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On the other hand, I didn't have to teach anyone how to do anything with VMware. It's just there and it just works.

To be on the safe side, a 9250 is probably better for its thermal characteristics. The Gigabyte 9550s I'm familiar with can get warm from mild 3D use (e.g. someone playing Counterstrike) but are normally cool to the touch. The 9250 is a much simpler chip. You won't be TEMPTED to mild 3D use...

Generally, if a motherboard is dual-BIOS, the second one is read-only.

Benefit #1: 500GB of porn. Benefit #2: Not a Western Digital Benefit #3: Comes in box which can be used to store punier hard drives. Benefit #4: Not as loud as a chainsaw Benefit #5: Box can also store Western Digital Hard drives, and is flammable when doused in lighter fluid.

9550s are nice and work very well for being fanless. For that matter, even a 9250 is a decent option. Remember that S3 Unichrome is essentially a seven year old chip that doesn't even fully support directX 6. But, um, if you're watching a movie on such a machine, will you really be doing heavy...

Both Yahoo and MSN's IM networks have some nasty worms going around right now. I think I'd start over on that machine. I really do. You don't truthfully know everything that was done to your machine, and the fact that there's any doubt at all in your mind should be reason enough. A couple...

I happen to think that Visio is one of the best things Microsoft makes, but I know there's a program called "Dia" that is available for Windows and Linux that can be used for many of the same tasks; I've done network diagrams with it.

I feel your pain mubs. I just finished a computer-building class for 12 people. Every one of them bought an Athlon64/3000 or 3200 of some sort. The price cuts hit yesterday and my students were about to hang me over the drops. Also, in a different thread, around a month ago, I mentioned that...

Could also be that the system's PSU in inadequate to the task of powering USB devices along with all the other crap you've put in those machines. Weren't you using some tiny, silent PSU?

An interesting commentary on the state of Windows development. Even more interesting, it's hosted on MSDN.

The Math behind iTMS. Synopsis: "Weird Al" Yankovic probably makes about $.04 for every track some iTunes Music Store user pays for. He makes about $.30 for every song on an actual compact disc. That's... pretty sad.

Tool to turn a mass of extensions into a single .XPI file. In other words, this is something that allows for a massive number of extensions to be installed in one go.

You should be seeing some difference with the waste of electricity that is a Raptor. The only thing I can think is that the 40GB drive you're using is a single platter with a massive areal density advantage over the Raptor. On the other hand, I've been saying that those cheapie boxes as a...

Does Singapore have hot chicks in tiny little thong bikinis? 'Cause I'll bet it has better weather than Chicago, and we probably have the same goons and politics. :)

Current version of Virtual PC are... not all that good compared to VMware. I've had VPC crap out on things as basic as a console-only (no graphics) RedHat 6 install. VMware actually seems faster for Windows images too. I have no idea who uses Virtual PC or for what, but it's only impressive...

For what it's worth, Industry Press is claiming that a $250 2.4GHz Conroe will bury a $1000 2.6GHz Opteron 285 on performance and on power consumption. That's... pretty special.

American Theocracy: All I can say is, just about every page of that book made me more pissed off than the page before it. I didn't feel like eating for two days after I finished it.

Busy on weekend. Yes. Stupid work. Plus it's seldom if ever worthwhile to debate RWIndiana. I think his posts make me dumber.

I can answer that: If you aren't gaming, and you aren't video editing, and you have a decent amount of RAM (1GB), there's almost no practical difference between a "low-end" Sempron 3000 and a high end X2/4600. Apps open just as instantly. The only places to notice differences are things like...

I experienced something similar with a Promise SATA controller. After lots of troubleshooting, I replaced my controller and my problems went away.

I would like to share with the readers of Storageforum the wisdom of Maddox, the author of The Best Page In The Universe: On the subject of Kid Licenses, Vegetarians, and of course, More on Vegetarians.

Ever shared a meal with a rabid vegan? You're lucky if "murderer" is the only thing s/he calls you.

Who cares about the sport? I want to know who has the best hooligans!

The right way to do it, in case you were wondering, is to just not have kids. Everyone on the whole fucking planet just needs to grasp that a child is not proof of your love, nor the person who has to take care of you when you're old, nor an extra farm hand. You should need a license to have a...

The non-USians must think we're all nuts.

It takes me about two minutes to set Firefox up properly if I'm sitting at a machine where I have to use the extensions site. 1. Install Firefox. 2. Go to tools > options > tabs, set "Force all tabs to open in a new window" 3. Go to tools > options > downloads, set the default download...

I use Via to the exclusion of anything else. Bozo's just been around Dells too long. ;) As far as things go, the 8VM800 is a really wonderful "vanilla" chipset. I use Gigabyte's version to power my file servers. I've also used Biostar versions. They're just dandy. Shuttle is a company with...

Works great. I set up a Hamachi network to connect my home PCs with the PC in my Office and all three of the servers I maintain for my trainer job. Now I can access my vast quantities of por... music files at work, and I can administer my Exchange server from home.

I'd like to ask Vlad which Wireless Network components he's found that are actually "good quality", 'cause I've tried everything short of Cisco and it's all been crap in one way or other.

PowerDVD version 6 installs fine on Server 2003. I'm sitting at a Server 2003 machine that has it installed right now. :)

I have them at some of my customer sites. Sonicwall's VPN is much easier to deal with than trying to set up Microsoft's, and they're a lot cheaper than PIXes.

Mine is the top-end model with all the extra crap on it (EX, I think). $18k is the base model. The one I have was about $23k new. Aside from that, I didn't have to deal with the local Honda dealer, which is worth a bunch of money all by itself. Also mine had a mega-warranty rolled into the...

The Element is teh Awesome. $17k for a 2003 model with 6022 miles on it. 25mpg and a decent back seat that I can move to the side or remove entirely as needed. 100,000 mile warranty, too. And the one I bought has an aftermarket stereo in it. :D It took all of about 20 minutes for me to write a...

This particular car is my day-to-day car, a 95 Taurus with 183,056 miles on it. I also have a Crown Vic, but I've got an offer of $1500 for it, so it's gone. Time for a newer car. Found a Honda Element. 25mpg and it has storage space. Spiffy!

My car died today. It turn it on and the car shakes violently. The engine dies and the Check Engine, Oil, Brake and Battery lights stay on. I've had my car for as long as I've been driving. I am sad.

They have pretty nice management and VPN functions. Not really anything a home user needs, but pretty nice for doing site to site VPNs and the like.

Has anyone tried Hamachi? The web site seems to indicate that it's a multiplatform PC-to-PC VPN that is brain-dead easy to set up.

Intel has a Wireless USB spec but AFAIK there's no shipping hardware yet.

It's even funnier when you look up three posts. ;)

How to ruin a PC with PC in only two weeks.

I thought Crossfire only worked on motherboards with ATI chipsets. Why would nVidia want to support their competitor's system on their hardware in the first place?

Windows supports JBODs of up to 32 volumes, totalling not more than whatever arbitrarily huge size NTFS supports (256TB, I think). Most hardware RAID controllers (including 3ware) on 32 bit hardware choke on arrays larger than 2TB. I'm not sure if that's a limitation of 32-bit CPU architectures...

ddrueding, I'm not PLAYING the file on the C3. It's just the fileserver that happens to have the video file one of my other PCs is playing. Since it can manage flawlessly deliver two such video files over a plain 100mbit connection, it'll probably do for my needs.

I know my crappy C3 can saturate 100mbit Ethernet just fine, and can deliver enough data to play back two high bitrate xvid files simultaneously on different clients. I plan to drill holes in my cheap cabinet to mount an ITX or uATX motherboard. If the C3 can't cut it, I'll probably put in a...

ddrueding, have you tried Get Data Back NTFS on the befunged volume yet? 'Cause I'm almost positive it'll work for what you need.

I've not used that site myself. Some of my students do. I do not know anyone who has had a problem with it, BUT you probably should be aware that if you're providing financial information to a bunch of Russians who are in Russia. Not the safest group of people to give your credit card number...

Nope, but that little guy would be dandy as a small web or print server. Or for that matter a file server. Over the weekend I'm hoping to start my wooden ITX PC project. I have a $30 put-together cabinet that I'm going to mount a Via system in. I'll be installing Linux (SuSE 10, probably) and...

Drivers for a 5-year-old Dlink DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC are fucking 48MB. I note, upon opening the ZIP file, that there are 1MB setup binaries for OSX, Linux and several different flavors of Windows - in both .EXE and .MSI format, plus a 5MB trial version of "EZAntiVirus". The combined size of...

Have you actually used P2V, Handy? $475 is fairly reasonable for Enterprise-ish software, but it'll sound like a ton of money to my client, especially when it's software I haven't used.