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Even 10 years ago, you could have purchased a $200 SCSI contoller and moved it from $100 motherboard to $100 motherboard and had a series of systems that were cheaper and faster than what you bought. Over time that 10 year old board has brought about a high opportunity cost, since you've been...

I can't find a bluetooth adapter that works with Server 2008 64-bit. I've tried four now. It's pissing me off.

Nah. 1TB and 1.5TB models.

There's a guy I do work for whose Primavera consulting business means he needs access to five different versions of the program. I used VMware P2V to move all the different systems he was using to in to Guests on a single box with VMware Server and for him I became an IT god. It didn't even...

I don't take a home office deduction because I don't have a home office. For that matter, I don't think it's a moral imperative to reduce my tax bill, because I understand the value of the services I get from my governments and I am willing to pay for them. I don't want to deal with the...

They're just a bunch of desktop drives in inexpensive rackmount cases connected to some mix of desktop board SATA ports or semi-fancy RAID card SATA ports. I did make an effort to minimize noise and vibration, but the only thing fancy about those systems is the number and capacity of the drives...

Herpes will do that to a fellow. Seriously, I just want to be at home. There are people I wish I could spend time with, but there are not places I wish I could be. I'm not wired for travel.

As we keep trying to tell you, the enterprise-grade stuff isn't worth the money for what you're doing. You're far better off buying three generations of commodity hardware than trying to hold on to decrepit workstation-grade equipment, which is what you seem to want to do.

Some of my customers see me that way. Some of them do stupid shit because they asked their brother in law who knows a lot about computers first. Whatever. I don't want to be in charge so I just suck it up.

That would require their whole org to upgrade to the commercial version of Apps. They also don't want to pay $15 a month for two people to have hosted Exchange accounts someplace and (sigh) they already bought the Exchange license. At least I talked them out of BES...

There's not a subjective difference for me from one X25 to two in RAID0 for anything I'd do on a desktop. It's nice for playing with a local copy of a .vmdk or a .tib or a .vhd, but those things tend to be network-limited anyway, at least in how I normally interact with them.

Why do we keep talking about read/write speeds when Greg keeps harping on access times?

Samsung drives have a 3 year warranty. That'd be a pretty old 1TB drive to be out of warranty already.

Exchange 2007 takes too goddamned long to install. Exchange 2003, which I also hate but which is vastly easier to install, will not run on 64-bit Server 2003. So I've been watching Exchange 2007 install for 40 minutes just so I can turn on calendar sharing for two fucking people. I think...

Newegg says there's a $40 MIR on 60GB OCZ Vertex MLC drives. I can never keep straight which of their models are the good ones, but $180 is better than $220.

Onslaught

I like bots. They're better than people. This is an overarching philosophy in my life, actually. I get a decent challenge in UT2004 on the 4th difficulty setting, meaning that I might not win the match. If I go up one more notch I'm pretty much instant chum on most maps. I don't know why, but...

I printed that and put it on my door at work. The rest of the stuff on the Oatmeal is also pretty damned funny.

Coug, I build machines that I usually SELL for $350 - $400. I buy Antec cases when I can get them on sale from Amazon (no shipping), but generally I stick with Compucase + HEC PSUs. I try to go with two HDDs as a standard sort of up-sell and that's about it.

I read and listen to music, and those are things I can do just fine where I am.

I've never taken a vacation. I drove to Windsor a few years back for a job interview.

UT2004 bot matches = no fuckwads.

Yes they are. They really are. If you think Access Time is important, you want SSDs. There is no other game in town. Every time we tell you this, you come back with anecdotes about the data transfer rate of your SCSI shit, which has nothing to do with access time.

Download the updates for your BD playing software.

18 year olds LIVE on their cell phones. No. Really. LIVE. Screw TV. Screw the computer. They want texting (but hate Email) and internet access that doesn't tie them down, either to the location of a desktop or to the need for wireless network access. And that's worth $400+ to them, even when...

I'd be a lot happier to find a solid $25 power supply. I can buy something really nice at $75; I'm not even worried about that, but bread and butter stuff is just getting POS Dell or HP up and running after a storm.

My father has some anger issues.

The media license type needs to match the media that was used to install. So if you have a volume license CD and it was installed with OEM media, it won't present the option to repair. Or at least that has been my experience.

I got beaten, sometimes to the point of concussion. I'm not particularly successful.

We've been telling you to do your fifth option for quite some time.

Cute but it needs more SATA ports. :D

I probably have or can make an image of the basic system image for that hardware for you if you don't have OEM media for that T41.

Alienware has hands-down the worst online support I've ever seen for their shit, too. And yes, I've worked on several Alienware products with two drives in RAID0.

I think they might be worth $250. I certainly don't think they're worth more than MSRP. I'm having driver issues with the 5870 that I have not been able to resolve, that I do not have with a 4870x2. I've always been more or less OK with ATI's drivers compared to nVidia's hardware that's born...

I did. It knocked $40 off, not $80.

OK well the price they're showing me is $640, which is about what I can get it from Amazon without a discount code, so the link is bullshit.

Argh. I'm trying to hold off. I have a great Integra receiver now. I'm really trying to hold off on getting something with HDMI but oh that looks sweet.

I have codes for 98, 98SE, 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, two different XP Pro VLKs, and at least one code for Office 97 - 2007 memorized. I'm thinking that some day, if I live that long, I'll probably remember those codes when I'm forgetting what I had for breakfast that morning.

I did find a generic OEM Win98SE disc the other day. I know the product code 'cause I have it memorized. No sticker.

That is an interesting question to which I do not have an answer. My stuff is all close to stock nowadays.

RAID Reconstructor is not just something you run one time. It allows you to change parameters for your recovery. If the first try doesn't work, change some of the settings and try again. Here's my thread about doing an at-the-time large data recovery with that software.

Amazon carries motherboards, Radio Shack is carrying things that might actually be useful... what's the world coming to?

Get Data Back has a Raid Reconstructor add-on that can vary the interleave of the drives in your array, which solves the corrupted files on recovery issue.

Ninite is pretty sweet. You pick a bunch of apps, it hand you a downloadable or linkable .MSI file.

Mercutio is too common of a handle to have it everywhere. I have a different one I use now, though I don't register for new services very often. And yes, my user ID number is 7. I was, I think, the second non-admin account created after the MBF, because I had donated money to help SR. Also...

In the state it's in under Disk Management, "initialize" would mean fdisk and format. Maybe you're thinking of importing a foreign volume? Anyway, my recommendation is that jcazes demo or purchase $100 worth of software from Runtime Software to see if it can recover data from the array. I've...

Handy says Mozy will ship you drives if you need to restore NOW.

It's a kernel module. If you need it, just recompile your kernel.

Wow. I hadn't logged in to SR since 2002. And I'm still user #7. At least the database never crapped out again.

Yes but to be fair how many Europeans were playing a NASCAR game? I'm more excited about the 15-hour add-on to Dragon Age that's coming in the spring.