I'm back for folding - five machines, all C2D, folding between 10 and 24/7. Now that there's a proper service installation mode for Windows SMP clients...

Companies that manufacture small SOHO routers have no incentive to provide stable software because they don't make a single cent by providing customers with firmware updates; in fact, they lose money. They make money when you buy a new router. Which is why you should stop using the crap firmware th...

In every DIY forum, you've got the hardcore-DIY-fraction and the shell-out-money-fraction. It's not very astonishing that the DIY fraction isn't overly brand sensitive. But here, even the buying fraction is quite neutral. It looks like there's a bunch of top tier products in every category (what's t...

It's still funny how fast you get to learn a new language, at least it's basics. I work in an office where the majority of my colleagues is from Danmark, so I hear a lot of Danish throughout the day. After a few weeks, I recognized the first sentences. Now, after a few months, I can follow conversat...

Can I please have a minus-one-platter version of that drive which fits notebooks? Just imagine something like an IBM X61t tablet PC with that drive. It would be photoshopping on steroids, just imagine: a tablet PC with 120MB/s sustained disk transfer rate and <8ms access time... I'd even pay >250€...

Typo on page one: "Covers the entire entire base..."

Back in the days, I was in one of the first internet cafés in town. I went to a chatroom, because I heard that chatting is über cool (in fact, I found out quickly that it isn't). I needed a nickname, so I turned my head around and I saw an ad for maxell videotapes. Using a brand name as a nickname...

I love our new HP Officejet Pro All-in-one which prints, sends faxes, scans aond copies duplex. It's faster, cheaper and quieter than our older Color Laserjet All-in-one. And it has networking built in.

I think the difference in temperatures would be within the margin of error of any measurement you could make there. It really doesn't matter that much.

Yes, it's perfectly OK. You'll end up tucking ununsed cables under the unit, not over the unit. That's all.

Well, what do you want to do with your new computer? If you are planning to do mostly gaming and general stuff, you're better off buying an E8000 series dual core over the Q6600 quad, both performance and power consumption/noise wise. For overclocking the Q6600, the Freezer 7 Pro will not be very cl...

This Java beating makes me cry :D Ever played Far Cry? Everything apart from the core engine of this game is Java-based. In the beginning, Java's fame for being a resource hog may have been partly correct. But these days are over now. What you get with Java is true platform independence, nothing mor...

I don't have any friends, so I don't have to worry about that issue. :D :D :D Yesterday my wife replaced the old halogen spot system in the corridor with good'ol incandescent lightbulbs. Ohhh, what a relief. No more buzzing, and the lamps look so much better... Downside: I can hear our home compute...

And I'd rather live here, because the so-called western world is rotten to the bone... To the point of being racist, as shown by some replies in this thread. Filthy dirty inhumane savage foreigners, huh? Us versus them *shudder*. I have to admit, my point in what I said about the Balkans was to ins...

By the way, what Bill Cosby said is unpopular, but is a very important part of the problem. We in Germany have the same problem (on a smaller scale) with third- and second-generation immigrants.

Authority is based on fear and force. When there aren't any, there is no authority to begin with. That's exactly why people over in the States have so many issues - they cannot even raise their voices at children, because the loving and caring society around them will label it as child abuse. It's ...

Well, my parents never raised their hand on me. I'm in the mid-twenties, have a nice wife, two children, a very good job, a house, a car, an expensive hobby (well - two expensive hobbies). Does it prove anything if you exemplify? NO. It doesn't at all. When you come to the point that you have to exe...

look here:

In the USA, 750 out of 100.000 persons are in jail. In Russia, 628 out of 100.000 persons are in jail. Where's the safer place? Another number: Between 1987 and 2007, the amount spent for higher education in the US climbed by 21% In the same time, the amount spent for prisoning climbed by 127% All t...

Sure. You can't raise a child if you don't raise your hand. You seem so sure about that. Let me guess - you were also beaten by your parents. Kids don't need force , they need consequence . When you say or do something, you need to be sure and true about it, no matter if you are demanding something...

Matija wrote:Wanna know what the problem is?

You people don't beat your children.

Huh? You have to be a bit more specific about that. Do you really, I mean really think that beating children is wise?

OK, to make it more precise: The USA jails more of its people than any other country in the world , like Germany, France, the UK, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland... Maybe you prefer to be compared to these, but the numbers in the range of the former. Again, there are magnitudes which se...

The USA...

jails more of its people than the Taliban ever did.
jails more of its people than Saddam Hussein ever did.
jails more of its people than China - even in absoulute numbers.

Costs for prisoning are the fastest-growing public costs all over the US. By magnitudes.


Think about that.

Full ACK. Get rid of that drive immediately.

I've recently bought an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T61p for my brother, which is quite a nice machine, although in terms of portability I would still prefer my 14.1" 4:3 T60p - both machines offer exceptional build quality (the T60p being a slight edge better), very high speed (the T60p has a Core Duo T270...

"But how often do you see eagles walking?" Yeah, of course you're right. I would as well prefer it if they could construct an 123d/2 engine (meaning: half the power, half the consumption). Efficiency-wise, this would be the same for top power, but you simply don't need a rabbit-sized car with 204hp...

Maybe. Maybe not. Why should you? Your temperatures are fine, and your noise also should be.

In theory though, the Ninja is better in low-airflow conditions.

Gigabyte actually has a pretty neutral box design (at least it was for my 965P-DS3): Text, features, a bit of neutral graphics (an "s" in 3d). Quite OK, although not appealing. But it has been said before, mostly we buy because of the contents, not because of the box.

Thanks alot for your hints.

The other thing is, that I can't reason to myself investing more time than my lunch break for this. Setting up VMs on 5 computers definitely uses all my lunch break. VNCing the machines and installing a service is done in ten minutes. Hmpf.

The thing is, even if there's a technical solution for my problem (that you and me find acceptable), that's no practical solution. (meaning: it has to run in a way that it doesn't get into the focus of someone else than me or that it disturbs my stressed real estate agent colleagues at their work :D...