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I was thinking of something along the lines of an A7M266D or a Supermicro P3TDLE.

It's the PBS/NPR model for web sites (i.e. "User Supported")! This makes a great deal of sense to me as well. Some jerk advertiser - not naming any names (x10) can shotgun ads all over the web for its problems, maybe decide those ads aren't working, or maybe decide they need more attention ON...

In 3 - 4 years I'd fully expect single drives in the 1TB range to be mainstream products, just like 120GB drives are now. In early 1998 I put together a fileserver with a then-mind-bending 36GB of disk space. By 2001 everyone and their brother had a PC with 40GB. I also think that SATA isn't a...

In 3 - 4 years I'd fully expect single drives in the 1TB range to be mainstream products, just like 120GB drives are now. In early 1998 I put together a fileserver with a then-mind-bending 36GB of disk space. By 2001 everyone and their brother had a PC with 40GB. I also think that SATA isn't a...

Communications Streaming Architecture. Another excuse to not put better PCI slots on a desktop board, just like AGP. Because gigabit ethernet can saturate 32bit 33Mhz PCI so easily, Intel gave it its own bus and path to RAM. There's no "CSA slot", it's just a bus-mastered transport between the...

I live in Hobart, which doesn't share a border with Gary. It's only really close to the Miller Beach (the Yuppie/Gay neighborhood that tries really hard to pretend it's a seperate town. My brother lives there. He has a house on the lake... which, if you can get past the fact that you're only 2...

I think in part you have the expectation that Linux is going to just work out of the box someday, because that's the way things are with Windows. Having started with pre-1.0 kernels and the days of CAREFUL research before installing anything (the same research was needed for OS/2 and NT3.1 at...

re: rackmounts without a rack - Think of it as a really big desktop case; there's plenty of places to put one without bolting it in a cabinet, particularly since the large ones are basically cube-shaped. For rackmount cases, the one I've used most recently is the Antec 4U22. It only has 7 3.5"...

What does low-hanging water vapor have to do with making your car dirty? Is the air THAT bad out there? 'Cause I living in the Toxic Waste Capital of the USA (Yes, Gary Indiana is worse than Newark, New Jersey), and our air isn't THAT bad.

CSA is its own bus to RAM, IIRC. Using GBoC/CSA on the i875 would mean extra PCI bandwidth for disk controllers. I'd still like to suggest something in a rackmount case, simply because of cable length limitations with IDE and with tower cases. I don't have any one in particular in mind, but...

They wanted something they could use as a workstation. I can theorize that they might've wanted to realize the performance improvement of the 200Mhz-native bus used by high-end P4s, but they didn't make any other choices that would lead to a fast disk subsystem (e.g. WD *JB drives, RAID0, RAID1...

OK, I know I'm not the only person here who has put together a workgroup storage server. How about some suggestions to do firingsquad one better? The goal of this process will be suggestions that can be integrated into a single article. It might also be a good idea to impose a budget...

There's obviously a market for knowledge about small storage servers like this one. The firingsquad article was linked on slashdot as well, where it got 300ish comments, which stands as a moderately popular article for the day (about like a thread that get 8 or 10 replies here). I think there's...

Funny you should mention that. I was looking at some new-model laptops (probably Dells, although I don't remember and I'm too lazy to look) today and happened to notice upgradeable GPUs on some of the newer models. I think it's a bad trend, since it's another way that fleets can end up...

No giving the brits a free pass! I'd like it to make sense, yes. I've offered to write on the subject of HTPCs, but I'm fairly certain that the only other personhere who would be interested is Fushigi. Spending my free time - I don't usually have a lot of it in a stretch - writing about the...

A couple of other thoughts: They completely neglect the software aspect of this PC. Their stated goal is to use this machine as a workstation as well as a server, which suggests to me that dumbass who wrote this probably wants to put a dumbass OS on it, like 2000 Pro or XP Pro or worst of all...

Might I remind everyone of my offer: Write an article, 1000 words, on a computer related topic, and I'll ship you a 256MB PC3200 DIMM from Crucial.

Dell already has a similar program. I have no idea why. Dell Whiteboxes are more expensive than regular whiteboxes and you're essentially responsible for support (Dell gives you a special support site you can visit). That HP is doing the same thing just says that they're trying to get greedy...

Conversely, it's fairly easy to get a 4, 5, or 6U chassis with support for lots and lots of drive bays, builtin temperature monitoring, and a drive bay arrangement that lends itself easily to dealing with cables that can only be 18" long.

Yeah, 'cause y'know? Rackmount cases need all the heat they can... Oh. Wait. They didn't use a rackmount case, either. Pardon me while I point and laugh.

From slashdot

... proving once again that the people at firingsquad are morons in search of a clue. For that price they should be able to manage 2400GB and a high-end Escalade to put it on.

I ended up buying from a little shop that just opened in Highland Indiana. They keep weird hours - I think they do installs during the day, but they carry Denon and Integra, KEF and B&W. Plus furniture, interconnects and home automation equipment. This after visiting several places over in your...

One of my personal favorites is the Rage Fury Maxx, which divided the screen in half and assigned each half (top v. bottom) to a Rage Fury Pro processor. Obviously, a last gasp before the Radeon. IIRC it benchmarked roughly equivalent to a Vodoo 3500. Also there were two chips from Rendition...

Why does anyone in California need a garage? Garages are for keeping you from having to scrape ice off your windshield. Buck, have you ever even SEEN snow?

KEF Reference series + Integra DTR-8.2 (with builtin cat5 terminals for multiroom speaker wiring and a radio remote) = Heaven. Bliss. Plus the damn thing weighs 60lbs. Perfect for beating Greek medical students who tell me I don't know anything about audio equipment 'cause I don't like Bose.

I am vindicated in my opinion of the Matrix. At last.

While still not Firebird or even Opera, Microsoft has decided there there is in fact something it can do to make IE suck less. If this is enabled by default, it'll probably mean web advertisers will have to come up with new ways to suck more.

So you're actually planning on putting all your stuff in that little hutch they give you? I think that would be a PITA to deal with, as far as getting decent sound goes. I think I'd orient my living room to the straight, bare wall and put everything along that. Put speaker stands behind the...

I just upgraded my gear recently. For chrissakes, if you're spending real money on speakers, listen to them first. Buying speakers over the phone or online is a lot like buying a display online. I auditioned B&W, Mirage and Wharfedale before deciding on an all-KEF setup for my living room...

Basically it comes down to less knowledge of the testing material floating around. There are books out, about what to expect, but the 1st editions never get quite right.

Er, MSN Messenger, that is.

The most annoying thing about MSN? If you take the time to figure out how to remove it from XP, the FIRST THING that happens when you connect to the internet with MSN is that it gets downloaded and reinstalled.

It can get worse than that, of course...

I'm just glad no one has made a post about the new Matrix movie in this thread...

You could always try a Zalman cooler, Blake, or one of those 80mm lateral exhaust fans that screws into an expansion slot.

The Antec Sonata is lust-inspiring. I like most of Compucase's lineup. Premier makes decent cheapies.

Ahem. This will probably lead to re-visiting several customer sites. Maybe I'll just move 'em all to RADIUS and be done with it.

It's not much of a problem for me. I pass my "old" ones out in builds. My current inventory: ATI 9800Pro (2003 Server) ATI 9700AIW (Gaming system) Sapphire 9600AIW (HTPC, because it's quieter, draws less power and can tune FM) Sapphire 9000VIVO (Linux Fileserver 1 and no, the VIVO features...

You specified public hospitals. It's somewhat off the topic. The fact is, those place will treat you. They'll also write you a large bill on your way out the door. The goal of something like Universal Coverage would be to keep medical costs within the bounds of rationality.

I went out and bought a 9800 Pro. I wanted a copy of HL2 anyway. :)

Yeah. I should still have the CD from my 9700 and a couple of retail 9500s I sold, but the installer from ATI's site isn't working with those.

Unfortunately, it has to be from ATI for the DVD software update to work. It turns out that ATI's hardware MPEG2 decoding makes a big difference to playback quality on my HTPC

I've got a half-dozen original ATI CDs sitting around my desk, absolutely none of which work with the CD-checking program that runs prior to upgrading or installing ATI DVD software on R300-based ATI cards. If someone has one (from a 9[5-8]00) they'd be willing to part with temporaril, or to...

It's not worth a whole lot any more. There's no way I would've bothered with the 2003 stuff if I didn't have to teach it.

Oh man does this make me pissed.

A+ or Server+ and Network+ together count as an elective toward MCSA certification. MCSA 2000 = 70-210 or 70-270 (2000 Pro or XP Pro), 70-215 (2000 Server) and 70-218 (Administering a Windows 2000 Network), and one elective. The 2003 exams were not a picnic and I'm not sure there's any point...

There is of course the issue of finding a public hospital. In all of Chicago, there is only one, Cook County General (the basis for the medical drama show whose name escapes me). Three million people, and only one that will take in anybody. A couple years ago, a gang member was shot and lay...

I come into contact with people through my trainer job who think they're technical geniuses for being able to plug everything in the back of their PC. Trust me: They know the word "Popup". And "Spam". And complain loudly about both. We keep burned CDs with AVG, spamihiliator and Panicware's...

You might do better to switch the SCSI drives for something largish and IDE. The person buying the machine will almost certainly not appreciate the performance and will probably dislike the noise. If you're selling it locally, absolutely don't try to price your computer higher than what someone...