Of those living? Barak Obama

Of those dead? Atilla the Hun

GigE is handy if you move a lot of files around your LAN, or big files, or video stream. If it is only occasional moves of average (<100MB) files then 100 mbps is fine. If the price and features are close however you might as well go with a GigE router for some future proofing. --- The cable company...

Sure you can silence a crappy PSU. And when you're done you'll have a quiet crappy PSU. You generally get what you pay for. Buying a low quality PSU might save you a few bucks on the PSU but if it fails (which is more liekly with lwoer end units) it may take your video card, hard drive, motherboard,...

Assuming the wave's are in phase then a doubling of audio power (translates as volume) is a 3 dB increase. However what a person hears goes beyond the numbers. Sound waves of almost equal content and out of phase can perceptually reduce the effective level by canceling out the sound waves from anoth...

As an acquaintance said the other day "damnit protect me from our governemnt! I'll take my chances with the terrorists, shoplifters and the the like"

Time to elevate George Orwell to the status of Prophet.

Kinesis.com make a couple that may be suitable.

I have a PCP&C Silencer 750 in my workstation. At anything under full load for a good bit of time it is fairly quiet but by no means silent. 90% of the time however I cannot hear the PSU fan over the blower on my HD4870 (fan set to 30%) which is fairly quiet when under the desk (faint whoosing)

It's not just the airflow volume but its path. It is possible that by blowing air horizontally below the card, and hence below the S1 and it's fans, you are starwing the two Nexus of some of that airflow which effectively reduces the air the push through the S1. Out of curiousity, what happens to th...

I use Fellows screen protectors on my Palm PDA and trimmed slightly to fit my Fuji digital camera. I get them at Staples (Business Depot). I've never seen one for a laptop screen though that's not to say they don't exist.

ooooooo the chicklet keyboard model!

The hard part is finding that many bays in a matx mobo case. There are some matx cases with a multitude of drive bays but they are 3.5" not 5.25" and less than the 10 desired.

Plenty of Linux boxes crashed and froze. Damn Micro$oft, secretly inserting leap second bugs into Linux distros!!!!!!! Interesting definition of "plenty". Might also read some of the replies pointing out the liekly actual problem sources. For the record, our entire server farm and workstations (all...

They did tell you, neither one.

If you want to mount the HR-01 series onto Socket F Opteron, you need to buy 939 Bolt thru kit.

Emphasis mine

Colour shift problems with digital photography are usually a problem with the colour balance setting or the image sensor, not the storage media.

It's not silent by any means but it is quite quiet and usually not really noticeably above ambient noise level except late at night. The video card's stock cooler (Palit 4870) is louder than the case fans. The main case fans are controlled by the motherboard's fan control. The cpu fan is on a manual...

I did a similar replacement when I got my P182. My replacements were all 120mm Scythe Slipstreams rear: 800rpm top: 800rpm front: 1200rpm bottom: 1200rpm HR01: 800rpm (only running if I overclock more than 20% - QX9650) Noctua's should work equally well. You mention 2 front intakes - are you plannin...

A year and a half old and obsolete? Hardly.

Best value I've found is th $25 map and compass course taught by local Ground Search and rescue, a few $2 roadmaps and a $20 compass. Works anywhere, never runs out of batteries and in a pinch can be used to start a fire

Apparently it is a problem independant of OS. A thread at the forums over at Ars Technica indicated the wdidle.exe wasn't that effective.


http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/for ... 1009715931

I've never found Seagate particularly loud, but different folks have different noise and noise type tolerances. If you want a particularly quiet Seagate (and afaik will retain the 5 yr warranty even for OEM drives) try one of the ES.2 series drives designed for enterprise RAID use. Everyone has diff...

Nice build. I wanted to build my new workstation using one of these but I couln't find anyone in Canada that carried them and the cost to bring one in was too expensive.

I got a couple of packs in August when I did my new build. NCIX.com / ncixus.com had a good price on them then.

You might want to check out VirtualBox.

VirtualPC DID run on linux, and OSX until Microsoft bought the company and gutted the software.

There is always eBay, craigslist. Check with a local recycler of electronics?

While I laud and agree with the ideals that founded Greenpeace their actions have voided any credibility they may have had as far as I'm concerned.

I think 775 will be around a while yet. Intel just finished announcing new low power quads (another thread here) that would be ideal for passive cooling.

Doesn't have to be a light distro either - especially on P3 systems. I have Slackware and Debian running on K6-2 and K6-III+ machines without any problems. Most people, even those that promote recycling forget the "Reuse" part of the three R mantra especially when it comes to computers and other ele...

I suggest that people look up the definitions of communism (a political system based on changing governments by radical means. Socialism on the other hand is an economic system, the same way that capitalism is an economic system. Far too many people equate the latter with the former simply because t...

I usually pop into Staples or local business supply store. I can usually get screen protectors made by Fellows for reasonable price. I have a Palm and the protectors for it usually fit most other things with a little bit of trimming. Larger smartphones and things like the iPod Touch might need somet...

The 1200's are noticeably louder than the 800's but not oppressively so (for my setup anyway). When the house is at it's quietest there is a low hum from the case when placed under the edge of the desk. Most of the time it is at or below the ambient sound levels. Noise generation in the system: 2 80...