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I had a duron 600 where - I kid you not - I chipped off the SSE instruction set. The processor itself would run great, but anytime the PC tried to render a jpeg the jpeg would come out garbled. Win2k ran great on it but the only web browser I could use was firefox because it didn't make use of...

I don't always recommend installing Windows. But when I do, it's 7.

I think hardocp looked into scaling between different numbers of lanes but my google-fu failed me. x4 PCIe doesn't actually hurt too bad either For the brave, you could likely nip the plastic off the end of a x1 connector and put a graphics card in if you really wanted (and had the clearance...

Not trying to pick nits, but there were no 64 bit p3's, but you are right that it was discovered via trying to compile a linux kernel with a p3. As far as I know the 3.8ghz p4 wasn't recalled, but probably should never have been sold with the heat it put out.

There are several applications that won't run as root by default.

I've seen enough of the story with MS trying to break into the mobile market to see that they won't do that well. They had a small degree of success in getting Windows CE into things like barcode scanners, but they have a long history of trying to (unsuccessfully) break into the mobile segment...

Personally, I use Gentoo myself, but it requires a Man-Computer relationship to maintain that may not be legal in all states. From most accounts that I am aware of, Suse is a great distribution but I am wary of it from the point of view of being a "corporate" distribution. I don't file Red...

I went from a [email protected] to a [email protected], and while the performance increase was nice (not as much as I expected, tbh) but I have a very clean upgrade path to an Ivy Bridge processor which I believe will be a very noticable upgrade.

I would recommend that you work on contributions to Gentoo. They have the most bare metal attitudes and could certainly use any contributions towards the project that you could muster, whether it's ebuild maintenance or coding for any packages. Honestly, I learned more about linux/*nix in...

The thing that bothers me with CrimsonKnight13's list is that it seems that the UI and usability elements that make the systems on that list successful don't always seem to make it's way upstream to trickle back down to standard Linux distributions. I've been a desktop Linux user for some time...

Ivy bridge will be a drop in replacement for Sandy Bridge. Worst case scenario is that you have to update your BIOS. Google "intel tick tock"

Stuff like that gets buried away in the small print of the TOS, very interesting!

Just poking my head in this thread to say that Intel Pro 1000 cards > *

I'm running 64 bit firefox for some time and my addons work just fine without getting special versions. Flash works (as well as it normally does on linux).

The biggest problem with providing a solid internet connection is that it is a moving target for both sides of the transmission. The area of focus for the dishes that would provide this connection is incredibly small in relative terms. I would presume to make up for the difficulties in...

didn't work for me there, so I'll try it here hoeding hunter2 All checks out.

+1 vote for fiber. It will be a fairly high initial cost but it will basically never need to be upgraded. (and no recurring costs to the telco)

DSL in Saskatchewan is 100% unmetered.

I'm currently evaluating crashplan.org and it so far seems perfect for reselling as a service

http://pfsense.org/

What I find most appalling is that Oracle would sue google about their efforts to add java support to the Android platform. One of the main selling points of java is that it runs everywhere and to do this with android seems somewhat suicidal to me.

What sort of ordeal would it be to just pull cable?

I would be interested to see the benchmark results if you taped up a PCIe lane one by one to sort out how much bandwidth cards are actually using. ie: Tape up a x16 card to x8, then x7, x6, x5 etc and run a bench at each set of lanes.

You won't get a direct benefit from having an N card in each computer if your AP isn't N capable, the signal strength is still limited by power limits mandated by the FCC for each band you are using. The biggest thing you can do for your signal strength is using high gain antennas. I would...

http://www.bplus.com.tw/Adapter/MP2W.html would be what you want, supports a full length card and 3 antennas for N support.

pfsense is awesome, however I haven't tested dual wan in the 2.0 alpha yet.

If you are comfortable with using a pigtail adapter to an antenna you could use a pcie -->mini pcie adapter and use a notebook wireless adapter (albeit probably more expensive and hassle, but you probably get a better choice of adapters)

I like the idea of using these separately in other computers after I retire them from use $$$

I'll know something in the next week, just ordered 2x of them yesterday to run in crossfire :D

It's easy enough to hack phone and ethernet onto the same line, but I honestly would look at this as an opportunity to sell a voip setup.

I haven't toyed with it much, but I would start here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

I haven't done it on pfsense myself, but why not throw a wifi card in your pfsense box?

At one site I have 4 instances of XP pro running in virtualbox on a server 2k8 box to keep users from having a direct login session on the domain server. (The only downside was plastering the server box with 5 windows COA's) :P The application they were running runs terribly over a slow network...

It's not generally the traffic that will kill a router, but the number of current tcp sessions eating up cpu time/memory usage (mostly memory in a cheap router). I can't recommend pfsense enough for what you are looking to do.

Boosters are nearly always unnecessary and generally cause more grief than they are worth.