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I doubt that the drive's mechanics can deliver data fast enough for that to be worthwhile.

Depends on the machine. I know some Asus models won't see the extra RAM but I've put more RAM in a bunch of other netbooks.

Maybe a Lenovo X300? That gets you an SSD and a real CPU, and also size and weight to make Netbook owners jealous. I keep having to rant to people who don't understand the functional difference between a Netbook and a proper notebook. At this point I'm pretty good at it.

PDF 995 CutePDF OpenOffice Office 2007 has a free plugin that does it as well.

I generally buy TrippLite UPSes, because they're a Chicago company, which means I'm supporting the local guys and also because anything I order from them I get next day.

Her user profile is too goddamned big. Make a new user account. Watch it load quickly. Look for things like how many installed fonts, how many printers, how much crap is on her desktop.

I've found Vuze to be a resource hog for both RAM and CPU time, even on multicore systems. To put that in perspective, my habit is to never stop seeding nor ever clear out the list of shared torrents on either of my torrent machines. Both have probably several hundred torrents, and both do so...

I would pay obscene amounts of money for 50/10 internet service, even if it were shitty Comcast. The idea of having a 10Mbit upstream pipe gives me a happy.

I don't know enough about the Fatpipe. I've seen a hell of a lot of them in datacenters. I figure someone must.

I'm fairly certain you could buy four hours of a Linux consultant's time to get a hand-rolled router setup to do what you want.

I pay for Comcastic Business service, so when I have a seven hour outage like the one I had until about 10 minutes ago, at least I can call Comcast Business and they'll say more than "Can you reboot your modem?"

I've been sick for three days and I'm still catching up with works. Though I've got to say, contracting has been DEAD lately.

In case anyone was wondering, neither DD-WRT nor Tomato will run dual-band Linksys hardware at 5.8GHz. I mean, not AT ALL. It's 2.4GHz or nothing.

The only benchmark I really care about is City of Heroes.

Uncle Toby?

Obviously you are overclocking. What kind of RAM are you using for that setup? My new gaming system is going to be an i7 920 sitting on a Gigabyte motherobard and three X25-Ms, probably in RAID0.

I have a cameraphone photo. The pictures are correct and the slots are keyed for 5V. I'm not sure what the lesson is here, aside from the fact that Dell PCs are retarded and whomever decided that machine should be a "server" is ALSO retarded. At the end of the day they're basically stuck with...

I've got a 4870x2 coming in later this week. I'll let you know all about it when I get done building the i7 system it's going in. :D

The Auzentech hardware I'm familiar with does not do DD Live with Realtek hardware, but I too have no problem turning it on or off.

Totally sweet Wall-E case. Takes like 10 minutes to load.

... and it turns out that the LSI cards are compatible with PCI, but only 3.3V PCI, which is not something you're going to find in a Dell Optiplex. I'm giving serious consideration to just shipping my student a decent motherboard. I really am.

In the spirit of unity, I give to all of you something that we can each in our own way see as being made of both awesome and win: Hot chicks in their underwear engaged in a lightsaber duel.

I'm not willing to sacrifice the performance of my PCs for an Antivirus application, nor do I have any particular faith in Mcafee or Symantec to do anything interesting or useful for anyone but Mcafee or Symantec and their bottom line. Too goddamned much of security software is built on a...

PAE is a bit of a hack, in that it gets back to doing something not unlike the DOS-land BS of bank switching EMS memory. At some point in the future it's not going to be good enough, just as EMS wasn't. We can say we're going to move to 64-bit before then but honestly, given the direction and...

I said my 22" Dell wasn't. I got it with a coupon that made the total cost on it about $135, too.

Windows basically insists on paging sometimes, and if you don't have a pagefile you get all kinds of hilarious, cryptic error messages and random shit breaks.

I've evaluated Steadystate on PCs before, as well as Deep Freeze, before returning to image-based maintenance. My coworkers, who are at least theoretically software trainers, had difficulty with the concept of "changes go away on reboot." You can redirect My Documents to another location but...

My commit charge is 1564MB at the moment out of a total of 4956MB available. That's with 300MB of Firefox and a 512MB VMware session. Process Explorer says PaintDotNet has 97MB of private bytes, which I take to mean the combination of pagefile, system libraries and RAM claimed by the executable.

Firefox is the #1 tool for my work and for my productivity. I don't mind if it's using a lot of RAM, given the way I use it. Same thing with VMware and Thunderbird. Thunderbird seems to take up the same 80MB RAM on all my Windows machines. I'm fine with that; there's 30,000 messages in my main...

Hint: Alt-Tab. If your PC can't manage to task switch out of the game without crashing, you need more PC.

Thank you, Mark. I believe she got an Adaptec card but if swapping to LSI can get her running I'm sure she will be thrilled to hear that.

One of the things that happens when you start working with nonprofits is you get to see some REALLY misbegotten configurations. So their "server" is a Desktop that has, I think, two 3.5" internal drive bays, a 2.4GHz P4 and a 945 chipset... but it has Windows Server 2003 R2 with 250 CALs...

There are 1xPCIe SAS cards. They're all internal only 2-port deals as far as I know. I'm surprised SOMEBODY doesn't make a functional PCI card, though. Apparently, the not-for-profit she works for is using an Optiplex GX520 with Windows Server 2003 on it.

One of my students is looking for a SAS controller with an external mini-SAS connection and either PCI or PCIe 1x interface. The system they're dealing with already has something in the PCIe 1x slot, but I'm not aware of any standard PCI SAS HBAs in the first place. Has anyone heard of such a...

In the articles section here, there's a whole bunch of things I recommend in my 2009 Malware protection guide. Most of them apply. I suppose you'll be wanting paid versions of Spybot and SpywareBlaster. They're both fairly inexpensive. Paid apps along the lines of SpySweeper and Norton Internet...

Obviously there are people who do it well, regardless, as any picture set from Domai.com, Hegre-art.com, Photodromm.com, Met-art.com et al. will prove. Candids are a different sort of art form with a different sort of skill involved, but I think the results are still more interesting that...

Guys, you are clearly photographing the wrong humans.

Sometimes I don't get foam on smaller drive orders. I try very hard not to order drives until I need a more serious number. I go through 160GB and 250GB drives quickly enough that 10 is not a problem. If necessary, I'll mix and match until I have enough drives to assure decent packaging e.g. 4...

2.1:1 is a valid widescreen format that some movies are shot in.

I can see it today. I looked a couple weeks ago and it wasn't there then.

There are a couple sweet little appliance servers with WHS on them. Shoeboxes with four or five hotswap trays. If I hadn't just spent $900 buying an APC Netshelter and a paid of large rackmount cases I'd be lusting for those.

You can? It's not available from my Action Pack or my Microsoft Partner login.

Buffalo just got over the legal action that prevented them from selling 802.11 devices in the US. I suspect someone has it out for the company as a whole.

There's some bloat in them thar apps!

It's good to have another join the 2000 posts club.

2GB RAM is hardly crippled. I have to be doing some pretty major stuff with VMware and/or running an MMO client to get anyplace close to that, even with my habitual use of of dozens or hundreds of open Firefox tabs.

Acronis offers free licenses from time to time for people who have agreed to beta test products, made volume purchases of client licenses or have purchased server licenses. I'm in all three categories. I get offered free licenses three or four times a year. On top of that, anyone who has a...

It's fairly trivial to get Acronis Home or Workstation licenses. Hell, sometimes they give them to me. But anyway, the big, big, big HUGE reason I like using Linux for fileservers is that I can add drives to SoftRAID arrays in-place. Granted I can do this on expensive hardware, but that's not...

Use Linux. The volume management for SoftRAID makes it the winner for any kind of filserving.

My recommendations for browsing porn safely and securely. My site is safe for work, some of the links at the end of the article are not. This is adapted from a document I originally wrote for my co-workers' husbands.