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A fairly recent trend in Adware crap is to snag your DNS server entries for their own nefarious purposes. I've even run into programs that write entries in the hosts file, where almost no one would think to look for such things. I'm sure that's what happened to your customer. The thing I can't...

I used to work for Paul Harvey. For a couple months, anyway. There are linux programs for using high-speed GPUs as general purpose coprocessors already, by the way. Unfortunately, I can't remember any names. Otherwise I'd link.

Or not enough Ham Salad. I once had a guy threaten to sue me because I didn't include the pirated copy of Windows he assured me he'd gotten on the other two computers he'd bought on ebay. I told him to stop and think about what he said, but he didn't get it. I can only hope he actually went...

Ew. Screw the people. We can always make more, and I didn't like them anyway. :)

I'm pretty sure Sapphire makes ATI's cards for ATI. Not 100% positive, but pretty close.

Good question. I started to pursue the issue after someone here said he couldn't get a Sapphire VIVO to work with ATI's MMC. So I sent some email to Sapphire about it. Sapphire's tech said that I should pass all MMC issues to ATI. So I've tried three or four times over a three month period to...

Yeah. They're identical, except Sapphire tends to use better thermal solutions for its products. On the other hand, neither ATI nor Sapphire will support Sapphire's All-in-Wonder or VIVO products.

I've kind of shied away from these guys, just because Dell doesn't actually tell us anything about it. Nothing about the switch fabric. Nothing about jumbo frame support. Nothing about its fans... you have to dig pretty deep on Dell's site to even find the user guide (which is about 10 pages...

Interesting article about new cards. Remind me to drive my cars until the wheels fall off, OK?

Teaching is OK. I like to think of it as "curing ignorance". I don't know about IT though. I can't imagine doing anything else for a living, but I can see how hard it is for people to find work. It's scary right now. I guess if I had to get out I'd spend a couple years getting another degree...

Maybe. There's a $30 price difference for what I'd say is a questionable real-world performance gain.

128MB 9700 Pros are around $180. What more do you want?

Now that Iomega's abandoned the Peerless, it's last fail... I mean product, they're starting to become cheap as well. Kits with the 20GB drive are under $100 now. If they dip to below $70 at any point, they'll be a worthwhile purchase; 20GB notebook drives cost about that much. OTOH If Iomega...

Note that not using IE helps these sorts of problems a bunch, too.

On the matter of type, in this case, it's a little hard to determine from your posts. Protector (the SJ type) and Councilor are pretty simlar, after all. It boils down to whether or not one thinks you're compassionate/empathic vs being more detached. And that's a hard thing to see from here...

Friday through Sunday are normally the "work for me" days of my week. This weekend I've logged 38 hours. I'm actually looking forward to regular workdays and normal work hours. Man I'm tired of it.

You should be able to use EFS. You'll have to encrypt the files/folders first on an NTFS partition, but they don't lose their encrypted status for being put on other media. You'll want to export and store your Encryption certificate on some kind of removable media, and I suppose also carry it...

Probably because there's a stable demand for those cards at their current price point. You have to figure that, by now, Matrox has recouped its R&D and Marketing costs on the Parhelia, and that leads me to conclude that they're leaving it at that high price because that's what their customers...

Most work, but some don't. XP has an application compatibility wizard that can help in some cases. Some programs run on 2000 that don't run on XP, and vice versa.

That's weird. I unplug and plug stuff all the time with 2k and it works. Firewire and USB both.

Daemon Tools will let you mount an image of a CD. It's a very useful tool under any conditions, but I can't see how anyone who plays computer games would want to be without it.

Wow.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to prove.

... which would be exactly the most horrible way I can think of to beat someone to death. Even worse than the sackfull of Micropolis drives I've always wanted to kill Prof. Wizard with.

Windows clustering requires the ultra-expensive "enterprise" versions of Server and won't work properly for your application anyway, since serving games doesn't fit the model of a "stateful" application that can live on a shared data source, and since serving games DOES have an in-game state, it...

I've bought several Mobile 1700s and 1800s. No mobile bartons yet, though. They run a lot cooler, like 3 or 4C with the same Speeze fan I always use. They probably have some impact on my power bill (not that I can tell) and performance is spot-on for the kind of CPUs they are.

I'm particularly fond of reviews like those I see at Anandtech, where every page of a "review" has some kind of ad for the retailer, the board, or the company in question. Yup. Those reviews are entirely unbiased. How much was Anand's last BMW?

Not on the client end. You're requesting traffic. Usually that's something that's explicitly allowed. Probably you're just not getting enough of a stream to actually play anything. I need more DSL lines.

Technical first: There are several single points of failure there. Let's start with the fact that you have a single server, a single NIC and a single SCSI card. You'll see, above, that I recommended multiple machines for this job, both to spread work around and to have a high degree of failover...

Uh, it looked to me like it took up two PCI slots. But hey, who uses PCI slots for anything like disk controllers, modems, TV cards or NICs these days?

I will later this evening.

Wrong on many levels.

Flash RAM can be fast because of the whole zero seek time thing. CF can be faster than most flash RAM because it has its own embedded I/O controller (hence things like Lexar "Ultra" CF media). But it isn't fast reading or writing because there's a multi-step electronic process that has to take...

A good place to start. These guys sell some must have items like riser cards and fans for 1U cases and other essentials. Their cases aren't bad either, but I've never done personally done 1U-anything. I do know that anything in that form factor is hotter than hell. There's no place for heat to...

It'll be good to have the news section up and running again, even if the only thing I want to use it for is to make fun of nvidia's latest lawnmow... I mean graphics product.

It'd be cheaper on your back end to go SCSI. You could go with a bunch of 74GB 10k SCA drives for maybe $175/apiece, save $50/drive that you could apply to getting a chassis with a large SCA backplane, and you could use a midrange SCSI RAID controller instead of that horribly expensive 12-port...

All three of those drives worked as advertised. Thanks GH.

Some games also require special licensing for public use. In reality no one cares, but imagine if, e.g. EA or Microsoft decided to crack down on LAN centers. Once David starts collecting usage stats (assuming he can), perhaps he can sell games/media that he won't be using.

But also look at something like this. Combine with Windows Server-style published applications and your space problems are taken care of.

You probably ought to talk to these people.

The 12-port 3ware 8500 is ~ $700 new. I'll assume the 9500 will take that price point. The 1000MT Quad is $500. 12 Raptors @ $225 apiece = $2700 + probably another $1000 for some kind of enclosure, board, CPU and RAM. That's $5,000, David. Per Server. How many months of rent, utilities and...

There are better things for you to spend your money on for your business.

Let me modify my previous post slightly: I was thinking 2 Gbit NICs per server machine, not just one. That'd make failover a lot easier.

Where've you been man? Haven't seen you here for awhile. I've had a couple of REALLY bad experiences with newegg. The "we're gonna keep your 8500DV" thing, a couple times I've gotten bad batches of boards, and sometimes slow credit processing on RMA refunds. All that said, their prices and...

Windows does NOT handle being diskless very well. Lots of folks with an interest in AV have tried it, certainly. The better and cheaper option would be to buy, say, a 160GB drive for each machine with locally contained disk images, or, like I said, ghost over gigabit. Let's call that $2500 in...

You didn't hear me, but I just said "ick". Let's ask a few questions: Each of your stations has a Raptor, right? GBoC = around 40MB/s in ideal conditions (large files to stream etc). Raptors are what? 35 - 70MB/s? Which will be faster? Your "server" is a vanilla PC with some GBoC cards and...

Seriously? He finally annoyed the moderators enough that the issue was addressed. The contention among the guys with the "Edit" buttons that his actions, while obnoxious, didn't meet the standards for banning someone. I don't think that's a bad thing. They took their job seriously. Then he...

I found This one at Newegg. Trendware isn't a brand I'm familiar with, though.

Has anyone here purchased/used a low-end 24-port switch with a GBoC uplink port? The only ones I've played with were $500 managed jobs from 3Com, and that's a substantially outside my budget.

That of course begs the question: Is there still a need for an Ignore function?