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Mowed over, my ass, that was a tractor with a flail deck! Just walking along, minding my own business and Wham! +140 mower goes by and over... Who woke up ChelseaOilman? Oh, the brutality! :D

The days of "The Man" easily finding stuff on your storage devices are on the way out. This rather interesting post on the Internet Storm Center blog details why lifting legal-grade evidence from solid-state drives is driving forensic experts batty. One example given: fill a SSD with data...

As seen here (http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037597555&postcount=84), I've been nudged to get back into active duty with the [H]orde. Given the mixed bag of machinery, what can be done with each to maximize their potential without making them unreliable for their primary tasks? Phenom II...

After a day of frustrating the spouse while shopping, I turn to you opinionated bunch here on the [H] for a few game pointers. :D The company dropped a bonus check on me, to the tune of almost two weeks pay(!), and now it's time to do something with it before I come to my senses and use it for...

OK, I've been looking about and can't find a RELIABLE current generation power supply to keep a MP system alive for any decent length of time. Let's call this time frame six months or longer. It seems that the MP boards need a whopping amount of +5V; AMD recommends 30 amp, MSI calls for 35 amp...

I thought I was seeing a rebound in my PPD, thanks to the return of the "black bead" Gromacs work units (can't recall the point value, something like 364?). My little home farm was *finally* showing higher than 1500 points per day predicted by EM3. Life was good. :) Then, this thing...

From this thread (and "Thanks!", BillR, for yet another threat to my fiscal sanity), comes the question that bothers me: When do you call it quits on a Farm unit and toss it aside? The vast majority of these "Space Heaters for 'Fords" in my basement are doling out 4, 5 and even 6 PPH on...

They seem to be in English, but for some reason, they don't make much sense. I upgraded my firewall boxen very recently so I could run a full Gigabit network between machines. Unfortunately, the upgrade borked my FAH startup sequence, and from reading the online stuff, I can't just place it...

OK, before we go any further, I have read and ground through both the Sysprep sticky here on the [H] Forum, and Hat Monster 's "Clean it and Restart it!" article on Ars Technica. Neither one can get me through to running this XP Home SP2 system on it's new hardware, a X2 4400+ / Asus A8N-SLI...

When Unca Fed tries to jump onto the bandwagon, you get the feeling something's on the way... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301667.html?nav=hcmodule Wonder how much of the enthusiasm is caused by little projects like, say, UD and FAH? Hmmm? ;)

Boss dropped a machine on my desk, said it was having some issues with the hard drive (corrupted Quickbooks files). He asked me to take a look at it and see what was going on. Popped it open, started poking around inside to see how the thing is built, and broke out laughing. The boss had...

Y'know, you people are a bad influence... :p Despite the bills, I just can't seem to stop Folding. "Let 'em run just one more day, just let it finish that work unit and shut it down." For one reason or another, I kept forgetting to kill them. Four machines are offline, *but* two others...

Tiger Direct has the Ultra X-Connect modular PSU for $29.97 after $30 rebate, $59.97 at time of purchase. "TigerDirect rebate suckage yawn yawn yawn" - threadcrap checklist item completed. Yeah, the link would be nice... :)

Quick 'n dirty, I need the logic board from a 30g 7200rpm Maxtor drive, to see if I can recover the data from one that fried alive in a PSU disaster. Maxtor model 5T030H3, logic board 04A (DiamondMax Plus 60, 30gb 7200rpm) If you have one, LMK what oddball words you see in the lower right...

Opened the utility bill Saturday. Took until Sunday for the shock to settle in. Same KW/h used as last August, almost dead on (3392 vs. 3362). The total cost doubled. DOUBLED. Last year was $215. Do the math. :eek: Basic rate charge: $92.20 Fuel purchase surcharge: $302.61 I'm...

OK, after all the waiting, snarling at Gigabyte, more waiting and such, I've got about two weeks of output from my X2 4400+ / Ultra-939 combo. It is REALLY nice seeing the ~2500 PPW this critter throws down, and the buttery smoothness of dual CPU response, but there's a little nagging problem...

Sorry, I'm just astonished at what's coming down for my daily points count. :eek: I have to assume that all the machines decided to dump on this date, and according to EM3, it ain't over quite yet. At any rate, personal best for FAH can be seen here. Look at the daily total for 7/12, and as...

OK, so maybe I've got irritable tech syndrome, but this is getting aggravating. :mad: Where the Hades is my BIOS update? Its going on six weeks now since the release of X2 processors, and what? If you look around the websites of the mobo mfgrs, all you see are updated BIOS for the Nforce 4...

Memorial Day is almost over, and around these parts, we call that the beginning of summer. From now on, every Friday from 2PM on to Sunday night after 9PM, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is jammed to the guardrails with LMSCs (*) trying to get through to Ocean City / Rehobeth Beach. US 50 is a...

For those who need a cheap USB keydrive for the farm http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820211202 Sale ends today, saw it yesterday but it went out of stock fast. Link is good again today.

OK, this is Getting Weird in a hurry. The machine is a Asus K8S-MX (SIS760GX) paired with a A64 2800+, 512meg DDR. It has always been a touch on the flaky side due to driver issues (don't load the AGP driver when using the onboard VGA, for instance), but up until this current WU, the...

I'll be pulling over to the right-hand lane, Marty9876 just popped over the hill... :eek: ..and note with a twinge of regret that I've passed BrianTurmelle :( (c'mon, buddy, keep trying!) Once the dust storm from Logikality's pass subsides, I'll be sitting in that odd-numbered seat again...

$50 bucks off NewEgg's price.

Checking over the garden, I found this running on the A64 machine: p1135_RIBO_FSpeptide_HEL, 82 day deadline. 600 points! :eek: FAHCore_78 currently holding 108 meg of memory to itself, so 256 meg machines need not apply if you're running XP.

Some classic chop being performed (and "infinite bandwidth" being killed) at the Subaru Impreza forum: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=673824&page=1&pp=25 Page 5 is where I lost it, Republicans will know why! :D

Anyone else wondering just how much power they've lost lately? With the retirement of my Slot-A Athlon, I no longer have a sub-gHz machine in my little crabgrass Folding plot. Sure, the firewall is running a gutless 667mhz Celeron, but I consider it to be doing it's full job if I can read...

Ran into something strange today on a new build. Buddy of mine went whole-hog on a new system based on the MSI K8N Neo Platinum; dual Raptor RAID w/ addn. SATA 250G storage, 9600XT AIW and 2 gig of PQI Turbo DDR400 (PC3200). Everything looked good on the "Smoke Check", except the RAM count was...

For our moderator: I have no idea where to post this. It's AMD specific, but it's also SMP, but I'll toss it up in here since it ends up being AMD all the way. I've got a small dilemma. I want the max bang for the buck, but the availability of bucks is at a premium. I love the subjective...

When you suffer a power outage, go down in the basement to check the breakers, and realize it is unbelievably quiet down there. :eek: When you realize that involved doodle on your notepad is a workable way to use the heat output of the Farm to preheat the intake air for the clothes dryer...

Some dually goodness! :D MSI K7D-Master L dual Athlon MP, refurb, $129. Wish I had the cash, but other things have killed the budget big-time. Have purchased a few items through TCWO, never had a bad deal.

Seen at Best Buy, 80mm clear case BB fans, $7.99 - $5 "Instant Rebate".

I'm not in the habit of naming boxen for anything else than what's in 'em, such as "Screamer" (for the howling CPU fan), the "Spaz" twins (0.1 release boards that won't run AGP cards in a stable manner), or "Colossus" (honking tall server tower case). I broke that with "Two Petes", named in...

This is a fun one! Customer machine was cleaned of spyware and the Sasser virus. During the process (I wasn't here, but I've got the leash on this dog now :( ), the dratted thing will now IMMEDIATELY reboot after passing the login screen, both in Safe Mode and normal. Have tried variations...

OK, got a little adventurous and tried one of the new Applebred core Duron 1800s in my Tyan S2466-4M dually. I'd connected the #3 L5 trace as depicted on numerous guides, but it seems to have no effect. I tried first by running a conductive trace between the dots, then filling the pit in the...

Haven't seen this one, Shuttle's website hasn't been much help so far, maybe a [H]ard soul can get 'er done. The board is a Shuttle HOT 661v11, a 440BX-based Slot 1 that we're trying to upgrade and use for a Linux server. As dug up from the scrap heap, it has a Celeron 300A (yes, THAT...

I was looking at my production this morning, trying to see where the loss of WU might be coming from. On seeing the "UNK" for point values in EM III, I thought it was time to update the protein file and see if I'd got one for the Weatherman. To my annoyance, the website www.em-dc.com...

OK, got off my dead ass long enough to get my W/C project going (long, ultimately boring story elided). I'm getting ready to install the pump, and remembered stories of these things leaking around the impeller housing, rattling under load, etc. Before I JB-Weld this beggar shut, should I...