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I rolled my own backup/syncing system for myself some time ago, but it's held up and actually scaled very well to the volume of data that I normally deal with.

Yes, NTbackup makes .bkf files. Tar makes .tbz files, but both work very well other than that. 'nix machines also have rsync, and someone has probably released a cygwin version of that. I really can't think of anything that I can't make the plain old Windows task scheduler + a batch file that...

I just noticed that Newegg.com has several varieties of X800 and X800Pro below the crucial $200 mark, and a few models even below $150. I suppose that means ATI is about to release a even newer and faster product, but when I was looking last week at X800s I couldn't find any for less than $180...

If they're on an NTFS volume you could always compress them to save about 40% of the space they take up. Or delete them, 'cause you probably won't ever uninstall a patch. Or tell Windows "no" when it asks if it can save system files in the first place.

2003 Server/A64 - ACPI Uniprocessor - 3 files XP Pro/AthlonXP -ACPI Uniprocessor - 3 files 2000 Pro/AthlonXP - ACPI PC - 3 files

The upgrade install didn't work? Or Mark's idea? The way I maintain my sysprep images is to build them out on whatever hot new Via/AMD platform I have handy, install software updates to software that needs 'em (adaware, firefox etc), prep that... let the machine reboot, then start an XP...

What do these programs do that ntbackup/Backup Exec or just a well written batch file doesn't?

If I remember right, Tin Mad Dog quit posting on storage review with 999 posts. I remember he liked to talk about guns a lot. I always suspected he just took just made himself a new nick. But, anyway, I'm personally glad for cold weather in Oz, since keeping Tannin in of doors ensures that...

Web log of a Network Admin working to restore Internet Service in New Orleans Pretty interesting reading.

Generally speaking, onboard audio is a really, really bad deal. It's fine if you just want IE to go "click" when you view a web page, but if you're going to listen to music, it's atrocious. The main problems are the AC97 specification itself, which among other things requires that all PCM...

VLK = Volume License Key. The kind you get for buying more than 5 copies of Windows at a time, that doesn't do activation. Sadly, I don't think it'll work with the key from a Dell...

According to the product manual, you have to have a 64bit OS to surpass 2TB on a single array. :(

Tin Mad Dog? Damn that nick sounds awfully familiar, albeit a little before my time on SR. Howdy!

Does this mean that you don't want my old stuff? I was thinking of a Soyo Via KT600 and an XP1600. I don't have any spare RAM at the moment. 1GB of 184pin runs about $80 right now... I don't know whether that would be doing you any favors.

That is correct. I run into that problem, too. I wind up doing my slipstreams on my classroom PCs. Do you want a slipstreamed disk? I can probably mail you a VLK one. My one retail disk has a big ol' scratch on it.

Hm... Well, is it stupid? Asus tried something similar a while back, with a board that could handle a slot 1, socket 7 or socket 8 CPU. I worked on one of those once. That didn't seem completely stupid at the time. As this is implemented, it looks moronic. But mostly because switching to the...

I read from the book of Armaments, verses nine through Twenty-Two:

More fun stuff. This from Britain's Guardian, but I found it on BoingBoing...

Not if you do an "Upgrade" install while Windows is running.

I see no reason not to blame GWB and his party. I can't believe the free passes that President Fuckhead gets in the media. Heard anything about Rove and Valerie Plame lately?

Your manager sounds like he needs to be taken out and beaten. And I can affirm that Promise SXx000s suck at RAID5. I've tried the 4000 and the 6000 at different times and they were both abysmal.

The hilarity that ensued when I needed to recover 1.2TB of a Hardware RAID5. Look at all the fun I had!

So? Making playlists against that volume of music is a genuinely tedious thing to do. Are you planning to listen to this music outside your home? Are you sure slimserver is secure? Planning to open up a port on your firewall? Personally, I use 3x 400 disc Sony ES changers for CDs, and 3x...

Can I say that I think you're looking at the wrong solution? I'd suggest finding three Sony ES CD Jukeboxes. They can be managed from an RS-232 interface if you really need to interface with a computer. They will store your CDs with ZERO chance of data loss and with the same level of quality as...

I found these quotes on Boingboing.net. Linkage: Link These words have been attributed to an Email sent by a New Orleans rescue worker.

Personally, I can say that there is very little of anything on the Edonkey network that interests me. And even less that's well-sourced enough that I'm likely to get a complete copy in some reasonable (under a month, say) period of time. Torrents make up the world of specialized communities...

Do not speak ill of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. Slack! ^^^^ See? I am a prophet to these people, for my very name is slaker!

I gas up each of the cars I drive once a week. Last year that cost me $40. Now it costs $60. I shrug and forego the cheese on my Whopper. ... all the while laughing at the morons in Hummers and Expeditions, who are maybe just realizing that having Mr. Texas Oilman for a President isn't exactly...

Blah, blah, blah. Torrents work. Edonkey doesn't.

Why is this such a big deal? The people of New Orleans mostly live so far below sea level that they have problems with coffins floating out of the ground when it rains. These people live below sea level, right on an ocean, and they had plenty of warning to get someplace that doesn't have...

I'm pretty sure the land of the free is Canada. I mean, there's a country where people can buy guns but don't regularly kill each other, get no-cost healthcare, have an abortion, marry another guy, watch "the Sopranos" on regular TV and get broadband no matter where in the country you live. A...

Well, the good news is, the Hurricane will be pushing some of the fertilizer-encrusted topsoil that normally drains down the Mississippi and into the Gulf Coast Dead Zone back inland.

I think the Wikipedia Entry is a bit better organized. Particularly the parts about benefits of conversion. Stripper Volcanos for everyone! Also, Creationist Morons might be interested in noting that ALL science can be refuted with drivel, as the Onion so beautifully illustrates. For those...

The metal structure may be a pain in the ass. But yeah. Get an AP - one that supports WPA, please, and a NIC - I haven't found the USB ones to work better, but they're supposed to according to some people - and you're in business. You might need a signal booster or amplifier to make your signal...

Oddly enough, one of the things I learned from my ex's partner (who was an enforcement officer of Chicago Department of Children and Family Services for several years) is that if women are aggressive enough, they can make it happen regardless of how the male feels about the subject. I don't want...

Does it actually need to be a separate process? Or do you just want to set up a second site?

Arizona is a Red State. I'll take the hurricanes.

Who said anything about "buy"? I need to check to make sure, but I'll bet I can set you up with something decent. Not sure about 4 DIMM slots. That's the main thing. What I know I have spare and working in Socket A land are an Abit KT7, a Soyo KT600-based something (which has the distinct...

Right now, I'm supposedly connected to a torrent with 22 seeders, 16 leechers - and I can see 30ish clients on my personal connection list. Total speed is listed as 206kb/sec. I'm downloading a massive 1 kb/sec. It's run all day (about 7 hours) like that. I've downloaded nearly an entire megabyte.

Oh. HDMI. For the uninitiated: HDMI is the "next generation" display connector, to supplant analog VGA or Component cables, and DVI. It is, in fact, an extension of DVI. The carrot for HDMI adoption is a single cable that can carry audio and video data... not that it would for anyone using a...

1000 lumens looks like ass unless you can black out the room. 2000 lumens is bright enough to work with with normal lights on. 1024x768 is worth the extra money. Below 1000:1 contrast, IMO the projected image looks washed out, like on a projection TV. Blah. 2000:1, much happier and more...

I can't say I've tried recently. And I can't think of any speed enhancements that Azureus has that BitTornado doesn't. I've been messing around with the UPnP settings on my router here at home and within BitTornado instead of manually forwarding ports to my annointed bittorrent machine. That...

I'd say those numbers are just fine. Guess that theory is blown. Thanks to everyone who did a test, regardless!

Gilbo's bad. I'm bad. David is not. Groltz is not. Handruin is in "maybe" land. Argh.

... which gets you exactly dick the day they decide to sue the tracker you like into giving up server logs, like they did to lokitorrents and suprnova users. Still I'd say the odds are 5 million to one or so that any particular user would get sued. I can live with that.

jtr, I'll set you up with a 1.2GHz Athlon and a Gigabyte board that'll take your RAM if you'd like. I might even have an XP1600 or 1700 someplace.

Can I get a couple more samples from you, Doug? 10k/sec could be OK with a torrent like that and it could be really slow, too. Basically, David's are running the way they should be. Gilbo's saying he had the same problems with the same site. Gilbo is certainly someone I'd trust to know what's...

Just so we're clear. Everything I'm trying to download right now has more seeders than leechers. I'm getting jack from anyone I've connected to through torrentspy. I ssh'd into my home machine (same cable, different segment) and launched some torrents there. Same deal. Demonoid is fine...