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Either they're portable or they're not. If the disk controller doesn't recognize an array made by a different controller made by the same company, I'd call that non-portable. The difference between a P35-DS4 and an EX58-UD3R is small enough that a normal drive with Windows on it can go back and...

OK: My source drives are a pair of Samsung SP1614C 160GB SATA drives on a RAID0 created on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 with an ICH9R southbridge. The drives work fine in RAID0 with that board, as verified by the fact that I had to shut down Windows to take the drives out of that chassis and move them...

I have a lifetime of bad experiences with Western Digital drives. They weren't any good in the mid 90s. They weren't any good in the early part of this decade. They don't get another chance. Given the choice between being able to recover my data from a failed RAID controller and having to...

I happen to have a pair of Gigabyte i7 boards here. I'll run my test again with both of them.

The one thing in HP's favor is ease of getting supplies.

80 hours is not abnormal for me, though it comes and goes. Breaks for forum posting and finding new naked women on the internet do wonders for my acuity.

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The duplexer sells it and the high capacity toner seals the deal. I've had less problems with Brother 2940s than some of the other departmental printers I have to put up with.

No, they aren't. I tested with a pair of 160GB Samsung drives in RAID0 against multiple Gigabyte, Tyan and Intel boards and chipsets from ICH7 to ICH10. I had to recreate the array in every circumstance; the controller BIOS would not recognize the drives' existing configuration.

I'm not a fan of hardware RAID, because you're taking the chance of losing your data to some kind of controller failure. In my experience, even the quasi-hardware RAID available with Intel south bridges isn't necessarily portable to newer iterations of their chips (ICH9 RAID0 to ICH10 reports...

I haven't played with Solaris in years. I keep thinking I should, if for no other reason than ZFS, but it's a pretty low priority right now. I do have a USB missile launcher, though.

You have a windows application that can't print to something accessible from an SMB share?

I saw 2GB DDR2 SODIMMs drop to as little as $18 this spring. I haven't found Atom CPUs to be slow for browsing, either. And I *do* keep tons of tabs open and use Adblock et al. The only issue I typically have is the abysmal startup time associated with opening 60 or so tabs. Performance is...

Have you given any thought to a return to CRT?

I have two Perc5s in machines at home. I bought them off Ebay, where they pretty consistently sell for $75 - $100. I use them as straight up non-RAID eight port SATA controllers because they're vastly cheaper than 8-port 3ware cards. Perc6s on Ebay usually sell for around $200. I do not see a...

I have to do something similar once a year (at least the auction receipt part). I use Deskjet 932 printers. They're workhorses and I wish HP made inkjets as nice as those. For the reports, I'd just set up a VPN (use Hamachi if need be) to get your systems to bulk print on a legitimately fast...

Greg, I know you have a fascination with enterprise hardware, but you don't actually need it. That's what we keep trying to tell you. I understand wanting a faster computer and not wanting to buy crappy hardware, but you need to understand you keep bringing up diesel engine trucks when what you...

Greg, I will absolutely assure you that with the exception of some Microsoft Windows add-ons, everything you install is either so tiny that it doesn't matter where it's installed, or it has an option to change the install location. This has been true for at least as long as there has been...

I don't like hard keyboards because I'm almost never doing text input longer than a URL or search term. If I am, I'll go do that on a computer. I'd rather have more screen.

Yes. Vista and 7 even support symlinks. It's almost like they're proper operating systems.

Yes, I can see how changing a C to a D or an E might be asking too much.

Memory chips keep getting faster. Transistors keep getting smaller. We will continue to see improvement.

What gave you that idea?

They're dropping in price already. The speeds are only going to get faster and capacities are only going to get higher. We'll probably end up with "mainstream" MLC drives in our consumer-class products after a couple years. This is a "when", not an "if" situation.

Gmail will also do ActiveSync for Windows Mobile and for iPhone, under some conditions.

Also, nobody needs a 150GB boot drive. Windows Vista and Windows 7 install in a space between 12GB and 30GB. XP needs around 2GB by itself. Absolutely anything else you care to install can go on a secondary drive, if you'd prefer to have a fast one for your operating system.

Almost all the drives I actually use for myself are Samsung 1 or 1.5TB drives. I think I have around 40 of them, between those two sizes. However, I've installed pretty much any recent-vintage Seagate drive from 160GB up to 750GB and I still have a stack of 250GB and 500GB Hitachis that I need...

Outlook Web Access is your friend.

This of course leads to the obvious question of why you're using Outlook in the first place, but I'm guessing it's because of the poor judgment of your employer or someone in your IT department rather than personal preference.

1. Why doesn't Outlook do that itself? 2. Why not use Google Desktop? It seems to have less of a performance penalty. Personally I wouldn't install Google Desktop, either, but Windows Search seems to be part of the path to maddening slowness on Vista and Windows 7, let alone behaviors like this.

Does Windows search do anything useful, ever? I don't understand why anyone would voluntarily install it.

I normally run strips of electrical tape under the motherboard's screw holes for much the same reason. It's something I started doing ages and ages ago, and I've never gotten out of the habit.

Meh. Somebody can play with the mod console now.

Maybe uninstall Windows Search? It's an optional component and you can get the same functionality from Google Desktop if you actually use it.

Yes, I had to adapt it for the machines I had.

Yes. but make sure you have a Gigabit NIC. That's really the only hardware compatibility issue I've run into.

I can top that. I submitted an RMA request to Axiontech for a Hauppauge USB PVR doohickey about three and a half years ago since, according to Hauppauge, I was supposed to return it to the store rather than the company. Eventually I contacted Hauppauge directly and got a new doohickey, but...

Supposedly you only need the newest one.

It's under Display Properties, Appeannce, Effects in XP or Vista. It puts a dark shadow under text on the desktop and I find that helpful.

Dragon Age is really cool. I honestly wouldn't have bought it if I didn't see reviews that mentioned Baldur's Gate 2 over and over, but it really is that good.

.NET Cleanup tool. Maybe it's just me, or maybe Microsoft totally sucks, but .NET 3.5 installs seem to fail about two out of three times I do them. I've found this program to be helpful in dealing with that. People who bitch about Linux being dependency hell have clearly never had to put up...

Technically, there's a right way to do that, but I've not invested the time in figuring out how it works. What you're really supposed to do is use the OEM Preinstall Kit to set up things like AHCI/RAID-mode devices so that Windows can recognize them. Now that I've actually done that procedure...

It's not twitter, and in fact it hasn't been updated in about three years, but there's some funny stuff at thingsmyboyfriendsays.com.

63% through all of the choices. I like cheese.

I shouldn't need their permission to play a game I paid for on my own computer. It's just that simple.

I'm not going to use it at all until I never have to do anything but purchase and download a game from a web site. A web site where I can log in and re-download the game if I need to. Having to have their client on my system, having to have their client "check in" with Steam EVER after the game...

I bought it, but the single player campaign feels like a rap video without the booty-shaking hos. I went back to UT2004. It's pretty, though. At least Epic games can be enjoyed without a heaping helping of Steam's bullshit.

They're just moving everything over to Mint.com, which is a better implementation of the same thing.

After a breach you get information security contractors, and you keep THEM employed.

Getting to be the suntan lotion boy at the Playboy Mansion for all eternity. :P