I'm putting together a Fractal build with an SSD and 4 SATA HD. Since the HD mount on their sides bottom out, the cable orientation fluctuates. One HD is power-plug-side down, the next is power-plug-side up. Anyone know of a PSU cable with 4 SATA power plugs with enough distance between plugs to acc...
One other feature (though it's entirely separate from Virtualbox) of VirtualBox is Vagrant. At the simplest definition, it's a CLI wrapper around vboxmanage commands. For example: vagrant init precise64 vagrant up vagrant ssh Those three lines will create a Ubuntu 12.04 VM (the exact label of the fi...
Pingdom covers this pretty well, with checks from many geographies. Free accounts cover the basic use case well. Tie it in with Pager Duty to handle oncall schedules/escalations. If you need more than just 'is it up', the real user monitoring can log in and perform actions. More than that and you ar...
TV audio is going through the TV speakers (!) and computer audio is going through a 15-year old Yamaha receiver to 2 Klipsch ProMedia's (the sub/amp went wonky when I moved...last year). Needless to say, I've been shopping for a new setup, for over a year now. Every time I decide to pull the trigger...
I know it's a huge amount of work but if we're wishlisting....a searchable, rated database of reviews. Not just a Google or index search. I'd like to see all reviews on topic X, and compare products against each other, **even if not in the same review. Like the charts at SmallNetBuilder. Use case: I...
There's a thread on Anandtech about 340 pages long full of reviews and recommendation on LCD's. If you have a couple days to read it, google for Anand LCD Buyer's Guide. The initial page used to be basic recommendations but it's been stale for a few years now. If you have more important things to do...
There's a helpful tool if you use Steam, http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover. It doesn't move the Steam installation, it creates reparse points for the individual games on whatever drives you choose. It worked for me.
It's a big deal. Your icons get rearranged, you have to remember that the taskbar is on the other display now, and worst of all, it's simple enough to prevent, i.e. we shouldn't have to put up with this. It is, but if you're just changing it for games, then back when you're done, it doesn't seem to...
I think similarly. Grips/seat/shorts on my bike. Keyboard/mouse/monitor on the computer. $740 for the 27" + $250 for a new card is a bit of a spoil. Versus $200 to add another 22" or maybe $300 for a 24" when I find a deal. I currently have a 19" 4:3 1280x1024 at each side of the...
I have a 4850 that works well on my 22" 1680x1050 LCD. I've been wanting to upgrade to a 24" but am tempted by the 27" and 30" Dell's on sale now. Since the GPU is a couple years old, I haven't seen it benched against current games like MOH & COD. Is anyone playing recent gam...
Gigabyte p35 ds3's onboard Realtek. It's the first time I've used onboard audio and it's not bad to my admittedly damaged ears. A Xonar card has been on the list, waiting to find an awesome deal. Speakers are old but wonderful Klipsch ProMedia's. Unfortunately the rear channel blew on the amp some t...
Sweet baby jesus, I think this is fixed. Installing Visual Studio (or SQL Server Studio, in my case) changes the version of a DLL. Through the magic of this post -- http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=107672&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear -- I found an MS...
Does ATI even offer tech support any more? support.amd.com has no useful links for contacting TS. Half the pages look thrown together or go to dead Sharepoint links. I submitted a detailed report which was rejected with: subject AMD Service notice: Email Blocked hide details Sep 24 (5 days ago) This...
Well, Catalyst doesn't appears in Revo or Add/Remove, and the setup routine will always crash. I submitted a long, detailed report to ATI support and the response I received said my submission was deleted because my email address was not matched. Both monitors are connected via DVI. Neither monitor ...
Last fall I purchased a Radeon 4850 and have had continual problems with the drivers. I was replacing an nVidia card. I removed all the older drivers with a driver cleaner, searched the registry, files, everything. The ATI driver setup would continually crash. After many attempts, the driver finally...
I use Mozy. $5/month for unlimited space. I've pushed up over 100GB. The quick restore testing I did was fine, though obviously downloading many GB will be slow with any online restore. The software works alright and is unobtrusive. I use MozyPro for cheap offsite for one client, and that offers mor...
Current phone: Verizon LG 8300 - plain flip, no media or data packages. I text and play Mahjong. I'm considering the HTC Touch Pro on AT&T - reasons being 1) Mobile browsing 2) Better PIM 3) Data sync (especially w/ Outlook) 4) OneNote mobile (haven't used it but I use OneNote heavily on my PC) ...
I personally am currently working with nLite to make an ultra-minimal XP install specifically for this type of scenario. I'm actually surprised how much of XP I can turn off without impacting gaming performance and ability. I've got an ultra-minimal 2K install that I ginned up for these purposes qu...
I still can't get FC2 to run. Vista x64, Q6600, 4GB RAM, Gigabyte P35, Radeon 4850 w/ 8.10 driver & FC2 hotfix. When launched from Steam or shortcut, the splash screens show. After the on-fire fc2 logo, the screen goes black. I can hear the sounds as I move the arrows among the menu options. If ...
I logged into my PC from work to kick off the Steam download so it'd be ready when I got home tonight. Last night I updated the ATI drivers & applied the FC2 hotfix. Launch the game, see the burning FC2 logo, hit enter....blackness. The music continues, I can hear the sounds when I move the curs...
