Interesting. Even though I set up my Vista boxes with the 'super admin' privileges, I have also had install ordeals that left behind Windows.00x directories. I had never noticed the correlation between attempted delete prior to calling the super admin privileges. I think you're onto something. In th...

This drive would make a lot more sense, even at a much higher price, if it handled Blu-ray. That's a capacity many computers presently lack, and this would be an elegant patch for those machines. As it is, it's pretty, it's nifty, and it's got no use that I can imagine. I do have to ask: Would this ...

Have you turned on the 'secret' administrator privileges? If no, click the start button, type "cmd" (without quotes) to bring up the command icon. When that shows up on the list, right click it and run as administrator. When the cmd window appears type “net user administrator /active:yesâ€

My J&W 780 Minix wouldn't boot off of the 120 Pico and the bundled brick. That was with a single notebook HDD and no optical drive (the optical was in an external encl with it's own brick) With the 120 brick, I'm running 2 notebook drives and running the optical as an internal device. I haven't hear...

Right now, I'm playing with J&W's 780 Mini ITX http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=MINIX780G-SP128M&cm_mmc=GoogleProducts-_-Motherboards-_-AM2+Motherboards-_-MINIX780G-SP128M&zmam=2003677&zmas=15&zmac=159&zmap=MINIX780G-SP128M I'm running it, an AMD 4850e, 2 2.5 HDD's, 2 GB RAM and an LG 'Super ...

If you can find them, the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 are very nice. They're a little on the pricey side for computer speakers (+/- $170), but mine are the best sounding thing I have ever heard that connects with an 1/8" stereo jack. I'll buy at the end of the year (or before) a set of speakers 2.1 to my r...

Hi, Way to go, Dubya! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/washington/21gitmo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin He will soon be gone. RIP. Hopefully the conservative 'philosophy' that brought the shrub to a regime level is equally dead. It's not a good day in America. Conservatism, as a political philosophy, has ...

There is no surprise here. American conservatism has devolved from a political philosophy to a mental illness. Caribou Barbie goes all in on 'family values' and wingnut hearts go a pitter-pat. We are expected to ignore that her family is fodder for the Jerry Springer Show, yet somehow expected to ce...

I was trying to say +$50 over his budgeted case, which he had at $69.99. Sorry I wasn't clearer. Where can you get an LC17 for $50? The lowest I've seen is ~$115. I'd either go with a mid-tower for increased HDD capacity or upgrade to a mobo that supports eSATA, as quality PCIe eSATA cards are prett...

For a non-tower case that will take more than 2 HDD's I'd go with Silverstone's LC-17. It's big, and while not all that quiet out of the box, with a little work and a couple fan upgrades the noise can be tamed to well within reason. That's +$50. A Mini Ninja will easily handle the CPU cooling. +$20 ...

That's pretty much where I'm at today. I got the shares copied to a different machine, and will abandon the backups if all is lost. Since trying to reinstall the 'upgrade' the thing shuts down every few hours, saying that the trial has expired. Then when I reboot it it tells me I have 28 days until ...

It will come back. The US has a heinous jerk as a lame duck, with an older version of the same demanding his time at the wheel. It's not going to happen. The force of history demands a new era. Where the money of the new era lies is anyone's guess. Those who find it will be the winners. As it stands...

I think we all understand that. But the point of the Trial Copy was to persuade people to buy the thing. I'm not even sure they've released a non-OEM, commercial copy. The only difference between OEM and retail is support. On a 120 free trial, I wasn't looking for, or expecting support from MS. I di...

Thanks Mike. As ridiculous as it is (I'm in the process of transferring the shared folders as I typo), it gets worse. WHS has just notified me that the Trial Copy has expired and will shut down in one hour. Before I wandered into this 'upgrade', I had 28 days!!!! We'll see if the message was an erro...

740g's have 6 SATA's, gigabit LAN, and are dirt cheap. The Egg has a Gigabyte flavor for $55 US. I put one in a P182 mini and am quite happy with the hardware. I'm a little annoyed with the software right now though. All of my computers have been nagging me (several times a day) that my trial versio...

I don't see what RAID support would add to WHS. It's disk management is one of it's niftier features. Given that the network would be the main bottleneck, there would be no real performance gain. It will store files redundantly (2 copies on 2 separate drives) if you so choose to spend the disk space...

I previously stated that I don't condone any lying that may have occurred in that case. If they committed perjury, they should be prosecuted or impeached (but Gonzales and the others have already left office). I just said it is not illegal to fire a US Attorney for any reason whatsoever. The Washin...

Comparing that to the person in Obama's campaign (Johnson) who was CEO of FNMA for many years is ridiculous. Ridiculous is a pretty good word for comparing a person connected to Fanny/Freddy who worked for Obama for two weeks, as compared to someone who is McSame's campaign chair. Please keeps the ...

Wingnuts just make me laugh out loud. Let's set aside the presumed reason for the firings - a refusal to use the Justice Dept to punish political enemies. Let's just marvel at this: The only crime that will come out of this is lying to investigators or lying to Congress about what happened. Somethin...

Have you no shame? You can ask this question after citing Newsbusters?!?!?!?!?! This is a case of life imitating satire. First of all Raines was never an Obama advisor. They both deny any connection other than a brief phone call. But in the whacked out world of Newsbusters, we are to ignore the sta...

However, the fact of the matter remains that Saddam Hussein and/or his Bath Party supporters worked closely with Al Qaeda after the invasion. So the in response to the survey (which apparently does not mention a timeline), those who said there is a connection are correct (although I don't really tr...

The most troubling thing about McCain and his involvement in the Savings and Loan scandal of the late 80s is how little he learned from it. Rather than realizing the usefulness of reasonable regulation of the financial industry, he remained in the knee-jerk, all regulation is bad camp. His campaign'...

The latest from the Sarah Barracuda soap opera doesn't do her any favors. Her latest reason for firing her public safety chief was 'insubordination' for making a trip to DC to lobby for funds for an anti-rape program (Alaska has the highest number of forced rapes in the country). I'm sure she though...

I'll second the minja. Though the board supports 1066 memory in theory, it can be fussy about it. Definitely check the compatibility list before buying. 250gigs won't get you very far if you plan to record and store much TV. The WD 640 is a pretty sweet and inexpensive drive. Newegg had it at +/-$85...

Floor tiles are very reflective, acoustically. There's really no difference between them and the bare metal of the case panel. Open cell foam diffuses the direction of the air movement before it slaps the case panel. Setting aside the wavelengths, lower frequencies move more air than higher frequenc...

Let me follow this up as I understand it: There are 3 separate things often referred to as 'dampening' There is the actual dampening of the case panels to deaden their vibrations. You do this if your case panels are audibly vibrating. There is mass loading to increase the amount of mass the sound en...

Not sure what to say here. You made the assumption that the prior PSU was 'old'. If 6 months is 'old' then you got me. As for EMI/RF issues, you might be absolutely correct, as I live in a soup bowl of the stuff. Still, it makes the case that a PSU can have a significant pawprint on picture quality....

You ask, "Who is this case for?" A better question might be "What is this case for?" I just got one of these to house my WHS machine. It's close enough to perfect for me. A small footprint, oodles of drive bays, with decent airflow. As it's a Home Server box, it need not be near my immediate space. ...

But with an HTPC, I've noticed that a quality, slight over-kill PSU will deliver a noticeably better black level. I'm sceptical about that even when the signal is analog (e.g. if the TV is connected through S-video or if an analog tuner is used). If the signal is digital it should be down right imp...

I've been told I'm crazy most times I mention this, but to my eyes, the biggest improvement to PQ has been between PSUs more than graphics cards. In general, a PSU is a silly thing to skimp on.., it can wreak all sorts of havoc right up to frying your system. Yada yada yada..... But with an HTPC, I'...