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Apparently the gaming web site The Escapist is going to start running a reality video series about a group of real-life porn stars playing their real-life game of Dungeons and Dragons. Here's little safe-for-work blurb about it from Science Fiction fandom site io9. The dungeon master actually...

OK, anyway, to get back to the original subject of the thread, Antec 3840s are what I use for small business builds. So far, I've had excellent luck with the full-size Antec PSUs. I haven't had to replace any of the 150 or so I've deployed. They're very quiet and aesthetically neutral. My only...

That looks like the same unit. I'll have to try one. Thanks!

Speaking of MSI Winds, has anyone seen a service manual for one? I have one where I need to replace the screen, and I can't get the bezel back on right.

It's not a problem if that DNS has all the proper entries for your server. But it's likely that it doesn't.

Does the computer in question have a machine account or trust relationship with the domain in question?

When installing Microsoft Application Virtualization Management Server, the very first window that pops up is one that says "After installation, please click Next." Needless to say, clicking next in that window screws up the whole installation. I finally figured that out after the fifth time I...

I don't recall Microsoft Mail (the mail system they offered before Exchange and Outlook) or cc:Mail (the precursor to Lotus Notes) doing things the wrong way, either. As with so many things, it's all Outlook's fault.

Your best case scenario is going to be copying a large file. I usually use .VOB files as a reference point if I'm looking at transfer rates. And bad sectors don't normally kill performance on a whole drive, not unless they're all over the drive, and at that point, the drive is probably unusable.

You'd rather that the standard be set by a design decision from Microsoft?

That's standard single-drive packaging from Seagate. That's how they have returned RMA'd drives for at least the last six or seven years. I don't really think we'd want Newegg to adopt that style for packaging. It looks expensive. ps my camera phone doesn't suck as bad as yours. ;-) "Camera"...

18MB/sec over USB hi-speed is also abnormally slow on any modern drive. You should be seeing around 25MB/sec and if you aren't, I think you should consider that part of the issue as well. Even 5400rpm 2.5" drives can sustain 25MB/sec over USB hi-speed.

The Wind weighs about 2.8lbs. Any obtainable i7 notebook will be around twice that, if not more. Also, what time said.

My opinion of Comcast is so low that I put up with service that was apparently about 10% of what I was supposed to be getting for around 18 months. I'm actually a little bit shocked that they're being as helpful as the are in your case, sechs. All I ever seem to get from them is "blame the last...

I have history and apparently people who write RFCs on my side. You have a poor decision on the part of whomever developed Outlook before Microsoft bought it. I win. :P

Yeah. The guy with the slow-disk server in my thread in tech support had a Symantec Corporate AV server that apparently stopped doing updates 16 months ago. I'm probably going to put his clients on Security Essentials instead.

I've done screens before, but I have the plastic pry tools that make doing that work a lot easier.

I prefer to believe that the people I'm dealing with are literate.

My message clearly indicated that there were several issues that needed a response and the reason for those issues. I'm buying the parts and doing the work, but I still need to address the person paying the bills in a deferential fashion (people get kind of pissy when you say "You WILL be buying...

The only thing that matters at the end of the day is subjective performance. If you can sit in front of a computer and don't feel that a particular computer is better or worse than other computers you use, it's probably fast enough. There's something to be said about the expected workload of...

A couple reasons: one is that the chipset that Atom chip is using probably can't keep up with the drive. If nothing else, it's probably SATA I and not SATA II, and it's kind of deficient compared to a modern system for having a low speed FSB and all that entails. The other is that the CPU is...

There's a real benefit to the unibody approach. I wouldn't knock them for that. It allows for a much lighter design while conserving battery life and increasing structural stability. If their sales tell them that only X-tiny% of users have a second battery to use with their devices, maybe they...

I wonder if it's bumping in to a chipset/BIOS issue that stems from the netbook + SSD combination.

If John were a reply-after-quote sort of person using a decent mail client, he could also have trimmed my message and quoted the part(s) that he was referencing so I knew where his sentences applied. This is a trifling amount of work and it greatly improves readability. I have no reason to...

You implement your solution and I'll implement mine, and we'll see which one actually happens first.

You can trim and quote selectively. It's not difficult. The issue that I run in to with top-reply people is that they'll read my messages paragraph-by-paragraph and then reply with sentences or paragraphs using nonspecific nouns or pronouns so I'm not sure what they're talking about without...

I'd put you with uda on ignore. It's not abnormal for me to write multi-paragraph emails dealing with multiple subjects, even in business communication. "Reply first"-types who insist on doing things the wrong way wind up writing sentences that I then have to read the original message and...

I'm generally unimpressed with Apple-branded notebooks. They seem to have problems with overheating and getting too warm on the underside, which I can only categorize as an ongoing poor choice in industrial design. Their desktop products are just dandy until you have to work on one. That...

So you can get an E-mail and have no idea what the fuck context or even element your correspondent was replying to? Why not just handle all your communication through IMs or SMS text if you're going to do that? I'd also like to point out that every forum program we've ever used for...

I have a problem with e-ink displays, which is that they update too slowly to be useful for thumbing through a e-book. A LCD/OLED screen is better and more versatile, but then you lose out big-time on battery life. I actually do a huge amount of my reading on-screen but as yet I haven't found...

All your users are on Gmail, which is wrong by default. When I first got on the internet in the early 90s, the standard for quoting text was to reply beneath quoted text and if necessary to interleave quotes with replies. This establishes context and is vastly preferable to the way Outlook...

Microsoft's Courier tablet hasn't gotten much in the way of press, but in my opinion it might be a much more interesting product than the iPad.

I'm really, really, REALLY pissed at Antec right now because I can't find suitable replacement power supplies for the NSK3800 and they've basically said I'm SOL. I have 40 of the stupid things and right now I'm looking at cutting up the backs of three cases somehow because I can't find a PSU...

I use Thunderbird. I keep all my mail in my inbox with no folder structure at all (every non-spam message I've gotten since 1993 or so, around 13GB of messages). My mail is pretty much all forwarded to a Gmail account (for spam-handling and backup in a proper, universal format) and then...

Passmark is a benchmark. It has very little to do with the day-to-day reality of operating a computer. I'll glance at benchmarks when I'm evaluating a purchase, but most of the time I'm far more interested in subjective performance, which comes down to the simple question "Is this machine...

I wound up installing a two-port PCI Adaptec SATA controller and doing a repair install using that as my disk controller. Had to use a USB floppy to ideal with the install time driver. The setup as it is now might not be ideal, but it's better than whatever the hell is going on with the...

You have to take Tea's age into account.

If you do it right, she should be satisfied with six. :P

3m cables should not be hard to find.

I have a solution that works for myself, but I'm not trying to store anything of personal significance (I doubt I have 50MB of personal photos) so much as being able to quicky locate the correct set of naked women. A couple small hints: I make extensive use of symlinks so that there is always...

Porn in technology: Today I was able to download a full-length stereoscopic porno movie.

Affecting disk access and nothing else? You think? CPU utilization is in the range of 1 - 2% every time I look and commit charge is fixed at only about 450MB, which is pretty much exactly what I'd expect on an essentially idle Windows file server. I haven't pulled this thing out of its rack yet...

There was a long thread on Slashdot about a week ago about the possibilities presented by long-distance consumer-class devices like this. It devolved into a discussion by gun nuts over what would be needed to shoot one down and whether or not those things could carry a meaningful payload over...

Apparently not on the 7K1000, but I did try an second set of 80GB 7k250 that are SATA I anyway.

I got this E-mail today. It's in bad Chinglish, and I'm not sure now if I'm getting a keyboard or not, or how much they're going to charge me.

I just tell people to buy decent power supplies in the first place.

Hey while we're at it... I recently became responsible for an Intel OEM Server. I don't know what model it is, but it's about six years old and uses an integrated LSI SATA controller instead of ICH* or IDE-emulated SATA. The machine has a hardware RAID1, but they way I came to be involved with...

OK, yeah, that's pretty sad. Truly, as an instructor I really do appreciate the demands of the certification process, in that it tests what should be knowledge specific to the subject matter. Too many people just study the answers they need to pass the tests, sometimes without even minimal...

It made a very sensible recommendation of 400W for the configuration of one of my game machines, within about 10W of what I thought I needed.

Between 3.33 and 3.8, no. Unless I'm transcoding movies from disc to MP4 or MKV. Which I do a lot. Mostly what I notice is that those two machine are WAY faster than the boxes they replaced.