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Probably because there's a stable demand for those cards at their current price point. You have to figure that, by now, Matrox has recouped its R&D and Marketing costs on the Parhelia, and that leads me to conclude that they're leaving it at that high price because that's what their customers...

Most work, but some don't. XP has an application compatibility wizard that can help in some cases. Some programs run on 2000 that don't run on XP, and vice versa.

That's weird. I unplug and plug stuff all the time with 2k and it works. Firewire and USB both.

Daemon Tools will let you mount an image of a CD. It's a very useful tool under any conditions, but I can't see how anyone who plays computer games would want to be without it.

Wow.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to prove.

... which would be exactly the most horrible way I can think of to beat someone to death. Even worse than the sackfull of Micropolis drives I've always wanted to kill Prof. Wizard with.

Windows clustering requires the ultra-expensive "enterprise" versions of Server and won't work properly for your application anyway, since serving games doesn't fit the model of a "stateful" application that can live on a shared data source, and since serving games DOES have an in-game state, it...

I've bought several Mobile 1700s and 1800s. No mobile bartons yet, though. They run a lot cooler, like 3 or 4C with the same Speeze fan I always use. They probably have some impact on my power bill (not that I can tell) and performance is spot-on for the kind of CPUs they are.

I'm particularly fond of reviews like those I see at Anandtech, where every page of a "review" has some kind of ad for the retailer, the board, or the company in question. Yup. Those reviews are entirely unbiased. How much was Anand's last BMW?

Not on the client end. You're requesting traffic. Usually that's something that's explicitly allowed. Probably you're just not getting enough of a stream to actually play anything. I need more DSL lines.

Technical first: There are several single points of failure there. Let's start with the fact that you have a single server, a single NIC and a single SCSI card. You'll see, above, that I recommended multiple machines for this job, both to spread work around and to have a high degree of failover...

Uh, it looked to me like it took up two PCI slots. But hey, who uses PCI slots for anything like disk controllers, modems, TV cards or NICs these days?

I will later this evening.

Wrong on many levels.

Flash RAM can be fast because of the whole zero seek time thing. CF can be faster than most flash RAM because it has its own embedded I/O controller (hence things like Lexar "Ultra" CF media). But it isn't fast reading or writing because there's a multi-step electronic process that has to take...

A good place to start. These guys sell some must have items like riser cards and fans for 1U cases and other essentials. Their cases aren't bad either, but I've never done personally done 1U-anything. I do know that anything in that form factor is hotter than hell. There's no place for heat to...

It'll be good to have the news section up and running again, even if the only thing I want to use it for is to make fun of nvidia's latest lawnmow... I mean graphics product.

It'd be cheaper on your back end to go SCSI. You could go with a bunch of 74GB 10k SCA drives for maybe $175/apiece, save $50/drive that you could apply to getting a chassis with a large SCA backplane, and you could use a midrange SCSI RAID controller instead of that horribly expensive 12-port...

All three of those drives worked as advertised. Thanks GH.

Some games also require special licensing for public use. In reality no one cares, but imagine if, e.g. EA or Microsoft decided to crack down on LAN centers. Once David starts collecting usage stats (assuming he can), perhaps he can sell games/media that he won't be using.

But also look at something like this. Combine with Windows Server-style published applications and your space problems are taken care of.

You probably ought to talk to these people.

The 12-port 3ware 8500 is ~ $700 new. I'll assume the 9500 will take that price point. The 1000MT Quad is $500. 12 Raptors @ $225 apiece = $2700 + probably another $1000 for some kind of enclosure, board, CPU and RAM. That's $5,000, David. Per Server. How many months of rent, utilities and...

There are better things for you to spend your money on for your business.

Let me modify my previous post slightly: I was thinking 2 Gbit NICs per server machine, not just one. That'd make failover a lot easier.

Where've you been man? Haven't seen you here for awhile. I've had a couple of REALLY bad experiences with newegg. The "we're gonna keep your 8500DV" thing, a couple times I've gotten bad batches of boards, and sometimes slow credit processing on RMA refunds. All that said, their prices and...

Windows does NOT handle being diskless very well. Lots of folks with an interest in AV have tried it, certainly. The better and cheaper option would be to buy, say, a 160GB drive for each machine with locally contained disk images, or, like I said, ghost over gigabit. Let's call that $2500 in...

You didn't hear me, but I just said "ick". Let's ask a few questions: Each of your stations has a Raptor, right? GBoC = around 40MB/s in ideal conditions (large files to stream etc). Raptors are what? 35 - 70MB/s? Which will be faster? Your "server" is a vanilla PC with some GBoC cards and...

Seriously? He finally annoyed the moderators enough that the issue was addressed. The contention among the guys with the "Edit" buttons that his actions, while obnoxious, didn't meet the standards for banning someone. I don't think that's a bad thing. They took their job seriously. Then he...

I found This one at Newegg. Trendware isn't a brand I'm familiar with, though.

Has anyone here purchased/used a low-end 24-port switch with a GBoC uplink port? The only ones I've played with were $500 managed jobs from 3Com, and that's a substantially outside my budget.

That of course begs the question: Is there still a need for an Ignore function?

Use what other people you know have. You'll probably run into the same issues that they did, and they'll be able to help you. If you're interested in seriously learning Linux for Unix' sake, I'd suggest Slackware or a *BSD. BSDs aren't Linux, but fundamentally, either way you're going to get...

Yu. And I'm using LAME for a codec, if that matters. I probably ought to switch to OGG. IMO 128k OGG sounds better than 192k MP3.

I don't know. That's a pretty interesting thing to have a copy of.

You're mirroring first, then striping. As the name implies: 1+0. If you were striping and then mirroring, failing even one drive would fundamentally damage the array - the stripe would be gone, at least, and you wouldn't have a functional "01" array any more. In a mirror + stripe, there's at...

It depends. 160kpbs, most recently. 192k, typically. I could go back and encode a bunch of stuff at 128k or 96k to see if that would make my slimserver run better over the internet...

Try just switching DNS servers and see if your problem goes away. Verizon's are 4.2.2.3 - .6 Other than that, if you've got some kind of Network OS sitting around, you could set up a nice caching DNS server.

Tried Knoppix yet, Buck? (I'm not trying to hijack your thread, JoJo, this is just where the discussion about Linux is right now).

You're thinking of "Music in Changing Parts". I don't know what the album looked like; the Nonesuch CD issue is a cool silvered photo of the composer.

What's annoying you?

I got Fedora Core 2 working tonight on a dual Xeon 500/1MB Tyan Thunder X, 1.5GB RAM machine with an intel pro 100 and a Matrox G200. What were you trying to configure that was messing you up?

Gotta say fubar's new user classification was worth a good laugh today.

How are you getting paid in KoalaBucks? I though you were in the fast growing field of Retail Stock Engineering... or is that just the cover you use?

Not in NWI. I know where there are some in the suburbs.

Where are you guys finding those Nikons? Pradeep, my local Best Buy expressly told me they would NOT be stocking the D70 'til fall.

I can sit and listen to all 3 discs of "Music in 12 parts", which is probably his most visciously minimalist piece, and be entertained. But if you get the urge to try his music again, I'd suggest tracking down his scoring for "Dracula", the album he did with Uatki (a lot like Blue Man Group...

Bill Gates is on the record as saying it's not worth his time to pick up a $100 bill if he found one laying in the street. I'd say that's rich enough.

I don't know about that Gary. ICP Vortex cards are pretty nice too.