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  1. Mercutio

    My new system

    Generally they don't boot with 4 sticks while you're overclocking.
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    My new system

    No. Temps are good OK-ish. I'm guessing it's memory that's the issue, but the DS3 links RAM and FSB speeds so I can't do much more about that. However, it's been stable @ 3.8 so I don't really have any reason to complain.
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    My new system

    F10.
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    My new system

    OK, new record: GA-P965-DS3 + E6320 (1.5V) + 2GB OCZ DDR2/1066 RAM + Coolermaster Gemini II + 2x 1200rpm SilenX fans = 4112MHz. It wasn't stable but it got all the way through a Windows install before it crapped out. Just never saw a four in the thousands place before. :D
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    Boot failure with Win2K3 Server standard edition

    I can get you a proper ISO if you wait about 8 hours for me to put it someplace. Do you need a standard or volume license?
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    Bible Thread

    The cartoons look like a scanned Chick Tract Jack Chick is very real, very sincere and very hateful. Even has it out for all the pope-worshiping Catholics.
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    Bible Thread

    Fundies say the Darndest things. (Coral Cache version)
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    Something Random

    Sent. I am a little worried about the "advertising content" in the EULA but I loaded it in a VM and it's running well enough and I have not seen any ads yet.
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    Something Random

    Anyone want a Joost invite?
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    General musings calculating power consumption

    Whoops. Wrong topic. Oh well. ;)
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    General musings calculating power consumption

    On the subject of FreeNAS, why not set it up in a Virtual Machine if you just want to see how it works? VMware server is free and easy to use, guys. Coug certainly doesn't. I've heard that Quebec is one of the few places where US citizens get treated better than English-speaking Canadians...
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    Computer case : Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 Pro

    Is the PSU still a proprietary design in the updated case? Or did they just make an easy mod to a standard power supply?
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    Why was the site down today?

    Dreamhost, at least my server, has issues with oversold capacity. We have tons of disk space, and awesome bandwidth, but my server has 1107 accounts listed in /etc/passwd and every time I log in and look, load averages are way high (4.5 - 6 is common), making shell access unresponsive and a...
  14. Mercutio

    Building new FAH/main PC

    For a computer that's supposed to last three years and to run Windows, I really would look at 4GB RAM. The NSK6500 is a nice case. I have lots of them because they hold lots of drives. I'm REALLY fond of the NSK4400 and NSK3300, though. The 4400, in particular, is just about the easiest build...
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    Something Random

    Hey, it's a huge deal to me one way or the other. My random thing of the day: In my daily box of crap from Newegg, I got three little packages of Wrigley's Winterfresh gum. Next time I hope I get one of the secret decoder rings!
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    Windows CD Burning not working?

    Yes. Which is one of the reasons I'm so surprised that it seems to have been a factor.
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    Why was the site down today?

    LunarPages pisses me off. I know there are people who hate Dreamhost with a passion but honestly, I e-mail dreamhost about a problem and they help. I call Lunarpages for something and the answer I've gotten every time is some variation on "Well, what do you expect on a shared hosting plan?"
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    more than 10 connections

    I have a few Linux systems out in the world that I installed in '97 or '98 that are still running and doing the things they are supposed to do. I love it when I get a call like "The power went out and that one computer's screen just says 'login:' now." "Can you still access your e-mail and...
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    Why was the site down today?

    Over an hour by my count. Came back just as I started to bitch at Handy about it. :)
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    Replace HSF or new gfx card?

    I have a Radeon 9700AIW I could certainly part with. At one point, I tried to install a Vantec(?) graphics cooler on a Radeon 9800. It came with no instructions and the card burned out about two hours after I installed the new fan. I do not trust after-market graphics cooling. On the other...
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    more than 10 connections

    That kind of crap is exactly how Linux gets in the door of an all-Windows shop.
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    Something Random

    I went and did that concert-thing last night, and actually had a very good time. Even the drive into Chicago was good. I am told that I behaved appropriately, and other than a few moments of nerves, I was OK. Anyway, maybe I will get to do that again some day.
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    Windows CD Burning not working?

    OK. It drove me nuts but I did figure it out. When I install WMP11 and run sysprep, my optical drive is detected as a generic "CD-ROM drive." The drive still works as a DVD drive and as a burner, but Windows itself won't let me burn until I uninstall the device, redetect it and then disable and...
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    Fun with Monkeys and Windows

    The nForce boards I have seen have an option buried someplace in the BIOS to turn off the hardware firewall. I haven't seen an nForce board yet that had it on by default. Of course, all I've used are Gigabyte and a small number of MSI or Biostar boards, so maybe there is different stuff out there.
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    4 Sticks of RAM

    I think that you'll find the real-life difference between memory timings is one of those things that more or less only makes a difference in synthetic benchmarks; the real-world advantage of a 4GB configuration for someone who needs a 4GB configuration (ie, already using more than 2GB RAM) more...
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    Computer case : Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 Pro

    It looks to me like there's an exhaust port on the side of the case, rather than the front. The name of the case is "Silentium" so maybe they are doing something really interesting with that design. I wish there were photographs, rather than the diagrams. Hey, speaking of interesting cases...
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    Looking to Unload my ATi Xpress 3200 Based A64 System Soon

    C I'd be really happy to take that CPU off your hands, but I don't particularly want or need the other stuff.
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    Windows CD Burning not working?

    I am just getting back to this. Looking at the differences between PCs that have working CD burning and PCs that don't, it looks like the common factor is actually Media Player 11 vs. v9. Has WMP11 messed up CD burning on anyone else's PC?
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    more than 10 connections

    Put it on a win98 machine, then. :)
  30. Mercutio

    Computer case : Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 Pro

    That is a nice looking case. Have you actually built one yet?
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    Hard Drive Enclosures: well built and reasonably priced?

    You might want to look into Costco's return policy. I know they made it a lot less unconditional on January 1st of this year.
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    more than 10 connections

    Upgrade to Linux or install a Windows Server product? AFAIK, XP Pro is hard-limited to 10 connections. There probably is some Registry Ninja-ing you can do, but my guess is that if you manage to get it to take more connections, you're probably also changing a bunch of things that make XP a...
  33. Mercutio

    DVD player you can attach a hard drive too?

    No, but there are a few that will play WMV, divx AVI or Nero Digital MP4 files that are burned to a DVD.
  34. Mercutio

    Something Random

    Women are scary. All of them. This is really funny. And also sad. But mostly funny.
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    Sandboxie

    Found this tool via Lifehacker today. It's a quasi-virtual machine for running applications you don't entirely trust.
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    Hard Drive Enclosures: well built and reasonably priced?

    If you ever find someone who can fabricate external enclosures, send him to me when you're done. I'd love to work out a perfect computer chassis.
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    Windows printer sharing

    I've definitely had a problem with that in the past, and on commodity hardware. I don't remember whose. Just that it wasn't Linksys.
  38. Mercutio

    LG L245WP : 1920x1200 and HDMI for the mass.

    The site was inaccessible during what most of us here call "the day", yesterday. I'm kind of curious for Coug to respond as well.
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    Opera 9 released

    I didn't try to help Will because I'm not an Opera user. time and Tannin are the only other Opera users here. Opera tries my patience to exactly the same degree that Firefox tries yours, perhaps moreso. I'll take my endlessly extensible and configurable browser any day.
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    PC Gaming = World of Suck

    City of Heroes is having another free trial offer. Now we have loot! Kinda. Moreso than we used to, anyway. I liked it better without.
  41. Mercutio

    Free Online Forum

    A google group is just a newsgroup. Pretty sure about that one. I visit a couple forums on proboards.com. They use phpBB and other than having god-awful custom graphics they seem to work OK.
  42. Mercutio

    Private Peer-to-Peer?

    Hamachi is super slow. Azureus has a private tracker built in, but then you have to use Azureus.
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    Opera 9 released

    I finally found a use for Opera. I actually need six different newegg shopping carts at the moment on the same PC. Firefox, IE, K-meleon, Flock, and IE and Firefox in a virtual machine were not enough.
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    Something Random

    ddrueding: It is very difficulty in my experience to get a good build on those Shuttle SFFs. They use Shuttle motherboards for one thing, which are a little bit too budget-y for my taste, and they seem to overheat pretty readily. Shoulda gone with teh Aria/NSK1400. Or for that matter an...
  45. Mercutio

    Windows printer sharing

    Check anyway, willya? Some routers assign either a different subnet or a different IP range to wireless vs. wired clients and that would in fact mess up SMB networking.
  46. Mercutio

    Windows printer sharing

    Check what's on what subnet.
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    woot is in woot off mode

    Bed Bath and Beyond non-woot Monkeys do not have the cachet, the gravitas of the woot-variety.
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    woot is in woot off mode

    They are good for 24 hours. They change at midnight central time and when they sell out, they sell out.
  49. Mercutio

    42" HDTV recomendations?

    Westinghouse HD sets are supposed to be a bargain at the moment, quality and budget-wise.
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    Gigabyte GA-7s748 Largest Hard Drive

    They'll take PATA drives of any size, provided you're installing a OS that supports large drives (e.g. XP SP2 or Linux, but not original Windows XP).
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