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Well, the upgrade disc won't let you upgrade 32bit to 64-bit in any combination. I'm about to try one of those "well used" Volume Licenses to go to Home Premium. I'm just going to take defaults all the way through and I'll see what I end up with.

I'll let you all know how well upgrades from XP with a VLK work sometime this weekend, after I get done testing it. I have upgrade discs for Home Premium and Professional and I'll be testing those. My preliminary reading says that the upgrades just want an activated copy of XP or Vista and...

I got a set from Buy.com and two from Sam's Club. Buy.com has been sold out of Family Packs since like August.

Being able to join a domain is pretty important if you have a domain. I managed to get a total of three Family Packs of upgrade licenses @ $45 per license. I'm sure I'll do something useful with those. My customer is an idiot and did not understand that "clean install" means clean install. I...

October 22, 9:39AM: I get my first support call from someone trying to upgrade XP to Windows 7.

I'd say there's about a 99% chance it's the board, and would simply RMA the board. If they told me it wasn't broken, you're just out the $10 it cost to ship. I've seen a CPU die without a thermal event exactly once, ever.

Yes, if only because someone would probably be very happy to have an AMDx2/4200. The women's shelter where I take old equipment is grateful for anything newer than a Pentium 2.

Last I talked to Jess, she's doing her level best to get permission to implement VMware in some form.

Greg, if you have a PCI-X slot, you can probably find any number of PCI-X SAS controllers on Ebay for under $100.

Last I heard it's not possible to play commercially produced BD titles on a Mac; there's no playback software.

OK, if it does, at least you can properly shut the damned thing off if you don't want it, unlike on ATI cards.

I don't think it does; the nVidia IGP behaves a lot better with my Auzentech cards, whereas the ATI hardware that does support audio over HDMI does act horribly with my chosen sound hardware. I use an MSI nVidia-based Intel board for my HTPC builds.

Most of the burner cell phone plans have minutes that expire on some schedule, but they work if you don't need to use a phone that much.

3x OCZ Vertex in ICH10 RAID0 = 7.7 on Windows 7's ratings. What. The. Fuck?

This 100% wrong for IDE drives. The back is a 44 pin interface and the pins are closer together. You need that adapter.

Differing firmware optimizations?

I've found Intel G41 boards that still had Parallel port options in the BIOS despite the faxt that they did not have parallel ports. I've also dealt with Vostro desktops that lacked SATA boot order options. Go figure.

OK, well that answers that. Maybe you should try running off your Gigabyte X48 board's onboard ports next?

Date, time, installed memory, parallel port modes... what more could you ask for?

You did get somewhat better performance with the softRAID. Kinda. :) With 10 drives, I kind of wonder if you've exceeded the capacity of your card's CPU. Maybe if you switch down to 4, 6, 8 drives, you'll find different results.

That's an awfully consumer-friendly board to have a Supermicro label on it. Wow. Especially with HDMI.

Default Gateway should be specified on only one adapter. Windows will bitch if you try to set up two.

They are slow. They are cheap. They're also very power efficient and sit on generally higher-quality motherboards (solid caps, cooler northbridges). AMD works really well for a low-cost all around desktop, but the things AMD brings to the table largely aren't things you need to have in a file...

Or not, now that I see that's a 1000 and not a 100...

File name says it's RAID0. In which case that's pretty pathetic.

I'm guessing you should see your read speeds drop by about 1/2 compared to the previous graph and your writes should stay about the same. ddrueding, I'd really love to see that softRAID.

Does the system sending the messages have any kind of log of its own?

I use IDE drives at this point for boot and loading OS (if necessary), to preserve my SATA ports for use in arrays. The ports are there and generally aren't being used for anything else, so why not?

I think my data is worth being paranoid.

The important point for me is that I can be utterly unconcerned with where I'm getting my SATA ports. On my file servers, there are a mix of 3ware, Dell, Intel and JMicron controllers. Linux doesn't care what the underlying disk controller is. I don't have to depend on having another Dell or...

I rsync the filesystems six times a day.

As do I. And a substantial amount on tape. But it'd still be a tragedy to lose years of data because one card won't resync my array because it's .2 revisions off from the original hardware. Screw that. SoftRAID give me what I need.

Are you sure they're exactly the same? Are you willing to bet tens of terabytes of data on that?

I love SATA ports, but if I had PCI-X slots on something I wouldn't be bothering with a board that can only handle eight of them. And yes, I'm still smarter than you for having arrays that I can actually recover in the event of a controller failure.

P48. Whatever.

I think he's looking for a functionality that generally isn't there but was in his older product.

I just spent some time screwing around with it between my notebook and a Windows Server. I see what you mean about the flat listing and I don't see a fix for it. You might be able to do something with a batch file, though: xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/d will replicate a whole file structure and only...

In this case, the system is being constructed largely as a reward for an employee meeting some professional certification requirements. The guy spends his whole professional life working in Excel. He doesn't NEED a super-computer, but his boss wanted to give him a very visible bonus for being...

In Vista, the Upgrade disc could be used for a clean install. You could install Vista as a custom install without a product key and then use the upgrade disc to "upgrade" to the Vista for which you actually had a product key. I actually expect this trick will work in 7 as well, since 7 can...

I don't think the person getting this system is going to notice. I really, really don't.

I've now spent about a week with Windows Server 2008 R2, which is technically even newer than Windows 7 is. Server 2008 R2 includes a newer version of IIS and some updated management consoles, but also includes the Windows 7 UI, including support for the double-height taskbar with Jump Lists...

It's an i7/920, 12GB of Corsair DDR3/1333 RAM, 4xSamsung 1.5TB drives, a Gigabyte P55-UD3R, 3x OCZ 60GB SLC drives, 2x ATI 5850s, a Corsair 750W PSU, an LG BD burner and an Antec 300 chassis. Total is around $4200. I think. I'm sure I could have gone with the faster i7, but I don't think...

I was thinking more for the "sometimes Crossfire, sometimes not" configuration. Though that certainly does answer that question.

Someone just asked me to build "the fastest computer possible for $5000." It's going to have three OCZ Vertex SLC drives in it. :D

I'm just checking here since I don't have two identical graphics cards sitting around at the moment, but if I stick, say, two ATI 4770s or two nVidia 9500s in the same PC, I can run those as four independent displays without mucking about with Crossfire/SLI, right?

I'm mildly fascinated by these results, but it does very little to convince me that the Realtek Ethernet chipsets are anything other than garbage hardware, given the real-world difficulties I have had with them.

I'm just enjoying the fact that any news organization in the English-speaking world would publish something like that in just that way.

That's why I put in the bit about "good taste." :P

I noticed that, too. The HD503UJs are a bit louder than the HD501UJs were.

Yet more proof that Australians are the greatest of all peoples on this planet, one way or the other. Maybe not safe for good taste, but I love them for it.