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At least one company I work for mandates that I set all passwords for every user to the same thing. The guy who owns the business wants free reign to check in on anything his employees might be doing and that's more important to him than external security. Yes, he's nuts. In a non-psychotic...

Is he back to posting pictures of hot Asian chicks for no reason?

Is that 1540/2100 - the one with the essay, or 1540/1600, the old style test? 'Cause IIRC you're too young to have taken the test I took. 1480/1600, 3.8GPA.

I'm under the impression that ddrueding was a bit of a fuckhead when he was younger. ;) Getting in to those school requires either a great deal of talent or a lot of social pull. My oldest brother went to Northwestern as a C student from a poor-quality high school basically because my dad had...

Most high profile schools weight "legacy" applicants very, very heavily, since successful parents are also likely to be big donors once their kids get in. It's not entirely nepotism (the parents are not DIRECTLY responsible for admission, anyway) so much as helping to ensure that the endowment...

If it came down to it I'd probably slip in to a chain eyewear store and ask for help. I'd offer to pay or tip if necessary. Generally speaking the employees at those place are probably going to be apathetic enough that it's not an issue where the glasses came from.

Wow. This thread took an odd turn after I went to bed.

Dual Xeons have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with your storage setup. Given an X25E I could put together an Intel Atom-based system in a PC that's slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes that would smoke your dual Xeons + X15s. You're conflating CPU performance with storage subsystem performance...

You could run local copies of any mail client and download each user's mail someplace. Outlook Express, say. Or Thunderbird. There's a very simple *nix app called fetchmail that could deliver each of your users' E-mails to a local Linux mail server, if you know each user's Gmail password. You...

i7 + Gigabyte X58-UD5 + 3x Radeon 4890 x2s = maybe a $2500 computer all in. Other than the insane power consumption that's not as insane as buying something that will do modern Xeons in an SMP configuration + SCSI/SAS drives so you can rip DVDs faster. :rotfl: <-- Rare deliberate emoticon

If you were primarily folding, wouldn't you realistically be better off with some number of Playstation3s?

Oh how I wish. Cloud applications are a trend that has not made it to Northwest Indiana yet.

No, but if I'm being lazy I'll just clip the diagram into a PNG or something.

Also, Greg: NO ONE WHO POSTS AT SF - NOT ME, NOT DDRUEDING, NOT LUNARMIST OR HANDRUIN OR TIMWHIT, NEEDS A XEON-BASED SYSTEM AT HOME. I wouldn't mind having one just because 16-port SATA/SAS cards are much cheaper in PCI-X, but Xeons are for a sort of CPU workload that you as an individual are...

Greg, I'm going to tear my hair out. You were looking at different kinds of Xeons, with different underlying logic even down to the CPU core. EVERYONE in Intel-land went through some amount of "faster then (apparently) slower" when Intel moved from CPUs based on the Pentium 4 architecture to...

Acronis version 11 does indeed suck. Version 10 works great, though. I have yet to make a Sysprepped Image of Vista work with anything other than ImageX, though. LifeHacker had an article on Image-based backup tools a while back.

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I'm under the impression, and I might be wrong, that just about every business anyplace has some line of business app someplace that doesn't work with Vista for one reason or another. If you work for a Fortune 1000 company, no big deal: You spend hundreds of thousands of dollars replacing the...

STR is not normally a huge part of a typical user's workload. It makes a difference on OS load and for starting certain huge applications, but superfast seeks are really the reason to look at fast-spinning disks and SSDs. That 29x faster seek is a HELL of a lot more important in everyday disk...

Made by Adobe. Doesn't count. I know both my local papers (not Chicago) still work in Quark. My company has done Quark training as recently as the beginning of this year. So people still use Quark. I do about 90% of my word processing in Google Docs these days, but when I'm finishing a book or...

Other than, you know, mechanical breakdown from drive heads flying micrometers over the surfaces of a platter that's spinning at 15,000rpm.

I think every customer I have has at least one application that runs in DOS, 16-bit Windows or for one reason or another has compatibility issues with Vista. Every. Single. One. In a lot of cases these are vertical apps specific to the organization. I some cases there was custom development...

Companies are gonna skip Win7, too. That's actually troublesome on a couple of levels; deployments are normally good for hiring/contracting, and rollouts are good for spending on training. Basically businesses are looking at new Windows as a cost. Win7 doesn't do very much that's actually...

Personally, I blame nVidia.

This is orgasm in video game form. Well, OK. It will be when it's released, anyway. Note, among other things, the destructible environment, physics effects and the heat effects on the weapon barrels. Actually I just found out that the dozen screen, 100 individual control Battletech pods...

I thought the first episode of HBO's Hung was pretty amusing.

I got an OCZ Vertex 120GB drive yesterday. It's definitely faster for writes than my X25-Ms but read performance as measured by system startup seems to be about the same, with Server 2003 needing about 16 seconds on either drive. I can't quite bring myself to cough up for an SLC drive though.

For those things, there are symlinks and shortcuts.

I don't ever need to search for files. I'm anal-retentive about putting things where they belong so I don't have to. Email, maybe, but even then it's unlikely. Even though I keep every message I have in my inbox I can usually narrow down date and sender that searching isn't an issue.

There are some very heavily used web sites that do a lot of heavy lifting with Javascript. A Yahoo mail or Google Maps session is probably something a browser developer would find it worthwhile to optimize.

They're regular glasses. I got them from smartbuyglasses.com. I just needed my prescription and my pupilary distance to order them. Locally the frames were $300 and the lenses I need were another $250.

Here's the nightly build directory for Chromium, a version of Chrome with extension support.

I *finally* get my car back today, if I can make it to the body shop before it closes. CarMax had records of having removed the front bumper during its initial inspection of my car, so they figure the mechanic just forgot to put that piece back in. Which is kind of scary on its own. I bought...

MSDN/MSDNAA/Action Pack subs list product keys for Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate without regard for x86/x64. If somebody needs an .ISO, just shoot me a message and I'll plop it up on FTP. You're on your own for a key, though.

Displays are going to get thinner and offer higher contrast ratios in the near future. We'll start to see large OLEDs sooner or later, and in entertainment-size screens we're going to see network-aware displays that can handle internet streaming video (probably Flash/Silverlight, rather than...

If you look on the bottom of that notebook you'll probably find a Compal part number. You might have an easier time if you can equate your Gateway to either a generic Compal design or with a Sager or similar "generic" notebook from a vendor with better download support. I've found it easier to...

I know the UAE is 9 hours different from my time zone. OMG Stereodude must be part of the Marine offensive in Afghanistan!

I drove to Detroit to have lunch with a friend/former student today. My shitty rental car DID get 34 MPG, which was almost but not quite enough to make the trip on one tank of gas. It probably would have been able to do it if that particular vehicle had cruise control. I didn't even know it's...

Is your setup cabled properly? Are you sure it's cabled properly? Are you REALLY, COMPLETELY SURE it's cabled properly? What are you using for backup software? Is it supported by the drive or by HP? Are there other things happening at the same time on your SCSI bus when you're running these...

I don't have any idea whom to believe. These shitheads have had my car two months and supposedly put $8000 worth of parts and labor in it. Are they trying to scam for even more money? I had a clean car history report and a national used car chain that supposedly has a certified inspection...

Well, my car is "done" but I just got a call that my car is missing the interior reinforcement for the front bumper. I've never had any work done front of my car, and the Carfax report doesn't show any accidents, and the car passed its original inspection from Carmax, but now the shitheads who...

There's an Extension called Video Downloadhelper that's really useful for that. Also, I tell Adobe to die in a fire all the time anyway. I just waiting on the rest of the internet to join me.

Now, if only every video site in the world would switch to HTML5 native video objects so we can collectively tell Adobe to die in a fire, that would be swell.

Those javascript tests tend to be synthetic benchmarks. There may be no real-world difference most of the time.

Keep that R handy, Tannin. There's a pretty decent shot that you'll be able to find a used replacement board for far something more like AU$500. Assuming the board is what's dead.

Seems OK. Memory use is down a bit. A bunch of my extensions don't work, but that just means it's time to turn off compatibility checking. I like the standards-based video. Anything is better than Flash.

Not all GHz are created equal. Not all motherboard logic is created equal. Some of the things that are done as a matter of course on desktop boards aren't even possible on workstation/server boards. More than that, Greg, YOU DON'T NEED THAT STUFF AT HOME. You're not going to generate a...

Why? The only compelling argument I can see for Xeon in a home setup is to get exotic expansion ports and therefore cheap high-end SATA/SAS controllers.

Has Intel ever made any effort to simplify its product offerings? I knew i5s were coming and with them hopefully some cheaper motherboards. No one but Intel has a license to make LGA1366 motherboards. I suspect they're going to be expensive for some time to come. :\

Every once in a while, Microsoft puts the MSDNAA version on sale and, amazingly enough, does not check for academic affiliation. That's how I got mine. I've even renewed it twice.