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The stock HSF for an i7 is frustratingly not silent, so today while I was out and about I bought a Scythe Zipang 2 cooler with a 140mm fan on it. I'm just getting ready to take this PC down to fit it, but I was wondering if anyone else is using a non-stock cooling solution for their i5/i7...

Let's see... RAID, Volume Management and Encryption. Short of using an alien filesystem like HFS, I can't actually imagine a more complicated setup. You admit to not having *nix experience and you're not really asking for help. Maybe a setup like this should not have been your first choice?

I keep an application repository so I don't need or care about discs for longer than the first time I touch them, and most of the software I deal with reaches my hands as .ISOs in the first place. If I have a need for entertainment viewing, I can make use of the gigabytes of unused space on my...

Make a new boolean value called extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6 and set it to false.

Yes but that was hours ago. :P

Meh. I've been running 3.6 for a couple weeks on at least a few machines. I can see an improvement in page rendering on pages that have a bunch of scripts (Fark and CNN are both in this category), and personas are kind of fun to play with. I don't like that new tabs are added immediately to the...

I suspect you'll have a PCIe x1 option for that. You could also look around to see if there's an ethernet-to-parallel print server on Ebay or your local equivalent. The motherboards whose printer ports I'm familiar with (mostly Intel boards but also SOME Gigabyte boards for this purpose) have...

It sounds like the Gigabyte adapter is barely supported in the first place. The PCI cards I buy (here in the US) are low-profile cards made by Syba. They retail for US$14. Generally, I find myself connecting older HP laser printers to them, but other than remembering which driver I need to...

For about the same price, you should be able to find a PCI card with one or two parallel ports on it, kencol.

Probably not for a while. They're claiming lower resource utilization and faster scanning speed. I don't actually use Avast on any of my personal machines so I can't tell if that's real or not, but it's certainly a good thing if they aren't exaggerating. Microsoft Security Essentials does seem...

AOL is a walled garden that can only be accessed to its members. There's some different stuff that's available to AOL people, and for a lot of things that we understand as web sites there's a particular AOL interface. Basically, AOL users who never use any other software do not understand...

Suck

I think it's better than AVG or Avira for a free product.

You aren't dealing with 60 year old steelworkers' wives, either.

Today I was asked to install AOL 9.5 on an i7 notebook. I think I died a little bit just from hearing someone ask me to install AOL.

That Yamaha receiver is probably pretty nice. What I did when I wound up with spare audio stuff was set up my office at work.

There's more to it than that. It has all the drawbacks of using a Business/Professional copy of Windows (10 CALs) with basically none of the advantages of Server; single sign-on seems like it would be a no-brainer but it's not there. There's also nothing to make it back up another storage...

There's a new version of Avast today and the default appearance no longer looks like a goofy car stereo.

The backups are file based, but WHS will only store a single copy of a file, which means it's efficient for multiple machines for the same version of Windows. It supports bare metal restore from a boot CD that loads the WHS client. I'm not as enamored of it as some people are, but being able...

I made most of my DVD-Audio discs in to six channel FLACs but I haven't finished the process yet, and sometimes I just wanna listen to a disc, that's why. :P

BluRay playback happens in a virtual machine that needs control over both audio and video on your PC. Everything that's obnoxious about BluRay (slow load times, disabling Aero) really stems from that. Anyway PowerDVD 9 Ultra works fine for me, though I'm still a little pissed off that it only...

This stuff is probably where it would be beneficial to pay attention to all the Intel Channel Partner training BS they email out...

Inexpensive rack density.

How loud are these? I turned my spare on my back bedroom, went in my bathroom and turned on the faucet, shower, radio and flushed my toilet, and my Tyan GT20 was still by far the loudest thing I could hear.

Fry's had that drive for $50 in June or July. That's where I got the ones I have. I had another but it died, possibly because that was the one that I used to rip all my HDDVDs with.

Greg, the advantage of SCSI in terms of performance on a desktop system is about 99% due to the lowered access times available to 10k and 15k spindles. Once again, as I have attempted to stress to you repeatedly, improvement in access time = subjective improvement in performance. Data transfer...

The difference is where the costs are. The commodity board will have extra data lanes for PCIe. The workstation board will have support for buffered or registered DIMMs. The commodity board will support far out of spec RAM and FSB timings and voltages, while the workstation board is set up to...

Try it anyway. Win7 will do a startup repair if it doesn't start right, and if it works OK without AHCI then it may very well be that the drive is not the issue.

It was sold for about two and a half years and I think they dropped that model last summer.

Those things are really, really, loud. I'm tempted but I already have a spare dual Xeon sitting in my wiring closet for the day I need to swap out a customer system, but Tyan GT20s are my standard servers anyway. Are the X2s socket 939 or AM2?

One of the many, many ways that trackballs are superior to mice.

Does the behavior stop if you run the drive out of AHCI mode?

I figured something like that happened when I didn't get a PM from you, RW.

Brightness can be turned down. Picture can be adjusted generally. There's a bit of a down side if you're right up close, which is that the pixel pitch on TVs is higher than true monitors, but I don't think most people would notice that, and the screen size can more than make up for it. I'm...

Because it is an awesome name, that's why.

I do the media server thing. I have a pair of LG BD/HDDVD drives and I rip BDs I want to keep. Loading time with PowerDVD is far lower on those drives than it is on any standalone player I've seen, but I have a distaste for physical media regardless.

The model I'm thinking of is maybe $25.

The movie theater I go to, there's only maybe 10 - 20 people there. I hate being in a restaurant by myself, but in a theater it's dark and no one is paying attention to anything but what's on the stage or screen.

I've bought Belkin two port KVMs in the past. They're inexpensive and they do the job.

My four file servers have 16 - 20 SATA ports apiece. Sunday I saw Tosca at Lyric Opera in Chicago. It was the B-cast and the B conductor, but I was on the main floor, 10 rows back and directly behind the conductor. My seat cost about half what my monthly rent does. It was exquisite regardless...

Congratulations, Chewy! I am disappointed that you did not name her Zoltan, but I guess Gabriel is also a name that can be chosen.

I've tried Motorola, Trendnet and a couple generic Broadcom models. The thing is, the Broadcom chip is supported in Win7 64-bit on a whole bunch of notebooks, but it doesn't install on Server 2008. I'm guessing it's something in the .INF but as much as I've screwed with it, I haven't gotten it...

Even 10 years ago, you could have purchased a $200 SCSI contoller and moved it from $100 motherboard to $100 motherboard and had a series of systems that were cheaper and faster than what you bought. Over time that 10 year old board has brought about a high opportunity cost, since you've been...

I can't find a bluetooth adapter that works with Server 2008 64-bit. I've tried four now. It's pissing me off.

Nah. 1TB and 1.5TB models.

There's a guy I do work for whose Primavera consulting business means he needs access to five different versions of the program. I used VMware P2V to move all the different systems he was using to in to Guests on a single box with VMware Server and for him I became an IT god. It didn't even...

I don't take a home office deduction because I don't have a home office. For that matter, I don't think it's a moral imperative to reduce my tax bill, because I understand the value of the services I get from my governments and I am willing to pay for them. I don't want to deal with the...

They're just a bunch of desktop drives in inexpensive rackmount cases connected to some mix of desktop board SATA ports or semi-fancy RAID card SATA ports. I did make an effort to minimize noise and vibration, but the only thing fancy about those systems is the number and capacity of the drives...

Herpes will do that to a fellow. Seriously, I just want to be at home. There are people I wish I could spend time with, but there are not places I wish I could be. I'm not wired for travel.

As we keep trying to tell you, the enterprise-grade stuff isn't worth the money for what you're doing. You're far better off buying three generations of commodity hardware than trying to hold on to decrepit workstation-grade equipment, which is what you seem to want to do.