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From memory, CPU0 is the one that typically gets hottest. The others will be in the neighborhood of 58 - 60C. I really only pay attention to temps when I'm gaming, mostly because I can feel heat wash off the side of my case (my legs are probably around 18" away from the PC), but ironically most...

Setting aside schadenfreude, this really, deeply sucks for people with affected notebooks. I replace my hardware at a greatly accelerated pace, but I wouldn't want a customer or a student to have a computer that has a built-in death sentence. Desktops and graphics cards I don't care so much...

My 3.2Ghz Q6600 spikes up to 62C or so in a P180 while using all four cores to play City of Heroes (which can use all four cores). 70C seems a bit much though.

My 3.2Ghz Q6600 spikes up to 62C or so in a P180 while using all four cores to play City of Heroes (which can use all four cores). 70C seems a bit much though.

The Inq is reporting that nVidia may have a chip level defect on very common G84 and G86 GPUs. Basically, and this is no surprise to yours truly, the chips are all destined for a short, overheated life after which they will die. The G84 and G86 are found in GF8x00 cards that aren't 8200s or...

The answer is resoundingly "no." They just don't keep track. Or care in the slightest. They're probably just happy you called, instead of pirating or misusing an XP Volume license disc like a sensible person would. Anyway, yes, I have done this and been just as shocked. This also means that...

Control Panel has been essentially unchanged in terms of icons and functions since Windows 95. NT4 followed the Windows 3.1 scheme, but Windows 98 and 2000 are practically identical to Win95. OK. Windows 2000 rearranged the Network applet. Fine. Windows ME introduced Category View, which no...

Try playing with the girlfriend you're fortunate enough to have. :P

Seriously, how often are you changing IP settings? You're either DHCP or you've got a box with some ports on a firewall mapped to a static IP. The only time in the last year or so that I've had to change IP settings manually, except to statically assign addresses on a server, was the very...

Here's some fun information about Symantec's business practices from someone who works there. I'm particularly interested in the fact that they'll issue a refund for just about anything.

I'm perfectly willing to believe that the wiring in your building just sucks. If you want a REAL cable conspiracy, the building where I work is also home to a Comcast Office. Every single time they make a change to their internet service (which they accomplish by adding more cable lines...

You can simulate the same effect by using NTFS volume mount points, so that array#1 has 4TB for your music + your documentaries, and array#2 has 4TB for all your TV shows and array#3 has 4TB all your solo female porn and array and array #5 has some of the lesbian porn and array#6 has the rest of...

RDP is *a lot* more efficient than standard VNC. I'm not sure about how much tuning the various variations and sub-variation have, but VNC in general is a damned pig for bandwidth. I've standardized on TightVNC for my needs, which is supposed to be better for low-bandwidth. I realize you...

RDP is *a lot* more efficient than standard VNC. I'm not sure about how much tuning the various variations and sub-variation have, but VNC in general is a damned pig for bandwidth. I've standardized on TightVNC for my needs, which is supposed to be better for low-bandwidth. I realize you...

I've been paid to take a sledgehammer to drives. They even gave me the hammer.

Ignorant critics, maybe. I've been teaching Vista certification classes, which means I've been using Vista a lot more than I really want to. I'm well aware of the feature set as well as Microsoft's take on reality. I'm still not impressed or happy with it.

My understanding is that cable providers are required by law to provide the TV signals that would normally be provided on an antenna, in the VHF range. Which amounts to channels 1 - 20. They can't keep those channels off your TV. Everything else, at least in Chicago, requires a digital tuner. I...

My way of doing things, with the multiple "small" arrays, is starting to make more sense now, isn't it? ;)

With DSL you only have guaranteed bandwidth to where ever your phone company has its lines going. You still have shared bandwidth from that point on (of course, it's a phone company, so capacity probably isn't a huge issue for them). Cable service can vary widely. One cable segment can be...

With DSL you only have guaranteed bandwidth to where ever your phone company has its lines going. You still have shared bandwidth from that point on (of course, it's a phone company, so capacity probably isn't a huge issue for them). Cable service can vary widely. One cable segment can be...

Still 25% left, too. :D

Mmmm $85 750GB hard drives. Too bad I already bought a Dyson Vacuum today.

My biggest issues are software incompatibilities, driver issues and odd Explorer crashes. I miss my "Up" button on Explorer Windows, and I don't particularly care for the "Breadcrumbs" now used to navigate the Explorer address bar. The differences in the control panel, particularly "Programs...

There's an amazing wind farm going up about 70 miles south of Chicago, near Kentland, Illinois. I took some pictures of what they're doing (even caught them hoisting the blades on one), but supposedly they'll have 400 or so 100m tall windmills by the end of the year. From what I read about that...

... if the electrical grid can handle it.

The cost as configured on them is higher than the Thinkpads I would've bought, and the manufacturer service isn't anywhere near as good. They aren't as rugged, either. A couple years ago, I would've at least had the bright spot that they all shipped with 3-year service plans by default but now...

I just got done with an interesting call from a Dell CSR. I ordered 10 Latitude 630s about 10 days ago for a customer (sob, the result of an argument I did not win). Normally Dell ships and products arrive about four days after I place the order. This batch didn't, and I didn't even get a...

Generally speaking if there's no known fix for a malware program but something completely untrusted/unknown, I'll take a chance on it. The machine is already infected, after all.

I've seen boards from Gigabyte and Asus that include a plate that has a couple standard SATA ports and a place to plug in a Y-shaped molex connector. I call those things Ghetto eSATA, and I have found them useful a time or two.

Thanks for the tip. I did not even know where to start looking.

This is a shot in the dark, but does anyone have any advice for how I'd go about finding replacement power bricks for various devices? I've got a 15" KDS LCD here that I don't have the brick for. It's a perfectly good monitor, but the person who gave it to me didn't have the power connector...

If that storage was under Linux, you could properly unmount those disk drives and know it's safe to turn them off. The problem with doing this in a VM is that his storage effectively becomes nonlocal, which is the whole point of his configuration anyway.

Abby Winters is particularly interesting for the use of non-professional models with real "girl next door" qualities and cute but imperfect bodies (i.e. real human beings; a little tummy, a girl who wears glasses through a whole scene or maybe someone who didn't shave 15 minutes before filming)...

Circuit City has a 1080p 50" Samsung DLP set for $1000 this week. My 720p 60" Samsung DLP was $4000 five years ago.

So I've been told. The theory is that those home routers run so close to the ragged edge of what their components supposedly need that even very minor power fluctuations can have a deleterious consequence for their operation.

I'd think about it, but honestly the only application for which I might need an SSD is to decrease level load times in City of Heroes, and that's probably not worth $600 to me.

I've been told that keeping home routers on conditioned power (i.e. a UPS) vastly increases their reliability, too.

Although I am no longer a Hairy Aussie, I feel I have a certain level of affinity for this job posting. The link is completely safe for work, but I don't think you can say the same thing about the company that made the posting. :D

I swear I only hit Post once. >:(

Apple's stock position is based on its status as a lifestyle brand, rather than the value of its goods and services. Apple fans have an astonishing level of loyalty to its products, as evinced by uda's evangelism. The interesting factor of Apple's market position is that it's been in that...

Sony has a long history of introducing failed media formats. I've yet to see anything compelling about BluRay; there aren't even any movies released thusfar that make me want to go out and repurchase them (there were for HD-DVD). Some people suggest that BluRay will eventually have a library of...

Packaged OEM copies of XP will be available until the next version of Windows is released. XP is no longer available to major OEMs. Major OEMs get around that by reselling Vista Business and exercising the downgrade rights for you, but they're only doing that for products in their business...

If you're dealing with a wireless network connection, it could be periodic interference from another device nearby. A lot of 2.4GHz devices like cordless phones do a certain amount of frequency hopping as a security measure. The fix is to move your router to a different channel (in order of...

You don't really need QoS unless you do more with your internet connection than light E-mail and web browsing. I've done Skype over a 100kbit upstream connection, and it worked as well as Skype ever does. It's the people who like to play games, use P2P software or run some kind of server off...

It doesn't work that way. There's more to network transfers than bandwidth.

That's what I do as well. I can get Chicago's HD stations, and keeping up with downloads isn't terribly difficult.

Actually, after reading some posts about VoIP installations on Slashdot and some comments from knowledgeable parties, it turns out that pretty much nobody implements QoS on incoming connections; certainly not $50 home routers, even the ones that have dd-WRT or Tomato on them. Comments on...

I've seen 5 hours from a Thinkpad X61 with the extended battery. Size and weight are similar.

I live above the rental office for my apartment complex. I have neighbors in my building, but they're both older couples who don't have children, and neither of them live on my floor. I had a lot more noise when I had my townhouse. In fact, I can't say I've ever heard my neighbors at all. The...

Also, there's a whole bunch of stuff about dealing with Comcast on Consumerist.com.