get some anyway, just in the name of tradition, but probably not roses. I did send her some for her birthday last year. I knew where she was working, and Google maps was able to tell me there was a florist's shop just a couple of blocks away. The...

My friend Frodo will be here in 36 hours. I put her up at the Hampton Inn, just because, after visiting all the places that cost less than a Hampton Inn, I decided that I'd rather not give her the impression that the only people who live where I do are truckers and hookers. So I'm paying $600...

Yes. It's an additional layer of protection for your computers. It's possible that someone could find a scriptable remote exploit or worm for Linksys WRT-whatever that exposes your internal network, and at that point, you'll be wanting your internal software firewall again.

No. That looks more like an L2TP implementation. Certainly more secure than PPTP, but I was just talking about PPTP, which requires pretty close to zero setup since it doesn't require a Certificate Authority and has both client and server already built into dd-wrt.

I foresee another good company being ruined by MBAs.

If you can do dd-wrt, it has a built-in PPTP client and server. That's not the most secure thing in the world, but it's serviceable. The fact that dd-wrt does not directly support SSH is one of the things I don't particularly like about it.

It's really not. You'd need a terminal server and a client that supports zmodem but I do know it's much faster than SMB for file sharing, if all you care about is transfer rate.

I suspect that if you really want speed your best bet is probably zmodem. :D

I use HannsG monitors in some of my classrooms. They're acceptable for that, but I wouldn't tolerate one for my personal use. I'd rather have something with higher contrast.

Tell you what: I'll give you RDP access to a client machine there and if you can make an SMTP connection using any combination of settings or encryption with any mail server other than smtp.yahoo.att.com from that client without resorting to stunnel or a VPN, I'll give you a nice, shiny quarter.

Biggest problem I have with Realtek NICs is that some of them just won't operate with some switches at speeds higher than 10Mbit, no matter what the link light is reporting. I've tested and verified this several times with 3Com and SMC switches against supposedly 100Mbit or 1000Mbit cards. I...

Someone on Totalfark pointed out a guy on IGN's forum with 150,000 posts a few months back. Fark only keeps track of posts for the preceding two weeks and some of the users there, especially folks on the Politics forum, manage 150 - 200 posts a week.

Does it hang after completing the RAM check or at some point during? If it's after, the next step in POST is to check the CPU, and if THAT is taking 10 minutes that would be highly indicative of a problem. Actually, no matter what, there's a hardware issue here. Nothing should normally take 10...

What I'm primarily thinking about is the fact that you've got companies like EMC and NetApp building extremely high cost storage solutions based largely on dozens of spindles to achieve levels of performance, and several of the major players in spindle manufacture have no meaningful presence in...

Speaking of "gay blue", I deliberately buy pink things because my students are less likely to walk off with them.

I'm just waiting for all you laggards to catch up by posting more. ;) I wouldn't come here if I didn't enjoy the company. Thanks go to everyone else for being on SF.

80 - 85wpm maybe? I've observed the same behavior on Vista and on different hardware than my T61, and it's the whole system that pauses, not just my word processing app (Word or OO.Write or Kompozer). I believe ddrueding has complained about the issue as well. And yes, I've run the system with...

Unplug all your USB stuffs and see if the problem goes away? Failing that I probably have one of that board floating around. I'll look and see if there's a goofy BIOS setting someplace that might do that.

It doesn't happen in XP or Server 2003. Different driver base but it drives me insane.

I have a strong suspicion that there's some FUD coming from enterprise storage vendors.

In the end, there's still the single huge issue of UI responsiveness, and in that department, Win7 is taking a back seat. Furthermore, no matter how many synthetic benchmarks are done that show newer Windows kernels have x000% faster performance for some obscure event (something that happens in...

I still want to see some numbers. What does it take to kill an SSD under some crushing load? As far as I know, everything about the lifespan issues is theoretical. I've not seen anything about a real world high-volume setup.

Unless it does DTS Live as well I'm still going to buy another Auzentech card.

Sort of. I have a 4870 X2. Someone else bought it. ;) And I really have no use for it. It doesn't make a subjective difference in any of the games I play compared to the 8800GTX I had in my game machine before it.

$300 for a top end part isn't that bad, either, but what am I doing with this thing that I need that horsepower?

There seems to be a LOT of FUD about using SSDs in the datacenter at this point. I know when I was looking a new server configs for my new standard platform last December that everything I read said to stay away from SSDs. I wonder how much of that is coming from "enterprise" drive vendors who...

Mainstream support for more than 4GB RAM is nice, but short of machines that manage VMs or large databases I don't see a reason for it. The Libraries feature is nice if you have crap spread all over network drives like I do at home, but mine is already organized appropriately without that. Jump...

When I tried Win7 on a Celeron D 430 notebook with 2GB RAM and a 5400rpm hard disk, I found performance to be more than adequate. Certainly better than the copy of Vista it shipped with. Things weren't quite faster but Windows overall seemed a bit more responsive or at least less aggravating...

If you're reasonably careful with hardware selection, a Hackintosh can be pretty easy to set up. Working from a Dell Mini 9 or MSI Wind U100 is very straightforward, as is going from from most Gigabyte i965 boards + a geforce 7300.

My volume license numbers were available a couple weeks ago.

I have a desktop and a notebook on Win7 right now, but the notebook will probably revert to something I actually like in the near future. I'm building an i7 with Server 2008 R2 in the near future (technically, that OS is even newer than Windows 7) but again, that's for home use, since I can't...

Well, you're going to have to specify some things, like the existing operating system platform, any database systems in use, how the data is distributed among systems, the available network infrastructure, legal requirements for data storage (e.g. HIPAA), business retention needs and the actual...

Glen (UPS), Tom (FedEx) and Rita (DHL) all love me. I give them each a holiday card with $50 in it every December to ensure their continued kindness and good service. :P

I was just looking at this with my Network+ students, oddly enough. The least expensive, most practical 10GbE I'm aware of is 10GbaseSR, which is still fiber based. There *is* a 10GbaseT, which uses Cat6 but introduces enormous latency into your connections, and a 10GbaseCX, which has a range...

PXE relies on a small TCP/IP implementation to send out bootp requests and start the netboot process. In theory any interface that supports IP and has a DHCP/bootp server configured with the correct set of options would work, regardless of what's going on at layer 2. A quick google says some FC...

I will say that the couple times I had to call Hauppauge, a human being answered the phone. That was a few years ago though. Asus, half the time their RMA and motherboard downloads web sites are down. On the other hand, tuner cards just come down to chipset regardless. Hauppauge might include...

Typically even Maxtor drives outperform Barracudas, once Seagate gets around to releasing them. Maybe they're just being ironic.

FC requires a whole support infrastructure to make it work. You need FC Switches and cabinets with a proper backplanes and even the cabling is expensive. Plus the controllers are mostly going to use some sort of funky interface like PCI-X or 64bit PCI, and that gets away from the consumer...

OK, one 16 port 3ware card. What are the other drives connected to? Onboard SATA? Or did you get a second 3ware card and make one big array?

I ended up creating an on-demand VPN to a host a less retarded ISP to send out E-mail. At different times, AT&T told me that the only mail servers they authorize their clients to use are the official AT&T ones (smtp.att.yahoo.com), that I cannot run my own mail server (I wasn't trying to), and...

Yes. That is correct. I deal with a physical disc one time and never again. At the moment I'm sitting on six 6TB arrays and I have 10 1.5TB drives I haven't even brought into service yet. Granted that half of those drives are providing redundancy for the other half, but I still only have about...