Search results

Photoshop, last I heard, had its own memory manager, and also, is made by Adobe, which I think is the Symantec of graphic arts software companies.

Server 2003 "Enterprise" and "Datacenter" can use 8GB and 32GB, respectively, on 32bit platforms with appropriate hardware support (PAE). On the other hand, if you're shelling out for Windows Datacenter, you also get a full time Microsoft employee to help maintain it...

I look at the main page to see who is online. If for example I know that Tannin and Tea are lingering, there will probably be something new and fun in a short period of time. There are threads I don't read (camera threads, car threads etc.) and if I see that they are the threads that are...

You need to be careful in replacing the fan at the top of the P180; it uses a pair of clips instead of screws to hold one side of the fan in the case, and the only brand of premium fan I found that had a wide enough lip to accommodate those clips was Antec's.

I'm saying that the only time hard disk performance is a major issue for most users, it's seek time (lots of little files) rather than STR that is the more important component in performance. People generally aren't doing the things that make a drive's STR a factor in overall system performance...

WinPE works. I tried it out and went back to using TrueImage.

I really do not like this.

Today's xkcd is every kind of awesome that there is.

How much time does the average computer user spend booting up or playing games with long level loads? I'd go so far as to suggest that an average gamer in 2007 is probably playing Bookworm or Bejeweled and not Crysis. Average computer users don't do that either. What do average computer users...

Another annoyance: to prepare Vista install images, I have to download 1GB of crap from MS. For 2000, XP, Server 2003, automated installs requires something less than 1MB of extra files.

It's the same for all 32 bit versions of Windows, including Server, though certain hardware exists that has a workaround for the limit.

There's always XP64.

An Onkyo TXDS-494 and a set of Yamaha speakers. My sub is a JBL something or other, but I don't usually run that while there are people in my office, and I'm using an Auzentech X-Plosion on the PC side of things. Nothing fancy.

We've long since established that STR is very rarely an issue for common desktop computing apps.

I'd say that performance is inconsequential for media storage and playback; 802.11 or 100Mbit ethernet are both going to present more of a bottleneck than the drive. I'd say media storage and playback is the primary application for a 1TB drive. Personal or small business backup, maybe...

This. I've told customers to hold off on updating Windows and Office so there's been less interest in IT spending overall.

It's closer to 12, and no I'm not. Just a good day to hang out in my office. :)

I give a crap about them being 5400rpm drives. I have no problem with that at all. No one is buying 1TB drives to be super-fast. Objectively, though, if they're going to be slower, there needs to be more of a price differential than is currently available since there's no normal pricing penalty...

Works here too. Actually I just got a call a few minutes ago telling me that my various Newegg accounts qualify for even more discounts and special crap. Oddly, this year I've spent way less at Newegg than I usually do.

I just got my copy of the Return of the King complete score. Three hours, thirty three minutes and forty two seconds of music. I've listened to the whole thing twice, and tomorrow it is my goal to make an uninterrupted listen of the whole set (Fellowship, Towers, King). The whole thing is truly...

Well, there's the fact that, despite the fact that Microsoft has at least TWO enterprise grade database engines, they choose to use fucking JET for everything critical in AD...

Works OK. It's kind of slow with whatever the heck the second gallery is. It was much faster on the first software you used.

Yes

Fry's has themes?

I've tried playing with what you're suggesting and I'm stuck too. And yes, you can run run a VM from a partition or an entire physical disk. I don't have any images set up that way, but with a whole physical disk you might actually be able to mount additional file systems on that disk...

NDS from 1994 makes AD from 2007 look like a toy. It replicated better, it was easier to understand and easier to administer. I was never much of a Novel guy but I've passed bunches of MS certification exams on AD and I've worked with the product for years and there's still TONS of stuff I don't...

250GB units are presently the mainstream desktop drive of choice. Sure, we were tired of them in 2003, but they're only just replacing the 160GB models we were tired of in 2001. ;)

Home = 5 connection, Business versions = 10 connections and yes, it is enforced by the OS. I see a lot of small businesses where a computer in a full tower case with XP Pro is a "server."

Happy Turkeymas!

Apparently money isn't much of an issue for her so much as principle. I suggested a $900 Dell Latitude and a $1500 Thinkpad T61 and she went with the Thinkpad. Maybe 'cause it's what I was showing her. She liked that things were "bigger" (1024x768) on my screen.

Dear Exchange and Active Directory: I hate you so much that I hope you die of painful rectal herpes. In a fire, also. While decent people throw salt on you. Eat a dick, Mercutio

That seems really unreasonable to me, also. That's probably directed at Chinese and Indian tech reclamation projects moreso than anything in the USA, or perhaps nation-wide computer resale chains, if any of those are actually still around.

Photo printers are the spawn of satan. Avoid HP. Avoid Lexmark. Take it to Walgreens. Take it to Kinkos. Enjoy it on a screen.

Too many remotes. Someone needs to buy a Harmony.

She was dead set on not having that notebook any more but after I talked to her about donating it, she decided to inflict it on her church, and I get to order her something she'll actually like.

Tried Belarc Advisor? Actually, based on my experience with Gateway's support, they were good help with drivers, even going so far as to post drivers that were not previously on their site.

Greg did not mention data recovery. I think he's just looking for a newer drive.

Whatever that number is, it's not worth it in comparison with buying a new drive with a new full warranty.

I am far more willing to express support for a god who promises stripper factories, approves of piracy and has beer volcanoes than one who promises a halo and a harp, approves of intolerant fundies and allows hunders of car salesmen in robes to swindle the shit out of his followers.

That's only useful if it can take all the suck out; by the time that's done you're back to XP.

Why do you need labels? What's wrong with just having a decent search function?

Sniff. My long-time router/firewall died last night. It's not on. It's not coming on. It was an HP PA-RISC 9000/715 machine with OpenBSD on it, far and away the oldest computer I've kept in operation. It was 14 years old and I believe it ran continuously for its whole life; I doubt it went...

Handy keeps them. SF is backed up daily.

GPedit is for group policies, which are assigned to OUs, domains, sites or computers. Group policies are not for using on groups. You can give NT permissions to groups but if you want to apply group policy to them, put them in their own OU or assign the policy to each individual computer they use.

The Samsung drives and Hitachi drives match my experiences pretty well. The 2514N is a gem of a drive. Lately I've been buying kind of pokey Seagate 250GB units, but mostly because my local distributor is within $1 of Newegg's prices and the fact that Seagate is offering free copies of TrueImage...

I also have had this problem a few times. I normally use the advanced editor to post, but I see it maybe every fourth time I use the quick reply.

Honestly, I'll call her again to see how she feels on Monday. Maybe suggest there might be a grandchild or something who needs it? She was really frustrated and angry and I don't blame her. Truthfully, it's not Vista (Ultimate can be legally downgraded) that's the huge problem in this, It's...

If you were that hard up for an HPPOS, why didn't you just say something? Maybe we can make a trade. I'd like a nice geeky Aussie girl, and presumably there's a nice supply in Canberra...

In the US, there's a special number I have to call ahead of time to do a Vista Business to XP Pro license switch. I've never done it myself; usually I make a secretary do it, but now I'm curious to try that with a retail Vista business disc. Hey, anyone want a 17", 5kg HP dv9000 with Vista on...

I worked in plant offices, but I had to walk past the turbines on the plant floor all the time to get anyplace. The nuke plants were a lot more secure than coal, but at the same time, I think plant security at the steel mills I've been to was considerably tighter than those nuke plants were.