I'm trying to figure out if it's compatiable to play a game because I wanted to hook it up for my mom ( Read more... )

I just bought 2 750 GB WD hard drives for a RAID 5 array. My problem is that the two new drives are WD7500AACS hard drives. 750GB 3.0 Gb Sata 16MB , BUT they're 5400 to 7200rpm. My third drive for the array is a WD 750GB WD7500AAKS, which is 3.0 Gb Sata, 16MB, BUT it's 7200rpm only ( Read more... )

Background: My company is considering purchase of NTP servers made by Symmetricom. I'm a senior engineer and part of the evaluation team for the product. I thought I'd share this, just to see what other geeks think.

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I wrote the following in the comments box this morning. We'll see if I get a reply...

As a network security engineer, I'm amazed that Monster would be so foolish as to store clear text passwords in its database. There's absolutely no reason or excuse for doing that ( Read more... )

Does anyone know where to buy raw heat pipes?
2-3mm 80-150m long screen/mesh wick materials.

Does anybody know of a good RSS reader that I can host myself (standard LAMP stack available, except the "L" is "FreeBSD")? I'm not particularly thrilled with the desktop RSS readers--except for Firefox itself, but it doesn't handle image-based feeds well--and I have no interest in going the Google Reader route. Searching for "self-host RSS ( Read more... )

I am taking part in a trivia challenge and we can use any (legal) means to get answers, so I thought I would post here the ones I have not yet gotten ( Read more... )

Anybody else pre-order the new Dark Knight collectible soundtrack they're putting out Dec. 9th? I saw it at www.darkknightscore.com, and it's 18 bucks cheaper if you pre-order it. They put 50 minutes of extra music on, as well as remixes with Crystal Method.

So with Eric E. Schmidt being an adviser to Obama do you think the new administration will be run using the 70/20/10 model? I wonder what Obama's personal project will be?

Hey, do any of you know of any free software to permanently remove files from your computer? All the files that I empty from my recycle bin are still somewhere on my computer and now I have no space. I need to find out how to remove these. Thanks!