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Keep in mind your needs will be better served with one of these.

I created the RAID-0 array, then partitioned the first 50GB (10GB per drive) for the OS. Of course, you should never put important data on a RAID-0, so the rest of the drives are not particularly useful. IIRC, Linux now supports software RAID that allows the first chunk to be RAID-0 and the rest...

Thanks for the info Lunar.

I too thought it was outside-in. Seagate Tech Paper (PDF) I've done it in the past; building a large array of drives, creating a RAID-0 with the first 10GB or so of each. It is pretty quick, but SSDs are quicker.

There is a maximum speed at which a plastic disc can spin without shattering. It is roughly equivalent to 52x for CDs and 18x for DVDs. You won't find faster drives, because physics prevents it. If you were waiting to buy into BlueRay until it became commodity hardware, knowing how fast they...

Great Idea. I just tried installing XP to a VM, and then using Acronis to copy the image over...BSOD. :(

...or a movie file.

Nope. Replaced it with a known-good 500W PS and I get the same error. It's interesting; the first part of setup runs fine, but when it boots into the GUI the following happens: 1. GUI setup screen appears 2. CD-ROM starts to spin up, then doesn't 3. CD-ROM light blinks repeatedly, without...

No light-dimming, my UPS is the size of a mid-tower ;). But it seems to be just the right amount of energy, my heater hasn't kicked on in months. I have this issue with NAV all the time. People are so damn stingy, insisting that I install it regardless, asking if I can do something else to...

Yep. And I should have been suspicious from the start; it's that small form factor PS that comes with the NSK2200. We'll see...

I have google calendar send reminders to my phone...very handy.

Alright, I'm officially incompetent. I put in the new motherboard (which previously was in two different computers, both running XP at some point). I replaced the optical drive again (PATA) and wrote zeros to the entire disk (PATA) and finally ran the mfgr's full test suite. I also ran...

I like my Vonage connection. It just works.

Use windows task scheduler to launch something at the appropriate time. Have it launch a website, a word document, whatever.

Thanks for the heads-up Tannin. I'm still sitting quietly in the corner with a couple hundred NOD32 installs, hoping they stay on the "good" side a while longer.

The retail and MSDN disks have SP2 in them already. The BIOS is a neat idea, though I have thrown in the towel. I swapped it for a Gigabyte M51GM-S2G / 4200+ from a friend who is already running Vista.

Set up task scheduler to launch Goatse?

I've tried multiple media, from retail disks to MSDN downloaded ISOs to TinyXP.

Nice find Pradeep, that is a 1x PCIe as well....

As far as I can tell, the reason for editing is to fix corrections. The reason against editing is to prevent someone from retroactively changing their position. Am I correct? I don't believe we have had any abuse, and I'm sure my posts are more legible since editing has been enabled. Then...

Something else is up. I replaced the optical and HDD with IDE versions and get the same error. I'll be glad when I can move everyone to Vista...

I always thought "TV" meant more than a screen that displays images (we're both using those right now ;)). I thought it was something that was capable of displaying broadcast programming of some sort. I pulled the TV tuner card out of my box today, after using it a total of 1 time. The quality...

I don't own a TV, and many of my friends don't either.

There is a multi-card reader, but I disconnected it before I began. Floppy is disabled, boot order is CD, HDD.

GA-945GZM-S2 uses the Intel 945 chipset with the ICH7 southbridge. It seems that even though the BIOS detects all the drives fine, and the first part of the windows installation proceeds without needing to press F6, it is still required to prevent the windows install from crashing at the...

Redirection. Looking at the cost of a 50" HDTV, and aware of where you will be putting it, I would instead get a projector. Cheaper, bigger screen, less expensive.

I have far from 20/20 vision. I have a ~140" screen and sit about 8-10 feet away. I still get more detail on 1080i with my glasses.

With that many features I'm not surprised.

The N680LSI-DQ6 does look interesting. But isn't the 680 an older chipset? How does it perform?

I found the air drawn past the lower drive in a P180 from the power supply sufficient to cool 1 or 2 7200RPM drives, but more drives or a faster speed caused the drive to exceed my 40C comfort zone.

I love projector-based systems. A new basement installation where wiring could be concealed and lighting controlled sounds ideal. You won't find anything else in that size category, particularly for the price.

That is on the list ;) I just need to figure out what parts to use for a video-based solution. I live close to NASA Ames, a buddy will be starting there soon. They have a few wind tunnels big enough...

For my car? Drag coefficient.....0.320 Frontal Area..........2.22 m2 Cx.......................0.71 Need to do something about that...

With new technologies, the amount of waste from a nuclear power plant is significantly reduced. More importantly, that waste is easily collected. That proper storage has not always been done does not mean that it cannot be done.

The chassis holds 12 ;) The second RAID0 array of Raptors is only online part-time, when I'm doing more intense video encoding stuff.

Certainly get anything Norton off the machine. That is a bad idea regardless. After that, Cybersitter sounds like a second likely thing. See if you can ping on port 80...it might be blocked completely.

This is important. It was better back then because there were less people. If there are only a million people on the planet, they can be doing pretty much whatever they want for as long as they want. The more people, the less each can pollute/consume. At some point, less people is going to be...

But they put out methane! We'll need to retrofit a filtration device (I'm sure they'll love that). ;)

I can testify to a 1997 Chevy Suburban towing a sailboat bouncing off the speed limiter at ~107mph ;)

Enforcing speed limits and forcing auto makers to make more efficient vehicles is too narrow a scope. Let's restate the problem we are trying to solve: Petroleum is a limited resource, the consumption of which is bad for the environment. True? Why are we so worked up about exactly how we...

Re: Speed limit. I fail to see how making more people spend more time being unproductive can be done in the name of efficiency.

Howell, I have to assume that you are misinterpreting to make a point? If so, I don't get it. I live 1 mile from the freeway. On that mile there are about 10 traffic signals. I burn many times more fuel idling and accelerating 10 times than I would driving the mile directly. Optimization of the...

I picked up a Seasonic M12 700W the other day. I am really impressed with it; I even threw some extra drives in to see what additional load it could handle (sig).

There is a flaw in this assumption as well. There will be more people on the roads because there will be more people. This is the problem we most desperately need to fix.

People are cattle. They cannot be trusted to make decisions that are in their long-term best interest. Even smart or powerful individuals are tempted by short-term profits; just look at sub-prime loans, leveraged buyouts, or some acts of our current administration for examples. I am against...

I'm tired of needing everyone to be protected from everything all the time. Eventually we will all be in padded cells, fed the exact balance of nutrients our body needs. Seatbelts, Airbags, crumple-zones. Fine. We are quickly entering the narrow-end of the cost/benefit equation. I will nod to...

After reading your post, this is the part I agree with ;)

No more laws! Taxes if necessary.

Here you go. Very promising technology, IMHO.

For retail disks, I have never encountered any resistance on "replaced/upgraded hardware" stories. But IIRC, their policy on OEM is "1 key, 1 motherboard" regardless of failures. I haven't tried it, so I don't really know.