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Udaman's posts are hard to read, but there's no reason to call them gibberish. He's obviously spent some time here, reading and typing. Give him some credit.

Maybe it's 'cause I work for lawyers, but agreeance is a word I hear a lot.

I LOL'd

Illinois has sent three governors (all from Kankakee, oddly) to prison over time. Blagojevich (can't believe I spelled that right) seems to be ethically challenged as well, but to his credit, his issues seem to be more patronage/nepotism issues than George Ryan's License-for-Bribes scandal. He's...

Moving within the US isn't going to fix the sizable political voice of evangelical christians and other social conservatives in this country. The USA is a place where basic principles of science are up for debate, to say nothing of the social justice issues I consider important. I'm endlessly...

There are a fair number of long-time friends here, udaman. I've sent SF members hardware (including jtr, whether he posts here or not), loaned them money, arranged for gifts and generally made Real Life-type, non-forum-drama things happen. Others have done the same for me. That's something a...

I've not seen any reason to suggest that Western Digital has improved QA in any part of its product line. Anecdotally I can say that of the last six computers that I've worked on that I have found to have disk drive problems, five had Western Digital drives (1 40GB, 3 80GB, 1 320GB) and the...

Since no one else has brought it up, I'm just going to say that election night was a happier night than usual. Not that I don't still hate this country.

Why do you hate your data, Adcadet?

My thoughts are in the "State of the Union" thread. Basically, the Core 2 Duo is the rational choice, being faster, consuming less power and producing less waste heat. I'd probably look at an E6400, 2 - 4GB of DDR2-667, an Intel motherboard, or possibly a Gigabyte one with at least one IDE...

VMWare converter, a tool for turning running systems into virtual machines is presently available free of charge on the vmware site. Sweet.

I've been spending some time today reading the stuff on Lifehacker. And some of it is AMAZINGLY useful. Here's an article on setting up mass extension installs for Firefox. Looks really straightforward and simple to use. And this article describes InstallPad, a tool for tracking and...

I'm planning to use the free VMware Server so we can load multiple versions of MSOffice on the same machine. Turns out that the clipart database (out of all of Office) breaks when you have more than one version of Office install on Windows. So I get complaints when the clipart doesn't work in...

I'd just like to point out that the two power connectors for the big version of this GPU are 12V molex connectors, not PCIE power connectors. Good thing we got those weird new connectors on our power supplies, that can't even manage to keep up with the third generation of hardware that might...

I think I'm done. I'm not completely sure but if there's anything else I still have a couple 256MB modules left. And a metric ton of 64MB modules. Thanks again everybody!

AMD is still making new socket 754 processors. 939, however, is done.

Actually after playing around a bit, Dell's price for an E520 Dimension (crap) desktop with an E6300 is $630 + shipping ($29 ground) and tax (6% in Indiana) is $695. I can build and get the same machine as they're selling for $565. Even adding the $100 for a copy of XP (I don't need to, volume...

Did you refresh the board after you posted. Sometimes weird crap happens to me if I mistakenly use my back button to navigate here.

Nope. I can save $5 per DIMM if I go with some no-name modules, but Corsair's "value" memory is generally pretty good stuff.

Photoshop supports as many CPUs as you can throw at it. And there are previews of 4-core systems that have made it to technical press. They're saying Q4 06 or Q1 07 for initial shipments. I don't know if the way you use your machine means that you NEED four cores or not, though.

I foresee issues with availability of Socket 939 motherboards. Which is extremely unfortunate, 'cause AM2 doesn't do anything for me, either. Right now, building off Bozo's i946 board, this is what I'm looking at: E6400 Core 2 Duo Bozo's board 1GB Corsair DDR2/533 160GB Seagate SATA drive NEC...

No. But what are you doing with a non-US copy of Windows Server anyway? --- So it's new computers for my computer labs time. 30 computers - half my machines, in other words - have depreciated to the point that they can finally be replaced. Current machines: AthlonXP/2000 or XP/2500s 512MB...

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was in fact as completely hysterical as the trailer suggests. In fact, I don't think I went more than two minutes during the whole movie without finding some reason to laugh out loud.

Took what? Two and a half years for 400GB drives to drop to $200.

You may actually want to wait for four core machines since image processing is on the short list of things that genuinely benefit from having lots of CPUs.

Yay porn! ;) My brother participates in a forum called American Women Suck. Now, personally, I disagree with most of the points they raise, but even I would admit there's some truth to some of them. Not the angry, hateful prattle on their main page, but issues like paternal rights and divorce...

To those who sent me memory modules: I used them all this weekend. I spent most of Saturday fixing up PCs from 300MHz to 1GHz by installing extra RAM, swapping some motherboard/CPUs and replacing full-on Windows XP installations with TinyXP. PCs that were taking 15 minutes to start XP + Norton...

I have a brother who would be willing to offer a 30,000 word essay on that subject.

BSD has never really looked "bad".

I want to find something that does everything Dreamhost does, but supports fucking ASP.NET that we HAVE HAVE HAVE to have because the people I'm working with don't want to use anything else. And there is NOTHING like dreamhost in Windows hosting.

That would not surprise me a bit. Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams each have an extremely litigious estate; both produced Anglican hymns that were printed in the standard CoE hymnal until British law extended copyright to some new and unreasonable number of years after the author's death.

Is there such a thing as a non-sucktastic Windows web hosting company?

SuperMicro isn't exactly in the desktop motherboard business, Greg. The differences between 2000 Pro and Server come down to what addon components work with the systems (DHCP server, IIS etc), some licensing issues (multiprocessor support and number of allowed network connections) and the fact...

Intel for Intel, Gigabyte for AMD. Very simple. Wish Intel had some non-sucky onboard graphics options, though. I'd rather have S3 Unichrome than i940.

I *think* he's saying that he saw a gas pump (?) generate a BIOS error message.

Microsoft also does sales support for Netware and IIRC also Solaris and SCO Unix offerings. At least in the case of Netware, they're actually good at it, too. Basically, Microsoft Engineers go on those jobs to look for places to wedge in Windows solutions, so Microsoft can still benefit from...

NPR shows I'd probably grab as podcasts: This American Life (I have complete set of them as MP3 files already) On the Media Marketplace Car Talk Wait Wait Don't Tell Me I like roughly every third Fresh Air - There's way too many interviews with 60s-era rock stars, people who are largely...

12 onboard SATA port. Yes. Right here. That would be me.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17682&ch=infotech

The Vista and Office 2007 nonsense becomes official on November 30th, if you are a smartypants Enterprise customer.

They were sued into submission by a spyware company that claimed its product wasn't spyware. That's the kind of crap that makes me like free stuff.

... IIRC that's only an issue for some Xeon and X-tr33m edition Pentium chips...

There's nothing wrong with the 64 bit OS. 64 bit drivers for the 64 bit OS are not as ubiquitous and I've found them to sometimes lack the features of their 32-bit brethren. You also run in to goofy stuff like apps not working because they have 16-bit install programs. XP64 *is* faster than...

They're all the same, Greg. No differences at all. They all use the same process model and scheduler. There's a slight but observable difference in system speed that comes from having newer or older versions of the Windows kernel, but NT4 just as capable of running multithreaded apps as Server...

Hans Zimmer has some AWESOME film music to his credit. My personal favorite is the piece called "Journey to the Line" from The Thin Red Line, but he's also responsible for Crimson Tide, Backdraft and The DaVinci Code (which is nice but rather more repetitive than I expected). The first track on...

I've thought about Counterspy, but I am deeply hesitant to try security software that is not free. I've seen Spyware Doctor on machines that I've cleaned of hundreds of distinct infections off of. I'm not sure it does anything useful, but of course the only machines *I* see are ones that have...

Greg, there's a LOT of stuff going on under the hood with making threaded applications that can properly take advantage of multiple cores. The simple fact is that many applications that ARE threaded already, but their child processes are so simple that there's almost no real-world benefit. A...

Greg, there's a LOT of stuff going on under the hood with making threaded applications that can properly take advantage of multiple cores. The simple fact is that many applications that ARE threaded already, but their child processes are so simple that there's almost no real-world benefit. A...

Only problems I have with the P180 is there aren't enough drive bays (I wish there was another four drive cage instead of the two-drive bay in the middle) and the lower, right hand corner of a full size motherboard is EXTREMELY crowded by power cabling, SATA drive and I/O headers due to the...

Most motherboards with newer chipsets are fine with SATA drives generally. ATI R200 and Via VT890 (every Via chipset I'm aware of at the moment) are two chipsets I know that have a problem, as is nforce2. Intel chipsets with SATA all seem to be fine, and anything nforce3+ seems OK with it as...