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Plus, then you'll have spent $400 just to play GT5 which if nothing else is probably a decent chunk of a mortgage payment.

blakerwry, I configured a Dell server with all Dell parts, since that's the only way they're going to fully guarantee and support it. Their pricing for high capacity disk drives is particularly insane and appears to be the main cause of pricing disparity. Dell also isn't going to support the...

Which version of TrueImage are you using?

How are you cloning the drive? Ghost? dd? TrueImage?

I don't like the interior layout of the P180-series cases. It turns the lower right-hand corner of the case into a total clusterfuck.

... and getting a Poweredge T110 to a even kinda-similar space in terms of options pushes the price up to $3000 before tax and shipping. My Newegg shopping cart is $2300 including shipping and my spare parts.

I thought about just doing a Dell Twhatever. The extremely low-end Celeron "servers" are indeed fairly quiet but my proof of concept machine is, too, and it has a much more flexible configuration than Dell's.

This is true and I have done it many times in the long-distant past (NT4 needed that a lot), but I'm not exactly sure that doing so will address your issue, which is why I suggested the repair install in the first place. I know it will work and it's relatively expedient.

Maybe IE8 and some Windows Updates. Your apps will still be there.

Here's what I'm dealing with: One of my coworkers has developed an application that relies on MSSQL + IIS (and it's an asp .net thing, so it's going to stay on IIS) that targets a specific market, which is health care related. The offices I've visited in attempting to sell this setup don't...

The fastest thing to do is probably to pull the JMicron array and do a repair install targeting the RAID1 of SSDs. I suspect that just fixmbr isn't going to cut it, though it's completely harmless to try.

None, yet. I spent most of last week with my parents. I wanted to buy a Serta Mattress from Overstock.com and just be done with it but I was convinced not to.

I hope everything turns out OK for you, paugie.

There's a procedure to enable Intel RAID after the fact. It's complicated and involves screwing around in the registry. If you have Windows Server, if you create a SoftRAID 1 on another system, you can install to that.

But I want one NOW.

Sane people do not attempt to go anywhere near retail establishments on the day after Thanksgiving (which was last month for Canada, anyway). Insane people probably aren't bothering with stores that have less surface area than a football field.

I suggest Glass Cleaner. It's a pretty good general purpose cleaner.

I am trying really hard to not buy a new Thinkpad. I don't need one and the deal isn't THAT good (15% off), but I'm still tempted.

The ones on Newegg look like they need SiL controllers. I don't know if that's a requirement for them to operate but SiL controllers are against my religion.

Yes and no. I'm going to use commodity parts, but in a perfect world I'd be looking for things like redundant PSUs so I can build a proper server system.

Apropos of nothing, I have three different people asking me about quiet servers right now. So I'm going to get to play around with that a lot.

I've been on 8 DVDs at a time since 1999. At one time that plan was just $45 a month. Now it's closer to $70.

Thank you for that, time. I'm looking for a queen size mattress. I don't like sleeping on a king. It's just too much bed for one person. I suspect I'll end up with something either very firm or extremely firm. I have a foam pad thing that someone gave me a while ago that's meant to sit on top...

I certainly could, but I don't want to move over all the crap that I host that isn't my personal stuff. I doubt anyone else would actually care as long as their four page wordpress things stayed online, but I don't really want to give people access to my stuff that's in my home.

I've heard that the select comfort beds can have problems with mold. Plus: My bed is a solo-bed. It's going to be firm and stay firm.

My password personal password is 21 digits long, but I suppose it's possible that somebody else's account on the same server could have led to escalated rights. Shared hosting and all.

I was giving serious thought to an Ikea MALM frame. I can't tell if the one I'm looking at needs a box spring or not.

I've bought stuff from them a couple times. The cheap 915 boards have been quite handy.

We've been talking a lot about appliances and, as an apartment dweller, I don't have much to add. But here's what I do need: A bed. I sleep on a twin mattress. Unless I'm mistaken it's the same one I had when I was a kid. The frame certainly is. So it's time to grow up a bit and get something...

Also, for $10 or so, a generic card with a Via Envy chip is a big step up over onboard sound.

I'd just like to point out that the Auzentech X-Fi Hometheater is $40 cheaper and, unlike that Asus card, actually supports HDMI output.

Probably injected code, though I don't know specifically where the vulnerability was. As a stopgap I've changed the permissions on the .php files there to read-only.

Meh. It's gone now.

I see it. I'm not sure how it was put there. <?php /**/...

Specs-wise that looks nice. I wish they'd give us a cost per page metric we could work from. I've stuck with Brother for "decent" printers. I kind of hate their web site, but their printers have been largely trouble-free. Nobody complains about color, which I mostly take to mean that no one...

Depending on the sound chip, that may or may not be accurate. Anything that follows the AC97 spec is sampling every sound to 48kHz before playback, which isn't exactly unmolested audio.

What I do with my piles of extra stuff is the reason I have so damned many posts here.

Spinrite will also take hours. Those sorts of tests are the only ones I'd trust.

The whole range in the /16 is marked as available for use. Unless there's something hard coded someplace the binary math should work the same for it as any other /16.

I am pretty sure I still have his phone number but somehow I'll bet that whether he's home or not, I doubt he's around to hear it.

Wealthy people depend on the legal system (and, at a higher level, US Foreign and Trade policy) to enforce contracts. The have more direct access to their elected representatives because of their money. They live in low-density neighborhoods which require vastly more resources to maintain and...

My replacement was shrinkwrapped in retail packaging. I'm assuming it's new.

I'm a fan out Auzentech cards for the Dolby Digital encoding, which I find quite enjoyable for symphonic music, but absent that there really isn't much point. EAX got borked with the transition to Vista and I haven't seen a game with a Creative logo on it in years. Yes, I probably will buy...

Taxes are not a punishment. They represent the costs for the public services one uses. You don't think a high income earner makes more use of public services than a low earner?

Should be, yeah.

Did you run it as an Admin? I frequently forget that, too.

Technically the whole /16 of 192.168 is open to private assignment so I wouldn't think it would be an issue.

System Restore in Vista and 7 works better than XP's version. And some people think TrueImage is buggy. I suspect those people are using the gimicky "Try it Out" feature or using the program incorrectly. TrueImage 2010 has a very different UI from previous versions. It kind of pisses me off...

I can understand that OCZ might not get tons of RMA requests for commodity RAM, but 80-odd days for a $700 drive? Granted that I wasn't calling to complain, but given that RMAs to Crucial and Intel are sent back overnight or second day shipping, it's a little hard to swallow.

Are you just talking about supernetting to a larger LAN, ddrueding? I'm not sure how Windows behaves in the context of stapling a couple /24s into a /23, though I suppose most of the historical arguments against letting an ethernet network get that big are invalidated by ubiquitous switching.