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8GB Thumb drive. $99. The ultimate tool for doing deployments. In 8GB I can fit my entire classroom disk image + all the miscellaneous printer and scanner crap I have to install.

Yes. She didn't actually email me until after she talked to Comcast.

I've noticed a lot of brief outages lately. Five and ten minutes long, maybe, but there have been five in two days that I know of.

One of my students is a WoW player. She's on a 6Mbit cable connection to the internet and has a very nice PC (x2/3800, 2GB RAM, Gigabyte nForce4, x800 Pro). She emailed me to ask why her World of Warcraft updates take so long; her boyfriend's notebook (which is a Dell Inspiron of some kind...

The Tech Lounge has pictures of new Antec Stuffs. Nothing particularly drool-worthy, but the P190 having room for a second PSU is kind of interesting.

Wanna swap for RAM?

I had an xbox360 for a little while. I played the one game I wanted to play and then I sold it. I could not stand the controls on it. The reason I have the HDDVD drive made for Xbox is that it is substantially cheaper than a set-top HDDVD player.

It's not the same thing. Nero Digital is its own MPEG4 implementation. If you use the simple profile, anything that can play back "modern" Quicktime can play back Nero Digital as well. If you turn on the bi-directional encoding, you need a device or program/codec that is expressly compatible...

I'm looking at the pile of parts that's going to make up the guts of my new home theater system, and I am annoyed. It's my first personal Intel desktop in eight years. E6400 (not overclocked) 4GB of Corsair DDR2/800 Gigabyte motherboard (the one with 8 SATA ports!) Auzentech X-Meridian 4TB of...

Up a little early, are you?

This is an $1800 CNC Machine. Neat, huh?

I have some.

Cars are boring as hell. Lego Car factories, on the other hand...

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest to you that something has eaten your Windows install, or at least important parts of it. Maybe a repair install of Windows is in order?

Go to a command prompt. Type netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt See what happens.

People ask me why I have so many computers. Stupid crap like what you're describing is a big part of the reason.

Why bother reinstalling?

This is me coming to say "I told you so!" to timwhit. I told you so, timwhit. That is all.

That's a worrisome thing to just let lie. I guess one thing to do would be to disconnect the drives and use them one at a time on different channels, to see if the error persists on the same channel or moves with one or more of the drives. Or if the controller throws the error with no drives...

Could you maybe pull the drive and work on it in something with similar hardware? A desktop with an intel chipset would be a good start.

Here here! I will buy some 1TB drives. I will buy them on general principle.

I like Mission style stuff myself. Never been to an Ikea, but I hear their stuff is particle board. On the other hand - and keep this in mind - a couch is something you'll either have for 20 years or something you'll get rid of in three or four. The three-year couch is perfectly OK, especially...

Happy last day of Kwanzaa as well.

I try not to be a super-picky audiophile. I really do. But I paid cash for a full set of Kef Reference-series speakers about three years ago. Those speakers cost a few thousand dollars more than my (newish) car. On the plus side, I'm in love with them and I don't regret the purchase. I also...

Circuit City and Best Buy are completely worthless. Every once in a while I find something I don't have on Amazon, and that is my main source now. I probably own about 70% of all the classical music that has ever been released as DVD-Audio or SACD, but it's such a boutique product that no one...

Glad to have you back, Paugie.

FSP is Sparkle. Sparkle PSUs are reasonably reliable but they are LOUD. Newegg usually put FSP power supplies in the Foxconn cases it sells.

Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not. Do not.

Headphones are evil and stupid. Always.

The media is super-cheap these days. the adapter probably costs as much as the 1GB card. Can I just say that I hate, hate, HATE the eleventy billion different flash card formats? What's wrong with just CF? What's wrong with SD? Why do we need to reinvent the wheel thrice annually?

I like O'Reida Vidalia Onion Rings. They're yummy. I don't eat much fried food, now that I think about it.

Lunar, what I do is this: I have one machine with a high end controller that can support a massive number of disks in a RAID10 arrangement and a large amount of storage. I have secondary PCs that have smaller (though by most people's thinking, still staggering) RAID0 arrays. The "smaller"...

My ex- bought me a "BBQ-Pit" Crock Pot for my birthday. It's a slow cooker, but it's constructed with racks inside to do indirect heat cooking of slabs of meat. Makes wonderful ribs and chicken, which is all I've had time to use it for. Absolutely wonderful for apartment dwellers who can't have...

I bring tidings of Umoja on this, the blessed day before the first day of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaamas Eve? Something like that.

I am keeping him for the time being. I have not named him yet, because I don't know if he will be a permanent addition to the household, since he's turned my other male cat into a total basket case. So I need a name for him. I gave him a bath last night. By myself. He still has back claws. I...

I have come to the realization that I suck at taking pictures of cats. I'm still trying to get a good one. My other cats are horrified at the new enemy kitten. Still, here are some pictures I just took of the new guy. Prepare for cuteness overload. Kitten on my computer desk Kitten finally...

My new kitten is free of bad stuff. No FIV, no fleas, no mange. He is very cute. I shall post kitty pictures as soon as I find some batteries.

jtr, there is now a packed box with a Soyo (the Gigabyte board has a nonfunctional PS/2 mouse port) board, an XP/3200, Spire fan and 512MB of PC2700 RAM sitting out in my car, waiting to be shipped.

Someone asked me today, and of course I don't know... How loud ARE the new nVidia 8800 cooling solutions? As a point of reference, I've used X1800s and X1900XTXs, and they are basically the same noise level as a 7900GS, which is the only new-ish discrete nVidia hardware I've had any contact with.

USB 2.0 to SATA/2.5" PATA/3.5" PATA cable for $10, shipped free. I bought a bunch of them.

Some asshole dumped a housecat at my apartment complex. I think I saw the responsible party doing it this morning on my way to work. It's an older kitten. White fur, walks up to strange and purrs. Declawed. I can't have another cat in my apartment, but I'll be damned if I let it stay outside...

Soyo has issues with being Soyo. Like Abit has issues with being Abit. The Gigabyte board is a GA-K7S748. It does not have an onboard NIC but it does have sound. I gave one to Clocker, once. They have an absurdly fast PATA implementation; they're completely vanilla but are wonderful hardware.

There is a performance hit when your MFT (on Windows) becomes fragmented, which seems to happen when the drive gets more than 75% full. In my case I don't particularly care: I just want all my stuff to be online. It could be on 900rpm drives for all I care, as long as I don't have to find and...

Yup. It works. You end up with an underclocked P2. I remember doing it with P2-400s on LX motherboards.

jtr, if you'd rather, I can furnish an AthlonXP/3200 + 512MB RAM + either a Gigabyte SiS board or a Soyo KT600 (has SATA ports, but it's a Soyo), instead of the A64. It's still not 100% definite when I can get the A64, and I have the XP3200 in hand right now.

I got some PMs from Blake in late October. He wanted me to look at a friend's resume. Unfortunately, the forum software kept mangling the URL or something, and I never got to see it. Nonetheless, he's been by.

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1GB RAM is essential. Wireless keyboards are unreliable and/or a PITA. Speakers are usually built into an LCD, and that's as much sound as anyone needs in an office.

One of my holiday-season projects is to pack 16 400GB or 500GB hard disks into a single (wood!) cabinet... I'm still trying to figure out how disk controller situation will work (probably 8 ports onboard + 8 on a PCI/PCIe card), but I really want to ditch some complete systems if it's possible...

Buck, we have to get you a copy of Hiren's BootCD. Every Diagnostic tool known to man is on that thing, and it's updated monthly. Very quickly eliminates the need for a floppy.