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So... I don't have any more pictures of the insides of my cases yet, since I'm still waiting for the last part to arrive... the gem of my file server. Once that's done, the hardware will be moved around a bit more and then I'll take pictures. In the meantime, I can show everyone my desk area, where I do my work from my workstations and file server(s). The Dell machine (second from left) isn't mine - it belongs to a friend, so I'm storing it while she's away in the Yukon. Not much else to say. I've got a D-Link switch under the table, since I've got more than 4 wired devices on my network (3 computers, xbox, test systems, laptop), but hopefully that'll be replaced by a Gigabit switch sometime soon.

@prx984 (and everyone else interested) - Imperial vs Metric. Let's have a good debate about that there. 15°C A few clouds Wind - E 15km/h Relative Humidity - 82% Dewpoint - 12°C Pressure - 101.12 kPa Visibility - 24.0 km Ceiling - unlimited That's 59F, 9mph, 53F, 1,011.20mb,and 14.9miles for all you imperials out there.

I've decided to make a new topic for this, since I find it interesting, but don't want to dirty down the other thread. Why should we all refer to what the HVAC trade considers the best temperature scale? I'm curious as to why you seem to think that it's universally better. You say 72F is average room temperature, while I prefer my room to be at 20-21C - slightly lower than your "average". Different people have different preferences. Most metric digital thermostats will show one decimal place, not really a big deal if you ask me. Showing more than that isn't necessary for day to day usage. Celsius is based on the freezing and boiling points of water. It makes sense to most people, since water is a commonly found substance in most parts of the world. It's also much easier to teach people that water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100, as opposed to 32F and 212F. The funny thing about the Fahrenheit scale is that nobody's really sure as to how Fahrenheit came up with the zero-point. Some say it was a salt-water mix, others say it was the coldest temperature he could find outside, and so forth. 96F was what he considered to be his body temperature, although he was wrong about that... it's actually supposed to be 98.6F for a healthy adult. Furthermore, 0 degrees Celsius is very close to the triple point of water, which dials in at about 0.01C. The triple point is a somewhat universal reference in science, since it's easily reproducable, and allows us to calibrate our temperature readings very easily and very accurately. I'd rather read 0.01C than 32.018F. America is pretty much the only place in the world that still consistently uses the Imperial system. I'd rather know that there are 1000 meters in a kilometer (just like there are 1,000,000 bytes in a megabyte - mebibytes are different), than there are 5280ft in a mile. The way the mile is defined confuses me... paces, farmers, and furlongs... Not to incite any hostilities or anything of the sort, but it's interesting to note some of the bases of the differences between imperial and metric systems. Imperial systems are based more on human measurements (96F = body temperaure, 1 mile = 1000 paces), while metric systems are based on the world around us (freezing/boiling points of water, 1/10,000,000th distance from Paris to North Pole). Another thing that America uses, which, I'm sorry to say, I simply can't stand is the Philips screwdriver. I can't tell you how many Philips screws I've stripped the heads off because they're made of soft metals, and they come in different depths, sizes and angles. Robertson screws make much more sense. There's no guesswork about the size and depth. It fits or it doesn't. I think I've stripped two Robertson screws in my life, and those were both because I didn't push the screwdriver in all the way. Let the discussion begin.... hehe

Glad to be of help.

Indeed it is. Megan Fox is her name.

Truth be told though - most people don't have the audio equipment to reproduce sound at the quality level where you'd hear the difference. Unless you're really paying attention, most people probably won't notice the difference between 320kbps MP3 and FLAC, even with fairly high end equipment. I've got a pair of Sony MDR-V700 studio headphones, and I have troubles differentiating between CD audio and LAME Alt-Preset Standard encoded MP3. As a last note - think about audio systems in cars. The increased quality of FLAC or CD audio won't make a difference when you've got traffic and engine noise to contend with.

I just use the built in Picture and Fax Viewer in XP. It's simple, quick, and does exactly what the name says. I have used Picasa before, but I usually just make a new folder every time I download pictures from my camera and date the folder with something like the following: 2007-08-04 - MSFN Example Pictures That way, everything's cronologically ordered, and it has a simple description along with it.

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MP3 might be an old format, but it still does the job and plays music at good quality. It's not necessarily that MP3 is the only audio file format to people, but it's somewhat like digital cameras and JPEG. JPEG works on pretty much all computers, so that's why manufacturers build it into their camera firmware. MP3 has become a universal format, with pretty much every audio player out there supporting it. My "alternate" codec of choice is actually AAC+. I find the music much clearer than OOG, but then again - I'm not a total stickler for disk space. I'll use a bit more space for higher quality - just not as much as FLAC requires.

Sometimes there's a jumper that needs to be moved over as well. Check your motherboard manual, which you should be able to find on Gigabyte's website.

Sure... you also don't need the high end system that you've got. You have it because you want it, and it lets you do some things that I can't do with my old PIII systems lying around. Just like I don't need RAID0 on this system. My old hard drive worked just fine. But RAID0 makes the system more usable. Javascript opens a whole world of possibilities for web development. You've surely heard the term AJAX thrown around - know what it means? Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Think of all the sites you use on a daily basis. I'm guessing that most of them have some amount of AJAX thrown in there: Gmail, Google Maps, flickr, Facebook, IPB, and so on. I'm just naming a few webpages here... but there are a LOT more out there. Also - that Lightbox script - you call it a luxury. I call it something that would attract people to my image hosting over your image hosting. It's that little bit more "wow" that attracts users to your sites. Javascript gives you far more freedom than simply relying on the server to do all the work for you. Again - people have mentioned this before. Just because you don't use something doesn't mean that it's not useful or needed elsewhere. Take a second to think about that before you put something off.

Noticed your comment on JS, and I gotta say, it's just not true! JavaScript has many great uses in web programming today. Web 2.0 (as people call it) is highly dependent on JS. JS can be used to make sure people filled out a form properly before it gets sent to the server. JS can be used to create great gallery setups, like with Lightbox JS (wicked script by the way). And that's just scratching the surface... If you want more proof, just look at the source for this page. You'll see TONS of JavaScript. Every time you see one of those "pop-over" windows with some information - that's JS. Quick edits - JS. Drop down menus - JS (as far as I know - other systems use JS for menus). JavaScript isn't necessary for a webpage, but it can make the page a lot better when used correctly.

Thanks! *applies as wallpaper*

@Echolomax - Where'd you get that wallpaper? That's just stunning... I had to reinstall Windows on my workstation... you can read about it here. Needless to say - I get a fresh system here, and a new wallpaper to boot.

Boo Fahrenheit!!! The temperature scale that makes no sense!!!! /offtopic

To me, flash should be reserved for those animations that can't easily be done otherwise, or for movies. Flash based websites just annoy me... Frames are also bad. I know many people discourage nested tables for page layout, but it's an easy place to start, and it'll let you get a bit more familiar with CSS styles and positioning. From that, you can move to the more modern DIV based webpages.

22C - 60% It's a relatively cool day in comparison with what we've had this past weekend. It got up to 35C just a few days ago....

Kel actually told me a possible solution in the meantime. You can track a topic, but then turn off the e-mail notification. It works, but then if you do want e-mails from that one topic....

Just a note about these so-called "independent power lines" - they're usually not independent. Most manufacturers just put current limiters on the rail outputs to make the PSU conform to ATX standards, but on the inside, they're all just connected. There's an article at SPCR about that somewhere - I remember putting a LOT of load on the one 12V rail (the one for the GPU), and the other 12V rails dropped as well - go figure.

Even I didn't know you had dual monitors!!!! Sheesh... some friend you are... I'll have to take pictures of my systems when I get my place cleaned up... which will be in the near future... at some point.

Velcro = short for velours and crochet (french for velvet and hook).

Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home are similar projects, but their research focuses are different. Rosetta@Home vs Folding@Home Move all your computers to R@H!

Try disabling the firewall within Norton and see if that solves your problems. That'll give us a real answer here.

I was wondering if there was any sort of IPB Mod that would allow users to mark a thread as a "favorite" and access that from their control panel or something of the sort. I work on several different computers, so simply adding them to my bookmarks doesn't really work. I'd like to have a stash of the "best of the best" threads, or ones that have particularly useful information.

It's most likely that Norton is blocking the connection to the database. Make sure that you've set the proper port to be open in the Firewall configuration However, I'd have to agree with Jeremy that Norton isn't really a great choice for security. It actually lacks in that department more often than not. If you want a good solution for your work, get Avast Pro ($40/1yr, $60/2yrs) for your anti-virus and Comodo Personal Firewall (free) for your firewall. I find Comodo much easier to setup, and it's a much better firewall overall. I would highly recommend that you switch out Norton for something else the next time your subscription expires.