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Slackware is VERY Unix-traditional. It's probably not a good choice for someone who doesn't want to invest time in really getting to know the Unix way of doing things. Personally, I use Centos on my home Linux servers, but my configuration at this point is pretty bare-bones. I've been using...

I couldn't begin to tell you what the issue might be with that. I'm not an Ubuntu fan. It has too many Debian cooties (Debian people being the FSF "It has to be GNU/Linux and not just Linux" morons). Hopefully you made a partition for /home and another for everything else. Anyway, if you...

I've never had employer provided insurance either. I have catastrophic coverage only. I have no idea where or who gets corporate IT jobs other than those on contract basis, and I vaguely suspect that in the future more and more jobs with be defined-length contracts rather than permanent...

Well, the Zipang 2 is definitely silent. It's also parallel to the plane of the motherboard, so there's no uncertainty about which position or orientation I should use for the fan. It does overhang my DIMM slots more than I'd like, but I can reach under it, so it's not a big deal. Not bad for $35.

Acer does not fit. Ever. Toshiba has business products and business support, but their business products are still too crappy to merit consideration. I know a couple people who SWEAR mainstream Asus notebooks are good products, but I've only seen a couple non-Eee examples and they didn't seem...

Most boards with multiple integrated video ports only support using one at a time. The last time I went looking for something that would run integrated DVI + Integrated VGA, I wound up with an oddball Asus board based on very specific wording in the product specs that indicated that it could use...

Before you go off blaming Linux, why not try a platform with a different installer, like SuSE or RedHat/Centos?

To me, anything that gets consumer rather than business class support (and to the best of my knowledge Sony does not have a business support division for computer products) is consumer garbage. The HP Envy branding is (or at least was) used for gaming products, which is its own special...

The stock HSF for an i7 is frustratingly not silent, so today while I was out and about I bought a Scythe Zipang 2 cooler with a 140mm fan on it. I'm just getting ready to take this PC down to fit it, but I was wondering if anyone else is using a non-stock cooling solution for their i5/i7...

Let's see... RAID, Volume Management and Encryption. Short of using an alien filesystem like HFS, I can't actually imagine a more complicated setup. You admit to not having *nix experience and you're not really asking for help. Maybe a setup like this should not have been your first choice?

I keep an application repository so I don't need or care about discs for longer than the first time I touch them, and most of the software I deal with reaches my hands as .ISOs in the first place. If I have a need for entertainment viewing, I can make use of the gigabytes of unused space on my...

Make a new boolean value called extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and set it to false.

Yes but that was hours ago. :P

Meh. I've been running 3.6 for a couple weeks on at least a few machines. I can see an improvement in page rendering on pages that have a bunch of scripts (Fark and CNN are both in this category), and personas are kind of fun to play with. I don't like that new tabs are added immediately to the...

I suspect you'll have a PCIe x1 option for that. You could also look around to see if there's an ethernet-to-parallel print server on Ebay or your local equivalent. The motherboards whose printer ports I'm familiar with (mostly Intel boards but also SOME Gigabyte boards for this purpose) have...

It sounds like the Gigabyte adapter is barely supported in the first place. The PCI cards I buy (here in the US) are low-profile cards made by Syba. They retail for US$14. Generally, I find myself connecting older HP laser printers to them, but other than remembering which driver I need to...

For about the same price, you should be able to find a PCI card with one or two parallel ports on it, kencol.

Probably not for a while. They're claiming lower resource utilization and faster scanning speed. I don't actually use Avast on any of my personal machines so I can't tell if that's real or not, but it's certainly a good thing if they aren't exaggerating. Microsoft Security Essentials does seem...

AOL is a walled garden that can only be accessed to its members. There's some different stuff that's available to AOL people, and for a lot of things that we understand as web sites there's a particular AOL interface. Basically, AOL users who never use any other software do not understand...

Suck

I think it's better than AVG or Avira for a free product.

You aren't dealing with 60 year old steelworkers' wives, either.

Today I was asked to install AOL 9.5 on an i7 notebook. I think I died a little bit just from hearing someone ask me to install AOL.

That Yamaha receiver is probably pretty nice. What I did when I wound up with spare audio stuff was set up my office at work.

There's more to it than that. It has all the drawbacks of using a Business/Professional copy of Windows (10 CALs) with basically none of the advantages of Server; single sign-on seems like it would be a no-brainer but it's not there. There's also nothing to make it back up another storage...

There's a new version of Avast today and the default appearance no longer looks like a goofy car stereo.

The backups are file based, but WHS will only store a single copy of a file, which means it's efficient for multiple machines for the same version of Windows. It supports bare metal restore from a boot CD that loads the WHS client. I'm not as enamored of it as some people are, but being able...

I made most of my DVD-Audio discs in to six channel FLACs but I haven't finished the process yet, and sometimes I just wanna listen to a disc, that's why. :P

BluRay playback happens in a virtual machine that needs control over both audio and video on your PC. Everything that's obnoxious about BluRay (slow load times, disabling Aero) really stems from that. Anyway PowerDVD 9 Ultra works fine for me, though I'm still a little pissed off that it only...

This stuff is probably where it would be beneficial to pay attention to all the Intel Channel Partner training BS they email out...

Inexpensive rack density.

How loud are these? I turned my spare on my back bedroom, went in my bathroom and turned on the faucet, shower, radio and flushed my toilet, and my Tyan GT20 was still by far the loudest thing I could hear.

Fry's had that drive for $50 in June or July. That's where I got the ones I have. I had another but it died, possibly because that was the one that I used to rip all my HDDVDs with.

Greg, the advantage of SCSI in terms of performance on a desktop system is about 99% due to the lowered access times available to 10k and 15k spindles. Once again, as I have attempted to stress to you repeatedly, improvement in access time = subjective improvement in performance. Data transfer...

The difference is where the costs are. The commodity board will have extra data lanes for PCIe. The workstation board will have support for buffered or registered DIMMs. The commodity board will support far out of spec RAM and FSB timings and voltages, while the workstation board is set up to...

Try it anyway. Win7 will do a startup repair if it doesn't start right, and if it works OK without AHCI then it may very well be that the drive is not the issue.

It was sold for about two and a half years and I think they dropped that model last summer.

Those things are really, really, loud. I'm tempted but I already have a spare dual Xeon sitting in my wiring closet for the day I need to swap out a customer system, but Tyan GT20s are my standard servers anyway. Are the X2s socket 939 or AM2?

One of the many, many ways that trackballs are superior to mice.

Does the behavior stop if you run the drive out of AHCI mode?

I figured something like that happened when I didn't get a PM from you, RW.

Brightness can be turned down. Picture can be adjusted generally. There's a bit of a down side if you're right up close, which is that the pixel pitch on TVs is higher than true monitors, but I don't think most people would notice that, and the screen size can more than make up for it. I'm...

Because it is an awesome name, that's why.

I do the media server thing. I have a pair of LG BD/HDDVD drives and I rip BDs I want to keep. Loading time with PowerDVD is far lower on those drives than it is on any standalone player I've seen, but I have a distaste for physical media regardless.

The model I'm thinking of is maybe $25.

The movie theater I go to, there's only maybe 10 - 20 people there. I hate being in a restaurant by myself, but in a theater it's dark and no one is paying attention to anything but what's on the stage or screen.

I've bought Belkin two port KVMs in the past. They're inexpensive and they do the job.

My four file servers have 16 - 20 SATA ports apiece. Sunday I saw Tosca at Lyric Opera in Chicago. It was the B-cast and the B conductor, but I was on the main floor, 10 rows back and directly behind the conductor. My seat cost about half what my monthly rent does. It was exquisite regardless...

Congratulations, Chewy! I am disappointed that you did not name her Zoltan, but I guess Gabriel is also a name that can be chosen.

I've tried Motorola, Trendnet and a couple generic Broadcom models. The thing is, the Broadcom chip is supported in Win7 64-bit on a whole bunch of notebooks, but it doesn't install on Server 2008. I'm guessing it's something in the .INF but as much as I've screwed with it, I haven't gotten it...