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Before anyone says anything: yes, I realize how ridiculous of a request this is. Trust me, I don't want to be looking for something like this either. But it's not for me, it's for a faculty member, and if any of you work in academia, you know that tenured faculty will not budge one bit when they...

I'm wanting to put together a new ESXi server (my first, actually), to just run some simple VMs to provide services for myself and my roommates (AirVideo for their iPads, Subsonic for music/movies for my Android stuff, an XBMC database/updater VM, etc.), so I'm probably going to go for...

This is for local pickup in the greater San Diego area only. I really don't want to deal with having to ship this. Sorry. Specs: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4ghz RAM: 4GB DDR3 PC-8500 1066mhz Graphics: Switchable between Intel GMA 4500MHD and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 (256MB) Hard...

Hello all. I've been doing as much google research as possible on this issue, but I haven't been able to find much. We've got a faculty member here with a Dell Precision T7400 workstation, who does work on large data sets. He purchased a 3TB Hitachi drive to use as storage for these data sets...

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My setup: File Server running Server 2008 R2 with VMWare Workstation. VM #1: Windows Home server, used to be my primary file server- down to just 6x 1TB and 2x 640gb drives housing my data while I switch over to... VM #2: FreeBSD 8.1, setup according to sub.mesa's excellent guides. Given 2...

This one is making me tear my hair out. So I decided to switch over to OpenIndiana running ZFS, and have been removing my 4x 1.5tb drives out of WHS to create an initial ZFS pool, and then transfer the data from the WHS over. WHS is running in a VM on VMWare, with all the drives passed through...

Alright, so, over the past few days, I've had this happen a few times. To start, here's my setup: Onboard 6 port Intel controller: 1x 750gb 4x 1.5TB Onboard J-Micron 2 port controller: 2x 640gb Highpoint RocketRAID 4 port PCIE controller: 4x 1TB Some random generic Silicon Image 3112 SATA1...

Alright, so I've got a fairly ancient Aopen MicroATX case with this PSU in it currently: http://www.directron.com/fsp20060sav.html Right now it's running a very old, and very, VERY flaky Celeron 400 system that I frankly don't use. Normally I don't mind tossing out parts, but there's something...

My basic setup is: Computer #1 on firewall'd LAN #1, Windows Computer #2 on firewall'd LAN #2, Windows SSH Server on publicly accessible network, Linux Computer #1 and #2 can both SSH to the SSH Server, but cannot connect to each other. I can't change any of the firewall settings for...

So a Mac-using friend of mine has an old Sonnet Tempo PCI card, with 2x SATA150 ports on it. I'm probably going to need a few more ports soon, but my file server is a PC running WHS. So I was curious: can I plug an SATA controller designed for OS X into a PC and have it work? I know it doesn't...

This is going to be long, as calendars are overly complex and hurt my brain and I hate them. Okay, so I've been designing a scheduling web application for my work, and it's been running at a basic level in production for a few months now without many problems. It's pretty simple, a calendar...

Okay, so, here's the context: My parents get a good 6-7 telemarketer calls a day, despite being on the Do Not Call list. They pretty much just never answer the phone anymore, and let it go right to their answering machine to screen the call. They aren't the most technologically savvy of...

So I finally got a copy of Windows 7 Professional x86 after waiting a week for my school's MSDNAA to pick it up, and last night I installed it on my HTPC, which was running Windows Vista Ultimate x86 before. I used the Easy Transfer App to keep the basic settings for laziness purposes, but...

So now that my second Seagate 320gb 7200rpm 2.5" drive has started developing a few bad clusters a week and dying a month after getting it, I've decided to just RMA this thing one last time, sell the replacement, and buy a different brand because I'm tired of this. I remember reading that out...

I'm trying to find a free program capable of doing audio recording from a mic in Vista from the command line. So far, I can't seem to find any that are Windows based. I was wondering if anyone knew of any?

I've got a file server running 3x 1tb hard drives, no raid or anything, just straight up plugged in. I'd like to start backing up various files on it. Obviously getting 3x more 1tb drives to do a straight 1:1 backup is out of the picture, as I don't even need to backup all 3tb in the first...

Currently right now I've got a Shuttle XPC desktop and a very old, beat up, but reliable Dell Latitude C600. The C600 has been an awesome laptop and has worked splendidly with Linux for the past four years I've had it, but it is really starting to show its age speed wise, plus I haven't been as...

My HTPC is running Linux and I'd really, really like to get an IR Receiver hooked up to it so that I can control it using my TV's remote, which is actually a pretty decent Samsung universal remote. The thing is it seems like all the USB IR Receivers I can find online are like $50 or higher...

I ordered an E8400 a few weeks ago and was running it at stock speeds, when my PC started to crash about a week afterwards. I had to lower the clock speed to get it stable, which worked for a few days until it started crashing again, which made me lower the speed again, until it crashed a few...

I've been wondering if anyone knows of any registry edits or third party tools to enable a selective power management for hard drives; I know you can change the power settings to turn off all drives after X amount of minutes, but ideally I'm looking for a way to have that enabled for two drives...

Ok, this is an issue I've had for a LONG time through multiple computers and multiple reformats and it is finally pissing me off enough to try and figure it out. It seems to be XP specific, in that the brief time I used Vista I didn't have this problem. The problem is, it's a bit hard to...

I've been looking around for a nice, cheap dual link DVI cable. The best I can find is http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=314960. Newegg also has one (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16812189047), but the crazy shipping charges + tax put it higher than...

I was wondering if anyone had the specs for the 6pin PCI Express power cable. I just got an eVGA 7800 GT, and it didn't come with a 6pin power cable. I'm currently at a LAN and, although most 3d games run, they run really poorly with the downclocked core/mem speeds as a result. Because of this...

http://paintedover.com/uploads/show.php?loc=27&f=img_1059.jpg The results of my desk collapsing. Dell won't cover it. Time to rape my bank account yet again.

I just recently moved from home to college, and had told myself I'd install my Montego once I got here, and had my Z-5500's hooked up. Well, low and behold, I brought the card but forgot the drivers cd for it, and for the life of me, I can't find drivers online to download. I was wondering if...

I've been setting up a computer for a friend's brother out of older parts myself and my friend had, and got around to installing BF2 to test out the system a bit. Specs are: Celeron 2.0ghz o/c'd to 2.66ghz 1gb (1x 512mb, 2x 256mb) RAM Radeon 9700 NP 128mb Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra mobo WD...

I recently popped my AV-710 into my new Shuttle SN95G5 a while back to get rid of the onboard sound with the latest drivers (451c). Since I was using headphones, I turned on high sample rate and verified that it worked. However, EVERY single sound, if the volume is up even somewhat high, gives...

I had the rear right speaker on my Z-5500's go out the other day, so I called Logitech for a replacement one. I was expecting the usual- I send them the speaker, they send me a replacement, takes a good month and a half, the usual. I go through the process with the guy on the other end, and...

2x SCSI 68pin LVD 2-Drive (3-Connectors) Cables Again, I need these for my new server. I've got 4 SCSI HDDs I plan to run and two onboard SCSI ports, so I figured I might as well split them up. Each cable has to have at least 3 connectors, one for the motherboard and two for devices...

Welcome to my humble little FS/T thread. Non-free email: [email protected] Heatware: mpeg4v3 eBay: yufi I live in San Diego, area code 92115. All items below are available for local pickup. All items are OBO as well! If you give me an offer and I think it's good enough, I will sell...

I'm looking to get a couple SCSI accessories, namely some 68-pin LVD cables, and some 80pin->68pin adapters, along with possibly a 3-in-2 enclosure for 80pin drives, but I'm not really sure of good web sites to purchase SCSI stuff from. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Welcome to my humble little FS/T thread. Non-free email: [email protected] Heatware: mpeg4v3 eBay: yufi I live in San Diego, area code 92115. All items below are available for local pickup. Additionally, all of next week I will be in Lodi, California, area code 95242, if you'd want to...

I bought 5x Refurbed Seagate 200gb PATA drives off NewEgg, and they should arrive within the next few days. They're going to be going into an 8-drive RAID5 array (I've got the other 3 disks already, bought those new), and I don't want it to fail prematurely. I bought this full well knowing that...

Lately I've been looking into getting 5 more Seagate 200gb PATA drives and adding them to my current 3 in a nice little 8 disk RAID5 array using a 3ware Escalade 7500-8... but I remember getting each of the first 3 at $100 or so, and now prices have risen up to $120? And it seems like that for...

So in my ever-on-going adventures to acquire an actual 7506-8, I bought another one off eBay after my other "supposed" 7506-8 turned out to be a 7810 and I had to return it. So This one arrives and it's a 7500-8. Don't I just have all the luck in receiving hardware that isn't what I actually...

I've currently got a router setup with a 10/100 card as the external NIC, and an Intel 10/100/1000 card as the internal NIC, and am running a pure Gigabit network (through a Dell Powerconnect 2608). Yes, I know, without jumbo frames the performance won't be nearly as good, but I got all of the...

So I recently acquired a nice Tyan Thunder 2500 to run my dual P3 1ghz cpus on. The only problem is that it's really picky about RAM. I bought 2x Micron PC100 512mb CL2 sticks off of ebay thinking "oh, they're Micron, I'm sure they can run at PC133 CL3", but the Thunder 2500 has STRICT adherence...

So I bought these two sticks off of ebay for a server I'm working on. I put them in, and the computer doesn't boot. Gives me a beep code saying incompatible memory. So I put the jumper for the CPUs down to 100mhz and then I get a beep code about something to do with the CPUs.... so I've pretty...

So I just got my SN95G5, 3200+, and 1gb of corsair valueselect (I don't plan to do much o/c'ing) in, and got it all installed and working. First time plugging the power in and the system immediately started up, I didn't even have to press the power button, so at first I didn't notice anything...