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I've always been under the impression that it's the controller's CPU and RAM configuration that limits the overall speed of the controller. It's pretty normal for me to be think "Why is this server so slow." and then open up that box and find a PERC card with an 80MHz CPU on it instead of, say...

Around here, farmers get a decent sized initial payout ($10k) for a 400-foot-tall windmill, plus $500 a month, plus removal of the windmill at the end of its useful life.

You can CTRL-Z and then type bg to background the task. Or you can do shutdown -r 17:30 & And start the task in the background in the first place.

I usually make drive rails out of strips of cardboard.

I have Vista on all my classroom PCs. Of course, they all have XP on them and that's what they boot to by default, but Vista is at least installed. I only know of one business that has made a coordinated effort to move to Vista. I know of four or five that skipped XP and have chosen to remain...

Fallout 3 comes out tomorrow. I remember the first one as a great action role playing game with a really unique aesthetic. I've been so disappointed by recent PC games and especially by game publishers that I'm not sure I want to buy it.

An Indian restaurant finally opened someplace close to where I live. It was alright, even if I don't really remember what I ordered (Teeka?). I heard that it was spicy, and I asked them to make it spicy. They did not make it spicy. It was fairly bland. I did not see anything on the menu that...

In Illinois in 2004, there was a scandal involving then-Governor George Ryan where he was essentially funding his campaign and lining some crony pockets by accepting bribes in exchange for valid trucking licenses. This really came to a head because a Mexican truck driver carrying one of those...

One of my favorite-ever stupid political facts: George Ryan was the SIXTH Governor of Illinois from Kankakee to be sentenced to time in prison. On the other hand, I respect the hell out of the guy for changing his stance on the death penalty. I don't remember any scandals or major allegations...

Blagojevich really is an idiot. He's caught in a permanent pissing match with the state congress, has no idea how to fund any of his new programs and can't even keep Daley happy in Chicago. Basically, he's a guy who has painted himself into a corner by not playing ball with ANYONE with any kind...

There is nothing and I do mean nothing like the murderous rage I have for Outlook. Sharepoint is a perfect product in comparison.

Apropos of nothing being said at the moment, the Obama victory rally is going to be held in Chicago's Grant Park. As much as I hate the idea of crowds or being around people, I'm actually thinking that it would be neat to go, because that really will be a historic moment in time...

I asked the person I work with who does sharepoint stuff, and she couldn't think of a way to make it work eithre. Sorry.

My bedroom display is a Samsung LN40A650. It puts my 52" Sharp display to shame, and my Sharp is only a little over a year old, I thought that a 40" display might be a bit too large to sit in front of but as it turns out I don't do all that much work (reading text) from that machine. It's kind...

Sometimes you want a chain. Familiarity and (hopefully) consistency of product are a good idea while traveling, for example. I can drink a shot glass of 100,000 Scoville hot sauce and not have it bother me, but if something kicks my personal anxiety disorder, food basically isn't going to stay...

The only problem is that one drive isn't a very large sample. In the grand scheme of things the 30 or so 750GB Seagate drives that have passed through my hands certainly isn't either, but between my poor experiences with ~10 of those 30 drives, and with 31 of the 220 80GB drives I worked on...

Since you're suggesting that you can actually get an edible meal at Applebees, I'm going to make the assumption that you ate the napkins, because there's no way you got decent food there. It's not even possible. I've gotten soda with no syrup, chicken tenders and fries that were still frozen...

Given the number of 750GB Seagate drives I've had to replace, I don't think I'll be touching that one. Between my experiences with low-end 7200.10 80GB drives and "high end" 750GB drives, I am at the point where I'm ready to classify Seagate in the same category as Western Digital.

You know, I never thought to look at Wikipedia, given the fact that I can come here and ask actual Aussies. Wikipedia: Is there anything it doesn't know? P.S. Vegemite is gross

I'd say Ruth's Kris is a high-end chain (I had a $70 meal last time I ate in one. No alcohol.). Outback is a step above a Ponderosa or a Sizzler, but I will honestly say I've had a better steak in those than I've gotten in Outback, too. It's on par with Texas Corral for a "meh" level meal...

1980's US Federal budget was approximately $700 billion, which is certainly an ironic number right about now. An inflation calculator tells me that 1980's budget in 2008 dollars would be about $1.7 trillion. The real budget for 2009 will be approximately $3 trillion. Even if we take a hacksaw...

Well, for example Americans have hot dogs. We have corn on the cob. We have a few unique cuisines: Southwest Fusion (a blend of Mexican and Asian cooking made possible by the diverse cultures of California), Cajun and southern Soul Food ("Fry everything in butter with various parts of the pig")...

Question for Aussies: Can Oz be said to have a cuisine of its own? I don't really know, but the things that come to mind about Aussie food, as an American, are that it's probably mostly derived from god-awful English cuisine (cucumber sandwiches, meat that's both over- and under-done). In the...

Once again, the simple joy of being able to re-mount /home on a different *nix variant reminds me of how retarded Windows can be.

No, but it needs to. The most annoying part is scrolling through all the drivers in the "HP" section, looking for a Officejet 5600 only to find out that the 5600 is a Officejet Pro and therefore listed after all the regular Deskjets... and also that it's in a category called "Hewlitt Packard"...

I have about $1200 in home theater equipment in my office. Just a little system. If I wasn't so lame to as to be afraid of hanging pictures and stuff, I'd probably put a couple Maxfield Parrish prints up or something, but given how the rest of my office looks (aside from the mess; I work in a...

The IMAP inbox on my home server wouldn't fit on a standard gmail account. I don't put anything in folders, either.

You can't even "upgrade" to 64-bit Vista. Basically there's no automatic path anywhere to convert to x64-anything in Windows-land. I'm having a hard time imagining what any normal desktop user would be doing that would cause them to bump in to the 3GB limit, too.

There's one stuck pixel on my 27" Dell. There are two on one of my 24" Dells. Most of my classroom Monitors have at least one dead or stuck pixel, and most of those monitors are less than two years old. Oddly enough, none of my LCD TVs have any, though.

W's temporary tax cuts were a horrible idea in the first place. You don't increase spending and decrease taxes at the same time. That creates something that intelligent people call a "deficit." If the tax decrease was temporary, it was temporary. The rates never changed. President Dumbass just...

They just put a label on it. To be fair, so do IBM and Dell.

They just put a label on it. To be fair, so do IBM and Dell.

It's more of a general windows complaint than a Vista one, but why the hell doesn't the Printer driver selection screen have a search box? Drivers are named so inconsistently that logical alphabetical order isn't always the correct place to find a printer.

Gosh that's terrible. How dare he! I am reminded of a Doonesbury cartoon from the early part of this decade, in which W was addressed with the question "Is there any economic condition in which the correct response is not 'tax cuts for the wealthy?'" 'Cause 20 of the last 30 years have been...

I've never needed to buy a 48 port switch for anyone where the cost for a Cisco setup was out of reach. I have some 24-port Zyxel switches that have management functions and were quite inexpensive (so cheap that I didn't realize they were managed switches until I got them), but they don't make...

Newegg is very high for Antec cases. I use another US vendor, Provantage, which usually has one or other of the NSK series cases at $65 + $20 to ship instead of Newegg's $80 or $100 + $15. I really like the 3480. I like having the hard drive mounting in the bottom of the case. I also like the...

And the answer to the question "is it worth buggering with?" is No, simply because I can't get a Promise RAID card to work in a system with a 3ware RAID card and therefore don't have enough SATA ports to do anything all that impressive. :\

... So I checked with a couple nVidia cards: my 8800GTX (...since I just got it back from RMA again) and a cheapie 9600-something. Neither card supports HDMI audio, and now my sound is properly directed to my audio card when playing either HD-DVD or BluRay content. The down side to that...

In the olden days the HP Printers had a Windows emblem on them. The Photosmart printers I have (in a stack, doing nothing) have no indication that they're windows only. My advice: Don't trust anything that doesn't do native postscript.

HP has made a lot of Win-printers. I was complaining about some Photosmart printers that require Windows back in January, but even going back, I can remember Windows only printers (HP DJ 892, maybe?) from 1999 or so.

Normally I use Nero Recode in the High Definition profile + AnyDVD to make MPEG4 video files. If it's something that I care enough to preserve a DTS soundtrack (the High Definition profile provides dolby digital only), I'm probably doing a DVD-to-DVD copy. As a proof of concept, I've started...

About 2m from a Linksys WRT350N, I get 802.11n speeds that work out to be about 120Mbit during file copies to a PC connected to one of its gigabit ports. At about 5m, the speed drops off to about 80Mbit. That's as far as I can get from the router without putting some cinder blocks between my...

blakerwry, I can attach a 1440x900 display to an XP machine that doesn't even have SP1 or anything like current devices drivers and have it work OK. I found this out last night while I was messing with an old Pentium4 machine with a Radeon 9200 I'd had sitting in my pile of spare parts. I'm...

After much experimentation, I've found a fun new Vista pet peeve: Take a 17" or 19" widescreen flat panel display. Brand name, generic, whatever (I like HannsG displays for cheapies these days). Most likely, it will have a screen resolution of 1440x900. Attach that display to an XP computer...

I'm sitting here looking at 12 1TB hard disk drives and wondering if it's worth buggering around with all of them just to make a screen shot of one big array, before I set them up properly.

My annual salary is not that high.

Gold is cyclical and on the way down right now from historic highs. A lot of currency trading - I'm not sure about dollar and euro (also falling right now) but a lot of other currencies require contracts that are pretty much going to be too large for a single consumer-level investor to afford...

I don't have any place to put 60lbs. of meat! On the other hand, it would be nice to have an excuse to fix the dent in my Element's hood. I had a tree limb fall on my car the week after I got it. I had a $500 deductible at the time. Cost of repair was $470. There's a funny thing about my...

I just came about three inches from hitting a deer this morning. I sure am glad I had my brakes and done a couple weeks ago. Deer bad.

<threadjack> I always thought it was funny that former Mexican President Vincente Fox's father emigrated from Ohio to find work in Mexico. Fox is living proof that the son of immigrants can become president... in Mexico. </threadjack> We now return you to the disastrous state of the economy...