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I don't speak russian at all, my wife does and hopefully my newborn son will someday also. This is for the family media center. I'd rather have the letters built in than use decals which can wear off. Looks like wasdkeyboards might be a promising bet to make a custom keyboard with this layout.

It seems like almost every mechanical keyboard vendor only ships keyboards with english or blank keys. Does anyone know where I might be able to find one with english and russian key caps? Thanks!

The powerful command line is one of the primary reasons I use UNIX. What a stupid question.

Does anyone have any recommendations for wireless mice used for gaming? I want to look into a wireless keyboard and mouse for my htpc setup. I've used wireless in the past and have had problems with lag and range. I'm looking for something with virtually no lag, good range, and long battery...

Has anyone found a good usb flash drive thats really durable and won't break? I like to keep one on my keychain so it gets a lot of friction and abuse. Anything with a cap is out because caps easily wear out then fall off and get lost. I had a corsair drive before, one of the ones with the...

What kind of cpu fan do you have? Is it a normal upward facing stock fan? Or is it one that faces one of the 4 horizontal directions? (horizontal in the sense that the case is laying on its side, motherboard parallel to the table). If its a horizontal facing fan, try it in each of the 4...

very nice, its about time these started becoming more common.

I was a little skeptical about how much of a difference it made but curious. I've always wanted a keyboard with blank keys so I went and ordered the Flico Otaku with Chery MX browns. Already I can tell the difference over the standard mushy keys and it's not some stupid placebo effect to justify...

here are some ideas http://cableorganizer.com/cable-clips/

I'll vouch for cavediver and his bracket. Worked out great for me.

I've been using an lsi sas hba and the chenbro sas expander with freebsd/zfs for a while. I've never been happier with another raid implementation. zfs has a ton of nice features and it's so simple to use. mdadm, lvm, and a filesystem with linux is just clumsy and annoying. With snapshots and...

Looks nice, but I've already got 24 bays! http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1441861

Spend some money buying components to fit them into rackmount cases and put them in my rack. Then I never power them on again. At least I only have a half height rack so when it gets full I know its time to throw something away. Usually I only try to sell spare parts if I'm really sure I don't...

Thats true I didn't think about optical drives. I've had a few of those fail. Especially when I used to play CD intensive games like Baldur's Gate way back in the day before knowing I could just copy the content to disk. I've since sworn off physical media entirely. I have one usb floppy and a...

Of all your history of building and dealing with computers, what component has failed the most for you? For me hands down its motherboards. Most computers I've owned I've gone through at least 2 sets of motherboards before upgrading the entire machine. Most of them just seem so cheaply made...

if you want to maximize space and still have redundancy you could go 9 in raidz2 and one hotspare. Keep in mind that 9 drives in one raid configuration is the maximum recommended by the zfs admin guide. If you go lower you may see somewhat better performance. Depending on your usage this may or...

I'm looking for a cheap replacement for my old socket 939 motherboard. Needs to have the following features: at least 1 pci-e x16 slot for a nvidia 7000 series graphics card Support 4gbs of ddr memory at least 2 internal usb headers at least 1 internal firewire header at least 1 gigabit NIC...

I've got an old ABIT KN-8 Socket 939 motherboard with an Athlon X2 in it. I put it in an old 2u rackmount case and went and ordered a 2u psu from ebay for it. It's an istar 460W psu. Now I hook everything up, plug in the connector and the motherboard leds come on. Hit the power switch...

That may be slightly different. Have people had the same problems with the 4020? Mines the 4220 Looking at the RL-26's, I'm thinking its possible the RL-20's could be made to work if mounted internally. The main part of the rail has to be inside the rack because its just barely too wide. There...

With what case?

I looked on Norco's site today and now they have the RL-20 rails listed as compatible with the 4220 case. Has anyone tried these rails? Way back when I got my Norco I got the RL-26 rails and like just about everyone else's experience, it was too wide for my rack and couldn't be used. I'm...

I was just about to say what the above poster said. You really gotta consider those power supply fans. They are are non standard and can't be replaced easily. It's probably bad for the power supplies to do lower the airflow anyway. I had the 24 port version of this and finally decided to sell it...

It might be the device itself that has problems. Return it and try a different one maybe.

it's a good card, if I needed one like that I'd grab it.

Bastards..

What you want is video and audio encoding. This will compress the video and audio streams. Encode the video using the x264 codec, unless all your computers are really old and slow then you may need to use the xvid codec instead. Xvid doesn't compress as well and isn't as good of quality but it...

I think you can probably safely say its yours and do what you want with it.

I was very happy to see 12 ports too. I have 10 drive bays to use for the backup disks. If it was just an 8 port card id have to use 2 of the onboard SATA ports which would just have been so not cool :)

I was looking for a SAS or SATA card to setup my backup server. Unfortunatly FreeBSD does not support the marvell sata driver so that nice cheap $100 8 port supermicro pci-x card will not work. I was browsing ebay and grabbed this for $50. It uses the lsi 1068 chip and it has a built in sas...

I'm using cavediver's fan plate with a 4220 and it works just fine. Routing cables around it is a little tougher because its bigger than the original fan board.

Why can't you use remote desktop? Another solution could be to just get a hardware raid card, run windows 7, and just use the machine directly as your HTPC media center. If the purpose is just storage for watching videos and stuff then all you really need from WHS is raid. If you only care...

Folks I don't think the new b0 version of the chenbro expander supports sas2 6.0 gbs. There is a users manual here for the b0 (the one dated 2009-09-01) http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/service_download_result.php?type=pro&mk=123&sk=

I used to use a logitech harmony and it worked fine. However I use the audio receiver with my logitech Z5500 surround speakers to control the volume. I just keep the pc internal volume on max.

If you don't want to mod it you could just get a usb IR receiver and let it sit ontop of the case. I have an IMON receiver/lcd with my media center pc case. It goes into a 5.25 slot but the actual board can be taken out and mounted elsewhere. The thermaltake case it was meant to be used with...

Usually what you want is air coming in from the front and out the back. If you are unsure then test it. Place you fans and run prime95 and coretemp and see which placements give the best results.

I'll second the cogage, its worked great for me and its not too expensive either.

etrenank Almost all of my servers and boxes at home and at work are named after things from Xenogears. Usually either parts of the Deus system or Solaris.

I made one once using a dremel. I had a 1u rackmount case so the standard I/O shield was too big and wouldn't fit. I just used a drill and metal cutting wheels. For the material I just had a metal top cover of an old rackmount case. Cutting all the holes properly is tricky, espesially if you...

That enclosure uses sata port multipliers which are not supported in opensolaris or freebsd. So he wouldn't be able to use ZFS with that. If you are going with an external enclosure I would recommend a SAS enclosure. If you're staying with one case then either do internal SAS or direct connect...

Thats beautiful, although in some racks getting to the backside drives would be a pain.