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I was thinking more for the "sometimes Crossfire, sometimes not" configuration. Though that certainly does answer that question.

Someone just asked me to build "the fastest computer possible for $5000." It's going to have three OCZ Vertex SLC drives in it. :D

I'm just checking here since I don't have two identical graphics cards sitting around at the moment, but if I stick, say, two ATI 4770s or two nVidia 9500s in the same PC, I can run those as four independent displays without mucking about with Crossfire/SLI, right?

I'm mildly fascinated by these results, but it does very little to convince me that the Realtek Ethernet chipsets are anything other than garbage hardware, given the real-world difficulties I have had with them.

I'm just enjoying the fact that any news organization in the English-speaking world would publish something like that in just that way.

That's why I put in the bit about "good taste." :P

I noticed that, too. The HD503UJs are a bit louder than the HD501UJs were.

Yet more proof that Australians are the greatest of all peoples on this planet, one way or the other. Maybe not safe for good taste, but I love them for it.

There's nothing keeping nVidia from making AMD chipsets except the fact they don't want to. Plenty of judgment-impaired people would surely pair an nVidia-based card with an AMD CPU and an nVidia chipset.

I've got four 1TB Hitachi drives sitting in an Acer Windows Home Server at a customer site. They were the cheapest 1TB drives I could get. They get a little bit warm, but that might be from the design of the enclosure.

Good riddance. Now if we could just get them to quit making GPUs. And give 3dfx back.

AT&T's network is staggeringly awful where I live, and it's been pointed out to me that AT&T's coverage basically stops west of Chicago and doesn't pick up again until Houston and Denver. Essentially everyone I know who has an iPhone bought it to get a cheap iPod that they can also use as a...

Spyware is rough. One more good tool is always better than no good tools. I had the unmitigated joy of dealing with something called "Windows Police Pro" today that prevents the execution of any other program on the system after it is loaded and appeared to auto-load with Windows Explorer...

Well, let's go down the list: Management: * VMware at the moment has much better management in complex environments, and its management scales well to deal with more guest images than you're likely to have in your environment. * Microsoft really only has simple offering at the moment, but in...

As I understand the situation there are a couple of things going on: One is that they're looking for something that's going to have enterprise support if need be. ESXi is free and moves them up to a full VMware installation with all the attendant management tools if that is needed. Microsoft's...

Jessica is kinda-sorta one of my students. I suggest she bring this here because there might be a wider range of opinions and biases than my own in this, and because it's an interesting and different thing to potentially discuss. Hi Jess. :)

Meh. I've had better luck with my multi-layered approach.

The U100 is the unit that can have OSX installed almost entirely without alteration. That's a compelling reason to get one if nothing else is. And the battery is available aftermarket.

Yeah. My two main iPhone-using customers are pestering me about getting those things. Those things range outside your house, though. You're effectively donating your internet bandwidth to any AT&T customers who happen to be nearby. That's more than a little galling to me, and I say that as a...

HTC 6800 on Sprint. I have the SERO plan, which is no longer available to the public, but I pay $35 a month for 500 talk minutes and unlimited data access. AT&T's network is to the best of my ability to determine, god awful. I've heard other people say the same thing about Sprint and T-Mobile...

First thing is: HP has switched from using Asus boards to using ECS? Ouch. You want the video card to be the full-time sound output? I don't think that setup will work with the nVidia card. My understanding is that nVidia does not fully support sound output via HDMI, at least with its older...

I'm fairly impressed with Backup Exec 10. Anyway, step 5 in my Spyware Removal Guide includes links to various Security Vendors' removal tools.

There's a form factor I like. I'm not giving up screen real estate to buttons and HTC phones typically have resistive (stylus-capable) touch screens. There's a certain level of application compatibility that I occasionally appreciate in having Word on my phone as well. I use a mix of IE Mobile...

I don't want text capability. Why would I? I get regular IMAP/POP mail on my phone. If I did, It'd be $5 extra a month, but as it stands, why should I pay for a service when a vastly superior free alternative exists? The UI on my phone is not subjectively slower than that of an iPhone. My apps...

My HTC phone + Sprint service will be just under $1200 for 24 months of service. I'd call something that costs twice as much "expensive." I was just looking at video of my next phone, which will probably be an HTC HD2 at this point, and now I'm trying to decide what I'll do with the phone I...

Neither of us had any idea who any of the players were, but we decided that Bobbie Scales must be a Mafia hitman or something when he isn't playing baseball, so we just rooted for him. The game was awful for actual Cubs fans, and it was really, really cold. Which actually worked out, 'cause the...

Every security products vendor I'm aware of, except Computer Associates, has an external removal tool. You can't go by that.

My friend wants to come back again in April if possible, though both coming and going she wound up racing snow in Wyoming (on the first of October), so it may or may not actually happen. Her drive here took 22 hours, mostly due to bad weather out west. The best thing for me is that I didn't...

I've had good luck with electronics on the lowest possible setting in an oven. I've rescued cell phones and music players that way. Of course, those things were dropped in fresh water, not salt.

Thank you, all.

I'm giving her the comic books and pixie stix (powered sugar in a straw), not the cornucopia of massage oils and condoms. That's my ex's idea of a joke. Truthfully I have no idea what's going to happen, but from asking the very small number of women in my life the overall consensus is that you...

Since we're dealing with Vista, you could just set up Parental Controls to prevent his default account from running Windows mail while using the Secondary Login Service (right click, run as) to launch the program with a different set of credentials. Or you could set NTFS permissions such that...

Didja try this yet?

I must say that I haven't seen an error 5 on the Windows Firewall, but I'll raise a glass to the sentiment of Norton's vacuum-induction abilities.

My client has a configuration that works (through a demand-dial VPN), which is all he cares about. I've talked to AT&T several times now and gotten a different and contradictory reply each time as to the existence and nature of the blocked ports. I suspect it's a local issue only, but I'm not...

Well sechs, what would you suggest I do?

It's by far the best of the choices I have.

She's not very interested in flowers. I might get some anyway, just in the name of tradition, but probably not roses. I did send her some for her birthday last year. I knew where she was working, and Google maps was able to tell me there was a florist's shop just a couple of blocks away. The...

My friend Frodo will be here in 36 hours. I put her up at the Hampton Inn, just because, after visiting all the places that cost less than a Hampton Inn, I decided that I'd rather not give her the impression that the only people who live where I do are truckers and hookers. So I'm paying $600...

Yes. It's an additional layer of protection for your computers. It's possible that someone could find a scriptable remote exploit or worm for Linksys WRT-whatever that exposes your internal network, and at that point, you'll be wanting your internal software firewall again.

No. That looks more like an L2TP implementation. Certainly more secure than PPTP, but I was just talking about PPTP, which requires pretty close to zero setup since it doesn't require a Certificate Authority and has both client and server already built into dd-wrt.

I foresee another good company being ruined by MBAs.

If you can do dd-wrt, it has a built-in PPTP client and server. That's not the most secure thing in the world, but it's serviceable. The fact that dd-wrt does not directly support SSH is one of the things I don't particularly like about it.

It's really not. You'd need a terminal server and a client that supports zmodem but I do know it's much faster than SMB for file sharing, if all you care about is transfer rate.

I suspect that if you really want speed your best bet is probably zmodem. :D

I use HannsG monitors in some of my classrooms. They're acceptable for that, but I wouldn't tolerate one for my personal use. I'd rather have something with higher contrast.

Tell you what: I'll give you RDP access to a client machine there and if you can make an SMTP connection using any combination of settings or encryption with any mail server other than smtp.yahoo.att.com from that client without resorting to stunnel or a VPN, I'll give you a nice, shiny quarter.

Biggest problem I have with Realtek NICs is that some of them just won't operate with some switches at speeds higher than 10Mbit, no matter what the link light is reporting. I've tested and verified this several times with 3Com and SMC switches against supposedly 100Mbit or 1000Mbit cards. I...

Someone on Totalfark pointed out a guy on IGN's forum with 150,000 posts a few months back. Fark only keeps track of posts for the preceding two weeks and some of the users there, especially folks on the Politics forum, manage 150 - 200 posts a week.

Does it hang after completing the RAM check or at some point during? If it's after, the next step in POST is to check the CPU, and if THAT is taking 10 minutes that would be highly indicative of a problem. Actually, no matter what, there's a hardware issue here. Nothing should normally take 10...