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It's semantics at this point but if you will note I reserved my name-calling to itunes users, not Safari users. Though there are plenty of webkit browsers out there. And I still have nothing but scorn for anyone who uses itunes.

I really prefer it that way, yes. I consider a good month one in which I haven't use my phone for personal reasons at all.

AD, I love the data plan on my phone. You're getting raped on the AT&T version, but for me the ability to access the internet essentially anywhere with no additional setup has probably been more useful in my life than whatever capabilities a mobile phone offers. I use my phone to check or add to...

AD, I love the data plan on my phone. You're getting raped on the AT&T version, but for me the ability to access the internet essentially anywhere with no additional setup has probably been more useful in my life than whatever capabilities a mobile phone offers. I use my phone to check or add to...

Safari has approximately the same level of usability as IE: It's great for downloading Firefox on a Mac. I have used it a time or two on machines that are hosed with Spyware and also have iTunes installed. Apparently if you're a big enough fucking moron to run iTunes in the first place, it's a...

The companies that are presently offering successful SSDs generally aren't magnetic storage companies. Samsung might be an exception, but it's so huge that it's anyone's guess how much one group communicates with any of the others.

Seems a bit frivolous for business use. Probably interesting in a home system, though.

I thought the whole thing with CS4 and nVidia required a workstation-type card. Maybe you should be looking for that particular sort of hack.

I was thinking about a Quantum SuperChanger. 16 tape capacity with SAS connectivity for $3500 or so. The tapes drop drastically in price once the next generation comes out, but I've gotten 3-packs of LTO4/800s for $80, which is pretty reasonable compared to buying new drives all the damned time...

My standard has always been to schedule data synchronization between multiple arrays on different computers. I might lose, say, six hours of data if I hosed the data on one machine, but that's about it. Keeping the arrays fairly small (4TB at this point is probably "small") helps as well. Part...

In all the time I've worked as a trainer I've only gotten cost of living raises.

The 320 goes tick... tick... tick... It's noticeable.

Women's shelters take them and can reprogram them to be 911 only if they aren't good for anything else.

I think about 3/4 of my classmates in CS at Purdue left school in 1998 to go partake in the .com boom. I knew a lot of people who were very briefly millionaires. I stayed in Indiana where it just sucks.

It's a total PITA to install the drivers before Windows is installed. I have a disk image that has the drivers working, but generally if you have an Intel-based system with the BIOS set to AHCI or RAID, your XP or Server 2003 install will crash before it ever gets to copying the files. You can...

Oh, I seldom ran the AC on the rack itself, but my servers have always been desktop parts in 4U cases that are now very, very old and lacking in amenities like SATA backplanes. Heat has never particularly been an issue for my servers. Newegg has a 4U case that supports 20 hotswap 3.5" drives...

I find myself using IDE drives for my OS on my home systems, so I can use the SATA ports for real data storage.

I can put both in my Thinkpad T or R series notebooks, thanks to the magic of the Ultrabay. If you can't you obviously need a better notebook.

My rack is enclosed. That's the only thing that makes it tolerable to begin with. I'll probably donate it to my company if I can get rid of it. It's a 42U APC rack and it has an AC unit in it that doesn't work any more. I don't think I like those Antec Enclosures that don't have 3 5.25" bays...

I was not aware, or had forgotten, that Antec offered a rackmount chassis. Hmm. This has potential.

For RAID1, there's nothing wrong with Intel's Matrix Storage drivers, though installing them on a working system is a bit of a PITA.

Looks like they might br selling out just THAT fast. I got a notification too. :\

That seems excessive. Also your PSU will need some kind of adapter. i7 stuff uses an 8-pin ATX12V connector that I don't think that Corsair has. And WD is teh suck.

I have a rack mounted switch and a nice Panduit cable management setup that I'd kind of like to keep using.

I moved out of that house years ago. I didn't have a basement. In fact, I had a concrete slab foundation that was crumbling, which is why I moved out. I live in 950ft^2 apartment. It's a two bedroom unit. One bedroom is devoted to my work area, but it was pointed out to me that I could...

I kind of want to use the closet to store clothes and comic books. It's a walk in closet, but I can't use 3/4 of the space because I need clearance to get behind the rack. I was also thinking I could drop down to using just two enclosures instead of four. I'm looking at a half-height cabinet I...

One nice thing about the Windows 7 SKUs: Higher versions have all the included features of lower versions. This means that Windows 7 Professional will have the DVD making and media center features found in Home Premium.

Does anyone know of a rack enclosure that could qualify as quiet? Preferably one with gobs of 3.5" drive bays. I'd like to buy a couple for my apartment that are less noisy than the ones I have, but all the ones I'm looking at seem to use those 60mm 10000rpm fans or else some extra-crappy 80mm...

They switched things up. I used to get one product key good for 10 installs. Now they give out individual keys that are good for one install each. I think I liked the first system better.

Elements are less hideous and based on the interior I'd say they're more practical as well.

That, or something about "service error." It went away at about 4PM my time. From now on maybe I'll just keep a local copy of the licenses stuff I've claimed already.

See subject. I'd like to install a Windows 7 trial on another machine but it's not letting me in to grab a key. Tried several machines, several browsers and even more than one internet connection.

Maybe it caught teh suck from other Seagate products.

I am very much in "not my job" category at this point. Dickbag bought Act 2009 ST on the advice of some dude who does Act consulting. I would expect this guy to be in there screwing around with whatever parameters are available to be screwed with, but as far as I know he hasn't even logged in to...

Some of the higher-end Intel and Asus motherboards will take buffered RAM.

Wow. This IS a reunion. No I just have to go prod Buck into posting...

I've only poked at it a little bit but I don't seem to have access to see what the SQL Server is actually doing for the Act Instance. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they just upsized the same DB they're using for less expensive versions of Act (SQL Express) and left it without changing...

There's a Microsoft Dynamics package for just about every type of business there is. I've done a couple setups, most recently for my comic book shop.

Er.. OK. It'll go out tomorrow then.

8 CPUs. 16GB of RAM. Four X15s in RAID10. Connected to two Gbit ports on a switch with teamed NICs. It's hosting about 500MB of Act database and running TrueImage, with nothing else on it. No antivirus software. It's not a domain controller. I didn't even install Java or Firefox. The users who...

... and a hilarious update: Mr. Dickbag got an Act Consultant. The Act Consultant assured him that moving to Act 2009 ST - which uses full-blown SQL Server 2005 as its underlying database - would fix his issues. So I built a dedicated server and implemented it. X15s in RAID10 (he wouldn't go...

Don't worry about it. Just let me know where to ship it and I'll UPS it this afternoon.

Their AV software is probably the best and most paranoid protection you can buy from generation to generation. As far as I know there's nothing exceptional about any of their other products. Having excellent heuristics for virus detection doesn't make them awesome at preventing SQL injection...

I've had police in Chicago tell me to put my camera away and find someplace else to be just for taking pictures of buildings. ... which is exactly why I don't bother with my dSLR any more.

I really like the Optiarc drives. If you don't want to spend the cast let me know and I'll try to UPS one to you Monday or Tuesday.

Seven years isn't all that long ago. I am sure that most of all of us do range a bit farther afield than just this site these days, but this is still my homepage and is still the place I start my day. I am glad for everyone who visits and for everyone who contributes. Thank you all.

There's a reason they sell those things for $300, you know.

I would probably look at an inexpensive Promise PCI adapter if I could only spend $50. Promise still has issues with those low-end cards. I have a couple that I just can't install on Windows Server machines for some reason. The drivers won't load. Anyway, another decent option might just be to...

Generally speaking, you receive the 32 bit version of Windows Vista when you purchase an OEM PC. Some OEMs allow users to trade the 32bit version for 64bit, and you can do the same thing if you have a retail copy. In Technet-land, the same product keys are good for both. It appears that Windows...

I normally use ext3 for my large arrays anyway. Engadget says Seagate's 2TB model is coming this summer sometime. I'll bet Hitachi gets one to market first, given that lengthy delay.