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:oops: Actually, I've never looked at the front page of SF... I just googled for my username and came up with those.

Wow, there are some cool stat pages out there: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=10047 http://statsman.ww-testsites.co.uk/folding2stats/html/10047.html

Had 10 people in for 8 hours tonight, all playing a massive game of COD. Then we went online and spanked a server full of americans playing BF: V My Saitek X45 and a stolen Huey Gunship are unstoppable. Esp. with my wingman (sitting 32" to my left) covering me for the theft and doing bad things...

Never had a problem disabling it, but I don't bother these days...

Tell me about it... Here you aren't getting more than 2 baths for under a million. You'd have to drive away from the ocean at least 50 miles before you found crappy homes for that price.

I liked this part: "Three-Hundred-and-Sixty Thousand dollars ... You can buy a pretty nice house almost anywhere in America for that kind of cash." Haha :eekers:

My mother's 2L Golf gets pretty close to a hybrid in terms of milage...I thought everyone knew they weren'y ready for the big-time yet.

Thanks sechs, that's definatly a good start.

I had been keeping up with that thread before and just re-read the first page. It sounded to me like you'd pretty much already made up your mind going in, that's why I stayed out of the conversation.

Yeah, I figured it would be possible though policies or reg hacks...just hoping for a pointer to a guide or something...

I'm trying to best secure my gaming systems from happy hacking hands. The things I'd like to do: Disable all the nasty keyboard shortcuts Disable File downloads from IE The "internet options" panel is disabled using my client software, so a setting in there would work. I'd like to offer...

The body is a 10D with a 1Gb card, the lens is in fact a 100-400, and we were taking pictures of a motherbord in low light from ~5' away. I am not a camera guy (as you can tell from the pic above) but some of the results were quite impressive. I'll be trying to post more pics when I get the...

I'm tempted to bring take some of th audio gear from the other rooms and hook it up to my PC. If I want loud, I can grab the 15" stage speakers and 1500W amp out of the garage. Too bad the baseline hum is louder than comfortable listening volume. I guess I could take a pair of the Bose...

You are talking about 2.8Ghz @ $300 each while saying AMD is overpriced? With Opteron 242s going for $225 a piece, I'd say Intel is hurting now more than ever (from a tech/perf standpoint, we all know they're still making $$$).

And yes, that is my game center in the background. The game is COD.

The lens is a 400mm, but the camera is digial...

From the benches I've read, they lose about 30% on the second CPU and 60%+ on the quad...due to FSB bus \ memory bandwidth limitations, IIRC. I don't know if this would fix that problem, or make it worse

Just for fun... And for bonus points, what game is being played in the background :P

Yeah, I'll be using it as an archicve of sorts. Who cares if google can read my resume. It's a classic case of TMI; considering the amount of information they will have, mine will be of little interest.

I too think using system memory would be better. Considering they are requiring OS support, the OS could simply stop using the cache when the battery drops too low. Or have a small reserve battery to handle wrting the data back to the drive.

none of mine do, but they are all relatively new.

Well, dual-core'd CPUs will bring parallel-ism to the masses. This will lead to much more development focus in the muti-threaded area and will help those with multiple-CPU systems take better advantage thereof. That Quad-Opteron board from Tyan is calling my name... :D

I'm guessing you'd be massively right. Unless your que depth spends lots of time above 1, this will help 0%. The better seek time on a raptor, however, helps..um...everything.

Can't blame them, the Pentium-M is an awesome CPU. Give it 64-bitness and 2Ghz and they'll be competitive again.

The mapping just works better for my rather unusual setup. Every machine has it's own Ghost image, that is only restored to that one machine. Therefore going though the process of setting up and running a different ghostcast session for every machine is more difficult than just letting the...

At first it was going to be a ghost console partition; currently it is a ghostcasting partition. I was trying to set up a drive mapping version; it doesn't even need to have ghost on it, or have anything to do with ghost. So long as it can map to a network share where the ghost images and the...

I recently upgraded an HTPC from an old Destination system to a new one using an AIW, keeping the screen, Amp, and control devices. The mouse is basically a remote control with a trackball on the top. What would you guys suggest? TIA

My clients have no floppy and no CD-ROM. I'm currently configuring a "console partition" that will be at the beginning of the drive and contain the neccisary stuff. Then I'll install XP into the main partition and use the boot.ini to manage both of them. Does anyone see a reason why this won't...

Perfect! This is exactlty what I want to do! How?

Absolutely true, and deploying an image out to multiple machines works very well that way. But I'm creating images on the machines and sending them too the ghostcast server. To be honest it doesn't much matter where it is initiated from, but I would like to be able to manually control the...

I have Symantec Ghost 8.0 Corporate and am looking for a way to enter a ghostcasting session manually from the client. In the "home" version of ghost, you can run the command from the start menu that reboots into the virtual partiton; where you can manually perform any of the tasks. In the...

You can change the CD-Key using a changer, but IIRC it also checks for an "installation GUID", requiring a re-install anyway. :evil:

So the first step in my quest for better sound will be do ditch the onboard sound. I was hoping that using the SPDIF connection to an external reciever would exorcise the evilness, but that isn't the case (thanks Merc). So what sound card would best output a Digital Coax signal? (of course...

Yep, and at ~$1/GB, that 2TB fileserver just got a lot cheaper.

Unfortunatly headphones aren't an option. I'm quite often not the only person listening to the computer (GF/Friends). I'm looking at either a Onkyo or Marantz reciever. A friend swears by Marantz, is it the Bose of the high-end world (ie very well marketed medioce equipment)?

Also, I'm currently running Klipsch 2.1. What would it take/cost to get an appreciable increase in quality?

My system currently has an onboard AC97 solution with a coaxial output. How much of the crappy sound will be passed along though that source?

Not an answer to your question, but I've never had this happen. Do you mean if you restored what used to be the system partiiton at the front of the drive to a non-active partition farther back in the drive?

Merc, What reciever and speakers would you be looking at in the $200-$300 range? Stereo is fine (don't really want surround) and fidelity is more important than volume.

I have a really hard time buying a product that doesn't explain how it works and has the word "Magic" in the title..l.though I am interested.

One of my clients just paid the ultimate price for their lack of attentiveness towards spyware... "No default gateway for you!" Without internet access, they should be able to keep out of trouble...

Because I'm an incompetent sysadmin :eekers: Honestly, the system used for the UT server is also performing quite a few other tasks. Primary among them my &(%% PXE/Ghost server. Once I get this licked, it should be up 99% of the time. I've spent 100+ hours on this POS, and I can't seem to...

Well, the requirements and the pay are relatively small. But it could be an interesting test of this idea. Re: "The collective". I guess it would be at the discretion of the users involve in the project; but putting it directly towards the administrative overhead of the site sounds like a good...

I'm pretty sure you need the full version, as it rotates maps. If you timed it right you could play 3 rounds, then it would boot you.

Gee, thanks, Tea; I appreciate it. How's that, GP? :P

I was thinking of outsourcing some web design work to the forum, then putting the money earned into the collective. What do you guys think of that? It wouldn't be much, but in my experience, a site like this could always use some dough. I'll put up the requirements, and if someone is interested...

Thanks Mark, I'll check those out. So far I've run one of the systems for 3 days. It averages out to ~1WU a day (~65 Points). This would be about 1300pts per day for all 20. Meaning that even if you guys stopped today, I wouldn't be in the lead for another 92 days. You guys have nothing to...

I'm looking for a program that will sync a local directory with the contents of an FTP folder. It also needs to support subfolders, and free would be a good thing. I've found a few, but either their trial download is broken, or the site is down.

Tea, You didn't know that I knew? Or you didn't know it was possible? If the latter, thanks. If the former, :P . ;)

Not really. It still keeps the management at the server, all the configuration off the workstation, and is earier to configure than a static IP. All you need to do is key the IP itself, DNS, gateway and subnet are automatically pulled from the DHCP pool.