Nice build! Very slick case and I like that it has the PSU built in.

I don't play 3D games. Once you dispense with the need for a dedicated graphics card, there's a world of tiny form factors at your disposal. My last PC was an Intel Haswell i5 NUC. It was decently fast for desktop use (still is), but it has a small laptop-style fan which gets very loud under load. E...

+1 for going beyond just blowing dust out of the vents. I'd take the keyboard off and make sure you clear the entire cooling path. I had a Dell Latitude D600 that was overheating. After four years, a "wall" of dust had formed near the fan that was so thick that I thought it was a piece of foam rubbe...

The main issue is that in order to use jumbo frames you need to have support for that frame size in all the devices in the same subnet. So if you want to have your (presumably) non jumbo-supporting older computers in the network also, you need to have them in a different subnet and route between th...

That's a good indicator of why it won't do jumbo frames, but it doesn't explain why it would be capped at 1300.

You also might want to check out the Western Digital Mybook World Edition 1TB. I have a Mybook World Edition II (2x1TB) in RAID1. It has no fan and the drives are very quiet. I have to walk over to it and feel it to know whether the drives are spinning. The bad news? Its performance is awful. Maxes...

I am at a loss here and help would be greatly appreciated. To start, here is my network configuration: Cable Modem <-> Linksys WRT54G <-> Netgear GS105 (gigabit switch) <-> wired devices (disregard wireless devices for now) Two of the devices (a Win7 desktop and a NAS) are gigabit; the others (a pri...

I found out a lot of years ago that life is much easier if you set everything yourself (known as "hard-wired", or "static", this is a phrase and has nothing to do with actual hard-wires). If your router starts the "IP-pool" at .2 siumply set yours at .50, and for evey other network connection do th...

Thanks, I'll check out the event viewer. It's a vanilla d-link N router and my computer has an atheros N adapter built-in. Both are running the latest software/firmware. According to the router's log, it's re-establishing the connection with (i.e., re-assigning the same IP to) my computer when it ha...

I just bought a new PC with Windows 7 and a new wireless N router. From time to time there are network connection problems, both the type where Windows says "no internet access" (but where the wireless connection seems fine) and where there is an exclamation point over the wireless bars in the taskb...

Unfortunately it's not a 100Mbps connection; it's Wireless-G. Scanning each file will be simply too slow, even for the fastest program.

I'll check into the Syncback programs. Thanks.

I did end up moving it outside the cabinet. No problems with cooling now. Only problem is that I've got an unsightly white box sitting on the cabinet, haha.

you still haven't seen everything:

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Currently I use a backup program that works like this: I have folder A on my main hard drive and folder B on a second drive (the backup). The program compares each file in folders A and B, then updates the files in folder B if a newer version exists in folder A (and of course copies any newly-create...

Does Windows 7 still include mplayer2.exe? This is the real "classic" version of WMP (version 6.4, I think). It's still included in XP; not sure about Vista. If it's in your WMP folder in W7, you should try it out. Edit: did you upgrade to W7 at the same time as your hardware upgrade? Or had Classic...

Thanks. I figured as much--it shouldn't be too much of a PITA, but it's one more hoop to jump through (which weighs on my decision to get one).

I am thinking about getting a Sony all-in-one (link below) but I have a question for Vaio owners. I know that Sony doesn't include Windows reinstallation CDs with its systems but that you can burn them yourself from images provided on the hard drive. If anyone has done this, are the CDs that you cre...

I just set up a 2TB Western Digital My Book World Edition II on my network. It contains two WD10EACS green drives which I have configured using RAID1. A photo of the unit is here: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=588 I put some rubber feet on the wide, smooth side of the drive and...

I'd like to add another thumbs up for the mini 9. Mine was $360 shipped with the following specs: atom 1.6 processor, 1gb ram, 16gb ssd, and win xp home. It also comes with MS Works. (I didn't get the webcam, bluetooth or mobile broadband card.) Since it had norton and other junk pre-installed, I wi...

Interesting. I bought a Seagate external HD for the 5-year warranty alone, so I can attest to its importance in buying decisions. (BTW, ended up returning it b/c it crapped out right away...haha.)

I've had this drive (the Western Digital Caviar WD3200AAJB) for a while and I'm not really happy with it. The sound is too harsh. I can hide it behind my printer and it's okay, but I don't like doing that. Is there any other drive that would work better? It's the really high frequencies that are bo...

I used EAC + LAME exclusively until I also heard good things about CDEX. Turns out that CDEX + LAME works just as well for non-scratched CDs and it's much faster (at least on my drive).

I tend to think Al Gore's motives in this area are more than simply altruistic. Probably money in his pocket is the real motive. :) You can argue that a) natural cycles have led to global warming and b) Al Gore's proposals won't fix the problem at any rate, but please don't argue that Gore is doing...

And isn't most illegal filesharing done with rar files anyway?

So the funny thing is that this is more of a problem for users who, while not exactly legitimate owners of the material, are only trying to access their personal media library and not share it with the world.

Doesn't RAID 0 make the drives a little faster since there are two heads doing the work? (I know it's not technically RAID though since it's not redundant.)

Is it a result of the matrix itself or the manufacturer's tweaking to get the black levels down lower?

wtf

Two related bumper stickers:

"I love animals . . . they're delicious!"

and

"If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"

Sounds like this old "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode where someone (the Captain I think?) was trapped in a parallel universe that kept getting smaller and smaller. He had to jump through this worm hole back into the normal universe right before the parallel one shrank to nothing. That being...

D600 does not support dual channel so it should make no difference. If the 1gb was pc2700 then you would see a difference (it would be held back to pc2100), but that difference would be so small that I would prefer the extra 256m over it. Thanks--that's what I suspected when I bought the 1GB. I am ...