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Yes. These days, important people don't even carry cell phones.

The easiest thing to do to make Exchange functional is put a Linux machine in front of it to do all the heavy lifting.

You're right. I don't have any appreciation for it.

A lot of new brand name cases aren't even particularly friendly to IDE cables, let alone full length PCI cards. The trend in desktop cases is really to go with smaller, chambered designs that don't work really well with older hardware, but I'm not sure why you couldn't just re-use the cases you...

In Chicago, the PBS station does four weeks of pledge drives a year, but only during a limited number of hours each day. I suspect only about 5% of the station's broadcast time falls in a pledge period. We're talking about sports. I'm not seeing a huge need for high definition to begin with...

I don't understand why anyone cares about the olympics to begin with. There are a whole bunch of sports no one cares about at any point during the four years leading up to the games, and then there are the games, where people are supposed to care, and then we go right back to not giving a crap...

I do both. I use 8 onboard SATA ports + cards that have 8 more, normally with an IDE boot drive). I've read that you can use two Perc5s in one PC, but I don't have any systems set up that way.

Faced with the choice, I paid ~$250 for two Perc5s (plus the 3ware cards I already had) so I could get enough ports to run inexpensive 1TB and 1.5TB drives rather than paying the premium for 2TB drives. I figure the ports are forever (probably five years, anyway) and eventually I'll move up...

I was able to get two refurb'd Linksys WRT600Ns yesterday for $90, total. I'll be using them for a low-impact PPTP tunnel with dd-WRT. Mine won't be as heavily used as ddrueding's. They're about the nicest consumer-grade routers I've used; the one in my office, for example, has an uptime of...

It works in Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate. Just like XP mode.

The counter argument is that the process of obtaining fissionables is so horrifically awful for the environment that it exceeds the impact of coal power. That's what the anti-nuclear people say, anyway. I have a great deal of trouble believing that, but that's what they say. I'm very...

Nope.

Also, congratulations to Lunar on those 4000 posts and his continuing commitment to the community!

I found this article on how to dress properly more informative than it probably should have been.

That's an almost $500 motherboard with a fan that has at best a 12-month lifespan. Something like that might be more interesting if a reputable vendor gets around to building one with a proper cooling arrangement.

I see a 40 or 60mm fan on that heatsink looking bit over the north bridge, which leads to the obvious question: Why would anyone WANT to play with that?

It'll happen. Personally RDP is something that makes "Professional" versions of Windows worth the extra money, and any number of server admins no doubt agree with me.

Just like with DVDs, sometimes they update the protection and you have to wait for it to get broken again. Thinking back, the only BD title I ever had playback issues with was Wall-E, and I more than halfway suspect Disney tried to do some extra antipiracy stuff with that disc.

I just looked at the settings on one of my servers until I found it. If your configuration is weird there's nothing I can do about that. ;) Anyway, Filezilla is a beautiful thing for your FTPing needs.

Here's a set of directions for making Win7's XP Mode work with an unsupported CPU.

FTP Firewall Settings

It's happened before. I'm slightly annoy about it right now, though, because it's holding up a larger order.

Are we at Neosporin bleeding or Ambulance bleeding?

You are not looking in the right place. I do 5GB+ torrents probably every single night. And usually they're complete by the time I get up in the morning.

High definition video. Otherwise, no comment.

IT has the same problem: You can't teach somebody to be legitimately good at it. Bad students (most of mine, really) learn by rote, but the rote lesson never applies to reality. Anyway, I just finished a ~400GB torrent download that I'd been working on for the last 10 months. 10 years ago...

In the area around Chicago, there are county and municipal-level sales taxes. Almost every town has them. They're a fact of life. As for what we're paying for, the basic answer is probably a lot more infrastructure than you guys have down in Oz. We drive everyplace, litigate at the drop of a...

This is very, very much how I feel. I hated every minute of getting my BSCS and only got one because I wanted to be qualified to work in IT. I really wish I had gotten my degree in something I actually enjoy. I've thought about going for another degree just for giggles, but I don't really want...

Single cable connection for audio and video, plus a level of sound quality from some sources (Bluray Discs) that is not available otherwise.

Yeah. The UD6. I only put 8GB in it though.

Gigabyte has an 1156 board with 6 DIMM slots. I sold a system on one a couple weeks ago.

I've been known to do them, just because every once in a while a vastly better CPU falls in my lap and I can cascade out something older. I switched an AMD x2/5200 for an AM2+ Phenom Quad core not too long ago. The x2 went in a super cheap spare parts build I'm going to use around my office.

Not by the end of the year. LGA1366 has always been an odd duck. After 1156 came along Intel claimed 1366 was a hobbyist technology and that the extra pins to the CPU were for triple channel RAM and other hobbyist wankfest toys. I guess we'll see 1156 and then some new oddball, probably will...

Remember that i7s self-overclock by about 10% in actual operation. So your 2.6GHz i7 will turn into 2.8something once it gets going.

Meh. The guy who was spouting off about it on Slashdot said it was dual. I didn't actually look.

Can you actually get a dual i7-based Xeon in an SFF chassis?

It just reminded me of the last several months of discussions on this very topic. Greg, you need to spend less time looking at goofy benchmarks. Seriously. The way you're describing the computer you want to have seems to be by the benchmark score that it achieves. You sound like my brother when...

Oldversion.com probably has it. Or you could take two seconds to turn off extension compatibility checking.

There's always the Asus and Auzentech cards.

The Greg Santilli Memorial 100% Impractical Laptop: The Eurocom D900F Panther Dual Xeon 5590s, up to four 512GB SSDs or standard 3.5" drives, 17" screen, Geforce 280. No idea how much it weighs or how long the battery lasts. I suspect 15lbs. and 15 minutes, respectively. No word on whether or...

Symbian? Really? I really was interested in WM7 and depending on the phone selection Sprint offers, it might still be a competitor, but a focus on gaming a media isn't really what I want out of a phone.

Turn off Adblock Plus. I believe we already discussed how to turn off extension compatibility checking. It's not a big deal.

Verizon (one of the CDMA carriers) wants to control every possible aspect of their service. They load a proprietary interface on every non-smartphone they sell, charge to unlock features that are available on the same handset with other carriers and then charge a monthly fee on top of that to...

You clearly don't own enough computers.

It might be better in numerous ways to set them up with some Terminal Server CALs and a central server for that data.

Unless you have Win7 Starter edition...

Centralized storage, simplified backup, less heat and noise compared to a full fledged file server and possibly some nifty appliance features that aren't in whatever desktop OS you'd be using to serve files.

Anyone have a crummy SSD? Flashfire is supposed to help improve SSD performance on Windows XP for some of the cases where crummy SSDs typically falter. You can read more about it in the link.

Solarwinds ip Monitor will monitor the hell out of network connections and devices in a very manager-friendly sort of way, but it's 20 times more expensive than Handy's product. How often are these 90MB files changing that they need to be re-replicated? Have you looked at FRSDiag yet?

You're already doing Mozy, right? I can see the P2P thing as potentially helpful for restores, but without some kind of service agreement and a huge number of buddies I not sure how much I'd trust something like that over and above the generally pretty reasonable cost for Mozy on a single...