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  1. Mercutio

    Building new FAH/main PC

    XP can use multiple 4GB pagefiles. I'm not sure if it DOES, but it'll let you set them up. There's an absolute 4GB limit on RAM in XP, though. Server 2003 Enterprise Edition can support 32GB RAM on its 32bit version, but obviously not on hardware that a normal person is going to have sitting...
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    24TB in a single box is now possible.

    Prices will slowly fall until 1.2 or 1.5TB drives are about to be released. That's what happened with 750GB units. Personally, I buy drives that cost $100 to $150. That is ALWAYS the right range for GB per dollar, and I don't have to worry about having one drive so big I can't easily back it...
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    42" HDTV recomendations?

    In this case, yes. I can E-mail you screenshots if you like, L6k2. Ones that don't even have women in them, if need be.
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    Complications with "academic" software

    Intuit is a little bitch. I try to convince as many people as I can not to suck at that particular teat. It does no good. EVERYONE uses Quickbooks. But windmills are better for the jousting, and so I keep trying.
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    Fun with Monkeys and Windows

    Good gods why?
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    42" HDTV recomendations?

    I have an HDDVD player and a few movies. I have also found some VERY nice HD Porn on PureTNA.com. I have HD versions of Vivid's Pirates and Digital Playground's Island Fever 3 (which is gorgeous in the same way the HD stuff from the Discovery channel is, plus the naked plastic womens). Lots of...
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    RAM price : free falling without parachute.

    Actually, I've been pretty frustrated with the quality of the modules I've been getting. I have eight different high-end 2GB DDR2 modules that seemingly can't be used on any LGA775 system I own, though they work fine on AM2 systems. I blew another $300 on a set of Corsair XMS2 "Dominator"...
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    42" HDTV recomendations?

    1080p is a requirement for me only in that I don't think 1360x1050 or whatever 720p is, is enough screen resolution for a PC. And I *do* have some 1080p content, so it's hardly worthless. I'm thinking about trading my 60" DLP monster for something more like a 50" LCD. It'd be worth it to get...
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    Complications with "academic" software

    Uh, thirded, I think.
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    Something Random

    As if we needed another reason to hate Alberto Gonzalez.
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    8GB Flash Drives?

    It's been fine. I run trueimage restores off mine. :)
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    8GB Flash Drives?

    I think I'm really happy with my Transcend 8GB...
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    GA-7S748 Not Stable with 400Mhz DDR

    My standard configuration with those boards is to use one Crucial or Rosewill (sigh) DDR/333 DIMM. I kinda sorta remember reading something about them being weird with some DDR/400 modules but I no longer remember the circumstances. Anyway, those boards typically don't fail in any way but a...
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    My new system

    The way too fucking hot one.
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    My new system

    Hey, take a wild guess which component in my gaming system died today? I'll give you a hint: It wasn't the motherboard, CPU, RAM, any of the disk drives or the PSU.
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    Powering up a Hard Drive when needed

    A USB2/Firewire/eSATA enclosure seems like the most reasonable way to accomplish what you're after. Actually, one of those cheap 3.5" inside 5.25" bay removable drives plus a SATA drive would do it.
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    Something Random

    Don't feel bad, MaxBurn. When I was in high school choir, I was specifically excluded from doing anything that required any amount of choreography...
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    My new system

    Based on my brief experiences with an 8800GTX in a P180, I can say that the area of the side panel next to the card gets warm enough that I don't want to touch the case with my leg. It's not out and out hot, but it's uncomfortably warm. I am thinking we need to get AWAY from that kind of heat.
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    Something Random

    On a scale of one to ten, I'd say the average level of attractiveness of the people in those pictures is at least four points higher than the people I see in Northwest Indiana. Does California ship all their ugly people off to Utah or something?
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    Bible Thread

    Jesus told his followers to leave their families if they wanted to follow a righteous path. I'll dig up chapter and verse later, but it was in one of the four gospels. Everyone should keep their religious beliefs out of public life. That is something that would make the world genuinely better...
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    Bible Thread

    To the extent that the bible requires that some people suffer eternal torment because they behave in non-harmful ways that do not match the tenants of christianity, I'd say the bible is also a hate-filled book. Particularly if you read the bits in the old testament about how to keep slaves or...
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    My new system

    Yes, but it's an nVidia card and I don't like it or how hot it gets... which is apparently less hot than the x2900. :(
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    Bible Thread

    I don't think it's the good kind of eternal torment.
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    My new system

    I am highly disappointed, myself.
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    My new system

    http://www.vr-zone.com/print.php?i=4946
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    My new system

    Couple sites have early reviews of the R600 up tonight, but they're being Slashdotted, Dugg, Reddit'd and Farked off the Internet. Long story short: Fastest x2900 might be competition for the big 8800GTS.
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    Bible Thread

    RW, I think that your religious beliefs - anyone's, for that matter - are harmless as long as they remain personal. Proselytizing and inflicting one's morality on others are the things that I find offensive. I also do not understand where christians get off claiming to be a persecuted minority...
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    My new system

    I'm already using the lowest memory divisor I can. The board is a rev. 3.3 and yes I know how Gigabyte hides the overclocking options. I wish I could make that the default display. The F10 BIOS for the DS3 has been out since January, apparently.
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    My new system

    Generally they don't boot with 4 sticks while you're overclocking.
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    My new system

    No. Temps are good OK-ish. I'm guessing it's memory that's the issue, but the DS3 links RAM and FSB speeds so I can't do much more about that. However, it's been stable @ 3.8 so I don't really have any reason to complain.
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    My new system

    F10.
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    My new system

    OK, new record: GA-P965-DS3 + E6320 (1.5V) + 2GB OCZ DDR2/1066 RAM + Coolermaster Gemini II + 2x 1200rpm SilenX fans = 4112MHz. It wasn't stable but it got all the way through a Windows install before it crapped out. Just never saw a four in the thousands place before. :D
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    Boot failure with Win2K3 Server standard edition

    I can get you a proper ISO if you wait about 8 hours for me to put it someplace. Do you need a standard or volume license?
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    Bible Thread

    The cartoons look like a scanned Chick Tract Jack Chick is very real, very sincere and very hateful. Even has it out for all the pope-worshiping Catholics.
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    Bible Thread

    Fundies say the Darndest things. (Coral Cache version)
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    Something Random

    Sent. I am a little worried about the "advertising content" in the EULA but I loaded it in a VM and it's running well enough and I have not seen any ads yet.
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    Something Random

    Anyone want a Joost invite?
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    General musings calculating power consumption

    Whoops. Wrong topic. Oh well. ;)
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    General musings calculating power consumption

    On the subject of FreeNAS, why not set it up in a Virtual Machine if you just want to see how it works? VMware server is free and easy to use, guys. Coug certainly doesn't. I've heard that Quebec is one of the few places where US citizens get treated better than English-speaking Canadians...
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    Computer case : Arctic Cooling Silentium T2 Pro

    Is the PSU still a proprietary design in the updated case? Or did they just make an easy mod to a standard power supply?
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    Why was the site down today?

    Dreamhost, at least my server, has issues with oversold capacity. We have tons of disk space, and awesome bandwidth, but my server has 1107 accounts listed in /etc/passwd and every time I log in and look, load averages are way high (4.5 - 6 is common), making shell access unresponsive and a...
  42. Mercutio

    Building new FAH/main PC

    For a computer that's supposed to last three years and to run Windows, I really would look at 4GB RAM. The NSK6500 is a nice case. I have lots of them because they hold lots of drives. I'm REALLY fond of the NSK4400 and NSK3300, though. The 4400, in particular, is just about the easiest build...
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    Something Random

    Hey, it's a huge deal to me one way or the other. My random thing of the day: In my daily box of crap from Newegg, I got three little packages of Wrigley's Winterfresh gum. Next time I hope I get one of the secret decoder rings!
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    Windows CD Burning not working?

    Yes. Which is one of the reasons I'm so surprised that it seems to have been a factor.
  45. Mercutio

    Why was the site down today?

    LunarPages pisses me off. I know there are people who hate Dreamhost with a passion but honestly, I e-mail dreamhost about a problem and they help. I call Lunarpages for something and the answer I've gotten every time is some variation on "Well, what do you expect on a shared hosting plan?"
  46. Mercutio

    more than 10 connections

    I have a few Linux systems out in the world that I installed in '97 or '98 that are still running and doing the things they are supposed to do. I love it when I get a call like "The power went out and that one computer's screen just says 'login:' now." "Can you still access your e-mail and...
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    Why was the site down today?

    Over an hour by my count. Came back just as I started to bitch at Handy about it. :)
  48. Mercutio

    Replace HSF or new gfx card?

    I have a Radeon 9700AIW I could certainly part with. At one point, I tried to install a Vantec(?) graphics cooler on a Radeon 9800. It came with no instructions and the card burned out about two hours after I installed the new fan. I do not trust after-market graphics cooling. On the other...
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    more than 10 connections

    That kind of crap is exactly how Linux gets in the door of an all-Windows shop.
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    Something Random

    I went and did that concert-thing last night, and actually had a very good time. Even the drive into Chicago was good. I am told that I behaved appropriately, and other than a few moments of nerves, I was OK. Anyway, maybe I will get to do that again some day.
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