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This is very, very much how I feel. I hated every minute of getting my BSCS and only got one because I wanted to be qualified to work in IT. I really wish I had gotten my degree in something I actually enjoy. I've thought about going for another degree just for giggles, but I don't really want...

Single cable connection for audio and video, plus a level of sound quality from some sources (Bluray Discs) that is not available otherwise.

Yeah. The UD6. I only put 8GB in it though.

Gigabyte has an 1156 board with 6 DIMM slots. I sold a system on one a couple weeks ago.

I've been known to do them, just because every once in a while a vastly better CPU falls in my lap and I can cascade out something older. I switched an AMD x2/5200 for an AM2+ Phenom Quad core not too long ago. The x2 went in a super cheap spare parts build I'm going to use around my office.

Not by the end of the year. LGA1366 has always been an odd duck. After 1156 came along Intel claimed 1366 was a hobbyist technology and that the extra pins to the CPU were for triple channel RAM and other hobbyist wankfest toys. I guess we'll see 1156 and then some new oddball, probably will...

Remember that i7s self-overclock by about 10% in actual operation. So your 2.6GHz i7 will turn into 2.8something once it gets going.

Meh. The guy who was spouting off about it on Slashdot said it was dual. I didn't actually look.

Can you actually get a dual i7-based Xeon in an SFF chassis?

It just reminded me of the last several months of discussions on this very topic. Greg, you need to spend less time looking at goofy benchmarks. Seriously. The way you're describing the computer you want to have seems to be by the benchmark score that it achieves. You sound like my brother when...

Oldversion.com probably has it. Or you could take two seconds to turn off extension compatibility checking.

There's always the Asus and Auzentech cards.

The Greg Santilli Memorial 100% Impractical Laptop: The Eurocom D900F Panther Dual Xeon 5590s, up to four 512GB SSDs or standard 3.5" drives, 17" screen, Geforce 280. No idea how much it weighs or how long the battery lasts. I suspect 15lbs. and 15 minutes, respectively. No word on whether or...

Symbian? Really? I really was interested in WM7 and depending on the phone selection Sprint offers, it might still be a competitor, but a focus on gaming a media isn't really what I want out of a phone.

Turn off Adblock Plus. I believe we already discussed how to turn off extension compatibility checking. It's not a big deal.

Verizon (one of the CDMA carriers) wants to control every possible aspect of their service. They load a proprietary interface on every non-smartphone they sell, charge to unlock features that are available on the same handset with other carriers and then charge a monthly fee on top of that to...

You clearly don't own enough computers.

It might be better in numerous ways to set them up with some Terminal Server CALs and a central server for that data.

Unless you have Win7 Starter edition...

Centralized storage, simplified backup, less heat and noise compared to a full fledged file server and possibly some nifty appliance features that aren't in whatever desktop OS you'd be using to serve files.

Anyone have a crummy SSD? Flashfire is supposed to help improve SSD performance on Windows XP for some of the cases where crummy SSDs typically falter. You can read more about it in the link.

Solarwinds ip Monitor will monitor the hell out of network connections and devices in a very manager-friendly sort of way, but it's 20 times more expensive than Handy's product. How often are these 90MB files changing that they need to be re-replicated? Have you looked at FRSDiag yet?

You're already doing Mozy, right? I can see the P2P thing as potentially helpful for restores, but without some kind of service agreement and a huge number of buddies I not sure how much I'd trust something like that over and above the generally pretty reasonable cost for Mozy on a single...

I paid $212 (state tax) for my specific phone and eventually got a $100 rebate check from back from HTC. Do you need to see my receipt? Just like the current hot phone from Sprint is the Pre (currently $299 with a $100 rebate), so was my phone at the time. I'm not sure if the same benefit ever...

I think my killer app would just be to have MOAR BITTORRENTS PLS. :D Seriously though, the main things I can think of just involve having better access to the tons of infrastructure stuff that's already in my apartment, like virtual machines and media files.

You can also turn on S3 suspend in your BIOS and reference your main machine by its IP rather than its network name in your mapped network drives. That will allow it to be awakened by network requests (for some reason, Windows machines wake up a lot faster when you make network requests by IP...

Yes, but you ignored the discount for signing a two year contract. The iphone is $600 or $700 without a contract, so the out of pocket on the Touch2 will be lower regardless. 1. It's $200 - $300 cheaper. 2. Yes, the Touch2 runs WinMo 6.5 (my phone could; it's the same hardware, but it's...

SERO was available to the general public until about this time last year. They even provided a generic email address to use for the "referral" (I think it was something like "sero@sprint.com"). Anyone who did the tiniest bit of googling could find out about it and sign up for it. They don't...

My service plan (Sprint SERO) is $35 a month and I got my phone for $100. Faster, truly unlimited internet service (I have no 5GB/month cap), tethering, GPS and landline-quality calls all included in that price. All-in-all, that's less than half what an iphone + service plan winds up costing...

This time, you have to. In the future, it might be useful to number your SATA cables so they correspond to the ordinal number of the port as it's reported by Windows. Yes, this means testing the drives one at a time regardless.

Unfortunately, you can't buy an iPhone that's actually functional for anything but AT&T's shitty network (yes, OK, you can jailbreak one and use it on Tmobile, but then you're either still paying for AT&T's service or you're not getting it for $300), and if you are getting the phone for $300...

I look at that stuff so often I just know how much stuff costs regardless. Newegg and Amazon are places I go to look a pricing. If Newegg wants $5 to ship a drive, Amazon's price is usually $3 cheaper by the time free shipping is factored in. Spitting that data out into an RSS feed might be a...

I'm not arguing that Sunbelt is a good name, just that I've never heard of their antivirus product. If it's OK, that's good, but it goes in the pile with NOD32 and Kaspersky as something I might evaluate at some point when I need corporate licenses again for some reason. MSSE is not pre-release...

The case they're talking about in your link has 20 3.5" drives and a SATA/SAS backplane. They're about $250 pretty much everyplace. I have four of them already.

The Expander card is $250, minimum, which is still a bargain. You've got to have another SAS controller, figure that'll be $150. You need a chassis ($250), power supply (probably at least $100) and enough drives to make something like this actually interesting. Figure $2500 to put something...

Yes but if you want 16 CPUs and 48GB RAM for all your virtual machines, that's the sort of thing you want to have.

Kind of. It's the result of improvements to OneCare Live, which I think came from something they bought or licensed from Panda Antivirus back in 2004 or 2005.

Full quality sound from BluRay discs requires HDMI. I don't spend enough time watching BDs for it to matter to me yet, and none of my receivers do HDMI anyway, but I'm aware my setup is less than optimal for that.

Security software changes rather more quickly than that and you know it. Right now, MSSE is free and good. It's lightweight, unobtrusive and seems to be bug-free. It's well worth the time needed to evaluate such a thing, especially when you have tons of customer machines, undoubtedly many with...

Locally, Verizon provides Westell to subscribers and AT&T provides a box made by Motorola. That's essentially all I ever see. I think I've installed one third party DSL modem because a customer had one break, and that was a Netgear something-or-other that just happened to be the first box I saw...

I have an i7/920 and an i7/860. I buy Gigabyte boards. I think I have a UD5P and a UD6P though right now I can't remember which one is which. They both overclock well and offer massive performance gains for movie ripping, gaming and running VMs. That said, they're more than most people need, and...

Just having to support PPPoE in the first place is more work than I'd actually want to do.

I've seen it actually catch viruses. Which, compared to some security products I've tried, is a marked improvement. Also it seems to be very light on system resources, which is almost more important. Really. Give it a try.

So do a $100 set of Logitech speakers.

What platform? Do you need standard retention or is it OK for the thing to need some kind of special bracket?

They're also the only ones with "next generation" malware protection, so that must be good.

I said YOU KNOW MICROSOFT MADE SECURITY ESSENTIALS AVAILABLE FREE FOR ALL THEIR CLIENT OSES, RIGHT?

You probably can get decent speakers for $750 if you're willing to buy used ones off ebay, ddrueding. That requires a bit of a leap of faith that the person who owned them didn't abuse them, but even at that, expensive speakers can be repaired. I'm slowly working on getting a set of...

You guys know that Microsoft made Security Essentials free for all their client OSes, right?

What does antivirus software have to do with firewall functionality?