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Congrats on Fixture status. Finally. :P So a funny thing happened to me today. My $150/month Comcast "Business" service has been crappy for a long time, and after finding that a connection to my neighbor's wireless network resulted in generally faster data transfers, I called and complained. I...

That's the weekend after the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo, which already has me missing two days I normally work.

XP might not have activation because the version of Windows you're using doesn't have activation.

No bluetooths makes my Server 2008 machine happy. And it can sit on my nightstand. I went ahead and bought one.

Epic screwing around

nForce-based systems have some general weirdness with storage, as I recall. My standard practice when I was building nForce-based systems was to never load nVidia's storage drivers, and I recall that there were some data corruption issues with those boards as well. Not that saying so helps...

How do we know that's not what they're doing?

The WLAN adapters in netbooks are replaceable. I say buy the netbook you want and pay $25 to get a supported card.

My least-favorite customer finally saw the light and agreed to move the Exchange server I'm maintaining (on a Comcast dynamic IP, so like half his emails don't go through. Which is my fault) for him alone to a single-user Google Apps Premier domain. I feel oddly buoyant.

All you need is a 1kW PSU and a BUNCH of USB cables...

Is the power arrangement the same for USB as it is for eSATA in your enclosure? Do you have another system with eSATA that you could try your enclosure on?

When USB 2.0 was released, it was ultimately revealed that there were multiple specifications that the USB people wanted to call USB and USB Hi-speed. Any number of products shipped with "USB 2.0" support that did not offer USB Hi-speed, which was touted as the principle advantage of having...

I don't remember exact BIOS settings. All told I probably spent five or six hours screwing around with voltages and timings. I read a Newegg reviews for tips and then went afield for discussions specific to overclocking with the board I'm using (Gigabyte UD5 or UD6P - I have one of each for 1366...

You can download an .ISO for essentially any Microsoft business software, as long as there's no legal restriction on that software (Windows 2000 is no longer available, for example, because it shipped with Microsoft Java Virtual Machine). There is a button you can click that will generate a...

Perhaps the thinking is more that AMD is binning perfectly good quad core CPUs as 2x or 3x models?

What are you using for a chassis?

1. Would not bother unless I saw a commit charge over 2GB on a regular basis. 2. Onboard video is generally fine. A gamer might think otherwise, but chances are very low that your dad would run a fullscreen 3d app if he spends all his time in a web browser now. 3. USB 3.0 is kind of a joke...

Microsoft is offering Technet Plus for $250 with coupon code TNWIN7L right now. That pays for itself approximately the second time you install Win7. Very good deal.

Gives me lots of room to pad prices. :D

It's kind of amusing to me that if I configure that T100 with a reasonable selection of hardware (2.6GHz Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2x250GB drives, SBS2008 license) I wind up about $1200 cheaper than if I set up the same machine on a rackmounted platform. Yes I know it's a different series of Xeon. It's...

I'd probably go with Intel just because I like vanilla stability. I'd look at something like a G31 or G41-based board from Intel or Gigabyte, with an E5300 CPU, 2GB DDR2 RAM (RAM is expensive right now and DDR3 isn't giving any benefit to a $500 computer), a pair of 500GB drives (Samsung >...

I'm sitting at a 3.8GHz i7/920 right now. I ran it at 4GHz for about 10 days before it BSOD'd the first time. I could probably push it back up now that I have a high end aftermarket cooler on it.

ESXi is funny about NICs. I know there's one or two models of 100Mbit Realtek NIC that it absolutely won't work with, which is obnoxious because those models amount to 84% of my classroom computers.

I'm not sure that I'd care if the discs were counterfeit, if they had the content at a level of quality that I consider acceptable.

I guess to redirect back to LM's question, I'd build a system when I need one and follow the usual generic advice of buying most of my parts one or two steps down from whatever the best thing I could buy on that particular day, because that's usually the sweet spot for pricing. I wouldn't wait...

No, they're stable and low. My 4870x2 is and always has been audible, but not intolerably so. It's a very low hum at idle. It does get loud when I'm gaming but of course at that point I'm gaming and there's enough noise from whatever game to cover it up. Maybe it stays loud for five or ten...

That kind of thing is what Youtube is great for.

Some of the gamers I know seem to have it. It's delicate and requires more attention than most people seem to want to put into the inside of a PC. Maybe it's not a big deal if you're changing parts every two weeks.

Nah. I'll find some someplace. Ebay has bulk lots, but they're still insane, especially once shipping is factored in.

CCC still fucks up if I load it on this machine, so it isn't loaded. I have the ATI display driver, but not CCC. So it's on whatever the hell speed the fan defaults to. And yeah, I got in and blew the fan out this morning the moment I realized I could hear the damned thing.

I've never met anyone who has done watercooling once who was willing to build a second system that way.

Hundreds. My standard system installation uses three cables. Most motherboards these days come with one or two, and now I'm out of cables.

I just bought a Scythe Musashi for mine, but I'm more than halfway tempted to just RMA the card. There is an nvidia-like level of fail in having a fan crap out on a more-than-$400 card that's only 90 days old.

I need SATA cables. Mostly data cables but also molex-to-SATA adapters. Monoprice.com seems to want $1.21 apiece for them, and that's only if I buy 50 at a time. I do want to buy 50 or more, but I don't particularly want to pay $1.21 apiece for them. Anyone have scads of SATA cables sitting...

For people who say that Firefox is a memory hog, I say that Chrome is actually worse, especially after you get over six or seven open tabs. Large numbers of tabs are also a problem for Opera, according to what I've read. To me, Opera is flat-out missing functionality that should come from...

Fair enough. ;)

That no one understands what the hell is going on has kind of been an ongoing theme of Robert Reich's commentaries on PRI's Marketplace.

Unfortunately, it's still Opera. Better than IE but not as good as anything else.

... and as of this morning the fan in my 5870 is audible even when my display is completely off and the machine is idle. Since absolutely nothing else in my bedroom makes any noise, it's officially the loudest thing in the room and that pisses me off to no end.

I still have a $200 i7 920 sitting here from the last time THOSE were on sale. Anyway, one thing to bear in mind is that the majority of the advantage of having an i5 or i7 are the architectural changes that come from getting an i5 or i7. I'm not sure anybody who has a current Intel i-series...

I'm not sure I want my phone to have flash, knowing how awful it is for desktops.

I think I'd go for the two smaller monitors for a brighter, more accurate picture and more pixels overall.

This program does something incredibly useful for SSD-owning people: It lets you move the Windows Users folder.

Tannin has a history degree and used to post quite intelligently on military history back on SR. I'm guessing he's probably kept up with his reading. :)

If you're going to not use the battery, you should let it discharge to about the halfway point and pull it out of the system. Thinkpads seem to have better power management than Dell systems with regard to not charging when they don't need to (most of the Latitudes I see that are more than maybe...

My cats liked to sit with their rumps on the top vent of my P180s. Being cats, it's not like I could do much to stop them from that. I had two of them but they're presently retired until I get around to repurposing them. You're right that I never bothered with any of the newer revisions of the...

On my systems that used Scythe Ninjas, I actually wound up with two Noctua 800rpm fans, one on the top and one on the bottom of the tower, both oriented to blow air upwards. I wound up pulling the "roof" fan on both my P180s because those fans seemed to have a shorter lifespan than the others in...

I'm not sure why the market needs a 5830.

Sounds like a dead drive to me.

Why are you talking about IDE SSDs? This thread is about English grammar!