Recent content by Metaluna

http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-804 This case has a somewhat unusual drive cage arrangement (one in front of the other, so the rear cage gets warm air blown over it from the front one). I have had trouble finding information about airflow in this area of the...

I'm helping out a friend whose mom has an old PC that is showing symptoms that look like a dying video card. I'm trying to find a good cheap AGP card to try. Something in the $20-30 range sounds about right. Looking on eBay, I see a lot of Radeon 9550 and Geforce FX 5500s in that price range...

I'm not worried about it. PCIe SSDs are only just starting to enter the consumer market. The new MacBook Airs use them, for example, and Mushkin just announced one (no info on pricing though). The SSD market doesn't have huge barriers to entry like mechanical HD's do. I'm sure in time that...

Nice find mikehunt14! I ordered the magnetic one (couldn't see spending $20 on the other one). My case has a ventilation grille above the PCIe slot area, so what I might do is remove the magnets and just bolt it on through the grille holes. That way the fan should blow down over my two LSI...

Zalman used to make a bracket that screwed into the top of the PCIe slots, using the screws that hold the PCIe cards in place. This held a 90mm fan that you could swivel around and position over card slots, chipsets, or a passive CPU cooler. I don't think they make them anymore though. Antec...

One thing you might want to look into is using rubber o-rings to dampen the sound of your current board. http://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=318 It's too bad they charge so much for them, especially since there are three styles to try out with different Shore...

Yeah, the Topres are more for when you want a quieter board with a light tactile feel. The switches barely make any noise at all. You mostly just hear the keys bottoming out. Some Cherry Blue boards, on the other hand, sound like someone went out of their way to make the board as loud as...

What this article is saying, in essence, is that ARM has commoditized the CPU into oblivion. In a few years, it won't even be worthwhile to hold an ARM license to make power-saving or performance tweaks. The margins will be so tiny that you will never get any ROI. This is good news for...

It kind of is, in the sense that all you had to do was tweak a few registry settings, as opposed to, say, binary patching some core .DLL. They just don't have a nice Control Panel widget to do it for you.

Same here. The only thing I was using it for lately was experimenting with Server 2008 as domain and dhcp server on my home network. I guess I'll should start learning about Samba domains in preparation for the switchover.

I'm pretty sure I've used motherboards that allowed you to set the hotswap behavior for each drive in the BIOS, so that the drive wouldn't show up as a removable device. I can't remember if my current (Asrock), or previous (Asus) board did this, but in either case they were fairly recent UEFI...

sub.mesa, I went ahead and tried ZoL on a new Debian 7 installation. zpool detected and imported my BSD raidz3 pool flawlessly. I'm doing a scrub right now just to give it a little exercise. So far, so good.

Does anyone know if ZoL will import a GPT-partitioned pool created on a recent version of FreeBSD (PC-BSD 9.0 in this case)? I know the various Solaris-based implementations don't like GPT partitions.

I think the PS2 lasted around 10 years, but even then it overlapped with the PS3. I agree that these analysts are mostly grifters though.

I don't know, but I bet a lot of it depends on whether it's a publicly-traded company or not.