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If you factor in my MSDN and Power Pack subscriptions, I think I'm legit as far as Microsoft is concerned. Now Adobe, that is another story ;) But considering I don't profit from my use of their products, I don't feel as bad.

Nice article. There is still room for improvement (as is argued in the forums by the back-seat, hind-sight drivers), but overall I think it's very well done. I also like the conclusion that as soon as the CFM is enough to match the heat-carrying capacity of the heatsink, additional CFM doesn't...

I agree that solid-state isn't there yet, but I think it's pretty darn close. So close that I would hesitate to design a product that it would practically invalidate. For the uses where solid state is still a ways off (250GB+?) I would still consider 2.5" drives. Even a pair of them are smaller...

I think a straight eSATA enclosure, and a separate eSATA-USB adapter would make more sense. If eSATA is available, it would be the obvious choice, and is the cheapest to produce. For those who need USB instead, a basic adapter could do the trick.

Wouldn't eSATA essentially be a pass-through?

It just sucks for me because I'm about to buy another 5 750GB drives. I'd rather buy 4 1TB drives...

If I ever need USB drives again, I'll either get more of these or use these along with these. I just don't trust the fan-less aftermarket cases to keep the drives cool enough, and I don't trust the fans to survive or be quiet enough.

Merc, Don't worry; my women support multiple plugs as well... ;)

NVidia's official Vista driver installation instructions...

The online resellers that support pre-orders are saying they won't have 1TB drives until July. I was curious, as Fry's is now selling the 750GB drives for $220 each (PATA or SATA) - no rebates needed.

Ha! Just got it back. All it killed was the PS, but in replacing the PS I managed to break off another SATA power connector (it's really tight in a P180). Good thing I'm using WD Raptors, as they also support molex power connections. New motherboard arrived at my office today after I left; I...

Well, it would have been nice to find out, but my GF managed to hose my system before I could test it. She says all she did was blow the fuse, then try to reset it. But from my UPS logs, it looks like the power went on and off at least 6 times, with various spikes and sags along the way. And...

The only power outage I've had to endure for more than an hour was in 1989 from the Loma Prieta earthquake. That lasted about 3 days ;) Oh, and I forgot to pay the power bill once...

:p some friends and I actually had some fun, sneaking around the house at night trying to find a way to approach without setting off one of the lights. We ended up having to use a technique like in the movie Sneakers, where you move very, very slowly. I figured that was good enough.

The good ones have adjustments for duration, distance, and sensitivity. I made sure to set mine just above cat in sensitivity, just before street in distance, and to turn off within about a minute.

UPSs are a wonderful thing.

I did sales for a while. I hated it. Even worse than collecting payments.

I could probably set up some consulting for you via RDC if you really want more work...An exchange migration perhaps?

Got Ubuntu Server x64 7.04 installed Installed their pre-configured LAMP package Installed Courier-IMAP Got the tar.gz for phpGW extracted to my home dir still need to learn how to move files around and start screwing with config files via command line....

So now that they have the added capabilities of AMD, they can be both stupid and retarded. Instead of having to choose. ;) So what is it? If I can't wait more than a month, should I still be waiting to see what R600 can do? Then again, I am playing SimGolf at the moment...

Thanks Merc, that actually looks quite good. Yay, VMWare Server works in Vista Ultimate! Installing Ubuntu 7 now...

Mark, I hope those are all supposed to be MB instead of GB?

Obviously not a solution Problem: Broken arm Solution: Don't have arms? There is no data on this array. Just the OS. It could die at any time and I wouldn't lose data. I'd just have to re-install the OS and apps. I'd rather avoid it, but it isn't a big deal.

I have a client with ~300 office users. They have Exchange 2003 and Outlook 97-2003. They use E-Mail and web mail, some of them even have contacts and calendars, but none of them use shared anything. No one publishes their calendar or to-do list. The only thing they share is the "global list" of...

Hard-ish. It's using the on-board controller. IIRC, it's the same type of controller on both boards.

I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard from a Gigabyte 6100-based AM2 board to a Gigabyte 570-based AM2 board and would like to keep my OS array (Raptors in RAID-0). What are the chances of this happening successfully?

All that I learned about dating I got from old movies. I still open doors and tuck in chairs for women. All doors/chairs for all women, always. I try to speak just enough to keep the conversation going; it's not my job to drive the conversation, but it is my job to stop it from dying. Pay as...

Lunar, This is a great neighborhood. This is the first shooting here for 7 years. It just happened to be 4 months after we moved in and 10 feet from our front door. The person who did the shooting rode their bicycle 10 miles to get here and shoot up the place. I can discount it fairly easily...

I really enjoyed Supreme Commander. Test Drive Unlimited is a very fun way to waste massive amounts of time, and Rainbow Six: Vegas was also quite pleasing. Though I suspect I'll be going back to SimGolf soon; it is just so peaceful.

I hate stupid people. Especially if they are neighbors and have guns.

I've been too lazy to do that for the last several months. I got a 7.1 system and the rear/side 4 speakers are still sitting on top of my front L&R channels.

Nice deal on MS Streets w/ USB GPS unit. I'd get one, but I think I want a Bluetooth wireless GPS.

I'd be tempted, but my hearing is already appreciably better than my GFs, so I need to talk loud and wach movies loud regardless.

I'm really bad at waiting, but I'll see what I can do. ;)

My exercise today left me feeling pretty euphoric. Went out for a Sailboat race; during the race conditions built until it was blowing 15 knots from the east and gusting to 40 knots from the south. We also had two sets of swells that when combined in just the right (wrong?) way, caused 20+ foot...

Then you aren't selling computers to the right people. I just closed a deal on a baseline Shuttle SFF for $999. It's likely the order will be expanded to a dozen or more units.

I'm running a 7950GT/512MB and am considering upgrading. It can't handle the games I'm playing now @ 1600x1200 with the eye candy turned on. Is the 8800GTS what I should be looking at? I have a passively cooled card now, and would love another without a fan; is there one?

Since when did Handruin pass 5k? How many Hairy Aussies are we going to have around here? Congrats ;)

I doubt they did before.

No idea. I would blame it on Nero, but I've never tried to burn in Explorer after installing Nero, so I don't really know.

Yup. The Zalman ones are double that.

If it did them all, my first guess is a windows update?

Those do look nice Merc. How do you think they compare to the heatpipe ones made by Zalman? The last time I had a drive array in a quiet computer, I removed the drive rack completely and suspended some drives mounted in these; it actually worked pretty well.

It's ATX, but the motherboard is upside-down; this keeps the GPU heat from rising into the CPU cooler and puts the hot components of any expansion cards facing up, so it isn't trapped under the cards. I think it's a good idea.

My internal measurements are about half that. And to the car varies with parking (the GF gets the carport) from 100-300 feet.

Thanks for the advice, I think I'll look at the new Lian Li V Series PC-V2100B Plus II if I can find it for sale somewhere. Otherwise I'll likely get the old version.

How about being smart enough to not need a Mac?

I'm running a 7950 (see sig) and occasionally it will post to the wrong video out. If I have my projector turned on, I can see that it just decided to use that one instead of both. It still comes back after the desktop has loaded, but until then the screen is black.

Merc, how far is it from your front door to your bed? From your bed to your bathroom? Perhaps the secret to you getting in shape is to get a larger apartment, where these things are farther apart? ;)

I could simplify that to: Stupid people need (deserve?) Dell.