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What I'm primarily thinking about is the fact that you've got companies like EMC and NetApp building extremely high cost storage solutions based largely on dozens of spindles to achieve levels of performance, and several of the major players in spindle manufacture have no meaningful presence in...

Speaking of "gay blue", I deliberately buy pink things because my students are less likely to walk off with them.

I'm just waiting for all you laggards to catch up by posting more. ;) I wouldn't come here if I didn't enjoy the company. Thanks go to everyone else for being on SF.

80 - 85wpm maybe? I've observed the same behavior on Vista and on different hardware than my T61, and it's the whole system that pauses, not just my word processing app (Word or OO.Write or Kompozer). I believe ddrueding has complained about the issue as well. And yes, I've run the system with...

Unplug all your USB stuffs and see if the problem goes away? Failing that I probably have one of that board floating around. I'll look and see if there's a goofy BIOS setting someplace that might do that.

It doesn't happen in XP or Server 2003. Different driver base but it drives me insane.

I have a strong suspicion that there's some FUD coming from enterprise storage vendors.

In the end, there's still the single huge issue of UI responsiveness, and in that department, Win7 is taking a back seat. Furthermore, no matter how many synthetic benchmarks are done that show newer Windows kernels have x000% faster performance for some obscure event (something that happens in...

I still want to see some numbers. What does it take to kill an SSD under some crushing load? As far as I know, everything about the lifespan issues is theoretical. I've not seen anything about a real world high-volume setup.

Unless it does DTS Live as well I'm still going to buy another Auzentech card.

Sort of. I have a 4870 X2. Someone else bought it. ;) And I really have no use for it. It doesn't make a subjective difference in any of the games I play compared to the 8800GTX I had in my game machine before it.

$300 for a top end part isn't that bad, either, but what am I doing with this thing that I need that horsepower?

There seems to be a LOT of FUD about using SSDs in the datacenter at this point. I know when I was looking a new server configs for my new standard platform last December that everything I read said to stay away from SSDs. I wonder how much of that is coming from "enterprise" drive vendors who...

Mainstream support for more than 4GB RAM is nice, but short of machines that manage VMs or large databases I don't see a reason for it. The Libraries feature is nice if you have crap spread all over network drives like I do at home, but mine is already organized appropriately without that. Jump...

When I tried Win7 on a Celeron D 430 notebook with 2GB RAM and a 5400rpm hard disk, I found performance to be more than adequate. Certainly better than the copy of Vista it shipped with. Things weren't quite faster but Windows overall seemed a bit more responsive or at least less aggravating...

If you're reasonably careful with hardware selection, a Hackintosh can be pretty easy to set up. Working from a Dell Mini 9 or MSI Wind U100 is very straightforward, as is going from from most Gigabyte i965 boards + a geforce 7300.

My volume license numbers were available a couple weeks ago.

I have a desktop and a notebook on Win7 right now, but the notebook will probably revert to something I actually like in the near future. I'm building an i7 with Server 2008 R2 in the near future (technically, that OS is even newer than Windows 7) but again, that's for home use, since I can't...

Well, you're going to have to specify some things, like the existing operating system platform, any database systems in use, how the data is distributed among systems, the available network infrastructure, legal requirements for data storage (e.g. HIPAA), business retention needs and the actual...

Glen (UPS), Tom (FedEx) and Rita (DHL) all love me. I give them each a holiday card with $50 in it every December to ensure their continued kindness and good service. :P

I was just looking at this with my Network+ students, oddly enough. The least expensive, most practical 10GbE I'm aware of is 10GbaseSR, which is still fiber based. There *is* a 10GbaseT, which uses Cat6 but introduces enormous latency into your connections, and a 10GbaseCX, which has a range...

PXE relies on a small TCP/IP implementation to send out bootp requests and start the netboot process. In theory any interface that supports IP and has a DHCP/bootp server configured with the correct set of options would work, regardless of what's going on at layer 2. A quick google says some FC...

I will say that the couple times I had to call Hauppauge, a human being answered the phone. That was a few years ago though. Asus, half the time their RMA and motherboard downloads web sites are down. On the other hand, tuner cards just come down to chipset regardless. Hauppauge might include...

Typically even Maxtor drives outperform Barracudas, once Seagate gets around to releasing them. Maybe they're just being ironic.

FC requires a whole support infrastructure to make it work. You need FC Switches and cabinets with a proper backplanes and even the cabling is expensive. Plus the controllers are mostly going to use some sort of funky interface like PCI-X or 64bit PCI, and that gets away from the consumer...

OK, one 16 port 3ware card. What are the other drives connected to? Onboard SATA? Or did you get a second 3ware card and make one big array?

I ended up creating an on-demand VPN to a host a less retarded ISP to send out E-mail. At different times, AT&T told me that the only mail servers they authorize their clients to use are the official AT&T ones (smtp.att.yahoo.com), that I cannot run my own mail server (I wasn't trying to), and...

Yes. That is correct. I deal with a physical disc one time and never again. At the moment I'm sitting on six 6TB arrays and I have 10 1.5TB drives I haven't even brought into service yet. Granted that half of those drives are providing redundancy for the other half, but I still only have about...

I'm pretty sure I'm still winning; mine's just distributed as a number of 6TB arrays.

I have a nasty two inch slice across my palm from trying to open the package a memory card came in so I'm really getting a kick out of this discussion.

I have that here, too, except that my apartment complex usually takes care of the bit by the door before I wake up.

Every time I've purchased WD drives on purpose and of my own free will, they have failed catastrophically and in an unreasonably short period of time. I gave them a chance back in ~1995 - 6 and lost four out of four drives in a seven month period, all drive less than 14 months old. I gave them...

That's only an issue for people who think that "going outside" means doing something other than walking 10 feet between a door and a car.

Coug, I'll trade you in a heartbeat. You get unabashed pluralistic culture, a functional economy and a working health care system, and our college kids can buy Windows for $10 if they go to a state-funded school. I think you win.

"Real" schools here get Office and Windows for $10 through a technology sharing agreement. That's one of the ways I deal with putting together cheap computers, since I put together a lot of machines for college kids.

My understanding is that MS charges tier-1 OEMs $20 - $30 for Vista right now. I can match the total machine price but any attempt on my part to earn a profit on hardware is going to kill the sale. So I don't even try. I round up to the nearest $10 and that's what I charge. Probably 85% of the...

It's not the technology, it's the douchebags who think they need it.

mwave was one of my favorite internet resellers for several years before I started shopping at Newegg. They've always been a solid vendor. The fact that I still look at their sale Emails should say something, I hope. That really is a pretty good deal on that drive. I paid $350 - $380 apiece for...

Blackjacks and Sidekicks do indeed suck as PDAs, but it is only douchebags who think they are so fucking important that they need real-time connection to their E-mail instead of waiting for their phone to poll a POP/IMAP mailbox, oh, every five minutes or so, who really need to wash the slime...

MWave has 80GB X25Ms for $279. with code X25MSSD.

Most clock radios have a headphone jack. Most geeks have computer speakers sitting around. I think you see where this is going.

No but in college I had my PC hooked up to my massive audio system and set a cron job to start playing audio at a fairly high volume if I didn't get up to kill it beforehand.

Pink ball of what?

We had a rather interesting thread about Bose's crap very early in the life of SF. You might enjoy taking a gander at that and all the links to sites about how Bose actually operates.

Imma get a HTC Touch Diamond 2 when they get released next month. No stupid hard keyboard I won't use, 2/3 the thickness of my current phone, an ounce lighter and a 480x800 touchscreen (compare that to the Pre or the iPhone 3GS, both of which are 320x480). Yum. Also, it is my professional...

Can I get your server people to come talk to some of my customers about their data storage? Getting preventive drive upgrades is like pulling teeth!

I have some 800s and some 1200rpm SilenX fans. Yes, the smell goes away, but it's still a characteristic I associate with them. I also have an enormous stack of the 3-speed Antecs, since I bought sixty NSK-series cases that came with an extra fan.

Seems like there would be a market for that sort of thing. I'd really like to tell my customers "Stick one of these in drive bay #4 every day" to cover their backup needs.

It took me about 45 minutes to figure out the whole stupid mess once I started working on it. I've only seen it once.

Get a Supermicro chassis with 2.5 bays?