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One of my coworkers had been using one of my classroom computers to develop and test code. Classroom computers that get re-imaged on a regular basis. She says she lost almost 70 hours of work and she has no backup or other copy of what she's done. Now I'm trying to decide if I should actually...

I think Lunar might have some heath issues, guys.

Karla Homolka would like to have a word with you. Bonus: Already a resident of the great frozen north.

I have a little gun that lets me shoot a network cable about 25 feet that I use when I'm screwing around up in a ceiling. I don't know what it's called but playing with it is absolutely the only thing I like about doing any kind of wiring install. In my house, when I had a house, I did the most...

Hm. So I did. What do you know? I don't get to spend as much time at my desk as I used to. I'll see what I can do.

I always like playing Worms against the computer with the destructive power of all the weapons roughly doubled. That made drilling through the landscape with a minigun a valid tactic. Man that was a great game.

Yes, it's the combination of DirectX + Win98 that is specifically problematic. Virtualbox was actually the setup I tried first. Plus now I have a nice non-virtual computer set aside for it.

Classic Shell for Win7.

VMware Server, Virtualbox and VirtualPC do not provide that support.

Basically no one likes Cablecard. Hopefully the move to replace it with a new standard for digital cable access will be available soon. Cablecard is a big part of the reason I gave up on the idea of TV on a PC in favor of just torrenting everything.

I was working from the ORA Asterisk book and some hardware "recipes" I found on an Asterisk wiki site, for what it's worth.

I tried to offer Asterisk back in 2005 and 2006. I never got any traction for it with my customers and eventually I dropped the idea; most of my customers think of their phone system as beyond vital to doing business and even if they aren't happy with what they have, it's also not anything they...

I think it took longer to install the Catalyst drivers than it did to install Windows 98.

I decided that I need to build a retro-gaming system. DOS gaming is easy enough to do on any sort of computer, but I had a real problem with early DirectX titles. A lot of them puke on screen resolutions above 1024x768 or on NT-based OSes. My main requirement was that I had to have hardware...

Hardware-wise, those are pretty nice cards. There are probably cheaper options that use the same underlying chipset, but in this case you might prefer a branded WinTV card. There are still issues you might need to address, especially if you have cable TV or Satellite service.

This thread title makes me think that there's some kind of race war between data cabling.

Fushigi lives in Aurora, which is a western suburb of Chicago. I live (for now) just east of Gary, Indiana, which is the in the tip of the northwestern corner of the state.

The most recent set of stereo desktop speakers to impress me was a $60 pair of m-Audio speakers. Most m-Audio products cost quite a bit more than that, but these were surprisingly nice. My go-to brand for decent, inexpensive speakers has been Logitech, though I usually choose a 2.1 set instead...

Small icons view is much closer.

Greg, Vuze is a total hog. Why are you using it instead of uTorrent? I don't think my issue is VMware. I have a mix of Server v1 and Server v2 on these machines and on some of them the VMware services aren't even running but I still get pauses. As an aside, I keep meaning to set up a dedicated...

Greg, Vuze is a total hog. Why are you using it instead of uTorrent? I don't think my issue is VMware. I have a mix of Server v1 and Server v2 on these machines and on some of them the VMware services aren't even running but I still get pauses. As an aside, I keep meaning to set up a dedicated...

Thinking about things, I think every one of the machines I'm complaining about has Acronis TrueImage (Home or Server) installed and all but one of them has VMware Server. No Antivirus except Clamwin, minimal background software. Could it be something with TrueImage or VMware?

I could buy the hardware theory except that the problem is worst on my notebooks, which don't have any hardware in common with my desktops. Likewise, the fact that it occurs across a half-dozen systems suggests that it's not an odd bit of faulty hardware. I don't see meaningful CPU spikes in...

Most people already have those things. I only provide them if someone asks me to do so.

There's nothing running that would otherwise cause longish gaps in responsiveness, and the software I'm using is exactly the same as the software I use with older versions of Windows. I've played with disabling indexing and system restore (which of course not very smart) without seeing any...

"Not faster" is the best case scenario, and I get pauses ALL THE FUCKING TIME, probably at least once an hour. It's worst on my notebooks, but it happens on all my systems. It's worst in Word and Thunderbird, but of course those are the programs where I actually type. These are computers with...

I think it is significantly slower, or at least "not faster and it keeps making these weird pauses and slowdowns that seem to be connected to Windows and not to the underlying hardware." I'm using it and Server 2008 R2 on my Windows computers right now, but every time I start typing and it...

C2D E5300, 2GB RAM, 250GB drive, Intel or Gigabyte board, HEC or Foxconn case, Win7 license.

Android 2.2 is being pushed out over the air for the EVO now. I'm told that it breaks a few things, but fixes a memory leak and improves battery life somewhat.

I'm generally building computers that I can sell for $350. That's pretty low end.

You have a power supply that's testing bad in a big, big way that's very easy to verify. You really need to double check that first. And then blame that Western Digital hard drive.

I can justify the slight additional cost of the Intel-based system because of the somewhat more robust Intel-branded motherboards and generally lower power consumption. With USB3 on AMD but not Intel, I might look again, but given my audience, I doubt it's much of a selling point right now.

It wouldn't surprise me. If nothing else, power saving modes are enabled by default in 7 that are not in XP.

I usually deal with budget systems, but AMD stuff has been off my radar for at least a couple years. Coug and Tannin are probably AMD people though.

Er, why not just use the side that isn't angled?

I was talking to co-workers and we put together some information we each knew as individuals, like the fact that our owner is at the moment covering all expenses and obligations from her own checkbook and looking to finance ongoing operations with debt, but can't get anyone to give her a loan...

I'm thinking my company is about six weeks from going under. I guess I should probably decide what I want to do next.

The places where having "Server" Windows makes any kind of practical difference to your computing experience are pretty minimal. Antivirus software is probably the only one most people would notice.

I've been within walking distance of timwhit's place a few times without ever meeting him.

I'd say the larger issue was the humidity. My parents live on top of a mountain overlooking the valley comprising Alcoa and Maryville. Their front porch includes a vista of the Great Smoky Mountains. The sun and moon rise through the peaks. So that was nice. I'll get back to you about enjoying...

Well... maybe. I'm great at lecturing and answering questions, but I can honestly say that does not work for the way everyone learns. My co-workers mix up for individual exercises and crap that I can't be bothered to do. I drove to Knoxville over the weekend to see my parents. The cost of...

We defrag servers now?

Most of the stuff I teach is stuff that I genuinely, hard-core KNOW. But in a lot of cases, I do want my notes handy because my notes usually have the best foundation I've found for explaining a topic to someone else. This is really important if I'm lecturing on, oh, encryption technologies or...

How about a barcode reading program? I realize it's been done, but it seems useful and non-trivial and there's probably all sorts of goofy applications that could spring from that.

In all the time I've been dealing with them, I've only seen one lose its settings and force me to turn everything off again one time.

Congratulations!

Every kitchen I've ever had, except the one in my former house, has had light wood-tone and/or pale yellow surfaces. I don't have anything else to contribute, it's just something I realized from reading all this.

Why not buy a Perc5 from Ebay?

I'm in the camp that it doesn't matter most of the time. The cable modem is going to get whatever programming it needs from your ISP and that's going to set your cap. I don't think you're going to see download speeds in excess of 100Mbps any time soon, especially not on consumer cable services...

You're taking lots of risks. Power failure, hardware failure, human error, some kind of security compromise... Moving to multiple systems has down sides in terms of ease of administration and obviously greater costs for hardware, but I think it's worthwhile to gain some redundancy. Personally...