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Fair enough. ;)

That no one understands what the hell is going on has kind of been an ongoing theme of Robert Reich's commentaries on PRI's Marketplace.

Unfortunately, it's still Opera. Better than IE but not as good as anything else.

... and as of this morning the fan in my 5870 is audible even when my display is completely off and the machine is idle. Since absolutely nothing else in my bedroom makes any noise, it's officially the loudest thing in the room and that pisses me off to no end.

I still have a $200 i7 920 sitting here from the last time THOSE were on sale. Anyway, one thing to bear in mind is that the majority of the advantage of having an i5 or i7 are the architectural changes that come from getting an i5 or i7. I'm not sure anybody who has a current Intel i-series...

I'm not sure I want my phone to have flash, knowing how awful it is for desktops.

I think I'd go for the two smaller monitors for a brighter, more accurate picture and more pixels overall.

This program does something incredibly useful for SSD-owning people: It lets you move the Windows Users folder.

Tannin has a history degree and used to post quite intelligently on military history back on SR. I'm guessing he's probably kept up with his reading. :)

If you're going to not use the battery, you should let it discharge to about the halfway point and pull it out of the system. Thinkpads seem to have better power management than Dell systems with regard to not charging when they don't need to (most of the Latitudes I see that are more than maybe...

My cats liked to sit with their rumps on the top vent of my P180s. Being cats, it's not like I could do much to stop them from that. I had two of them but they're presently retired until I get around to repurposing them. You're right that I never bothered with any of the newer revisions of the...

On my systems that used Scythe Ninjas, I actually wound up with two Noctua 800rpm fans, one on the top and one on the bottom of the tower, both oriented to blow air upwards. I wound up pulling the "roof" fan on both my P180s because those fans seemed to have a shorter lifespan than the others in...

I'm not sure why the market needs a 5830.

Sounds like a dead drive to me.

Why are you talking about IDE SSDs? This thread is about English grammar!

ddrueding, you know that Crucial is part of Micron, right? And that Micron has been researching and manufacturing semiconductors since the '70s? OCZ sellls hobbyist RAM and only recently bought some legitimacy as a PSU manufacturer by purchasing PC Power and Cooling. They may become a big...

Actually, here's a fantastic reference to all sorts of writing.

The plural of SSD is SSDs. The possessive form of SSD is SSD's. Apostrophes aren't that difficult, people.

Coug has made a very subtle funny. ;)

OCZ isn't Intel. It's not Micron or Samsung or Toshiba. They're a bit player, and sooner or later, if they remain out ahead of the big guys, they'll probably get bought and absorbed.

There are some Linux-based projects for using GPUs for general purpose computation. Most of them focus on CUDA or OpenCL, but there are people doing work in the way that you're describing.

I usually load Clamwin and make do with a scheduled scan once a day, if I bother to do anything at all.

XP Pro supports two physical CPUs with as many cores as can be found in that physical package. We don't typically associate dual CPU systems with XP, but it's always had that capability. Also, it doesn't sound like these machines are part of the common operating environment where Bozo works, so...

Yes. These days, important people don't even carry cell phones.

The easiest thing to do to make Exchange functional is put a Linux machine in front of it to do all the heavy lifting.

You're right. I don't have any appreciation for it.

A lot of new brand name cases aren't even particularly friendly to IDE cables, let alone full length PCI cards. The trend in desktop cases is really to go with smaller, chambered designs that don't work really well with older hardware, but I'm not sure why you couldn't just re-use the cases you...

In Chicago, the PBS station does four weeks of pledge drives a year, but only during a limited number of hours each day. I suspect only about 5% of the station's broadcast time falls in a pledge period. We're talking about sports. I'm not seeing a huge need for high definition to begin with...

I don't understand why anyone cares about the olympics to begin with. There are a whole bunch of sports no one cares about at any point during the four years leading up to the games, and then there are the games, where people are supposed to care, and then we go right back to not giving a crap...

I do both. I use 8 onboard SATA ports + cards that have 8 more, normally with an IDE boot drive). I've read that you can use two Perc5s in one PC, but I don't have any systems set up that way.

Faced with the choice, I paid ~$250 for two Perc5s (plus the 3ware cards I already had) so I could get enough ports to run inexpensive 1TB and 1.5TB drives rather than paying the premium for 2TB drives. I figure the ports are forever (probably five years, anyway) and eventually I'll move up...

I was able to get two refurb'd Linksys WRT600Ns yesterday for $90, total. I'll be using them for a low-impact PPTP tunnel with dd-WRT. Mine won't be as heavily used as ddrueding's. They're about the nicest consumer-grade routers I've used; the one in my office, for example, has an uptime of...

It works in Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate. Just like XP mode.

The counter argument is that the process of obtaining fissionables is so horrifically awful for the environment that it exceeds the impact of coal power. That's what the anti-nuclear people say, anyway. I have a great deal of trouble believing that, but that's what they say. I'm very...

Nope.

Also, congratulations to Lunar on those 4000 posts and his continuing commitment to the community!

I found this article on how to dress properly more informative than it probably should have been.

That's an almost $500 motherboard with a fan that has at best a 12-month lifespan. Something like that might be more interesting if a reputable vendor gets around to building one with a proper cooling arrangement.

I see a 40 or 60mm fan on that heatsink looking bit over the north bridge, which leads to the obvious question: Why would anyone WANT to play with that?

It'll happen. Personally RDP is something that makes "Professional" versions of Windows worth the extra money, and any number of server admins no doubt agree with me.

Just like with DVDs, sometimes they update the protection and you have to wait for it to get broken again. Thinking back, the only BD title I ever had playback issues with was Wall-E, and I more than halfway suspect Disney tried to do some extra antipiracy stuff with that disc.

I just looked at the settings on one of my servers until I found it. If your configuration is weird there's nothing I can do about that. ;) Anyway, Filezilla is a beautiful thing for your FTPing needs.

Here's a set of directions for making Win7's XP Mode work with an unsupported CPU.

FTP Firewall Settings

It's happened before. I'm slightly annoy about it right now, though, because it's holding up a larger order.

Are we at Neosporin bleeding or Ambulance bleeding?

You are not looking in the right place. I do 5GB+ torrents probably every single night. And usually they're complete by the time I get up in the morning.

High definition video. Otherwise, no comment.

IT has the same problem: You can't teach somebody to be legitimately good at it. Bad students (most of mine, really) learn by rote, but the rote lesson never applies to reality. Anyway, I just finished a ~400GB torrent download that I'd been working on for the last 10 months. 10 years ago...

In the area around Chicago, there are county and municipal-level sales taxes. Almost every town has them. They're a fact of life. As for what we're paying for, the basic answer is probably a lot more infrastructure than you guys have down in Oz. We drive everyplace, litigate at the drop of a...